Your brain is not a POST-IT!

We all love those colorful little sticky papers.  I will admit it.  I have an addiction to them but that is a personal problem that I have with office supplies in general.  So what do I mean by my title that your brain is not a POST-IT? 

Well let’s think about what that little sticky paper is meant to be used for.  You jot something down quick and stick it somewhere to remind you, to point something out, to make note of something … TEMPORARILY!  Those sticky notes do not have crazy glue on them.  They are not meant to be permanent.  They have a low bonding adhesive so you can remove it and throw it away as soon as you are done with it.  They are disposable.  

The same thing happens with your brain.  A flash of an idea, a remembered to-do, an upcoming appointment … all those are just temporary mental POST-ITs if your only way of tracking things is your brain.  And what happens to a POST-IT when you move it around too much.  The darn thing stops sticking and eventually you lose it.  That is the same thing that happens with your thoughts in your head.  You keep moving them around because of shifts in priority, new ideas or emotional stress and so on and on and on and eventually you lose that thought in that over loaded pretty little brain of yours and you forget!

So what can you do to not rely on just your mental POST-ITs?

Here is an idea … WRITE IT DOWN!  

Get yourself a planner or a calendar app for your smart phone or maybe just an old-fashioned composition notebook and start keeping track of what you need to remember in one place!  Now keeping your gadget of choice with you at the ready to accept your thought will take time to build that habit muscle but with time you can do it!  And once you start getting the thoughts out of your head you will see your productivity, creativity and sleep quality increase.  Yes ladies!  You will sleep better because your brain will stop talking to itself!

  

In time, you will forget less and do more!  WHAAAAAAT!?  Oh yes!  And all because you stopped using your brain for miscellaneous crap.  

Go on cheer with me.  This is a BRILLIANT idea!

Happy Time Management (a.k.a. YOU management)

Tabby