planning and planners

The planners I fell in love with until I realized I needed one that integrated them all. 1)Maksie life. 2) power sheets. 3) inkwell press.4) DIY fish. 5) Mind your business book 6) happy planner. They say you save the best for last but happy planner was mine doing oh my God the stickers I wasted so much money on stickers. They had the best child planner that had color and accessories and they discontinued it they're evil. But you know I took their idea and I ran with it and I made my own. My children still love their happy planner planners that I've created with my own pages and I just use their concept and just kept it going. I don't know why they discontinued it I don't know what they were thinking that was the best thing on the planet. I took their concept and I added philosophy and little sayings and they love it. Only problem is that I needed to hire somebody to do the designs because I am not that kind of artist. Hence the planner page is necessary for business I hired my son. Which is where the mind your business book came into play it helped me create my business plan in the early years. Now my business plan has been integrated into an AI program and life plan. Moxie life I loved their compass. Inkwell press I loved their business financial planning thing. Power sheets I just love how it took my entire year into focus and broke it down into quarters I was missing that I was so stuck on planning the entire year that I forgot how to break it down into small executable steps. DIY fish gave me the template on how to integrate everything together and put them into fold-outs. I think it was the YouTuber KB Chronicles that showed me how she put everything into the DIY fish inserts in 2015 that made me just like oh my God that's that's how the pages need to be I literally had notebooks similarly set up that way but I didn't have the design the way DIY fish did so even though I've designed my own pages I must give credit to DIY fish the only reason why I do not continue with DIY fish is because she started making other designs I just need one design. So if you get my pages great if you want to know somebody that has a similar style she's it honestly the only reason why I remade mind is because I liked her 2015 version and she basically discontinued it that's honestly all and I had integrated the different parts of moxie life inkwell press that were just beautiful the quarterly break down the review I even integrated a vision board a financial section that I got from I think it was cloth and paper they have an entire financial thing that helped me break down my investments and all the little parts financial planning that I just didn't have together when I was 25. So I've tried all of those different planners and I came up with a system that works and I think that people that think like I do and ultimately want to have one planner that does everything instead of carrying around six different planners this could help you especially if you have your own business you homeschool your children and you want to have space to integrate your fly lady calendars your meal plans and all of that stuff in one place and not have it overwhelm you.

I originally liked how Moxie life had its compass and it broke everything down into different scenarios like spiritual physical relational nutritional intellectual recreational financial and environmental but then I recently read a book about the four burner theory and instead of having those eight things and I think what was it another planner had 10 sections I thought that was too much the four burners is good you've got yourself your social life your work and your family and in all honestly you can't take care of all four at the same time. So when I was looking at your level oh the level 10 life where it had all 10 of those things that's too much it's too much you can't do all those things so in this original iteration I really like having those things together because it separated the spiritual with the intellectual when it came to the mind and then you had nutritional for what you ate and so on and so forth but with the four burner theory is like me my family my friends my house you can't do them all you can't even go into the community without missing something. So I still have that in there and I still like to assess what is my priority and working on that during a certain period in time but honestly after reading about the four burner theory I realized that some things just get left behind. I mean like right now it's a prime example I forgot about myself care and I almost went crazy. And it's very common that as you become older and you have families something gets forgotten there's countless stories of women forgetting about self care and they're walking around and sweatpants and pajamas. It happens it's a part of adulthood honestly and then you have some people that they overindulge in self-care but then they don't have food in their fridge. You don't always hear about those cases but the few that I have heard I think they're kind of sad or you'll hear about people who spend so much time on their work as social influencers and then you're like everything in their house is fake. It's so sad how we don't maintain a balance. And the whole point of my blog initially was how I maintain that balance and I was doing awesome before covid everything was on fire and then it it collapsed because I didn't have that one burner that allowed me to go outside the house. Once I was trapped inside the house and we couldn't go on our regular field trips to the museum the park and everywhere else that we would go I didn't know what to do it was like how do I feel that space what do I put on that burner. What do I replace when everything was working seamlessly together. I got thrown off and I didn't know what to do. And right now everything is so out of whack I'm trying to figure out how to get back to what I know was awesome. And in doing so I'm trying to go back and pick up where I got those pieces from. Like the savers from miracle morning and the fly lady and the zones and Andrea Mills with her sage and acd. Without those things I wouldn't have been able to be on fire with everything that needed to get done. My children would not have known how spoiled they are if covid hadn't come along and throw me off my game. They would not understand how to appreciate the reality that we rode bikes everywhere we played at the park all the time we went to the museum and everything was flowing in abundance and we had the money to do things and it just fell apart because I didn't know how to deal with being the house. If it hadn't been for Andrea Mills and AC to create my sage program or the savers to help me get all of the clutter out of my head and on paper to make sure that nothing got missed or forgotten. If I hadn't found all of the tools I needed to be able to be at my best I don't know if I would be able to at this point go back and pick up what was so important. I hate that I'm recording this because the first time I had said that it sounded perfect and it stopped recording so I'm trying to go back and remember what I said so I apologize if this kind of sounds weird but that's what happened. My point was that I want to be able to explain and show how to get back to where I was. I had this concept where I would have a different website that was just talking about my personal development to get me back to that optimal state of firing all cylinders. But acknowledging the fact that even though I had a system in place to make sure that everything was taken care of that does not mean necessarily that they were all being taken care of at the same time. In the winter time I focused on the family as a unit because it was Winter we weren't going out as much and it's the holiday season obviously that's family time. Then in the springtime I would focus on myself because you know after the new year after my birthday I want to start getting back into being fly mommy. Then in the summertime it would be focused on making sure that work was at its most optimal because at the end of spring around May that's when all the homeschool conferences would be going on and then after those homeschool conferences the summer time would be the time for me to reassess reevaluate and rebuild upon my lesson plans planner pages and the next item that I would be offering or product. It was just awesome how in Autumn I'd be focusing on the house and getting it ready for the holiday season and making sure that it was starting to feel cozy again so although some people would do spring cleaning and decluttering the spring that is not when I would declutter because at around Halloween that is when our school year was coming to an end so that would be the natural time for us to start decluttering and getting rid of all the old stuff and all of that. So taking care of myself taking care of my family taking care of my home and taking care of my business and the education of my children it all flowed it might not have been your flow but it was a flow that worked for us. And I need to get back to that and right now I'm 227 lb and that is not cool.