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What’s On the Agenda for Today?

29 Feb

I like having this to help me track myself daily, instead of just a standard to-do list. I have tried the lists, but this has been working better for me. Again, either is an improvement over sticky notes. It is just my daily reminder of the things I need to do because I really do seem to be having problems remembering things. I know that forgetfulness is one of menopause’s lovely symptoms, and I also have a Dad who generally loses things on a regular basis too, so I do tease him regularly that this was not one of the things I wanted to inherit from him. :)

So, here is a pretty standard daily agenda to use for an example for you:

Agenda – Week of 2/26/2010
Read my devotional notes. I also want to spend 15-30 minutes just reading the Bible. (right now continue with my 90 day plan)

Once a week, take my measurements as I continue with exercise.

Read Juice Plus conference material first, my virtual office conference notes, in my notebook and on my virtual office. Listen to cd/dvd’s of Juice Plus.

Monday: Work on current alterations. Rip out waists, get seams ready to sew. Make list of things I need from Hobby Lobby – zippers, ribbon and patches. Check Fine Feathered Friend hop. Finish Daughters hem. Make sure I have what I need for networking email I send out Wednesday.

Tuesday: Finish paying bills. Check on temp jobs. Work on blog, continue with alterations.

Wednesday: Send out PNC email. Continue cookie post for blog. Work on a project from my list or Pinterest.

Thursday: Finish any leftovers from the week that I can. Work on blog, check Friday hops and go ahead and link up to the ones open. If I have something finished, list it on Etsy.

Friday: Finish up what I can, deliver alterations from the week.

Saturday: Make pattern for backpack and skirt. This evening, go to friend’s wedding.

Sunday: Sabbath rest. Buy a newspaper. Maybe organize those notebooks too. Exercise, then take measurements. Have weekly agenda meeting. Review daily list timeline.

***** Sew Katie’s Apron, maybe cut out 2nd one from Ikea fabric. Things float here until I have them finished.

List any upcoming meetings here: Wednesday March 14 PNC meeting at Earthfare

I got this idea from the book: The War of Art, and it is helping me track what I need to do. I can make it as detailed or as vague as I like, and if something doesn’t get finished one day I can copy, paste and move it to the next day. Easy peasy. How do you keep up with what you need to do? Would you share your ideas with me please? I would love to hear about what works for you too! Thanks, whatever you are working on I hope you have a productive day! Angela

 

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New & Improved Plan

28 Feb

Here is the new plan. I have really been praying for wisdom to do this well, to give myself incentive and encouragement to accomplish what I hope for my business and my life. I am also taking my time limits off of this list, that didn’t encourage me last time. It just made me feel like I was always behind.

My daily list is roughly this:

  1. Get up at a regular time every day.
  2. Eat breakfast, coffee, vitamins.
  3. Read my devotions.
  4. Exercise. I am currently using Callenetics. 1 hour, twice a week. More if I feel like it, but at least twice a week.
  5. Read Juice Plus material sometime during the day. I need to continue to educate myself about it.
  6. Sew alterations for whomever I am currently working for.
  7. Look through my projects and pick out a few to be working on and towards.
  8. Regularly read for at least 30 minutes in evening as well. Work with Heartmath, read my business books, sewing information, Juice Plus magazine, etc.
  9. I am still shooting for 8 hours of sleep. I have done this as often as possible and it does seem to be helping my energy for me to sleep a little more. (For years I probably only got 5-6 hours a night and thought that was enough for me, but it wasn’t.) So that means go to bed before 11PM, so I probably better shoot for 10:30 bedtime, then I should make it by 11. :)
  10. I also believe in a Sabbath rest day, for some this is Sunday, for others it is Saturday. My weekly routine will include one of these as well.
  11. I will be working some temp jobs as well to supplement my income until the alterations/selling stuff I make gets me to the income level I need.

 

The last plan caused me to be grumpy and stressed several times. This one is less stringent and helps me remember things I want to do. I can add to it as needed for new projects or other things I need to get done. I will also use my daily agenda to help with that, and I will share that tomorrow.

Do you notice a difference without regular exercise? I didn’t realize how much of a difference it was until I managed 2 weeks of Callenetics. My back felt much better, and my daughter thought I had lost weight even though I hadn’t. That was another nice benefit. Gonna try and keep exercising regularly this time.

I also have some business goals I want to share, things I want to develop for business and do for business.

101 Business Goals –

  1. Share Juice Plus with at least 1 person a week.                                                   Ongoing
  2. Continue to network for insurance.                                                                         Ongoing
  3. Network for sewing and Juice Plus as well.                                                           Ongoing
  4. Take my measurements as I continue with exercise                                        Weekly
  5. Complete alterations for current customer                                                          Weekly
  6. Make grocery bags from recycled t-shirts                                                             February 2012
  7. Sew apron for daughter, and 1 to sell                                                                     March 2012
  8. Sew skirt, make sure pattern works, then create tutorial                                          March 2012
  9. Make skirt to sell as well                                                                                               March 2012
  10. Take classes in Georgia at Expo                                                                                  March 2012
  11. Make rubber ducky things                                                                                           March 2012
  12. Make chicken blanket for Easter                                                                             April 2012
  13. Sew Raggedy Ann’s – 3 for granddaughters, 3 to sell                                       April 2012
  14. List something on Etsy                                                                                              April 2012
  15. Create link on Accidentally Angela facebook to list yard sale things              April 2012
  16. Sew baby quilts for 2 friends and make at least 1 to sell.                                   April 2012
  17. Make the purse from my Scandinavian book                                                       April 2012
  18. Make scarves from material I bought in Williamson                                          April 2012
  19. Look through my projects and add new things to this list                                  April 2012

 

All in all, this is more reasonable than the last attempted plan for sure. It is more of an outline of my day than the strict list I was trying to follow before. As I’ve mentioned before, these plans and lists are always flexible, the purpose is to find a way to help me remember the things I need to do and want to do, and I love having it written out instead of just using the sticky notes again. :) If you have any ideas or encouragement for me, please share! I would love to hear your thoughts on this as well. Thanks! Angela

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Getting Back On Track….

27 Feb

 

A new day is here. We are almost into March and I am wondering at how fast January and February flew past! Maybe with all the problems we had going on that helped grease the tracks, I dunno. But either way, March will be here in a few more days and I want to start it off way better than the last months. :)

I am going to make a much lower key daily plan for myself. I will share it just so you can see I am a little more realistic, hopefully. I love reading self help books and blogs, and using organizational tips I find in lots of places, especially Pinterest these days. If you haven’t checked into Pinterest yet and are interested, let me know and I can send you an invitation. I have to admit to suffering from pinning addiction at first, but now I can pretty much catch up in just a few minutes with what is happening there, and it is always available for me to pin my interests too. I will share in a later post a little bit more about that. Back to my self help and organizing ways….

I will share my new and improved plan tomorrow. You can see my super overachiever schedule here. :) Oh well. Like I said, the old one worked for about 2 weeks, even started exercising again. Then everyone got sick, life kinda fell apart and yada yada yada. :) Even if I get a bump in the road, this new plan will help me stay focused enough to remember what I am trying to accomplish.

Do any of you have memory issues? I do have some problems with forgetfulness too and I am planning on using a daily agenda again to help me keep up with things I need to do as well as things I want to do. I use to call myself the sticky note queen. I would have them all around my computer monitor, and even under my keyboard. It worked pretty well for me because I did keep going through them and when they were finished I could toss them, but my current computer is a laptop and the sticky notes don’t seem to work too well on it. :) Hence the use of a daily agenda. I have a question for you: how do you stay organized and remind yourself about things you need to do? Ideas folks! I need your ideas! :) Thanks, Angela

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Detoured!

25 Feb

I really am beginning to question the point of trying to make a plan. This week I planned on sewing all week. Started out great too. Sunday, Monday and Tuesday I did a lot of sewing. Wednesday morning, very early, Boyfriend’s grandmother passed away. His family lives a few hours away and it took a little time for them to get here. BF was collecting Grammy’s things and waiting for them. So the rest of the week has been dealing with this and helping his family.

I use to think I always needed a plan, but my plans so seldom happen now I’m just not sure. One person thinks I like drama too much, like I can plan someone’s death right?  Some have the attitude, “Well, that much really can’t happen, you must be exaggerating.” Sorry folks. I’m not.

For the last 2 months, the grands have been sick with double ear infections and bronchitis. They recovered, then BF and my daughter got sick, sick enough to need a little help. Then I got sick, then daughter got sick again. This time she coughed so hard she cracked 3 ribs and couldn’t pick up anything! She was also in a lot of pain, and the 2 yr old was wide open. Before she could fully recover, she started throwing up one night, and we thought she broke a rib. There was actually a loud popping noise and suddenly she was in excruciating pain. Turned out to not be broken rib, she just pulled all the muscles in her diaphragm,,,ouch! On top of all that I have been trying to get my alterations business going as well. Oh, and I almost forgot I worked a temporary job for a while for a flower company to help with Valentine’s orders. Whew! As I said it has just been one thing after another for weeks now. Several of my friends have joined me in praying for health, for rest and for me to not lose my mind. Prayer always helps as well as having friends to talk to….

So, a few months ago I made a ridiculously stringent daily plan out for myself. It actually worked for about 2 weeks, then life decided to interrupt my plan. Imagine that, right? :) I bet a few of you completely understand what we’ve been going through too. At this point I’m still trying to figure out what I need to be doing, and how I need to be doing it.

Obviously life is still not according to my plan, but I want to work on a better personal plan to use on the days when life has not blown up, or thrown up or broken something. My next daily plan will not be as rough as the last one I put together. :) Here’s hoping your plans are going a little better for you than mine have for me. Talk to you soon! Angela

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In Need of a Little Inspiration?

24 Feb

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air – explode softly – and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth – boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn’t go cheap, either – not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with their imagination.”

Robert Fulghum

“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

Benjamin Disraeli

“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.”

Sir Winston Churchill

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.”

Charles Schwab

“Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.”

Isaac Disraeli

“A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go farther than a great idea that inspires no one.”

Mary Kay Ash

“Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant.”

Charles A. Cerami

“Flaming enthusiasm backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.”

Dale Carnegie

“In the end, the size of a person’s accomplishment can best be measured by the size of their heart.”

Unknown

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead

“People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.”

E. B. White

“Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest.”

Mark Twain

“He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.”

Abraham Lincoln

“The real test of character is whether you will do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.”

Michael Josephson

“Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”

Sam Ewing

“Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”

Confucius

“If you are not big enough to lose, you are not big enough to win.”

Walter Reuther

“Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don’t.”

Seth Godin

“Take away my people, but leave my factories, and soon grass will grow on the factory floors. Take away my factories, but leave my people, and soon we will have a new and better factory.”

Andrew Carnegie

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Sunday

19 Feb

A day to rest, reach a few goals and refresh yourself….

Source: ornamelle.com via April on Pinterest

A day to reach goals…

A day to refresh yourself….

 

Enjoy your Sunday….Angela

 
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Are We At Halftime?

07 Feb

Surprisingly this ad from the Super Bowl is causing a good bit of debate. Many in the media have seen it as a political ploy, while lots of the American public call it, “Inspiring in a nonpartisan sort of way.” (source MSN poll). If you haven’t seen it, this is the ad the discussion is about:

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Personally, I don’t see what all the discussion is about. It seems too low key to be drawing the kind of attention I have been reading about it in the news. I’m sure it’s meant to be inspiring, but I personally believe it will take a lot more than this to pump us up as a nation to be the come back kid that the commercial is portraying Detroit as. This is the first year since 1997 that Chrysler has seen a profit. Let’s face it, that’s a 15 year comeback. I don’t know about the rest of the nation, but I need solutions a lot faster than that for my finances and my family. I’m pretty sure the rest of you do too. I don’t think we’re at halftime, I think that the game ended with a lot of us left on the field. I’m ready to start a new one. See you at the ballpark? Later, Angela

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A Night View of the Aurora from Space

01 Feb

This is a lovely video found at Space.com of the Aurora Borealis.

I did not realize you could see the Aurora from space, a very different perspective for sure.
Hope you enjoyed this, Space.com has lots more space information and videos available so be sure and visit the site. See you later, Angela

 
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