Friday, June 15, 2012

Managing Your Personal Logistics Issues

If you are like most Americans today, then your personal logistics are hard to manage, seemingly impossible at times.  It seems that no matter what you do or try, keeping personal logistics manageable seems to be a full time job.  Having to be at three different places at once has kept our calendars full and our minds racing, leaving us hardly any time to relax.  Thankfully, there are some great resources that are available to you to help you take charge of your calendar instead of your calendar keeping charge of you.

Use Syncing to Your Advantage

Do you have a smart phone or even just a normal cell phone?  If so, then you have an extremely powerful tool that can help you to organize your hectic life.  These devices are chock full of features that are meant to make your life easier.  They have calendars that can sync, or connect with not only your email calendar, but also those of people who also need the information, such as a spouse, parent or child.  The phones can be set to issue reminders for birthdays, doctor appointments, anything that you don’t want to forget.  These two features alone will help you to remember important dates and appointments.  A quick look around the app market that is on your phone will likely reveal many more useful tools for you to use.

Go Old Fashioned

If going high tech with your personal logistics needs isn’t for you, or seems a bit too complicated or overwhelming right now, you may be more interested in a good old fashioned planner system.  Planners have been a staple in purses and briefcases for years.  That is because they work, they offer a way to manually organize all of your needed information in one place.  While the planner doesn’t sync with your electronics, it can be a valuable tool for those who are not ready to take the leap into technology.   Planners come in various sizes and materials to suit any type of personal style.

Lists, Lists, Lists

If the previous two options don’t sound like what you are looking for, you may be the type of person who would be best using lists to keep your personal logistics organized.  Lists can be used a couple of different ways.  They are great as a plan for the day, by sitting down in the morning and writing out your to do list for the day, crossing things off as you get them done.  They can also be used as a running list of things to do, writing tasks down as you think of them and crossing them off as they are completed.

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