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Learn how to organize your calendar! If you’re a busy mom and you want to be organized, you absolutely MUST have a working, accurate calendar. These 3 tips will have you using an organized calendar and bing more in control and aware of your time. Time management is an important skill for both the stay at home mom and the working mom.
These organization tips will boost your productivity and enable better home management. Whether you use a wall calendar, google calendar, or a pocket planner – these 3 calendar organization tips will make the calendar of your choice work for you.
There are three things your calendar must be if it is going to be organized – and the only way to keep it organized is to keep using it, keep updating it, and keep looking at it.
#1. Organize your calendar by putting all appointments on it.
If you’ve made a commitment to someone else to be somewhere or do something at a particular time, it should be on your calendar.
Don’t assume you’ll remember or put any appointment – even sports practices or regular club meetings you think you’ll never forget. Put them all on the calendar. These are not clutter; they are reminders that your time is spoken for.
What is calendar-clutter is non-obligations or anytime-commitments on the calendar. These should be on a to-do list, not on your calendar. Your calendar should be an at-a-glance chart of how much time you have available to you, in what chunks, each day.
#2 Make your calendar easy to see.
Your calendar will do you no good if you don’t look at it.
You can use a large wall calendar, a portable planner with a calendar, or a digital calendar – but the key is that it is easy and convenient to look at it.
And then we must look at it – multiple times a day.
#3 Organize your calendar by color-coding it
If you do have a lot of people or a variety of commitments that make it hard to see at-a-glance what’s on your plate when you look at your calendar, you can use color-coding to make visual distinctions.
Repeating, regular obligations can go in a lighter color so that the one-off appointments stand out more boldly.
Commitments that simply involve you dropping off and picking up your kids can be in a particular color, separate from your own obligations.
Your Calendar Is Your Most Important Organization Tool
When you want to get your life organized, what’s the first step? If you’ve been around here for any length of time, you know the first step is always a
brain dump.
But then, once you have a brain dump that fills an entire notebook, where do you begin? What do you do with all that? Where does it go.
There are 5 important bins you need before you can start sorting and processing that brain dump, but the one you should set up first and the one you should make your priority is your calendar.
Your calendar is your most important organizational tool.
“Good!” you might think, “I already have one!”
But, do you?
Are you using it?
Is it 100% accurate?
Do you look at it?
Yeah, that’s the kicker, isn’t it?
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What is The Christian Homemaking Podcast: Simply Convivial with Mystie Winckler?
Christian homemakers need encouragement and motivation to stay the course. Homemaking and homeschooling can feel overwhelming, but they don’t have to be. If you’re a Christian mom longing for a well-ordered home, a peaceful homeschool, and a joyful heart—without the stress or burnout—you’re in the right place. Moms can be productive and peaceful when grounded in Scriptural truth.
I’m Mystie Winckler, homeschooling mom of five, founder of Simply Convivial, and your guide to managing both home and heart with faith and focus. Here, we talk about biblical homemaking, sustainable homeschooling, and cheerful productivity—all through the lens of organizing your attitude and embracing your God-given calling.
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✔️ Productivity, mom-style
✔️ Homeschooling with peace—even when life gets messy
✔️ Time management for moms (without rigid schedules)
✔️ Decluttering your home & your attitude
✔️ How to be diligent, not just busy
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