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| Power Style Wellness Connections |
My Favorite Business Tool
By Tamera Huber
Theresa Byrd relies on an organizational tool that is quickly
slipping away in our technology- driven society —notes written
in a leather-bound, week-in-view planning calendar.
For more than eight years, Theresa, who is the clinical coordinator
for Norton Women’s Health Center, organizes her busy life by keeping business and
personal notes, appointments, meetings, events, family activities, and contact
information in the day planner. “I open it up and look at the week in one glance,”
Theresa says.
How She Does It: Theresa tried personal data assistants such as Palm Pilots and
BlackBerrys, but always returned to her time-proven method. She schedules business
meetings and health fairs on her computer at Norton; afterward, she enters the same
appointments into her planner by hand. Updated computer-printed contact sheets are
next to a 6-by-9 steno pad (used for notes) in Theresa’s planner. “I like to write
everything down,” she says.
Where She Keeps It: The book resides in “special spots” in Theresa’s office, car, and
home. Knowing the planner is close comforts her. “It’s with me all the time,” she says,
even on trips and when she eats out. She avoids thinking about the prospect of losing
her planner. “I’d be so lost. My whole life is planned in there. But I’d survive,” she says.
Benefits: Theresa’s children “respect my book,” she says. The kids review what’s
going on that weekend when mom’s not around. “It keeps them on track too.”
When it’s time to replace the day planner, Theresa sticks with the same style each
year. She buys a new $15 planner on the Internet at www.dayrunner.com. Her
greatest fear besides losing the planner? “I hope they don’t stop making them.”
By Tamera Huber
Theresa Byrd relies on an organizational tool that is quickly
slipping away in our technology- driven society —notes written
in a leather-bound, week-in-view planning calendar.
For more than eight years, Theresa, who is the clinical coordinator
for Norton Women’s Health Center, organizes her busy life by keeping business and
personal notes, appointments, meetings, events, family activities, and contact
information in the day planner. “I open it up and look at the week in one glance,”
Theresa says.
How She Does It: Theresa tried personal data assistants such as Palm Pilots and
BlackBerrys, but always returned to her time-proven method. She schedules business
meetings and health fairs on her computer at Norton; afterward, she enters the same
appointments into her planner by hand. Updated computer-printed contact sheets are
next to a 6-by-9 steno pad (used for notes) in Theresa’s planner. “I like to write
everything down,” she says.
Where She Keeps It: The book resides in “special spots” in Theresa’s office, car, and
home. Knowing the planner is close comforts her. “It’s with me all the time,” she says,
even on trips and when she eats out. She avoids thinking about the prospect of losing
her planner. “I’d be so lost. My whole life is planned in there. But I’d survive,” she says.
Benefits: Theresa’s children “respect my book,” she says. The kids review what’s
going on that weekend when mom’s not around. “It keeps them on track too.”
When it’s time to replace the day planner, Theresa sticks with the same style each
year. She buys a new $15 planner on the Internet at www.dayrunner.com. Her
greatest fear besides losing the planner? “I hope they don’t stop making them.”