A Smart Way to Get You and Your Family Organized | E-Neighborhood Advisor

When you take a grand view of regular planning, there are at least three levels – monthly, weekly, and daily. Each of these levels reveals a different aerial view of your month.  A monthly focus is good for a broad scope of appointments, events, birthdays, and longer-term projects that you’d like to complete over the month. A weekly view is a good way to see a full list of tasks and to plan out your errands and time commitments over a seven-day span. A daily focus is an excellent place to plan out your tasks in 15, 30 or 60 minute time blocks where the action will happen to actually accomplish your weekly and monthly goals. An online calendar like Google Calendar is useful for your daily, weekly, and monthly planning, especially when you’re doing the scheduling for multiple people in a family. All you need to get started is a free Google email account, and then you’ll be able to create multiple color-coded calendars that all sync to a single view. The best benefit of Google Calendar is the ability to incorporate multiple calendars for different purposes. For example, aside from your main calendar, you may choose to create a Household calendar to keep track of things like when to change the furnace filter, garbage days, bill payment dates, property tax deadlines, etc. You may also opt to have a separate calendar for each child in order to keep track of their activities, playdates, game schedules, special school days, recitals, etc. No more pulling your hair trying to remember who was supposed to be at soccer practice and who was supposed to be performing at a piano recital! Another benefit with Google Calendar is the ability to import calendars from outside sources like Facebook, Meetup, Google groups, or other organizations that use iCal calendar share options. Plus, your spouse and older kids with their own Google accounts can send you a share link for their calendar, and vice versa. Sharing family calendars is handy to help know where everyone is or needs to be, and to avoid scheduling over another time commitment in the family. If you’ve never used Google Calendar, here is a short video that shows you how to use the most recent version. For more ideas about how to keep track of family and household activities, start at 1:00 on this video or see how this woman uses the calendar to organize her life for inspiration. Your Flooring Consultant, Matt Capell Email: sales@capellinteriors.com Phone (208) 288-0151 Fax (208) 917-6160