This is my favorite time of the month. I am so grateful to do my monthly tendinglist prep TOGETHER! Thank you. Also, love that sweater — where did you get it?

Going to try adding the Time Audit as it makes so much sense.

I love the brainstorm pages! It helps me organize all the things that are on my prepare well page into the daily, weekly, and monthly action items.

Also, I never let my tending list be written in stone. About halfway through this month, I found that I had marked off all of my monthly action items which left me time for a project that I wasn’t planning to begin until March. I added on a few of the steps for that project. Sometimes the opposite happens (something on the list takes longer than I planned). No matter what happens, I know that I am making progress on things that matter and that is important to remember throughout the month!

I love these videos. Thank you for breaking this down for us.

This was the most helpful video I have watched so far! I have not been successful because I have not simplified during my brainstorming. Thank you so much for walking us through this. March 1 is my new January 1!

Really great tips! I do a similar time audit where I add up how much time I think every thing will take, and see if it works with my month, and it is a game changer. I feel relaxed knowing that I DO have time to do all the things on my tending list because I made sure of it in my planning stage. Then all I have to do is execute.

Thank you, Shanda. This was really helpful! Also, the time audit is a great idea.

This is the part where I can sit back and really write down everything that I need to accomplish.

I really enjoyed this video and love having a new way of looking at the brainstorm page!

This was really helpful. Even though all this is technically explained in the Powersheets instructions having this walk-through really helped me “get it”.

I’m so excited to do my Brainstorm My Month for March. January & February were a bit of a blur. I used my planner just a few times between both months but I’m focusing in on these thoughts to encourage myself “It’s not too late” and “Keep Trying”. Watching this video was so helpful and fun. Didn’t realized how challenging it could be to do a Time Audit. Just finished my first one for next month and I have about 8 hours left, lol. I can foresee that once I start tracking my tasks, I’ll be able to plan better each month as what works and what doesn’t becomes clearer. March is definitely looking like the month to set the tone for my year. Thank you so much!

Thank you, Shanda…this is so helpful. I’m coming out of February having put too much on my list that I couldn’t possibly get done, this is just what I needed to hear. Love the time audit idea to make planning more realistic. Thanks for your wisdom.

Thank you so much for this video. These Tending List Tuesday videos have been so instrumental in helping me keep on moving forward with my goals and continuing to use my PowerSheets. You are helping me make a difference in my life and I want you to know that I appreciate you.

Thanks for sharing, Shanda. It’s neat to see how different people use their PS. Your time audit is a cool idea.

I just finished up my March tending list set up. Here’s my brainstorming page.
I like to review my goals before I fill out this page to refresh my memory about what matters to me. Then, I go through and underline things that I think need to make it to the tending list.

Thank you for this video…it was really helpful!! It was a perspective I hadn’t thought of for brainstorming.

I love the time audit idea! Thanks for sharing!

This was so helpful! I’ve never felt clear about how to use the Brainstorm Your Month page and this really helped to break it down for me! I also love your time audit idea! Thank you!

The prepare well page is usually enough brainstorming for me for that month, so I actually use the “brainstorm your month” page during the month to write notes/ideas for NEXT month. So in Feb, I wrote ideas I had that popped up as something to consider for March. Works for me better that way!

Thank you, Shanda! This is my first year with PowerSheets, and now that I’m on my third month, I feel I’m starting to understand better how to use them. Your videos are super-helpful.

Is it common to have a sort of snowball effect with goals? I don’t simply mean that “a girl who checks one thing off her list tends to start checking other things off her list,” as I once heard Lara Casey say. What I mean is: I’m still working on achieving the goals on my tending list, but now that I’m living more intentionally I find myself de-cluttering my house and doing other things I haven’t even put on my tending list (yet)! It is really proving to be a wild adventure and I am learning so much about myself and life. Thank you!

Oh! I LIKE it without background music…I didn’t really notice that the music was distracting me, until I watched this video without it. Thank-you, so much, Shanda, for listening to the other lady’s feedback and responding with this experiment on this, your next video! M <><.

I love to see flowers growing in their bursts of colours, but I never had a garden of my own.

When I moved to a home where there were already flower beds, I looked forward to seeing what “came up”–as they had already been planted by the previous owners.

The flowers were beautiful and profuse! However, there were also weeds.

Weeds are easier to remove–we usually know what they look like (usually lol).

However, I learned from an avid gardener that if I allowed ALL the beautiful flowers to grow, they would eventually crowd each other out as they fought for sunlight and sustenance–ALL the flowers would suffer and many would die, even before they could re-seed.

It is a difficult thing to pull a beautiful flower out of the ground, just because it is overcrowded.

But, then I realized that I could put these beauties in a vase and enjoy them inside, while the now-healthily-spaced flowers outside could continue to bloom and re-seed.

The analogy is clear: when we try to pursue too many goals at once, ALL our goals suffer–as well as us!

Pull out a few that are over-crowding and put them in a “vase” (the next month’s ideas’ page–to be enjoyed at a later time) and then, focus on growing the best garden with those goals and action steps that you have chosen to leave in (the current month).

Thank-you, Shanda, for another outstanding video that both supports and motivates us to truly Cultivate What Matters!

M <><.