Remember that time I tried the Day Designer, then promptly switched to the Life Planner? Well, in the process, I decided that the Life Planner may not be for me at this point. And I bought another Day Designer. Are you with me? It's working really well, and I'm having an easier time staying on top of things. I don't think there is a perfect planner that I could recommend that would work well for each of you. I'm a list-maker so the lists in this planner are what seal the deal for me. I also had a big need to schedule my days a little better, and the daily pages include an hourly schedule. I can't promise I won't change my mind next year, but for now this is what my planner looks … [Read more...]
surviving to thriving: home, continued
Let's continue with this home trend, and finish it up here. Do you remember when I showed you that KonMari printable? Let's move on from clothes and talk about the rest of the home. I'm not actually going to spend a ton of time on books or movies. I'm neither a re-watcher or re-reader, so we had no trouble at all letting go of DVD's and books. I kept a handful of books, and all of the kids movies. Those Disney movies do bring joy and they would watch them over and over, both trademarks of things to keep. At this point, I sort of made the process my own, I didn't have a hard time holding on to papers, and the ones I did have a hard time with fell into the momentos category, so as I … [Read more...]
surviving to thriving: the playroom
Want to know where I was a little hopeless? The playroom. More specifically, all of the toys that I always seemed to be gathering up at the end of the day to stash away in the playroom. I wish I could tell you the number of hours I've spent arranging and rearranging the playroom, picking up all of the toys and putting them back into their space, over and over and over again. The playroom was one of those things that could have been easily left in a mess. No one sees it, and we lived with the logic, that the playroom will always be a mess. After reading The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, I had a different attitude about the situation and decided to go into it with the same … [Read more...]