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I have been thinking about my planner style.  I thought at first that I was fun… then I have learned I am VERY functional.  I love the STICKERS! I am sure this stems back to my middle school days and the puffy, glitter and smelly stickers I would collect! I love to look at them and it took me quite a bit to feel good about pulling them out and using them.  It’s like I have this fear that if I use them, they will be gone forever. 

It took me quite a while, but I have grown to be able to use them.  First is a fear of being a hoarder, but second, I have decided that if they make me happy in their sticker book, they will make me more happy if I use them! So, I have gotten used to pulling out and try to use stickers for everyday! And… I figure that if I use up a sticker book, it will be ok for me to go out and buy more.  Besides, some will disagree, but the way I see it, I can only have so many sticker books in my tote!

I have 4 planners at this time, work, social, Happynichi, and my personal planner.  Work and social will remain the same and strictly lists of what I am doing.  I can’t share the work one, and I think my social one is boring right now.

I am going to try to be a little more “fun” with my personal planner. For my personal one, I like to make sure that I have ample room for what we are doing (or what we have done, I spend time everyday making sure I note what we did the day before if it was something that wasn’t schedule.  I also like to have a little note for how my day was and any highlights. I color code what we do, the family is red, I am purple, school is green and then birthdays tend to be orange (sometimes I use the favorite color of the person who’s birthday it is.

I can develop my Happynichi too, I need to do a little more studying on this one before I will feel solid. At this time I use the Happynichi more as a grateful journal, note things that are going well and that I have done that is positive… did I close all the rings on my AppleWatch, did I do my FIT in my Motion App? I hope brining positivity in my life will start a snowball effect!



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