MKTG 551 Team E FKA The Resource: Episode 4: The Time Organization Recipe/Formula

Assignment 4 by AdrienneVRomero on 10.27.15

The Recipe or Formula for
Time Management & Self-Organization

Step 1:

So I started first by organizing my administrative studio by organizing myself based on a diagram I had created in the summer.

This is a design I created to understand my life, I call it the "reason for my life". It is the typical Chicana rose design. It is structurally close in design to the Zia symbol,

but with softness.....perhaps a more feminine version.

This design has the center as "self y familia",

then the north petal is the tone I want be establish of my life - the soundness level,
the east petal is the resources needed including $$$$,
the south petal is the schedule & structure of habits/rituals,
and the west petal is the belief that frames my decisions.

The design on the bottom right corner is the degrees of separation similar to LinkedIn degrees of separation for people/contacts with me being at the center.

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Step 2:

I then looked at my life as a business that I need to run. I started with the question "how do I organize my time, because it is time that I need to do what I need to do". I get overwhelmed sometimes and then it is so difficult to just keep my home duties done on time.

I made from a circular frozen pizza board a pie chart of all the time I have in this life currently in a yearly quarter and sectioned it off into parts related to my waking hours.

I came up with a weekly schedule of hour

s available to complete all that I need to complete.

20.5 hours to be a quality mom to my son
35hours to work for a living
5 hours to produce/promote SONARescuela, my personal for-profit youth resource business
20.5 hours to take care of my health and my direct familia
4 hrs to be with extended famila and closest friends
26.5 hours for taking care of my home, doctor appointments, groom animals, etc.

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Step 3:

Then the To Do Board was created. The Navigation Screen.

I again divided my four major roles in my life based on the "reason for my life" Chicana rose design & degrees of separation from Step 1 on a circular pizza board. I placed the circle in the middle of a pushpin board and then used small papers with each of the items I need to deal with asap that relate most to each of the four sections.

The four directions included:

Being a Person again: a Woman, a Lady, a Mom, a Tia, a Sister, a Niece, a Prima, etc.
Having a quality Familia home again for the children of my bloodlines
Career/Vocation/Life's Mission's Work: Protecting Traditional NNM ways of life & living
Paying Job for necessary cash flow...the financial bloodline

b. I then decided on which to do items were the most important and listed them on a white board in three different sections to organize my week and day.

The Today section is at the top.
Me & our home To Do section is on the left
My role as a Tia section is on the right, because that role in my familia is the most important priority currently

c. Both the pushpin board and the white board are now my Navigation Screen and my captain's chair is my desk chair. I can look to my right when I need to know my direction & responsibilities quickly when I have to make major short- and long-term directions. Since most of my work is admin currently, I have all that need at my desk & in my office to have easy access to finding (now that I am getting organized) for both statistical data, product development, productions and promotions, and most importantly.... social networking via a social media campaign.