Planner Girls chatting about planning our lives, decorating our day planners & interviewing our favorite people in the community.
We have our first solo workshops in the planner community at Chicago Planner Conference in 3 weeks. Colleen is speaking on Wellness and Jamie is speaking on Goal Setting. We share how this all came about, and why we’ve not shared in this way. If you happen to attend, we do our best to level set your expectations too.
Can’t wait to see so many of you in Chicago!
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
Well Well Well Group
Inkwell Press 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.
Jamie shares some of the challenges she’s had managing her time since she’s been on the road. Stephanie and Colleen question her logic and the extreme steps she’s taking for 2020 to get this under control. Plus they ask Allison and Mary Beth why they’ve chosen to join…There’s a manifesto too.
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Show Highlights
What is Well Well Well
Why Jamie Is doing this
Background of Inkwell Press
Mary Beth’s reasons for joining
Allison shares what she hopes to gain
Having an open mind
Stickers or no stickers
Science behind writing things down
We aren’t dogging on anyone
Focusing on what’s important
Defining productivity for ourselves
The marketing machine behind the planner
Show Mentions
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All the things we buy for crafting can be used in our planners. Gasp! Sometimes we forget that fact, and we need someone to remind us. This week we have Allison Zures daring us to think beyond our Etsy ordering fingers and remember all the other tools we can use to be creative in our planner. Plus a super fun MILDliner moment with Colleen.
You can find Allison on Instagram at the.bubbly.planner You can also learn from her at Plancation – Sweet Planner High in Gilbert Arizona Friday June 21st!
Show Highlights
GoT banter & predictions
Allison’s planners
Plum Paper secrets!
Chicago’s Faux Wild
The super big projects Allison is working on
Choosing speakers for Plancation
Spreading your creative wings
How our kids impact our planners
Blowing people’s minds with non sticker decorating
Item’s Allison says we need in our planner stash
Mildlier shock!
Allison’s fav shop round up
Show Mentions
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.
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.
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
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
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