Maximizing Productivity and Mental Clarity with Journals, Planners, and Lists
Prologues
Mary Skinner
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🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
37. At any given moment, I am within three feet of my journal or planner....but like actually. Journaling, planning, and list making are some of my favorite ways to order my thoughts, manage my productivity, regulate my emotions, and stay focused. I have been journaling and planning for years, so this week, I'm sharing my best tips and tricks for forming these new habits.
See you next week x
RESOURCES
Foucault's Panopticon: https://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/theory/newhistoricism/modules/foucaultcarceral.html
Papier (current planner):
https://www.papier.com/
Why journaling is good for you:
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentID=4552&ContentTypeID=1
https://www.healthline.com/health/benefits-of-journaling
https://positivepsychology.com/benefits-of-journaling/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Prologs. My name is Mary, and when I get overwhelmed and start feeling behind, |
| 0:23.0 | I find it helpful to zoom out and remind myself that I am still in the beginning of my story. |
| 0:28.1 | I'm sharing all of my life's chapters, mental health, relationships, wellness, beauty, |
| 0:33.5 | the chaos of being in my 20s, and all of life's unexpected turns. |
| 0:39.0 | Prologs is the best way to start your week, so join me every Monday morning for a new entry into my digital journal. |
| 0:43.8 | Today we're talking about something that is so near and dear to my heart that it is a non-negotiable |
| 0:48.9 | part of my weekly and daily routine. And if you follow me on Instagram, you've watched my vlogs or seen my |
| 0:54.8 | stories, you know just how often I am talking about planners, planning, journaling, list |
| 1:01.0 | making, running my life through Google Calendar, just like staying organized, writing everything |
| 1:07.4 | down, constantly brain dumping on paper, and everything of that sort. |
| 1:11.6 | It honestly, it's every single day for me. There is not a single day that I take off from one of these things. |
| 1:16.6 | It's either manifesting in my journal, brain dumping in my journal, working through something in therapy in my journal. |
| 1:23.6 | I'm always using my planner. I'm in my G-Cal every single day. |
| 1:26.6 | When I say every single day of my life includes the things I'm about using my planner. I'm in my G-Cal every single day. When I say every single day of my life |
| 1:30.1 | includes the things I'm about to talk about in this episode, I really mean it. I think that planning, |
| 1:35.6 | journaling, and listmaking is something that helps me stay marginally sane. I'm not the most |
| 1:40.3 | organized person in any area of my life. My home is definitely not the most aesthetic |
| 1:45.2 | organized home you've ever seen. I need a lot of self-management to stay on task and to remember |
| 1:51.3 | everything I have going on, especially because I'm self-employed. I never thought I'd be |
| 1:55.2 | self-employed. I didn't think I had the temperament for it. And to be honest, I don't have the |
| 1:59.0 | perfect temperament for it. So I have to be so |
| 2:01.5 | diligent about keeping track of everything. Getting everything down on paper all of the time also |
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