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Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Planning Ahead and Structuring Your Life

Self-Care Daily with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7643 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

How organized do you feel in life? Are you prepared for things that are coming - or do you find yourself constantly rushing and doing things last minute? In today’s episode, we are going to take some time to organize our lives. Rachel shares what she does to ground and find structure in her life so she feels prepared for all that is to come. Then you will do the same thing for the month ahead. Tune in to begin.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts.

0:14.0

It knows your schedule. It can turn a brainstorm into a brief and it doesn't need to be taught.

0:20.0

Because Slackbot isn't just another

0:22.4

AI. It's AI that knows your work as well as you do. Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot

0:28.8

to learn more. Hi friends. Welcome back to the show. I hope you're having a great Thursday so far. We've talked a bit about

0:41.6

structure and our daily rhythm here on the show this week. And today, I want to take a moment to

0:48.2

organize our lives. Now, I don't know if you are feeling organized in your day today or if you're not.

0:57.0

If you are one of those people who is already mega organized and you feel like you know exactly

1:02.5

when and how everything is unfolding in a week, then feel free to skip this episode or

1:09.2

feel free to focus on an area of your life that feels a little bit

1:13.4

messy and then do this practice for that one specific area. Okay. Now, I'm one of those people who

1:19.2

I like things to be organized, but I don't live in a very organized way, if that makes sense.

1:25.2

So I, for instance, we have a big family calendar at our house.

1:30.5

When that calendar is absolutely filled in and accurate, I feel so good. I feel so at peace.

1:37.6

It helps to ground me. It helps me so much. However, am I great at keeping that calendar up to date so I can actually reap the benefits of the calendar? Not so much. However, am I great at keeping that calendar up to date so I can actually reap the benefits

1:46.4

of the calendar? Not so much, no. So I'm one of those people who likes to feel organized,

1:53.1

but I'm kind of bad at organizing often. So I want you to take a moment to actually sit down today

2:00.1

to look at the months ahead. And if you want,

2:04.3

since we're getting to the very end of January, you can kind of skip this next week coming

2:09.2

and focus on February. Just looking at February as a whole. Take a moment to really sync

2:15.2

your calendar together with your spouse or your partner if you have one so that you have things that involve the whole family or both of you really clear.

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