18 Quick Ways to Declutter Your Calendar

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Does it feel like your calendar or schedule could use a clean up?

Are you ready to take some targeted decluttering action, today?

Decluttering your calendar on a regular basis is always a good idea.

Our work, hobbies, interests, tastes, and relationships are constantly changing over time.

So, it’s no surprise our schedules should change and grow with us.

In this post, you’ll find eighteen smart ways for you to quickly clean up your calendar.

These eighteen short-and-sweet methods are relatively quick and easy.

You’ll make marked progress in just a handful of minutes.

Ready to get started?

Pull out your paper planner, or pull up your digital calendar, and let’s clean things up….

1. Remove cancelled meetings, appointments, activities, and events.

2. Reschedule a standing personal appointment for a more convenient time and/or location.

3. Delete scheduled social events you are unable to attend.

4. Limit others’ scheduling access to your calendar.

5. Confirm a tentatively scheduled appointment via phone or email.

6. Remove non-mandatory personal appointments.

7. Send an email to get more details about a poorly-worded upcoming event.

8. Reschedule a double-booked appointment (or two).

9. Update digital calendars and apps to the latest operating system.

10. Correct an improperly scheduled appointment.

11. Remove non-mandatory professional appointments or meetings.

12. Scrub out duplicate meeting or appointment entries.

13. Reschedule EXISTING appointments Scheduled DURING vacation, personal, or holiday time.

14. Remove weekly and monthly professional events you no no longer Wish to attend.

15. Add travel time to your calendar to and from appointments.

16. Cancel weekly appointments for a hobby you no longer wish to pursue.

17. Add date, time, location, and attendees to meetings and appointments.

18. Reschedule weekly and monthly goal review sessions for more convenient Time.

How about you? How are you going to clean out your calendar? Join the conversation and leave a comment below!

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About the Author

Rashelle

Rashelle Isip is a New York City-based productivity consultant who helps successful entrepreneurs and business owners manage their time and energy so they can reduce stress, work less, and make more money in their businesses. She has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, NBC News, The Washington Post, NPR, and The Atlantic. Get her free guide, 5 Unexpected Things You Need to Organize a Work Notebook, by clicking here.

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