When was the last time you sat down to work on something important for your Young Living business—something that would actually move things forward—without getting interrupted, distracted, or pulled in a dozen different directions?
If you’re like most Brand Partners, you can’t remember. You’re constantly reacting. Checking messages from your team. Responding to customer questions. Jumping between tasks. Feeling like you need to be “on” and available all the time, because that’s what successful Brand Partners do, right?
Wrong.
Reactivity doesn’t build businesses. It drains them. And if you’re tired of feeling behind, overwhelmed, and like you never have time for the projects that would actually grow your business, it’s time to design your ideal week.
This isn’t about adding more hours to your day or following someone else’s hustle-culture ethos. It’s about creating a realistic weekly schedule that works for your actual life—one that protects your creative time, respects your boundaries, and finally makes all the work you need to get done doable.
And when you pair this system with GetOiling’s all-in-one platform, your calendar becomes your booking availability automatically. No manual updates needed. Just intentional work that gets results.
Ready to stop running your business in reactive mode? Join us for our weekly training where we walk through this system step-by-step, or keep reading to understand why this works and how to set it up yourself.
Why Most Brand Partners Stay Stuck in Reactive Mode
Here’s what reactive mode looks like: You wake up with good intentions. You’re going to finally finish that course. Or plan your content for the next quarter. Or build that email funnel you’ve been thinking about for months.
But then you check your phone. There’s a message from a team member who needs help. A customer has a question. Someone commented on your post. Your inbox has seventeen new emails. And before you know it, two hours have passed and you haven’t even started on what you sat down to do.
Sound familiar?
The problem isn’t that you’re bad at time management for your Young Living business. The problem is that you don’t have a system. You’re making decisions in the moment about what to work on, which means you default to whatever feels most urgent. And what feels urgent is rarely what’s actually important.
Reactivity feels productive because you’re busy. You’re responding, helping, showing up. But at the end of the day, you haven’t made progress on anything that actually moves your business forward. You’re just treading water.
And here’s the thing: it’s not sustainable. You can’t build a thriving Young Living business by constantly being available and reactive. You burn out. You fall behind. You start to resent the business you used to love.
The Real Cost of Context Switching in Network Marketing
Even when you do carve out time to work on your business, there’s another problem: multitasking.
You sit down to write an email campaign, but you also check messages while you’re working. You start planning content, but you pause to respond to a customer inquiry. You’re trying to finish a course module, but you keep getting pulled into admin tasks.
This is called context switching, and it’s killing your productivity.
Every time you switch from one type of task to another, your brain has to reorient. It takes time to get back into focus. Studies show that it can take up to 23 minutes to fully regain concentration after an interruption. That means if you’re checking messages every ten minutes while trying to work on a project, you never actually reach deep focus.
Creative work—like writing content, building courses, planning strategy—requires uninterrupted time. Relational work—like prospecting, following up with leads, supporting your team—requires different energy. Admin work—like updating your website, organizing files, processing payments—requires yet another type of focus.
When you try to do all of these things at once, none of them get done well. And worse, you feel scattered, exhausted, and like you never actually finish anything.
This is why managing time as a Young Living Brand Partner isn’t just about finding more hours in the day. It’s about treating different types of work as different contexts—and giving each one the space it needs.
What It Means to Design Your Ideal Week
So what’s the solution? A multi-calendar system that creates intentional space for everything you need to do—and protects that space from interruption.
Here’s how it works.
Instead of treating your calendar as one big catch-all where everything competes for attention, you create multiple calendars within one account. Each calendar serves a different purpose:
Your Daily Template Calendar: This is your framework. It holds recurring events that map out your ideal week based on your actual life—work time, family time, self-care, everything. Some blocks are marked as “busy” (not bookable), others as “free” (bookable for client calls or team support). This calendar doesn’t change week to week. It’s your foundation.
Your Work-Type Calendars: These calendars fill the space created by your daily template. You might have one for projects, another for prospecting, another for client work. These change week by week based on your current priorities. At the end of each week, you plan the next week by creating blocks on these calendars and specifying exactly what you’ll work on during each block.
Together, these calendars eliminate reactivity. Instead of waking up and deciding what to work on in the moment, you follow the plan you made when you were thinking clearly. The calendar tells you what to focus on. You just do it.
And because you’ve already decided when you’ll check email, when you’ll prospect, when you’ll work on projects, and when you’ll be available for calls, you stop second-guessing yourself. You stop feeling guilty about not responding immediately. You give yourself permission to focus.
How to Build Your Daily Template Calendar
The first step in designing your ideal week is building your daily template. This is the recurring framework that reflects your actual life.
Start by asking yourself these questions:
How much time will you realistically spend on your Young Living business each week? Not how much you wish you had or how much you think you “should” spend. How much time do you actually have?
How much of that time will go to prospecting? To projects? To client work? Different types of work require different energy and focus. You need to account for all of them.
What are your non-negotiable commitments? School drop-off and pick-up. Your full-time job. Standing appointments. Family dinners. These go on your template first because they’re fixed.
Where do you need space for self-care, exercise, and personal time? If you don’t build this into your template, it won’t happen. And if you burn out, your business suffers.
Once you’ve answered these questions, create a new calendar in your calendar account (Google Calendar, Outlook, iCloud—whatever you use). Name it something like “Daily Template” or “Ideal Week.”
Then start building recurring events that map your entire week. Not just work time. Everything.
For example, you might create a recurring event for “morning routine” from 6:30–7:30am every weekday. Mark it as busy. Then a “creative work block” from 8:00–10:00am Monday through Friday, also marked as busy. Then “lunch” from 12:00–12:30pm, marked as busy. Then a “bookable time block” from 12:30–2:00pm, marked as free so clients or team members can schedule calls.
Keep going until you’ve mapped the whole day. Include evening blocks for family time, dog walks, dinner prep, wind-down routines. All of it.
This might feel tedious, but here’s why it works: when you map your entire day, you create genuine boundaries.
Your “busy” blocks protect your time.
Your “free” blocks allow booking without you needing to manually update availability.
And you stop feeling guilty about being unavailable during personal or family time, because you’ve intentionally built that time into your schedule.
Creating Work-Type Calendars That Eliminate Context Switching
Now that you have your daily template, it’s time to create calendars for different types of work.
You might create one calendar called “Projects,” another called “Prospecting,” and another called “Client Work.” Or you might only need one or two. It depends on how you work and what your business requires.
Here’s the key: these calendars are not recurring. You don’t set them up once and forget about them. Instead, you use them week by week to fill the space created by your daily template.
Let’s say you’re working on creating a course. At the end of this week, you plan next week by creating events on your “Projects” calendar during your creative work blocks. You might block out Monday 8:00–10:00am and label it “Course Module 3: Outline.” Then Tuesday 8:00–10:00am: “Course Module 3: Record Video.”
During those blocks, you work only on the course. You don’t check email. You don’t respond to messages. You turn off distractions and focus on one type of work.
Then in your afternoon blocks—the ones marked as “free” in your daily template—you create events on your “Prospecting” calendar. Monday 12:30–1:00pm: “Facebook outreach.” Tuesday 1:00–1:30pm: “LinkedIn connections.”
Because these blocks are marked as “free,” if someone books a call during that time, great. But if not, you know exactly what to work on. You’re not deciding in the moment. You’re following the plan.
This system treats different types of work as different contexts. When you’re in a project block, you’re fully focused on creative work. When you’re in a prospecting block, you’re fully focused on building relationships. You stop trying to do everything at once, which means everything gets done faster and better.
How This Integrates with GetOiling’s Booking System
Here’s where this gets really powerful for Young Living Brand Partners using GetOiling.
When your calendar accurately reflects when you’re available and when you’re not, GetOiling’s booking system does the rest. You don’t need to go into your booking settings and manually block out times. You don’t need to update your availability every week.
Your daily template calendar becomes the source of truth. The blocks you marked as “busy” protect your time automatically. The blocks you marked as “free” allow people to book calls without you lifting a finger.
Just make sure the calendar you’re using for your daily template is either the one connected to your GetOiling booking types, or shows up in the “additional calendars to check” field in your booking settings. That’s it.
The system respects the boundaries you’ve set. You stop worrying about double-bookings or people scheduling calls during time you need for projects. It just works.
And when you combine this calendar system with GetOiling’s AI tools, built-in templates, and workflows, you accomplish more in focused blocks than you thought possible. Need to create a month’s worth of social content? Block out two hours, use GetOiling’s AI content tools, and get it done. Need to plan your email campaigns for the quarter? Block out a morning, use the templates, and knock it out.
This is what happens when you stop being reactive and start working with intention. Big projects that used to feel impossible suddenly become doable. And you have time left over to actually enjoy your life.
Why Content Planning Becomes Easier with This System
One of the biggest challenges Brand Partners face is content planning. You know you need to show up consistently. You know content builds trust and keeps you top of mind. But finding time to actually plan and create that content feels impossible when you’re stuck in reactive mode.
This system changes that.
When you have dedicated project blocks protected on your calendar, you can finally sit down and do the work of planning your content for the month or quarter. You’re not trying to squeeze it in between messages and emails. You’re giving it the focused time it deserves.
Let’s say you want to plan your content for the next month. You block out a three-hour window on your “Projects” calendar during one of your creative work blocks. You turn off distractions. You sit down with GetOiling’s content planning templates and AI tools. And in that one focused session, you map out an entire month of posts, emails, and stories.
What would have taken you two weeks of scattered effort—grabbing fifteen minutes here, thirty minutes there—gets done in three focused hours. Because you eliminated context switching and gave yourself permission to focus on one thing.
Then, in your weekly planning sessions (more on that in a moment), you schedule time to actually create that content. Maybe it’s a one-hour block every Tuesday morning. You show up, follow the plan you made, and execute. Done.
This is how Brand Partners who seem impossibly productive actually work. They’re not working more hours than you. They’re working with more intention.
Planning Your Week: The Weekly Ritual That Changes Everything
Your daily template stays the same week to week. It’s your framework, your foundation. But your work-type calendars change based on your current priorities.
This is where weekly planning comes in.
At the end of each week—Friday afternoon works well for most people—you spend 15 to 30 minutes planning the next week. You look at your daily template to see where you have space. Then you create events on your work-type calendars to fill that space.
Ask yourself: What are my priorities this week? What projects need focused time? What prospecting activities do I need to do? What client work is on my plate?
Then block it out. Assign specific tasks to specific time blocks. Be realistic about how much you can accomplish in each block. And resist the urge to overschedule yourself.
If you’ve built a daily wrap-up block into your template (highly recommended), you can also use that time at the end of each day to assess and adjust. Did today’s plan work? Do you need to shift anything for tomorrow? This daily check-in keeps you flexible without being reactive.
The beauty of this system is that it’s adaptable. If something urgent comes up—and it will—you can move blocks around. But you’re moving them intentionally, not just abandoning your plan and defaulting to reactivity.
Common Mistakes Brand Partners Make When Designing Their Ideal Week
This system works, but only if you set it up thoughtfully. Here are the most common mistakes Brand Partners make—and how to avoid them.
Building an “optimistic” ideal week that doesn’t match reality. If you’re not a morning person, don’t schedule creative work at 5:30am just because that’s what someone else does. If you have school-age kids, don’t pretend you have uninterrupted time during school drop-off and pick-up. Build your template around your actual life, not the life you wish you had.
Not revisiting your template as seasons change. What works in the summer might not work in the winter. What works when your kids are in school might not work during school breaks. Your template should evolve with your life. Revisit it every few months and adjust as needed.
Treating all work as equal. It’s not. Creative work requires deep focus and protected time. Relational work like prospecting requires different energy. Admin work can be batched and done more efficiently. Don’t try to do all three in the same time block.
Checking email and messages during project blocks. This defeats the entire purpose. If you’ve created a block for focused work, turn off distractions. Close your email. Put your phone in another room. Give yourself the gift of focus.
Forgetting to plan your week ahead. The system only works if you use it. If you don’t take time on Friday afternoon to plan the next week, you’ll wake up Monday morning without a plan and default back to reactivity. Build the weekly planning session into your template as a recurring event. Make it non-negotiable.
Watch the Full Training: Design Your Ideal Week
If you want to see exactly how to set this up—complete with a live demo of the multi-calendar system and how it integrates with GetOiling—watch the full replay of our Weekly Work Session training.
In this training, we walk through every step: building your daily template, creating work-type calendars, planning your week, and avoiding the common mistakes that derail most Brand Partners. You’ll see exactly how this looks in practice and how to customize it for your life.
Take Control of Your Time and Your Business
Here’s the truth: you can’t build the Young Living business you want by staying in reactive mode. Constantly checking messages, jumping between tasks, and feeling like you need to be “on” all the time doesn’t create success. It creates burnout.
Designing your ideal week isn’t about adding more hours to your day or following someone else’s hustle-culture template. It’s about creating a system that works for your actual life—one that protects your time, eliminates context switching, and makes big projects finally possible.
When you build a daily template that reflects your reality, create work-type calendars that treat different tasks as different contexts, and commit to weekly planning, you stop being reactive. You start working with intention. And everything changes.
Pair this system with GetOiling’s all-in-one platform—where your calendar becomes your booking availability automatically, and AI tools help you knock out tasks in record time—and you’ll accomplish more in focused blocks than you ever thought possible.
Ready to stop running your business in reactive mode? Join us for our next Weekly Work Session and let’s build a schedule that actually works for your business and life!
