Everything Homemaking
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...]
I’m on a budget. I don’t have an unlimited amount of money to spend each week so I’ve learned that if I don’t plan ahead, my money gets spent where it shouldn’t and I can’t pay for things I should. In an effort to plan ahead and set aside money for things I need, I came up with this Budget Allocation Worksheet. I don’t like it because it keeps me from spending mindlessly … [Read more...]
My daughter, Rachel, used a Franklin Covey Classic 2 pages per week (vertical format) for years. Well, she sort of used it. But last November, she switched from the sort-of-used Franklin Covey to a personal sized Filofax. She started out with an extra Filofax I had on hand and filled it with my leftovers, including a 2-page-per-week diary. She quickly decided she needed to make her own … [Read more...]
Have you ever wished you could just sit down and plot out your week so you could see exactly what was going on, when you needed to do what, and how you were going to get it all done? This very simple Weekly Planning Sheet can help you do just that. I’ve used more complicated systems in the past, like this one: Weekly Planning Beats Winging It. And this system works very well, but … [Read more...]
I’m time challenged and have been as long as I can remember. Using my Franklin Covey Compact 2 pages per day has enabled me to hold things together pretty well. But things have changed. My life has changed. And my Franklin Covey 2 pages per day don’t fit as well as they used to. I played around with a Filofax using the two pages per day format and even the weekly format with a … [Read more...]
Do you ever feel like planning is a waste of time? As soon as you get your list made, everything changes! Or you start out strong but then it all falls apart. And when you finally sit down at night and evaluate your day, you did little or nothing of what was on your list. It’s discouraging and sometimes it makes me feel like planning is a waste of time. But it’s not. Even though … [Read more...]
