Getting Organized For a New Year and Thoughts on Daily Schedules

Or “How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love My First Grader’s Daily Schedule!”

Well, that Slack outage this morning sent a lot of the working world into quite a tizzy! I have at least two clients who have come to rely almost exclusively on the Slack environment to work, and this morning was a valuable lesson in why you don’t rely on only one system for, oh, EVERYTHING. I was a little surprised to see one client’s email letting me know that all of their tasks and notes were also exclusively in Slack. 🤯

Me? I was dragging my feet back into attending First grade with my kid, also dragging his feet. Nonstop LEGO and going outside whether the weather was kind or not was starting to feel like a nice flow. Thank DOGS for his well-designed, thoughtful, and easy-to-read daily schedule. No joke, we can all learn a lot from First-grade teachers!

What I love about our First-grade schedule:

1. There is a creative check-in task/prompt at the top of every day. My son’s school does the thing where each classroom is named for an animal, and this creates a set-up for adorable puns and activities related to the animal of focus. We are foxes this year, and we were otters last year. Each morning, my son uses basic computer skills to do something…