Organise my life

This is going to get tricky – I’ve found out I’m pregnant again! And as anyone who’s had a baby knows, having a baby and being organised do not go hand in hand! Still I can try and stay a bit more on top of things than usual. There’s a couple of things I still haven’t done that I have to.
1) Get kids booked in for jabs! Must do that before middle one starts preschool!

I’ve basically completed this. Everything in my room is organised, I tidy every day just to make sure it stays that way, and my mind feels much less cluttered! I love it :)

To living a more organised lifestyle.
So far I have; Bought a desk with drawers and cupboards, Bought a bookcase to store all my books and dvds, instead of in boxes, cleared out all my drawers of unececary junk, bought some hooks to put on the wall for our house and car keys, started using a diary, started using a letter tray…. I’m all but there, all I want to do now is buy/make some drawer dividers so my drawers are neater. I may knit some, like the ones from ikea, that way I’m killing 2 birds with one stone!!

I have just bought a nice new big desk with loads of storage, and today I am going to buy a new bookcase. That way everything has a place and I know where everything is. I love my desk, I feel so smart :p

Ok, trying to do one thing for each goal every day is proving to be a bit tricky to fit them all in, and VERY tiring! Wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t running around after the younger 2 kids as well I suppose. So have decided that every day now I will do the basic housework plod through, one extra bit (like cleaning the bathroom or changing the bedclothes) and something from one or two goals depending on how much time it takes up. Also of course if I do some decorating my other half can do some gardening so we can both get in on the goal achievement thing!

Have rung a few places to change payment dates, got a few more to do tomorrow including one that needs to be done through the bank which will be a pig as my bank is useless!

I seem to have cracked how to stay focused though. I sat down this morning and looked at my goals on here and thought of one thing I could do for each of them. I’ve done more today than I’ve done in entire weeks recently!

Well, have carried on the general housework attack today so you can actually see the washing baskets rather than them being buried in a mountain of washing! Big things today have been :
1) Got daughters name down for a nursery for september
2) Also put her name down for the school for next september
3) Done all of may’s budget and have figured out that if I can get everyone we are paying to change our date to the end of the month rather than all being dotted throughout the month then we’ll actually be able to pay things and not keep paying failed item charges.

So, a productive day today. Tomorrow got to ring everyone to change payment dates and carry on the housework effort.

Have spent the day sorting out the washing and making sure we all have clothes to wear to my friend’s son’s naming ceremony tomorrow! I know that sounds like a non-achievment but normally I would get to half an hour before we’re due to leave and realise my trousers are still in the laundry basket!!!

and need to sort my life out. First things I need to do are:
1) sort out a nursery place for my middle daughter
2) get middle and youngest kids booked in for next jabs
3) get middle daughters name down for the infant school
4) accept the fact that housework exists and there is no magic wand to make it go away!
5) get on top of dates for payments, replying to things, posting things etc

when I’ve done the first 3 I’ll make a new list. By the end of the year I’d like us to be a fully functioning household!

I often feel as though I’m involved in too many things at once, without the capacity to really commit to any of these – I’m spreading myself too thin. Consequently there is little to no satisfaction and I just feel tired all the time from being busy. My diary looks like a mess at the moment.
I need to look at whats going on in my life right now, what my priorities are, and act systematically according to these. I need to have the courage to say NO sometimes to people.
I want to develop good living habits now so that when I’ve graduated uni by the end of this year, I won’t be even more unbalanced and unhapy with the additional commitment of WORK in the real world. I want to be everything I was created to be and its going to take some discipline.