So, I was listening to a Mel Robbins podcast where she shared her weekly planning routine. I gave it a go, tweaked it a little, and ended up with a process that’s genuinely changed the game for me. It’s simple, satisfying, and—shockingly—actually helps me get stuff done.

I have a degree in Journalism. And while I didn’t love the course (it leaned heavily into newspaper journalism and barely touched on anything else) I did learn some core principles that have stuck with me far more than I ever expected.

"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself." – Plato

We often imagine victory as something external—achieving a goal, landing a dream job, buying the house, ticking off the bucket list. Society praises the visible wins, the shiny moments, the Instagrammable milestones.

I have been journaling for most of my life, so a diary isn’t a difficult thing for me to maintain, but this felt a little different, for obvious reasons; mainly that other people will read it.