Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Being a parent takes planning….

but how am I behind on EVERYTHING?

I have an "At-a Glance" 12 month Spiral Calendar, a dry-erase Month Board Calendar perfectly placed above my work desk, a computer calendar that is always up on my laptop-which is generally always placed on my work desk-that syncs to my iPhone and iPad. I even have a watch that can retrieve notifications that are pushed to my mobile devices. HOWEVER, or some reason I can still forget something!

For example, my daughter had a make-up violin lesson scheduled yesterday and I put that make-up lesson time on my dry-erase calendar and my spiral calendar but not my electronic devices, so you guessed it, I forgot her lesson.

Am I on schedule overload?! Wait, but I forgot to put the event in my electronic devices, does that mean I under-scheduled my schedules?!

It's mind-boggling that I can have so many places to list things and STILL forget something!

In a world where we practically have everything and anything at our finger tips we can still be unfulfilled, missing events, or arrive late to things. How am I going to fix this, you ask.

Maybe, each morning I'll read my list of events for that day and write those events on my forehead. As much as I think that would work, even though I have a massively wide forehead, I wouldn't be able to list EVERYTHING.

Today I've decided to print my schedule for the day and put in my wallet so I can reference it and confirm with my mobile devices, what do you think?

Yay or Nay on print outs?