“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
Planner Quote: April 8, 2019
April 8, 2019“The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn
Planner Quote: April 1, 2019
April 1, 2019“Every new day begins with possibilities. It’s up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.” – Ronald Reagan
The Franklin Five: April 2019
April 1, 2019
Welcome April! Spring is in the air and so are taxes. Create a system to keep your papers in order and use your planner to track your expenses. Get the garden ready for a nice harvest or summer blooms! Here are a few things to add to your list: April Checklist Pocket Size: PDF April Checklist Compact Size: PDF April Checklist Classic Size: PDF April …
Planner Quote: March 25, 2019
March 25, 2019“Be a ‘go-giver’ as well as a ‘go-getter’.” – Leonard Hudson
2019: Setting Career Goals
March 25, 2019
In the book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey asks you to imagine that you stumble across a man working feverishly to cut down a tree. After more than five hours, he’s exhausted and feeling beaten. When you ask why he won’t stop to sharpen his saw, the man replies, “I …
Planner Quote: March 18, 2019
March 18, 2019“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
2019: Setting Relationship Goals
March 18, 2019
If you’re lucky, there are people in your life who matter to you—people with whom you’d like to develop a strong relationship of trust. Our interactions with others are the essence of life. Relationships are so powerful and important that they become an entity in themselves. That’s what synergy is all about—one plus one equals …
Planner Quote: March 11, 2019
March 11, 2019“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” – Ralph Marston
2019: Setting Health Goals
March 11, 2019
Stephen R. Covey reminds us that Habit 7: Sharpen The Saw is the single most important thing we can do. At first that might sound selfish, but when you consider that you are your most important asset, it makes more sense. How will you provide for yourself and others if you aren’t prepared with knowledge, …
2019: Setting Personal Goals
March 4, 2019
Where do you see yourself in five years? Are the things you’re doing today going to get you there? If they aren’t, what do you need to change? We’re all motivated by our desires. We hope, we dream, we look ahead and project a spark of inspiration onto an imagined future reality. As we set …
Planner Quote: March 4, 2019
March 4, 2019“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
The Franklin Five: March 2019
March 1, 2019
Welcome March! It’s time to incorporate more green in your life – the healthy stuff and the lucky stuff. Plan your family budget, give service to someone in need, or plan a play date with your kids or grand kids. Here are some more things to add to your list: March Checklist Pocket Size: PDF March Checklist Compact Size: PDF March Checklist Classic Size: PDF March Checklist Monarch Size: PDF
Goal Setting for 2019
March 1, 2019
Have you ever been out in the evening and seen a moth drawn toward a porch light? People are like those moths, but it seems that humans are wired to chase after meaning and fulfillment. It’s safe to say that not one of us is content to simply exist. We yearn for more. That’s why …
Planner Quote: February 25, 2019
February 25, 2019“Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.” – Dale Carnegie
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
February 25, 2019
“This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.” – Stephen R. Covey Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw is all about self-renewal. Stephen R. Covey calls it Balanced Self-Renewal because in order to feel …
Habit 6: Synergize
February 18, 2019
“Valuing the differences is the essence of synergy—the mental, the emotional, the psychological differences between people. And the key to valuing those differences is to realize that all people see the world, not as it is, but as they are.” —Stephen R. Covey Simply defined, Synergy means that the whole is greater than the sum …
Planner Quote: February 18, 2019
February 18, 2019“Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.” – George Washington
Planner Quote: February 11, 2019
February 11, 2019“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
February 11, 2019
“Satisfied needs do not motivate. It’s only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of human beings is psychological survival—to be understood, affirmed, validated, and appreciated.” —Stephen R. Covey Theodore Roosevelt is credited for saying, “Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care.” That statement …
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