Time Management Update

It’s been quite a few weeks since I started using the weekly time management printables.

As you can see, each week was very different, but being able to write down my goals for the day was extremely helpful.

[Week One]

[Week Two]

[Week Three]

Clearly I lost my groove in week three. I was getting ready for our big house hunting trip, so all my normal activities fell by the wayside. Oh well! I never printed any more, so I totally forgot to use it this week. Will get back on the bandwagon next week.

Feel free to download the printable for your own use!!

hourly printable

Hourly Schedule Printable

So…the hourly schedule thing was a huge success today! I ended up having to scratch my last hour’s goal since Caleb is super cranky today and he’d finally fallen asleep – there was no way I was going to wake him up to go to the post office!

Looking forward to doing it again tomorrow. I feel so much more relaxed at the end of the day knowing I achieved my goals. In a fit of celabratory madness, I made a printable so my daily schedule can look pretty too. Feel free to steal, share, and enjoy it :)

click here to access printable

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Organizing Time

Ever since I wrote the post about meeting (or missing) expectations, I’ve felt like I needed to make some changes in order to meet the reasonable expectations I have for myself. So, last night before heading to bed, I made myself an hourly schedule. Each hour, I designated 2-3 tasks to accomplish so that by the end of the day I could say I had actually accomplished everything, but I only had to think about 2-3 things at a time.

Well, I am half-way through the day and so far so good! I have already crossed off half of my to do’s and feel like I’ve made some progress. Initially, I was going to start the list at 7am, but Caleb slept til 5:45am and then went right back to sleep after eating, so I gave myself an extra hour (and somehow it’s always that last hour of sleep that is the most restorative!). By the time it got to be noon, I decided to switch which hour I ate lunch and took care of putting clothes away.

Maybe I’ll even buy some time for a nap!

Anyways, I am going to make myself a fun template for each day instead of scribbling my schedule on a scrap piece of paper. Will post the final result when it’s finished.

(for the hourly schedule printable, click here)