Organize Your Week

Every week on this day, you're faced with a fresh start. Seven days of opportunity lie in front of you, gleaming with potential!  Well, why don't you know what you're going to do on each day?  Is it because you haven't thought about it?  Is it because you haven't planned?  Is it both?  Well, today, let's look at your weekly calendar and figure out what you need to have on it!

Remember when we set up your calendar how I said you needed a day off?  Well, that's your day off from Jamberry.  It's not your day off from life, cleaning, or family obligations.  So sorry.  If you can actually schedule your life so that you have one day that you do absolutely nothing other than eat, please tell me how that works.

Each day of your week should have at least one family/cleaning/organizing requirement and (except for your day off) a business requirement.  These shouldn't be "every day" goals like "take a shower" or "make dinner," they should be tasks you know you have to do every week, but don't need to be done every day.  For example, when I sat down to write down my family requirements, these were things that need to be done at least once a week:

• Plan dinner for the week
• Do laundry (I broke this into my daughter's laundry and our laundry.)
• Fold laundry (yeah, those are two separate things for me too.)
• Change bed linens
• Vacuum

Now, this isn't a complete list of everything that needs to be done in my house, but it is 7 different things.  Now, I assign each task to a day.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Do adult laundry	Fold adult Laundry	Do child laundry	Fold Child laundry	Vacuum	Change bed linens	Plan dinner for the week

If you think that I've spread out my laundry too much here, I think you misunderstand how much I hate it.  I could probably put it all on one day and find other things to do on the other days, but that's not something I can do right now.

Now, list at least 6 things you need to do with for your business every week.  For example:

• Deposit money
• Make orders/deliveries
• Prep for parties
• Coach hostesses/recruits
• Prep for parties
• Write thank you notes (we'll talk about that tomorrow)

And organize them into days of the week as well.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Deposit money	Make orders/deliveries	Coach Hostesses/recruits	Prep for parties	Talk to recruits	Write thank you notes

Now, you have one business and one home thing for every day of your week.  If you can find one of those neat dry erase week runners that stick on the wall, write down what you're supposed to do on it, so you can't forget what your requirements are for the day.  Note:  these do not count as your most important tasks!

Homework:  Post what you have to do each day for next week on the team page.  Due next Sunday.