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Monday, September 22, 2008

Timing and Organization

Ever since I was little, I've always had a compulsion to get to places early. I'm not sure why. Ever wonder who that bizarre person was circling around your block? Is it a lost person? A stalker? How about me arriving way too early for a playdate or a meeting and stalling for time. Haven't seen that block-circler recently? Well, I have grown up a bit now, so instead of circling the block, I now sit in a reading my Blackberry.

However, as the kids schedules are getting busier, so am I. All of a sudden I have to give more thought to when I plan to make dinner because we just might not be around when I would normally be cooking. Plus this is fall so we're back to fun plans with friends and family outings on weekends. We love it all, but every event requires exchanging a bunch of emails or playing a lot of phone tag with a several people to get everyone on the same page. Sometimes Almost always the planning takes longer than the event.

In fact I was just talking to my triathlon training buddy this evening about time management. She has 4 kids, and two of them are older than mine. She delivered an insight that really resonated with me - when you have a lot going on in the evenings it's hard to get to bed on time, which in turn makes it hard to get up early the morning to exercise.

Of course sometimes there are ways to at least cut down on the amount of time, email, and phone calls needed to organize an event. Know where I'm going with this? Click over here. Oh, come' on you know you want to know what exactly I'm doing with this Jooners thing!

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posted by Alex Elliot @ 8:11 PM   4 comments
4 Comments:
  • At 9/23/2008 8:04 AM, Anonymous Amy said…

    I'm an early bird too! Anally early. I figured having kids would put a stop to it - but I'm still always early.

     
  • At 9/23/2008 3:25 PM, Blogger Goofball said…

    I always go to bed late, because I sleep in, because I get at work late, because I work quite late to get my work done, because I can hardly get into the stores before they close, because I cook late, because i blog/iron/...late, so I go to bed late

    not early...Late. I never learn. and I always complain that I'm tired

     
  • At 9/23/2008 8:21 PM, Blogger Kate said…

    I'm ALWAYS going to bed too late and ALWAYS sleeping longer than I should. It's just too hard for me to go to bed too early at night.

     
  • At 9/23/2008 8:47 PM, Blogger Heather said…

    If I'm supposed to be somewhere at a set time, I'm almost always early. It really throws me off balance on the rare occasion that I'm running late.

     
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