First of all let me start off by telling what I don't do. As of right now, I don't decorate my planner. As of right now, I don't use pretty colorful pens to write in my planner. Honestly, as of right now, I don't even have an official planner. There. I said it. I don't have a planner. Although I don't exactly have a cutesy, decorative planner to record all of my plans for the day, week, and month, that doesn't mean that I don't plan at all. After all, I'm a mother of three small children (ages 6, 3, & 1), a wife, friend, daughter, teacher, etc. I plan. I have to. Continue reading to learn about how I currently go about planning the events of each week.
When I plan, I usually get out my phone so that I can see the dates for the upcoming week. I usually create an event for anything my family has to do outside of our home (birthday parties, sporting events, church trips, etc.). Then I usually talk with my husband to see if there's anything I've left out. Now let me clarify something; notice that I said "usually" in the above statements. Yeah, that's because I'm not very OCD about recording things that I need to do. Sometimes I enter it into my phone, other times simply saying out loud is enough for me to remember what I need to do or where I need to be.
I bet many of you are cringing at the thought of me not using a planner, much less not even writing it down sometimes. Well, let me explain something to you. I have one of those personalities that immediately tries to jam pack as much as I can into one day. Even if I had a nice little organizer, I would look at it, and then immediately decide that I could do x amount of things before and after the scheduled event(s). It's crazy, I know. It causes me to be late...a lot. I don't like being late, I really don't, but sometimes the only way I feel like I can get something finished is to be a few minutes late.
Now, for the good news. As I'm beginning to prepare for the upcoming school year (I know, let's NOT talk about that yet!), I have begun looking online for printable planners. Why printable? Because I am a cheap-o, and I want to make sure that I am going to use the planner (and stick to using it) before I invent a lot of money into something "cutesy". Once I have found the planner that's right for me, or at least pieced together a planner based off of the various ones I'm finding all over the internet, I plan to use it to record everything from sales to blog posts to personal events. I feel like I definitely need to move on from just using my phone...sometimes...and begin writing everything down in one central location. Will I stick to it? I'm not sure. Am I going to try? You bet ya!
Now, I'm pretty sure I know what you are thinking..."This lady's post didn't help me at all." I'm sorry if you are thinking that; however, I know that there are others that are just like me. Link up next time to see how my planner usage is going.
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Thanks for stopping by,
Elaine, Teaching Lane
