Wow, what a week it’s been. Not multitasking is proving far more challenging than I ever imagined. It’s so deeply ingrained in me, more than I realised.
Quick Summary: Why Personal Development Life Coaching Starts With Planning
I think for many women, multitasking is almost instinctive, built into us by our mothers, grandmothers, every woman we grew up around. As part of personal development life coaching, I know unlearning something that is inherited runs far deeper than willpower alone.
What This Week’s Multitasking Taught Me
From conversations to watching TV while doing something else, to talking on Bluetooth while driving, to cooking on the phone, I did it all this week. Every time I caught myself, I paused and really noticed- exactly the kind of self-observation personal development life coaching is built on.
I thought I’d slowed down and simplified this year, but this week was a huge eye-opener. I couldn’t focus the way I thought I could, and I got distracted far more than I realised. Can this actually be unlearned? I want to master it, because focus and productivity improve dramatically once you do.
From Awareness to a Plan
This brings me to the heart of this week: planning. Perhaps the key to unlearning multitasking is planning better: days, weeks, months, even the year. I’ve been reading Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell, and the process of breaking a year into manageable chunks is something I haven’t done since selling my café.
Yet through everything I’ve changed this year, I’ve discovered a genuine love for structure. My morning and evening routines are now automatic, flowing, productive; they set up the day and close it with intention- the practical foundation any personal development or life coaching work eventually needs.
Freedom vs. Structure
I’m entering a new phase, with a lot unfolding, and this book has me thinking: I really should embrace planning. This is the missing structural piece that good personal development life coaching always circles back to. In the past nine months, I’ve transformed in ways I never imagined, simply by shifting habits. Once habits become automatic, you grow stronger, more capable, more intentional in every area of life.
What Changed Over Nine Months
Multitasking is a habit too, and breaking it takes awareness: observing what we do unconsciously, how we act, speak, think, and react. That observation, the foundation of any real personal development life coaching process, has completely shifted how I show up. How you do one thing, you do everything; it comes down to the micro-tasks, the small words and actions that shape a life- exactly the kind of everyday consistency I build with women inside Promise Kept.
Now feels like the right time. With my birthday coming up and a coaching program launching, I’m finally committing to sharing my gifts with the world. Stepping into the coaching space will demand real planning and damn good time management- the same structure at the heart of personal development life coaching done properly.
Conclusion
Creating a yearly, quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily plan is a big task, especially for someone who hasn’t planned a year in her life. But I’ve spent this year observing, reflecting, and consciously removing what doesn’t serve me, the same whole-life rebuild I explore with women inside Reclaim Her. With that groundwork done, I’m ready to build out my year in macro and micro goals.
If structure, planning, and the kind of personal development life coaching that actually sticks sounds like what you need too, you can learn more about Transformational Coaching, or read about working together on my Work With Me page. Here’s to embracing the process and seeing where a little structure and intention can take me.
FAQ’s
Why is multitasking so hard to unlearn?
Because it’s often absorbed early, sometimes generationally, and reinforced daily until it feels automatic rather than like a choice.
How does planning actually help reduce multitasking?
A clear plan removes the need to juggle everything mentally, freeing up attention to focus fully on one task at a time.
What’s the difference between yearly and daily planning?
Yearly planning sets direction; daily planning turns that direction into specific, doable actions. Both are part of good personal development life coaching.
Why did structure feel like a loss of freedom at first?
Because freedom was equated with having no plan. In practice, the right structure often creates more freedom, not less.
Is it too late to start planning if the year is already underway?
No. Breaking the remaining months into manageable chunks works just as well starting now as it would have in January.