Organize Your Week with a FREE Printable

I think the toughest organizing challenge many of us face is organizing our TIME. I know when I don’t plan ahead, I end up wasting time wondering what to do next. This

Or even worse, I get sucked into Facebook or Pinterest for WAY too long. While I don’t want to be a slave to my calendar, I’ve found some techniques like time blocking that really do work.

I’m a pencil and paper girl when it comes to planning, so when I found out my friend Abby had created a whole ebook of organizing printables, I was pretty excited. Since I know so many of you share my serious organizing obsession, I asked Abby if she’d want to pop over and share some tips with us.

She said yes AND is providing a new FREE printable here today! I’m 99.98707% certain you are going to LOVE this!

I’m thinking I need to order this cute pink binder and polka dot pocket dividers from Amazon to hold these and keep me organized.

Hi there, sweet readers of Polished Habitat! I’m Abby from Just a Girl and Her Blog, and I am so delighted that Melissa invited me over to hang out with you all today!

On my blog you will find posts about home decor, craft projects, DIYs, and one of my very favorite things… organizing! {Melissa and I have that in common!}

I am particularly passionate about organizing my time. We’re all busy. We all have a lot on our plates. We all could use a little more time. And while I can’t give you a few extra hours in your day, I have found that planning my time really helps me to use it more wisely and accomplish more.

Over the years, I have created several different printables to help me organize my time because I think printables can help me order my information in a way that make sense. {And they’re pretty… that helps too! 🙂 }

In the past, I used one printable to plan my week and then a separate printable to plan out each day. I decided to kind of merge those two ideas together and came up with a brand new two-page planning printable that will help me keep my weeks and my days organized!

Organize Your Week with a FREE Printable

{Click here to download your FREE organizing printable!}

When using this printable, I start by writing down all of the set appointments I have on my schedule– my kids’ swimming lessons and school schedule, meetings, family get togethers, etc. I also jot down a few goals for the week because I think goals are hugely important!!

Before each day, then, I go in and plan out my day using time blocking. If you’ve never used the time blocking method before, it basically means that you assign all of the tasks you want to accomplish throughout the day to a specific time slot to help you stay on task. While this seems like it would feel restricting, I actually feel like it gives me a lot of freedom. If I’m working on a project, for example, and remember an email I have to respond to, I don’t feel like I need to leave my project because I know I have time scheduled to answer email later. Time blocking allows me to focus on the task at hand rather than jumping from thing to thing to thing because I’m afraid I’m going to forget something.

Planning my time really helps me check more things off my list at the end of the day, and I waste much less time because I have an organized list of what I need to do next.

Maybe someday I’ll be less busy or magically find more time (doubt it!), but until then, this method is really helping me make the most of my days and weeks!

Because I love pretty printables SO much, I recently put together a collection of organizational printables that includes over 70 printable pages!

Simplify: 25+ Printables to Help You Organize Your Life includes additional planning and time management printables as well as printables for cleaning and organizing, finance and budgeting, food and meal planning, kids, pets, and more!

All of the printables match the formatting of the freebie I shared today, so it’s a full, comprehensive set. While I don’t use all of these printables at the same time (that might get a little overwhelming!), each of them has helped me stay organized during one phase of my life or another.

It’s so much easier to keep track of everything with pretty printables!

Thank you so much to Melissa for having me today and thank YOU for reading! I’d love to have you over for a visit to Just a Girl and Her Blog— hope to see you there!