Jenny, Do you have a daily planner? Although it is high time I use something like this, I am predictably resistent to it. Just the *thought* of recording my activities in a book gives me the heebie jeebies. I hate the thought of: scheduling myself, the boringness of having my days all 'filled' with tedium. Etc etc. I know you will relate to my ridiculous thoughts/fears.
However. It is getting harder and harder to mentally keep track of my kids' activities and I'm tired of remembering things at the last minute. I'd like to get more organization into my days and yet what I want to avoid is this: Getting all fired up, buying a $20 planner and meticulously writing in it for the first week, then watching it gather dust for the rest of its (short) life. It's almost like I want to be organized but fear my own shortcomings so I avoid it in order to avoid my loserness. I love making lists and am quite successful in accomplishing most of the things but not in a "check. that's done" sort of way. My way is to make the list and then never look at it again while I attempt to mentally remember everything that's on it. Lillie and all you other normal people, do not even attempt to analyze why I do this: it's my nature and it's ridiculous and I realize that. I'm attempting to change but need the advice of other organizational disaster areas like myself so that I can get into a system that I may actually stick with.
I sooooooooo want to get organized. My daughters deserve to have an organized mom--most especially my first grader, who is dependent on me to reliably introduce her to the world.
Anyway, I seem to work like this: I resist any attempts at change (from internal and external sources) until one day I say "I've had enough of this" and then I change and never look back. I can tell when I've reached the IHEoT stage and when I'm just pulling my own leg. For example, I was much heavier when we first married. One day, I thought 'I'm sick of being overweight.' I've never been heavy since then. I would say the only other person who can tell when I've totally had it and when I'm just bs'ing is my mom. Unfortunately, she is a type 1 and would make me feel like an imbecile if I asked her about daily planners. So I will avoid that and ask you instead.
I truly feel ready to embrace a more organized lifestyle. So bring it on! What system do you use? Any advice for me? Sorry for the hijack but I need your help.
