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Nine months from today, I will be 40. I could not sleep last night, so I decided to come up with a "bucket list" style collection of things to finish before my next birthday. One list is "things to accomplish" and includes six different tasks that I'd like to complete over the next nine months:
The second list is tasks that are more "fun" or just things I've put off, due to procrastination:
Most of these tasks will not cost much at all. They are really about evaluating where I am in life and making sure that I'm being intentional in how I am spending my time.
I'll be sharing a more detailed look at each of these tasks over the next few weeks to let you all know what my plans are to accomplish the task -- and to hopefully keep myself accountable in "sticking to the plan" since all the information is going to be in writing! I can't wait to see how my life has transformed over the next nine months and I can't wait to share the progress with my farmhouse family! Focusing on intention for the rest of year 39 here in the farmhouse, Hannah ❤️🏡❤️
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Something happens on Friday afternoons, as I prepare my desk at school for the next week and lock my office door before heading home.
I feel a sense of accomplishment at tasks I've been able to complete through the week and a sense of relief at the idea of a few days "off". The week's end is a time of reflection and a time of looking forward to the future. I've developed a routine for Friday afternoons that has helped me to leave the school with a sense of peace and contentment. It hasn't always been this way though. I used to stay at school late into the evenings playing catch up from the previous week and organizing my post-it notes of tasks that I needed to accomplish the following Monday. Thanks to Google Calendar and a few books, like The 12-Week Year, I have figured out a better system.
I began to wonder if the same concept could work at school.
First semester of the next school year, I decided to try it out. When I got back to work in August, I made a 12-week plan for first quarter. I made a list of all the things that needed to be accomplished between the beginning of August & the end of October. I started to divide them out based on what dates I needed to meet certain deadlines and then I took it a step deeper and divided the tasks by days during that week. This was working fine, but I found myself writing and re-writing my lists for each day and it started to become a disorganized paper mess. Yes, the tasks were getting finished, but it was exhausting to keep up with my paper system and I hated the "cluttered feeling" that my desk had at the end of each work day. That is...until I found Reminders. One of the things that Google has added over the last year is the integration of "Reminders" into the Google Calendar platform. Essentially, I can make my "to do" list using Reminders. The difference in using this platform is that I can give my "Reminders" a date and time!
The magic of Google Reminders is that the tasks AUTOMATICALLY MIGRATE when you don't mark them complete!
Each morning, I open my calendar when I get to work and look at any tasks that have migrated over to the current date. I check for a few things. First, I love to see if I completed the tasks and just forgot to mark them complete. Next, I see if the tasks are still relevant. If not, I delete them. If they are, I assign a time later the same day or later in the week to work on these tasks. On Friday afternoon, when I start to prepare my office and desk for the next week, I now open up my Google calendar and look at the tasks I was unable to complete during the week. I look at my upcoming weekend and the next week's calendar and I fill in any tasks that I need to complete. I collect any resources or materials I might need to complete these tasks and I put them in folders I have labeled with the days of the week. Then I clean off my desk, turn off my lamps, and head out the door. Feeling good at this week's end, Hannah ❤️?❤️ |
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