Now you plan, starting with your day, then your week, then your month.

In teaching we call it the "backward by design" approach. It means that you start with the big things, and plan backwards ending with the individual lessons. For time management, it means taking those big projects and giving them a "due date". Once your month has been roughly laid out and you know when your bigger things need to be done, you can plan your week. Your week should break up those big project into sections that need to be finished by the end of the week in order for the project to be finished by the end of the month. Finally, you plan out your individual days. This is when your daily tasks need to be factored back in. At the daily planning stage, it is important to understand the difference between an important task and an urgent task. It might seems like all urgent tasks are important, but that may not be true. I'll give you an example from my own personal life. I have to dig up my garden before the snow falls (which will be this month). This is an urgent task, but it's not really important. If I prioritize it, then I may run out of time for something important that doesn't have a natural deadline. Ex (improving my writing skills so I can land a better job). Try to delegate urgent tasks that aren't important to others. (I'm going to get my teenager to dig up the garden this weekend) :).