How I keep the plates spinning

A look at my weekly planning process

Life is fairly complex around here with five kids (in four different schools), two working parents, and the like. I wind up managing a lot of details. I’m quite proud of how many things keep moving along, even with the usual hazards and vicissitudes of daily existence.

My weekly planning process is a big part of this. Each week I take a little bit of time to think about what needs to happen and what I want to see happen over the next 168 hours. I do longer range planning and dreaming at various other points, but weekly planning is where the rubber hits the road, so to speak, and goals turn into reality. Read on for a deeper dive into what this weekly planning process looks like for me.