They say that when you add "god love him but..." before talking about someone it means they are an idiot. Not sure what "god help me but..." would mean but I am guessing I fall squarely in between the 2. I'm no Rhodes Scholar (though I do have a t-shirt from my college visit. Wait, no I dont, that was DeVry Institute) but have done fairly well with my career so far. And though I yearn to be more organized (aside from my well cataloged clothes, shoes and outerwear) alas, I am not. Not with work stuff anyway. Well, let me tell you something, research has shown us that not only do Sasquatches exist, but as for humans, we can be classified in 2 camps of organization types - filers and pilers. If they had a secret club for us, I would declare 'hi, I'm Demetrius and I'm a piler...though I secretly wish I was a filer.'. Hi Demetrius everyone would answer and listen to me lament all my wrongs, from misplaced memos to overdue proposals. Ugh my list of wrongs would be long.
Well, today is a new day my friends. I recently started a new job and I said 'you know what, it's time to make a change. From now on, I'm gonna be organized.'. I bought one of those fancy Moleskine journal things that depressed people and hipsters swear by and started using it to take all my meeting notes. They're all in order so I just need to flip to the date and I can recall the meetings I was in (since my memory is for shit to top it all off). I also bought a To Do list which allows me to keep track of my tasks that I need to get done. Lastly, as you may have guessed by now, I have my trusty pink post-it notes. I use them for everything. Well, I'm almost 3 months into the new job and while I am far more organized than I was at my last job, I find myself thinking of or remembering things to add to my To Do list, but when I dont have that pad with me. Or I may want to give someone I note, but I dont have my post-its. See, I'm not at my desk much but I also dont want to carry a ton of crap around with me. What to do.... well, I'll tell you what, have the organization fairy punch you in the face by way of an amazing dream on a random Tuesday night. That's what happened. And I ended up with my new invention (which has no name yet but is TM anyway). Here it is in all it's glory:
It's a Moleskine, that I cut the lower third of, then inserted 2 small pads, a to do list and a post-it pad. Now I can take sequential notes in a meeting but always have my to do list and post-its "active" below. It's like an analog digital thing. In hindsight, I could have probably done all this crap on my iPad all along and spared myself the stitches, but it would be far less rewarding to use. FYI, typing with band-aids on is a pain in my ass.
Well, today is a new day my friends. I recently started a new job and I said 'you know what, it's time to make a change. From now on, I'm gonna be organized.'. I bought one of those fancy Moleskine journal things that depressed people and hipsters swear by and started using it to take all my meeting notes. They're all in order so I just need to flip to the date and I can recall the meetings I was in (since my memory is for shit to top it all off). I also bought a To Do list which allows me to keep track of my tasks that I need to get done. Lastly, as you may have guessed by now, I have my trusty pink post-it notes. I use them for everything. Well, I'm almost 3 months into the new job and while I am far more organized than I was at my last job, I find myself thinking of or remembering things to add to my To Do list, but when I dont have that pad with me. Or I may want to give someone I note, but I dont have my post-its. See, I'm not at my desk much but I also dont want to carry a ton of crap around with me. What to do.... well, I'll tell you what, have the organization fairy punch you in the face by way of an amazing dream on a random Tuesday night. That's what happened. And I ended up with my new invention (which has no name yet but is TM anyway). Here it is in all it's glory:
It's a Moleskine, that I cut the lower third of, then inserted 2 small pads, a to do list and a post-it pad. Now I can take sequential notes in a meeting but always have my to do list and post-its "active" below. It's like an analog digital thing. In hindsight, I could have probably done all this crap on my iPad all along and spared myself the stitches, but it would be far less rewarding to use. FYI, typing with band-aids on is a pain in my ass.
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