This method will fix your schedule

Identifying "pain points" will fix your schedule… if you want it to.

Let me hold myself accountable here.

I will often complain about traffic on the way to work.

"It is just such a waste of time!"

Sure, absolutely. But why don't you do something about it?

I realised that every time I complained I never seriously thought about ways to fix it.

I could leave earlier to beat traffic. I could take public transport. I could call my family or intentionally wait to listen to a favourite podcast only once I hit this annoyed state to improve my mood.

I am in control of those things and it all starts with pain points.

Pain points are:
Things that frustrate you
Things that take a lot of time or too much time in your eyes
Tasks you don't enjoy doing
Tasks you can get better at

Simply put, they are things that consistently pop up in your weekly schedule that cause pain.

So, do you just accept that something annoys you constantly or do you do something about it?

Pain points method:
Identify pain points
Identify potential ways to improve
Implement into your schedule

Try this yourself because I know for me, it wasn't until I actually wrote down my pain points that I thought properly about how I could improve those areas.

You're in control.