Each season brings with it the inevitable reshuffling of one's to-do-list and schedule. This time of year is about planning gardens and upcoming summer vacations, starting those home renovations. You want to get out of the house to spend time with family and friends and last years scuffed sneakers are reminding you that you need to start walking or running again.

So I hit the 'virtual' streets to ask some of my favourite women how they stayed on track, on time and organized. Here is what works for these entrepreneurial women:

A few are "Old school - a paper to do list and for my weekly to do list, a weekly spreadsheet." is the best way for Anne Stone; while others had become completely high tech not a pen or pad of paper in sight or as Lynette Allen, UK Coaching Partnership Ltd wrote "Technology - all the time!"

Our Daily Living Editor and mom of three, Alanna believes there is an app for everything, "I have become a technology junky; I don't even carry a pen in my purse anymore. If I need to write something down I write a note on my iPhone- my shopping list, appointments, etc, it all goes into my phone. Hell I don't even read paper books now or wear a watch now...
It's so easy, all day long I track my calories, calculate my groceries, Google addresses, get coupons, check FaceBook, reply to email from the palm of my hand..."

Most were a combination which seems to come from knowing what is right for their personality and lifestyle. Wendy Zak/wordsbywendy.ca answer represented the consensus "Appointments – technology, To-do Lists - paper (but starting to integrate technology in an attempt to join this century!) Shopping – paper."

As was author, therapist, speaker Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem 'Calendar is on Blackberry and computers. Shopping lists are on paper. Just recently gave up paper calendar and only miss it once in awhile'

IT manager, Terri Pepin "It's all on the computer - Outlook for appointments and contacts, with Google widgets for lists."
With a daughter in Grade 9 and son in Grade 6 keeping track of family activities is a must. "Home, although I also have the information on my computer, we have a family calendar that sits on the fridge so we can keep track of sports, events and projects. Each kid has a dry-erase 60 day calendar over their desk to help plan out projects and school work."

"I use an annual datebook that I keep on my desk to keep track of appointments. I like to buy the pretty ones that have great art & quotes in them. This year's version is the Celtic Mandala 2011 Datebook by Jen Delyth." /writes, Christine Bode of Scully Love Promo. "I make a to-do list for my clients that I keep on my computer and I write a shopping list on a note pad that I keep on my desk. Microsoft Outlook is a fabulous program for keeping your calendar and tasks up to date. It really is a terrific organizational tool. In general, I'd say stick with what work bests for you as an individual. Some people may not work on the computer all the time and would need to have other tools for these purposes."

........ As for me I am getting use to my new BlackBerry. Each December I trek to Chapters to buy a datebook for the upcoming year. On my desk at all times is a legal sized pad of yellow paper with each day's to-do-list and plenty of room for notes/ideas/thoughts.

However you measure your day, find some time to feel the sun on your face.

Until next month,