getting organised!

98jdougl

Hey guys,
How does everybody manage to organise their lives?
I think I struggle with the motivation rather than anything else... I work full time with changing shifts, I am an apprenticeship assessor at work, have a stay at home partner who is on disability who I am the main carer for, I do all the cooking, cleaning, budgetting etc, am planning our wedding and work have just put me on the promotions track which comes with a business degree... wow, writing it down it sounds like a lot!
Anyway, I need to find a way to organise all of the aspects of my life as well as finding time for me! Anybody got any hints/tips?
Thanks guys

Pink.

Hi 98jdougl,

It does sound like a lot! These existing threads have lots of tips and advice:

How to organise everything in my life OS?

Another 'organise' site

What type of diary/calendar do others use to organise their families?

being organised

Help me organise my life

Help please folks! How do you organise yourselves with shopping/cooking?

I'll add your thread to the first link later.

Pink

FairyPrincessk

:I'm sure you can read all about organizing tips from elsewhere. However, I want to stick my nose in and say, don't underestimate how organized you must already be to cope with all of that. Something that helps me is to make several different lists--so I have a list for my work, a list for household things, a list of things i need to do to careful myself, and other lists for things going on in my life. It helps me to break the lists up like this because I can a) determine which list matters the most to me and make sure I take care of the things on it, b) recognize that when I have more lists/longer lists some of the less important things will suffer c) remember that I need to do things to take care of myself. I tend to forget that my work won't be very good if I'm stressed out and a mess. Sometimes it IS more important for me to spend an hour taking a break than to do the washing up, make the bed or look at the budget. I also make all of these lists in a little notebook. When the notebook is full, I have a book of accomplishments:D I really surprise myself sometimes when I feel like I haven't "done anything" and I look back through my book. I am organized, even if I don't always get everything done.