Lately I have really been feeling like I have been in a slump.  I have been slacking on my work, I have been slacking on my house, I have been slacking in His Word.  I was not sure if I was the only one that noticed this but can see it around my house and I have noticed it alot in my mood.  So if I am noticing it then the rest of the family must be noticing it and just being nice. For a while I was not sure if I could fix this.  I was not sure I could fix my life and get out of this swamp.  But then I was running around reading blogs yesterday and came across a blog that totally talked to me.  I felt like the blog was meant for me.  The Message she heard that morning was meant for me, my house is a mess, my life (work, house, family closeness) is a mess, and my heart is a mess.  I am missing something and until yesterday I just could not figure out what. 

Well once I started this work at home job my routine has been all messed up.  Therefore it hurts my house, it hurts my family, it hurts my work and it hurts my time with His word. I have a morning routine, I have an afternoon routine, I have a evening routine, I have a daily routine, I have a weekly routine and I have a monthly routine.  SO as you can see if I get out of one routine it messes up all the routines. And if my routine is messed up my life is messed up.   So I am done being messed up.  I am back to my routine starting tomorrow morning. 

I have to get back into my routine to make my life more functional and my days flow easier.  When I finally started to get back to my routine and started working my it tonight things just started flowing again.  The laundry got all caught up, the kids rooms were clean.  And everyone is in a much better mood. 

So I am shaking the muck off my wings and flying out of this swamp.

This is a problem I am seeming to run into here lately.  When  I am making my schedule and  someone calls to make an appointment I figure ok this will take about this much time.  But when it actually comes to it I am always running late to the next appointment, errand, ect…  It is so frustrating.  I have always thought I was a good planner and scheduler but here lately I am not doing very well.  Things here lately are taking much longer then what I scheduled them to take.  Or maybe I am scheduling too many things in a day.  

My planner and desk calander that I have are just not working.  I have figured out what I need and now it is going to take a while for me to figure where to get it.  I need one planner that I can use as a desk planner but also put in my purse.  HMMMMMM.  So I have a desk planner and it is way to big for my purse.  I have a purse planner but it has 5 days on one page and two days on the other page.  I need a day per page.   The desk calander I am using right now is what I write down appointments on also for a quick look at while I am working but the boxes are just not big enough for all I write in them.  That way I can do more time management. 

Time managment.  I have read multiple books on time management and learned so much from each one.  So why am I not putting what I learned into use?  Because until here recently I did not realize how important time managment is.  Have you noticed when you start out running late you run late all day long.  You are late to everything you do all day long and at the end of the day you are much more tired then normal.   Poor time managment makes a grumpy business person and a even grumpier mom. 

 I have realized that time managment is very important to making your whole day flow nicely.  If I have an appointment at 10 am I should not schedule anything at least an hour and a half before and an hour and a half after unless you have more going on with the appiontment and then you should give yourself even more time.  I am sure that seems like alot of time between between the appointments but better that much time then running late all day.  Running late also is not a good impression.

How do you schedule your appointments?  How much time do you schedule between each appiontment?  What kind of planner do you use? And do you use a desk calander? Do you write in pencil or pen?