How does one keep his sanity in this age of "multi-tasking" and multiple roles ranging from the personal to the professional?

For a person in advertising, having to keep tabs with the multiple accounts to service is dizzying to say the least.  And that does not include the more mundane such as the bills, property tax, insurances, etc.

Here's my secret: for the past six years, I have been talking to myself on an online forum.  You know, those usual discussion boards as the ones coming from ProBoards.com .  I opened an account there and categorized my life into various groupings such as the professional, the domestic, the hobbies, etc.  Under the various categories are individual threads wherein I regularly post items such as the last oil change, the advances of the domestic helps, property tax per item, and of course my favorite topic...Clues for the Clueless Husband.

The nice thing about it is that everything is time stamped and as such, I can pore over the history of a certain topic such as my kids' school tuition fees and the like.  Really, what it is is simply a folder system that helps one restore order to the millions of things we think of within the day. This surely beats sending an email to oneself because as one goes over the Index Page, all categories are present before you and right there and then, you can literally see your "life flashing before you" without having to go through a near death experience.

Ultimately, it works on the premises of two postulates:

1) Out of sight is out of mind - we usually forget things because we do not have visual reminders of them

2) A short pencil is better than a long memory - nothing beats jotting down stuff.  But since we spend most of our time these days sitting in front of a PC with online access, the Personal Message Board/Forum is the best way to bring order to the topsy turvy thoughts traveling across the hemispheres of our brain.

With only one life to live, organizing these thoughts to streamline our daily activities is surely a big help.

Open up a private Online Forum now by visiting proboards.com .