How to Make a Weekly Schedule

Make a weekly schedule to increase your productivity, streamline your daily tasks and maximize your effectiveness on the job and at home. When you write it all down on paper as you make a weekly schedule, not only do you provide yourself with a visual plan for the week, you reinforce your goals. Whether you have a career, are a college student or a work at home mom, you need to make a weekly schedule! Here's how.

Instructions

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   Select your format. Planner pages make a weekly schedule easy to create and follow, and they can be bought in stores or downloaded online and printed from your computer. You can also use document templates, or create your own weekly schedule by listing the days of the week, with hourly time slots where you can write reminders and to-do task lists.

2. Fill in each day of your weekly schedule with the tasks, duties and work schedules that are constant -- gym class, PTO meetings, family budget meeting, carpool duties, co-op pick-ups, and other recurring commitments. Then, as you schedule other meetings or obligations, add them to your weekly schedule in the appropriate time slots.

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   Include a meal plan in your weekly schedule if you are responsible for cooking or shopping for your household. As you make a weekly schedule, note the activities of each day and plan easy, quick or crock pot meals for the busiest days.

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   Note chores to be done around the home as you make a weekly schedule. You might want to make a stand-alone chore chart for each family member, writing yours on your daily and weekly schedule pages.

Tips & Warnings

• Make a weekly schedule that works for your situation -- you may want it super detailed, down to the exact half-hour, or more lose, with general to-do lists on each day.

Resources

• Motivated Moms 2009 Planner Pages