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Last week my weekly spread completely fell apart by Wednesday
I planned out my whole week on Sunday like usual. Monday was fine. Tuesday was fine. Then Wednesday hit and I had three unexpected meetings, a dentist appointment I forgot to add, and my kid got sent home sick from school. My layout had no room for any of that. By Thursday I was just writing tasks on sticky notes stuck to the page. How do you guys handle weeks where your plan gets wrecked mid week? Do you redo the whole spread or just wing it?
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adam_hernandez21d agoMost Upvoted
You know, I actually just read about the "sticky note method" in a blog post about flexible planning, and honestly that might be a perfect way to handle this. The person suggested keeping a small pad of sticky notes tucked into your planner so you can just slap urgent tasks anywhere (even on top of old stuff) without having to rewrite everything. I tried it out last month when my own week went sideways and it really helped, even though it felt a bit messy at first. My approach now is to just leave the wrecked spread as is and use the notes as a temporary fix until the weekend reset. That way I don't waste energy on something that's already past, you know?
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