This is the second of two special guest blog posts from Ariane Trélaün of Do Your Thing.biz. Missed the first post? Click here to read "Your 2017 Plan: Why You Need One." Around this time last year, I was talking with an astrologer the other day (true story), and she said that for her and others in her field, the new year of 2016 is not really starting until February. That would be on account of that planet Mercury turning retrograde, doncha know. For three weeks. Starting Ja

This is the first of two special guest blog posts from Ariane Trélaün of Do Your Thing.biz. This time of year, there’s all kinds of chatter, lots of negative chatter, about resolutions. Yes, lots of people make resolutions, but an even louder lots of people bash resolutions. Make fun of those of us who dive deep into this process and map out what we want, vision board it, chart it, graph it. Tell us that we’ll just fail, we’ll be so good until we give up, somewhere around the

Long before there were cloud-based to-do and calendar apps, effective and motivated people were planning their days. I stumbled across Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule and I’m so impressed. No wonder he was so revered. (More on his autobiography here.) Can a 200+year old daily plan still work? While we may not live out our days in the same way as our Founding Father, here are some tips to create a workable schedule and stick with it. Creating and following a schedule is th

We all want to be able to organize our schedules and have the commitment to maintain them on a daily basis, but how? Creating a workable schedule takes time. It can also result in a frustrating battle with your calendar. Organization is beneficial for everyone. You can adapt organizing techniques to suit your needs. Believe it or not, organizing your everyday life actually saves you time and money. Here are a few of the reasons why. Makes You Efficient and Stress Less If you

I’ve been ignoring my own advice lately. It’s true. I’ve been staying up too late (thank you poison oak and prednisone shot!?) and scribbling notes down to myself in the middle of the night in whatever paper form I could find. I’ve got notes everywhere - backs of magazines, a legal pad, my moleskin notebook, my Evernote account. Luckily I know how to remedy this from a paper perspective. But what about the actual process of capturing all my thoughts? I’m making my own self cr

This is the second guest post on planning for the new year by DoYourThing.biz Ringmaster-in-Chief Ariane Trélaün. Good news: I was talking with an astrologer the other day (true story), and she said that for her and others in her field, the new year of 2016 is not really starting until February. That would be on account of that planet Mercury turning retrograde, doncha know. For three weeks. Starting January 5. So basically the whole month. For astrologers and others who foll

This is the first of two special guest blog posts from Ariane Trélaün of Do Your Thing. This time of year, there’s all kinds of chatter, lots of negative chatter, about resolutions. Yes, lots of people make resolutions, but an even louder lots of people bash resolutions. Make fun of those of us who dive deep into this process and map out what we want, vision board it, chart it, graph it. Tell us that we’ll just fail, we’ll be so good until we give up, somewhere around the end