Guess what? A planner can only be useful if you use it! I know!! What a discovery, right? I kind of knew that. But I didn’t internalize the concept. I stumbled on this deeper realization because of my distress about being so overwhelmed, unorganized and forgetting so many things. As I tried to find answers,…
Category: Simplify Time
Daily Simplicity and Prioritizing
When I was first married, I noticed that my mother-in-law had a great way of planning her week. She would take a piece of plain paper and fold it in half one way and in four the other way so that there were eight spaces. Then she would label the squares with the days of…
Questions May Be the Answer
Overwhelm!! It’s been almost a constant for me lately. I just feel an urgency to do things that matter and stop wasting time on things that don’t mean as much to me. So, why is it then, ironically, I end up doing some things that I consider barely productive when I am struggling to prioritize…
What Matters Most
Sometimes I wake up in the morning overwhelmed with things to do and they all seem so important. I feel paralyzed because I’m not sure which is most important. Often I stop to make a list of things that are important to me, which is a very foundational step. But I find myself doing this…