Calendars for both business and personal scheduling have become indispensable, and yet, Matt and Garrett are seeing some Ninja’s who are struggling with them, particularly when they are doing so much business these days. Today’s episode takes a moment to look how effective scheduling and ‘calendaring’ can maximize your time, keep you from ‘flying by the seat of your pants’, and simply make your life better overall.   The entire episode is devoted to how to control your calendar starting with how to set it up, establishing protected times, allowing for some exceptions when absolutely necessary, implementing some tips that will enhance its effectiveness, and, above all respecting it. Calendars are not just for setting listing appointments - they can be so much more, and have such a greater impact upon both your personal and business life. You owe it to yourself to listen in on Matt and Garrett’s sage advice today, and if you have any further questions, remember that they are only too happy for you to contact them to discuss.   Episode Highlights:     The steps in building your calendar the way you want   Being specific when getting started   Listing what you want most days to look like   Establishing protected time   Controlling the calendar   Planning properly   Making exceptions   Understanding long term repercussions of calendar items   Using the calendar invite option   Building in CRM’s   Respecting your calendar and the appointments on it   Quotes:   “If something doesn’t get on my calendar, don’t expect me to be there.”   “When you start putting things on your calendar, you also start to recognize the time that you don’t have.”   “The better you are and the more high demand that people see you as, and the more value you bring to the table, people will wait for you.”   “Create what you would like your ideal schedule on most days to look like, and then we can start to calendar things, and put it on, and then fill in all the other…urgent appointments around those things.”   “When you push off your family enough, it’s not an immediate repercussion, but it will come back and bite you at some point.”   “The likelihood of distractions coming in will fade away over time as you learn to respect your calendar better and better and better.”   “When you decide that it’s important enough that it gets that hour of your life, and gets that time set aside specifically for it, that’s when it can go back on. But until then, don’t put it back on your schedule.”   Links:   www.TheNinjaSellingPodcast.com Email us at TSW@TheNinjaSellingPodcast.com Ninja Selling www.NinjaSelling.com @ninjasellingofficial Ninja Coaching: www.NinjaCoaching.com @ninja.coaching Garrett garrett@ninjacoaching.com @ninjaredding Matt matt@ninjacoaching.com @matthewjbonelli