It is nearly impossible to run a homeschool classroom without a calendar and a planner. However there is a tendency to keep only classroom related information updated on the books. Other tasks outside the homeschool classroom get delegated to another calendar or just stay in the brain. This is actually not a good practice for being efficient.
An Exploratory Study of Personal Calendar Use was conducted at the Department of Computer Science of Virginia Tech. The researchers there found that the majority of people who participated in the study kept separate business and personal calendars. Just a handful used their calendar for to-do items. Not keeping all the information in one place resulted in distraction, confusion, and worry about what the participants might be forgetting.
Instead of keeping your information in multiple locations including your memory, it made for a much more efficient system to have all of it in one calendar. It did not matter if it was paper or digital, as long as everything was easily accessible in a single place the participants were far more efficient at their daily tasks. Of course you do have to fill it in properly so that you don’t miss out on anything.
A major benefit of integrating your to-do list with your homeschooling calender is that it gives you a complete picture of everything that you need to accomplish in a given time period and allows you to prioritize your tasks in context with your priorities. There is also a major sense of relief associated with this, as you know for a fact that there is nothing on the back burner that you may forget about.
Your focus is now solely on the tasks mentioned on your calender and you can easily do what you need to do first before heading on to lesser matters. This allows you to work with confidence, clarity, and precision. So put your life on a single calendar to create an order of priority to all the tasks that you may have to undertake every single day. You will find that having this single calender makes it much easier to get all your jobs done at the end of the day.
