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Is a Capsule Wardrobe Worth it? Use this Guide to Know for Sure
Clutter-Free Living

Is a Capsule Wardrobe Worth it? Use this Guide to Know for Sure

Capsule wardrobes are a minimalist’s dream… but they come with so many rules! Follow this guide to understand how they work so you can determine if a curated closet would improve your life (or stress you out).

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Take Your iPhone Home Screen From Blah To Beautiful In 3 Easy Steps
Digital Organization

Take Your iPhone Home Screen From Blah To Beautiful In 3 Easy Steps

Give your phone a GLOW UP! Learn which apps are truly essential (and which ones you can delete) so you have room to create a beautifully customized and cohesive home screen. You’ll smile every time you pick up your phone!

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The One Decluttering Rule You Have Probably Never Heard Of

The One Decluttering Rule You Have Probably Never Heard Of

Sticking to this rule is the easiest way to adopt a minimalist lifestyle. You can apply it to anything and everything!

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How to Adopt a Minimalist Lifestyle (Even if You Love Stuff)

How to Adopt a Minimalist Lifestyle (Even if You Love Stuff)

How to become a minimalist can seem like a crash course into scarcity and deprivation. But that’s simply NOT true!

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How to Clear Sentimental Clutter (Without Feeling Guilty)

How to Clear Sentimental Clutter (Without Feeling Guilty)

Remember: Decluttering sentimental items is a process. But saving fewer items will give more meaning to the ones you do keep. Here’s how!

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5 Secrets to Staying Organized in a Small Space
Organization Systems

5 Secrets to Staying Organized in a Small Space

If you’ve ever lived in a tiny home, you know what a pain it can be to find room for all that stuff! Here are the best tips to stay organized in a small space, whether you are trying to downsize, or make the most of temporary housing.

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The Root Cause of Clutter (and How to Stop it Now)

The Root Cause of Clutter (and How to Stop it Now)

Our struggle with clutter doesn’t mean we need to organize more. And it’s definitely not because we don’t declutter enough. In fact, decluttering happens long before you bring an item into your home.

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All the Best Tips to Declutter Your Beauty Stash

All the Best Tips to Declutter Your Beauty Stash

Time for a declutter session…beauty style! Follow along as I share my guilt-free process for carefully sorting through your beauty supplies, tossing what’s expired, and saying goodbye to colors and formulas you don’t love.

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How to Declutter Your Wedding Dress (With No Regrets!)

How to Declutter Your Wedding Dress (With No Regrets!)

The only thing I regret about giving away my wedding dress is waiting so long! If you’re thinking of parting with your own dress, here’s how to declutter such a sentimental item (without feeling bad!) as well as a list of places begging to accept your donation.

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10 Quick and Easy Areas You Can Declutter in 10 Minutes Tops

10 Quick and Easy Areas You Can Declutter in 10 Minutes Tops

Watching Marie Kondo’s new Netflix show and feeling completely overwhelmed? Start with these 10 hot spots you can tackle in 10 minutes or less!

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Filing Cabinet Declutter: How to Organize All Your Important Paperwork

Filing Cabinet Declutter: How to Organize All Your Important Paperwork

Tired of overflowing files? So was I! Here’s the two-step process I used to physically AND digitally turn my overflowing filing cabinet into a functional and organized system—and how you can too.

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10 Kitchen Gadgets Every Cook Needs (and 6 They Don’t!)

10 Kitchen Gadgets Every Cook Needs (and 6 They Don’t!)

Stop wasting money on the latest and greatest kitchen gadgets! Seriously — a contraption that slices your bananas? A huge griddle that takes forever to clean? Focus on these 10 essentials to help you be more efficient in the kitchen and keep cabinets clutter-free.

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3 Questions to Help Downsize Your Book Collection
Books + Reading

3 Questions to Help Downsize Your Book Collection

Love to collect books, but tired of the piles and clutter they create in your home? These 3 questions will help organize AND downsize your book collection, without sacrificing quality reads!

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Clutter Overload Part 1: Knowing When & How to Purge

After talking about how organization can save you money, I decided a 2 part series on how I purge and organize was in order. Please feel welcome to include any comments at the bottom of this post about your own routine! I don’t know about you, but for me, it can be quite overwhelming at…

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This is the MOST ORGANIZED you’ll be for the hol This is the MOST ORGANIZED you’ll be for the holidays! 🎁 

The Notion Christmas Planner helps you keep track of:

🗓️ Holiday activities and events (including the ones you host with a special hosting template!)

🗓️ Menu planning and recipes

🗓️ Gifts (of course!)

🗓️ Christmas cards

🗓️ Holiday decor

🗓️ Tasks

🗓️ Your budget for all your holiday purchases

But the best part? 

You can keep track of gifts and spending from year to year! So you’ll always know what you bought grandma five years in a row (and how much you spent on her.)

Drop “Notion Christmas” in the comments and I’ll shoot a link to your DM’s. I can’t wait for you to stay on top of everything this year! 

Let me know if there are any other parts of the planner you want to see and I’ll share them on Stories. 😊

#notiontemplate #christmasplanner #holidayplanner #gifttracking #christmasplannersetup
What is your MVT today? Drop it in the comments fo What is your MVT today? Drop it in the comments for accountability! 

👉🏻 Follow @kalynbrookeco for more mindful planning and productivity tips.

#todolists #todolistguide #prioritiesfirst #productivityhabits #taskmanagement
It’s no secret… …that I’ve tried almost e It’s no secret…

…that I’ve tried almost every TYPE of planner out there! 

Here’s a look back at my “planning eras” ⤵️

📔 TRADITIONAL PLANNER ERA: I started with simple @blueskyplanners during high school and upgraded to @thedaydesigner when I started blogging. 

📔 BULLET JOURNAL ERA: I bullet journaled for about three years before writing a book about it (Brainbook) and then a few more years before moving toward a less time-intensive method.

📔 DISCBOUND PLANNING ERA: This notebook let me customize my own planner using printable planner inserts! I started designing planner pages for others and opened up @brainbooklibrary for those who wanted the entire collection. Meanwhile, I began dabbling in digital tools alongside my paper planner.

📔 NOTION ERA: Frustrated that I was using ALL THE TOOLS—a paper planner, Trello, Todoist, Google Calendar, Evernote, and Slack—I combined all the features of these tools by moving entirely into @notionhq. 

But paper kept calling me back so now I take a hybrid approach!

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→ Google Calendar helps me future plan and time block my days

→ Notion organizes every part of my life and business

→ A blank notebook holds my daily task list and random notes/brain dumps (I call it bullet journal lite).

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It’s taken me a while to get to this point and find my groove, but this triple-tool method has finally given me planner peace. 

…or has it? 

👉🏻 Follow to see how I switch it up in 2024!

💬 Since I’ve used so many planning tools in the past, I’m happy to answer any questions about how to choose what method might be best for you! 

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#plannerpeace #planningiskey #bulletjournals #discboundbujo #planneraddict #bulletjournalcommunity #plannercommunity #wildforplanners #bulletjournallove #discboundplanner #frankenplanner #frankenplanning #bulletjournaljunkies
BE HONEST ⤵️ How many tasks do you have in va BE HONEST ⤵️

How many tasks do you have in various notebooks, apps, and sticky notes right now? 🫣

I used to be that person… until I found Notion. 

Notion is the only tool that contains and organizes ALL my tasks (even future ones that I’m not even sure I’ll do yet!) in a way that makes sense for my brain.

But I still love working from a paper list! So I use a system that gives me the best of both worlds:

1️⃣ Notion for my Master Task List

2️⃣ A blank notebook for my Daily Task List (pulled from Notion based on due dates, energy, and priority levels.)

DM me the word “NOTIONTASKS” if you want to grab my free Master Task List Notion template!

#notiontemplate #notionapp #productivitytips #plannernerd
CONTROVERSIAL OPINION ⤵️ Monday is the best d CONTROVERSIAL OPINION ⤵️

Monday is the best day of the week. 

𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦, 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘦 (👆🏻) 𝘴𝘰 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦!

Mondays are a perfect opportunity to:

☀️Set a new intention for the week

☀️Recommit to an abandoned goal

☀️Start fresh with daily habits

Everything that happened before today is in the the past.

Today—MONDAY—is a new beginning. 

Do you agree/disagree? What are your feelings toward Monday?

#mondayinspiration #motivationalquotes #mondayquotes #mondaymantra #mondaymonday #lovemondays #mondaymindset #mondaythoughts
HERE ⤵️ At first, I liked this phrase. I hea HERE ⤵️

At first, I liked this phrase.

I heard it listening to Matthew McConaughey’s book, Greenlights and nodded my head as he shared a string of wise sayings. 

Then, I wasn’t so sure.

I mean, what’s so bad about working hard throughout the week so you can feel good about taking a break? 

🙅‍♀️ Nothing. 🙅‍♀️

But EARNING rest? That verb changes the dynamic. 

If you identity as a type-A go-getter, then you’re used to striving for others approval just as much as your own. And when you view productive days as good and non-productive days as bad, then the whole concept of “earning” rest is just another performance-based measuring stick we use to define our worth.

👉🏼In case you need a reminder, you can work hard and rest hard without one requiring the other, and without either reflecting your value as a person. 

How does the phrase “Earn your Saturday’s” make you feel?

#typeapersonality #gogetters #goalsetter #productivityboost #selfcaredaily
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