I never knew the importance of scheduling till now. I have always been a big list maker but rarely did everything on my list ever get done before adding more things to my list. It was a never ending list that I for some reason loved!?There are very few things as satisfying to me as crossing things off my to do list! In fact I find it so satisfying that on occasion I have written things on the list even though I have already done them just to be able to cross it off! lol.
Anyways schedules. So I have always chosen to live my life in a very relaxed go with the flow sorta way but yet somehow this whole scheduling thing has crept up into my world. Probably because I have a Kai now and of course a lot changes when you have a little person to be responsible for. So now I have a Kai and I have him on a schedule so that he has a good routine and I see it working really really well for him. He gets better sleep and has a nice flow throughout the day with us. All in all him having a schedule helps the day run pretty darn smoothly... at least as smoothly as it can when you have a toddler. Bahahaha!
Then I found myself asking why I haven't scheduled MY time!? I couldn't find a reason why not to but I found like a bazillion reasons to do it such as now that I am a mom I have more that has to be done everyday and I have less free time to do it in, I have lots of hobbies that have been sitting dormant and lots of goals that I want to hit.
So there I was with pencil and paper (yes I'm old school like that) making a list of all the things I want to fit into my daily and weekly schedule and realized only about maybe half these things are getting accomplished on the reg at the moment! Yikes!
Writing everything down helped me realize the things that are the most important to me vs the things that tend to take up the majority of my precious time. Some of the things I find myself doing aren't even on my list yet tend to get way more of my time then things that I find actually important! Wowzas! Reality check! Time to reprioritize!
So after making my lists of things that I want to prioritize I made a time table so that I could smoothly fit everything in and to my surprise I have more time than I thought! I have for the longest time been saying 'I just don't have the time' and that was sooooo beyond wrong! I just had piss poor scheduling skills! But not anymore!
I've been using this method of scheduling my life for a short while now and not only have I been able to get everything that I wanted in every day but I was even able to add to it and occasionally slip a nap in! Wow! I can't believe I hadn't been doing this all along! Im now feeling super productive and ready for more!
