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Life Admin Reset: What is a Life Admin Day and How to plan one (+ Free Notion Checklist)

Efflorezen Life Admin Reset: What is a Life Admin Day and How to plan one (plus Free Notion Checklist) I’m pretty sure I came across this concept of ‘Life Admin’ a couple of years ago on YouTube or social media. And being a ‘productivity’, organisation and planning kind of girlie, I was intrigued by this from the get-go. It really started to make a lot of sense once I adapted it to my own life, and since then, life admin has stayed on as a routine I still take up from time to time. I like to...

30 days ago • 7 min read

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Reset Routine Template, out now!

Hey there! Well, today’s post is going to be a little (or a lot!) different from my usual essays. I have launched my first ever digital product today and put it out to the world - a real “Hello world!” moment for me if you will! I have been dabbling with routines, ideas and systems to make my life feel a little bit more organised and less chaotic, a little bit more in control and less all over the place, and to provide more clarity than distress – for years now! And one area of growing...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read

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Why I think we all need a Personal System to Capture, Organise and Manage the Things that Matter and How I use Notion for it

Efflorezen Why I think we all need a Personal System to Capture, Organize and Manage the Things that Matter and How I use Notion for it Do you relate to having your information and data all over the place? to-dos in multiple notebooks, sticky notes or that nth new note in your notes app appointments strewn over the different digital calendars and that calendar on your fridge recurring tasks you need to do basically hanging in the air, with no real place to live your collection of articles to...

about 1 month ago • 7 min read

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A back to routine reset for when you feel stuck in a rut

Efflorezen A back to routine reset for when you feel stuck in a rut Do you often struggle to get things back on track after a period of downtime or when you are stuck in a slump or ‘stuck in a rut’ kind of phase? Perhaps you want to get back into routine after the holidays or after a trip or vacation, or perhaps it is a case of feeling stuck, feeling a bit lost, and not knowing where to start or how to reset or how to get back on track! For different people, this sort of ‘stuck-ness’ could be...

about 2 months ago • 6 min read

How to use Parkinson’s law to your advantage to get things done more effectively

Efflorezen How to use Parkinson's law to your advantage to get things done more effectively Have you noticed that more often than not we tend to procrastinate and get the actual work done only as the deadline looms rather than properly utilising the 2 weeks we had before it? The procrastination, the perfectionist tendencies to research all the articles that come up on the first page of Google search before actually starting the work – all this gets thrown out of the window when you reach the...

about 2 months ago • 7 min read