It might sound stupid but I plan my month by planning my day. The question about how to plan your month can be automatically answered by planning your day.
I believe our days are simply a miniature of our lives. If we can get the most out of every single day, we can get the most out of our lives.
So rather than planning the larger units, I forced myself to become a master at planning and executing the smallest units possible: I make every minute, every hour and every day matter and count.
For example:
If I want to work 240 hours per month, I first need to learn to work 12 hours a day while at the same time efficiently recovering energy.
I can’t have a great month without having a great day.
All my productivity hacking starts with the smallest unit. Because all our months and years really are is the sum of these smaller units. Most people set huge goals for a month, year or a lifetime. Yet they fail to execute on the most simple and basic level every day.
Now, that doesn’t mean I don’t have a vision for my month.
I always give my months a certain “theme” or an overarching idea or topic. For example, in June it was drop shipping. Now, in September and November I have two huge client launches coming up.
So my focus for those months will be different.
That means I think ahead and plan my months early in advance, I make sure I have no overlapping projects throughout the year.
But once that general plan for the next few months is set.
I get back to executing and planning daily.
If you want to get the most out of life, you need to start to live your days consciously and start making more out of those small units. We all have the same amount of hours in a day, but successful people use those hours differently. They make the most out of them.
Maybe working for 12 hours on your own business is hard to imagine for you at this point. In that case, you need to “zoom in” even closer and focus on having just one single productive hour in your day.
Then, once you can control what you do in one hour, expand that hour into multiple hours until you have a fully productive day.
To scale up you first have to learn to scale down.
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