
Unit 3: Making plans
Making plans
Once you have developed a clear idea of your key activities and their related tasks you can begin to make plans.
A plan or timetable needs to suit your personal needs. It is pointless spending time and money on producing a plan in glorious technicolour if it doesn't suit your preferred way of working.
Many people find it useful to plan their time on a variety of levels:
- A Long Term Timetable indicating regular and predictable events in your week
- A detailed Week Plan highlighting your workload over a seven day period
- A Daily Diary, deciding first thing in the morning what is to be done that day. Such a list can be checked throughout the day, ticking off those tasks already achieved.
When making your own plans, you may find it useful to consider your regular or timetabled commitments. For example - every Tuesday you have a seminar.
Identify all such regular commitments and put them into some sort of plan. With a clear picture of these
fixed points you can arrange the rest of your activities around them.
Planning sheets you can use (note these files open in PDF):
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