Do you have a plan for your life? A set of goals and action items that you are going to fulfill?

I encourage you to create a plan for your life. More specifically, I challenge you to set weekly and monthly objectives, to create daily action plans, and to have a master tasks list.

Weekly and Monthly Objectives

We all have things in life that we need or want to do. For some of us, this can be an overwhelming backlog of tasks, goals, and responsibilities.

How can we manage all of this?

A good first step is to set weekly and monthly objectives. Having these objectives allows you to narrow your focus and pick the goals and responsibilities you will work on each week and each month.

I recommend dedicating the last Sunday of the month to identifying what you want to accomplish for the coming month. Think about what you can realistically accomplish over the next four weeks and set objectives that you plan to achieve for that month.

For example, my objectives this month are to complete my Effective Coaching pathway, to complete level 1 of my Visionary Communication pathway, and to reduce my weight to 240 pounds.

I also recommend a weekly planning system where you dedicate part of every Sunday to identifying which of your goals and responsibilities you will tackle for the coming week. Think about what you can realistically accomplish over the next 7 days and write down which tasks you will accomplish for the coming week.

For example, one of my past weekly plans was to write my next blog article, to work on my next speech, and to complete my Effective Coaching pathway. These were my three key objectives to accomplish for that week.

The most important thing when setting weekly and monthly objectives is to not try to do too much. Pick a subset of your goals and responsibilities each week and each month, and work on that subset so you are not overwhelmed. This will help to make your life more manageable.

Daily Action Plans

In addition to setting weekly and monthly objectives, I want you to create daily action plans. What is a daily action plan? It is a to-do list for each day of the week, Monday through Sunday, that identifies what you are going to do every day.

By creating these daily action plans you are making a commitment to yourself. You are committing to performing these tasks during the week. Not only that, but you are also being more intentional with your time, and you are scheduling the goals you want to work on and the responsibilities you need to fulfill.

The most important aspect of daily action plans is to follow through on those plans every day. This means doing the tasks that you assigned to that day and marking them as done as you complete them. As you work through your daily action plan it will be satisfying to see yourself completing the tasks you committed to accomplishing that day.

I recommend using part of Sunday every week to create your daily action plans for each day of the coming week. This lets you schedule your workload and spread it out across the coming week. This will help you to get things done. I also encourage you to keep in mind your weekly and monthly objectives and to schedule action items that will help you complete those objectives.

Master Tasks List

Another key aspect of planning your life is to maintain a master tasks list. This is a single to-do list that captures everything you need and want to do that you have not scheduled on your daily action plans. Every time you think of something you want to do or need to accomplish, add it as a task on your master tasks list. This will ensure you don’t forget to do it.

If a task comes up during the week, either put it on your master tasks list or pick a day of the week and add it directly to the daily action plan for that day of the week. You can schedule it as far ahead as you like on a daily action plan for a day in the future, or you can put it on your master tasks list if you are not sure when you will have time to do it.

Finally, it is important to move items from your master tasks list to your daily action plans. The best time to do this is on Sunday when you are creating your weekly objectives and your daily action plans for the week ahead. Make reviewing your master tasks list part of your Sunday planning routine. Review your master tasks list and move tasks that you can work on to daily action plans for the coming week.

Conclusion

My challenge to you is to have a plan for your life. More specifically, I want you to set weekly and monthly objectives each week and each month. I also want you to create daily action plans for each day of the week. I also want you to maintain a master tasks list.

This will make you more organized and will help you to make progress on your goals and to fulfill your responsibilities. It will ensure you don’t forget the commitments you make to yourself and the commitments you make to other people.

Do this, and you will get things done in your life.