So 10 days into the New Year already. Goodness how time really does fly. For PDW personally it has been a very productive 10 days. Emails are all caught up, orders are all caught up, and PDW land {aka the garage} is almost all cleaned up. Later this week I plan on doing a TON of creating as I miss it. So with 10 days into the new year I can already tell it's gonna be a good one. I have naturally always been a "planner" but never ever great with my time. I am so easily side tracted that one would think I might need medication. Not the case though I just simply try to multi task my everyday and usually it fails. There are still things on my to-do list that have to get rolled over to the next day. Not fun for someone who does enjoy being ahead of the game. Running a family, a business and still trying to make time for "fun" stuff has taken it's toll I will not lie about that. That my friends is where burn out comes in like a huge fire ball. I knew by mid november that I was personally drowning, I could feel it and it was no fun to spiral down the rabbit hole. I have learned when I am ahead and taking charge and getting my full 10 hour PDW work days in that I am the most happy. I have no guilt going to watch lillie play soccer or playing a game with seth or getting down on the floor to put puzzles together with Liam. Now get me behind and well that's it, I am a moody, crying, overwhelmed and very guilty feeling person. So am I boring you yet well if your still reading I do have a point to all this. PLANNER AND TIME MANAGEMENT it is amazing how much daily time we waste as americans. I am not saying that your every minute needs to be accounted for, but if it was and you could see the bigger picture on how you spend your time I bet you would be amazed. You might think you time management is perfect I know I did but I also know something in that mix was not working for me at all {like being so insanely behind}. So I recently bought a few books one on the craft industry and working from home and other on time management. As a only child I have the belief that I am great at everything, Hey I had 2 parents that told me so and I was there world so in a essence they did set me up for some failure, because guess what I am NOT great at everything. I am great at being a mom I know that. I am good at being a wife and striving to be a great one. I am lousy at time management/running a household and business from home. I admit it, very hard for me to do. People I have flaws LOT'S of them, I am though learning to love some of them and kicking out the ones I don't need. So back to TIME...so after a week looking at all my time I have been writing down, in a nutshell this is it. I WASTE ALLOT OF TIME, I never thought I did until it was on paper written down by me. The computer is a HUGE waste of time for me, I get lost on the computer and what I think is 20 minutes ends up 4 hours....4 HOURS..you know what I could have done in 4 HOURS...{please don't answer because I already know what I can do in 4 hours lol} but between pintrest,fb,etsy,blogs,looking for the next cool product for the kits time is gone. Then something else surprised me with my time allot of it was side tracked time. What I mean by that is walking by the bathroom noticing it's out of toilet paper, then noticing the tub needs to be cleaned and so on. So even though cleaning the bathroom was NO WHERE on my to-list I stopped and cleaned and the same goes for the rest of the house. Weird I know. So that was about a week ago and now this week it's different, time is managed even this blog post is timed. I got a new planner and normally I go for the fancy, leather,graphic day planner but not this year its a basic weekly/monthly planner from staples so simple and easy. {I will be honest I did want to spend hours looking for a super cute one on etsy but instead opted for simplicity} and after writing the whole month of January and February's blog schedule I did find some cute planners out there for all of you. So to sum up this post I want you to know if your like me and felt a little overwhelmed with life itself then I will tell you...get this book and a planner and get ORGANIZED, its seems so hard to do but really it is so super easy and your days will be so full filed. So I want to ask all of you do you have ways to keep your self organized to have a set time for all your crafting or are you still behind from the holidays. It's hard being a crafter and running a house or a company..or just whatever life is BUSY. Here are a few cute planners I came across...and if you have a helpful tip make sure you leave it in the comments section...
xo xo
Michelle
the bubble planner intersting concept...
the mom agenda its cute...
I actually had this planner in my hand last year at the queen bee market, should have gotten it...darn...super super cute...
and this I LOVE..I might have to order one for the trade show....to hold everything while I place all the orders for PDW...
I also just ordered this...a simple little organizer for holding a pad of paper and pen...
