Pushkin Looking back in my diary, Wednesday, February 5th, 2020 was a fairly ordinary day.
And by fairly ordinary, I mean to say that my day was absolutely packed to the brim.
Which makes sense, because I don't just have one amazing job, I have lots of them.
I'm a professor and a research scientist.
I run one of Yale's residential colleges,
which means I have over 400 students to take care of all the time.
I travel a bunch for public lectures to spread the science of happiness.
I'm a manager to all my amazing staff,
a colleague to my science friends, and now I'm a podcaster too.
So how do I keep track of all these different roles?
My planner.
It's a small red notebook that I carry with me everywhere.
It's where I write out every single commitment I have,
including the time it starts and the time it ends.
My planner is like a precious friend.
It helps me keep track of what I need to do every single day.
And so I'm now looking in my planner at the page for Wednesday,
February 5th, 2020, which, as usual, was completely packed.
On that day, I had some podcast stuff to do at specific times,
three different student meetings, a staff meeting, and an important department talk.