Do you ever feel like you’re drowning? Like, no matter what you do, it’s not good enough or you don’t have enough time to accomplish it all? That’s how I’ve been feeling lately. My house is a cluttered mess, yet the more I get rid of, the more cluttered it seems. I have renovation projects that have been started, yet there is never any time to finish them. The kids are busy with school and sports, so I’m always running them from one place to another. And to top that all off, my husband travels A LOT for his job. So needless to say, I feel a lot of pressure on my shoulders to keep it all together and I fear I’m failing miserably. I need a serious, how to organize my life, moment.
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What to do, What to do?
Yesterday, after staring at a wall for about an hour (literally), I realized I needed to take charge of my life. Sure, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t miserable…because I am. Who likes to feel this crazed and alone? There are so many aspects of my life that I am not happy with. I mentioned a few with my house and not having enough time, but I am also unhappy with how I look and feel. I spoke to a friend about a week ago about this and she gave me some good advice…“start scheduling things out”. So that’s exactly what I am going to do. Schedule my life. But in scheduling my life better, I am going to start scheduling some me time in there also. Not everything has to be about the house, my kids, my husband or even this blog.
About a month or two ago I lost my blogging planner. Now if you read my post on that planner, you would know how much I love that little planner (though I recommend getting the larger one. I hate writing small). I have no idea what I did with it. It’s no where in my house, so I must have set it down somewhere when I took it with me someplace. At any rate, I’m lost without it. As a side note, if you would like to purchase a blogging planner for yourself (which I truly recommend you do), please feel free to use my affiliate link. Yes I get a little back from you using my link…I’m saving for a MacBook Air. I’m thinking I will get one around 2016!
How to Organize Your Life Better
Anyway, yesterday I decided to get my life in order. To do that I needed a planner. Sure I could use the calendar app on my phone, but I needed something a little more than that. I also needed it now. So I ran to Office Depot to see what they in their planner department. All they had were a bunch of planners that started in July 2013 and ran until August of 2014. That wouldn’t work. Feeling a tad discouraged, I went to Target for a little retail therapy. As I was walking down their aisle with planners I saw one that jumped out at me. Not only did they have one that was undated, but it also has a menu planning section, and the calendar section was broken up into “Mine” and “Theirs” sections.
While I like this and will use this, I still recommend the blogging planner and fully plan to purchase a new one once I have a little more cash in my Paypal account.
So what did I do first? I flipped to the calendar section and wrote in all of the kids appointments, practice schedules and games for this week. Next I wrote “gym” as the first thing for me to do each day. No matter what else I have going on each day, the gym is something I will be making time for. Finally, I wrote down the blog posts I needed to do for this week.
The menu planning section was a little more difficult for me. I’ve been a really bad parent when it comes to making dinner. I’ve fallen off my weight loss wagon and pretty much stopped cooking good, wholesome meals. Well no more! I may hate the fact that I am cooking for just me and the kids (I like family, sit down all together type meals), but this is our reality and I just have to go with it. So I scheduled out our meals for the rest of this week and I took the meat that I need out of the freezer so it will be thawed and ready to go!
It’s a start. I’m hoping that in a month I will feel less like I’m drowning and more in charge of my life. I’m also hoping to get my blogging planner back!
What do you do to keep life from running you over?
I definitely know how you feel, I’ve been feeling the same way lately. I’m glad you found some motivation, I bet the blogging planner is a big help.
Sounds like you are heading in a good direction!!
Kudos to getting your life organized. And I agree – I would be LOST without my Blogging Planner. I could not even imagine losing it.
I know how you feel! I have to have my planner everywhere with me and when I don’t have it, I feel lost.
I struggle with life running me over too. I try to schedule as much as possible and have slowly cut out the stuff we don’t “have” to do. It has helped a lot.
I need to find something like this! Traditional planners just don’t function as well as something designed for our “field”.
I’m telling you, the blogging planner is amazing! It has everything you need, right there. The one I bought to make do with doesn’t even begin to compare.
Oh gosh, I wish everyone would quit making this sound amazing!!! I guess I’m gonna have to break down and get one.
I am SO unorganized! I need to be more organized and I’m sad for you about the Blogging planner!! I hope it turns up soon!!
I struggle with organization all of the time. Great post on how to handle it all.
I find in the warm weather I am more okay with clutter – maybe because Im outside more.
I always use google docs as my planner only because I lose things.
Organization does not come easy to me. I do have the large Blogging Planner (and LOVE it) and it has helped tremendously. I’m really trying to do better with meal plans. I’ve not even shopped this week because I can’t decide what to make- and it’s Wednesday!