A New Strategy

I am the worst about following a calendar.  I do a good job of recording at times, but I never seem to check my calendar on a daily basis, so what's the use, right?

My sweet husband got me an ipod touch for my birthday (or some holiday) a few years ago.  My idea was to be able to check my email on the go (although you must have a wifi connection).  I also had been wanting a digital planner, so this seemed to put everything in one along with all my music.  Since I am on t-mobile and not willing to pay the data plan for an iphone it was perfect.  However, as neat as the calendar features were I still did not check it.

In More Hours in My Day, the author of course encourages you to keep a planner and check it daily.  She also recommends that you keep lists of your tasks and chores.  I won't go into detail about all of the lists that she suggests you keep.  If you are interested get the book!  However, she keeps hers in a file box on index cards.  There are also other things that she keeps index card files for, and with my small house I just don't want to clutter it more with more paper, boxes, and files of things, so I decided the best thing was to go back to my ipod.

I didn't get a lot of sleep last night trying to update and backup my ipod, but I now have this great planner/calendar/todo list always with me in my purse.  I just love technology!  I have all of my daily and weekly tasks clearly labeled and ready to be checked off.  I am such a list person and LOVE to check off my list.  I even write out very specific lists so that I can check more things off.  I know I'm a dork! Hopefully this will keep me motivated as well as on task, because when it comes to cleaning I have a bit of ADD.