Harley Finkelstein

And I try to kind of bundle my meeting days.

On certain days, usually Monday, Wednesday, Fridays, and then more of my maker days, Tuesdays and Thursdays, where I can have long-form blocks of time to do thinking, to do writing.

If I'm writing a speech or I'm now preparing for Shopify Summit, which will bring a whole team together after I write my keynote, I'm intentional about that stuff.

I don't think there's any other way to do it.

What I also find is that I color-code everything.

And so what I can do by color-coding everything is that I can see, like, last night, Lindsay and I had dinner with another couple.

It was really great, but that was color-coded in purple, sort of social dinners.

And when I'm looking on a Sunday night reviewing my week and I see a lot of those social dinners, I'm like, I think this week is a little too heavy.

And so now I can sort of adjust, okay, like, I'm okay to have one social dinner during the week.

I can't have two or three of those.

I'll just, like...

I need to preserve my own energies as well.

The color coding thing is really helpful because you can see visually that where's my time going?

Jesse Itzler, I don't know if you know Jesse, he's the founder of Marquee Jet.

He's married to Sarah Blakely who created Spanx.

But I did an endurance race that he created called 2929.

It's called Everesting.

And so I got a chance to meet Jesse and spend some time with him and also kind of follow him on social media.

And he's got this thing called the Big Ass Calendar.

It's literally a big ass calendar.