iPhone and Franklin Covey Planner

It doesn’t matter who you are, we all need to have some way to organize our lives. I have used a Franklin Planner for more than 14 years and I don’t go anywhere without it but I have to admit my new favorite organizer has to be my iPhone. That is a great invention and it works really well for my needs. I take attend quite a few seminars, have appointments for the doctor and a husband I need to keep track of. I write all of my appointments down in my Planner then I enter them in my iPhone. I know it seems like twice the amount of work but I always have one or the other with me.

PDAs or personal digital assistants have come a long way since the first Palm Pilot. I have upgraded my electronic organizers every couple of years but I always fell back to my paper planner. The paper planner allows me to have history at my fingertips. Last week my husband and I were talking about our next vacation and a really neat little motel near Hearst Castle that we wanted to stay at. I went to the bookshelf where my old Planner pages are stored and was able to look up the name and address of the motel since I had written it down while passing by last year. This really works for me but I know not everyone feels comfortable using a Planner or has a PDA.

The next best thing is a calendar but if you throw it away every year you haven’t got any history. Maybe that isn’t important to you so a calendar works fine. My husband works as a equipment repair technician and he writes down the jobs he has to do every day in his paper based planner. This has saved him on more than one occasion when a customer will insist that the service call should be covered by warranty since he was there less than a year ago. Even if the customer can’t produce an invoice, my husband is able to look back through his stored Planner pages and find out the last date he went to his customer’s location.

Whatever you choose to keep track of the kids sporting events, your best friends wedding or the doctor appointment you made two months ago needs to work for you. If you try one planning system and it doesn’t seem natural, find another. There are lots of great organizer and calender software programs out there too but I find that I am not usually at a computer every day.

Your Daily 15 - If you don’t have a planning system, take 15 minutes today and research what is out there that might help you stay more organized and stay neat. Visit the office supply store or go online to see the alternatives. There are so many ways to get organized that you are sure to find a system that fits your needs.

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