For instance, on the day I wrote this post, it’s National Oatmeal Muffin Day and National Hard Candy Day. There is a “national day” or “holiday” for just about everything. I recommend blocking personal days (preferably weekends) of self care in red. Or it can help you ascertain how busy your prior month or subsequent month is which may help you decide to not accept new projects or clients in order to recuperate or prepare. If you’re considering it, you can look at this calendar and see if it conflicts or interferes with other things. But this can be a great tool to refer to when people ask you to take on another project or task. This is not designed to necessarily replace electronic calendars or paper planners. You can then transfer and block out dates on your other calendars (i.e., content or launch). Color the cell blocks associated with dates of vacations, product launches, deadlines, etc. Consider assigning colors to the important areas or programs. This will allow you to at a glance see chunks of time that are important to you. I suggest starting this calendar on the yearly template. Big Rocks are individual and subjective, but can include birthdays, anniversaries, important vacations (family and personal), career shifting conferences, events at church, etc. Big Rocks are the important things in our lives. Big Rocks Calendarįor those of us with multiple responsibilities (family, work, business, blog, volunteer, etc.), knowing the “big rocks” of the year is important. You can add your launches or events to the yearly calendar via the next calendar type…your Big Rocks Calendar. It can serve as a production schedule and can be shared with staff, volunteers, or printed for event venues. The daily calendar is really helpful for events (live and virtual). If there are multiple moving parts to your launch, the daily calendar can serve as an hour-by-hour guide to what’s happening. The weekly calendar may help you and your team know whether you’re coming or going - literally. Launch week is hectic and you may have webinars, live streams, interviews, etc. The monthly calendar will be helpful in keeping track of this and being able to look at what you have going on spatially. Leading up to a launch may include all kinds of benchmarks, dates, recordings, and deadlines. But you could also add the yearly and daily calendars as well. For this one I definitely suggest the monthly and weekly calendar templates. Whether you’re doing it solo or with a team, you can use Evernote calendar templates to keep track of a launch or an event.