Intentional Planning: The Life Hack That Changed My Days

No one came into existence in this world with any form of life manual. Each day we keep learning and unlearning a lot, and in the process, we stumble upon simple tricks that could make life a lot easier for us, and embracing such becomes nonnegotiable.

---

Personally, one of the powerful life hacks that has been helping me a lot is intentional planning. You should know what it means for someone to be very deliberate about her daily planning, without leaving anything by default. Ever since I learned and embraced this trick, it has reshaped my life for good. I no longer run helter-skelter with both handling my mom duties and business demands with a focused attention and without tension like before.

---

Gone are the days when I usually feel exhausted without being productive. No more being a busy bee without an effective day. This result was made possible with this life hack of mine called intentional planning.

I tried it and saw that it is what I needed all along but didn't discover it early enough, but today feels better. The way I have been going about this is that every morning or at night sometimes, I will pen down three major things I must achieve for that day, come rain or come sun, just three. Every other additional one wouldn't be an issue if I couldn't meet up, but my top three are a must to accomplish.

---

I understand that I usually have a lot of important things to lay hands on each day, but making my top three a must to attend to has been a game changer for me; this is intentional planning, not just waking to face responsibilities without direction.

The list of my daily activities as a mom and a new entrepreneur has been so overwhelming, but starting my day with a defined target makes me feel calm, focused, and more productive. With my top three daily, I push myself to focus on what matters the most; instead of touching this and that, certain things must be done while the rest follow suit.

---

This life hack has helped make my life to study more organized and well structured. The era of confusion is over, but rather the hack brought me a better clarity and, most importantly, peace of mind, which is a luxury to me.

Even in my business, I have adopted this life hack. I understand that everything can't be fixed in a day, so each day, I set up a plan, a very intentional plan. It could be that today is solely for production, and the next day is for follow-up on our old customer and creating new customers through a trick I discovered. Another day, I could sit back and plan on how to grow my business.
****"

Rather than trying to fix everything at once, handling this goals bit by bit makes things run more smoothly with less stress and in of all these, intentional planning as a life hack brought me this far.

---

This post is in response to the Hive Learners community prompt on the topic titled A LIFE HACK.

---

Image was created using chatgpt