Creative Time Management

What is Creative Time Management?  Let's see if I can give it simple definition.  It is a way to be creative and manage your time all in one.  How can you do this?  You do so by doing your time management planning in a ... dun dunn dunn ... paper (yes!  I said paper!) planner and then decorate (yes!  I said decorate!) it to make it look appealing to the user.  How?  Let me show you a few examples by yours truly ...

As you can see, I have a paper planner that shows one week at a time and in it I plan out all the activities that must take place for that week but the fun comes in when instead of just making a boring looking list of things to-do and appointments, I decorate it.  Expressing my mood, my likes, my creativity!  It allows me to use stickers to designate washing clothes (my nemesis!) and the use of stamps for other weekly tasks.  It allows me to come back to that week and add pictures of the fun I had.  It allows me to use colored pens and my most creative handwriting.  It allows me to embellish empty spaces to make it appealing to me and it calls to me to open my planner.  Why?  Because I am proud of it and I like what I see.  And that in itself is the magic ... wanting to open my planner.  Because whether it is electronic or paper a list of appointments or things to-do are of NO USE if the user does not go to it and look at it to get it done.  So my solution and the solution of so many planner girls like me is ... "Creative" Time Management.

And I am not alone in my planner madness.  We are a complete community of planners out there that have gone back to old school paper and pen (and stickers, and stamps, and washi tape ......).  Why?  Because we need a creative outlet.  Because we have a lot going on and have lost our motivation.  Because we just did not connect mentally with an electronic device.  Because we love office supplies.  Because we just like to sit down and WRITE!

Creative Time Management is a journey into your creativity and learning the process of time management.  I hope you join me.

Talk to you soon!  One of my goals for 2016 is to be more consistent with my blogging ......

Hugs and happy planning

Your Planner DWEEB

Tabby

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P.S.S.S.  Join me for DIY with Planner DWEEB classes each month at Everything Scrapbook in Lake Worth Florida!  I will give a series of monthly planner classes to teach you the basics and more advanced techniques of Creative Time Management.  The first one will be January 30th.  Link to it -> LINK to event.