Step 1 – Make a list of all the jobs you have to do in the next week. Include in this list jobs relating to your work and/or study, jobs relating to your domestic life, in fact all the things you have to do.
Step 2 – Prioritize all these jobs on a ‘most important’ to ‘least important’ basis.
Step 3 – Draw up an outline schedule of exactly when you will do each of these jobs.
Step 4 – At the end of the week compare what your schedule said you would do with what you actually have done. If there is a discrepancy, why did it occur?
Step 5 – Draw up your own list of planning and control rules from your experience in this exercise in personal planning and control.