I'm Attorney Thom Goolsby and welcome to mastering law. The podcast for attorneys to help you master the business of practicing law.

Transformation: Understand & commit to set up a realistic planning system. Here's where we take the crazy turn it's off the chart different from everything else you've heard: we're going to apply Parkinson's law.

Scott Brown: Losers have goals, winners have systems

1. Why do we calendar?

A. To get things done

B. Prioritize tasks

C. Set up an initial system

What do we calendar?

Daily work & appointments (give staff some freedom to schedule business and personal appointments with you)

Marketing tasks and practice management

Self-development vacations

Brainstorming

Note: If you continue to not do a task, take it off your list. Just realize what you are giving up.

Now to the wrinkle: Parkinson's law is the adage that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

What will calendaring do for us?

Help us focus on strategic view

Help us determine what we hate to do so we stop doing

Motivates us by seeing multiple tasks accomplished

What kind of calendar do you need?

Bottom line: This is your life, you can plan it, you can make it happen. The calendar is a roadmap to where you want to go. It's up to you. Do you want to drive in circles or do you want to achieve greatness?

Call to action: Start calendaring by setting up time each week to calendar.

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I'm Thom Goolsby -- May God bless you, your family, your clients, your employees and your practice.