@Katherine – glad to hear it is working well for you! I combine the work and personal planning into one spot, but I understand that if people have a fairly strict separation in life (like you will not having a meeting after 3 p.m., and if you have to be on site you probably won’t do anything personal before 3 p.m.) then the two planning spots could make more sense.

I plan either Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning (mostly) for what I’ll be doing after 3pm and the weekends. I put my weekly commitments on the calendar first. Then, I add any new commitment or event. From there, I include when I’ll get my weekly chores done (try to keep on the same day since I prefer routine). I look for pockets of time where I can add in some fun stuff like hobbies, friends/family time, extra reading, etc. I have been managing my time like this since the end of January shortly after doing your time-tracking challenge, and it is working really well for me.

To answer a previous comment, I plan at lunch on a Friday or a little later if a meeting has popped up.

I weight my goals for the following week heavier towards the beginning as I see it as eating the frog over the week. By end of Tuesday I like most of my goals to be done. Inevitably, more things crop up, as you say, that I was not aware of by the time I made that weekly list.

@Rich – usually in the late morning or afternoon on Friday. I do it during the work day – I’m planning the work week as well as my personal life so I certainly consider it work. I put it on my work day to-do list for Friday.

@Marie – I try to do most of that stuff on Friday when I plan my weeks. The upside of doing Friday is that it still is work time (even if I am sliding into weekend mode…) whereas Sunday night is supposed to still be “off.” But I guess your mileage may vary!!