Last year I started with ‘What a f***ing year’. The last 365 days have been far worse than most people expected.

Over the past year, racial tensions have become front and center around the world, ignited by the murder of George Floyd in June 2020. Racism is not new but finally the country, and world, are waking up to the significant negative impact racism has on those around us. Growing up white, in the south, I had little exposure to how many privileges my race provided. While I learned about slavery, Jim Crow laws, etc, no part of my education taught me how harmful micro-aggressions are. Or how deep systematic oppression is embedded into every part of our society from education to housing and beyond. Or how racism impacts every race other than white people such as the hate crimes Asian-Americans are facing during COVID. It seems like each and every day another horrifying act of racism is being carried out. We all have more to do. Personalize your life in weeks spreadsheet. Color code your life by what you were doing at the time. Note key life milestones within their specific weeks. You could even add the day the pandemic began and the day the endemic started if you’d like. I couldn’t find a good spreadsheet for doing this exercise anywhere on the Google sphere. So, I made one . I’m happy to share it with you: The deeper you’re willing to dive, the better the result. Get real with your life so far and take a few mins to answer these three questions:The basic concept of a weeks of your life chart is that on a single piece of paper, or poster, you will see all the weeks of your potential life. By colouring in each week as you live it you’ll see how much time you have used up. You have the weeks of your life 1-52 on the top, and your age along the side. Life calendar printed on A4 paper Take your time with it. I thought about making the spreadsheet more complicated with formulas and auto-fill boxes, but it’s much better when you do it yourself. In thinking about my own weeks and how I tend to use them, I decided that there are two good ways to use a diamond: The best way to change your life around is to create your very own 90 day plan for what you want to focus on next. It might sound painful, but it’s worth it. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile.

Highlight the weeks in the past in different colors to segment them into “life chapters”—i.e. High School, College, Job 1, Job 2, New City, Engagement, Marriage, etc., or maybe a whole other conception of what a life chapter means to you. You can also mark special boxes where key turning points happened. Ultimately, I believe being financially independent will redefine my relationship with work. Today, I, along with most of the corporate world, have a job to pay mortgage, put food on the table, etc, yet most of those same people also are unhappy with their job. I don’t want to be in this position and believe that working towards financial independence will provide that cushion to avoid this trap. Being outside recharges me It kind of feels like our lives are made up of a countless number of weeks. But there they are—fully countable—staring you in the face. Spanish brand 4K WEEKS has a creative way for you to chronicle your life. Their 4k Weeks Poster comprises tiny boxes in which each square corresponds to one week of life—enough to fill 88 years (the average lifespan of a human). The premise is simple: color the boxes based on the number of weeks you’ve lived. Through the weeks, and in turn years, you’ll see different designs emerge and fade away as new ones come into view. It all depends on your age and time of year. With the pandemic ending and the world moving on, I wanted to start fresh with a bird’s eye view of all that came before.As you can see, schooling took up about 1000 weeks of my life. I’m privileged to have been able to study, but damn, that’s a lot of time… The boxes can also be a reminder that life is forgiving. No matter what happens each week, you get a new fresh box to work with the next week. It makes me want to skip the New Year’s Resolutions—they never work anyway—and focus on making New Week’s Resolutions every Sunday night. Each blank box is an opportunity to crush the week—a good thing to remember.

I was curious as to where this idea came from. On 5th December 2012 Craig Weller wrote about a very basic life calendar that he was using where he was filling in the ‘week’ boxes in what is a simple printed 52×80 grid. He calls it a ‘Memento Mori’ chart – it means ‘remember you will die’. Part of our process is aggregating coupons from a variety of sources but the bulk of our coupons come from a team that monitors sales and discount code releases. Often times these codes are short-lived but we do our best to update them as fast as possible. We also allow our users to submit a coupon. I decided to have a go at creating a version of the classic 52 weeks calendar as a fun spreadsheet project. I wanted to set up some formulas so you could enter your age and then it would pre-fill the squares up to that year. If for example you are 30 years old there are 1560 squares that need to be filled in, so you definitely don’t want to do this by hand. Besides the purpose of encouraging regular reflection, we hope the calendar can help you feel more oriented in your life, help you set goals and hold yourself to them, and remind you to be proud of yourself for what you’ve accomplished and grateful for the diamonds in your spoon.If you multiply the volume of a .05 carat diamond by the number of weeks in 90 years (4,680), it adds up to just under a tablespoon. Note: If you want to print this post or read it offline, the PDF is probably the way to go. You can buy it here. But the worst possible way to use a diamond is by accomplishing neither #1 nor #2 above. Sometimes “neither” happens when you’re in either the wrong career or the wrong relationship, and it’s often a symptom of either a shortage of courage, self-discipline, or creativity. Sometimes “neither” happens because of a debilitating problem.

One slight issue with all of these life calendars is that they list 52 weeks in a year, which of course is not quite accurate. There are 52 weeks + a day or two in each year, which means that at some point in the year you’ll have to fudge one of the weeks. We’ve all had Neither Weeks and they don’t feel good. And when a long string of Neither Weeks happens, you become depressed, frustrated, hopeless, and a bunch of other upsetting adjectives. It’s inevitable to have Neither Weeks, and sometimes they’re important—it’s often a really bad Neither Week that leads you to a life-changing epiphany—but trying to minimize your Neither Weeks is a worthy goal. Unless otherwise stated, we could not find a student discount code for My Life in Weeks. It’s not common for online stores to offer student discounts but when they do become available we’ll list them here. In the event there is no student discount, you can still save with our coupon codes offered. Does My Life in Weeks Offer a Military or First Responder Discount?Write something in each week’s box as it goes by—the boxes are large enough to write a few words in with a sharp pencil. Plot out goals for the future by making a mark on a future box and visually seeing exactly how many weeks you have to get there. As with every year on earth, I learned a few lessons which are important to me. Here are a few of the most important ones: Don’t judge yourself on other people’s happiness