6-9 Match Your Buckets + Pockets - TMM Module 6 Tue, 3/22 11:02AM 7:43 SUMMARY KEYWORDS buckets, homeschooling, schedule, matching, grocery shopping, rearranged, cleaning, fill, gym, work, hour, grocery store, remember, tasks, module, spreadsheet, morning, monday, fit, afternoon SPEAKERS Patricia Sung Patricia Sung 00:00 Hey there successful mama. Welcome back to module six, and we are matching our buckets to our pockets. Patricia Sung 00:07 So this is where the finagling starts, what makes sense where, what fits what you're doing here, I want you to use your foundational schedule. And I'm going to give you a chart that if that helps you, you can do it that way too. For me, I like I'm a visual person. Patricia Sung 00:27 So I would just write stuff on post it notes and move them around till I find how that makes sense for me. But you want to start with your requirements. First, you know, something has to happen in a certain time, it needs to go in that pocket. And then you start with your bigger buckets, first things that have more weight to them or to take you longer, and put those into the big spots first, and then you'll work down from there. Patricia Sung 00:52 So let's give us an example here. That kind of that. Okay, so in this same spreadsheet that you had, that you sorted this out earlier in the module, and there's another tab here. Notice there is a blank tab, there is my example tab. And now we're going to work in this third tab, which is the buckets and packets. So once you go through from your foundational schedule, remember I said on my Monday, I had an hour and a half in the morning, and then I had two hours in the afternoon, you're going to put that over here. 

Patricia Sung 01:25 Monday going out now, Monday afternoon, do, okay, and then fill in how much space you have in each year buckets. And you may have more buckets than this, depending on what your schedule looks like, you may have less buckets than this. And at different phases of your life, you're gonna have different times where you have different buckets, it's fine. That's to be expected. Patricia Sung 01:46 On the other side of the spreadsheet, you're listing out all those buckets. So the things where you kind of like clump things together and be like, Okay, I have, you know, I have my homeschool bucket, I have a rest bucket, I have a weekly prep bucket, all these different buckets with their times here. And you're in a certain part like matching them up. Patricia Sung 02:07 Well, for this next example, someone who's homeschooling, they need to find the place to fit these homeschooling hours in first because this is a huge chunk of their day. And it's taking up a lot of time. And if you like to clean all in one swoop, that's going to be a larger chunk of time, if you're working from home, that'll be a larger chunk of time, you want to fill those in first, then once you find that you want make sure that you have your foundational schedule out while you're doing this. Patricia Sung 02:36 Because as you're rearranging things here, it's easy to be like, cool, I have a three hour block here, I have a three hour activity here, boom, they match. But when you actually go in and look at your schedule, and you're like, Oh, well, that three hour activity is when both of my kids are home, maybe that's not the best time for me to be fill in the blank activity. And yeah, so that's what I'm saying, like, you know, post it notes might work for you. Or you can just do it on the computer and just have both of the windows up what you want to start matching and filling in. Patricia Sung 03:09 I'm like, Okay, I'm thinking about like, big picture, you know, do your kids do better at homeschooling in the morning or in the afternoon. plan appropriately. If you have more brainpower in the mornings, you want to put those tasks that are going to be more thought provoking, or things that require more concentration, like filling out paperwork in the morning, because you need all that brain capacity, the things in the afternoon, if you have less energy, then it's like, okay, well, you know what, like, cleaning my kitchen doesn't take a lot of brain capacity. It takes like a physical effort. But like I can kind of turn my brain off when I'm sweeping. So that would fit better in this area. 

Patricia Sung 03:57 So this is where the like art and science meet of pulling together your days. And remember, you are not going to find the perfect answer, you are not going to find the perfect schedule in the first try. This is an experiment and you're putting in like I think this is going to work. And then as you do it for the first week, you're going to see okay, this made sense here, this fit Oh, this did not we gotta move this thing. And it'll, it'll come together and you'll start rearranging all of these buckets as you go. S Patricia Sung 04:28 o in that we get back to my spreadsheet. So you want to move these over a bit. Okay, Monday, I've got an hour and a half. Maybe we could start homeschooling then let me go ahead. I'm going to copy that. Put it up here paste. I want to do that on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. So you can either delete those or you could like, you know, change the font or did those. Patricia Sung 04:57 Okay.Grocery shopping. Well I think when I Look at where's my financial schedule? Like? Where's it in place that make sense for me to go grocery shopping? Well, you know what, I'm going to go to the gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So maybe I just go straight from there. So I think when we try going to the grocery store after the gym on Thursday, so we come back to our sheet. Okay, Thursday morning, oops, groceries. Patricia Sung 05:23 Now, you also might be like, You know what, I shouldn't go the grocery shopping while I'm hungry. Can I change that around? And that's okay. All right. So you're going to match all these up and think rough plan of like, I think this is gonna go here. And then I want you to remember that all these buckets can be rearranged. So this is not set in stone. And the beautiful part of this is that because they can be rearranged. If something comes up that you are, like have to deal with, you can then adjust far more easily because you're moving an entire puzzle piece, instead of trying to shift like 10 different tasks. Patricia Sung 06:08 So for example, on Thursday, we just said we're going to go to the gym, and then we're going to go grocery shopping. And today someone's vomiting. We're not going to go to the grocery store. And then I can take a look at my schedule and say, Okay, let me look at what Friday's buckets are cleaning the house and my weekly prep and say, You know what? Well, I'm home, I probably get some cleaning done today. I'll go to the grocery store tomorrow, assuming no examining tomorrow, and you can move those buckets. We easier than like trying to shift this giant To Do List mess around. And keep in mind that as you are putting this into place, that you may end up shifting a task from a bucket to an anchor. 

Patricia Sung 06:58 Example like when I said like we're gonna leave the gym and go right to grocery shopping, if you find that that really works for you, you might just start to consider that as part of your routine for that day is that I immediately just float right in from finishing at the gym right into grocery shopping. And it almost like becomes part of that anchor there. And remember, this is an experiment it is going to change it's going to modify and every time that something doesn't work out. We're considering that is like a lovely piece of information that I needed to know. And now I'm going to modify what I'm doing based on that information. Patricia Sung 07:36 I want to pause there and wrap up shortly in our next video. I'll see in just a sec.