A few weeks ago, I lamented the fact that I had not been taking full advantage of my time, and I vowed to get out my agenda and start scheduling my tasks to get things accomplished. I pulled out my beautiful Whitney English Day Designer and started pulling myself together.
The very first thing I worked on was finally actually creating an editorial calendar for the blogs. My biggest accomplishment for getting this together was actually taking the time to think about the tasks for each type of blog post. I had to say to myself, "Plan each post like a small project. What are the dependencies and milestones?" I know, Project Manager nerd I am.
I am a huge list maker, and although the Whitney English planner has one column for appointments and one for To-Dos each day, it actually didn't have bough lines for me to break down all of my tasks for three blogs, a YouTube channel, our real estate to-dos, A's schedule, and my normal household stuff, not to mention keeping my recent upsurge in interviews and recruiter calls (yay) organized. I decided to keep the Whitney English just for blog and YouTube and to try to find something that I could use for jobs, A, and life in general. A quick trip to Staples came up with this Daily/Monthly planner, which is working out great.
The rest is just fun stuff I've pulled together to keep me organized and on track with my planning but to have it be fun and cute at the same time.