Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

Self Care Meets Planner

October 5, 2023

I’m needing an overhaul peeps – yes indeedy – but I knew that. Hell, we ALL know that. But what to do about it? Well, I finally got an idea – why not use my planner for tracking my self care/health basics! I have an Erin Condren Life Planner with a vertical set up and split up into three areas. So I put headers on each of the sections like so – Schedule, To Do, Self-Care, and Meal Plans at the bottom shaded area. Schedule is for appointments, grocery pick ups, kids activities, and even tv shows I want to see. To Do is for things I need to do – shopping, changing out my music, a prompt to keep up on routines, etc. Menu is for what we are eating for dinner each day. And here’s my list of things in my self-care section that I want to be doing each day:

Meds, Vitamin, Exercise (10 minutes at least), and Water

Okay, how do I set them up? I actually write down Meds, Vitamin, Exercise, Water in the self-care section and then add in squares after each of them as checkboxes. For meds I have two check boxes (one for each) and six check boxes after water to hit at least six cups. That’s it? That’s it – I do not need to use fancy stickers or anything else. I just write in what I want to do and then do it and check it off when it’s done. So far this has been working really well and even if some days are better than others, I can see where I’m at and what I still need to do.

The beauty of this is the simplicity of it – writing down on paper with a pen – and it’s right in my planner where I see it every single day. I tend to have too many different planny things, so I wanted to get as much down in my personal planner as possible to simplify.

So, that’s it – I finally have my planner set up for the way I function and reminders for me to do those things I need to do on the daily. I don’t need to write in my housekeeping stuff as I have a separate notebook for that. Again, keeping things simple and when this year comes to a close I may get really simple and chuck the fancy planner (and maybe my control journal) for a smaller notebook and a pen and keep track of everything that way in one place. We’ll see. I love planners but at the same time, I kind of don’t. And no, I will NOT be going digital. I think I already covered that in a previous post.

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October 5, 2023

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