The 'One Day At A Time' Back Story

You know the feeling of getting your diary from the stationery stores for the year ahead? That feeling of new beginnings, fresh starts and pure bliss! Well, I got that feeling every year. From junior school to university to working - I would buy my diary as soon as the stores released them. 

Every year I would use the diary differently to figure out how I could be more productive, manage expectations, and stop procrastinating. I would be so excited and claim “this is my year”.

I’m sure you can tell that if I got excited every year for that new beginning feeling, I wasn’t having any luck with these diaries.

Not one year went by that my diary was used start to finish. And not one year went by where the diary helped me get things done consistently. Missing weeks or months in the diary often made me stop using it and I disliked the feeling of those empty blank pages.

I didn’t need the diary with the hours in it, that’s what our phone calendars and Microsoft teams are for. I just needed somewhere to manage my deadlines, clear my head and stay consistent.

Can you relate?

This endless loop forced me to sit down in 2022 and come up with a way that would actually be achievable. I was overworked, overwhelmed and as a result, the stress impacted my health. So I sat down, created, and printed my method on plain white paper and attached it to a clip board.

After months of using it, I noticed I was able to prioritise better and focus on one thing at a time. It also took a lot of self work to learn that I couldn’t say yes to everything and that my corporate job was not my life.

The phrase “one day at a time” became my mantra, at work and in life.

When I left my job it became a dream to create my own line of planners. One that I knew would help others.

I spent months in the design phase, making sure it was simple but aesthetic enough to suit any gender. It was and is really important to me that planners and journals are not seen as just a “girly” product. I loved that the simplicity of it would enable so much creativity in the user.

That’s how the classy book-like hard cover planners came to be. The journals followed suit because who doesn’t need a notebook!? My favourite part of this collection is how easily it blends in as a normal book.

I truly hope you find your method of getting things done, clearing your mind and finding inner peace. I have free guides on the website that can help, under the tab Well-Being. 

One Day At A Time reminds you to dream big yet to take it all one thing at a time, one day at a time & one week at a time. The rest is up to you :)