Well Planned Life

Hello, and happy 2017! Once again, a new post is long overdue.   It seems that I just never have time to write anymore, or perhaps I don’t make time for it anymore.   Either way, I do miss writing.   So one of my goals for 2017 is to get back to it, even if it’s only once in a while. Which brings me to my goals for 2017. There are many. I’m not sure why I have so many this year, except that I have a lot more going on these days than I used to.   My life has many areas, and each area seems to have its own goals. I had ideas for my goals swimming in my head throughout December, and shortly after Christmas, I had to get them all out.   I started with a generic brain dump, just getting every idea I had out of my head and on paper. (Forgive the bad writing, as I was riding in a car at the time.) Once I had all of the generic ideas down, I wanted to flesh them out a little, add more detail to each one. Once I had the detail...

Hello!   It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted, and I have to say, it feels good to be at it again, even if this is just a post to update you on my whereabouts. Things have been busy around here.   As mentioned in my last post , we have our condo on the market.   It’s not been as busy in this area as I would like, but still, it’s going.   We’ve hosted several open houses, and we’ve had people make appointments to see it.   No one has yet to make an offer we can accept, but people are looking, and that’s something.   But it’s not just us; other condos aren’t selling either.   It’s simply the market and/or the time of year.   I am confident that it will sell; it’s only a matter of when. In the meantime, we’ve been spending our weekends going to every open house we’re slightly interested in.   We’ve seen some that have potential and many that do not.   Either way, we’re learning what we want, what we don’t want, and what is...

Back during the Van der Spek April 1 sales (yes, I’m that far behind in my posting), I bought my third VDS customized binder.   So now, in addition to Cappuccino and Daisy , I now have Guinness.   (Why am I compelled to name each of my binders?) Guinness is made of the Nero nappa leather on the outside and the Barbie nappa on the inside.   Each has the contrasting stitching. The inside left has a secretarial pocket. The inside right is the standard pocket configuration. As far as content, the layout of my planner is still the same . What is different, as you may have noticed, is that this planner is the standard/personal size (25 mm rings), which isn’t uncommon in the planner world, but is uncommon in my world. Since Filofax first introduced the Compact binders back in 2011 , I have used them exclusively.   Carrying a compact allows me to streamline what I take out of the house with me, limiting me to only those things ...

A while back long time ago, a reader asked how I set up my project binders.   (You can check out some of my project binders here .)   It has taken me this long to write this post because I haven’t set up a project-specific binder in a while.   I have lots of ideas for special binders, but the reality of actually creating them, well, that’s a different story—I don’t seem to have as much time to do that these days.   (Oh, how I remember the days when I worked on nothing but setting up binders and section tabs and reorganizing my system …   Sometimes I miss those little projects, but being happy with my system is more important and allows me to devote my time to so many other things.)   Project binders—at least most—are one of those things that I have let go of, for the time being. However! I recently had the opportunity and need to set up another specific project binder.   So I took some pictures during the process, and here I will explain tha...