I don't know about any of you, but raising a family and a business is so filled with daily details I find it impossible to remember everything. The other day when I almost missed two important meetings I finally decided to take control of the craziness. I went down the street to a cell phone place, kicked my old ghetto cell phone to the curb, and got the new Touch phone (Sprints version of the iPhone). Now if you have been reading this blog for any amount of time you would know that i am not a tech savvy person (still don't know how to text), well that is all about to change! This phone is remarkable/ridiculous. I am totally out of my league here folks. It gets more cable stations than I have at home. I was on my treadmill yesterday morning (yeah!) watching episodes of Desparate Housewives.
How is this phone changing my life? I run Woobee, do business development for BabyLegs, am the vice pres for NWEM, and carpool my girls before and after school everyday. This phone allows me to be synched into my Outlook calendar (which i just recently learned how to use) keeping me on task with all the little details of my day, check all three of my email accounts (personal, Woobee, and BL) which is allowing me more time with my girls, and I can get on-line when I need to do a few quick searches. What i have now realized is how much time I wasted at my laptop whenever I checked my email. Computers are TIME SUCKERS! I have found that being able to glance at my phone to see my emails has liberated me. I literally have twice as much time in my day. I feel like I'm on vacation.
Understand that the phone is only as effectient as the user. Friday morning it suddenly dawned on me at 9:15 a.m. (with both girls home sick) that I was supposed to provide a main dish for Ava's schools kindergarten teachers appreciation lunch...italian theme...and it was to be delivered by 10:30. I threw the girls in the car, ran to the store for the fast shopping trip of my life, came home and made rigitoni with meat sauce, and dropped it off at the school at 10:30. Had I remembered to enter that task into my phone the morning would have been a lot more relaxed.
