Feeling Overwhelmed

I woke up this morning and realized that it was already Wednesday.  Immediately my to-do list for the day ran through my head and I began to feel immediately overwhelmed.  Not only do I have a full day of work at my agency job, but I also have to stop at my Dermatologist office some time today, and do a Skype meeting with a potential wedding photographer at 7:30PM.  That means that I have to get home from work, make a quick dinner and get ready for that call.  Didn’t really leave me with much time for anything else. 

Then I decided to make a list of things I want to get accomplished this week and place it on my desk in my home office. 

1.  Create organizer for coupons.  My purse looks like a disaster zone lately.  I need to pick up a small accordion folder to keep in my purse at all times with my coupons organized by store.  That way, next time I’m at the grocery store I’m not fumbling around for that one coupon I swore I had someplace.

2.  Develop a workout plan/schedule.  I talked about this in my July Goals post, and it’s something that I do place a high priority on. 

3.  Organize freelance writing work.  Did you know that I write for FitDay.com?  Well now you do .  I write about a post or two a week (on good weeks) and it’s pretty easy to get overwhelmed when I’m a few posts behind and I have them piling up in my workflow queue. 

4.  Develop a content calendar for Simply Nicole.  This will make my blog more enjoyable for me and for you!  Luckily, at the moment I don’t have any reviews that need to be written or guest posts that I have to complete, but I’d like to set up a small binder for all of my blog stuff.  You bloggers out there understand.

I hope that having this list right on my desk at home will keep it in mind all week.  I think once I get those big items out of the way, my day-to-day won’t be so overwhelming.

In other news, you know what I did do yesterday…

I FINALLY hung up the photos that I wanted over my desk in my home office!  It only took about an hour of frustration, but it got done (with the minor help of Bryan of course).  It was pretty difficult to hold the level and measure it all out, so he helped with that.  But I did all the hammering myself!

I’m thrilled with the way they turned out.  Those posters were sitting in the backseat of my car for months.  (Actually they were in their original tubing rolling under my car seats).  But now they finally have a home in my office.  After a long process of framing them and hanging them, they are finally installed!