Getting Organised

I haven’t blogged for a long time.

In fact I haven’t done anything for a long time.

Partly because of all the things that have been going on at home, and partly because I have lost my flow for everything.

But it was making me so unhappy.

I couldn’t get into a rhythm so I couldn’t write or plan, and because I wasn’t writing or making I was getting more upset and it was a vicious circle and one that I needed to break.

I moaned about it, I ranted to people and groaned and got lots of different advice.

But ultimately no one could help me until I cleared my head and established what I wanted to do and what was my priority. So I sat down and worked out the things I didn’t like doing, and the things that I did like doing and tried to see if anything could be dropped! But there was nothing.

I wanted to do all the things that I was already doing but I needed to be more organised about doing them.

So off I went back to the drawing board for a while to try to work out the way to go with it all.

I decided everything I wanted to be done had to be on paper, I had to clear my head to try to work out how to get organised. I have a lot of things on at any given time, and I like that I like to be busy, but if I am not on top of it all then things slide and that is when control disappears and nothing really gets done.

I ended up sitting with Boo one day with torn out pieces of paper everywhere writing out all my ideas and my plans. Ranging from things that need to be done this week to things that I am not planning on doing for a few years but am already thinking about.

I was writing every single item of every single to do list I had in my brain.

And it was working, my head was finally starting to clear.

I finally had pages dedicated to the blog, Rhianna Lily’s blog, Scrapbookerry, Scrapbookerry Blog, other writing work, as I am doing some interesting jobs at the moment, more to follow on that. The house renovation, plans for each room, and the wedding.

Finally the jumbled mess that was in my head was making sense. But I wanted it to make a little more sense.

I needed some sort of schedule, one that I can access in the middle of the night, from my phone or computer and one that I could add to on the go. I decided to do a blogging schedule as I really do have a back log of posts that I want to and have to write and with a business and small children nothing was happening on any of the blogs. So I went into Google Drive and started creating.

Once I started creating and started colour coding I couldn’t stop and before I knew it I had three spreadsheets in front of me. One for all my posts across the blogs, work and personal, and one for my work schedule. When and where my deadlines are and what I have committed to throughout April.

I love it and I feel like I can finally focus on what I am doing and how I am going to do it. So far I have only done the end of this month and April. But it is good knowing that for the whole of April I have my writing and my work scheduled and sorted and that I finally feel free enough to write again, thanks to a whole lot of list writing, spreadsheets and a lot of colour coding!

How do you get yourself organised?