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Daily Routines, Digital Organization, Digital Planning, How Tos, Productivity

The 4 Things You Absolutely Need to Start Digital Planning Today

January 9, 2023 No Comments

Have you seen awesome digital planner spreads online and wanted to know how they were created? Or maybe you want to go paperless. Maybe you want the convenience of having your planner with you all the time! If you’re here, that means that you are interested in digital planning, which is AWESOME! If you’re like me, you’ve probably looked up a bunch of things online and now you are overwhelmed with ideas and don’t know where to start at all. My goal is to help you learn some basics so you can dip your feet into digital planning before you […]

Daily Routines, Digital Planning, Planners, Productivity

How to Create An Awesome Planner Setup Before You Even Open Your New Planner

December 23, 2022 No Comments

Are you ready to either jump on the planner bandwagon or open up your new planner for the first time? Awesome! Before you do, wait!!! Are you ready for that new planner? Do you have a plan for it already? I know you might be thinking to yourself “Lady, I don’t need a plan for my planner…” Well, I beg to differ because I want you to be successful with your new planner. I want you to have the best planner setup experience. We all have the best intentions… especially around the new year or specific new starts in the […]

Daily Routines, Goals, Habits, Productivity

10 Journal Prompts to Help You Get Started With Journaling Right Now

November 27, 2022 No Comments

How many times have you started journaling? You start it and then a few weeks later, the journal is sitting there a few pages full and you have no desire to pick it up again. That is so many people, including myself until a couple of years ago. Since July 2021, I have opened my notebook/journal every single day. There have only been a handful of days I’ve missed since then as of this initial writing in November of 2022. Do you want to start a daily journal practice? Have you been searching for journal prompts and don’t know where […]

Digital Organization, Productivity, Tech Tools

A Second Brain – Can It Really Help Me Be More Creative and Productive?

October 30, 2022 No Comments

Did you know that the average person consumes around 34GB of data every day? Put this another way, we consume around the equivalent of 174 newspapers’ worth of information every single day. Talk about information overload. Is this a good thing? Maybe. Is this a bad thing? Maybe. There is, however, a challenge that presents itself with this… where does all this information go? With so many media-rich notes and ideas flying around in our heads, the old commonplace books of the past might not work. A digital second brain? That’s where it’s at! To sum up this post in […]

Productivity, Tech Tools

Using a Notion Workflow for My Blog – Can This Awesome Tool Work for You?

October 13, 2022 No Comments

Do you need or want a one-stop shop for creating and organizing projects and tasks for work? Notion might be the answer for you! When I discovered Notion, I admit there was a learning curve to it. Now that I understand how it works, I’m never going back. Notion helped me create a one-page view of everything for my website. I can look at a content calendar, view a list of products I offer, check off my task list, and more all in one place. If you haven’t checked Notion out, my hope is that this post will give you […]

Daily Routines, Habits, Productivity, Tech Tools

How Todoist Can Help You Manage All Your Tasks Quickly and Easily

September 21, 2022 No Comments

My love for Todoist knows no bounds. Seriously, I love it. For me, Todoist is the best task manager anyone could ask for. In this post, I’m going to lay it all out there about Todoist because if you are searching for a task manager for Mac or Windows or any device on the go, Todoist might just be it! My Journey To Todoist I read this book called “Getting Things Done” by David Allen and it essentially changed my life. Since reading it nearly two years ago, I haven’t missed a weekly review. If you don’t know what a […]

Habits, How Tos, Productivity, Tech Tools

3 Things I Do Every Week to Keep Out the Digital Clutter

August 23, 2022 No Comments

You’re going to laugh when I tell you how simple this is. This may be one of my shortest posts on the site! No, really. Digital Clutter stems from just a few different automatic actions and doing these three things will help you keep a hold of it once and for all. Here they are: Inbox to Zero Clean off my desktop. Clean out my downloads folder. Inbox to Zero If you’ve been around the site, you may have run across my series on Inbox Zero. Keeping my email inboxes at zero is something I do practice regularly. However, every […]

Digital Planning, Productivity, Teaching

Which Teacher Planner Is Going to Work Best for You and Your Planning Style?

July 18, 2022 No Comments

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If I’m going to be honest with you, this is not a review of planners per se. So, if you came here for another one of those posts, this isn’t it. I’m going to tell you my story in hopes that it will help you go through what I went through a little bit more quickly. Everyone has their own unique planning style. If you are a brand new teacher, yay! If you are a seasoned veteran, yay! This post is for both. I’m going to cover my own personal planning story, things that don’t work or aren’t worth it, […]

Daily Routines, Goals, How Tos, Productivity

How I Set Goals and Map Them Out for Success and You Can Too!

July 7, 2022 No Comments

You should absolutely set goals. If I can say one thing to anyone who is trying to strive for more, it would be to set goals. If you have big dreams or even small things you want to accomplish, the way to do it is to set goals. Let me throw some statistics out there for you before we begin. First, goal setting has a statistically significant effect on behavior. Setting a goal makes you act. At least we hope it does. If you set actionable steps towards your goal you are 40% more likely to achieve it. If you […]

How Tos, Planners, Productivity

How to Use Your Own Planner Layout Ideas to Create a Perfect Spread

July 3, 2022 No Comments

If you are reading this post it means you are searching for your own planner peace. There are planner layout ideas in your head that you know will cause you to have the most productive year in the history of ever. Well, I’m here to tell you that there really is no such thing. GASP! No, really. There is an ongoing joke in the planner community about how many planners different people buy each year and how often people switch. Have you read my post about checking your systems? It is normal to change planners and planner layouts (within reason) […]

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