I have already talked about my resolve to become more balanced in the coming year,
But before today, I had no plan for how I’d achieve that elusive balance. It is already January 3, and today, I’ll lay out a more concrete set of goals:
Here I Go:
The Cow Jumped Over the Moon
Jacki Kellum Illustration for Lots of Socks
“She bought socks with rocket ships
To help her clear the moon.
I’ll begin with a calendar. Unlike other years, I only plan to upload my calendar one month at a time.
Years ago, I read that after a person has repeated an activity for a month, that activity becomes a habit. For that reason, I am working on January for a few weeks.
FREE Printable 8.5″x11″ Calendar
for the month of January 2026.
FREE Printable 8.5″x11″ Daily Schedule
for the month of January 2026.
Especially for us Free Lancers an Hourly Schedule to Help Plan Our Days Might be Important.
As a Creative, it is essential for me to organize my day with my peak periods of creativity blocked out for creating.
Speaking of Creative People. Rue the Thought, But We Creatives Need A Concrete Budget and a list of fixed monthly expenses..
But We Creatives Need to Preserve Time and Space to plan new creative projects.
But as I said before, I have many important aspects of myself, and that is even more reason for me to maintain a good planning and record=keeping system;
Because I am an avid blogger, I record most of my ideas on my blog, which has an excellent search mechanism. I cannot tell you how many times a day that I check my blog to review my own previous thoughts,
I also use my blog for writing my morning pages, and I research new thoughts continuously. From my reading, I save Quotes, and those quotes are often the springboard for my writing.
On yet another level, I try to search the Bible and/or The Book of Common Prayer daily, and I am delighted when a scripture lends itself into a prayer. The following is a loose interpretation of Psalm 103:1