31 Goals in 31 Days – Day 14 – Modular Day

Recently, my brother wrote a post about creating a Modular Day for his 100 Goals in 100 Days Challenge.  This got me thinking.  Long ago, and before children, I actually did follow what he was suggesting by creating a Modular Day (although I didn’t call it that).

Today, as my goal, I’m going to revisit this concept, because having a list of things to do in certain times during your day, a routine of sorts, makes it easier to accomplish what you need to do and also speeds up the process since you already know what comes next, without thinking about it, simply by looking at your list.

Ironically enough, I have been doing this for quite some time with my children and it works wonderfully.  They have a “chorepack” that has a card for each task they need to complete.  There is a chorepack for morning chores, afternoon chores, and evening chores.  For example, their morning cards go something like this: 1) get dressed, 2) put pajamas away, 3) make bed, 4) breakfast and vitamins, 5) brush teeth, 6) brush hair, and 7) pack backpack.  They can do this series by themselves with little involvement from me.

One of the concepts I have always used very successfully in my business was to schedule things on certain days.  For example, Sunday nights are host coaching calls, Tuesdays are always days I coach my team, etc.  This helps put you in a routine so you know exactly what you are doing each day.  Now, creating a Modular Day takes this concept to the next level.

So, you will have a morning routine,  an afternoon routine and an evening routine (all of which may vary from day-to-day).  Take a look at your daily tasks and see where you can group like items to make your “routine”.  For example, if you check email, post a blog, update Facebook, and tweet each day, instead of doing these things randomly throughout the day, group them all together (since they are all computer related) and do them at one time (lunchtime, for example).  Also, if you know that you need to call hosts to coach them for upcoming shows, and then you may mail out host packets or other support materials, group this together because they are similar tasks (I do this on Sunday evenings, after calls for the entire week, I do the mail for the entire week).

Now, it’s your turn.  Take time to write down a daily task list, weekly task list and monthly task list for your business.  On the daily task list, put down anything you do on a daily basis, the same for the weekly, and monthly.  Now, look at your daily list – are there like items that can be grouped into a series of tasks?  How about weekly?  Are there items on your weekly list that could be grouped either with other weekly tasks, or perhaps even daily tasks?  And look at the monthly items as well.  It’s best if you can assign a specific day of the week for each weekly task (ie: host coaching on Sunday, team coaching calls on Tuesday, etc.) and also assign a week and day for each monthly task (ie: planning my team meeting on the 10th of every month after reviewing my team stats, etc.).

The next step is to put it all together and create your Modular Day.  The end result is having a morning routine, afternoon routine, and evening routine, with each day of each week of each month planned out.  You will find it helpful to post your task list(s) or create index cards with the items you need to do during each time frame so that you can quickly look at your index card for the day and know exactly what needs to be done.

So, today’s goal for me is to revisit this Modular Day activity and plan out the tasks that I do on a daily, weekly and monthly basis, and I’ll end the day by making index cards for each grouping.

To your success,

Dr. Laura