Time Management with Google Calendar
Learn important techniques for managing your time using Google Calendar as your primary tool.
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Introduction
Maggie introduces you to time management using Google Calendar.
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Activity: Intention-setting and The Unschedule
Maggie introduces a calendar concept that prioritizes wellness, rest, and leisure activities
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How to prioritize
Learn about the importance of keeping priorities and how to map them.
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Tips for saying "No"
The most important step in managing a large workload.
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Scheduling Commitments
Maggie provides guiding questions to ask when adding new tasks and events to our calendars.
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Timers are your friend
Maggie outlines the benefits of using timers to determine how we currently manage our time and to meet our time management goals.
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Making your goals SMART
Maggie breaks down the SMART acronym to make goal-setting more accessible.
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Breaking down projects into milestones and tasks
Learn how to break larger projects down into more do-able and more schedule-able chunks.
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Navigating Google Calendar interface
Learn calendar view options and how to locate basic Google Cal functions.
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How to create a new event
Maggie walks through how to create a new event, and how you might use an all-day event.
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Creating additional calendars
Learn how to create multiple calendars for different aspects of your life.
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Setting event notifications
Learn how to set reminders for calendar events, and how to adjust notification preferences.
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Making a to-do list with Tasks
Learn how to use the Tasks function in Google Calendar to create to-do lists.
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Managing projects with Tasks
Maggie explains how to use Tasks to manage a multi-step project in Google Cal.
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Managing your day with time blocking
Maggie introduces the concept of time blocking and how to implement it into Google Calendar.
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Time blocking from Tasks
Learn a simple system for scheduling tasks into your calendar as time blocks.
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Set up a daily schedule email
Learn how to get a daily schedule emailed to you.
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Adjust event visibility
Learn how to limit the information available to others about your calendar events.
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Set working hours and appointment slots
Learn how to set working hours and appointment slots to better manage coworker requests for your time.
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Wrap Up and Review
Review and apply your new time management skills.
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Time Management with Google Calendar Activity Files
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