Comments on: Creating an Annual Time Block

By: Daniel Tardy

Daniel Tardy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:51:48 +0000

I use this all the time now and I LOVE it! Great tool! Especially if you travel a lot. My recent post No one cares about your snow.

By: Planning for a New Year: Tools I’m Using for 2010

Planning for a New Year: Tools I’m Using for 2010 — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:49:25 +0000

[...] Time Block – This is a spreadsheet put together by Michael Hyatt. I love it, and it should be very useful in planning time for [...]

By: Jeremy McGarity

Jeremy McGarity — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:05:48 +0000

Great post-How long did it take to get this mapped out? a day? or two?
thanks for the help.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:12:17 +0000

Great tool. I made three modifications to this that others may find useful. First, I aligned the days of the week horizontally (so that all of the Mondays in a quarter show up in the same line). I realize that the dates at the beginning of the month or end of the month end up being in the wrong column (e.g., August 31 may actually show up in the September column), but being able to see the days of the week aligned far outweighs that.

Secondly, I formatted the cells to "wrap text". Just a simple way to give myself more room on a line if I need it (without having to add in another row).

Finally, because of the wrap text feature, I decided to put each quarter on a seperate Excel tab. That way, if I have a row whose height is 4 lines tall (for example), it only affects that row in that quarter and not all the rows in other quarters. This might not make sense unless you you are more than a novice at Excel.

Overall, great help. Thanks for sharing.

By: Michael Hyatt

Michael Hyatt — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:06:41 +0000

Scott, this is so encouraging. Thanks for sharing with me.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:12:45 +0000

Totally just watched Bill Hybels teach and use this illustration (stones and sand) at willowcreek.org in his message "The Forgotten Way" Hmmm.. maybe the Lord is trying to teach me something.

By: @johnataylor

@johnataylor — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:28:40 +0000

Mike,

Thanks for sharing. This came just in time. I'm working through the same process right now, and was just considering creating something in Excel for the same reasons you described.

You've saved me some much-needed time.

By: Brian York

Brian York — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:08:02 +0000

wow…thanks for this. You just saved my sanity!!!

"if you don’t have a plan for your life, someone else does." – how true is this!!

By: Scott Meyer

Scott Meyer — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:06:12 +0000

Michael,
Thanks for sharing this insight and this tool that you created. We (the ministry staff) took the spreadsheet and have now been planning more than 1 year out. Know that your tool is having an impact on one ministry team and a church in Texas.

Grace & Peace
Scott

By: Annual Planning Calendar | Michael Hyatt

Annual Planning Calendar | Michael Hyatt — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:08:18 +0000

[...] so that I can make sure I am not driven by the “tyranny of the urgent.” I call this my Annual Time Block. Unfortunately, I could not find a ready-made tool any where. Microsoft Outlook and Entourage [...]