Voodoo Earrings by Glamour Twinkles - coming to Etsy real soon
Those Romans were onto a good thing when they invented The Calendar. I have recently rediscovered the primitive paper and pen variety of time keeping. I have finally succumbed to lure of The Planner Diary.
Yes, I have joined the rarefied few who plan their days in intricate detail. We attend to the tasks that must be achieved on certain days and then we sit back smugly because we know that we totally rule.
It happened like this: last week while I was at my office job, I was assigned the awesome task of doing admin for our newest project manager. This means I have to keep track of the boring filing, photocopying, emailing, you know, the boring tasks that end in “ing”. I was getting tangled up in whose work needed to be done when so I went and got myself a hardcover diary. Luckily they are all on special right now. So I am busily filling in the diary with worky tasks when it suddenly hit me: why not have the same sort of set up for my jewelry business? I mean iPhone is great but I don’t really seem to be “on top of things” at Chez Glamour Twinkles.
Thusly, I now have a spunky red hardcover planner at home/small business headquarters. I’ve created all-encompassing topics for each day:
- Media Monday
- Trade Me Tuesday
- Etsy Wednesday
- Attack of the Thursday
- Photo Friday
- Edit Saturday
- Blogging Sunday
These 7 topics cover a good variety of areas where I want to concentrate my efforts. And I don’t want to be too restrictive either. For example:
Media Monday is when I do work on my media e-course. Anything related to that course is saved for Monday – unless it is absolutely imperative, all else will be ignored.
Trade Me Tuesday covers all aspects of New Zealand’s favorite auction site. As I have a few items listed there I can spend Tuesday evening honing jewelry categories, adding photos, reading the blog. Anything, as long as it relates to Trade Me.
Etsy Wednesday has me doing any Etsy related stuff, tending to my shop, reading threads, updating tags, creating Treasuries and so on. It also happens to coincide with my new “Behind the Twinkle” Wednesday blog post spotlighting my latest Etsy listing.
Now, I’m sure you’re wondering about Attack of the Thursday. I few months ago I gained a twitter follower called @aNGrYGiRLGear who is a fellow Etsy shop owner. She sent n automated message to me asking if I knew about Attack of the Craft and, naturally I checked out the website and I found my kinsfolk. Well, you’d probably call us Alt folk. Whatever we’re called I found many like-minded people. Alas, I’ve neglected this great social network and it is high time I got back into networking. Hence Attack of the Thursday.
Edit Saturday is my favorite day of all. It means I can pretty much do what I want so long as it involves editing of some sort. Edit photos, listings, blog posts, videos – you name it, I can edit it.
Blogging Sunday is for this blog as well as unadulterated blog reading. My media marketing course included a bunch of bloggers and I’m working my way through the list to find the ones I want to keep following.
So this post has been noted in my Roman Time Measuring Device and I can sit back today and blob out in front of the television knowing all my work is done…
Why aren’t I famous yet?
Voodoo Earrings by Glamour Twinkles - more coming to Etsy real soon
