An Organizer’s Chaos Confession
Last week was a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week.
✤I indulged in a girls’ weekend of fun and came home with no voice.
✤I took on 11 new clients (Woohoo!) and had to work through midnight to finish their designs & field emails. I told a neighbor I could drive her son to school. That made me hate my alarm; I missed my morning run.
✤An hour-away client decided she wanted me to design another California Closet (Yippee!) and I left my laptop charger at her home.
✤When a Big Event finally happened Thursday night, I had to have a colleague make my presentation. Did I mention that I lost my voice?
✤What else happened last week? . . .
✤Each morning I have started with a mega vitamin C OJ, but the rest of the day could only find time for soup and fast food.
✤I received a “can’t pass up offer” to advertise my business but I had to design my ad in 2 days. It took emailing back and forth and 3 revisions to get typos and layout corrected.
✤While purchasing Starbucks gift cards to give away after my Big Presentation, the Starbucks girl asked if I would like some tea. I pointed to my throat and mouthed, “No thank you”. She said, “No charge. You really sound like you need it!” (Thank you Preston/Frankford Barista!) I worked with a client Friday to organize his study. After he listened to me cough up a lung . . . twice, he offered me lemon, honey tea. Drink offer was repeated again on Saturday while at another client’s home. It’s day six and I still don’t have a voice.
So, I’m sitting here wondering how my week got out of control. I’m an organizer! I teach other people how to maintain control of their schedules and affairs.
The answer is simple; . . . My over-scheduling made the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week. Figuring that out was easy. But I’m still over-scheduled.
I will have to function through more days of silence before my voice returns. The quiet time would be good for writing my thank you’s for the great weekend. But if I sit down to write, tea cups may pile up in the sink (not really but I had you going). New clients keep calling for my help (Yeah!) but I can’t help them all at once. Since it’s finally nice outside, I need to plant fall plants and pull out drought victims. . . .
It will take me until next week’s blog to dig out of my hole before I’ll have a chance to tell you how to get out of your over-scheduling dilemma and avoid T, H, NG, VB days.
