If you are like me, your whole life is one appointment after another. My work calendar is filled with coaching appointments, client meetings, interviews, time blocks and scheduled to-dos. My personal life is much the same way.

So here is my big tip-which may seem a bit unconventional, and even odd, but stay with me:
Stop rescheduling regular appointments!

Yep, you read correctly. Stop rescheduling your regular, recurring appointments when something comes up. Unless it’s with a client or your boss, don’t do it. If you create a policy right now that you will no longer reschedule regular appointments that aren’t going to work out for whatever reason, three important things will happen:

1. You will have more time.

   The amount of time we spend rescheduling appointments is getting more and more ridiculous. Plus, it adds to our stress because rescheduling increases our risk of double- booking or rescheduling for a time that is best used for something else. Instead, just let it go, and pick it up again next week or month or year.

2. You will stop reinforcing the wrong behavior in others.

   If your assistant, co-worker, kid’s math tutor, web designer or dentist has a “flexible” relationship with time you will no longer be in their insane rescheduling loop. It will not take them long to realize that if they want your business or your time or whatever, they will have to show up when they say they will.

3. You will be more conscious when making commitments.

   Pay your personal trainer for a cancellation a time or two, and you will start thinking pretty long and hard about the best time to get your work out in. If you establish that you “don’t do reschedules,” then remarkably fewer things will get in the way of actually doing what you intended to do-at the time you intended to do it.

Give it a try!

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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