How to Create New Beliefs Using Your Calendar

How to Create New Beliefs Using Your Calendar

“Life is short. Do stuff that matters.” ~Random Quote

Every day, how you use your time is confirming the beliefs you have about yourself.

The beliefs you have about yourself are shaping your self-image, and your self-image is shaping your entire life.

When you change how you see yourself, your life outside of you changes, too.

Your calendar (or planner) is a showcase of what you believe about yourself.

So, if you don’t like what you’re believing about yourself, it’s time to start scheduling actions that confirm what you do what to believe about yourself.

Lets get started on creating new beliefs using your calendar.

How to Create New Beliefs Using Your Calendar

Ask Yourself This Question

First, ask yourself this question: Do I like how I’m spending my time and what it says about me?

What do you think about yourself when you’re working and decide to scroll through social media? Maybe that you procrastinate, are easily distracted, are undisciplined, and don’t get things done.

How about when you sleep in an hour late and skip your workout on a routine basis?

You might believe you’re undedicated to physical health and getting in shape.

Take a few minutes to evaluate how you spend your time on a daily and weekly basis. Do you like what it says about you?

If not, it may be time to practice becoming more intentional with how you spend your time.

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The Busy Work Problem

Then, there’s the busy work problem. You aren’t doing anything of purpose when you’re engaging in busy work.

Busy work makes you feel like you’re doing something, but there’s no fruit. No product. No purposeful result.

Don’t schedule busy work.

Remember-you’re calendaring actions to collect evidence for what you want to believe about yourself.

Actions that support the beliefs that:

You’re an organized person.
A person who utilizes their time in purposeful action.
Allowing for times of rest and pleasure.
Purposeful time spent nurturing meaningful relationships.

Work smarter, not harder. Calendar purposeful, intentional actions that produce fruit and have something to show for them in your life.

Busy work and unintentional actions are what creates burnout.

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Routine Calendared Events

What are you calendaring on a routine, weekly basis? Are you calendaring these actions intentionally and purposefully?

I calendar actions weeks (sometimes months) in advance because my daily and weekly routines are so ingrained in me at this point.

For example, I calendar a workout five days a week. I also calendar weekly cleaning tasks every Friday.

You can do this to establish new habits and use it to plan time with loved ones on a routine basis as well, such as a date night every Saturday evening with your spouse or brunch with friends on Sunday afternoons.

Related:

How to Change Your Habits
Planner (This is the planner I use and I love it.)
11 Habits that Make You Unhappy
The High-Performance Planner

Show Up for Your Calendar

Now, here’s the kicker: It’s not enough to calendar purposeful actions to support your beliefs about yourself-you then actually have to carry them out.

Are you disciplined to show up for what is on your calendar? It requires you to expect discomfort and show up for yourself.

Think of what you have calendared as promises to yourself. After all, you calendared actions planning on carrying them out, right?

So imagine what it does to your belief system if you break those promises-it re-confirms the beliefs about yourself that are holding you back.

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5 Things You Must Let Go of to Achieve Success
11 Tips for Intentional Living
Grow You (Amazing virtual life coaching.)
How Personal Responsibility Affects Your Life

Before You Go

What do you want to believe about yourself?

Use your calendar to schedule actions that confirm those beliefs.

Take the time to think about the actions you engage in on a daily and weekly basis-what do these actions say about you?

Avoid busy work and actions that don’t produce fruit in your life. Schedule your time on actions, relationships, and things that are purposeful and fulfilling.

Then, follow through.

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Hi! I'm Lisa. I help women live purposeful, fulfilling and joyful lives. I'm happily married and a fur mom to two boxers and two rabbits. I love Jesus, freelance writing, fitness, personal development, reading books, football, cross-stitching, and video games.