Organization
Everyone who knows me well knows that I am something of an organization junkie. Since figuring out how to better manage my time and my life, I love productivity. I love goals, planning, and finding the perfect method of organizing my life, my family, and my projects.
Throughout this website, I write about different aspects of managing our lives, projects, and time. In the posts below, I have tips and thoughts on organization.
Tips and Tools for Organization
There are tips and tools to get organized. I share some apps and methods that work for me to get organized too.
I write about organization with the busy work from home mom in mind. I try to develop posts that will help you as you manage your home and jump-start a side hustle. Managing all these aspects of life can be a recipe for chaos without some kind of organizational plan in place. You’ll find help in the posts below on organizing your life and business.
Earlier I wrote about my planner addiction and what a temptation all of the cool stuff in the stationery store is to me. I love planners, you guys. LOVE THEM. The thing is though, most planners have one fatal flaw that keeps them from working the way we think they’re going to. Can you guess …
Most Planners Have THIS Huge Problem { Keep Reading }
I don’t know what is wrong with me sometimes. The other day, I was walking through Michaels, on my way to buy a new sketchbook for my design projects (I go through three or four a year), when I saw a rack of discounted planners. All the pretty planners momentarily distracted me before I reminded …
The Quest for the Perfect Planner { Keep Reading }
There’s something about my love for all things creative, my fascination with finding the perfect planner, and bullet journaling. I love the look of bullet journals. I love that I get to have different colored pens and I get to draw stuff. That is a big problem with bullet journaling for me. The pens, the …
Bullet Journaling and Procrastination { Keep Reading }
Google Keep is Google’s note-taking app, introduced in March 2013. It’s similar to apps like Evernote and One Note. Each of these kinds of apps has their own strengths and weaknesses, of course. I like to use a mixture of them in ways that work best. In this post, I’ll be writing about how I …
What is Google Keep and Why Do I Love it? { Keep Reading }
As a lifelong book lover and hoarder collector, I’m always looking for great ways to label my books, beyond just writing my name on the front cover (though I’ve done that too). I love the look and feel of old fashioned vintage bookplates, which is why I designed my own. I have several designs on this site. …
Free Printable Art Deco Style Bookplate Graphics { Keep Reading }
One of the best skills you can ever develop as a human being is the fine art of acting vs reacting. This is one of those things you learn more and more as you mature. If you’re willing to listen to life’s lessons sent your way. A professor in college used to urge us to …
Acting vs Reacting { Keep Reading }
What is the key to home business and work from home success? While there is no one thing that will guarantee success, I believe forming better habits will tip the odds more in your favor. A few friends and I were talking about working from home. We all seemed to agree that our habits can …
Developing Better Habits for Home Business Success { Keep Reading }
A short while ago, I posted about embracing failure. It’s an important lesson to learn because anyone who has ever done anything at all of value has failed in their lives. Living and trying new things involves risks. Most have failed several times. No one ever succeeds the very first time they try something new. …
Taking Risks Isn’t Always Bad { Keep Reading }
Evernote is one of my favorite cross-platform note-taking apps, but it is so much more than that. Truly, Evernote is the key to not only keeping my life organized but helping me get more done with less stress. Let me show you how you can get more done using Evernote too. Read on. The Evernote …
How to Get More Done with Less Stress Using Evernote { Keep Reading }
When planning out your website, you’ll need to think about organizing your content. You may even wonder about categories vs tags. WordPress and other platforms use categories and tags to help organize content. Categories and Tags can be confusing and be intimidating for many new website owners. I can help you understand what categories and tags actually are. And …
Categories vs Tags: What are They and How Should You Use Them? { Keep Reading }