It’s extraordinary how tiny little things can change your outlook on life. Or is it just me? As Mamamia grows and grows, I find myself struggling with the organisational and planning side of it. What to post, when to post it, how to make sure we’re publishing the right balance of hard and soft, light and dark.
With all number of digital lists and spreadsheets and systems, I’ve really not found the best way to do it. About a year ago, before my co-workers mocked me for being such an old-school dag, I used to use post-it notes to plan the week on Mamamia. I abandoned them after they insisted there were smarter ways.
But on the weekend, I bucked their scorn and took myself off to BUY SOME COLOURED POST IT NOTES. And my goodness how they have changed my life. It’s like I’ve had this internal exhalation of a breath I didn’t even realise I was holding.
I am a massive contradiction because in so many ways, I’m a words person but with a big dollop of visual. I need to see things in front of me sometimes. So now I have this awesome-sauce colour-coded post-it note system which I’m loving SICK.
It’s ridiculous how happy this has made me, how it’s changed my whole outlook on my workday.
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This shows how important a personalised solution to your organising challenge is.
Even though I'm working at the office on Sunday, I'm using my hot pink really super inky pen to mark notes - that makes me happy. I've also just rubbed coconut handcream on and I'm listening to "How Forever Feels' by Kenny Chesney on the ipod. It's a summer-soaked kinda feeling!