So glad it’s Friday! While it’s been a productive week, I’ve been busy rethinking my organization and time management here in my office and daily schedule. Always good to work with my strengths. Because I’m such a visual person, I need to “see” tasks in a very upfront, in my face way.
1. Out come the white boards. There is something about a dry erase white board that makes me feel very in tune with my goals and to-do list and anything else I’m trying to organize. I have one hanging on my wall, but yesterday, I hauled the spare board out from storage and divided my tasks and goals into five horizontal lists. Oooh, I love white board lists! Just looking at it inspired me so much, I got one major thing done and crossed off my list and circled on the white board (which means I get a cookie!). I wrapped up my workday yesterday thanking God for such an accomplishment. It felt great!
2. I am addicted to banker boxes–turquoise banker boxes. I use each one for a different project or as I’m calling them now, different curriculum. Yes, I’m reverting back to kindergarten, but didn’t we learn most everything about life back then? I learned about reading time, art time, play time, nap time, snack time. (I’m being silly, but still!) Sometimes the freelance life is much like college would be (had I ever gone), with me juggling multiple clients, classes, assignments, tests, schedules in one day. So my banker boxes are my college credits, yes. (I get another cookie!)
3. I have to see everything in the open to reiterate my top priorities. I am so visual, if I don’t look at my big-picture goals each day, I’m lost in the minutiae of my day. Of course, the minutiae are often talking to family and friends about their lives, talking with hubby, replying to friends’ emails, and chatting on forums with other writers, so it’s not like those tasks are a waste of time. I just don’t want to get caught up in it so that I don’t accomplish something I’m working toward. And because I’m so visual, when I see a cookie, I’m completely distracted!
4. Being visually oriented is actually a great way to remind myself that my day is not my own. I like that I can’t get too lost in my own little world. I like that an email from a friend or a call from a family member can stop me in my task so that I remember that there are other people out there, and my stuff is not the most important thing. Cookies might be though!
5. Being visual is rather chaotic at times. These next few months I will take time each day to organize and weed the clutter from each part of my office. This weekend is my immediate desk area for starters. Just one drawer, one shelf, one counter space and we can pluck 100 worthless pieces of junk out, to either file, donate, or trash. Right? I could do that just with my to be shredded junk mail pile. Now I need a cookie.
Have a great weekend.
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LOVE it!!! Go, Trish, GO!
I’m working on my office too! 
Tomorrow is My Day To Organize – and I hope to get it all done. Your white board sounds heavenly. 
Perhaps I shall have to invest 
You will love a white board. I truly think it was the best investment for my brain. It works! I only have to turn and glance at it and I’m off with another renewed sense of purpose. Woohoo!
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