Posted June 26, 2019 in Life / 3 Comments
There are a LOT of planner layout options. What do you pick? Monthly? Weekly? Daily? Hourly? Horizontal? Vertical? Which one is best?
This question very quickly gets personal. Everyone has a planner layout that will work best for them. It really will depend most upon your own needs in a planner.
But stick with me, I’m going to go over some common planner layouts.
As a note, I will be using planner layouts from Plum Paper to discuss the various layouts. Plum Paper has the most options for planner layouts that I have found and all are customizable. If you would like to receive and email with a 10% Plum Paper discount link on a purchase of $30 or more, please scroll to the bottom of this post to enter your email address.
First up is the monthly layout. This layout is typically included in all the other layouts but can also be just by itself. This layout is great for people who don’t need full weekly or daily layouts and only have one or two things to record for each day.
Personally, I use this layout within my weekly planner to record important dates I need to remember like birthdays, anniversaries, special feast days, and important appointments.
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Posted June 19, 2019 in Life / 0 Comments
July is typically the month where I start a new planner. I know most people start in January or maybe August if they are a student. Well, I start in July.
So why did I pick July?
There are a few reasons I picked July over January or August. First, I have been in the academic world since kindergarten and so academic year planners make perfect sense to me. I also hated the one year I did not use an academic year planner and had to worry about changing planners while also worrying about Christmas. That did not work for me.
So then I have the decision between the summer months: August (what most people choose), July (why I chose), and June.
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Posted June 13, 2019 in Faith, Life / 0 Comments
It has been way too long since I have really posted on this blog and so this post is going to be an update.
I have been in Oregon for a year working as Faith Formation Director in a parish. It has been a fun challenge. I loved the work I was doing but it was not a good fit for me. Much as I wanted to love everything about where I was, I couldn’t. And so I’m moving back to Montana.
In May I finished the last of my graduate school classes. I just have to pass a comprehensive exam the end of this summer and I will officially be able to add MA after my name. That is, provided I pass the test…
In this past year I have had some ups and some downs. At times I was tempted to focus on those downs as they always seem more prevalent than the ups. This is human nature where we often tend to focus on what when wrong and ignore the fact that so many things went right.
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