Now .......Organisation
I have bought 3 diaries. I know I know 3!! But now it’s working and I’m going to share with you how I do it in the hope that it helps your brain work at it too.
I need things to be in front of me ALL THE TIME, or else I forget things. I can’t hold things in my head, there is just too much in there, song lyrics, movie titles, quotes, things I’ve read somewhere that I need for something, tasks I needed to do today or tomorrow or whatever, appointments I was supposed to have made or been to etc etc etc.
So I found the diary after playing with the first two for the first couple of days and I have worked out a system, with my goals and with my habit tracker, (which we’ll get to in a bit).
A daily diary with enough space to time block – I need to time block cause otherwise I am all over the place with stuff, emails come in and I have to answer them straight away, phone calls/txt same thing, and by the end of my day task on top of task and again and again I’m overloaded.
So now I time block out my day the night before, have all my appointments and clients set up, habit tracker is set, know what I need to do before I leave the house.
A monthly diary alongside the daily diary so that its all laid out for me to see at a glance, so I don’t have to flip through my diary to check I can just see, it stays open on top of my daily one or alongside all the time and they work together, they get updated together. Again it has to be in writing, that’s how my brain works.
Lets be honest I’d love it all to be digital cause I love digital but realistically digital just doesn’t work, once I can’t see it, it’s GONE!!!
The other thing that I have learnt and that I am sharing with my clients, is taking my diary everywhere I go,
because it makes me remember to use it, I can't use it if it's in my car or bag or at home if I'm at work or don't have it.....and
because there's that old thing again, willpower and intention. My intention is to be better this year and to be better is to do better.
You will find the templates and diaries that I'm using here 24 Daily Diary, Monthly Planner, Diary Add In and some pictures of what I'm doing below - feel free to email me any questions and I'm happy to work together with you if you are stuck!!! 1 on 1 Coaching
