Reflective Essay: What Is A Color-Coded Planner?

As the yellow morning light fills the room, I sit at my desk on this Sunday. I take that first sip of dark roast, vanilla flavored coffee. My bed is made, with matching throw pillows perfectly places. My color-coded planner is sitting on top of my organized desk. I open my planner to this Sunday and check off my morning workout on my daily “to-do” list. Then all of a sudden it hits me harder than a bug crashing against the windshield of a car zooming down the interstate. I understand that I am a 20-year-old female with the mental capacity of a middle-aged woman with 3 kids, 2 dogs, and a successful bakery. I also understand that may not be everyone's mentality, but is it too much to ask for people to keep track of themselves? Is it too much to ask everyone to be accountable for what’s going on in their own life? You can not keep your Friday work meeting, Wednesday oil change, and Tuesday teeth cleaning in your head and expect yourself to be on time or to even show up. Talking to someone who does not have a …show more content…
To function as a society and as a whole we have to take care of ourselves first! It's like that whole airplane motto they use when talking about what to do in case of an emergency while the plane is in the air, "you cannot help someone else if you're unconscious, so help yourself first." Take that motto and apply it to anything and life and wouldn't you know, it makes sense! It's not rocket science to take a pen and paper and plan your life, especially when you have the authority to make someone else plan and execute their job! Planning is a basic life skill that is easy to learn and even easier to achieve. I'm not asking for everyone to color code their life and place stickers on holidays to enhance the aesthetic of their planner. I'm just asking for everyone to have at least those black leather-like agendas and a ball point pen, that will surely get the job