Daily IRL Missions

Happy New Year's Eve everyone!! For the new year, I wanted to start rewarding myself for building little daily habits that are good for my physical or mental health. Lots of games that I play (or have played in the past) have daily missions that give little rewards that really incentivize working on things daily, so I thought I'd borrow that idea and create daily in-real-life (IRL) missions! For this first month, I just wrote out a list of things that I wanted to do and randomized the order, then wrote them into the January monthly spread on my Mini Happy Planner. Here's what it looks like:

I will check off daily missions as I complete them. At the end of the month, each completed daily mission is worth 50 cents toward my fun spending money (for planner stickers, washi, or gaming money). This way, I can try to keep my discretionary spending under control too!

Here are some examples of my daily missions:

• Walk 12k steps
• Read a book for 15 minutes
• Listen to music
• Read 1 academic paper (related to my work)
• Publish a blog post
• Throw away or donate 1 item
• Text an old friend to stay in touch
• Plan a happy surprise/caring thing for my husband

If this month goes well, I will make some printables for next month to make it look cuter! I could also move these into my Big Happy Planner, since my to-do list has moved out so I have the space... we will see how it works!

Mini Happy Planner - January Weekly Layouts

I've been loving my Big Happy Planner so much, but sometimes I find myself taking pics of my to do or shopping lists so I can refer to them on the go, which obviously defeats the purpose. To obviate this need, I bought a Mini Happy Planner to carry around with me to record my to do lists and daily reminders. I am keeping my Big Happy Planner on my desk at home to remind me of big picture stuff, track water and mood, and gratitude journal every night before bed. I'm on winter break right now so don't have anything to plan, but I'll start using the dual planner system January 1. In the meantime, I hit up the Michaels Planner Bar event with my friend Z and decorated ahead for the month of January in both planners. No excuses now not to plan ahead! I really love some of the Mini HP spreads that we made using just washi!

These quote box "stickers" are actually washi! I just cut them at the borders between messages so they look like individual stickers. I like this as an inspirational way to start the new year!

I am finishing up a few things on my Big Happy Planner January monthly and weekly spreads but will post those soon!