One of the gifts that Wendy has given to me is the encouragement to keep a notebook.  When I say notebook I mean just that!  It can be a simple and useful spiral bound notebook or a beautifully bound decorative journal type book filled with empty pages just waiting to be filled.  Once you find your canvas, the goal is to start filling it.  Fill it with phone numbers and important to-do lists.  Keep track of conversations you have had with friends or colleagues, ideas that hit you while you are shopping for dinner and inspiring lyrics to a new song you just heard on the radio.  The point is – you should fill it with everything.  The notebook will then quickly become your ‘everything’ book.  Instead of having a to-do list, a phone book, an I-phone, your laptop, and the palm of your hand filled with all those things you want to do and remember it can all be neatly (if you are lucky) kept in your everything book.  You can take it with you and keep it nearby at all times, organize it however is comfortable for you (by date or subject) and always know the one place to look to find everything.

Keeping a notebook like this also makes it easy to look back over time and see your accomplishments and remain cognizant of all the things in life that you have handled successfully.  You can create journal entries along side estimates from the plumber to fix that hall bathroom and will end up with a scrapbook type collection down the road that will chronicle your life.  Many years from now, this can turn into a great gift for your self; but for now it is an easy and meaningful way to keep yourself on track in all circumstances.  

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