Duvet2Desk by TPG

As many of you may already be aware I am, and have been for several years, apart of the "planner community." With that comes the time of the year when you start fresh with "new" goals; and what better way to hold yourself accountable than to write those goals down. If you think it, ink it... I have set my planner up this year, downsizing from a traditional notebook & A-5 size to a personal sized planner. I have it set up in a way that I should only need to carry a single planner for the remainder of the year, not considering I will need to switch in and out monthly and weekly dairy pages. 7 Sections Total Section 1: Contact Information Section 2: Dairy (Monthly and Weekly) Section 3: 2016 Goals (Faith & Family & Personal) Section 4: 2016 Goals (Financial) Section 5: Notes Section 6: Travel Section 7: Miscellaneous Now as far as my goals for the year, those remain pretty parallel to the goals I have had in previous years. ( A part of my

With the holiday season just wrapping up, Christmas has come and gone again and we are starting a new year, I feel as though it has been a time of reflection and thanks .  However, in the midst of a storm, sometimes, it can be hard to see the sun. By this I mean, all of us go through difficult times in life, NO ONE is an exception to that.  But when you take time to reflect and look back at your life, you can see it is all in our reactions to those difficult times and that we found a way to find the sun in hindsight. My husband and I have developed what we call the 7 year look back and look forward. (If you are only 18 or 20, this may not be as applicable on the look back portion, but the look forward should scare you a bit - in a good way!) Doug (my husband) and I will sit together and look back on our lives 7 years ago, and I frame the conversation like the following:"If someone came up to you 7 years ago and said, 'I can tell you what your life will look like 7 years fro