how do you stay motivated and manage your time?
Hi Cece, I'm incredibly impressed with how you were able to work a full-time job at a Big Law firm while also lecture at Yale (I suffer from procrastination every weekend). Can you share how you time manage / stay motivated? Additionally, how do you stay organized on your tasks and to-dos?
- Lily
Calendar, calendar, calendar! I try to sit down for an hour before every week (it used to be Monday mornings; now it’s Friday mornings) and plan the following week or two weeks, depending on how much visibility is typical in whatever I’m doing at the time. (In biglaw, it would typically only be one week. In self-employment, it tends to be two weeks.) Bullet journaling frustrated me and felt like it took too long, so I came up with my own modified system:
Weekly to-do list. I write down all of the tasks I need to get done that week in a list and then allocate those tasks among the days of the week, leaving the day I teach free from biglaw tasks because I know I’ll be focused primarily on teaching…