Focus On This Podcast

24. How to Set Up Your Monthly Calendar

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Overview

As a high achiever, you’re dialed in on productivity. You know how to get things done. But there’s a problem. No matter how much you produce, you always feel behind. There always seems to be a looming deadline that somehow got missed. That puts you on the hamster wheel nearly every week, hustling to get caught up. It’s exhausting. 

There’s a fix for that. It’s called a Monthly Calendar. Start using this tool to keep track of your Big Rocks, and you’ll escape that feeling of being two steps behind. You’ll have plenty of time for your major commitments and deadlines. Better yet, you’ll have lots more time for the “little rocks” too. 

In this episode you will—

  • Learn why a weekly calendar view will not help you track deadlines. 
  • Find a simple way to keep your big commitments visible at all times. 
  • Discover how to gain complete confidence in accepting or declining appointments.
  • Find the space to fit in other important priorities around big commitments like travel or project deadlines. 
  • Relax, knowing all your major commitments are under control!

Episode Transcript

Verbs Boyer:
And as a great poet wrote, “Check yourself before you wreck yourself.”

Blake Stratton:
Wise words from 50 Cent?

Verbs Boyer:
No, that was from the writer Ice Cube.

Courtney Baker:
Oh.

Blake Stratton:
Way before 50 Cent.

Courtney Baker:
Way before.

Blake Stratton:
But speaking of 50 Cent.

Courtney Baker:
Any final thoughts?

Blake Stratton:
That would’ve been such a great thing to roll in quarters.

Courtney Baker:
Do it again. (silence)

Speaker 4:
Welcome to another episode of Focus on This, the most productive podcast on the internet. So you can banish distractions, get the right stuff done, and finally start loving Mondays, with your hosts Courtney Baker and Blake Stratton.

Blake Stratton:
Happy Monday, Courtney.

Courtney Baker:
Hey, Blake. How’s it going?

Blake Stratton:
So great.

Courtney Baker:
Really?

Blake Stratton:
Oh, yeah.

Courtney Baker:
Anything exciting going on?

Blake Stratton:
I’ve had a lot of coffee today.

Courtney Baker:
Oh.

Blake Stratton:
It’s pretty exciting.

Courtney Baker:
That is exciting.

Blake Stratton:
I lead an extraordinary life.

Courtney Baker:
People, probably, that are listening don’t know, but you’re a coffee guru of sorts.

Blake Stratton:
You were trying to find a different word for snob, but snob is actually the preferred term. It’s okay.

Courtney Baker:
Yes. Literally, I kid you not, everyone listening, Blake earlier today pointed out some coffee beans. He said, “Courtney, do you see how shiny those coffee beans are?” And I was like, “Is this really…” Verbs, did you hear that?

Verbs Boyer:
I did. I was there for that conversation.

Courtney Baker:
He asked me if I noticed how shiny they were.

Verbs Boyer:
There was a sheen on the bean.

Courtney Baker:
And then I got-

Verbs Boyer:
And Blake had a commentary.

Blake Stratton:
You don’t want a bean with sheen.

Courtney Baker:
Yeah.

Blake Stratton:
It’s a mean bean when there’s a sheen.

Courtney Baker:
I’m not even sure how to transfer from that to this. But today we are talking about maybe you find yourself with big deadlines that are sneaking up on you.

Blake Stratton:
I don’t like that. Big deadlines or appointments or commitments, all-day commitments. You ever have when someone’s like, “Hey, would you be free on April 27th?” And you’re like, “Yeah, that’s four months away. I’ll let future me deal with that.” And then all of a sudden it’s April 26th and you’re like, “Oh gosh. Future me.”

Courtney Baker:
This is why dentist offices call you 12 times before your appointment. Because you set it so far out and you’re like, “Yeah, totally. That’s a great day.” And then the week of you’re like, “What?”

Blake Stratton:
Yeah, future me loves going to the dentist in the middle of a work week. Of course.

Courtney Baker:
Exactly. I think a lot of times we just feel like we’re on a hamster wheel or every time we start to relax or get in the groove…

Blake Stratton:
There’s one big thing that comes up.

Courtney Baker:
Yeah. And you’re like, “Where did that come from?” And then you just feel you’ve got hustle to catch up again. And you may even feel like, “I’m a good manager of my time,” but then these things just keep happening.

Blake Stratton:
That’s right. You need to keep your major commitments visible. That’s the key. So we talk a lot about designing your days here at Michael Hayton company. Really the part of the full focus planner that takes up the majority of the planner are these daily pages. And then we’ve got the weekly previews as well. But you can’t just look at your days. You’ve got to start looking at your months as well.

Courtney Baker:
You’ve got to make time for our major commitments and that way you can feel relaxed and in control. And once you’ve got those big blocks of time for those big rocks set aside, then you’re going to have time for those little rocks as well.

Blake Stratton:
Right. So we recommend that you start using the often overlooked, underrated monthly calendar, because there’s three big benefits.

Courtney Baker:
But before we get into that, Verbs…

Verbs Boyer:
Yes.

Courtney Baker:
We’ve already said hi to you today.

Verbs Boyer:
I just barged in early to talk about coffee beans. But once again, it’s my job to come on here and just say thank you for listening to this podcast every week. If you hadn’t had an opportunity to do so already, please subscribe to the show right there on iTunes or wherever you may listen to this podcast. And once you hear it, know you’ll be so excited about it that you’ll want to share it. So go ahead and share it with somebody who you think may benefit from this great content. And when you do, use the hashtag Focus on This podcast.

Courtney Baker:
What we’re going to talk about today is really going to help you not forget about some of the big things in life, like Christmas and vacations and maybe travel. Things that you need to set aside some time for. So the thing that helps you keep track of those, it’s pretty simple, it’s the monthly calendar.

Blake Stratton:
Just the monthly calendar. I’m just trying to make it sound more epic.

Courtney Baker:
More epic. Yes.

Blake Stratton:
Monthly calendar.

Courtney Baker:
That is better. And we’re going to give you three benefits.

Blake Stratton:
That’s right. The first benefit of using a monthly calendar, of making sure you’ve got your whole month in view, is that you can put your big rocks in first.

Courtney Baker:
And I think we should explain where big rocks comes from.

Blake Stratton:
Right. It comes from a renowned geologist, Dr. Steven Covey. I’m just kidding. He’s not a geologist, but if you ever read the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, he mentions this illustration. If you imagine a jar and you’ve got to fill it up with big rocks and small stones and sand. If you try to fill it up with the sand and the small stones, first, the bigger rocks can never fit in that jar. But if you put in your big rocks first, then the smaller ones will fit around them. And that’s exactly how you can use the monthly calendar. You put in your big deadlines or your vacations. You put those in the monthly calendar, so that you have them in plain view.

Courtney Baker:
Right. And honestly, it’s really a combination of the monthly calendar and the rolling quarter pages. This is going to give you the ability to look at an entire year in just a couple of pages.

Blake Stratton:
So it’s really simple, but you’ve just got to put your major commitments on the calendar.

Courtney Baker:
And that is not the smaller stuff a meeting or a daily appointment or a reoccurring task. Those things you would use with an electronic calendar and then move them to your daily page in the planner.

Blake Stratton:
Exactly. But the benefit of doing this is that those big deadlines don’t have to sneak up on you or you won’t crowd out those big commitments, those most important things with the sand of life, with the busyness of everyday life. Having that visible will allow you to, again, with that analogy, put in the big rocks first. So you can feel confident when you’re planning your weeks and your days.

Courtney Baker:
So the second benefit is it keeps your major commitments visible.

Blake Stratton:
A lot of times if you’re experiencing stuff sneaking up on you, or you’re like, “Oh my gosh, past me was so silly when they were thinking that future me, which is now present me, would be able to tackle all this at the same time.” And if you just live in the daily pages, if you just live with daily and a weekly view of your life, I know even on my phone, that’s where I’ll reference my digital calendar most often and it’s literally a three-day view that I use. And then all of a sudden I’m like, “Whoa.” Stuff sneaks up on me. If I could share just an example of this, this happened this past fall where I had, at the end of a month, multiple trips, upcoming of travel. And it was the sort of thing where it was like, “Oh yeah, this week looks fine. This week looks fine.” And all of a sudden all this travel’s happening.

Blake Stratton:
And it’s true that because it was on my virtual calendar, my digital calendar, that a lot of stuff was accounted for. But these other areas of my life, like family stuff, I hadn’t really cleared all the details of life with my spouse. And then I just realized, “Oh my gosh, this is going to be really hard.” I don’t know what I was thinking, because I was booking this stuff and each week or each day looked clear and fine, but I hadn’t really done it in a monthly view. And so that’s been something I’ve been trying to learn from. And I’ve got a similar situation upcoming this next month. I’m going to be doing a little bit more traveling and it’s clustered.

Blake Stratton:
And now I have that experience and I see it in the monthly view. So I already have planned a lot of heavy family time on the front side of the month and I’ve blocked stuff off, so people can’t book other things with me on those weekends and on the backside of the month, my wife and I were able to plan ahead for that, so that she’s totally equipped and prepared and it won’t be as chaotic as it was this past fall.

Courtney Baker:
Yeah, absolutely. And a lot of people also ask us about project management and I think the monthly calendar is an overlooked place for marking project deadlines, big deadlines.

Blake Stratton:
Like milestones within a project?

Courtney Baker:
Yeah. You don’t want to get onto the nitty gritty, tiny task in this calendar. But the big, important milestones along the way, this is a perfect place to keep track of those. If you have something that’s due in two weeks, you could mark it on the monthly calendar, especially if it’s part of your routine to review this as part of your weekly preview.

Blake Stratton:
That’s right. That’s right. So the second benefit is you can keep your major commitments visible and what you just said leads right into that third benefit, which is, it gives you confidence when you’re scheduling your time. So this is the big payoff of using the monthly calendar is when you’re choosing your big three, whether that be the daily big three or the weekly big three, you always know whether or not you have a big deadline looming. I’ll be honest, I’ve been caught setting a big three and then realizing, oh wait, the very next week…

Blake Stratton:
I remember this happened because I had a talk that I was doing for the first time and I had it on the calendar, and it wasn’t a big time commitment, it was a small time commitment, but it was a big deadline. And I hadn’t written it down as a big deadline. It was just a small highlight in my calendar and I didn’t transfer it over. And so what happened? The next week, I was looking ahead at my week, the preview, and I was like, “Whoa, I probably should have been…” So then I had to block off a whole day from that week to make up for lost time. And I was like, “Man, I wish I would’ve thought of that in the previous week.” Does that make sense?

Courtney Baker:
Totally.

Blake Stratton:
So this will give you confidence in the scheduling your time. And I had to learn that lesson the hard way.

Courtney Baker:
Blake, I think one of the other real benefits to this is when you have these big rocks in place and you’ve got your commitments outlined, your big milestones, as well as travel, those kind of things, it really gives you the confidence to say a really key word that we often overlook, and it’s no.

Blake Stratton:
No.

Courtney Baker:
It sounded like I said snow.

Blake Stratton:
It did sound like that, a little bit. Which snow is another key word in your productivity.

Courtney Baker:
I agree. More snow.

Blake Stratton:
You need to be like, “I need to have a snow day today.”

Courtney Baker:
More snow would help my productivity immensely.

Blake Stratton:
For sure. Oh, I guess I can’t go anywhere today. I have to stay in and snuggle and have some hot chocolate.

Courtney Baker:
Have to stay in. Yes.

Blake Stratton:
We both put our shoulders up. That’s hilarious. I don’t know about you, sometimes I have a hard time saying no.

Courtney Baker:
That’s why we need snow.

Blake Stratton:
That’s why.

Courtney Baker:
Snow. I can’t take any meetings today. Snow. I can’t finish this this weekend. Snow. I can’t accept that project. You can even say snow, thank you.

Blake Stratton:
Snow, thank you. People will be confused, but-

Courtney Baker:
But you won’t be saying no.

Blake Stratton:
Yeah. Right. But it’s real. I think if you have an accurate… sometimes we have a hard time saying no, because we’re just not sure if we actually have the bandwidth and we don’t want to have to be the bad guy. But if we take stock, if we have an accurate picture, because we can see things visually on our monthly calendar, we can assess “Actually, legitimately, I have to say no, because I’ve just got too many projects rolling right now. I can’t take on one more thing.”

Courtney Baker:
Yeah. It’s so key. Yeah. In summary, if you find yourself in that continuous big deadlines just keep sneaking up on you and you just feel like behind the eight ball and some big deadlines, this is a really great way for you to have your major commitments visible on an ongoing basis.

Blake Stratton:
That’s right. Get out of the habit of only looking at your days or the three day view on your mobile calendar and start looking at your months. Leverage the monthly calendar in the planner if you use the planner. But even if you use a different type of monthly view, just make sure you have the whole month in view. One of my coworkers, he has the whole month and a big size poster yeah on his wall. And I’m like, “Oh wow, that’s really smart,” because it’s just really, really visible. But if you use the planner, guess what? There’s one right in there. And there’s three big benefits to doing so.

Courtney Baker:
Yep. It puts your big rocks first. It keeps your major commitments visible. And it just gives you confidence in scheduling your time.

Blake Stratton:
And guess what? If you start using this, you’ll have time for those little rocks. You don’t have to feel stressed. “Am I going to get all the big things done?”

Courtney Baker:
Or “Am I currently forgetting about anything?”

Blake Stratton:
Wow. Yeah. That’s that’s where a lot of stress comes from. It’s just the anxiety of not knowing.

Courtney Baker:
The unknown of what ball you’re dropping at any moment.

Blake Stratton:
Yeah. You get to feel more relaxed, more in control. And that’s what it’s all about having that peace of mind.

Courtney Baker:
Verbs.

Verbs Boyer:
Yeah?

Courtney Baker:
Has this ever happened to you? Ever had a deadline sneak up on you?

Verbs Boyer:
Oh yeah.

Blake Stratton:
Has past Verbs ever really set up future Verbs?

Verbs Boyer:
Past Verbs has done it. Present Verbs has done it, hoping that he can speak to future Verbs saying how he won’t do that again. But yeah. I think it happens. It’s you underestimate maybe the work that’s going to go in to hit that deadline for that time that you’ve already carved out or set it as a date. And you get other things that might get pushed your way as well. And it just falls off the radar for a moment until it comes to bite you.

Blake Stratton:
Ow. Snow.

Courtney Baker:
Hey, speaking of snow, do you think about how 40 and slipped snow in there? Because actually at this moment, the room we’re in is 85 degrees?

Blake Stratton:
It is not temperate.

Courtney Baker:
It is not. We’re sweating, but, Blake, right now-

Blake Stratton:
I think the listener can hear us perspiring. It’s that bad.

Courtney Baker:
It’s blazing hot in here. I’m wishing there was snow and our friend Verbs over here has a beanie on. I just looked at him like…

Verbs Boyer:
I’ve actually forgotten about it at this point in the day.

Courtney Baker:
Is this for real? He has a long sleeve [inaudible 00:15:06] beanie.

Blake Stratton:
Listen, when you’re as cool as Verbs, you can always bundle up.

Verbs Boyer:
But listen…

Courtney Baker:
The commitment to coolness.

Verbs Boyer:
Listen, I will tell you what is absolutely hot and on fire right now, that’s our full focus plant community.

Blake Stratton:
Hey.

Courtney Baker:
Hey.

Verbs Boyer:
Boom. See what I did there?

Courtney Baker:
I like that.

Verbs Boyer:
Right there on Facebook, if you’re not a part of it yet, you definitely want to join this community. All you have to do is search in Facebook for a full focused planner community. There’s always great conversation, people celebrating their wins, posing questions on what to do next with how they’re setting up their planners. You’ll love it. So make sure you hop in, if you’re not there already and we can’t wait to see you inside the group. And now let’s get to our caller, Penny Reeve.

Penny Reeve:
Hello?

Courtney Baker:
Hey penny. It’s Courtney and Blake with Focus on This podcast. How are you?

Penny Reeve:
Hello. Lovely you to talk to you. Yeah, I’m fine.

Courtney Baker:
Where are you calling today?

Penny Reeve:
So I’m in Sydney, Australia.

Blake Stratton:
I think you meant to say, where are you calling from?

Courtney Baker:
Yeah. Where are you calling today? You’re calling Nashville, but you’re calling from Sydney?

Penny Reeve:
I’m calling from Sydney. Australia. Yes.

Courtney Baker:
Did you know last week we had a caller from Australia as well.

Penny Reeve:
Yeah. Were they from Sydney as well or somewhere else?

Blake Stratton:
No, they were from Melbourne.

Courtney Baker:
What I would to take away from this is we’re crushing it in Australia. We’ve got two listeners.

Blake Stratton:
Two whole listeners.

Penny Reeve:
Yes.

Courtney Baker:
I’m so excited.

Penny Reeve:
You’ve got way more. I’ve seen heaps more of us on the full focus community on Facebook.

Verbs Boyer:
There you go, Penny. Thanks for that full focus community shout out right there. High five.

Blake Stratton:
That’s awesome. Penny, in this episode on today’s podcast, we’ve been talking about looking at your month as a whole. So there’s monthly calendar pages in the planner and we talk about, “Remember, to put in your big rocks, so that those commitments that are, “Oh, future me will totally love to do that right in four weeks.” And then all of a sudden it happens and you’re like, “Oh gosh.” So I’m curious, do you do any kind of monthly planning like that with big rocks? And how does that play out in your life?

Penny Reeve:
Yeah, I do. I use the monthly calendar in the planner and then I also have a little paper diary that I just buy at, the local Christian bookshop. It’s got the whole year in it. And so I work with both. The one in the planner just allows me to put a bit more detail in to what those, I suppose, as you’re calling them big rocks are, so that nothing comes by surprise. I can just look and it’s just clear what I’ve got locked in. It just means I don’t double book myself, which is what I was doing all the time before I got into this system.

Courtney Baker:
Yeah. It is really easy to do. I have actually found that when I’m traveling, sometimes I forget or don’t realize how close it actually is without those monthly calendar pages. Then all of a sudden you’re like, “Wait, I’m traveling this week?” You get to your weekly preview and you’re like, “I’m traveling. I didn’t know.”

Penny Reeve:
When I do find it, it sort of can get a bit complex is when in the week that the month is changing, because you look at your say your month for December and it’s all looking fine. And you forget that you’ve got something on the first or 2nd of January or something like that. And so that’s when the, what do you call those ones where they go through all the months?

Courtney Baker:
Oh, the rolling quarters?

Penny Reeve:
Yeah. That’s where I find them really handy. So I always make sure I have a quick look at that just to see. It gives me a bigger picture as well, so that when I do turn that page, I’m not in for a fright.

Courtney Baker:
Yeah. I find this really helpful as well. You can see so much on just a couple of pages.

Penny Reeve:
Yeah. Yeah.

Courtney Baker:
Penny, did you have a question for us that you wanted to ask today?

Penny Reeve:
Yeah. Yeah. Because I’m a creative. So I’m a writer and I just struggle to figure out the difference between goals and projects and trying to clarify between the two of those, because some of my writing goals are a project, like a manuscript that I need to get completed or something like that. But there’s something not quite right about the goal to project thing. I was wondering if you could clarify that for me?

Blake Stratton:
Yeah. So this is a really common question. The thing with projects is, I’ve heard Michael say it this way, that every goal is a project, but not every project is a goal. Every goal is a project, but not every project is a goal. Here’s the way to look at it. Goals will always require extra, extra resources, extra time. They will inherently have to exist outside of the busyness of everyday life. Outside of just the doing business as usual, goals will require extra. It could be extra time, extra financial consideration, extra people, just extra resources in general. And goals should also, this is part of why we have this framework, goals are something that you have a certain level of autonomy over, so that you can make them exciting. You can make them really relevant to something that really engages your heart, something that’s risky.

Blake Stratton:
And yet we know that life goes on and there is aspects of running, for you, especially as a writer, there’s a lot of self-management in that type of job. And so there’s stuff that’s like, “Hey-”

Penny Reeve:
I’m just listening.

Blake Stratton:
Yeah. What you don’t want to do is just, we’ve talked about this in another episode, but if you end up making too many projects goals that really shouldn’t be goals, you end up being bored and it affects your level of achievement. And so for a project, this is something where it’s like, “You know what, this has just got to get done, but it doesn’t really rise to the level won’t require extra from me.” Do you have anything, Courtney, as a leader of a team in a work context and also a leader in your family, do you have anything else to say about projects or things that you are deciding between related to that?

Courtney Baker:
As part of the marketing team, we have a lot of projects. I mean, a lot. It’s a field that’s very task oriented and there are a lot of people with different tasks and different projects that we’re working on. But a lot of times what I like to do if I’m like, “Is this project, does this need to rise? Does it need that extra effort and extra focus from our team?” A lot of times I will just think back through a smarter framework, like “If this was a goal, what would it be?” And then if it doesn’t apply, if it can’t be done in a smarter framework, or if I’m like, “It’s not exciting, it’s not relevant.” I can use that framework to be like, “No, this is just a project,” and we’re going to get it done because it needs to get done, but it’s not going to rise to that importance of a goal.

Penny Reeve:
Yeah. Yeah.

Blake Stratton:
One last thing I’ll add to this is when it comes to habit goals, I think of those as lifestyle upgrades or cultural upgrades, if you’re talking about an organization. And so if you have a writing goal or maybe you realize, “You know what, this year I think I can do more in terms of my output if I was more focused or change my work environment,” or whatever it is, you may decide, “Hey, I want to put this much output or write this many words per day,” or whatever it may be. For a time that may need to be a goal, but then it can just exist as a project, because you sort of find that rhythm. Now it’s still important, because when are you not going to need to output for your work?

Courtney Baker:
Write?

Blake Stratton:
Yeah. When you’re not going to need to write?

Courtney Baker:
When are you not going to need to work?

Blake Stratton:
Yeah. Exactly.

Penny Reeve:
Yeah. This is my problem. I need to keep writing.

Blake Stratton:
Exactly. So it stays in motion, but it would rise to the level of a goal when you go, “You know what, there needs to be a sea change in how this is really going. Does that make sense?

Penny Reeve:
Yeah. So you could make something a temporary goal just to do, like you said, an upgrade in the habits or the systems that are in place. And then once that becomes sort of normal, then you can drop that as a goal and just keep going…

Courtney Baker:
Yep.

Penny Reeve:
… in some of those things.

Courtney Baker:
Yeah. That’s exactly right, Penny.

Penny Reeve:
Yeah. Yeah.

Courtney Baker:
Well, thank you so much for joining us today on the podcast.

Penny Reeve:
Yeah. No. Thanks for chatting. It’s been really helpful. I’ve been taking notes while we’re chatting.

Courtney Baker:
That’s awesome.

Blake Stratton:
That’s great. And I think we’ll have to talk to someone about the budget with this, but it feels we should do a live episode in Australia if we have two listeners or more. Seems like we should…

Courtney Baker:
Or more.

Blake Stratton:
Yeah. We should maybe do something.

Penny Reeve:
There is more.

Blake Stratton:
Yeah.

Courtney Baker:
Yeah. We’re already scheduled for Ireland, I think, next year.

Blake Stratton:
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Courtney Baker:
Australia.

Penny Reeve:
I think people all around the world are just really connecting with the system and it’s really just helping them to make things happen in their life and to get rid of that overwhelm. So, yeah, it makes sense that people all around the world are using it.

Courtney Baker:
Well, thank you so much, Penny. We really enjoyed talking with you. Have a good one.

Blake Stratton:
Bye, Penny.

Penny Reeve:
See you. Bye-bye.

Courtney Baker:
I really enjoyed that call with Penny and I feel like she really hit on the end about people feeling like they’re getting transformation from this and using the systems and frameworks. It’s I think I’ve said this before, but just very humbling.

Blake Stratton:
It is.

Courtney Baker:
That this actually brings real-life change to real people and that’s something not to take lightly.

Blake Stratton:
Yeah, I agree. And I think she brought up an important question about the whole project or goal thing. And if that’s something you wrestle with, definitely if you have follow-up questions, jump into our Facebook community, that’s a great place to ask those. But I need to check myself oftentimes that I’m not just copping out on my goals and just “Actually, is that really a project? Does this really rise to the level of a goal?” So hopefully that encouraged many of you listening today.

Courtney Baker:
So Blake, any final thoughts for today?

Blake Stratton:
When we talk about a monthly calendar, sometimes it feels like, “Okay, how transformational can this actually be? It’s a calendar.” But I think what this is really about is getting to know yourself, getting to know the real you and your true capacity. I think so often we can overestimate ourselves on what we’ll have time for. And then we feel overwhelmed and busy and relationships or things that really matter to us fall away. And the practice of using the monthly calendar and making sure that you’re not over-committing yourself is really powerful for one month. But when you make that just part of your lifestyle, I think over the course of time, be encouraged, because I think you’ll see, “Oh, I know myself.” I’ve always been impressed with Michael when he talks about this, because it’s like, “You just really know yourself. You know your own limits, so it’s easier for you to set boundaries and then you get to reap the rewards from that.” So enjoy the monthly calendar. It’s a bigger deal than it may seem.

Courtney Baker:
Yeah. Well, thanks again for listening to Focus on This.

Blake Stratton:
It’s the most productive podcast on the internet. So tell your friends, folks. Tell your friends, if they’re underestimating their own monthly calendar, putting things up for future them, share it with the hashtag Focus on This podcast.

Courtney Baker:
Yeah. And next week we are going to be talking about money, is that what we were talking about?

Blake Stratton:
Yep. I think 50 Cent.

Courtney Baker:
50? Or oh, rolling quarters.

Blake Stratton:
You see what we did there, Verbs? Or if you can’t hear, Verbs is rolling on the floor laughing.

Verbs Boyer:
I’m rolling quarters on the floor actually.

Blake Stratton:
Oh.

Courtney Baker:
Oh.

Blake Stratton:
Well, until then stay focused.

Courtney Baker:
Stay focused.