This podcast is a replay of a live masterclass I (Clari) taught for the Evergreen Collective in November. Advent and Christmas are my favorite times of the year, but it also happens to be the one of the busiest times for the business, which means I need planning strategies that are easy to implement and help me do what I most want: to celebrate the birth of Christ in very meaningful ways with my family and to be a person who exudes peace while doing it. You can access the video replay of the masterclass & the free workbook here. May this Christmas be your most peaceful yet! —— If you loved this peace-infused approach to time-management, don't let it fall away after the holidays! Take this mindset to every part of your life with our renew | january 2024 e-course experience. Learn a practical Christian approach to time-management in just six weeks by... 1. Understanding your God-given productivity personality  2. Developing a strong planning habit 3. Decluttering and organizing your task list  4. Designing life-giving weekly rhythms 5. Mastering the art of flexible time-blocking 6. Learning the basics of setting ROOTED goals Renew includes all the planner printables you need and a vibrant community (on a private platform) ready to help you succeed! Are you ready to change your life with the Evergreen Planning Method? You'll love renew | january. 

Cozy up with the ROOTED Goals Workbook and be guided step-by-step through setting compelling goals that actually make sense in your real life. This year we took it from a digital workbook, to a physical book that easily slips right into your Evergreen Planner—and fully upgraded it with all new exercises, examples from our own planners, and seamless tie-ins to our audio content.  This workbook will take you all the way from gaining key insights into your core calling, to identifying your next-right-step goal and creating a strong game plan, while adopting a healthy mindset for following all the way through on that goal even as the seasons of your life shift and change. You can use the ROOTED Goals Workbook over and over again as you continue to develop life-giving goals around the things that matter most to you. —   In this episode, we talk about the fifth letter in the ROOTED acronym: Etched Into Your Memory. For a goal to be sustained in the long-run, it has to stay top of mind. Enabling your brain to think about your goal often and easily will ensure you can make progress on your goal even in the most chaotic of seasons.   Join us as we talk about the exact process we take to make sure our goals aren’t forgotten in the busyness of everyday life and responsibilities! We talk about how we use our planners to support our goals and to train our working memories to take action whenever possible, enabling us to make steady progress until a goal is accomplished.    Links we talk about in the show: Purchase the ROOTED Goals Workbook here! Download the free Etched Into Your Memory exercises — If our podcast resonates deeply, and you dream of a simple, streamlined way to apply everything you've been learning, then you'll LOVE the Evergreen Collective. The Collective is our online community / Challenge Path where Team Evergreen hangs out to connect and answer questions! The Collective is brimming with faith-centered motivation, live events, free printables, and a vibrant, engaged membership of like-minded women. Join the Collective here and get your first month FREE: https://evergreenplanner.lpages.co/collectiveinvite/  

Cozy up with the ROOTED Goals Workbook and be guided step-by-step through setting compelling goals that actually make sense in your real life. This year we took it from a digital workbook, to a physical book that easily slips right into your Evergreen Planner—and fully upgraded it with all new exercises, examples from our own planners, and seamless tie-ins to our audio content.  This workbook will take you all the way from gaining key insights into your core calling, to identifying your next-right-step goal and creating a strong game plan, while adopting a healthy mindset for following all the way through on that goal even as the seasons of your life shift and change. You can use the ROOTED Goals Workbook over and over again as you continue to develop life-giving goals around the things that matter most to you. —   In this episode, we talk about the second letter in the ROOTED acronym: Organically Growing Out of Your Context. You need goals that take your real life context seriously and embrace it. You need goals that connect with where you are right now, and that respect that you’re here for a reason. Recognizing the season you’re in and identifying the contours of your priorities can empower you to identify the next right step—the one that can realistically begin to build the lasting change you want to see.   Join us as we talk about why this is one of the most critical steps in setting ROOTED goals, a step that most other goal-setting systems completely ignore. We talk all about what this looks like in our lives and how embracing our context has empowered us to craft and execute meaningful goals year after year!   Links we talk about in the show: Purchase the ROOTED Goals Workbook! Download the free Organically Growing Out of Your Context exercises Download the free Rooted in Your Core Calling exercises  — If our podcast resonates deeply, and you dream of a simple, streamlined way to apply everything you've been learning, then you'll LOVE the Evergreen Collective. The Collective is our online community / Challenge Path where Team Evergreen hangs out to connect and answer questions! The Collective is brimming with faith-centered motivation, live events, free printables, and a vibrant, engaged membership of like-minded women. Join the Collective here and get your first month FREE: https://evergreenplanner.lpages.co/collectiveinvite/  

The ROOTED Goals Workbook is now available for purchase!  This workbook will take you all the way from gaining key insights into your core calling, to identifying your next-right-step goal and creating a strong game plan, while adopting a healthy mindset for following all the way through on that goal even as the seasons of your life shift and change. You can use the ROOTED Goals Workbook over and over again as you continue to develop life-giving goals around the things that matter most to you. — Setting a ROOTED Goal is all about creating a symbiotic relationship between your daily life and your goals. It’s about creating space for personal growth, and channeling your productivity in a way that cultivates peace. In this introductory episode we talk about the ROOTED Goal Setting System as a whole; how it came to be, how it’s different from typical goal-setting systems, and how the ROOTED mindset can set you free to tackle your biggest dreams, while not letting go of your day-to-day responsibilities! Join us for a refreshing conversation that is sure to renew your goal-setting drive!   Links we talk about in the show: Purchase the ROOTED Goals Workbook! Taming Your To-Do List download (use the code TAMETHATLIST to get this download for free!) Taming Your To-Do List podcast episode (Apple, Spotify, Google) — If our podcast resonates deeply, and you dream of a simple, streamlined way to apply everything you've been learning, then you'll LOVE the Evergreen Collective. The Collective is our online community / Challenge Path where Team Evergreen hangs out to connect and answer questions! The Collective is brimming with faith-centered motivation, live events, free printables, and a vibrant, engaged membership of like-minded women. Join the Collective here and get your first month FREE: https://evergreenplanner.lpages.co/collectiveinvite/

Cozy up with the ROOTED Goals Workbook and be guided step-by-step through setting compelling goals that actually make sense in your real life. This year we took it from a digital workbook, to a physical book that easily slips right into your Evergreen Planner—and fully upgraded it with all new exercises, examples from our own planners, and seamless tie-ins to our audio content.  This workbook will take you all the way from gaining key insights into your core calling, to identifying your next-right-step goal and creating a strong game plan, while adopting a healthy mindset for following all the way through on that goal even as the seasons of your life shift and change. You can use the ROOTED Goals Workbook over and over again as you continue to develop life-giving goals around the things that matter most to you. —   In this episode, we talk about the sixth and final letter in the ROOTED acronym: Developed by Providence. The ROOTED Goal-Setting System reminds you that the Kingdom of God does not rise and fall by your efforts—but that you do have the responsibility to do your part, exercise your influence, and steward your resources. Having a Christian growth-mindset allows you to set goals with an "amen" posture towards God's unknown plans for the future, knowing that when you give your goals back to God, you can trust Him to develop them in the best of ways. Join us as we talk about how this Christian growth-mindset has played out in our real lives and goals over the last quarter (including our goal of recording this podcast)! We chat about goals that have had to change, how we stay motivated in the messy middle of goal development, and how our planner enables us to pivot effectively into new or changing goals as we follow the Lord’s leading.   Links we talk about in the show: Purchase the ROOTED Goals Workbook here! Download the free Developed by Providence resources (which includes pages from Shelby & Clari’s planner to see how pivoting in goal-setting plays out in our lives!) — If our podcast resonates deeply, and you dream of a simple, streamlined way to apply everything you've been learning, then you'll LOVE the Evergreen Collective. The Collective is our online community / Challenge Path where Team Evergreen hangs out to connect and answer questions! The Collective is brimming with faith-centered motivation, live events, free printables, and a vibrant, engaged membership of like-minded women. Join the Collective here and get your first month FREE: https://evergreenplanner.lpages.co/collectiveinvite/  

Cozy up with the ROOTED Goals Workbook and be guided step-by-step through setting compelling goals that actually make sense in your real life. This year we took it from a digital workbook, to a physical book that easily slips right into your Evergreen Planner—and fully upgraded it with all new exercises, examples from our own planners, and seamless tie-ins to our audio content.  This workbook will take you all the way from gaining key insights into your core calling, to identifying your next-right-step goal and creating a strong game plan, while adopting a healthy mindset for following all the way through on that goal even as the seasons of your life shift and change. You can use the ROOTED Goals Workbook over and over again as you continue to develop life-giving goals around the things that matter most to you.   — In this episode, we talk about the first letter in the ROOTED acronym: Rooted in Your Core Calling. Grasping the unique calling of God for your individual life is a life-long process! But leaning into your core calling is an essential part of creating goals that fully resonate over the long-haul, compel you to follow-through, and produce a lot of satisfying fruit along the way.    Join us as we talk through discovering how your core calling is playing out in your life today, and how that should impact how you set goals! We also talk a lot about how this part of the ROOTED Goal Setting System is not meant to weigh you down, but give you freedom to lean into your God-given strengths, passions and responsibilities!   Links we talk about in the show: Purchase the ROOTED Goals Workbook! Download the free Rooted in Your Core Calling exercises  — If our podcast resonates deeply, and you dream of a simple, streamlined way to apply everything you've been learning, then you'll LOVE the Evergreen Collective. The Collective is our online community / Challenge Path where Team Evergreen hangs out to connect and answer questions! The Collective is brimming with faith-centered motivation, live events, free printables, and a vibrant, engaged membership of like-minded women. Join the Collective here and get your first month FREE: https://evergreenplanner.lpages.co/collectiveinvite/

Cozy up with the ROOTED Goals Workbook and be guided step-by-step through setting compelling goals that actually make sense in your real life. This year we took it from a digital workbook, to a physical book that easily slips right into your Evergreen Planner—and fully upgraded it with all new exercises, examples from our own planners, and seamless tie-ins to our audio content.  This workbook will take you all the way from gaining key insights into your core calling, to identifying your next-right-step goal and creating a strong game plan, while adopting a healthy mindset for following all the way through on that goal even as the seasons of your life shift and change. You can use the ROOTED Goals Workbook over and over again as you continue to develop life-giving goals around the things that matter most to you. —   In this episode, we talk about the third letter in the ROOTED acronym: Outlined for Clarity. Clarity is key when it comes to giving your brain an objective that it can actually process, prioritize, and tackle in the day-to-day. When you break down a goal into tangible action-steps, you are equipped to move past your vague theories about what it will take to make your goal happen. You’re able to see the gaps in your knowledge about the process, which compels you to research until you have concrete and actionable understanding. Listen in as we talk about exactly how to take a vague goal and break it down into actionable and compelling steps!   Links we talk about in the show: Purchase the ROOTED Goals Workbook! Download the free Outlined for Clarity exercises How to Build a Morning & Evening Rhythm podcast episode (Apple, Spotify, Google) How We Plan Our Days podcast episode (Apple, Spotify, Google) How We Plan Our Weeks podcast episode (Apple, Spotify, Google) Six Tips to Get Out of the Crazy podcast episode (Apple, Spotify, Google) — If our podcast resonates deeply, and you dream of a simple, streamlined way to apply everything you've been learning, then you'll LOVE the Evergreen Collective. The Collective is our online community / Challenge Path where Team Evergreen hangs out to connect and answer questions! The Collective is brimming with faith-centered motivation, live events, free printables, and a vibrant, engaged membership of like-minded women. Join the Collective here and get your first month FREE: https://evergreenplanner.lpages.co/collectiveinvite/  

Cozy up with the ROOTED Goals Workbook and be guided step-by-step through setting compelling goals that actually make sense in your real life. This year we took it from a digital workbook, to a physical book that easily slips right into your Evergreen Planner—and fully upgraded it with all new exercises, examples from our own planners, and seamless tie-ins to our audio content.  This workbook will take you all the way from gaining key insights into your core calling, to identifying your next-right-step goal and creating a strong game plan, while adopting a healthy mindset for following all the way through on that goal even as the seasons of your life shift and change. You can use the ROOTED Goals Workbook over and over again as you continue to develop life-giving goals around the things that matter most to you. —   In this episode, we talk about the fourth letter in the ROOTED acronym: Tailored to Your Lifestyle. If you want to craft compelling goals that are grounded in your unique calling, then you’ll have to give yourself permission to develop creative solutions that make sense for your particular circumstances. Sometimes this means tailoring your goal to match your lifestyle, and other times this means tailoring your lifestyle to match your goal.   Join us as we chat about how taking time to tailor your goal and your lifestyle will prevent unnecessary tension between the two, and enable you to actually follow through even on the most challenging goals you set!    Links we talk about in the show: Purchase the ROOTED Goals Workbook! Download the free Tailored to Your Lifestyle exercises How to Build a Morning & Evening Rhythm podcast episode (Apple, Spotify, Google) How We Plan Our Days podcast episode (Apple, Spotify, Google) How We Plan Our Weeks podcast episode (Apple, Spotify, Google) Six Tips to Get Out of the Crazy podcast episode (Apple, Spotify, Google) — If our podcast resonates deeply, and you dream of a simple, streamlined way to apply everything you've been learning, then you'll LOVE the Evergreen Collective. The Collective is our online community / Challenge Path where Team Evergreen hangs out to connect and answer questions! The Collective is brimming with faith-centered motivation, live events, free printables, and a vibrant, engaged membership of like-minded women. Join the Collective here and get your first month FREE: https://evergreenplanner.lpages.co/collectiveinvite/  

If our podcast resonates deeply, and you dream of a simple, streamlined way to apply everything you've been learning, then you'll LOVE the Evergreen Collective. The Collective is our online community / Challenge Path where Team Evergreen hangs out to connect and answer questions! The Collective is brimming with faith-centered motivation, live events, free printables, and a vibrant, engaged membership of like-minded women. Join the Collective here and get your first month FREE: https://evergreenplanner.lpages.co/collectiveinvite/ ___________ Episode Shownotes: Planning while postpartum? At first glance it sounds over-the-top, almost an oxymoron. In the past we've even written about how the postpartum season can be an excellent time to take a break from your planner. So why did we choose to do an entire podcast episode on planning while postpartum? You have to remember that when we say "planning", we are talking about self-compassionate planning. And perhaps there is not a better time to practice self-compassion than when you are in a season of recovery like the postpartum season. When we say planning while postpartum, we aren't talking about planning our biggest goals, or mapping our business' trajectory for the next year; we are talking about the simple, but extremely useful, form of day-to-day planning that helps us get out of our heads, sort our priorities, and let the non-essentials fall away. Postpartum should be a season of rest. One where we focus on healing and soaking in those newborn days that pass so quickly. It should be a season where family and friends rally around to bring meals, help with other children, and take over housework. And even when this ideal can't happen, we can still choose how we will approach our season of recovery. We can choose to set expectations for ourselves a little lower so we are able to focus on what matters most. But it's incredibly hard to rest when you have a smattering of to-do's rattling around in your brain. It's hard to know what's essential and what can be left for another day (or dropped completely), when you're foggy from sleep deprivation. It's hard to track how well you're healing physically, mentally and emotionally, if you try to do it all in your head. And that's where a planner begins to make a lot of sense. In this episode, we talk about the unique ways we (Clari & McCauley both had babies this past spring, so navigating the postpartum season is fresh!) and other mamas have used the planner while postpartum. If you're pregnant or in the postpartum season, give it a listen. We believe you'll find it both encouraging, and also inspiring as you navigate the postpartum time. And if you have any friends who are in that season, we'd love it if you'd share it with them! ___________ Visit our website: www.evergreenplanner.com Find us on instagram @EvergreenPlanner Please rate & review the podcast! It does so much to help other women discover the show.

If our podcast resonates deeply, and you dream of a simple, streamlined way to apply everything you've been learning, then you'll LOVE the Evergreen Collective. The Collective is our online community / Challenge Path where Team Evergreen hangs out to connect and answer questions! The Collective is brimming with faith-centered motivation, live events, free printables, and a vibrant, engaged membership of like-minded women. Join the Collective here and get your first month FREE: https://evergreenplanner.lpages.co/collectiveinvite/ ___________ Episode Shownotes: If you've been following us for long, you are familiar with our favorite hashtag: #makespacetothrive. In a world full of hashtags, this may seem like nothing more than a snippet of motivation, a pithy phrase, or something fun to add on on top of photos. But for us, #makespacetothrive is a reminder of a key practice that moves us from overwhelm—to intentional living. It's become such a core phrase, that when we were brainstorming names for our podcast, it easily made its way to the top of our list. The story behind the phrase... Back in 2016, Shelby was living in a non-stop, head-down, shoulder-to-the-grindstone hustle. She and her husband supported their tiny family with a home business and were always behind on deadlines. Every moment taken to just sit down and breathe—even just to eat dinner together without multitasking work—invited a crushing air of guilt into the atmosphere. But there seemed to be no way to simply hustle more. After brain-dumping a giant todo list that took up seven sheets of paper, Shelby realized she was going to have to upgrade her productivity strategy, or she and her husband would never get ahead of the train. In her typical style, Shelby turned to Google to help her figure it out. Her husband gave her a couple of books he thought were relevant. They scheduled a meeting with a business mentor. Something, anything had to give. But every tip and tool she found seemed to yield a mere 1% improvement to their current situation. It just wasn't enough to move the needle. But then she found it. The missing piece. Shelby will tell you that learning this strategy radically altered how she approached her life in that season, and continues to be a practice she benefits from today. This is the element that has proved over and over again to be THE #1 strategy to consistent achievement and success in her life, and it's one she's found so many people completely miss. And what was this missing ingredient? MARGIN.  Margin is planned white-space for your day, your week, your home, your brain—space to breathe in #allthethings. In other words, margin gives you SPACE to thrive. Margin looks like many simple things in our lives: daily space to sit down, breathe deep, drink a hot cup of coffee, and have a strategy meeting with ourselves using the prompts in our planner leaving for an appointment (or church or event or party) 15 minutes earlier than needed so that when we hit traffic or forget something or have a driveway adventure with a toddler, we're not melting down ourselves taking time to re-write your goals in your best handwriting, allowing you to fully emotionally process them and then display them so they stay top-of-mind asking: "what can I say 'no' to, cull, or renegotiate about this week to make it easier and calmer?" getting up before the children (whether in the morning, or before naptime is over) and doing essential things so they don't get missed taking time to exercise instead of putting off health goals until your workload lightens or the kids hit a magical age keeping our homes clean, decluttered, and well-managed so that spontaneity feels fun instead of chaotic saying "no" to a stretch goal in the business so we can make a nicer dinner than usual for our family just because we want to turning off all of the notifications on our phones (except for calls from our husbands and mama, of course) and limiting social media so that new information isn't constantly taking a toll on our emotions using our time-blocker to add 15 minutes of padding to the transitions in the day (meals, commutes, meetings, etc.), so we don't have to feel like insane people to get anything done on time Margin transforms your schedule from a never-ending endurance race to a strategic agenda filled with life-giving rest periods. Margin helps you focus on what's essential, and then protects your intention, so that you can truly show up in the things that matter most. Margin allows you time to process stuff instead of letting it build up and eat away at your mental bandwidth. With a lightened schedule, opportunities to be flexible, and a decluttered mind, margin exponentially reduces your stress—which in turn empowers you to be more creative, make more thoughtful decisions, and tackle complex problems with confidence and energy. If you've been living a life based on hustling as much as you can from when you wake in the morning to when you crash at night, planning margin into your life will feel like a breath of fresh air. Slowing down is one of the easiest ways you can move yourself from a place of overwhelm, to a place of peace. When you begin by ensuring you're well rested, well nourished (physically + otherwise), and you've distilled your commitments to the things that matter most, you are able to show up for the people and responsibilities in your life with zeal. You will bring a life-filled energy that simply cannot exist when you are run down by a never ending to-do list. When you build margin into your days and weeks, you are giving yourself (+ your family) the space to truly thrive. ___________ Visit our website: www.evergreenplanner.com Find us on instagram @EvergreenPlanner Please rate & review the podcast! It does so much to help other women discover the show.