And this is also my planner.
Is it overkill to have two planners?
Maybe.
Is it wildly helpful for how my particular brain works?
Absolutely!
My digital planner is where Overachiever Olivia lives.
That’s where the big ideas go. The shiny projects. The “this would be amazing” launches. The 174 hours and 15 minutes of backlog tasks staring at me like.
It captures ev-er-y-thing. It’s endless. It’s ambitious. It’s slightly delusional in the best way. 😜
And then…
There’s my physical planner.
This is where Calm-It-Down Olivia shows up.
This is where I look at all those shiny digital ideas and ask:
- What actually moves me closer to my goals?
- What realistically fits into this week?
- What other hats am I wearing?
- When am I going to shower?
My digital planner is infinite.
My paper planner has limited space. (And my Virgo-ness refuses to allow me to write outside of the given lines...)
And that limitation is actually where the magic is!
It forces clarity.
It forces prioritization.
It forces me to remember that I am in fact a human with time boundaries.
Both planners serve different parts of my brain — and instead of fighting that, I built a system that works with it.
👉 So now I’m curious…
What works for your brain?
Are you:
📱 Digital-only?
📝 Paper-only?
🧠 “It’s all in my head and that’s going great…”?
(And PS if you haven’t found your system yet — that’s okay! That’s literally what we do here. We build businesses that work with your real life, not against it.)