10 Signs a Simple Planning System Could Make Your Life Easier

I’ve come to the point where I don’t trust my brain to remember all the things. You might be the same. If you’re not sure, check out these 10 signs that indicate you could use a simple planning system: 1. You can’t remember what day it is. 2. You think of something important and then...

5 Remarkably Practical Strategies For A Less Busy Life

Last month, we talked about the difference between Busy-ness and Productivity. Busyness is about motion without clarity. It’s a sense of urgency that is often driven by anxiety. Productivity is about...

The Fascinating Distinction Between Productivity and Busy-ness

Have you ever had this exchange with someone? “How are you?”“Busy.”“Good, good.” It’s happened to me a number of times, and I started to wonder how “busy” equals “good”? Busy has turned into shorthand...

3 Habits to Get You Through a Short Friday

We’re in the season where Fridays feel like they last about seven minutes.You turn around, and somehow candle-lighting is in an hour. And for many of us, the rush leaves us entering Shabbos in a mood...

How to Plan When You Just Don’t Feel Like Planning

Maybe you’ve hit a lull, or maybe there’s too much bouncing around in your mind, and you just don’t feel like you can start planning. Or maybe you read these posts month after month, but put off...

Let’s Plan for Sukkos Together

Follow along as I create a simple spread to plan for the next hectic week of our lives. All you need is a notebook, a pen, and optional markers or highlighters. We’ll start with a blank page, as...

How to Stick to Your Rosh Hashana Resolutions

Believe it or not, Rosh Hashana is coming up, and a new year is about to begin. It’s a time for goal-setting, new resolutions, and thinking forward. But the thing about resolutions is that they have a...

What Overwhelm is Coming to Teach Us

Here’s the irony of the situation: I thought of this topic a while ago, and was then overwhelmed when I thought of writing this email. How did I know I was overwhelmed? There are certain symptoms that...

Take Control of Your Summer with this Bullet Journal Schedule

At the beginning of the summer, I always think of a list of things I want to do. There’s something about summer that feels like it’s the perfect time for extra projects and going on trips. If you’re...

How to Keep Your Bullet Journal Organized (And Colorful)

If you use your bullet journal to keep track of many different types of tasks, it’s important to have a system of keeping it all organized. You don’t want to spend all day searching...

Big Rocks, Little Rocks, Sand

Stephen Covey, the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, brings an analogy to explain priorities.  The Jar of Life Imagine you have an empty jar. This jar represents the time you...

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