Perfect Planner = Passion Planner

Happy National Social Worker Month!  In honor of the month I thought I would share a newer planner that my aunt introduced me to recently.  This planner is amazing!  It is called a Passion Planner.  The concept behind it is to allow you to focus in on your main personal and work related projects.  The planner uses mapping (for those of us visual planners) to set your main work goals and break them down into yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily plans.  In order to completely understand the mapping process go to http://www.passionplanner.com/what-is-it/.  The process of the planner is explained incredibly well there.
The great part of this planner is that it separates into work and personal to - do lists.  I know us social workers especially have to juggle client appointments, work projects, case notes, and personal things going on.  It especially gets crazy when client appointments occur on evenings or weekends.  This breaks down into monthly work to do lists (for those bigger projects), weekly to do lists (for case notes), and daily incremented schedules so you can fill in appointments.  This planner is wonderful for social work but it is also great for anyone who has a lot on their plate.  For anyone who likes their quotes and doodles there is the ability to add your own personal touch as well:)  Feel free to look at how I did mine a couple of week's ago.  It is more detailed but I had to use the sticky notes to cover up client appointments for HIPAA and confidentiality. 

LIving LIfe Updates

It's been forever since I have posted.  I finally have a second to sit down and do a post.  I figured this time I would do a life update.  The last 10 months have been crazy!  I have had a lot of changes recently.  Here is a general breakdown of every thing that been going on in my life for the past 10 months.
- Beginning of May 2015: Did my first 5K!  I graduated with my Master's in Social Work from Asbury!

- Middle of May 2015: I moved from Kentucky to Wisconsin for a job prospect.
- End of May 2015: I got hired at a Christian non - profit pregnancy help center/adoption agency to work with pregnant women facing unplanned pregnancies!  This agency had been in the back of my mind to work with since I started graduate school.  You can imagine my surprise when a job popped up right before graduation:)

- June 2015:  My coworker started and we became the official Pregnancy Support Services Team!  I also finally got my dog that I've been waiting all these years to get :O

- July 2015: Turned 24 and went to my first MLB Baseball game compliments of my work! (I got to go in at the end of a STL Cardinals game but this was the first time I got to see a full game)

-August 2015: Wyatt and I got to go camping for both of our first times ever!  I also moved into my own apartment.

-September 2015: Wyatt went on his first road trip and we went to Kentucky.  Wyatt discovered he is definitely a country dog.

-October 2015: My first banquet as a staff member of my agency:)  I went on my first church weekend camping trip with a church group!

-November 2015: Became a member of a Wisconsin Assembly of God church.

-December 2015: Back to Kentucky for Christmas!

-January and February 2016: Wyatt and I are finally settling in to life in Wisconsin!

Of course, there was even more going on than this.  I pulled my sister into volunteering with Compassion International at concerts so there's always Compassion volunteering.  I've had a lot of big projects going on at work that I'm excited to present one day in the future as brand new curriculum!  There was a lot of things going on with church family, my family and my work family.  Now I should be back to blogging again.  I have lots of books and music to review again - including a new favorite band!  Stay tuned for more.  Happy 2016 (2 months late)!