Hey everyone, it's Breon from ABCD Virtual Assistant. As a professional virtual assistant for over four years, I'm excited to share some tips and tricks on managing your schedule using Google Calendar. Google Calendar is a powerful tool that integrates seamlessly with many other Google services like Gmail, Google Meet, Google Drive, and Google Docs, making it an essential part of efficient calendar management. 

2. Ease of Use:

• Creating appointments or tasks is straightforward. You can set specific start and end times or use the drag-and-drop feature to adjust as needed.

This is good to use when you are uncertain of when you can fit in time to work on a project. By using the drag and drop feature you estimate how much time you can dedicate between existing projects or meetings to make the most use of your time. 

• Google Calendar supports multiple calendars, allowing you to subscribe to different calendars, like holidays or sports schedules, and color-code them for easy identification.

In addition to the two calendars that come with the account, I suggest creating the following set of calendars ( one for your spouse, one for your kids*, one for your work, one for birthdays/anniversaries, one for your bills). Then once you have all of these calendars created and filled out, you can overlap them and see how your time is truly managed, and if you feel overwhelmed, simply unselect all of the calendars you don't need to view at that moment.

 Notifications and Reminders:

• Customizable notifications can be set to alert you via pop-ups or emails.

• Unlike physical calendars, Google Calendar excels in managing recurring events. Set it once, and it will remind you automatically. I highly recommend using this feature for birthdays, anniversaries, oil changes, hair cuts, anything that you would like to get into a routine of completing. Remember though if you try to take on to much it can be too much. Don’t mix up being busy with being productive. If you want to know more about that, read my “let me turn your todo list into your tada list”

8. Daily Agenda Emails:

• Create a new calendar, input all tasks and appointments, then enable daily agenda emails under settings. This sends you a daily email at 5:00 a.m. with your schedule, helping you stay on track.