31 Days Project // Day 6 // Reset your Desktop

Welcome to 31 Days to an Organized Life & Business! For the month of October I will be a participant in The Nester’s 31 days Writing Challenge. Taking some of my own advice and taking you along on my journey to a life reset. I’ll be sharing (and practicing) some tips on everything from bookkeeping, shopping, managing kids, intentional parenting, work from home mom syndrome, work/life balance, spiritual reset and more. Not because I am the expert in these fields, but because they have worked for me in the past, and I so badly need them to work again for me now.

When I say I need this reset I’m not even kidding. When I say I’ll be writing about it, I don’t mean, I’m going to talk about past advice or something that worked once for me 3 years ago. I mean I’m going to hit publish on this blog post, and then go and do what I am writing about today.  That is all I can commit to for today. Which means, if you can relate to any of this, I invite you along on this 31 day journey. Watch me triumph or fail, but I’ll be here daily to give you updates. I’d love if you joined me, and keep me posted on your progress as well. There’s hope and support in community here. 

If you missed Day 1, or would like to catch up on any other day, click the link on the right hand side or right here.

Be sure to also follow along on Instagram as I post updates throughout the day. #31daystoreset @Angelsea Urban

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WELCOME TO DAY 6: Reset Your Desktop

If you are anything like me, you are likely managing half your life on your desktop, and I don’t mean the desk that you computer and coffee mug sit on. But the actual screen that lives in the back of all of your programs. Basically laughing at you each time you attempt to close something and reminding you that even though you can wipe the coffee off your desk, your “other” desktop is still a big hot mess.

Sometimes it’s a nugget of info in a screen shot from some blog that you just had to save “temporarily”. Maybe it’s loose photos, documents that you are currently working on, or maybe it’s just the BILLION icons that are running around, or even in a gridded anchor point but don’t have a rhyme or reason why they are in the 3 rd row down, second from left.

Friends…. don’t let your fake desk steal your organizing triumphs this week!

If you’ve stuck with me this past week, we’ve done some great work! You should be super pumped about how implementing small things into your daily life and routine can be the breath of fresh air you so badly needed to feel.

Keep it simple, and just take 10 minutes to neaten that bad boy up today. You’ll thank yourself later when roll up our sleeves and dive into more stuff and you’ll be happy you have a place to put it.

If you want to create your own, it’s super easy! Just grab your favorite photo and draw some boxes on top with a low opacity. Name the categories with titles you like, and save as a JPG image. Right click anywhere on your desktop and “set new desktop photo”. Select the newly created image and you are ALL SET!

If you grabbed the freebie phone wallpaper/lock screen from yesterday’s post, you know I am a fan of making custom graphics to use as organizing tools. I also have a series of Desktop Wallpapers on the Photographer’s Business Toolbox, but if you’ve also been around this week, you’ve learned that I like to share with my blog readers! So for today, use that code 31days14 and you can download this Desktop Organizer seen below, FREE!!

If this was helpful to you, let me know! If you try this system, tell me how it works for you or if you have any ideas to make it better!

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East Coast Fine Art Lifestyle Family Portrait Photographer Angelsea Urban

Angelsea Urban is a photographer and entrepreneur helping women use their creative gifts to nourish their homes and cultivate their businesses through practical stewardship. Her unique photography work focuses on Redefining the Family Portrait Experience by telling the story of  family through personalized foundations while creating a space to strengthen family bonds throughout the experience. As a certified tax professional and seasoned business consultant, Angelsea has helped the careers of photographers, restaurateurs, musicians and general small business owners through teaching, workshops, coaching, and hands on consulting. Her ministry work focuses on fostering creative gifts in women entrepreneurs to prioritize family and discipleship. She has photographed for families, brides, Bravo TV, NFL Films, and more and has been featured on multiple blogs and magazine print for her work in photography and in business. Angelsea teaches and photographs throughout the United States, and resides with her husband of 17 years, their two children, and their barely 3 pound Yorkie near Long Beach Island, New Jersey.  

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