Monday, January 7, 2013

Plan on it




A gift from my friend Mary. A 2013 calendar from Italy. Maybe a foreign calendar will help me get things done?
 
The new year is here again. I am a sucker for start-overs and new year's resolutions and fresh calendars.
 
My love for calendars, goes with my need for planning. I am incessantly conjuring possible new routines, ever hopeful that I will find one that empowers me to accomplish everything on my lists. Every dozen or so pages it seems, I diagram a variant of a routine in my sketch book. Neat blocks of time or messy arrows leading from one hour to the next. Wake at six, write for twenty minutes, fifteen minute breakfast/shower/dress, get girls up (of course, I will be ready for the day and ready to tackle any morning grumpiness directed at me by the sleepy children), out the door for school (early of course!)...well, any surprise that I mostly sleep in until the last possible moment and then it's me who is grumpy?
 
I've done this schedule-developing for years now and I don't think any have stuck. Mostly, life just changes and sometimes the change helps me fulfill a goal. My planning, re-planning, over-planning do not appear to accomplish much. And yet, I do not give up hope. I seem to be perpetually one perfectly planned daily routine away from having it all! And to be sure, 2013 will be no different.