Playing Games, Looking Busy, and Our New Notion Tool

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👀 ONE THING WE’RE OBSESSED WITH

We get asked all the time if we have a Notion tool to prioritize our tasks and plan our weeks —

THE ANSWER IS FINALLY YES 😎

The Priority Planner is ready!!!

We’ve both been victims of buying The Most Ideal Notion Template from our favorite productivity influencer… then never using it because it’s too much, too complicated. SO — we thoughtfully designed this to be satisfying to use and easy to jump in immediately without any BS you don’t need. This thing is SO FUN TO USE, and it’s only $18 🥳

The Priority Planner will help you:

• Brain dump your to-do’s and ideas

• Capture ideas for later and turn them into to-do’s when the time is right

• Prioritize tasks as Pressing, Core, and Back Burner

• Assign days and times to tackle your to-do’s

This is for you if:

• You want to visualize and plan your days and weeks more realistically

• Rigid schedules haven’t worked for you, and you need a flexible tool to easily shuffle sh*t around when things don’t go according to plan

• You’re ready to get your sh*t together… for real this time 😈

💭 ONE THING WE’RE THINKING ABOUT

When life gets busy, your creative endeavor of the moment is likely one of the first things to go. But, as we (and probably many of you) have learned the hard way — not finding time for some kind of creative practice comes at a cost to our well-being.

So when life starts life-ing a little too hard, how do we find the time for things that are sooo easy to put off?

Turn it into a game — with rules, structure, goals, the whole shebang!

It’s what we did with things you may have heard us talk about: Bare Minimum Monday, Tech Rest, and Flow State Formula.

For more on this, check out this cool article we found with 4 tips to help you turn your creative practice into more of a game!

🎧 ONE THING WE’RE LISTENING TO

THE ATLANTIC:
How to Look Busy (38 min)

We’re going to go out on a limb and say that everyone is going to feel a little called out (in?) by this one — has being “too busy” become a subtle power move to make you feel more important?

🤔 ONE QUESTION FOR YOU

⭐️ ONE LAST THING

We also just launched a new freebie — How to Prioritize When You’re Overwhelmed: A Practical Framework.

Click here to check it out 👀

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