1. 👩 In 2017, the journalist Gemma Hartley wrote an article for Harper's Bazaar titled "Women Aren't Nags—We're Just Fed Up", about the struggles women face in trying to divide household labor equitably, including both the visible labor and the invisible mental labor that women end up doing much more of. (source: Wikipedia). My favorite part in the article was: "If I were to point out random emotional labor duties I carry out—reminding him of his family’s birthdays, carrying in my head the entire school handbook and dietary guidelines for lunches, updating the calendar to include everyone’s schedules, asking his mother to babysit the kids when we go out, keeping track of what food and household items we are running low on, tidying everyone’s strewn about belongings, the unending hell that is laundry—he would take it as me saying, “Look at everything I’m doing that you’re not. You’re a bad person for ignoring me and not pulling your weight.”" Wow. Tell me if it resonated with you.
2. 📱 If you prefer to track your goals and habits digitally rather than in a paper planner like my favorite Full Focus Planner, here is a list of 7 Goal Tracking Apps to Help You Reach Your Goals that you can try.
3. 🎒 Sorry to remind you but...schools are around the corner, and because it has multiple tasks and takes energy, time, and money; going back to school is a project, so make sure you treat it like one. You can do this planning well for it using checklists like this one, or by creating your own lists with titles such as (To Do/To Buy). Personally, I will heavily depend on Dumyah.com for stationery shopping.
4. 🌚 I recently attempted to answer a Quora question about the best evening habits that I recommend; please check it out and vote my answer up, perhaps? And yeah, that profile picture you will see is old, from my blonde hair year.
5. 💬 I love quotes about beginning anew every day:

1.  In the past three years, my work routine pretty much consists of going over to Brain Fm, selecting deep work music for a certain duration and the rest is... focus. You get 20% discount on your subscription using my code: bardees.
2. I like to start the day with my personalized Momentum plus tab, which helps me stay focused with a powerful mantra, an inspiring image, a to-do list, countdowns to big dates, and world clocks where I keep an eye on time zones of friends and family living abroad before contacting them. Being a newsletter friend, you would get a special offer of a 10% discount when you subscribe to Momentum Plus with the promo code: bardees.
3. Enjoy 10% off my favorite gratitude journal that I have been using since 2017, The Five-Minute Journal, using the code Bardees10. One journal will last you 6 months. I loved the newly released colored covers.
4. Enjoy 10% off my favorite daily planner, The Full Focus Planner, using the code Bardees10. One planner will last you 90 days.
5. Enjoy a free month of the Readwise app to remember your highlights from books/articles you read on Kindle or websites.

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