How to establish a routine whilst managing a chaotic schedule

Is your schedule chaotic? Mine often is. It feels like most months I try some new method to get control of the whole thing. The repeated need for this testifies to my success! So the question is, how do you establish a routine whilst managing a chaotic schedule?

It is well documented that establishing consistency is essential to covering any ground at all towards achieving our goals.

Whether it is meeting requests, the unpredictable demands of family life, phone calls, emails, lack of sleep, poor planning, it feels like everything is conspiring against us in this. Our schedules are chaotic and they feel totally beyond our control. Most of us face this exact dilemma. There are just too many calls on the public purse so to speak.

Say you are trying to write a book or establish a blog for example. You’ll get nowhere with this if you don’t actually have time to sit down and write. And, as I often quote the Merovingian from the Matirx Films “If we do not take time how can we ever have time”.

This exact issue was raised is by someone I follow on Twitter. They are trying to write a book. Their schedule is chaotic. They had no idea how to bring these two things together. There are a few approaches to this dilemma that I have come across over the years.