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  • Stop the Doomscroll 2025 Update

    It has been a few months since I last posted. Part of this is because I was failing for a few months. I kept the social media apps off my phone, BUT I started using my phone’s web browser to scroll Instagram for hours a day again. SO. I have now gotten through my smartphone Read more

  • How to Use Project Management In Daily Life

    I recently underwent the hardest test of my career: the Project Management Institute’s Certified Associate in Project Management. Along the way, I found out that I truly have a passion for project management as a field. I also found that there are many ways to make use of the principles of project management methodologies in Read more

  • Stop the Doomscroll Weekly Recap

    Over the week, I did find two new apps to use but they are not time-wasters. The two apps are Wellos and Fable. Wellos is a health app that I have access to through my insurance. Fable is a book tracking app that also has book groups. I saw it through Instagram before I got Read more

  • Stop the Doomscroll Day 2

    Today was a more typical day with listening to YouTube in the morning and the evening but it is still progress. The screen time app said that my daily average is down 76%! Even though it looks to be more than I would like, this is exactly what I was hoping for. As an anecdote, Read more

  • Stop the Doomscroll Day 1

    I made progress with my action steps! By deleting the social media apps, I have reduced my daily screen time tremendously. My daily average according to the app was 6 hours and today my usage was 44 mins. Granted, this was on a day off from work and I had errands to run, so I Read more

  • Kat’s Goals for 2025

    I’m just going to skip the fact that 2025 is right around the corner and time doesn’t feel real. I have lots of lofty goals for 2025 but something that I learned in the course of 2024 is that the little actions that we make each day add up to bigger progress than we could Read more

  • The Goal Planner That Made Me Reconsider Goals: Makselife

    My previous main planner had the goal of simplifying my life. But it began doing the opposite. I started obsessing over the daily details and then writing down the same exact things everyday, believing that it would automate my life and bring myself into consistency. I’ve been drowning in this postpartum season of life and Read more

  • How the Simplified Planner has helped me organize my life

    Over the past few weeks, I have been off work because I left my most recent retail job suddenly and have been awaiting the start of my new job. In that time, I have been focused on my home, my health, and working on my Codecademy courses and it has been amazing. This was a Read more

  • Plastic Free Deodorant

    One of my goals this year is to reduce the packaging and plastic packaging that I end up buying when buying household products. One of the products that I have to buy regularly is deodorant and it almost always comes in a proprietarily shaped plastic container. This lead me to search the internet for plastic-free Read more

  • One of My Favorite Resources: AllSides

    After I had watched the documentary “The Social Dilemma,” I have been off of social media and permanently deleted my profiles from Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter. After a couple of days of the quiet of not hearing all the opinions and news from my social media newsfeeds, I began to search for other sources Read more