Grable, Amanda
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Monthly wellness planners to help you live a life of mindfulness and creativity. Get organized with weekly spreads and habit trackers. Mood tracker, s
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tep tracker, sleep tracker, 30 day challenge, cleaning checklist, groceries, budget, spending tracker and to do list included with each month. Monthly and weekly views. Plenty of space to write and track everything.
Psychedelic inky swirls decorate this months pages
21 days to make a habit
The old adage says it takes 21 days to make a habit, while modern research shows this to be the minimum amount of days required, the point remains that by setting goals to do a task each day it becomes something that you do automatically. So start by aiming for 21 days, and then aim to keep going. Be gentle with yourself and allow for days that are atypical or where time just can’t be found and catch up the next day. The goal is to keep striving to do these things everyday.
Why choose a handwritten planner when I can do all this with my phone?
Studies show that handwriting increases mindfulness, calm and creativity as well as retention of the material written. Handwriting increases neural activity in the brain that is similar to meditation. Sequential hand movements used in handwriting activate regions of the brain responsible for thinking, language, healing and memory. Handwriting forces us to slow down and encourages mindfulness.
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is the ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on around us. Taking time to smell the flowers, slowing down, focusing on what’s happening now. Our world is full of overstimulation and instant gratification. Taking moments to pause, slow down and enjoy the task at hand helps to create calm and the ability to focus. Mindfulness reduces stress, enhances performance and helps us to gain insight and awareness from our own mind.
Give yourself 15 minutes.
Set aside 15 minutes at the end of your day. Begin at the beginning of the month and go through filling things into the end. If you’re on a roll and want to write more, or if you're at the end of the month go into the next month and start filling things in so it's not overwhelming all at once to set up the planner.
Remember this planner has a dual purpose.
One is to get you organized and think ahead. The other is to remind you that you have done things, that you did accomplish stuff, that you are asking a lot of yourself. If you have side income this can help keep and organize that info for tax time. If you have a chronic illness this can help document information you need for doctors appointments. Use what works for you.
Write everything down and clear the brain space that you are wasting on trying to remember all the mundane to-do of adulting.
Set yourself up for success.
When you are done with your planner for the night, leave it open to the weekly spread in a place you will see in the morning. This way you can remind yourself of your schedule and to-do’s in the morning.
When you are done with your planner, leave it where you will see it at night. Just remembering to use the planner is the first habit you are trying to create. Remember it takes 21 days to make any task a habit. So be patient with yourself and strive to create helpful habits.
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