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Speaker 1: Hi. This is Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of four,

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Speaker 1: an author, journalist, and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Hunger.

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Speaker 1: I'm a mother of three, practicing physician and blogger. On

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Speaker 1: the side, we are two working parents who love our

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Speaker 1: careers and our families. Welcome to best of both worlds.

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Speaker 1: Here we talk about how real women manage work, family,

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Speaker 1: and time for fun. From figuring out childcare to mapping

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Speaker 1: out long term career goals. We want you to get

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Speaker 1: the most out of life. Welcome to best of both worlds.

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. This is episode sixty six. Today we'll

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Speaker 1: be talking all things planners. Last year we did a

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Speaker 1: Planner Paloza episode that was very well received as Sarah

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Speaker 1: discussed the wonderful planning options that are out there. And

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of our listeners are really into

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Speaker 1: their planners as a Sarah, so I personally am very

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Speaker 1: excited about learning about all the options as you are

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Speaker 1: considering your twenty nineteen planner purchases. But if you didn't

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Speaker 1: listen to that episode, it's it's episode twenty that aired

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Speaker 1: last year, so maybe you want to check that out.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of old episodes that we would

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Speaker 1: love to have. Yeah, and you guys know, the word

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Speaker 1: planning comes up again and again because you know, both

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Speaker 1: of us feel like in many spheres of life, it

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Speaker 1: really can make for a smoother existence when you kind

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Speaker 1: related things where kind of having a lag up on

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Speaker 1: times easier. Hello, that's like called ordering something you know

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Speaker 1: on Prime versus you know, having to run to the

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Speaker 1: store the last second. Anyway, we're big planners. We feel

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Speaker 1: like it helps with the things a little and small,

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Speaker 1: and then there are a number of tools that can

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Speaker 1: help you to reach your goals while planning. And the

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Speaker 1: previous episode in two thousand and seventeen was called Planner

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Speaker 1: but no, it was twenty six, twenty seven, seventeen, twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: We were doing this past did exist? I wish, I wish,

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Speaker 1: that's wish we'll thinking so No, the episode in twenty

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Speaker 1: seventeen was called Planner Palooza, and I talked about a

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Speaker 1: few physical products, but that more is a like a

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Speaker 1: discussion of how I like to plan. And everybody has

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Speaker 1: different methods and I'm definitely not saying well, my method

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Speaker 1: that when I listen to other people detail their methods,

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Speaker 1: I always get some valuable ideas. So if you're interested

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Speaker 1: in you know, what kinds of lists are helpful to keep,

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Speaker 1: and you know, how do you just decide what goes

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Speaker 1: the big picture stuff, that might be a really fun

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Speaker 1: episode to check out. Yeah, there's a lot of other

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Speaker 1: topic of goals and resolutions and things like that. I

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Speaker 1: know we've gotten a lot of new listeners over the

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Speaker 1: past few months, which is awesome, But maybe you've got

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Speaker 1: some you weren't with us from the beginning, and you've

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Speaker 1: got some long car trips coming up if you're visiting

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Speaker 1: relatives for the holidays and looking for a podcast that's

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Speaker 1: generally quite family friendly. I don't think we've said anything

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Speaker 1: so far that isn't you know you could check out

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Speaker 1: happy place. We had our twenty eighteen Goals episode was

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Speaker 1: number twenty three. Our twenty eighteen Goals check in. Then

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Speaker 1: We did a New Year's Resolutions episode with our guest

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Speaker 1: Gretchen Rubin. That was episode number twenty one, So that's

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Speaker 1: a great one to listen to, especially for our listeners

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Speaker 1: So maybe you want to listen to Laura and I

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Speaker 1: home exactly. So all great things to listen to past episodes,

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Speaker 1: other tools. You know what, maybe a really cool future

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Speaker 1: companies were very gracious and sending Sarah their samples, either

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Speaker 1: So I sent out emails to a number of companies,

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Speaker 1: Keep your eyes peeled on our instagram, on my blog

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Speaker 1: the tch E s Hu Box for anyone who hasn't

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Speaker 1: So they inqual Press makes a whole different. They make

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Speaker 1: an option to include in this planner. There's a pocket

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Speaker 1: in the back which is very handy and convenient, and

432
00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:01,760
Speaker 1: because again it's customizable, you can do a large note

433
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,160
Speaker 1: section as you've may have remembered from a prior episode.

434
00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:07,119
Speaker 1: I tend to like to have sort of a bullet

435
00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,280
Speaker 1: journal component to my planer, whether that's like a separate

436
00:21:09,280 --> 00:21:12,000
Speaker 1: notebook that tops in the back or an integrated part.

437
00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,720
Speaker 1: This would allow you to do it completely integrated as

438
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,800
Speaker 1: a whole section of the planner itself. You also get

439
00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 1: to customize the cover in terms of customization and your initials,

440
00:21:20,119 --> 00:21:23,960
Speaker 1: and the paper is also I would say up there

441
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,680
Speaker 1: in terms of quality and smoothness. I do feel like

442
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:30,440
Speaker 1: the paper has that kind of extra smooth touch. I've

443
00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:33,639
Speaker 1: used a few pens on it where include smudge, which

444
00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,040
Speaker 1: for me is very upsetting. So if that's something that

445
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,080
Speaker 1: bothers you, you will keep that in mind. But that

446
00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:41,800
Speaker 1: actually has is a phenomenon. More on the monthly pages,

447
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,480
Speaker 1: which are made out of a thicker but smoother paper

448
00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 1: than the daily pages, so you'll have to decide how

449
00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:51,080
Speaker 1: much that would bother you or not. The next customizable

450
00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 1: option is the age Endo. This, you guys, is the

451
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:58,520
Speaker 1: most customizable thing I've ever seen. I mean, I yes,

452
00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 1: the plump paper is customizable, and the next one I'll

453
00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 1: talk about is too, But this one, if you're like

454
00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,080
Speaker 1: I'll say, it could be a turnoff if you're not

455
00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:09,280
Speaker 1: enough of a planner nerd. You have to really want

456
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 1: to like get in there and you know, engineer every page.

457
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 1: But once you do that, I went in and created

458
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,639
Speaker 1: a daily product that I actually plan on using it

459
00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:21,720
Speaker 1: a little bit differently. Again, I can't use fifteen different planners,

460
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:23,639
Speaker 1: but I did feel like the ones that I customized,

461
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:25,119
Speaker 1: I had a duty to try to figure out a

462
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 1: way to use it, partly so I could take pictures

463
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 1: for you guys, but partly just to try it out.

464
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 1: And for this one, I did a daily one because

465
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Speaker 1: I figured, hey, I can use these daily sheets kind

466
00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 1: of separately, not necessarily the whole planner altogether, and you

467
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 1: can put in like if your child takes a medicine,

468
00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 1: you can put a check off box for that and

469
00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:42,960
Speaker 1: what dose they need. On what day? Do you know

470
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:44,760
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, you can build that in. You

471
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,480
Speaker 1: can put in that you have to pay your lawnmower

472
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,960
Speaker 1: on a certain day. You can put in checkboxes for

473
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 1: anything you want, and that text actually gets integrated into

474
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Speaker 1: the planner. So I highly recommend checking this out if

475
00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:59,000
Speaker 1: you just really want to control every detail of your planner.

476
00:22:59,240 --> 00:23:02,880
Speaker 1: The paper is nice and smooth. I definitely, it's nice

477
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 1: and white. It has a medium smear potential. I would

478
00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 1: say you get to choose all of your colors, so

479
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 1: you could create a black and white product, or you

480
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,159
Speaker 1: could create pastels to go with each month. And it

481
00:23:14,240 --> 00:23:16,200
Speaker 1: is ring bound. I would say. The only downside is

482
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:17,639
Speaker 1: if you are a planning nerd if you create a

483
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,639
Speaker 1: daily product, you may create a very large planner without

484
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,560
Speaker 1: meaning to. So this one is a bit of a

485
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 1: behemoth and that I can't imagine bringing it back and

486
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:27,480
Speaker 1: forth to work. But it could be a great thing

487
00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 1: to just fit on your desk and kind of it

488
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,040
Speaker 1: could be a great journal for every day where you

489
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,400
Speaker 1: you know, write your intentions or plan out your day

490
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:36,200
Speaker 1: and then maybe either bring that sheet with you or

491
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 1: leave it in the planner. So it sounds like it

492
00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 1: might be good for somebody who like worked from home

493
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,359
Speaker 1: for instance. Oh, absolutely, if you really wanted to, like, right,

494
00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 1: that's age age people who come like it's like agenda

495
00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 1: but with an IO instead of an A yes. I

496
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,399
Speaker 1: think that someone who work from home and wanted to

497
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:56,280
Speaker 1: be able to like block out every moment of every

498
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Speaker 1: day or you know, maybe remind themselves that they want

499
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: mondays for like you know, long range planning or writing,

500
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,160
Speaker 1: they could build that right in. I think that would

501
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: be an awesome product for that. And I just want

502
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 1: to cut in here with this potential thing. You know,

503
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 1: Sarah is really evaluating this for you guys because she's

504
00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: left handed, so everything smears more. Yeah, I love that,

505
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,720
Speaker 1: good friends, so she can actually tell you if it's

506
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 1: gonna smear because of that. So absolutely well, And I'm

507
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: sure there's some right handers that you're right. I think

508
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 1: it's more of an issue for a left hand and

509
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 1: it's something that I care about. Some people might not

510
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: care at all, so that might not be something that

511
00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's a requirement depending on what your

512
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 1: needs are. All right, we have one more customizable one.

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Speaker 1: We are getting through this. I promise this one is

514
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:46,439
Speaker 1: the Golden Coil, and I think of this as the

515
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 1: elegant sibling to the two above. The two above are

516
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:52,879
Speaker 1: beyond customizable. They're colorful, they're beautiful. Golden Coil is like,

517
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 1: I don't know, the great aunt wearing like a beautiful

518
00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:01,160
Speaker 1: woven shawl and she's super and tells you about her

519
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,679
Speaker 1: worldly journeys. That's the Golden Coil. Really, I'm going to

520
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 1: turn my planner into a person anyway. There are also

521
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:10,320
Speaker 1: many layouts of Golden Coil, but they have these linen

522
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 1: covers and gold writing and their fonts are very kind

523
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 1: of professional reserve looking. The papers very caught me like

524
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: you might find on a fine invitation. I think a

525
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:22,919
Speaker 1: Golden Coil planner would make a fantastic gift, and they

526
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: don't have to be full on planners. They do have

527
00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 1: a number of planet layouts, but they also have a

528
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: lot of different notebook options, including because I wanted to

529
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:35,040
Speaker 1: make something different once again, I made a recipe slash

530
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 1: meal planning book that included they had meal planning pages

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00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 1: that I can incorporate where you list each meal and

532
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 1: then you have a grocery list and then also like

533
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 1: favorite recipes, if you tend to like to print out recipes.

534
00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:48,720
Speaker 1: This isn't the best, but if you want to write

535
00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 1: down kind of your favorites to keep it in an

536
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: archival fashion, then this might be for you. And there's

537
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,080
Speaker 1: like these beautiful gold page marketings like basically this the

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00:25:57,080 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: Golden Coil is a pleasure to use. I didn't find

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00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: it as functional when I tried to design an actual

540
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 1: weekly planner, just because I'm super picky about what i

541
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: want my layouts to look like. And even though it's customizable,

542
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,679
Speaker 1: it didn't have exactly what I wanted. But man for

543
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:15,639
Speaker 1: like a notebook or a journal or like a specialized planner,

544
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:17,680
Speaker 1: I think it could be great and again an awesome gift.

545
00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 1: It also comes in like a very beautiful box, so

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00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 1: it would be nice presentation. Okay, two more, I cannot

547
00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 1: leave out my favorite used planet well most used personal

548
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: plann I wouldn't sa favorite. I don't have a favorite.

549
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: I'd be like choosing a favorite child. But the Hobo

550
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:38,560
Speaker 1: Nisji Teto planners are kind of special to me because

551
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 1: I've used them for a number of years. I think

552
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,639
Speaker 1: they're one of the most customizable or not customizable but

553
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: flexible options out there, and for someone who does use

554
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 1: the calendar portion of my planner as my actual calendar. Now,

555
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 1: I do use Google Calendar to communicate with others. I

556
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:56,520
Speaker 1: use it as a backup to add additional information I

557
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,879
Speaker 1: have to use my Outlook calendar at work, et cetera.

558
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,199
Speaker 1: But I have a master calendar in my planner, and

559
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:06,280
Speaker 1: I think the Hoboichi is for those people because there's

560
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: just a very useful timetable on the weekly pages. And

561
00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 1: then if you want a full day pages to write

562
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,159
Speaker 1: out your day and you don't want someone to structure

563
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 1: it for you, you want to do it yourself, this

564
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: planner is fantastic if you are more of a bullet

565
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: journaler type person, and I can get into that in

566
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: a minute. I think most people have heard of the

567
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,919
Speaker 1: bullet journal, but I'm going to mention that as a

568
00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 1: special bonus thing. But if you're like a bullet journal

569
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: who does not want to draw your own layouts, which

570
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 1: like that's kind of where I am. A traditional bullet

571
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: journaller is sitting there like drawing out each week and

572
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: each month, and they're like using a ruler to get

573
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:41,439
Speaker 1: it all perfect. And honestly, if you're a perfectionist like me,

574
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:43,679
Speaker 1: that sort of sounds like torture because I'd probably make

575
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,200
Speaker 1: a whole layout and then I draw one number wrong

576
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:46,400
Speaker 1: and that I have to do it again. It would

577
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: just like not help my productivity. But this open layout

578
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 1: of the Hobo Nicci allows you to kind of do

579
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: whatever you want with it, but already have the layouts present,

580
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: if that kind of makes sense. My only two negatives

581
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: are number one, Yeah, are hard to get. You have

582
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: to well not hard, but they take a little time.

583
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: They have to order them off of the website that

584
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 1: it is in English, but they do ship straight from Japan,

585
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 1: so you kind of have to get used to that.

586
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: I think of it kind of as a positive personally

587
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:11,879
Speaker 1: because it's fun because it's a little bit of a

588
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:16,399
Speaker 1: different shopping experience, but it is perhaps a con if

589
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: that's intimidating. And they do have really thin paper which

590
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,359
Speaker 1: makes them super portable. I mean, I can't think of

591
00:28:23,400 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 1: another book that allows you to have daily, weekly, and

592
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 1: monthly pages. And it's not honestly very big. It's the

593
00:28:28,440 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: same size as a modest a moderate length paperback book,

594
00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 1: I'd say, but that means the pages are really really thin,

595
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: and if that annoys you, and they see through this

596
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:42,000
Speaker 1: annoys you. There's a little bit of bleed through sometimes

597
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: and certainly a lot of ghosting, which is a term

598
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: for when you write with a pen and you can

599
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: kind of feel the texture on the other side. So

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00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: that is the whole bichi. I personally use the Tech

601
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 1: Show cousin most successfully. That's the largest product that they have.

602
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:59,479
Speaker 1: They also have the regular Techo, which there's an English

603
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: and Japanese version, and this one, however, does not have

604
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: a weekly page built in, so I found it to

605
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: be kind of a deal breaker for me. You can

606
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: get this little separate book, but it is very small,

607
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: so your milage may vary with that if you're using

608
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: it as a calendar. There's also another product they put

609
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 1: out called The Weeks where if you really just want

610
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,960
Speaker 1: it as a calendar. Actually, there are number of people

611
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: who have crammed a lot of things in this and

612
00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: I can't do it justice. There are whole Instagram accounts

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00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:27,719
Speaker 1: dedicated I'm serious to the flexibility of the Hoho Need

614
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: two Weeks. If you're thinking about wanting a really small

615
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,600
Speaker 1: yet flexible planner to also use as a calendar, you

616
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: may want to consider that, and I would say yes

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00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: searching on Instagram. Okay, Our last product here is the

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00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: Amelia Lane Planners, which is a newcomer to the planning sphere,

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Speaker 1: and I give them a gold star for generosity because

620
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: I asked for one to review, and Chanelle, who is

621
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: the owner of the company, she wrote me back personally

622
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,239
Speaker 1: and sent me four, so we will be doing some

623
00:29:55,280 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: giveaways there. They are super beautiful. They are more feminine looking.

624
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: They have sort of flowered patterns. My favorite one has

625
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: a mint green color and a palm farm planner and

626
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: a gold edge corners. It is just super super beautiful.

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00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: They have meals and fitness trackers embedded, which you know

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00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 1: that may be a con for some people, but if

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00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 1: it's something that you're looking to incorporate into your planning,

630
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: you may like this. I would say the only cons

631
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: for these planners are that you do need something if

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Speaker 1: you want. I like to have my planner open on

633
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,880
Speaker 1: my desk because I will use it to kind of

634
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,960
Speaker 1: like go through my day basically like, oh, what do

635
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: I have to do next? What's coming up? These don't

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00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,160
Speaker 1: stay open, so you'd have to use some kind of

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00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: a pretty bookweight or something to kind of hold them open.

638
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: If that's something that's important to you. And they do

639
00:30:43,280 --> 00:30:46,200
Speaker 1: have some tiny boxes in them. I am a tiny writer,

640
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,480
Speaker 1: so if I'm considering them small that that kind of

641
00:30:49,520 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: means something. I'm debating. I really want to keep them

642
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,440
Speaker 1: pristine because I want to give them away, but then

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Speaker 1: I also feel like to do a fair review, I

644
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Speaker 1: want to do a page of a mock up. So

645
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Speaker 1: maybe one that I give away will have like one

646
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: or two pages written in because Sarah, for one day,

647
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:05,840
Speaker 1: that'll be fun. I'll do it. I'll do it like

648
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: at the end of December, so that hopefully you will

649
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,640
Speaker 1: have moved on to your next planner by the end. Perhaps,

650
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,280
Speaker 1: But I do feel like I can't criticize how small

651
00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,480
Speaker 1: they are without actually really trying to write in them

652
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 1: and seeing how it goes. And they have actually multiple options.

653
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,000
Speaker 1: There are two compact ones and there are two larger ones,

654
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,880
Speaker 1: both in a daily and weekly format. I would say

655
00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: they're pretty heavy, so they're more of a desk thing,

656
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: except the planner ones could fit in a pursor bag

657
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: pretty easily the compact ones, So that is amal ling.

658
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,800
Speaker 1: So there you go. That was I believe ten different options.

659
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: It says nine, but they were number wrong, so there

660
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,160
Speaker 1: were ten, which is a nice round up. I didn't

661
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: even have any that that was mostly for you, Laura

662
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: plan like following along exactly, and I did mention bullet journals.

663
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: So I guess I'm going to give one more shout

664
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,720
Speaker 1: out to that. Some people prefer these dates use a

665
00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: blank notebook and completely kind of customize their own experien

666
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: and that is called a bullet journal. There was recently

667
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: a bullet journal book out, and so if you really

668
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 1: want more information about that, you might want to check

669
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: that out. I again author writer Carol. He does Writer Carol,

670
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: and he's the one who coined the term bullet journal,

671
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 1: so it is fitting that he wrote this book on

672
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: the method. I just personally can't quite wrap my head

673
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 1: around writing out all those lines, so that's me. But anyway,

674
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 1: I hope that you, if you've made it all the

675
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: way through, you must like planners like I do. So

676
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:33,240
Speaker 1: please go to Instagram and share with me what you're using,

677
00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:35,400
Speaker 1: share with me what you think maybe we should review

678
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: next year. There are definitely some things missing from this list.

679
00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: Some of that might be because I emailed the company

680
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 1: and maybe I got like a blunt rejection. So I

681
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: didn't to talk about them here or other than I

682
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: may just not know about so please let me know. Yeah,

683
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: now that sounds great. You can also follow shoebox plans

684
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: on Instagram, right, that's oh, yes, I have been doing

685
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 1: some more on shoebox plants, so it's shoe box Underscore plans.

686
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: And I do like fun planner layouts. I've been trying

687
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: to use these samples and show people, you know, what

688
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: it might book like to use them in real life,

689
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: so that that has been kind of fun. Yeah, and

690
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 1: that's awesome. I I gotta say it's because I like

691
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: to do things specifically my way. I have never been

692
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: able to like get into another planner, like I just

693
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: like a blank notebook and then I write what I

694
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: need to write in there. And so I'm still trying

695
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:32,719
Speaker 1: to get my head around the idea of like a

696
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: system that somebody else kind of are a bullet journal

697
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 1: or without a bullet journal, or yeah, without it being

698
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: a bullet journal, I guess because it's not got the

699
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: bullet I mean, it's just notebook. There's there's no bullets involved.

700
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: This is like a you know, something I bought at Target.

701
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: As long as it's you know, big enough, stays open

702
00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: and has like college ruled paper. That's pretty much all

703
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: I all I need. But you have that separate from

704
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: your paper calendar. Yes, so I have a little small

705
00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:02,240
Speaker 1: paper calendar, which is the Dayminder weekly small thing. It's

706
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: just like five and a half by you know, three

707
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:09,359
Speaker 1: eight or oh by three oh, like tiny and then

708
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: it's uh, well, I may be wrong on that. I

709
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,400
Speaker 1: haven't actually measured it. But the Dayminder at a glance

710
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,840
Speaker 1: weekly appointment book. And the upside of that is, I

711
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,759
Speaker 1: mean the pages are you see the whole week on

712
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: one page, one open page, spiral bounds so it stays open,

713
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: fits in my purse. I don't actually want a whole

714
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: lot of space on any given day because I don't

715
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 1: like to plan too much on any given day. So

716
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: that's why that that's like that. But my planner is, yeah,

717
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 1: just a notebook. So there's obviously many ways you can

718
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: do this, and we'd love to hear from people who

719
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: have their own methods of how they plan and what

720
00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: you've come up with. And I don't know, maybe I

721
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: need to give my methods some sort of fancy name

722
00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: and write like, let's try to create an empire out

723
00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: of it. It turns out that's not too late. Too late.

724
00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'll write that with you. Yeah, well,

725
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: there we go. Let's let's get on. So yeah, those

726
00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,200
Speaker 1: were awesome, Sarah, thank you for doing all those. So

727
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: moving to the questions section of by the way, we'll

728
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: put all this. I'll put these in the blog posts

729
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: I do. I'll list all of them so people have

730
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: the names if they were just tuning in and out

731
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: for the podcast. Our question this week comes from a

732
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: listener who wants to know how to use a morning hour.

733
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: So she has three kids, ages fifteen, twelve, and eight.

734
00:35:27,680 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: Her fifteen and twelve year old needs to be on

735
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 1: the respective buses like before seven am, so early early.

736
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: The eight year old's bus time is eight thirty, so

737
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 1: we have an issue of there being a whole hour

738
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: and a half between kids one and two getting on

739
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,240
Speaker 1: the bus and kid number three getting on the bus,

740
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 1: and she's trying to figure out how best to use it.

741
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: She says she's a small business owner who works from home,

742
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,280
Speaker 1: so she's a fair amount of flexibility. Her husband travels

743
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: quite a bit for his job, so she's sort of

744
00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: not planning on him being there most days during this

745
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,400
Speaker 1: window of time, so she usually gets up at five

746
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: point fifteen to run her walk with a friend until

747
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: six fifteen she gets her older kids out the door.

748
00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 1: They're pretty independent, so they don't actually need all that

749
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,399
Speaker 1: much time. The issue is what she does from seven

750
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: to eight thirty. She was hoping her eight year old

751
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:13,759
Speaker 1: would sleep in for more of this time, but he

752
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: does not. He wakes up with his older siblings, but

753
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: then he's up and ready to go and says that

754
00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,280
Speaker 1: at this point he would like her to actively engage

755
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: with him during the next ninety minutes. And she says

756
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: while she loves the one on one time and feels

757
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: that it has been a gift to a degree, they've

758
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 1: been reading to another. He helps with household tasks and

759
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 1: all that, but she also feels a bit conflicted, like

760
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: she is losing a huge chunk of what could be

761
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 1: her best time. That's seven to eight thirty, time to

762
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: accomplish deep work or do personally fulfilling things that would

763
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,240
Speaker 1: help set up the rest of her day, like pray,

764
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: go through her planner, or read so many mornings, you know,

765
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: she basically isn't even getting out of her running clothes

766
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: until he's on the bus. She says, ideally he would

767
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 1: sleep a little bit longer in this window, and I

768
00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: did have some time, but I'm not sure that this

769
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: could happen, So suggestions of how I could plan this

770
00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: time more effectively. Right now, I feel so scattered and behind.

771
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 1: Once I get him out the door, it's hard, hard

772
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:11,080
Speaker 1: to settle down and get to work. So yeah, do

773
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,240
Speaker 1: you want to go? Well, why don't you go first?

774
00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: But I want to say one thing, which is that

775
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: sometimes I feel like we get stuck into routines when

776
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,560
Speaker 1: our kids are young, and then we forget that they're

777
00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: not young anymore, and the routines are still there, Like

778
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,880
Speaker 1: I do. I mean, her kid is kids are so

779
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 1: old that they could be so self sufficient if she

780
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: wanted them to be. And it's not that, you know,

781
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 1: it's very important to spend that time, but I wonder

782
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: if a lot of what's happening it's just because it

783
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,240
Speaker 1: always was, because it was like that when he was thirty,

784
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: when when he was four, and now he's eight. And

785
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: I think it's great that she's taking this time to

786
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 1: think like, hey, this isn't really working, because I think

787
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: we don't do that all that often, and then we

788
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: realize that we're stuck in three year old routines five

789
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: years later. Yeah, no, that can happen. But I mean

790
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: I definitely I felt for her because you know, we

791
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 1: have we have something similar in the sense that you know, well,

792
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:02,279
Speaker 1: I get the sixth grade er up, I mean it's

793
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: shoved forward like another hour, but I get my sixth

794
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,320
Speaker 1: grader up at seven fifteen. Then you know, he gets

795
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: driven to school either by us or by the neighbor

796
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: at seven fifty and the other kids bus comes eight thirty,

797
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: eight thirty five, and then the preschooler goes at nine.

798
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 1: So basically I could be in getting kids ready for

799
00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: school and two school mode from in essence seven forty

800
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: five to nine fifteen every morning, which is better than

801
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,920
Speaker 1: it could be. Because the middle schooler's bus was going

802
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 1: to come at seven twenty, it meaning I have an

803
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,840
Speaker 1: even bigger, like totally unusable gap. So we did a

804
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: carpool short ofly to make the morning a little bit

805
00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 1: less spread out, you know. But I also I did

806
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: a couple of things. One is I made a decision

807
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: that I'm generally not the one bringing the three year

808
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,439
Speaker 1: old to school. I will sometimes that ar nanny comes

809
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 1: and does that. Most days she comes actually eight to

810
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: help with the getting ready. You know, I do it Sundays,

811
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,440
Speaker 1: but if no one expects it, I can start my

812
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: work day at eight thirty five instead of like nine ten,

813
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: And that's actually a reasonable chunk. Like you know, if

814
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,120
Speaker 1: you're starting at nine to ten, you know, you're kind

815
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 1: of after the start of most people's days. And so

816
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:08,320
Speaker 1: for me, those forty eight productive minutes do wind up mattering.

817
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:10,800
Speaker 1: But I gotta say one, you have a couple of choices.

818
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: One is to simply just accept that seven to eight

819
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 1: thirty is not going to be your worktime, and that

820
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,279
Speaker 1: can be okay, it can be kit time with some

821
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: understanding that you can kind of direct it right like that,

822
00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: and you can get the time back later. Like he

823
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,799
Speaker 1: is eight, you don't have to, you know, entertain him

824
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: after school. If you're entertaining him before school, and you know,

825
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:32,799
Speaker 1: when your husband's around, you could sort of designate a

826
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: chunk of time on the weekend, is like, this is

827
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 1: mommy's worktime because I've been doing the morning routine all

828
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 1: the other days of the week. And I think that's

829
00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 1: something that she believed her husband would would definitely be

830
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: willing to help with because we heard back from this lady,

831
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,399
Speaker 1: by the way, and sometimes it's the expectations that cause

832
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: the stress. It's not actually so if she simply says

833
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: seven to eight thirty is not worktime, then she's probably

834
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: okay with it. Where the problem she has now is

835
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: she's like, well, I could be working, but I'm not.

836
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: Now I feel bad about that, but then I feel

837
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,480
Speaker 1: like I'm not paying attention to my kid. So it's

838
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 1: all bet Like, if you just say no, it's not

839
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: you know, it's not my worktime, then I will start

840
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: with you know, all engines of blaze at eight thirty.

841
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: I think she could probably be fine with that. I

842
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: do like the idea of him, And the other thing

843
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 1: to say is this is a very limited time thing

844
00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: because the eight year old will be twelve and getting

845
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:19,640
Speaker 1: on the bus with the twelve year old in four years,

846
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: so you know this is this is not gonna last forever.

847
00:40:22,560 --> 00:40:24,440
Speaker 1: I do like the idea of him doing chores with her.

848
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,080
Speaker 1: Since she is a self employed work from home person,

849
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,319
Speaker 1: she probably does spend some time during her work day

850
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,920
Speaker 1: doing chores, and this is her excuse not to do that,

851
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,160
Speaker 1: Like now, everything that needs to get done could maybe

852
00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:35,879
Speaker 1: get done between seven and eight thirty with the two

853
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,240
Speaker 1: of them working alongside each other. She could also steer

854
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:41,520
Speaker 1: him into doing things that she does want to do

855
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:43,400
Speaker 1: during that time, Like she says she likes to pray

856
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: and do devotionals. Well, those are things you could actually

857
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Speaker 1: do with an eight year old. That would be a

858
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Speaker 1: great way to share her faith with her kid. That

859
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: would be a wonderful thing they could do. Or they

860
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: could both decide to journal for a bit. Maybe she

861
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: could convince her son to, you know, write or draw

862
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,080
Speaker 1: about what he wants for the day or things he's

863
00:41:01,120 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: grateful for. And you know, he's not going to do

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Speaker 1: this for an hour, but he might do it for

865
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Speaker 1: ten fifteen minutes, And so then she could get some

866
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Speaker 1: of that time. When they're journaling side by side together,

867
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Speaker 1: they could talk about their daily goals with each other.

868
00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,600
Speaker 1: That would be nice reading together, like she could if

869
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Speaker 1: she likes to read. She said she wanted to use

870
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: some of this time to read. Well, they could again

871
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,200
Speaker 1: read together. She could research some literature that an eight

872
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:23,759
Speaker 1: year old could handle if she was reading it to him.

873
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 1: There's a lot of really great sort of classic literature,

874
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: maybe like the Narnia books or some of the Newberry Awards,

875
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:34,440
Speaker 1: but you know, just avoiding sort of the Captain Underpants

876
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: genre of eight year old literature. She could do a

877
00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: research and find that stuff. So yeah, I mean, in

878
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 1: my case, I've sort of accepted that seven fifteen to

879
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: eight thirty is family time in my house and I

880
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:47,400
Speaker 1: will not plan on ever having work available to me

881
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:49,919
Speaker 1: during that time. I might, but probably I can't plan

882
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: on it. So I'm just sort of trying to relax

883
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: and enjoy longer breakfasts with the kids and chatting with

884
00:41:54,560 --> 00:41:59,440
Speaker 1: them about their days. I love that. Yeah, I'm going

885
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: to steal that, like side by side dreading an idea

886
00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: because I think my super into that. But I guess

887
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:08,879
Speaker 1: I will also just point out that again there may

888
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: be just to make sure that some of this is

889
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: in the holder from when they needed that full on supervision,

890
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:15,879
Speaker 1: because I will use my one example, which is that

891
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: it used to be and this is a little different.

892
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:19,560
Speaker 1: This is much earlier, But it used to be like

893
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: if my kid will with a forty five in the morning,

894
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:24,279
Speaker 1: then it's like, well that's it for my morning. But

895
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,319
Speaker 1: now if I'm working out and one of the big

896
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: kids wakes up, they can watch me do big body.

897
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: They may do it with me. They will sit there

898
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 1: and they can get their own banana and they can watch.

899
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 1: And therefore I could still do the thing that I

900
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:38,279
Speaker 1: wanted to do and be with them, and like, it

901
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:40,320
Speaker 1: doesn't derail my day now, of course it will do

902
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,399
Speaker 1: rail my day. Of Genity wakes up because she can't

903
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:44,319
Speaker 1: do that yet. But that's just an example of how

904
00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:46,280
Speaker 1: in just a couple of short years, you know, Cameron

905
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: couldn't have done this maybe a year ago, but now

906
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 1: you can. Things have changed. To just make sure that

907
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 1: you're always evaluating what your kids are really ready for.

908
00:42:53,239 --> 00:42:55,240
Speaker 1: And I will also throw out that you know, maybe

909
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:57,839
Speaker 1: this is one of those instances where you think about,

910
00:42:57,920 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 1: you know, what you do one day isn't what you

911
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: have to do every day. So maybe you tell your

912
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: son like or maybe it's maybe you want to do

913
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 1: this planning and it's annoying you every day in the

914
00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: house sitting down and plane. Well maybe you only only

915
00:43:06,640 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 1: need to plan on Fridays. Maybe you can spend that

916
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,479
Speaker 1: time with your son. But you say that, like, hey,

917
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: if you're up early on Fridays, that's wh when I

918
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: figure out the whole weekend and I have to look

919
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: at all my stuff. So you can plan with me

920
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:17,879
Speaker 1: or do your own thing, but just I need that time.

921
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: So remember that each day can stand away. Yeah, and

922
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,480
Speaker 1: she wrote back, which was awesome, and she liked our ideas,

923
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: you know, so she recognized that, you know, he's old

924
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: enough that he's okay being in the house by himself.

925
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: I mean, so one day she was coming back from

926
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,960
Speaker 1: the bus stop for her twelve year old and she

927
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 1: realized she didn't actually have to go inside and you know,

928
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: deal with the eight year old right away. So she

929
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,879
Speaker 1: sat on her porch and sort of had her her

930
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes of quiet time there on the porch, and

931
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:45,120
Speaker 1: he didn't think get anything of it when she went

932
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 1: in a few minutes later than usual, so you know,

933
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: she she did some of that. She also said in general,

934
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 1: she wasn't going to think of this as work times.

935
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 1: She can have some of this during her you know,

936
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: the summertime, she was thinking she no one had to

937
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 1: be anywhere, so those were her best working hours. But

938
00:44:00,680 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: she gets the whole school day, you know, during this

939
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:06,080
Speaker 1: phase of life, like during the school year, so she

940
00:44:06,160 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 1: actually doesn't have to have those ninety minutes in the

941
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 1: morning when everything's quiet, like now she gets that time

942
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:14,200
Speaker 1: later in the day. And they're going to do some

943
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,480
Speaker 1: more reading together too, and she's working on some great books.

944
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: She mentioned things like Poached by Stuart Gibbs, which is

945
00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: part of the Fun Jungle series. They're reading the Spy

946
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 1: School series, they read Harry Potter and The Mysterious Benedict,

947
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: so there's lots of great things that they're going to do.

948
00:44:28,680 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: And they're also working on doing dinner prep together. So

949
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: that was great to hear that she's using that. So

950
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: that's awesome. What do you have this week for us?

951
00:44:37,840 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 1: I have so well, it's sort of a general and

952
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:42,719
Speaker 1: a specific. So my kids are almost My big kids

953
00:44:42,719 --> 00:44:44,560
Speaker 1: are almost two years apart, and the older one is

954
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 1: a girl and the young ones of boys, so they

955
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: don't always agree. On the Potford TV shows, they did

956
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,439
Speaker 1: go through a big Wildcat Space and they did Girls

957
00:44:52,440 --> 00:44:54,200
Speaker 1: From Doing That together, but then they kind of watched

958
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 1: all those and we were having a lot of fighting

959
00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: over who was in charge of choosing the show. And

960
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: there's a series called Vanpaverna, which is not necessarily the

961
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 1: most highber hour educational TV ever, but it's on the

962
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,720
Speaker 1: Disney Network, but you can buy the episode at Amazon,

963
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 1: and they both love it. The music is kind of

964
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:19,399
Speaker 1: cute and it's one of the few things that give

965
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:21,240
Speaker 1: no fight. Like, we both want to watch it together,

966
00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:26,239
Speaker 1: so shout out to sometimes do what works for both kids. Yeah,

967
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 1: I say in that line, my kids love the Young Sheldon,

968
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: so the spinoff from the Big Bang Theory about well

969
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: young Sheldon when he's like a nine year old genius,

970
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: which it's kind of better done than the old Doogie

971
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 1: Howser MD series. But they I don't watch it's not

972
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:45,600
Speaker 1: my thing, but the kids all seem to, like the

973
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 1: older three all watch it together and with my husband,

974
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:49,360
Speaker 1: so that's that's kind of a cool thing that they

975
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 1: can all do. Oh that's you. Yeah, the whole family.

976
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah. So anyway, this has been best

977
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,520
Speaker 1: of both worlds. We've been talking all things planners this week.

978
00:45:57,719 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: We'll have a list of those on my blog and

979
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: Sarah been reviewing them on her blog on the shoebox

980
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: dot com, and we'll have them on Instagram too, So

981
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,680
Speaker 1: you can check out those ten planners we mentioned and

982
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 1: see what might be the best for you for twenty nineteen,

983
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: so anyway, tune in next week for more on making

984
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Speaker 1: work and life fit together. Thanks for listening. You can

985
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,480
Speaker 1: find me Sarah at the shoebox dot com or at

986
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:26,040
Speaker 1: the Underscore Shoebox on Instagram, and you can find me

987
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:30,319
Speaker 1: Laura at Laura vandercam dot com. This has been the

988
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:33,799
Speaker 1: best of both worlds podcasts. Please join us next time

989
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Speaker 1: for more on making work and life work together.