Treat Your Weeks as Days to Maximize Intentionality and Freedom

For a greater sense of purpose, re-frame the tight containers you recognize as days and weeks.

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If you’ve tried to set a daily schedule but it failed to stick, you might have felt ineffective or inconsistent. On the other hand, if you’ve managed to create and maintain a daily schedule, part of you may miss the freedom that came with a free-flowing day in which anything could happen.

People adopt the idea of a daily schedule for the sake of living intentionally. It feels more meaningful to identify the activities we value and plan our days around those. It’s better than being blown about by whatever preoccupations a particular day presents.

As a highly open person, I’ve felt stifled by doing the same things in the same order every single day, no matter how much it helped me accomplish. And if I failed to do as I planned, my daily schedule, the thing I created to impose meaning onto my life, itself became the reason I felt disappointed and flustered.

So if you like the idea of having a schedule, but hate the rigidity that comes along with it, what can you do? Simple: exit the weekly paradigm.

Let’s face it: we’ve agreed as a society to structure time according to days, weeks, and months. But this is really just a tool to coordinate…