Hello, friends, and welcome to the mini edit from Edit Your Life. In these snack-sized mini-episodes,

I answer your questions about everything from self-care, parenting, to relationships,

to home, and more. Think of me like that friend you text or call when you need a quick piece

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Send me your questions. Today's question came after I posted in Instagram stories about my

poster board calendar system. A listener wrote, do you share your process somewhere or link to this

calendar? I'm gearing up for the same as school starts back up and always love looking

for ways to improve my system. I love the idea of looking at three months at a time. Another listener

wrote, do you use separate pieces of paper or one big? I still write everything out too, but in a

weekly format. And we have our digital family calendar, but loving this quarter planning,

so much power in writing it out. Here's the backstory on the calendar situation in my house.

I used to be the holder of all the calendar things, and for as long as I can remember, I have

been wed to my Google calendar. But I had two basic problematic issues. First, my primary co-calendar holder is not a Google

calendar person. They are a paper planner person. And second, my kids did not use Google Calendar,

though I will say it is exciting that Laurel at age 19 just recently has gotten on the Google

calendar train, which is very fun in terms of the efficiency

of syncing up about things like her college breaks and travel. So not surprisingly, things were

falling through the cracks. And the other problematic issue was that because I was very committed

to plugging things into my calendar, a couple of things happened. My basic calendar was just clogged with work

things, with family things. So anytime I opened it, it was just very overwhelming. And color

coding was not helping me. It was adding to my overwhelm. There was just too much to look at.

And also, I didn't like being the

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