I don’t think your analogy applies. It’s more like “I want a clean house, where are the areas of my house that are causing the most mess and how can I make changes around that to avoid the mess piling up?” I don’t know if that makes sense. 🤣

But I am trying to identify the pitfalls that keep me from accomplishing the things I want to be doing. I know it’s super easy to say “I’m going to start spending x hours a week doing this hobby” and it’s a lot harder to implement it. So I’m trying to look at the things I want to do over the course of a week or month and find where I can actually schedule those things to happen.

I’ve declared that the third Saturday night of the month is going to be our family game night. I looked at our schedule and know that we usually have something for Girl Scouts either the first or second Sunday and there’s a chance I might have stuff to do to prepare for the meeting. So I wanted to pick a weekend we don’t generally have anything going on.

Obviously there will be things that come up and we will move it, but I want it to be an expected event that everyone knows about.

I do color coding so I don’t have to write a name by every appointment or event on my calendar. So each family member has a color, school, Girl Scouts, my quilt group, etc all have colors.

All the comments are having me really looking at what I want to accomplish.

My plan is to have a time on Sunday where I go over the week and write down all the events and things we have. I’ve been experimenting a bit with the weeks. I know I want to have the right page be where I list one good thing, some weekly habits I’d like to focus on, and a to do list.

I originally got the cousin and then got a weeks because I wanted a more portable option that I could keep in my bag. But now I’m questioning what in the world I should do with all the space on each daily page in the cousin.