Adjust to using a day planner every day for my appointments

I keep forgetting my things to do even though I have it all on my online calendar as well as reminders delivered to my cell phone. I need a better system. I have a planner I do not use because I hate recording stuff twice but obviously I have to do something or I’m going to get fired!!!

Thank you Flashgirl for bringing me back into 43. I get so stuck in my own little world. Even still I remember my committments on 43. I just read through my list on 43 and noticed that I had been keeping mental tabs on each one of them. Even if I don’t post every day, the initial committment seems to be enough for the way my mind works – goal-oriented focus (believe it or not – mom & dad).
My life has been crazy lately, but a good, productive, structured kind of crazy. So, it makes me really happy, but a bit nervous . . . Can I keep up this pace, and at this quality. I generally feel a need to rebel from order. Prehaps I am afraid of becoming boring? So, recent events have been such an exciting flurry in my business life, that the value far outweighs the value of my vain subconscious rebellion, and I have been using my day planner religiously for an entire week. Okay, this may not sound like much to some people, but believe me this is major progress. More about organizing. . . the flurry in my pers. business life is a good sized service contract that is very open-ended, tons of potential, not to mention my first of this nature: providing more services than I can do alone. Contracting my own service practitioners, management, and my first full inventory in this industry. So fun! So much to do, to sort out, to priortize, to compare. Backpackit.com has been a great tool for me. Projected contract start date – July 1 ‘05 – maybe by then I will have a more developed view of Backpack. But I suggest trying it, for personal or business or anything. ~S

My work is appointment based. I do everything I need to do, myself. I really enjoy it this way, but I also can really limit myself with my own bad habits. I am accustomed to storing everything of importance on my agenda in my head. I naturally mentally rank things, and then my brain alerts me in severity according to the rank. If I am less than enthusiastic about something and I don’t have to necessarily do it, I often allow myself to forget about it conveniently, or I end up showing up late. This never happens with work appointments. Fortunately I love what I do. But, if I really need to have 15 – 20 work appointments a week – I need a better system. I need to see that I have been limiting myself, by just recording everything in my head. So. . .DayPlanner.