Why everyone needs a Buffer Week to work on their Business (and themselves)

How A Buffer Week Can Transform Your Business And Your Health

This morning, my quarterly Buffer Week begins (albeit a short week).

Once every three months - working ON my business and not IN my business.

I'm also working ON me - with an eye test on Thursday and a (long overdue) full BUPA health screening on Friday afternoon.

We pull various forms of transport and other equipment in for a full service every now and then, to ensure their "road-worthiness". And yet we often don't do the same for ourselves - which is quite crazy isn't it?

Part of the challenge I face this morning is that I have a folder in Todoist (my time and task management application) called "My Buffer Week" - and into it I drop all the tasks and projects that are best addressed during this time of "no interruptions".

Then I open the folder this morning and - "Holy To Do Lists Batman!" - there's a lot of stuff I've dropped in there.

Also, you may recall that I took last Thursday and Friday as a holiday, to conduct some family history research in Oxfordshire

So day 1 of my Buffer Week will begin as follows:

• Answer emails that have arrived since Thursday morning - 93 of them to be exact - and so that will take me through to lunchtime;

• After lunch, start to prioritise the Buffer Week list:

  • A - must be completed by Friday;

  • B - I'd really like to complete by Friday;

  • C - it would be nice if I get round to it - but if not, next time (or never);

• Then I will prioritise the A's - A1, A2, A3 and so on;

• And maybe (if I'm lucky) I'll make a start on A1 before the close today.

So an hour on the Wattbike shortly, shower and dress, and then back here to make a start.

p.s. I absolutely love my Buffer Weeks. You should try it.