What My Mother Taught Me About Scheduling
I was homeschooled and had three younger sisters. My father worked out of a studio beside our house and my mother somehow managed to keep track of music lessons, soccer and baseball games, karate and dance classes, my father’s clients, and heaps more. It was really quite impressive. She had one little secret.
My mother had a massive great wall calendar. She wrote everything down on that calendar, as soon as she found out about it. That’s nothing new, we all manage to scribble down the majority of things, right?
Well, she took things one step further and color coded everyone. We each had a color. Red, blue, green and pink were for us kids, black for my father’s business appointments, purple for my mother’s activities (which weren’t many, since she was constantly ferrying us around!) and orange for things the whole family was involved in.
The calendar looked a bit crazy, with all those different colors, often all on the same squares! But it worked. She could tell at a glance who she had to worry about each day and we were able to easily check what we were supposed to be doing. It was also a great way to find out whose schedules were overlapping, since she wrote times beside the activity.
Color-coding your calendar is a great way to help balance your family and work, and it is super easy to implement, all you need are a few markers or colored pens and a great big wall calendar.
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