Make Space to Thrive

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. 

Pre-orders are available now for our ROOTED Goals Workbook! We are so excited to announce that this year we took it from a digital workbook, to a physical book that easily slips right into your Evergreen Planner. 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!)

Pre-orders are available now for our ROOTED Goals Workbook! We are so excited to announce that this year we took it from a digital workbook, to a physical book that easily slips right into your Evergreen Planner. 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

Pre-orders are available now for our ROOTED Goals Workbook! We are so excited to announce that this year we took it from a digital workbook, to a physical book that easily slips right into your Evergreen Planner. 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)

Pre-orders are available now for our ROOTED Goals Workbook! We are so excited to announce that this year we took it from a digital workbook, to a physical book that easily slips right into your Evergreen Planner. 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)

Pre-orders are available now for our ROOTED Goals Workbook! We are so excited to announce that this year we took it from a digital workbook, to a physical book that easily slips right into your Evergreen Planner. 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 

Pre-orders are available now for our ROOTED Goals Workbook! We are so excited to announce that this year we took it from a digital workbook, to a physical book that easily slips right into your Evergreen Planner. 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 

Pre-orders are available now for our ROOTED Goals Workbook! We are so excited to announce that this year we took it from a digital workbook, to a physical book that easily slips right into your Evergreen Planner. 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)

Have you wondered how we approach planning? Or what advice we give when we talk with friends about planning? Curious to know more about us? In this first Ask Us Anything episode, we dive into questions we received from our community that range from personal to planner questions to general productivity questions. Join us for a laid back and fun conversation!   Questions we answer in this episode…  1: Where do I start with the Evergreen Planner system if I'm overwhelmed? It's such an extensive system and it's hard to take time from all my urgent tasks to figure it out. (1:10)   2: How are you all related? (5:45)   3: When I sit down and plan, I get really excited about the possibilities, but then nothing ever goes according to plan. What should I do? (6:20)   4: How do you plan when you have chronic illness? (10:52)   5: How do you take your coffee? (13:40)   6: How do each of you use your Annual booklets? (15:48)   7: What was your process for creating the Evergreen Planner System? (22:53)   8: How do you set goals and get work done with little kids? (27:35)   9: You have an afternoon without kids, how do you spend it? (36:38)   Do you have a question you'd love for us to answer next time? Email us at hello@evergreenplanner.com!   Links we mentioned in this episode: Quickstart Your Planning - Episode 9 Download the free Quickstart Your Planning Guide  6 Tips To Get Out of The Crazy - Episode 11 ROOTED Goals - Episode 2  Purchase the ROOTED Goals Workbook

Time-blocking is a powerful productivity tool for maximizing the amount of time you have available, and for liberating your time to focus on what matters most. Yet we've found that many women are intimidated by time-blocking, and don't know how to make it work for them, or feel like it's just too structured and stiff.   In this episode we chat about why time-blocking is one of our favorite time-management tools, one we come back to again and again. Then we dive into our simple step-by-step process of how to make time-blocking work for your unique rhythms and lifestyle! So whether you're old hat at planning, or just getting started, you'll find this episode full of practical tips for utilizing time-blocking in your days. Links we mentioned in this episode: Quickstart Your Planning - Episode 9 Download the free Quickstart Your Planning Guide (this guide includes the free printable day planner we mention in this episode!)  Our episode on Margin: Make Space to Thrive - Podcast Episode 5 ROOTED Goals - Episode 2  Purchase the ROOTED Goals Workbook Read the full episode blog post here.

Your productivity will fluctuate based on the season you find yourself in. It can be easy to get caught up into thinking we should be able to plan and execute tasks regardless of what is happening around us, but this simply isn't the case!    In this episode, we talk about how knowing your productivity season is a key time-management skill that can help you set goals and priorities accordingly.    We have found there are three main seasons of productivity:  Surviving - 1:20 Reviving - 5:20 Thriving - 7:27   We talk in-depth about each of these seasons, and discuss different strategies for how to approach productivity depending on the season you are in. Join us for a conversation that is practical, encouraging and full of ideas you can implement right now!   Whatever season you're in, the most crucial step is knowing what your next-right-step goal is. The ROOTED Goals Workbook was designed to help you identify, strategize and execute your next-right-step goal. It teaches you to plan and prioritize tasks in the context of your life, whether you're surviving, reviving or thriving. Download your workbook today! Read the full episode blog post here.   Links we mentioned in this episode: Quickstart Your Planning - Episode 9 Download the free Quickstart Your Planning Guide  ROOTED Goals - Episode 2  Purchase the ROOTED Goals Workbook 6 Tips To Get Out of The Crazy - Episode 11

Living mentally scattered can leave you feeling frustrated and overwhelmed. You spin your wheels, tackling whatever is in front of you at any given moment, and then feel discouraged that you don't make progress on the things that matter most to you.    In this episode, we talk about why you need a hub for your brain, a tool that can help you sort, prioritize and tackle all the ideas, plans and goals you have banging around in your head. We talk about why we created the Evergreen planner, and how each of our core products (the Annual, the Month and the Cover) was crafted to infuse more peace into your day.   Read the full episode blog post here.   Watch how Shelby plans with each piece of the Evergreen System.

Effective yet flexible rhythms are one of the key building blocks in a sustainable and intentional lifestyle. But trying to copy a guru's routine, whether for work or home life, quickly becomes overwhelming. There are dozens of “best practices” out there, so where do you start? How do you decide what you need in your personal rhythms?   In this episode, we walk through how to build a morning and evening rhythm that is uniquely crafted to your life! We talk about what our rhythms look like these days, and how we keep them flexible, but effective. We even discuss how rhythms can adjust and change in different seasons, such as when dealing with chronic illness or a postpartum season.   If you're craving some order in your life, but don't know where to start, this is the episode for you!   Read the full episode blog post here.   Other podcast episodes we mention: 6 Tips To Get Out of The Crazy Planning While Postpartum

If you're in an overwhelming season, it can be really hard to know where to even begin. Friend, you are not alone. We know those seasons well. This episode is full of practical advice and encouragement to help you get out of survival mode.   We talk about how to navigate crazy seasons to begin to regain a sense of normalcy and get back to life-giving rhythms. We discuss focusing on what you can control and making progress (whether little or big) every day. We give six simple steps for beginning to take control of the crazy. These aren't pie-in-the-sky ideas, these are the real steps we have each taken to bring more peace to the chaotic seasons we've been through.   6 Tips to Get Out of the Crazy: Focus on nourishing food and sleep - 0.38 Carve out space each day for quiet - 2.48 Get all the details out of your head - 8.42 Take action on the next-right-step before planning more - 11.24 Sometimes it's a “get out of survival mode” bootcamp - 14:57 Build a morning rhythm - 19:10   To download the Taming Your To-Do List Guide for FREE click here and use the coupon code TAMETHATLIST at checkout.   Read the full episode blog post here.

Are to-do lists your go-to when you know you have A LOT to do? We can relate. But the truth is that to-do lists are not a time management strategy, and they can actually hinder your productivity. When you rely too heavily on to-do lists, you end up overwhelmed, executing tasks haphazardly and not feeling like you ever make progress on the things that are most important to you.   In this episode we talk about how to use to-do lists effectively, and how to take a massive to-do list and distill, prune, and prioritize it to the most essential tasks that will fuel your productivity and leave you feeling like a task-crusher. We discuss the power of choosing top-targets for each day and how this practice of daily prioritization can help you make consistent progress on your biggest goals.    Use the code TAMETHATLIST to get the Taming Your To-Do List Guide for FREE!   Pssst… this episode says that the guide includes a one-page day planner, but we actually decided to include SIX bonus planner pages free. Go check it out!   Read the full episode blog post here.

It can be difficult to know where to start when trying to create a personalized time management strategy or learn how to maximize your planner, and it is overwhelming to try and do that while not losing track of everything already on your to-do list. If that tension sounds familiar to you, this episode for you!   In this episode we give you our Quickstart Your Planning Guide based on the acronym PLANS. This process will enable you to simply and effectively begin forming your own personalized time-management strategy, while still executing all those day-to-day responsibilities you can't let slide while you figure out how to maximize the use of your planner.   Download the Quickstart Your Planning Guide here.    PLANS stands for: Pencil in what you did. Leverage the brain dump. Access your working memory. Nurture a flexible mindset. Sharpen your time-management skillset.   The process represented by this acronym is one you can return to again and again in different seasons to help you begin to form a time management strategy that is personalized, simplified, and increasingly intuitive.   Read the full episode blog post here.

**15% off storewide, Black Friday through Cyber Monday** In the midst of growing our families while building our business, the Evergreen Planner System has been fundamental to our productivity.  In this episode, we take you on a tour through the Evergreen Planner, and contrast it to other planners that didn't work so well for us. We share the impact that this innovative system has had on each of our lives, and invite you to imagine how it might change the game for you.  1:03 - Why we created this planner system, when there are already so many planners out there.  1:40 - The story of how the Evergreen Planner was invented and developed by McCauley and Shelby.  3:31 - An overview of the 3-part system.  4:10 - A tour of the Annual, our 12-month calendar booklet with flex space that gives you a birds-eye view of your year. Also a brief snapshot of how we use it in our own lives. 6:32 - A tour of the Monthly, our 5-week planner booklet that provides a deep dive into daily and weekly planning. This booklet features week grids, habit trackers, daily timeblockers, effective prompts, and the flex space you need to customize it fully for your life. (While we briefly give you some ideas for how we use the Monthly, episodes 4 and 6 provide extensive looks at how we plan our days and our weeks using this booklet.) 14:11 - A tour of the Cover, our genuine-leather piece that binds the booklets together into one cohesive system. An original design by McCauley, this piece sets our planner apart aesthetically. 17:45 - The surprising ways the Evergreen Planner System deeply changed the way Shelby approached productivity.  19:57 - Before it was even brought to market, this planner underwent a lot of rigorous field-testing. It has withstood the test of time, and has become an integral part of our intentional lifestyles.  Are you ready to get your hands on this amazing tool that will help you finally begin to translate your long-term goals into daily choices? Head over to our website today and take advantage of our Black Friday sale.  With 15% off storewide, this is our biggest sale of the year.  Now is your time to get organized around the things that matter most to you and finally make space to thrive.  Click here to read our full blog post.  We mention a few past episodes, which you can listen to here: Episode 4: How We Plan Our Days Episode 6: How We Plan Our Weeks Get visuals of our planner over at our website and on our Instagram. 

Postpartum should be a season of rest. 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. 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 in the postpartum season. We talk 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 so we can soak in those newborn days that pass so quickly. Click here to read our full blog post. 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!

Every Monday is a fresh start. You have an entire week before you, a clean slate, and it can seem like the possibilities for productivity are endless! But then you move through each day and it can be easy to slip back into dealing with whatever seems most necessary in each moment, and you find you're only taking care of the small details rather than making progress in the most significant areas. Or maybe you make significant progress on your big goals, but meal planning or laundry is falling off your radar. How do you balance it all? How do you create week rhythms that serve your long term goals, your weekly work needs, and your family? In this episode, you'll get a peek into how we (as business owners running a growing company with nine kids under the age of six between us!) plan our weeks. We are all about flexible planning that is individual for each person. You'll get to hear how we each approach week planning, and get ideas you can apply in your own unique way. We highly recommend you take a look at the week spread in our monthly. This will allow you to see exactly what we are talking about as we plan the different elements of our week using the vertical week calendar, three columns, flex grid space, habit tracker, etc. Click here to read our full blog post. We mention a few past episodes, which you can listen to here: Episode 1: The Four Rules of Planning Part 1 Episode 2: The Four Rules of Planning Part 2 Episode 4: How We Plan Our Days If you haven't, please take a moment to rate and review this podcast! It's the best way to help other women find the show. Thank you!

What do we mean by “Make Space To Thrive”? In this episode, we share the story behind this phrase and discuss the life-changing concept of adding margin into your day. Because, friend, margin is a beautiful thing. It's planned white-space for your day, your week, your home, your brain—space to breathe in #allthethings. Making space for margin is the practical secret-sauce for making space to thrive. In this episode, we talk about the simple and powerful ways margin shows up in our lives, and how to ensure you're keeping margin in mind when you're planning your days. Click here to read more about margin on the blog. And if you haven't yet, please take a moment to rate and review this podcast! It's the best way to help other women find this life-giving content. We're so thankful for you!

When you sit down to plan a day, you're sitting down to strategically invest your time in a way that honors the season you're in, the ones you've been given to love, and the work you're responsible for. And planning a lot of days, over several weeks and months, enables you to begin forming life-giving rhythms that work to breathe life into your family and help you make progress on your bigger goals. In this episode, you'll get a peek into how we (as business owners running a growing company with nine kids under the age of six between us!) plan our days. We highly recommend downloading our free printable so you can easily follow along as we talk. This printable has all the major elements of our Day page, which allows you to see exactly what we are talking about as we plan the different elements of our day using the time-blocker, top targets, prompts, etc. The principles we talk about can transfer to a lot of different planners. So whatever planner you use, we believe this will be an episode you find valuable! Click here to read our full blog post. If you haven't, please take a moment to rate and review this podcast! It's the best way to help other women find this life-giving content. Thank you!

Goal-setting needs an upgrade—especially for modern home-loving women with big dreams. The ROOTED Goal-Setting System will help you set goals that fuel your vision, while also breathing life into your day-to-day reality (full show notes at evergreenplanner.com/3). If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love it if you could rate & write a review so other women can find the show! Learn more about us evergreenplanner.com and on IG @evergreenplanner.

We dive into the final two rules of planning: train your subconscious and maintain a flexible mindset. These concepts are simple to implement, yet extremely effective for crafting an intentional lifestyle (full show notes at evergreenplanner.com/2). If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love it if you could rate & write a review so other women can find the show! Learn more about us evergreenplanner.com and on IG @evergreenplanner.

Want to start getting organized around the things that matter most to you but don't know where to begin? Here's an effective shortcut for diving into the world of time-management and productivity—without getting overwhelmed (full show notes at evergreenplanner.com/1). If you enjoyed this podcast, we'd love it if you could rate & write a review so other women can find the show! Learn more about us evergreenplanner.com and on IG @evergreenplanner.