Digital Planning, Productivity, Tech Tools, Time Management

How the Notion App Can Really Increase Your Productivity

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As someone who LOVES learning about how to be more productive and how to refine my systems, I take notice of recurring tools. One tool that kept popping up in my feeds on Instagram and Facebook was the Notion app and web-based platform. I looked into it and immediately dismissed it because I already had a system in place that worked for me. Here’s the deal though, if you’ve read my post about checking your systems, you know that you really do need to check your systems often. If you don’t know what I mean by systems, check out this […]

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Productivity, Teaching, Time Management

7 Things Teachers Can Do During Summer Break to Ensure a Stress-Free Fall

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Person sitting on iPad at the side of the pool

Let’s be absolutely honest here… teachers work during summer break. Yes, we don’t have to teach children, but all teachers do things for school over summer break. If you didn’t, it would be like a freight train was hitting you that first day back. Now, I’m not saying that you need to log a million hours instead of hitting the pool. There are a few things, however, that will help you start the year without stress (or as little as possible).  Reflect on the year before. Figure out any automated or simple running lists/items that you can regularly contribute to. […]

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Digital Planning, How Tos, Planners, Productivity

Which Planner Layout is Best For You to Get Stuff Done?

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Digital Planner Layout with Coffee Stickers

One of the things I mention all the time is that you have to make things your own. If something isn’t working for you, change it. Don’t keep using it because you think that everyone else is doing it. Everyone is unique and the planner layout that works for you, might not be the planner layout that works for me. So, let’s dive into the different standard types of planner layouts. Then, I will share my own personal planner layouts and how they have evolved even in these past few months! Standard Planner Layouts If you were to look at […]

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Daily Routines, Digital Planning, Habits, Planners, Productivity

My Absolute Favorite Productivity Tools: What I Grab For Every Day!

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When I sat down to write this post, I legit just thought through my day and what I use. In doing so I realized something very interesting about myself… I have a lot of stuff that I don’t really use. No, seriously, I have so much stuff, but when I think about it, I use these few things all day long. When I’m talking about productivity tools, I’m talking about the things I use every day to get stuff done! Yes, there are various things that are specific to certain tasks, but I pretty much stick with these. This led […]

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Digital Planning, Freebie, Productivity

10 Ways Digital Notebooks Can Improve the Way You Work

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When I discovered digital planners and digital notebooks, I was instantly hooked. Seriously, this opened up a whole new world of awesome for me. I sing the praises of going digital all the time. Let’s check out some different ways that digital notebooks can improve the way you work. All of these are experienced by me on a regular basis in my business, teaching, and personal lives. Personal note: I still also use traditional notebooks as well. For all of you holding out because you just love the feel of pen to paper, I hear you. You CAN use both! […]

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Daily Routines, How Tos, Productivity, Time Management

How a Time Diary Helped Me See Where I Was Wasting Time

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Time Diary Wasting Time Clock

If you read my last post, you will know that I tried keeping a time diary for a week. This has been eye-opening! If you haven’t read the initial post, check it out here. This time I’m back to share what I learned and where I was wasting time! Sitting down to analyze this log was awesome and humbling. There were a lot of things that I learned. I am putting it all out here for you today in hopes that you will try this for a week too.  Let me tell you my main takeaways from my personal time […]

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Daily Routines, How Tos, Productivity, Time Management

How to Use a Time Diary to Help Create More Time in Your Life

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Let’s be honest. How many times in the last month have you said the words “I don’t have time for…”? That thought is one of the main reasons I started this blog. The truth is that we do have time and this idea of time management is totally false. Well, it isn’t false so much as it is all a matter of how you look at things. Creating more time for your life is all about choices. I’m absolutely learning more about this with the time diary I started this week. 168 Hours This post is inspired by Laura Vanderkam’s […]

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How Tos, Productivity, Time Management

How To Effectively Do a Brain Dump: An Amazing Productivity Hack

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Effective Brain Dump Organizing My List

Do you ever have a moment where you realize that you have so much to do and you have absolutely no idea what any of those things are? Or, my personal favorite… you have all the things to do, but you’re so overwhelmed by all of it that you sit on the couch and binge Netflix instead? An effective brain dump will help you get over that feeling! All of us do this at one time or another. We become forgetful. We feel overwhelmed. Sometimes we just shut down because we feel like we have so much to do and […]

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Daily Routines, Digital Planning, Habits, Planners, Productivity

How to Use a Planner in a World of Stickers, Bullet Journals, and More

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Have you ever walked the aisle at Hobby Lobby or Michael’s and looked at all those colorful planners and thought, “I want to plan everything… it’s all so pretty?” Maybe you’ve even grabbed a brand new planner and a couple of packs of planner stickers and got super excited. You’ve done this before, but this time it’s going to stick. Every planner sticker in that pack is going to be used. I’m going to sit down every day and my life is going to be so freaking organized! Two weeks later you realize that you wrote in it for the […]

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Productivity

10 Quotes About Productivity That Will Inspire and Motivate You To Act

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ispire and motivate quotes; Gary Keller Quote

I read a lot about productivity. Being inspired and motivated to act is one of the reasons I like to read about it. Reading is a keystone habit that can change your life and lead to a lot of great habits. One of my passions is helping others realize how awesome they are. When I read, I learn things I find interesting and love passing them on to others! That’s probably one of the reasons why I love teaching and coaching as well. Put me in a chair with a book meant to inspire and motivate me to get more […]

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