Helping your future self is not a new idea. In fact, I've heard several bloggers that I follow mention it fairly recently. The idea is to constantly be thinking of ways to make life easier for yourself in the future. When I'm feeling especially unmotivated, I try to think in terms of what "Future Katy" would want me to do right now. Would she be better off if I rested now? Then I'll do that. Would she have an easier time making dinner if I spent five minutes now washing the dishes from the … [Read more...]
5 Ways to Use the Notes Page in Your Planner
If you're a planner person, chances are you've already broken into your new planner, ready to tackle a year that will hopefully have lots of fun things in it. And you've probably already started filling out appointments and work schedules and your daily to do list. But what about those "notes" pages at the back of the planner? What do you do with those? Here are five ways I use those notes pages to keep my life more organized. Track family health visits. In our family, I am in charge … [Read more...]
Planning a Snacky Lunch Meal Into Your Week
What does lunch look like at your house? In our house, lunch is the only meal we aren't necessarily all sitting down at the table eating the same thing at the same time. We have breakfast together pretty much every morning. We sit down for a family dinner every night. But lunch is kind of sporadic. Sometimes Jesse is working in our extra room. I usually wait to eat my food until after the kids are done, so I know I can sit and eat my meal without interruption. And lately, the grownups and the … [Read more...]
My Home Management Days Of The Week
Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I receive a bit of a commission at no additional charge to you. I've been talking a lot about home management this month, and that's because the routines that I've set in place have helped my life run much more smoothly. One of my favorite parts of that is having things assigned to days of the week. This is something that my friend Stacy teaches in her course (more on that in a … [Read more...]
How Home Management Rhythms Help When Dealing With Anxiety and Depression
Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. If you make a purchase through these links, I receive a commission at no additional charge to you. I've struggled with anxiety for most of my life. For me, it doesn't take the form of panic attacks, so much as just an underlying awareness of all the things that could go wrong. And last month, I officially added a depression diagnosis to that, although I've had a suspicion about it for awhile. Sometimes for me, while dealing … [Read more...]
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