Productivity Pom Poms, Legend Behavior, and Why You Scroll Til 2am

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💭 One Thing We’re Thinking About

Mapping 🗺 instead of scheduling 📅

One of the things we’ve had to learn the hard way is that plans will not go according to schedule, energy levels will be unpredictable, and there’s no point in being hard on yourself about either of these things.

If you’re the type of person who craves order but hates rigidity, let us introduce you to mapping.

When you map out your weeks or days, it’s about identifying the 📍priority checkpoints where things are due and need to be completed — rather than packing the schedule so tight that one tiny thing might throw off the whole plan, and send you into a spiral of feeling like you can’t keep it all together.

Mapping allows for energy fluctuations and periods of lower pressure downtime, and is a great strategy for when you’re tired, burned out, or just in your Luteal phase.

A great tool for mapping is actually our Priority Planner, which we intentionally designed to be flexible to keep on track with the most important priorities, instead of scheduling everything down to the minute.

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👀 One Thing We’re Obsessed With

We loved this video from quinn.makes on IG 🧶

She says that, “Chores don’t spark joy, tiny bits of colorful wool do. I have the ADHD urge to game-ify everything, so over the past few weeks I’ve found that having a visual reminder of a tangible reward-to-come motivates me to actually get things done.”

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🎧 One Thing We’re Listening To

Wiser Than Me is one of the greatest podcasts on the internet rn — female legends in their 60s+? Sing us the f*ck up. They’re deep into Season 2 right now and our two favorites right now are the interviews with Billie Jean King and Beverly Johnson 💅

🤔 One Question For You

⭐️ One Last Thing

We’ve all heard of revenge bedtime procrastination by now, right? Here’s an article on the science behind it 🤭

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