Best Laid Plans March Q&A: Planning Your Planning (!), Nested Goals at Work, Email Integration Solutions, and More EP 292
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Mar 2, 2026 Questions about using nested goals at work and whether to plan them together or separately. Practical tips for scheduling and protecting planning time at multiple scales. Strategies for planning community engagement and matching commitments to capacity. Troubleshooting calendar sync between Outlook and Google and suggestions for third-party tools. A quick look at mood tracking methods and a planner review.
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Apply Nested Goals To Work And Home
- Use the Nested Goals method for work just as you do for home planning to align annual, monthly, weekly, and daily tasks.
- Run separate annual/seasonal goal sessions for work and personal life, then combine monthly lists at weekly planning to avoid one domain crowding out the other.
Separate Goal Sessions But Integrate Weekly
- Keep personal and work goal-setting sessions separate to protect personal time and avoid work dominating nonwork priorities.
- Integrate at the weekly planning level so monthly personal and work lists inform what you actually schedule that week.
Treat Planning Sessions As Protected Events
- Schedule planning sessions and protect them as events so they won't be pushed aside by vague "anytime" tasks.
- Make seasonal/annual planning large and time-protected, do short 20-minute check-ins when full sessions aren't possible, and build daily planning into a routine.