Book of Me Returns

New Year New Prompts

This post is a couple of days late but seeing as I have missed a couple of months I thought I would use this opportunity to return to this blog and highlight to anyone who may have missed it.

Julie Goucher who started this blog with a group of genealogy friends has started a new round of prompts for her Book of Me series. Some of them are new and as there are a number of new recruits many of the earlier prompts are also included and can be found on this page.

In 2013 I started these but did not get very far. Fortunately, I archived what I did and can go back and revisit them here is the first one.

So looking at what I wrote last time would I change anything.

I would say I do not read or bake as much as I would like. Attempts to lose weight did work, but I need to reassess, as I have started to put some back on. I want to lose more and maintain the loss.

Getting organised is the big thing and the older I get the more difficult it is to change the way I do, or rather don't do, things.

Bullet journalling worked, up to a point, but I am not one for writing everything down. I just want reminders for the important things, using calendar reminders works for most tasks, particularly where there is a deadline set.

Every one of us needs to consider what we want to leave of ourselves for those future generations.

Here are some links to the posts from Julie for this year so far

Introduction

Options

Julie's Book of Me

New Year - New Plans

Does the start of a New Year make you think about planning for the year ahead?

At the end of 2014 Thomas MacEntee introduced his Genealogy Do Over . 

I had every intention of getting this done last year. 
I made a start, but life just seemed to get in the way as it so often does, now to put that plan into action.

I decided a few weeks into the year, in 2015, that my first goal was going to take much longer than I anticipated. 

I visited the US in February 2015, attending the Rootstech/FGS conference in Salt Lake City, and in April 2015 I also spent a day at WDYTYA Live in Birmingham.

I regularly participate in genealogy hangouts, have my own blogs, a "day job", and run my family home. Ultimately something had to go, getting organized took a back seat. 

So this year I am continuing with my organization plans and hoping to implement some of the things I learnt last year. This applies to both my genealogy and my work files. Along the way I will be blogging about my progress and sharing things that I have found useful on either of my 2 blogs.

I have never been the most organized person and I have tried out a few systems with the aim of getting more organized. 

The above graphic shows some of the things I have had to consider under the overall "umbrella" of organisation. 
I have tried using both Evernote and One Note to aid organization, but at present, I am not exactly sure how I am going to make best use of their capabilities.

That being said, this Saturday I am going to the Genealogy Clutter Buster Mini Boot Camp. 
I am sure Lisa Alzo will have plenty of advice here. 
If you have been unable to sign up for this, both sessions quickly sold out, I am sure Thomas MacEntee will have it available after the event.


Hopefully I have finally hit on a system that works for me with what I am proposing to do.
This month I am concentrating on planning.

Have you made your own plans for 2016?

January is the month for Planning!