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I know I have a tendency to cast my net too wide when planning my goals. I try to do everything I want to accomplish all at once, which hinders my progress overall. I have a relevant issue when it comes to creating hourly schedules for daily tasks.

People respond to schedules in lots of different ways; I have met folks who say that the mere sight or mention of a schedule gives them anxiety, and yet there are also those who find them useful due to the structure it may bring to one’s life. I think, despite never having been able to stick to a schedule long-term, I belong to the latter group. I think, through my history of failing to maintain the schedule habit every single time, I have become immune (at least when it comes to this topic) to the blow my sense of self-esteem usually suffers upon facing my failures.

Fail a few hundred times, and maybe then you won’t mind failure so much any longer.

Maybe that’s the takeaway here? I don’t know. I’m not a life coach. All I know is, now I can:

• make a schedule,
• follow it only very loosely,

and it still manages to bring me a bit of peace of mind somehow.

Maybe it’s because by now, I finally understand how ridiculously ambitious my plans usually tend to be. Thanks, retroactive wisdom. I just wish you didn’t come packaged together with wrinkles and fine lines.

Here’s a link to the upcoming week’s schedule I have created, in case anyone finds it useful for their own use. (If you’d like to have an editable version for yourself, please click “File > Make a Copy”).