Projects in Progress - An Update

This week on the podcast, Christen asked us about our current projects, and we got into a lengthy discussion about what we’ve been working on, unfinished projects, and projects that we finally gave up on. I thought this would be a great opportunity to share some updates on several of the projects and topics we’ve covered since we began this podcast and blog last November. 

December Daily: I just posted an update on this project in August, but in case you missed it, yes, I am still obsessed, and yes, I did get up early on August 31 to order my kits. I got almost everything I wanted, but I was very disappointed that a set of stencils was already sold out by the time I added it to my box and checked out. Now it’s just a waiting game for November to arrive so I can start the classes that go along with all the fun supplies I bought, and I’ll probably also begin making a few foundation pages so I can just print photos and add some quick journaling once December finally comes. Until then, I can start sketching out a few ideas and I can get this craft room cleaned up so I have someplace to work! But that’s another project altogether….

One Little Word:  I’m still working on my OLW project. September’s prompt feels particularly difficult to me because it is a photo prompt, and I am having a hard time concentrating on how best to capture the prompt phrases with photography in a meaningful way. I don’t have time to get out the camera during the day when the lighting is right, and everything I’ve tried to capture so far has not done the job. I think part of the problem is that I just haven’t had the time to sit with my feelings and my camera, and so the photos I’ve taken have not been anything more than superficial and bland. In the meantime, I just keep taking pictures and hoping that when I come back to them at the end of the month, I will have captured the essence of the prompts and will be happy with them. I usually am, but it’s just so hard.

PowerSheets and Happy Planners:  December Daily isn’t the only project with product launches in the fall.  In the past few weeks, I’ve also scoped out the new planner I will be using for 2023 – this gorgeous disc-bound beauty from Happy Planner. I love that it is minimalistic with neutral colors so I can personalize it to my own tastes. I also love the hard cover, which makes it much more sturdy and portable than the traditional Happy Planners. 

The 2023 PowerSheets won’t launch until October 12, but coming up on October 1 is the quarterly refresh. I’ve been thinking a lot about what goals I will revise, drop, and adopt for this last quarter of 2022. I started the last quarter with most of the same goals I have been chasing since the start of the year and I was all geared up to blast through them with a surge of productivity and motivation, but before July was over, I received some news that had me changing my perspective. Suddenly, many of those goals were on hold or were not important at all, and other priorities took their place. Now, I’m taking a hard look at where I spend my time and what is really important to me, and I’m thinking a reboot might be in order.

Christmas Cards:  I have a confession…I did not send Christmas cards last year. Yes, we did an episode about cards, and I talked about how I send dozens of them every year, but when push came to shove, I just didn’t get mine done in time. Blame it on the time-consuming project of moving my mother out to a memory-care facility, moving our dear friend, Koy, in, tending to Koy’s medical and social needs, our bout with COVID in November, or even the remodeling project that that started in November and didn’t end until January, I just did not finish my cards. So here they still sit, waiting for me to finish them and send them out this year.  What I did do last year was to write a nice letter (with an apology for the lack of cards) and call it done. I also spent some time this summer reassessing the design of the cards to lessen the assembly time, and I picked up where I left off. This was a good thing, because I made a critical mistake when I cut one of the pieces, and I had to cut about 150 pieces over again. Needless to say, I am still working on the cards, bit by bit, and hope to have them finished in November.

Mindful Messages Journal:  I think I mentioned this on the podcast, but I’m not sure. Last year for Christmas, Amber gave me a deck of “Mindful Messages” oracle cards. This lovely deck features suggestive reminders to stay positive, grounded, and grateful while encouraging independence, authenticity, and individuality. I started the year by adding them to my daily card draw along with my tarot and oracle cards, and I quickly decided I wanted to use them as a jumping-off point for a little creative journaling each day. An A5 dot-grid journal made a perfect canvas for a little stamping, and I’ve tasked myself with journaling a positive and meaningful affirmation every day, illustrated by a stamped or hand-drawn image. The artwork is doubly useful: it helps cement the affirmation in my memory and mindset, and it is forcing me to use the thousands of stamps I’ve collected over the years, some of which have never been opened. When I can’t find a relevant stamp, I either piece an image together using multiple stamps, or I sketch an appropriate icon or symbol. It’s been a fun and creative challenge for me, and I often flip back through previous pages, further embedding the positive messages in my psyche. It truly is a win-win!

Cleaning and Organizing:  Yeah…no. The plan in January was to get my house back in order after all the renovations and the revolving door of housemates, but everything seems to have taken so much longer than I thought it would.  I finally got my curtains hung and my living and dining rooms pieced back together just in time for our recent Labor Day BBQ, but I still have a stack of artwork and photos that need to be hung in the spare bedroom, and my garage is still stacked waist-high with boxes. I ask for help, and I get crickets. On top of this, my craft room/office/studio is still overrun by boxes of my mother’s mementos that need to be sorted, cleaned, and…well, I’m not sure what I’m going to do with all of it. This “organization” project (or projects) is going to have to stay on hold until I finish my most pressing project – my taxes. More on that later….

Weight Loss:  Okay, so here’s one project that has been going pretty well. I’ve talked about my struggles with weight loss, diabetes, arthritis, and my busy schedule. I may have even mentioned my extreme dislike for exercise or anything that causes sweat, but did I tell you about my love-hate relationship with medication? On the one hand, there are some pretty fantastic medications that help me with my blood sugar, but on the other, they are very, very expensive. Many medications cause a plethora of side effects that are miserable enough to make The Hulk cry. One such drug had the horrible side effect of causing severe edema in my legs and feet, and the drug itself was so ineffective (but cheap!) that it didn’t even really work. I wound up gaining 35 pounds that immediately started to drop off again once I changed medications, albeit very slowly.  I’m still 12 pounds over where I was this time last year, but it is coming off. Still, it’s very frustrating to see your hard work go to naught, and to have the medicine that is supposed to make you better actually make you worse. All in all, I am very fortunate to have settled on a drug cocktail that is working well, with (mostly) tolerable side effects, and although I am going to have to get more diligent if I’m going to meet my year-end weight loss goal, I could still do it.

Unfinished Craft Projects:  This topic ties into so many episode topics that we’ve already covered…self-care, balancing home and work, motivation…the list could go on and on. I have a craft room full of unfinished projects, many of which I still want to tackle if I could only do a better job of managing my time. I keep telling myself, “If I could just finish…” then I would have time for…but I’m not sure that’s even true. Things, tasks, responsibilities, people, and problems always seem to have a way of appearing at the most inopportune time – it never ends. And while everyone agrees that self-care is important, it does not pay the bills, wash the laundry, or write that business proposal, so most of the time, that self-care or downtime (or whatever you want to call it) has to wait. I did manage to sneak in some mindless diamond painting while I edited podcasts, finishing a piece I started at Christmas last year, and I have almost finished binding a table runner I started about 18 months ago. I’ve also been trying very hard to catch up on (or at least not get further behind with) my weekly Project Life photo album. I’m going to have to start working a little faster if I’m going to get caught up by the end of the year.

Travel Business:  After a nearly two-year hiatus due to COVID, my cruise business is finally picking up again. Last month, I signed on with the GreenMan Studios in Southlake to organize a holistic cruise, and I’m working with a couple of scholastic groups for scholarship fundraiser cruises. Families are starting to want to travel more, too, so I’m staying pretty busy. I’m not complaining because this is the kind of work I love to do, and I’ve been missing it. Still, it’s hard to get back into the swing of things, and with so many other projects demanding my time, I’m worried about what might have to take a backseat. You can bet it won’t be something I want to pass off to someone else or just drop altogether. It will likely be one of those fun creative projects I’ve been looking forward to finishing up. Oh well….

Bookkeeping and Taxes:  I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate this right now. Do you get that I hate it? Normally, this would not be a big deal, but when my mother moved in with us in January 2020, I was just getting ready to sit down and dig into my 2019 taxes. I kept trying to work on them, but she was such a distraction, and then COVID happened. Not only was I incapable of working on the 2019 taxes, but the 2020 weekly bookkeeping fell woefully behind, and I didn’t get 2019 finished until my extension expired in the fall. Then I started in on the 2020 bookkeeping but still had the same problems…there were too many people in my house, too much noise, too many distractions, and I just got further and further behind. I finished the 2020 bookkeeping just in time to file my taxes in October (thank GOD for extensions!), and then I started on 2021. That’s where I am now. I don’t have all the same people in the house, but the distractions are still there…cleaning up and restoring order after the renovations, medical appointments, more medical appointments, friends, family, and now it looks like I might need to move Mom again in the next few months. I’m currently adding the July receipts into my accounting software, and I think I have about two weeks to get it all wrapped up so the accountant can get it sent off to the IRS in time. It takes a full 12-hour day of work with no distractions to do one month’s worth of bookkeeping. I have no idea how I will get it done.

So that’s the basics of all the projects I’m working on right now. There are probably a ton of little things I forgot, but I think you can see the bigger picture…I’ve got my hands in a lot of different pies. Some are golden and delicious, and some are pure mud, but I guess that’s the essence of life anyway, isn’t it? We have a lot of stuff we must do in order to afford the stuff we want to do, or maybe just so we can appreciate the stuff we really enjoy. In the end, it’s all just stuff and it is what we make of it.

Are you as busy as I am? Do you have a lot of projects in progress? Are there projects you hate but you still have to do them? Tell us about it in the comments, or start a conversation on the MMC Chat Facebook group.

 

Why Am I Stuck?

If you have been keeping up with the blog, then you will already know several things about me. I am a new mom to a soon-to-be 12-year-old, a career woman who works from home, a blogger, a podcaster, an entrepreneur, and I’m recently married too! So, if I were to tell you that our blogs are in a rotation, that we take turns, that it was all organized, carefully plotted out, and scheduled into a calendar, you probably wouldn't even bat an eye right? I have a lot going on sometimes, and although I am a creature of habit, I have a hard time sticking to my own schedule. Have I ever been late? Absolutely! 

I find that I usually am running late or behind because I lack motivation, drive, or the spark that will get me moving. That applies to anything from getting out of bed in the morning to completing a challenging project. I am a procrastinator by nature, and I will wait until the last minute to start a project. Doing so usually backfires, but I still continue with this unpleasant behavior. 

I have learned my lesson, though, and have tried many methods to create better habits, but have not found anything that has stuck with me for long. This year, I have been working in the  Cultivate What Matters PowerSheetsⓇ Goal Book, Ali Edwards One Little WordⓇ, and I use a Happy Planner from Me and My Big Ideas, as well as a Rocketbook planner. I have set S.M.A.R.T. goals and even have accountability partners. There are so many tools out there to help dream up an idea and turn it into a reality, but I struggle with the physical act of actually doing the smaller tasks. 

Using S.M.A.R.T. goals and tending lists with Cultivate What Matters, I can turn a project into smaller action items. The idea is that when you start a project, you break it down into smaller chunks that you can knock out easily and get the motivation needed to keep going because you can see and feel the progress. Celebrating the small victories is important, because you can look back at each accomplishment, celebrate a little, and then continue to move forward. That's why S.M.A.R.T. goals need to be measurable, that way you can see your progress as you go along. 

When it comes to writing my weekly blog post for Modern Musings, I have a hard time getting myself started and completing on time. I have a set deadline; my S.M.A.R.T. goal is set and easily obtainable. There is accountability – my counterparts depend on me to complete my work on time. It is so routine now, that it has become a weekly activity for me. I may have an idea already in my mind for what I want to write about, but I will find ways to procrastinate and push it off onto another day so that I have to hyper focus at the last minute to complete my writing. I have tried methods to keep me motivated, like changing my writing environment, creating fun incentives when the task is completed, Making myself write it all at once, and only writing a little at a time. Nothing has seemed to make a lasting impression, and so I am still in search of ways to motivate myself. 

What do you do when desire and necessity are not enough to get you moving? I would love to hear what your methods are in the comments below, and be sure to listen to the podcast on Wednesday as each of us discuss our struggles and share the methods and tips that have helped keep us motivated when we struggle to stay focused and finish difficult or daunting tasks. 

How Planning Transformed My Life

In the past, I’ve always been a casual planner and calendar user. I utilized as many as I could. I had a calendar on my wall at home, I had a calendar on my desk at work, and I had a teacher planner and pocket planner that I carried with me everywhere. I had so many planners that planning was overwhelming. Two years ago, Christen introduced me to Happy Planner® and I fell in love. Instead of having so many planners, I committed to having one planner for all of the planning that I do.

Katniss helping me plan.

My Happy Planner®  has many sections that help me stay organized:

• Year-at-a-glance section
• Month-at-a-glance layout
• Weekly spread
• Daily entries

Different things I use my planner for:

1. Everyday events such as birthdays, due dates, date nights, weddings, etc. I also take it to the next level, and I have spiritual and literary events added, as well as the moon phases and Banned Books Week. Because I am an English teacher, I like to add the literary holidays because I like to plan around them and celebrate with my students. I utilize my monthly calendar for these things.
2. School dates such as school holidays, the nine-week grading periods, field trip days, testing days, and lesson due dates. We have a lot of school dates, so I utilize the weekly part of my planner. The weekly spread is also very helpful when planning out lesson plans and to-do lists. I try to organize the weekly calendar.
3. Budgeting. In every monthly section of my planner, there are pages for notes. I write a list of my bills and their due dates. I will also make a note of bill due dates in the daily section of the planner. I use a budget tracker to track my spending habits. You can also buy supplemental budgeting sheets to add to your Happy Planner®.
4. Lists. Listing is very important to me. I like to keep a daily or weekly goal list and to-do list. I write these lists in the margins of the weekly section in my planner. I also have a call list that I keep in the monthly section of my planner which reminds me of the phone calls I need to make.

Rough draft of to-do lists

Other key features I like:

• Stickers. I love stickers! When I first bought a planner, I immediately purchased cool stickers to go in my planner.
• Folders and pockets. You can add folders and pockets to your planner to keep loose papers and it gives your planner a notebook-like feel.
• The room to truly be creative. Not only do I like to color-code my dates but I also like to draw pictures in my planner to represent key moments in my life.

After all of this, I still do not consider myself an extreme planner. However, after changing my planning habits and consolidating all of my calendars to one catch-all planner, my life has been more organized and efficient. When I get to school, one of the first things I do is take out my planner and see what I have going on that day. Planning has helped me look ahead and not overbook myself. Planning has also helped me keep accountable in certain aspects of my life that used to challenge me, such as budgeting. Organizing to the extreme is not for everyone and you can still be a casual planner using Happy Planner® but if you are looking for an extra creative outlet in your life, I highly recommend it.

Let’s continue the conversation. Do you use day planners in your life? Join us on our Facebook Group: MMC Chat and on our Facebook page.

An Invitation to Plan with Me

I’ve used a day planner since I was 18 or 19 years old. I’m not even sure when or why I started, but I loved writing things down in my handy planner. It helped me remember things. And for someone with ADHD, that was a super big deal. One of my earliest planners was a simple spiral-bound, 8 ½” x 11” daily that broke down into half-hour increments. It was plain, grey, and not that attractive, but it helped me keep track of my college classes and my work schedule, along with any important assignments and events. Oddly enough, I still have it, as well as several other old planners I used. They’re like a window into my life from days gone by. I find day-timers and planners to be an excellent way to document not only what will happen, but also to track what already has happened. I’ve journaled in them, added photos, decorated some of them, and even added more functionality by inserting various lists and trackers. Over the years, my planners have evolved into everything from an assortment of pocket-sized books to my Palm device and iPhone to what I now use – a Happy Planner by Me and My Big Ideas.

I love my current planner setup. I’ve been perfecting the system for several years now, and it is so streamlined that I can run through all of it automatically every Sunday when I sit down to go through the plans for my next week. My weekly planner setup actually includes everything from meal planning, grocery list making, and errand running plans down to what days I will work on editing our podcasts, writing blog posts, and what crafts I will work on during my Thursday Zoom crop. I also use a brain dump system to help plan household tasks, I run through my PowerSheets© tending lists, and I even do a little computer maintenance. It’s a whole process, and it works very well. 

I mentioned in the podcast that I’ve taken a digital hybrid approach to decorating and utilizing my planner. During the COVID lockdown, I got tired of setting up a planner with all the stickers and nothing to write in it, so I entertained myself by creating a digital template of my regular weekly set-up, and then I simply run the pages of my Happy Planner through the printer. It saves a lot of time (and money) over hunting for just the right sticker to use, and the possible color combinations are endless. 

For several months now, I have been running through this process over Zoom with my daughter, Christen. Since we both plan on Sundays, and since our activities often intersect, requiring us to plan together, it works in our best interest to just do it at the same time together. It has been a great motivator, and I feel like we’ve had more family activities and better coordination since we started. 

Last week, while we were working our way through our weekly plans, we realized that our Modern Musings topic was going to be “Planners” this week, and we thought it would be a great idea to share our planning session with you. Normally, we would do it on a Sunday, but for this week only, we are going to do it on a Friday via a “Plan with Us – Live” session on Zoom. The session will be a slightly condensed version of what we normally do, but hopefully, it will give you an idea of just how organized we can be when we use our planners fully. We hope you will join us, and if not, then the replay will be on our YouTube channel in a few days. 

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How Planning Helps Me Connect with My Family

I have been using a day planner since I was in 4th grade. In school I was taught early on how to put my homework into my day planner to assist me with accountability. As an adult, I continued using a day planner, but more actively, when my boss gave me a Day Timer in order to effectively manage my team and daily tasks after I was promoted into a leadership position. I was hooked at that point. She had told me to research Franklin Covey methods, and that sent me on a long journey, discovering different ways to use my day planner to manage everything from little tasks to important information and goals. My family likes to stay busy, and we are always thinking up fun things to do, and using a planner helps to make sure everyone knows where they are supposed to be and when.

Grocery list in the works!

By the time I got married, I was well versed in all things to do with using a day planner, but I could see that my husband, Travis, was struggling to manage some areas of his life. He had been relying on other people to remind him of important things like doctor’s appointments. I found myself communicating events with my husband, but he would still forget or not be fully in the loop. 

Travis had told me that he wanted a planner like mine. I use the Happy Planner “Big” because the disc-bound option allows me to easily pull the pages out or add a page if needed. Travis and I set out to our local craft store and browsed their inventory. We were quick to realize that Happy Planner is geared towards women. We were disappointed that there were not any masculine options available. Travis liked the layout, but was not as enthusiastic about the colors and themes. The planner he eventually chose was designed by Rong Rong and is filled with cartoons of girls living their best life. I ended up having to laminate a new cover for him. The Happy Planner ended up not being a good option for Travis - the pages were always falling out; he was a little too rough on it, and so it caused him a lot of frustration.

This year, we went to the office supply chain and looked at Day Timer planners and similar brands. Travis chose a more costly option, but hopefully this one will hold up better. He chose a 3-ring binder that zips up, allowing him to have more control over the loose slips of papers and notes he likes to keep with his planner. So far it has been holding up. 

Even my daughter uses a Planner!

Although Travis is now using his day planner, he is not all that enthusiastic about planning itself. He does enjoy meal planning and picking out new recipes for the week. He also likes participating in brainstorming family fun activities like camping or a vacation. He has not been overly interested in planning with me when it comes to weekly planning. I have to schedule time and remind him to be ready to plan. He doesn’t find joy in sitting down and mapping out the day to day home maintenance, care and logistics for our household. He prefers to be directed on what to do each week, so I usually only schedule meeting time to plan with him when it’s something important like a family trip. When I plan what I need to do for the week, I make a list for Travis, too. On Sundays, usually after dinner, I let him know what activities and events are coming up. We discuss what the plans are for the week and I’ll present him with a sticky note with important dates and facts that he then adds to his day planner. He will update me too on any reminders for the week. We are not springing anything new on each other – just keeping the communication going. My method might not work for everyone; I can say that Travis is very agreeable – if I ever need him to run an errand, I can give him a to-do list and trust that it will get done. He just needs guidance and open communication, otherwise he will forget things all together. If you are trying to get your partner more involved, then I strongly suggest making a long list of tasks and goals, and sit down with your spouse to hash out what needs to be done by whom and when. Just pick a couple of things on the list, make a commitment to accomplish them, either separately or together, and then hold each other accountable. 

I have a new accountability partner for my planning! This year Mom and I have been planning more family activities together. We started getting on Zoom calls together to plan and realized that it was fun to work on our regular weekly planning together also. I have found that planning my week with someone else has been beneficial as I am more likely to set actual plans, rather than allowing my week to unfold as it happens. We chat, plan, ask for ideas and sometimes even swap recipes while we are planning. So far, I have filled my planner more, have taken deeper dives into my daily flow, and also feel as if I have accomplished more since we started our planning sessions. 

Cindy and Christen Planner Zooming

We thought it might be fun to share our planning session with you. We are so excited to share our first LIVE broadcast via Zoom this Friday. Cindy will be the hostess as she gives us a tour of her weekly planning routine and processes. Please check us out at 8pm CST; the details are below! If you are not able to join the live broadcast, don’t worry, there will be a recording to view after the event is over. We look forward to seeing you!

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My Household Tending List

Hi there! It’s Cindy again. I hope you enjoyed our podcast yesterday about cleaning checklists. As I mentioned in our discussion, I think checklists are a great idea, and I have been using them to help me get through all my chores for a long time. Let’s face it…we’re busy! We have jobs, kids, spouses, boyfriends, hobbies, and so much stuff that we have to take care of at any given time that some of that stuff tends to fall through the cracks. That’s why I created a monthly checklist that I put in my day planner.

My current household checklist

I call this checklist my “tending list” because it goes along with my PowerSheets® tending list.  Whenever I check one, I automatically check the other. It’s a great form of accountability for me because I love filling in all the little squares (an OCD thing from childhood), and I feel so accomplished when I look at them and see that I’ve accomplished a lot. My list has far more than just cleaning tasks, as I’ve included some work, health, and family items on it as well. There are a few items I’d like to add to it, but it works for me so far – maybe next month.

My list started several years ago as a bujo (see bullet journal) entry, but I prefer having it in my Happy Planner with all my other tasks. My early planner lists were all drawn by hand onto the opening page of each month and I arranged everything to fit in the space available. It was also a very short list compared to the list I use today, so there’s nothing that says your list has to be as long as the one I use. If you make a list, make sure that it works with your goals and the items you want to track. 

My first household tending list - January 2021

By December it had evolved to this

In January, I started my new Happy Planner® and was surprised to see that the format of the opening page for each month had changed significantly and that my old checklist layout didn’t work anymore. So, I rearranged the list and again drew it by hand, but because it was no longer on a dot-grid paper, drawing it out took significantly longer than the old design and I abandoned that effort the very next month. Instead, I scanned the January list before I filled in all the text, and now I just run the planner page through my printer. I’ve used a similar technique for other pages in my Happy Planner (more on that in an upcoming episode!), and the printer handles the disc-punched pages just fine. I’d also like to note that I do use a “White Out” correction tape on a small section of the page, and since my printer is a laser printer, it prints over it just fine. I do not know how an inkjet printer will react to the whiteout, so your mileage may vary. I’ve linked both my printer and the correction tape below.

The blank file that I print onto my planner page

Add Amazon links to Happy Planner, my printer, favorite pen, and correction tape. Creating your checklist in a bullet journal or notebook can be fun if you like to do such things…I’m a list-maker at heart, and I love any excuse to make a list! But for those of you who aren’t, or you’d like a quick start on a list of your own, I’ve included a link to a blank version of my checklist below. I’ve offered a bundle that includes a JPEG, PDF, and PSD (Photoshop) version. If you have any questions about how I use it, please feel free to drop me a line using the email form on the right, leave a comment below, or even contact me through our Facebook page or MMC Chat group. 

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