I'm terrible at day planning. Any tips?

Yes! The two day-planning practices we recommend most highly (to makers and managers alike) are:

1. Add day-planning as a task in your day plan. Instead of viewing it as a thing you do in preparation for work, view it as a daily part of your work.
2. Whenever possible, start that day-planning task at the end of each workday, rather than at the beginning, reserving any morning day planning for adjustments, not from-scratch blueprinting. The point being that your warm brain today is good for jump-starting your cold one tomorrow, while your cold brain may be better at identifying lofty expectations and course correcting as needed.

Read more of our thoughts on day planning in our blog.