# Do This Before Planning Your Goals

We often hear lots of people shouting about goal planning and writing S.M.A.R.T goals but until you know where your time is being spent each day there’s no point trying to set any goals.

Try this one simple task to track where your time is being spent each day.

Step 1

Source a weekly planner that has time layout for each day of the week. You could make your own planner in Google Sheets that list each day and the time.

Here’s my planner.

Step 2

Write down how you spend each hour of your day. Whatever you do in the hour write it down. If it’s Gym, Facebook, making videos, browsing the internet… whatever. Write it down into the time space for that day.

Step 3

Complete this simple process for 2 weeks to see where you are spending most of your time. This process will give you an overview of what times of the day you are most productive or what tasks you are wasting time on.

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