Week 18 + New Goal Insert

‘ello Friends~

It has been quite a long update. Every time I went to write something it was just personal so I skipped it. Today I have a new insert I want to share, and I love it.

I’ve been working on this insert for 3 months, maybe a bit more…I started with just the plain dashboard, as I like to sort my monthly goals/todo’s in categories, then sometime last month I decided it needed a review page. I was originally just doing grid on the back, but I like to do a review every month, usually digitally, so I thought this would be perfect!

I still love my digital for writing and stats, just easier, but I 100% use the HP as a memory keeper more than anything, so yeah this is a better place.

So I added the insert to my Etsy this last week, it is an editable PDF – which I was told was amazingly cool so I’ve been working hard to make all of my inserts editable digitally.

This insert makes me so happy, I love it. I was prepping for May, which I am doing in purple to match my habit tracker – located digitally too if you want to copy it and do something similar.

Rest of this post is going to be fluff and how I use this insert if you want to skip or skim, I totally get it.

For me, I like a current page, and neither of my current HP planners had that option T_T so I adapted! Honestly, I have the insert pages but since I am not much of a photo person I have been skipping those for the moment. If I was better at that, I would use those instead. Then I broke my goals up into sections.

I try to keep in mind the level 10 life categories, these titles are pretty inaccurate, but sorting by some type of section makes it easier. So this month I wanted to finish some things. I did not share it but for the entire month of April, I did nothing. Or tried to. I set no goals other than some healthy ones and I did my best to do nothing most days. It was glorious and I am glad I took the time. I just felt so burnt out and now I feel ready to go again.

Inserts

I plan to create one bundle of inserts – my plan is to focus on areas I can actually work with – for example, I can’t help anyone with Motherhood or College, as I am not a student or mum. I might try a college one later, as I did go, but it changes so much. I dunno which one I want to try first, but I have lots of ideas. Then, I want to do a new ship test of the printed ones I have, yes I got some nicely printed. The star sets. I’ve been too busy lately to do anything with them and I feel terrible. First ship test sucked, so I need to try again, they came in way too bent. If you are on the newsletter, you’ve never gotten an email from me before, but all be cursed, I will send one out this month.

Household / Health

Side stuff is going great, loving the graphics portion. If you need a logo or something made, please ask, that has been my favorite projects so far. I need to take pics of my HP stuff I want to destash – posting those to Reddit when I can. I have decided to organize the closet this month. I am going to try to match outfits so I can have an easier morning. So put pants and shirts together for a week worth of clothes. No muss, no fuss. Then Ikea has had some AMAZING fake plants, as I kill real for whatever reason, and I want to hit that up in May. Gotta get some baby stuff for a friend too anyway, so looking forward to that.

Then I am going to start Keto again, so far it’s the only thing that worked for me, I think because it was so restrictive and focused on protein and fat (mmm). So I am looking at this again. I love me some potatoes, but I wanted to give this another go. The second line is once I figure out how many I am doing, I can slowly decrease that each week in May. Do more hikes and start working out at home, as I feel so out of shape when we do say hikes. It’s insane. I didn’t feel so bad until I looked at the actual length, then I just felt shame. Oye.

Things to Try

Misc thinks I want to try, I want to test layering Vinyl, then how durable it is on Acrylic, then how durable it is on a car. My gold Chocobo brushed off =/ so I am not sure what the heck with this vinyl. I need to look for another type I think. Then I still would love to do sticker shipping, so I was looking at a few options for that. Was thinking more fun sheets.

Misc

Anything that doesn’t fit. I wanna make my best friend a baby shirt for her to cry over, finish my witchy sticker set and MHW chibi’s I was working on. I swear I get so easily distracted.

I might add to these if there is room or something pops up. That is why I like these sheets, if it won’t fit on this, then you probably don’t have time to do it, be real. I just love how they turned out. I am glad I tested them repeatedly as I was not happy with the first versions and I do still like the weekly break up version, this is more realistic and I think that I am going to echo that sentiment, you can’t do everything. That’s ok. Some of your day should be chill.

Okay I know that is a lot of fluff, but I wanted to make sure to explain how I came to the conclusions I did on these and how I use them effectively.

Have a great month! I am so excited for May.