Right now I'm working on looking at all I hope to be involved in and accomplish in 2012 and prioritizing and scheduling my time. I feel like through the process of all of this I'm FINALLY starting to find myself or grow into myself and I'm not going to lie... it feels glorious. Who went through their 20s feeling like they were having a midlife crisis and feeling ill equipped to deal with it? THIS GIRL! I called it my quarter life crisis.... then I had kids... couldn't really have a cognitive thought... follow through = FORGET ABOUT IT!
And now suddenly - surely has something to do with the full day kindergarten thing - I can have a cognitive thought... and now I work on the follow through. By way of a plan and simplification of the things I need to and want to get done.
(Mom, hold onto your hat.. I'm about to implement things you've been
From Zen Habits:
"Design a simple system intentionally, making a routine that works for you, and alter it if it doesn’t make sense. Write out the system, so it is formal, and
Schedule all those little things! Make a plan... and it will get done. Just running around and 'filling in' is inefficient and sucks up a lot of my time. (It's not like this is a new thought... I've been doing this with training plans for years now. Time to apply to other aspects of my life.)
Designate day for each task: I'm working through this. Here's what I have so far
- laundry
- meal planning (1week out) - day before grocery day (sunday)
- grocery/errands (monday)
- clean (friday)
- review finances (thursday - 2x/mo)
- spinning/training (tuesday & thursday)
- workout/train (I've been scheduling this for years... it's 5-6 days a week for me at various times/locations.. all written in my calendar and updated weekly.)
Schedule time to complete your NEED to do tasks: (think of your projects and things you need to do to complete them.)
- workout (9:30a m/w/f, 12pm t/th)
- write (6am-7am m-f)
- photograph
- blog
- email (ie. top of the hour, 3x/day for 30 mins)
- create spin and training plans
How do you make sure it all gets done? Do you prefer a paper calendar, icalendar, pda calendar?
Oh... as to what all these projects and super fun things I'm looking at for 2012.. and the elusive race schedule. Well, it's coming together.... but I won't be unveiling it until closer to the new year... come on people there is still 1.5 months left in this year!!!!! :D Maybe on my birthday I'll do that post... but only if you PROMISE to check in here on
Sam and I rely on Google calendar. We don't do anything without putting it on Gcal first. Triathlon related or otherwise.
ReplyDeletetom and I just started using this app called Cosi... we can set up things w/ reminders texted to each other.. I'm sure google calendar does the same. I like Cosi bc I can email tom a grocery list... though I never have. Hmm.. perhaps google calender would be easier.
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, we are so on the same page. I've been thinking a lot lately about designating certain days for certain things too. Haven't actually sat down and done it yet, but I'm getting there. I started making a master weekly to do list which has helped me keep focus. I have also started to try to multi-task less. I think when I put all of my focus into one thing at a time, I definitely get more done. Keep us posted!!
ReplyDeleteI actually am pretty old fashion and use a paper calendar, especially for my business. And then I keep a second paper calendar for my business just for scheduling my staff. I also use a goggle calendar for my staff, which they have NO idea how to use, and then I keep my iCal calendar for myself. And frankly I don't need any of them, because I have an amazing ability to remember all those things in my head.
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