In my last post of this series, I explained how to set up a time budget template. Now I’ll take you through how I plan a particular week. At this point, you should have a template set up with sections 1 and 2 filled in with your daily and weekly recurring commitments. It might look
In my last post, I shared about how I view time as money—and budget it. We all have 168 hours per week to spend. I’ve personally found that after I set aside time for sleep, unexpected events, and transitions, I can “spend” about 98 hours per week. Because I have a general sense of how
We often quip that to cross items off our bucket lists, we just need time and money. But even when these resources are in short supply, I want to have fun. Even though a trip to Paris is currently out of reach, for the cost of 90 minutes and $20, I can grab brunch with
I hope you had fun this weekend! As an Enneagram One, fun isn’t always (ever?) my top priority. But I’m learning! I’m trying to recognize where fun is already happening in my life and trying to plan more time for it. My weekend fun included friends, games, a good book, and a recipe I quadruple
It will come as no surprise that Gilmore Girls is my favorite television show. Sure, it’s cliché, but Rory was a year older than I was and seemed like the perfect role model for my Enneagram One self. I was on track to be valedictorian and dreamed of attending not Harvard but “the Harvard of
Webster’s dictionary defines fun as… Ok, no. We’re not doing that. (Though I do love definitions, and I do have an English degree.) When I was trying desperately to achieve a perfect SAT score, I would write down any unfamiliar word I encountered to look up later. This practice served me well. I did, in
I am not exactly…fun. I love a spreadsheet. A to-do list. An Oxford comma in the right place. But fun? Seems a little irresponsible. As an Enneagram One, I tend to be a black-and-white thinker. My categories are right and wrong. And fun doesn’t seem to fit well in either bucket. It’s ok once in
