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Getting Organized for the Week Ahead: What’s Your Sunday Like?
By Jeff Zbar | November 9, 2008
It’s Sunday and I’m in my home office. The family’s asleep, and I’ve been cleaning my desk, my Gmail inbox, and prepping for the week ahead for the past two hours.
Sure, I’m the victim of some wacky circadian rhythm that has me rise before dawn — and often asleep just after prime-time has launched each evening.
I find Sundays are a chance to get a head-start on the week ahead. As the family slumbers, I clean the house, the kitchen, even my home office. I pay some bills, file some papers, and generally create a more organized place (which, alas, my family won’t even notice).
How can you maximize your Sunday:
- Be organized in your organization. Tackle one task at a time: Clear out the inbox, file stuff, reply to emails in need of correspondence. One at a time, then move on.
- Strive to make head-way. Start laying groundwork for the week ahead. Often, I’ll have projects that require some research (finding stats on a company, ferreting out some CEO’s name or his PR people’s contact info, starting a conversation with someone I’d like to know better). With that prep-work done, often I arrive at Monday with the proverbial “ball in their court,” and awaiting their response.
- Or do nothing at all. Some people hold the weekend as their own, with no intentions or grand schemes for work or organizing or anything other than relaxation. That’s cool.
I’ll often even toss on a pot of coffee for Robbie (nothing better than waking up to fresh-brewed coffee, instead of having to brew a pot yourself with sleep still in your eyes and fog enveloping your brain). I’ll have my tea going, too.
Two hours later in my home and home office, the sun has risen over the eastern suburbs. I’ve accomplished much that invariably will put my mind at ease later in the day, and even on Monday morning.
To be sure, I didn’t get done everything on my (non-existent) to-do list: I still have some bills to pay, a checkbook to balance, and even some writing I’d like to complete before Monday rolls around.
But I’m ready to hit the day — today, Monday, and all the days ahead…
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