Focus: 2011 resolution check

remember at the beginning of this month (also the beginning of a new year),
i made a resolution? 

i thought i would check in since today is the very last day of January. 

i know many don't make resolutions anymore - a waste of time they say. 

i need them. 

i have made myself work on each year's resolution to the best of my capabilities. 

having a word or goal in the foreground on most days guides me and my choices.

that being said...

i need to focus!

i need to tidy up a bit for workflow, wouldn't you say?

how can i possibly focus at "work" in the creative arcade

or at my desk like this? i can't find anything!

having this mess is such a time waster.

and what am i going to wear? good thing it's laundry day!

now who's going to do it? oh, yea... me.

so off i went this weekend re-organizing and tidying.

i had trouble getting ALL the laundry done - 

trouble was, i didn't want to do it! 

so i have a few more loads calling my name.

my favorite thing about re-organizing this time is usually 

my least favorite - paperwork.

who would have guessed? I LOVE PAPER

just not paperwork!

i have been dying for a system forever

and proactively researching and brainstorming a system all month.

i got the idea from the system my friend Gussy created.

i estimate she intended her ideas for educating the paperwork crippled masses

like myself that struggle under 7 and 10 foot scattered paperwork piles.

{thank you Gussy!}

this is what i do.

files for orders...

a filing cabinet for all other must keep files...

and a large binder for to do lists, goals, ideas, and timely information...

i call it "mapping my life".

i need a road map to see where i am going.

i think i know where i want to be so i need to 

figure out how to get there with a "map".

i have categorized sections depending on the different hats i wear;

general household, homeschooling, 

school webmaster, logo design, blog, and stationery design.

in each section i have a to do list and in my blogging section i have a calendar.

i finally decided to use my computer calendar for everything, just not the blog.

i like to write out a week or two at a time of what i plan to blog so

i can prepare tutorials, pics and whatnot. 

i look through my sections and see what needs to be done each day.

so far it's a theory that has worked for a couple of days.

i feel better though and more organized. 

more focused.

ahhh, now i can work :)

are you feeling frazzled?

what works for you?

are you keeping atop your resolution(s) so far?

xoxo,