Getting Organized!

I can't help it, I love to be organized! I have always maintained some sort of planner, date book, etc. When I got married and started cooking for my husband, I quickly realized that life was easier if I planned out a week's meals and shopped at the beginning of the week. I would print the menu and post it on the fridge. Then in a different location I kept a calendar and weekly agenda. At some point, I can't remember when, I got wise. I started using a 3-ring binder to hold not only my menu, but my calendar and schedule, recipes, etc. I have been modifying and improving my system over the past few years, and recently had an amazing breakthrough.

I discovered the "Priority Planner" in Linda Dillow's book, Creative Counterpart. I have never before seen a concise, one page print out that allows me to organize my basic priorities, my weekly agenda, my menu, to do list, and my shopping list! Amazing! I typed it up in Microsoft Word and you can download the file here: Priority Planner

My 3-ring binder consists of 5 dividers giving me 6 sections- daily schedules in front, Priority Planning Sheets, To Do Lists, Calendars for the next 18 months, Kitchen Critiques (a whole different post), and my recipe collection. I am slowly in the process of typing up the recipes that I have on notecards and getting rid of that system altogether. Now, on Sunday or sometimes Saturday night, I will sit down with my binder and plan out the week. I ask my husband what he has going on, and jot that down on the Priority Planner. I can easily flip through my recipes and mark ingredients on the shopping list portion of the planner. My whole world is in that binder!

Further, I keep all of my most important things on a basket on my desk. Each morning when I get up, I sit at my tiny desk in my husband's office and use all of these items. I have my Bible, journal, reading schedule, book (whatever one I am currently reading) & the journal for that book, as well as my Priority Planner Binder!

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