Alissa Knight's Daily Task Sheet
As many of you know, I am radical about time management in order to get everything done that is within my sphere of the family companies my wife and I run at Knight Group. Within the group of companies is Knight Capital (Cryptocurrency/Venture Capital/Capital Markets Investing), Knight Ink (content creation/content marketing), Knight Events (cybersecurity conferences), and Knight Studios (film production company). Running all of these companies along with the numerous boards I sit on, I must be fanatical about time management. In addition to all of these demands on my time, I also needed to make sure I allocated time in my day to myself (fitness, eating healthy, and meditation - mind, body, spirit).
This daily task sheet template attached to this article is version 3 of what I have used over the last 15 years to manage my time. It was originally conceived from the Self Journal at Best Self Co. However, I had ongoing changes I wanted to make to their journal that it became easier to just recreate it myself in Excel.
I've attached both the Excel sheet to this blog and encourage you to make it your own. This is what works for me but it may not work for you. In general, the instructions you want to follow that have worked for me the best is to do the following while also ensuring you're not doing your daily task sheet the morning you wake up. Be ready the night before by creating the following day's tasks so when you get up and sit at your desk you know exactly what you need to get done:
Instructions
Finally, the right-hand side is your daily task time budgeting. This is where you plan out your day starting from when you wake up. There should be NO blank spaces here. Every 30 minute block should be accounted for until you go to sleep. Whether it's email, meetings, etc fill those in first!
Next, pull from your list of critical, short and long tasks, and habit tracking items and place them into the time block on the right. As you complete those tasks on the right, mark them complete (the fun part!).
That's it! This was a quick post to explain how to fill this out. I will most likely update it as I have more time and post some examples but this should get all of you on your way.
UPDATED VERSION AS OF NOV 29, 2022: Excel Version: Download
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11moAlissa, thanks for sharing!
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1yI hope to cut down my distractions with this tool
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