Need help organising my life please

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I work full time from home but have visits to clients. My job is nuts busy.

I'm training to be a play therapist, have course work, training weekends and half a day a week placement.

I have 2 teenagers and we have no public transport so they need lifts everywhere.

I have a lovely husband who does loads.

I have a dog and he needs to be walked.

I exercise at least four times a week.

I have lots of friends and family I like to see.

And I feel really overwhelmed. Especially work. My house is clean and tidy but my workdesk is covered in scrappy bits of paper with notes on and post it's. I get into panic mode a bit with work and with constant emails, phone calls, teams messages I find it hard to concentrate abd get stuff done.

I do like pen and paper and a paper diary but how can I become more organised ?

Sounds like you need a PA. you can get virtual ones, or pay one your teens. My eldest DH loves a spreadsheet so does our basic book keeping for some ££

Eldest DS sorry

I'd buy two note books. In the first one I'd write down messages, notes, calls etc rather than post its which are messy and harder to keep track of. Every morning in the other notebook right a todo list, refer to your first note book and cross things out as they are actioned. You can break the todo list into time slots if necessary. Tick off as completed. If anything doesn't get done it goes in tomorrow's todo list.

Dog - can others walk him or have a dog walker so not all on you.

Exercise is this in-house or gym? Are you doing the most convenient time?

Lifts- is this shared?

House work - I do one task a day (dusting, bathrooms, hoover etc) plus dishwasher and washing clothes.

Thank you I like those ideas.
Yes lifts are shared, as is cooking, housework, etc.
Exercise is all out of the home, two of them are 6.30 in the morning so I have the rest of the day.

I like the 2 notepads idea.

Combine exercise with dog walking?

I recently introduced a pretty strict routine about what I do when and am continuing to layer it as things become more automatic.

Eg fixed days / times for exercise / home admin / kid quality time / house pottering (!)

Now that's bedded in, I'm adding stuff like 'water all plants on Sundays"

Do you have a diary and schedule everything properly - it won't reduce what you have to do but it will help you feel like you're in control of it.

I can help with this. A NOT 101128 A4 Noteworthy... www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07H2C3XPY?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share Desk note pad. it's my weekly diary and to do list/ bullet journal, I use it all the time. Spend some time on a Friday adding from my Google and outlook calendar to plan my next week.

I have collected scrap paper ripped into A6 size and stapled together for a jotter. I use this for making notes on, phone calls etc until I put it on my to do list.

Thank you.

I think I have two issues with work. One is my manager micro manages, constantly emailing, do this, do that, hsve you done so and so. Which is irritating but also you come to rely on it so I can miss stuff when I am used to being reminded about it, if that makes sense.

I also panic and stress, thinking everything has to be done immediately then just get paralysed by indecision and don't know what to prioritise.