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Jamie & Mary Beth check in with a Well Well Well status update. As expected, we haven’t gotten far, but surprisingly we’ve already had a few breakthroughs. 

Listen to the introduction of the Well Well Well here.

Jamie’s February Challenge Goals
Finish JOMO
Finish Season 3 Of Productivity Podcast

Mary Beth’s February Challenge Goals
Listen to 10 Episodes of Productivity Podcast

4 Tendencies Quiz

Myers-Briggs Personality Type

Show Notes
Apology for questionable comments 
Mary Beth’s Well Well Well Update
Taking Care Of Ourselves
Being Obligers
Mary Beth Is Offered an out 
Jame get’s rid of one planner 
Adding Google Calendar
Where we are at consuming the content
Hitting the pause button
Consuming the content
Goals for February
I’m doing the work
Benefit found in dedicating to 1 planner
Consolidating stickers

Show Mentions

Productivity Paradox

Well Well Well Group

Inkwell Press Planner

Gretchen Ruben 

Happiness Project

Maske Life Planner

Villa Beautiful Sticker Book 

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Shay joins us to share what role budgeting takes on her her life. She talks about how she got started budgeting before she got married, and how they are handling big financial decisions. Plus we get excellent advice on shaking that keeping up with the jones feeling. 

Cutting stickers is not that hard.

I can supplement my income.

Stickers are expensive I should just make them myself.

These are the words long term planner people have heard from newbies that makes our eye twitch. We know what’s coming next…an announcement of a new planner shop. This week we dive into what cutting stickers as a side business actually looks like with Kris who owns Insignificant Llama. She has been a shop owner long enough to reflect on the pros and cons of running a shop long term because you like making stickers you love and not being focused on creating a full time income. Also we share our planner predictions for the next year to come.

You can find Kris at @coffeeandcanclledplans

Here is the blog article that prompted this discussion from her blog Diary Of A Fittish Girl.

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Hobo, hibachi what ever planner, lol
Blog article > Find the name
What prompted this article
The gotchas of opening a shop
Cutting vs Designing vs Creating
The pressure of staying on top of trends
Different types of planner ladies now
Shop your stash
Emotional attachment to the business
Making for yourself
Using hashtags
Community involvement as a shop
Sticker book hack
The changes to the community
Planner predictions

Have you ever been sitting with a facemask on for your #selfcare and thinking… is it working, am I doing it right? Jessica with Pretty Prints and Paper takes us beyond the facemask and reminds us self-care is so much more than indulging yourself. In what turns into a self-care detox session for Colleen, Jamie, and Stephanie you’ll be nodding your head in agreement and re-evaluating what you think you know about self-care.

Jessica is a bullet journal and hand lettering artist and you can follow her on Instagram at Pretty Prints and Paper.

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A side thing

Notebook options

Jamie’s travel trailer update

A real conversation around self care

Positive quotes don’t = self care

Addressing the fires in life

Discipline & boundaries

Selfcare you don’t think of

How we’ve managed our energy

Why prioritizing yourself is important

People will inconvenience themselves for you.

Creating empty space in life

Realizing all the work we’ve got to do.

Managing expectations and disappointments

Building powerful relationships with boundaries & honesty

Protecting each others boundaries

How relationships change as priorities change

Bonding over not getting together

Letting the social media go

What our self care looked like this week

Saying no preemptively

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Rhodia 

Archer & Olive

The Immunity To Change

Krissyanne Designs

Quotables:

I don’t think there is any amount of yoga or positive vibes that are going to solve some of my problems. – Jamie

A bath is not going to get me out of being a workaholic, a manicure is to going to teach other people how to put their dishes away.  – Jessica

We get so caught up trying to make other people happy  and meeting their needs at our own expense. – Jessica

You don’t have to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm. – Jessica

If you don’t want to burn out, don’t live like you’re on fire. – Colleen

Women are told we can have it all. or that we should have it all. In the planner world i this to look flawless and beautiful while we do it and somehow hold it together, it’s not reality.  – Jessica

Selfcare is not a box you have to check off in your planner, it’s a pace that you live your life that is sustainable. It’s about discipline and being clear about your boundaries.  – Jessica

Selfcare is not always indulgent, and self care doesn’t mean splurging on something. – Jessica

You are worth parallel parking for. – Jamie

We are quick to give each other grace, but never ourselves – Colleen