Hi entrepreneur,
Here's a rule that sounds almost too simple to matter:
You're one person.
You get one calendar.
Most founders I talk to break this rule without even realizing it.
They have a work calendar.
And a personal or family calendar.
On paper, it feels organized.
In reality, it guarantees conflict.
Because when those two calendars don't talk to each other, you end up double-booked.
And when you're double-booked, something has to win.
Every single time I was forced to choose between the two, the same thing won:
Work.
Not because I wanted it to.
But because it was visible, urgent, and already on the calendar.
The personal stuff?
It was "understood."
It was "flexible."
It was "we'll make it work."
Until one day, you realize you've been breaking promises you never consciously agreed to break.
Here's what changed everything for me:
I stopped running two lives.
One calendar.
One source of truth.
Everything goes on it.
Work commitments.
Family commitments.
Rest.
Travel.
Important personal time.
This doesn't eliminate trade-offs.
It makes them intentional.
Instead of accidentally choosing work by default, you can see the cost of every decision before you make it.
That's why the Pre-Loaded Year planner starts here.
Not with goals.
Not with resolutions.
With visibility.
If you haven't already, this is the moment to get everything into one view:
👉 https://scalable.co/preloadedyear
Even if all you do today is look at your year on a single page, you'll feel the difference immediately.
Clarity does that.
-Ryan
P.S. If the idea of putting everything on one calendar makes you uncomfortable, that's usually a signal.
Not that you're bad at planning...
but that too much depends on you.
That's the exact problem we help founders solve.
If you want to see what it looks like to build a business that doesn't require you to be everywhere at once, I wrote it out here →
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