Well Planned Life

I have been blogging for about three and half years, which just floors me.   Who knew I’d have so much to say about planners, and that people would be interested in what I have to say for so long!   I have enjoyed every minute of it and am very grateful to have readers at all, let alone faithful readers.   Thank you! I’ve been thinking about this blog a lot lately.  I love writing, love blogging, love this blog, love Philofaxy and the community that surrounds it.  I have “met” some wonderful people, people who have showed more support for me than some people I see on a regular basis, and some of the people here I have never met face to face.  I have met some, however, and it was like meeting up with old friends even though it was the first time I saw them in person.  In one case, I have created and cultivated a very close relationship to the point where we see each other every year and talk daily.  These relationships have come to mean a g...

After only a few months since discussing my “new” archiving system , I’ve gone and changed it.   There is a reason for that—one day I was looking for an old planner insert, specifically something I had written on an insert.   I knew it was from either 2012 or 2011, and I hadn’t a clue as to the time of year it happened.   So I dug out my archive boxes and started to look through.   What I realized is that while it’s easy enough to pull out the stacks of inserts from any given year, un-rubber band them and search, it was a pain in the neck.   Inserts were falling off my lap, the stack is so big that I couldn’t (easily) get the rubber band off or on, and I couldn’t flip through the inserts without having to take the stack apart.   True, it’s not often that I rifle through past inserts, but when I do, I want it to be easy. Enter my new system.  After reading posts from both Homemakers Daily and The Crazy Life of J , I went with Franklin Covey’s Sto...

Back in February, I decided to switch from the day per page layout to the two pages per day layout .   My original post explains in depth the reason for this change; however, just as a quick recap, I switched mainly because I wanted to add my work tasks in my planner so that everything was in one place.   If you look at my previous “ My Filofax Day ” posts, you can see how I organized and differentiated between my personal tasks and my work tasks. This layout works well for me, but I find myself constantly moving tasks from one day to the next.  While this works, it also means wasting time recopying things that I wouldn’t need to if I could organize these tasks electronically.  First, let me say that I’m not a huge fan of electronic organization on the whole—it doesn’t really work well for me, and I just prefer paper for most things.  I have tried using various digital products to keep me organized, and it just doesn’t work .  But I think the issu...

This coming week marks one year since we had wildfires here near my home.   For some reason this popped into my head the other day.   Then, after thinking about it, I realized that we’ve had a full year of natural disasters.   In most cases, there wasn’t a lot of damage, and in the one case where there was, I personally had no damage.   So, even though it’s been a year of weather-related things, I count my blessings that it wasn’t worse. Keeping track of random information in my planner is a good way to look back and see what events have taken place.  The weather is something that I jot down every day, even when it’s as mundane as “sunny; 53 degrees.”  And upon reflecting about all that has happened, that’s exactly what I did—I took out my past year’s inserts to see the timeline. Starting with the fires last year on April 9, 2012: The fire started on a Monday.   Last year at this time, we had unusually high temperatures and a lot ...

Happy Easter!   The sun is shining here in New York and it’s supposed to be a lovely day (I’ll ignore the reports for showers later on today).   It seems that the weather has finally turned (minus a cold hiccup for mid-week) and I am hopeful that all sinus issues will be resolved soon (though I’ll be heading back to the doctor this week to make sure nothing else is going on).   In any event, I thought the perfect post for today would be to discuss the update to my Happiness Binder , never mind the fact that I’ve had this topic on my list for months .   You can read all about the previous set up in the link above. So, how has it changed?  Let’s recap the original set up. First, I previously had two sets of tabs for everything I wanted to include. The tabs included: Health Running Resistance Yoga Calm Gratitude Happiness Music Books Quotes Notes Articles (You can read the full post above for an explanation of each section.) Se...

This post contains a few random bits of things I want to mention.   First, some (blog) housekeeping stuff.   As I mentioned last time , I have been contemplating removing myself from Paper Lovestory ’s “ My Week ” feature.  I love doing it and seeing what others have been up to, but unfortunately, I just don’t have the time to do it every week and keep up with my regular posts.  With that said I’ve decided to keep it but alter it just a bit.  I am going to make it a monthly feature rather than a weekly one (probably towards the end of each month).  I’ll be able to show you more interesting days as opposed to bore you all with snippets from work each time.  I will rename the feature (on my blog) “My Filofax Days” to reflect the change here.  Thank you to Paper Lovestory for inviting all of us to join her in her awesome weekly feature!  I’ll start this at the end of April since I’ve already done a few for March. If you read my posts t...

Another week where not much happened.   I’m still getting over being sick.   Monday night saw me canceling yet more plans due to not feeling well.   Ugh.   I am feeling better , but I wouldn’t say I’m back to my old self.   I honestly think I’m having some sort of allergic reaction to something in the air.   And since my last allergy test was less than three years ago (they don’t like to retest for three to five years), the doctor is a little reluctant to do another at this point.   But I may have to demand it.   Currently I’m on an antibiotic (a new one, after having a reaction to the originally one prescribed), so I’ll wait until I’m finished with it and see where I’m at before going that route. I have been feeling a little down because of not feeling well.  Anxiety has been trying to creep in, and as much as I’ve been able to keep it at bay, I fear that one of these days it will overtake me.  I don’t want to go down that...