My day to day life and adventures along the way to losing weight and growing old gracefully!
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Integration is Key for Organization and Follow Thru
I have noticed that I am able to do one thing at a time really well. For instance, I can exercise like a mother all week long. However, my eating habits suck that week, I slack on my household chores and I slack on my schoolwork. If I concentrate on schoolwork, then no exercise, poor diet and lack of household cleaning ensues. Why can't I do everything? I honestly don't know. I guess that just isn't my style. But...I'm going to try. I did figure one thing out for sure. I have a dry/erase calendar that I use for important events and bills that are due. I never thought to use it to schedule other things too. So I took the time to make a list in my handy-dandy notebook of all bills due. The next list was all events at the two libraries closest to us and the Children's Board a couple miles away. The third list was of the times that the libraries are open and the times that I would be available to go there and do some schoolwork in peace and quiet. The next two lists I'm still working on. Those are the exercise list and the meal planning list. I also have family events to put on a list as well. Let's just say that my dry/erase calendar does not have enough room for all of these events. I also was blown away by the amount of things that I do or am trying to do. It's crazy! But it must be done. It's not like it's all willy-nilly-silly stuff that doesn't matter. I don't know. I'm trying to get it together. Integration is key here. If I can see it all in one place, it will make more sense to me and I will be more likely to get things done and not forget things. Oh, and let's not forget that I have a notebook in which I write my daily to-do lists, which include copying things off of the calendar. I don't know. Maybe I need to use Word and make a calendar for each week. Just one week at a time for meals, exercise and all the things off the dry/erase board. Then put that printout in my daily to do list notebook. Actually that sounds like it might work. Glad I talked it out! Well, I suppose I should get to work on that....:)
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I keep a date book at home for non-work things that I need to do, and I write down my workouts in there as part of my to-do list every day. It helps a lot with figuring out when to fit it in.
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