I hope you have been doing well, staying safe and healthy at home as we hit a very delicate time of year for our health during the pandemic.
I know you have heard this so many times already, but it bears repeating that although we have limitations due to the pandemic, it doesn’t mean that December and this holiday season can’t be just as wonderful and merry as always. Things may look different, but the reason for the season is still the same for you if you embrace it.
So, in this month’s installment of my public Entrepreneurial journal entry, I thought I should share about some awesome live events I have scheduled for this month.
December is the time of year when I like to wrap up my projects for the year and do my goal setting for the upcoming year. This year, like years past, I am again hosting my Annual New Year’s Goal Setting + Planning Class, however, this year the class is going to be held exclusively for my Productivity + Planning Master Mind members on this upcoming Saturday, December 5th @ 2PM EDT.
So, if you want to join, get yourself enrolled in the membership- it costs just $22 a month and each month you get an exclusive private class, plus loads activities, inserts, extra content and a private chat with our master mind group as well as myself.
In year’s past the New Year’s Goal Setting Class has cost twice as much to attend, so your investment this year into the membership goes so much further for your productivity and personal development.
The second live event I am hosting this month is my 2021 Planner Setup Party on Saturday December 19th @ 2PM EDT. This event will be a live steam on Youtube FREE to my community where you will follow along as I set up my planner for 2021.
In this live stream I will share how I clean my leather planner, my process for printing and binding my inserts at home, and of course I will walk you through how I am setting my planner up for the new year.
I would love for you to join me for the livestream and set your planner up alongside me. It should be a fun and informative time and of course I’ll be taking Q+A live so it’s a great chance for us to hang out and get your planning questions answered by me.
I’ll be sending out emails for this event the morning of to those on my email list. If you would like to ensure you receive those emails and a direct link to the even, click here!
Well, that is everything I have going on for December!
Like you, I am just hoping to wrap up my year in a nice bow, get in some rest and relaxation and start the new year with a fresh slate.
I would love to hear about your plans for December and how you are preparing for the close of the year. Feel free to leave me a comment and let me know your plans. I do hope to see you inside my Productivity + Planning Master Mind to kick off a fresh year together in January!
What do you do with unused or missed inserts in your planner?
On Saturday I posted a video sharing my thoughts on how to deal with and make the most of unused planner inserts.
If you have been using a planner for any length of time, I am sure you have faced this situation before, where you skipped planning and have some dated inserts that are left empty in your planner.
So, what should we do with them?
First, it’s important to understand that this happens to many of us, that we start a planner, but skip using it sometimes.
It’s nothing to get too bothered over, so if you feel a sense of guilt for not using your planner for a period of time, take a deep breath in, exhale and let that guilt go.
You just need to check in with yourself to determine what the issue was that caused the lack of planning.
Is your planner the culprit? Perhaps its not the right system for your needs.
Or perhaps, you got distracted from planning?
Both are very common situations, but it’s up to you to identify the cause so you can address it and use this information to plan and do better in the future.
For more details on this topic, check out my YouTube channel and this latest video below.
And if you have watched the video or have an opinion on how to deal with unused planner inserts, please leave me a comment and share your thoughts!
Click play above to watch a short walk thru of my Project Breakdown + Management Workbook.
Hello My Charmed Ones!
This month in the Productivity + Planning Master Mind we covered the topic of Project Management with a dedicated master class and workbook intended to help you take a big goal or objective and turn it into manageable daily tasks.
In the workbook, I laid out two key processes:
The first is the process of breaking down your goal into a project plan.
The second is the process of managing your projects to ensure completion.
Both processes are necessary if you want to achieve any goal or objective because you can’t take action without a solid plan, and yet a plan alone does not keep you organized and focused enough to take action.
Planning + Organization = Easy Execution
(Leave me a comment 👇🏼 and let me know which part of the process you struggle with more, or perhaps you struggle with both equally?!)
If you are ready to translate your big complicated goals into strategic daily actions, this class and workbook will give you clarity to tackle even the most overwhelming objectives with ease!
BUT in order to get these awesome and valuable tools, you need to be part of the Productivity + Planning Master Mind with me!
OR send me an email and let me know what’s holding you back from making this small but significant investment in your personal development and success.
I would love to welcome you to the Master Mind where you will be part of a group of like-minded women all learning to plan and organize on their best lives ever, together!
When you do enroll in the Master Mind Membership, you get immediate access to all past content in the group, including master classes, workbooks, inserts and other designs, plus you are set for our upcoming monthly master classes for the duration of your membership enrollment.
3 Steps to Creating a Stress Free and Profitable Holiday Promotion
With the holiday season quickly approaching, now is the perfect time to quickly arrange for a holiday promotion for your business. The Thanksgiving to Christmas time period tends to be an extremely profitable season for online shops and businesses, with many retailers seeing exponential sales and traffic in this time with the aid of some well planned and executed holiday sales. Now, if you have never planned out a holiday promotion, or have yet to do so this season, I’m here to tell you that the process is much easier than you think and doesn’t have to involve complicated marketing planning or lots of time and effort. You do still have plenty of time to pull off a successful holiday promotion without stress or extra long work days, but you do need to act fast to get your plan in place to maximize sales before Black Friday kicks off in a few weeks! In order to help make this process even more streamlined for you, I have also created a free DIY Holiday Promotion Planning Guide that you can use to plan and keep track of your promotion. CLICK HERE to get the FREE Guide and get started today!
Step # 1: Decide the logistics of your promotion
There are many types of promotions and sales specials you can run during the holiday season to drum up excitement for your business and increase traffic and check totals in your shop. You can do something as simple as create a special coupon code for a percentage off items in your shop, you can put together bundles of popular products that coordinate, or simply discount your best sellers. You can make your sale as simple or complicated as you’d like and do one or more of these things, but decide what works for you and your business and of course, plan out how long you want these promotions to last. I’d highly suggest running a sale on Black Friday at the very least. Personally, this year I plan to create some limited time only bundles, provide a coupon code to VIPs on my email list and social media followers, and I also plan to host a giveaway to entice sales during my promotion which will last 3 days from Black Friday to Sunday. If you don’t want to discount your products due to product constraints, you can also create non-sale promotions that include either a giveaway wherein customers during the time frame are opted in to win a prize. You can offer a digital freebie to drive traffic to your shop or even give a free gift with purchase. Think about what will work for your sales goals and business and outline the details of your promotion asap!
Step #2: Shoot your promotional images
If you run an online business, you know how important great product and styled shots are to driving sales. Once you know the parameters of your promotion, you can arrange for a quick photoshoot and get all your images ready for your shop, social media and any ads you may run. If you don’t feel confident in your photography skills or need help understanding how to take great photos that sell, definitely check out my Charmed Digital Styling Lightroom Photography Course. It’s a video module based course with 3.5 hours of content that you can watch while taking notes and arranging your own photos. In the course I teach you everything you need to know to quickly get your styled photography under control and streamlined to make shooting promotional images a breeze! I’d highly recommend taking the course if you need great photos for your holiday promotions, it will save you time and money in the short term if you are someone who pays for stock photos, and the course even includes photoshop tutorials that will teach you how to create promotional sales graphics and advertisements as well!
Step #3: Start spreading the news
Once you have your promotion planned and your images are ready to go, you can start sharing the news of your promotion through your various communication methods and continue to do so through the duration of your sale. I’d suggest starting to actively promote your holiday sale anywhere from 2-4 days before it begins using any and all methods you use to communicate with your customers. If you have an email list, you will want to send a list to your email a few days before the sale starts and give some previews of the sales to come, and if you use social media or YouTube, make sure you tell your audience in these locations as well. If you use any methods of advertising, you also want to get those set to go for about three days out from the sale to drum up excitement and provide a call to action to get new potential customers onto your list. Finally, if you have an affiliate program or even a network of friends who can help you spread the word, make sure you coordinate with them on promotional messages and details that they can share with their audience as well. It’s the holiday’s after all, so the more the merrier when it comes to cross promoting sales and specials!
That’s it! Three easy steps to a stress free and profitable holiday promotion. You still have time to get your promo planned and off the ground and I’d highly suggest planning something rather than nothing because failing to promote during the holidays means you are leaving a lot of money on the table. Make sure to grab my free DIY Promotion Planning Guide to help keep you on track!
Wishing you a productive and successful week and holiday season ahead!
In today’s video I am sharing 5 rules that I follow for managing my email inbox. Reaching email inbox zero is a productivity and organization practice I use to keep me from missing important information or tasks that come from my emails on a weekly basis. But in addition to that process, I try to follow some simple rules when engaging with my emails on a day to day basis to ensure I remain focused and efficient with my email management.
If you would like to watch a dedicated video on my Email Inbox Zero Process, click here! Both videos are great resources to help you efficiently organize your email. I hope you enjoy!
I can’t believe Halloween is a few days away and November starts over the weekend. I wish I could say I haven gotten into the Halloween Spirit, but other than decorating my house and listening to Halloween Lofi Playlists on YouTube, I really haven’t done much by way of spooky celebrations.
I, like many people, are still prioritizing lockdown and so this year my fall looks much different than years prior, and perhaps that’s why I am at such a loss for how it is that one of my favorite holidays is nearly here!
I guess I need to make myself some Halloween plans LOL. Maybe this blog post is as good a place as any to start brain dumping some ideas.
Certainly, a Halloween movie marathon seems to be the obvious activity for lockdown. But what movies should I watch? Here are some of my favorites!
Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp
The Wolfman starring Benecio del Toro
The Craft (90’s favorite)
Hocus Pocus (classic)
Halloween (I prefer Michael Myers to Freddie or Jason)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (cult classic)
Practical Magic (because we can’t do all scary)
Chilling Tales of Sabrina (Netflix series)
Yea, I’m feeling good about that list, how about you?
Okay, so to wrap up October and this post in a nice little bow and prepare ourselves for November ahead, I have your free downloads for November ready! Another Half Page November Dashboard with 30 Days of Thankfulness Gratitude List on the back and some Thanfulness themed tech wallpapers.
Over the last few weeks and months, I have acquired three more luxury planners and after sharing a sneak peek with my Instagram followers, you asked for me to do an unboxing.
I also get many many questions about how to find luxury planner covers as they are not always easily available online.
So, Saturday I posted a full video on all these topics!
Just a warning…
This video is pretty long and chatty, but I have added timestamps to help you find the information you may be looking for. If you click through to the full video on YouTube you will be able to access the timestamps and the full description of the video where I also left plenty of links to additional resources.
I hope you enjoy this video and if you have any additional questions I missed in the video, leave a comment on the video and I will be glad to help if I can!
ENROLLMENT IS NOW OPEN FOR MY PRODUCTIVITY + PLANNING MASTER MIND MEMBERSHIP GROUP!
You read that right!
A Productivity + Planning Membership dedicated to Functional Planning and Productivity, hosted by yours truly 😉
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Essentially, the Productivity + Planning Master Mind Membership is a private, group coaching community centered around the topics of productivity, functional planning, time management, mindset, and success. Everything I teach and create content around in order to help you get all your big thoughts, plans, dreams and ideas out of your head and onto paper.
The foundation of this Membership experience is the idea that Productivity and Planning aren’t just things you learn about once and then you are set for success the rest of your life. Like many things, Productivity and Planning are a lifelong pursuit where we find the right tools, learn the best strategies and gradually build up the skills that support our ability to plan, act and create the outcomes we want for our lives.
So, if you enjoy my products and content, love my live free master classes and get a ton of value and inspiration from them, this Membership is a way for you and I to go deeper to overcome your specific obstacles and develop the skills you need to achieve whatever success you are looking for in life!
WHAT DO YOU GET?
When you enroll in the Productivity + Planning Membership, each month you get access to some amazing resources hosted within a private membership website and chat group:
✔︎ LIVE MASTER CLASSES: Each month I will host a live Master Class on a new Productivity, Planning or Personal Development topic. During these Master Classes, you will have the opportunity to chat with other attendees and ask me open Q+A to make sure you are learning and integrating the information in a way that makes sense to you. Classes will be held on the first Saturday of the new month at 2pm EDT- so our first class is Saturday November 7th @ 2PM EDT (New York, NY Time Zone)
✔︎ FREE WORKBOOKS + ACTIVITIES: To accompany each Master Class, you will also get access to downloadable class workbooks and materials with additional homework and activities to put the principles you learn into immediate action in your life and planning.
✔︎ A LIBRARY OF EXCLUSIVE PLANNER INSERTS + TOOLS: Each month I will be creating new fun inserts and planner designs to share with you. You will get the first look at my latest designs, get a chance to test my latest products and I’ll share exclusive designs with you that I won’t have available anywhere else.
✔︎ A PRIVATE MEMBERSHIP COMMUNITY: Not only does the Master Mind have its own dedicated membership website where all our downloads and resources are housed, but we will also have our own Private Slack Channel so we can stay in touch via chat throughout the day. I will be sharing extra content on the Slack channel and you can use it to share content as well, chat with your fellow Master Mind members and ask me additional Q+A!
So, I know- that is already a TON OF VALUE packed into one membership, but of course I had to throw in some additional BONUSES!
When you enroll for your membership TODAY, you unlock these 3 value packed bonuses:
🗝 PRODUCTIVITY + PLANNING COURSE: When you join the membership, you get instant access to my 12 Week Productivity + Planning course that will help you learn the essential strategies I teach for Functional Planning and achieving success. This course is packed with 12 video classes, printable worksheets and class materials to help you set goals, make plans, master habits and much more!
🗝 A PRIVATE BOOK CLUB: For years my community has been asking me to start a book club and I am pleased to announce I will be hosting one from within the Master Mind. I’ll be sharing all my favorite books, plus choosing a title each month to read together and share key lessons from so we are continuing our education on productivity and success together! For those of you interested in Metaphysics + Alchemy topics, don’t you worry- I’ve got you covered too!
🗝 WELLNESS SUPPORT GROUP: I don’t know about you, but I have certainly packed on the Quarantine 15 since the pandemic began and I am on a mission to restore my health and wellness to a place that feels good to me. Many of you know, I lost nearly 100lbs back in 2017 using the Keto diet and I would love to share more details of my wellness journey, recipes and meal prep hacks with you inside the Master Mind.
WHAT IS THE INVESTMENT?
So, here is the best part about this whole experience- the price!
I know, I know, that’s usually the hardest part to swallow but in this case, I have priced this experience so competitively because I want this to be an easy YES for anyone who is truly interested in getting the ongoing support, inspiration, encouragement and information to help them achieve their best life.
I know personal development classes and courses can cost in the hundreds.
I know personal development coaching is generally thousands of dollars a year.
BUT, I really want to help as many of the wonderful women in my community as possible see their potential, map out their plans, and get to work achieving them!
So, your investment in this membership experience is just $22 a month!
Now, to be fair, that is my introductory pricing offer. Which means, if you ENROLL NOW you only pay $22 a month for as long as you remain part of the membership.
However, I do intend to raise the price on this membership in the future, so you will want to ACT FAST + SECURE THIS SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE so you are grandfathered in!
I’m sure right now some of you are excited and ready to get yourself enrolled, and perhaps others of you are interested but have a few more questions first.
So, click the link below to check out the sales page, ready more about this experience and when you are ready to enroll, click any ENROLL or JOIN button on that page to be transferred to my shop to checkout!
If you have any questions of course, I am here to answer those for you! So, shoot me an email or drop me a comment and let me know how I can help you or what key information I have missed in this post!
Talk soon and I can’t wait to see you inside our private membership community for some dedicated productivity and planning support!
How many of you feel as though your life is in intermission?
Like you are waiting for the show to start again, and that everything in life has been paused for the last several months.
Or perhaps you feel like life has sped up to an overwhelming pace?
Like now you are carrying the weight of all the priorities in your life on your shoulders and have absolutely no time to spend on your own personal objectives or development.
If you finding yourself asking IS 2020 OVER YET? You are not alone!
I have some tools and strategies to help you shift your mindset and motivation and get you back into alignment so that you can continue to move forward with your life even through this pandemic.
In this two hour free workshop replay, I will share strategies for:
✔︎ How I deal with grief and what I’ve been doing to manage my own emotions this year
✔︎ Identifying and managing triggers in daily life that keep us from taking action
✔︎ Getting clear on our responsibilities so we can map a clear and productive path forward
✔︎ At the end of this class, I am going to share something new I’ve been working on that is intended to help us move forward as a community and stay on track with our goals for 2020 and beyond, together!
How many of you feel as though your life is in intermission?
Like you are waiting for the show to start again, and that everything in life has been paused for the last several months.
Your goals are on pause.
Your plans are on pause.
Your happiness is on pause.
Or perhaps you feel like life has sped up to an overwhelming pace?
Like now you are carrying the weight of all the priorities in your life on your shoulders and have absolutely no time to spend on your own personal objectives or development.
You are not just mom, you are also teacher.
You are not just a daughter, you are also a caretaker.
You are not just a home based employee, you are a home based everything.
You are expanding into new roles you never anticipated in a world that seems to be shrinking around you.
How do you get grounded?
How are you supposed to be productive?
How do you accept and integrate this new normal without loosing yourself even more than you already have?
If you finding yourself asking IS 2020 OVER YET? You are not alone!
I have some tools and strategies to help you shift your mindset and motivation and get you back into alignment so that you can continue to move forward with your life even through this pandemic.
Join me on Saturday the 17th @ 2PM EDT on my YouTube channel for a FREE LIVE Workshop designed to help you navigate this unprecedented time, align your priorities and start living your life with clarity and purpose once again.
I’d love to hear how you’ve been managing in this unusual time, so drop me a comment below and let me know what you have been struggling with specifically that I can address for you in the workshop.
