Everything Homemaking
Using a planner can be overwhelming. There are so many choices! And once you finally choose which size you want, which format you want, and which company you want to order from, you still have to set it up! And speaking of setting it up, this is where it can get overwhelming FAST. A planner isn’t just a calendar. It can include things like: To-do lists Address … [Read more...]
Do you ever get tired of making a to-do list only to do none of it? The unfinished list isn’t because you’re lazy or unmotivated – you just don’t have time to get it done! I’ve been there and done that and it gets old fast. I was a stay-at-home mom for years and then went back to work full-time for two years. I was surprised at how little I was getting done at home. I … [Read more...]
Setting goals is good thing. Goals help us improve our lives and ourselves! But in order for most of us to actually accomplish our goals, we need two things: 1. We need to have them written down. They’re not really goals if they’re not written down. They’re just things we’d like to do! Maybe –if we remember. 2. We need a way to track our goals. … [Read more...]
I’ve had a lot of requests lately for copies of some of the pages shown in my planner, my daughter’s planner and my daughter-in-law’s planner. So to make it easy, I’m including them here along with a few other pages that you might find interesting. So let’s get started. Ashley’s Page (you can read about her set-up here) Daily Page Ashley - PERSONAL Daily Page Ashley - FC … [Read more...]
A reader asked me recently if I had ever considered combining paper planning and electronic planning. And the answer is yes. I considered it. I tried it. I didn’t like it. Here’s why: 1. I like writing things down. Somehow, for me, the act of writing something down cements it in my mind. Typing it isn’t the same. It has to be written on paper with a pen or … [Read more...]
A couple of months ago I showed you the inside of my daughter, Rachel’s, Filofax. She’s always been a Franklin Covey classic vertical weekly kind of girl but she took the plunge and switched to a personal sized Filofax. Not only that, she decided she had so much to do that it was time to switch from the weekly pages to daily pages. So she designed a daily page and started using it. It … [Read more...]
Time management articles these days are all about prioritizing – and well they should be. We live in a busy world with lots to do and we want to be sure we spend our time well. But the problem with that strategy, at least for me, is finding time to do the little things. I’m not talking about reading a book or cleaning out a closet or things like that. I’m talking about the little … [Read more...]
