Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas!
Near the end of 2015, I made a post about time management, which included free downloads to help you get organized for the new year, including a Gantt Chart Excel template and a printable blank quarterly calendar.
Plan a Month’s Worth of Projects with a Gantt chart
Here’s what the Gantt Chart template looks like:
Click to download the Excel Template
Track your progress AND plan out your month so you know which tasks you should work on each day.
Plan Several Months at Once with a Quarterly Calendar
I’ve been using this quarterly calendar since 2015 as a family planner, color-coding events and appointments for each family member. We can see the whole year at a glance, and I use it daily! It also works really well for planning out projects. You could use highlighters to create Gantt Charts on your calendar.
The new calendar spans January to December, 2017, and this time I added a color version.
These are super simple, and I’m letting you download them for free. The only conditions are that you may not upload this calendar to your own site, you may not redistribute it (you can send people here, though), and you can’t profit from the calendar in anyway. If you want to profit from a quarterly calendar, you’ll have to make one yourself, from scratch.
If you’d like the calendar (PDF) or the Gantt Chart template (.xltx), subscribe to my blog. Then email me at querylara AT gmail DOT com with whichever one you’d like in the subject line, plus your name in the body, and I’ll send it to you!
Day Management
To see the apps I use to manage my writing days, see the 2015 post.
Motivation
If you’re struggling with motivation, I recommend the Coach.Me app. You can also check out my posts on motivation for writers.
Lara Willard 