Please make an appointment

Appointments are necessary; whether it be to see your doctor or dentist, your banker or lawyer, your boss or even your kids teacher. We make them, keep them, cancel them, re-schedule them but there is something to be said about writing that appointment in on our calendar. How we write it on our calendar says something about our commitment to the appointment. Which ones do you pencil in? Which do you use a pen for or even highlight? Do you even use a paper calendar? Perhaps you have an electronic organizer or use your smart phone or an app on your iTouch. Which appointments are significant enough to be marked as High on the importance option?

Personally, if I make an appointment I keep it (barring a sick child or something else beyond my control). I do not hesitate to write it in pen and even highlight it so that at a quick glance I know what type of events are coming up. The one thing I will not write in to my calendar, not even in pencil, is personal time.

As a wife, mom, daughter, sister, home business owner, consultant with an educational toy company, day home provider and administrator for my husbands company personal time is not something I have much opportunity for and perhaps this is the exact reason I should put it in pen. It is easy to ignore the fact that I have not enjoyed personal time when I do not see it written down.

So, here I am to plead with myself to please make an appointment with me. I need to start putting some personal time on the calendar in pen and making the same commitment to keeping that appointment as I would any other. Perhaps then I can use some of that time for this blog and actually live up to my own expectations of making consistent entries.

So...same time tomorrow...? I guess we will see if I get brave enough to put it in pen.