Everything Homemaking
I have ADHD. I haven’t been officially diagnosed but I know I have it. My family knows, too. As a result, managing my life and time has always been challenging. But over the years I’ve developed strategies that have helped me manage better. And most of those strategies would also benefit people who don’t have ADHD/ADD. Here are my top 10: 1. Write everything down … [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...]
Lost. Filofax Planner. Please return. Reward. No, I didn’t lose my planner but I’ve often wondered what would happen if I did. I’m not worried about what the finder will do with the information as much as what I will do without it. I have a LOT of information in my planner that I need and it’s information that would be difficult and time consuming to reconstruct. I hadn’t … [Read more...]
Having a planner is a good thing – as long as you actually use it. If it just sits in your purse or briefcase it won’t help you. Even if it’s open on the counter but you never look at its pages it has limited value. And if you never write in it, it’s not worth having. So if your planner is just taking up space in your purse, briefcase or on your counter, maybe it’s time to … [Read more...]
My daughter-in-law, Ashley, got her first Filofax recently - a personal yellow Finsbury. She loves everything about the Finsbury except the fact that it doesn’t lay flat. Straight out of the box it wouldn’t even try. After a few minutes open on the counter, it practically closed itself. She was thinking about sending it back, but with a little training, she got it to lay flat … [Read more...]
I make a lot of forms for my planner. Daily pages. Weekly planning sheets. Financial forms. I love making forms. I don’t mind printing them, punching them, cutting them out and putting them in my planner. But I really don’t like drawing the cutting lines. So I found a way to make it easier. In case you’re interested, here’s what I do: 1. Create the form (I use … [Read more...]
