New Plan!!

I am going to try out something new with my planner. I need to plan my time more exactly, like, down to the minute. It's all going to be about routine. Routine is good for me, because my personality is the opposite. I can't find a way to channel my ADD into something good, so I'm going to guide myself with a planner-- it's kind of... like I'm fighting my ADD, if you want to phrase it negatively. But I can't just jump from one task to the other constantly just so that I don't forget to do the new thing I thought of. If I do that, then I forget the other thing I was doing previously. Laundry, brushing my teeth, cleaning my room, practicing piano, studying, even having arguments with people, it's all the same-- I forget to finish things because I go do something else. I just don't know if that's helpful under normal circumstances, ever!

So here goes. I'm going to list every single thing I might ever need to do-- daily activities, things I want to do to reach my goals, studying, family activities, cleaning, etc-- and prioritize them into a laddered list, for what to start with first, and use it to pull those activities from the list and schedule them into my day, down to the minute. 

My taking care to use each minute will help me take my time more seriously. I've been trying this with my planner since this week's Monday, but it wasn't working because I didn't specify very carefully, and I didn't actually make it on-time to the first activity, so I'd give up immediately. I suppose that problem can't be solved by being specific, so I'm going to have to try harder. No-- I have to do my best. But, being specific will at least (maybe) make me take things more seriously.

I'll use my planner and write in it, 7:10, 7:15, 7:30... that sort of thing. It will probably be mainly fifteen minute and thirty minute increments, but I might need to buy a bigger planner for smaller increments, but even that might not fit in the one I have. And I'll time myself with my phone. If I forget to set the timer, I'll forget to keep going. After a while, I might not need to use it, but for now, I'll pretend otherwise.

I'll carry my "Quotidian" list with me everywhere, in a purse (even in the house) as well as a planner, pen, my phone, and post-its or other notepaper for writing random things. Probably post-its are the best. Study materials and other activity materials will stay in the places I will do those activities. I have a habit of trying to do too many things at once-- see-- so then I get all my stuff lost all over the house, which makes it even harder to finish tasks after coming back to them, since I don't know what I was doing if I don't even know where I was doing it.

I just don't know how to lose weight and get my studying done every day if I don't try this. I will really be happy if this works. Here goes try number 2,436! (That's a joke. :-| Well, I'm guessing it's a smaller number.)

special codes
AFRST=adjust for required start time (for appointments that I'm not sure when they'll occur, like family worship or going somewhere with someone else)

Activities Prioritized: The Crash Project Expanded
FREQUENT ITEMS (short time-period activities)
water
chores essentials
japanese and spanish

TIME BLOCK ITEMS(extended time-period activities - some are repeated from frequent items)
prayer
sleep B4 2330 (2100)
wake B4 0800 (0600)
pretty-care essentials (showering, nail-care, skin-care, brushing hair, dressing)
work (requires 10.5 hours - getting ready, driving, and working)
chores essentials (for appearances, mom and Allison)
weight loss
studies: bible
studies: college homework
studies: piano
studies: theory
studies: spanish
studies: japanese
pretty-care extras (picking outfits, makeup, hair-dos)
exercise
chores hardcore (big projects)

hummm... can't think of anything else at the moment. I'll update this later. For now, I'm going to print it out and follow the other things I've added on to Quotidian. (You know that means daily, right? It's kind of funny though, it makes it sound like I'm "quoting" myself. Which, really, I kinda am doing that anyway....)

URRRRR Something crazy just happened to my page, Quotidian, and it has reverted to the state it was in at least two more more days ago. How did that happen? A whole bunch of really good stuff I liked is gone. I don't get it. I think it must be bad to have two "New Post"s open on blogger, and it gets confused with the publishing. Urrrrggg!!!!!! I can't remember half of it. I get so mad when that happens. :,(