Happy mom diary. Zarina Ivanter: Diary of a happy mom (orange)

For many of us, the beginning of the year is firmly associated not with the calendar New Year, but with September 1st. No wonder, because for so many years this day has been for us a harbinger of something new, exciting, surprising and long-awaited. And now, having returned to Moscow, warmed by the summer sun, I start planning the “academic year” in the Club of Passionate Moms and in my own life. Traditionally new stage, "new year" I start with a new diary. Today, at the request of my subscribers in in social networks I will tell you more about the diaries that I chose for this fall.

Diary of a successful woman

The first instrument of all-success that I want to talk about is "The Diary of a Successful Woman" (labyrinth, Ozone). The author of this weighty notebook is Sofya Timofeeva, the director of a network of children's clubs, an author of books, a teacher, and a consultant on opening children's clubs. Some time ago, I already had the diary of another owner of children's clubs - Zarina Ivanter (), so it was quite interesting to compare them.

I must say right away that I have been using this diary for only a couple of days, so I cannot yet evaluate its durability and some other parameters in practice, but from my rich experience of acquaintance with other diaries, I can single out such pros and cons of the “Successful Woman Diary”.

Nice design. A noble, moderately “businesslike” cage on the outside and pleasant pages in warm colors with subtle patterns, unobtrusive pictograms and frames.
Lyasse allows you to quickly open the diary on the desired page.
There is a division into cases tied to a specific time, and cases related to one of the areas - work, family or personal. There is special place to record personal care and sports plans. In general, all in order to maintain a balance between these areas.
Under each day there is a sign for recording achievements and the lesson of the day.
At the end of each week there is a parable of the week and there are inspirational quotes on each page. I can’t say that this is some kind of significant plus, but I know that many people love it, besides, I have not seen parables in diaries before, so this can be considered the highlight of this publication.

The diary is very thick and quite heavy, while the mass of pages in it has no practical use for most of us - these are various tables of measures and weights, telephone codes of cities, a calendar for as much as 3 years and some completely incomprehensible texts about widely known secrets of cheerfulness and successful negotiations. In general, what you least want to find in the diary.
There is only one spread at the very beginning to record goals for the year, "dreams" and new ideas. Further there are only pages for daily planning. I would definitely remove all these tables of measures and weights and add instead sheets for weekly or monthly planning.
The day of a successful woman starts at 9 am and ends at 8 pm. I understand that for a successful woman this can be quite normal, but personally for me a good half of the active time of the day does not fit into this framework. And I think this is true for supporters of what is popular today, and for those who, like me, practice late lights out.
Due to its volume, the diary is difficult to keep open (you need 2 free hands), and somewhere in the middle it tries to close all the time. For example, during work, and just during the day, I keep the diary open so that it is convenient to look into it. But the "successful woman" prefers to shut up and keep her secrets from prying eyes.
Catastrophically little space for weekend planning. In fact, these are a few lines under the parable of the week, and it's good if the parable is short.

In general, as a version of a desktop diary for planning work and personal tasks in “broad strokes”, the diary of a successful woman suits me. My rating is a solid 4.

Notebook for Highly Effective People ( labyrinth, Ozone)

This notebook, it seemed to me, partly speculates on the name of Stephen Covey on the cover. However, this does not detract from its obvious merits, thanks to which it receives an excellent rating in my today's review. And that's why. This is a notebook in which there is nothing superfluous, but there is a lot of what "real" diaries lack. It has what I believe is essential for effective planning for high-performing moms. Of course, I'm talking now about pages for planning the week, as well as a special place for recording results, conclusions, insights. In Notebook, this page is called the Notebook Time Summary Page. There is a page for planning the week with a breakdown by day and a place to write down the most important. Daily planning pages look extremely concise - on the left is a place to record tasks with a deadline, on the right - tasks without a deadline. Below is the most important. There are also inspirational thoughts, but only one per week, so the pages of the notebook do not look overloaded with information at all.

Tired of the mess in the nursery? Tired of endlessly collecting toys for the child?

Why did I write that the publication is speculating in the name of Stephen Covey. The fact is that Covey's approach is not directly related to the notebook itself. That is, in principle, any other theory of personal effectiveness could be presented on the pages of a notebook. How did the authors "tie" Covey to the notebook? Added pages describing the 7 principles and some of his advice. “The notebook will help you understand Covey’s ideas for yourself, refer to them often due to the fact that he is always at hand, develop useful skills and integrate them into your life,” says the introduction to the notebook, and it’s hard to argue with that.

Of the minuses, perhaps, one can note the small volume of the notebook - I counted only 21 weeks in it, the absence of a lace and also a “short day” - from 9 to 20. For Saturday and Sunday there is more space - a page for 2 days, but still there is " discrimination” weekends, but Covey called for planning time with the family!

happy diary

The previous 2 diaries were still designed for working people, this explains the limitation of planning time working week and time from 9 to 20. But I also have a diary created specifically for those who work 24/7, that is, for mothers. Since in this case we are dealing with samizdat, it would not be superfluous to say about the quality of the diary. This is a notebook on a spring, with a plastic transparent cover and rather thin pages.

There are pages for planning the month and the week, making to-do lists for the month and the week, working on the habits of the month, pages for notes and summarizing the month, the “My Dreams” page. There is a cardboard bookmark with a calendar. But in fact there is no place for detailed daily planning! That is, the plan of the week in this case includes plans for individual days at once. The whole week takes one turn, where in small cells (the fourth part of the A5 format) you need to fit all the plans for the day. Of course, there is no room left for dividing tasks into those with or without a deadline, highlighting important cases and summing up the day. True, there is a cell “To do the main thing” for the week, but its size does not allow it to save the situation.

For me, a significant drawback was the fact that the cells for planning are painted in gray - saturated enough to make the spread of the diary filled with plans look gloomy. Not a very suitable solution for a happy mom's diary.

The Mann, Ivanov and Ferber publishing house is the most useful book. Once the company began its activity in the field of business literature, and now it is developing a new direction of books for children and parents, remaining true to the principle - "publish only good books."

Reviewed by Natasha Ioffe working mom, blogger Worldly wisdom. She spoke about her three-week experience of communicating with the Happy Mom Diary and shared her impressions especially for our column.

When the Mom Blogs community team informed me that I had been selected to test the effectiveness of Happy Mom Daily, I was very excited. Firstly, the very idea of a diary is very close to me. 'Cause I'm 100% plan man. When I plan my time in advance, I feel calmer and more collected. Besides, proper planning I desperately need time, because I am a mother who seeks to combine career and childcare(I wrote about it on my blog and here it is).

That is why I was so interested in the offer to test this diary.

I must say right away that I am quite satisfied with the Happy Mom Diary. I use it every day, it has taken its rightful place in my capacious bag.

Why do I love the diary?

First, he beautiful. And I have a special passion for beautiful notebooks, diaries, notes and other similar “utensils”. When I make entries in this diary, I try to write as neatly as possible so as not to spoil the appearance of the notebook. Therefore, I confess honestly - I have two diaries at the same time. One is for quick notes and reminders that I make on the go as I remember something. And the second, Happy Mom's Diary, in which at the end of each day I write down plans for the next day.

And now let's move on to the practical use of this diary and what I personally liked.

1. The diary has a separate page to indicate Goals for the year. It seems to me that this is very convenient, because when planning your affairs for the coming days or weeks, you can always return to this page and see how the planned things bring you closer to achieving your goals.

2. It is very convenient to have separate pages for specific projects in various areas of life. For example, "My projects. Child”, “My projects. Work”, “My projects. Sports and beauty” and so on. At the same time, for some important areas of life (in any case, mine) pages have not been created. But I will talk about this later.

3. I liked it method, which the author offers for planning things for the next day. In the left column, I write down all the things that need to be done. I write everything down indiscriminately, the main thing is not to miss anything. Then in the right column, I group all cases by certain categories: Work, Household, Administrative affairs, In between, Evening with Pasha (my husband) and so on.

Sometimes it's easier for me to group tasks depending on the time of their execution: Morning, Afternoon, Evening.

4. What made me very happy and really affected the quality of life is the presence of a line "For myself" at the beginning of each day. In fact, there are three lines there:

a) "Project" - the project that you single out for yourself as the main one for this day.

b) "Child" - the author suggests setting aside thirty minutes a day for quality communication with a child that brings pleasure to both of you. It seems to me that this recommendation can be useful for mothers who devote most of their time to work or other activities, while the child is not with them. As for our family, my son and I, fortunately, have more time to communicate with each other, and we try to spend it in an interesting and high-quality way. That's why I don't use this line.

c) "For myself" - this item turned out to be just what the "doctor ordered." The author suggests carving out thirty minutes a day to take care of yourself and your appearance. I never had the time or energy for this point. No, not everything is so running. I regularly visit a beauty parlor, a nail salon and my girlfriend is a hairdresser. I run several times a week. However, there are many things that are personally related to me, which I put off until later and remember them at the last moment. By filling in the “For myself” line, I achieve a double result: 1. I feel the satisfaction that, with all the turmoil of the day, I do not forget to make time for myself. And 2. I do many things related to me on time.

Example: ordering personal care products online. Takes just half an hour! Previously, I found out all the time that I somehow suddenly ran out of creams, face lotion, body soap. And all at the same time! There was no energy to order on the Internet, there was no time for purchases. Here I pre-planned thirty minutes for this case. As a result, everything came on time!

5. Another interesting point. On the spread of the book, to the left of the Monday of each week, the author publishes useful information from various areas of life. For example, today I opened my diary (quite randomly) and stumbled upon the heading "Creative Thinking". The first sentence interested me: “To stimulate creative thinking and brain function, knowledgeable people recommend doing something that you have never done at least once a day.” This one phrase was enough for the thoughts in my head to stir and dance. Energy came from nowhere (today was not the most productive day in my life), lights sparkled in my eyes in anticipation of something interesting and unexpected.

This is an added bonus of this book - entertaining moments, very relevant tips designed to embellish and diversify our lives a little.

Some cons of the diary

1. The first thing I want to say in this context is the absence of the slightest hint that there is a man in a woman's life. In truth, I was very surprised by the fact that, speaking of the main areas of life, three are singled out: Work, Child, Me. “But what about marital relations?” - I was perplexed and tried to understand which category can be sacrificed in order to put the category “Husband. A family". As a result, I donated the heading "House".

2. If you asked me how to improve the diary, I would say that at the beginning of each week it lacks the “Focus of the Week” item - some main task / tasks that you concentrate on during the week and which must be completed.

3. Next, I want to say a few words about the cardboard box - a bookmark attached to the diary. The basic idea is to put on a piece of cardboard the project that you plan to work on in the near future and refer to it when making a plan for the day. Probably, it was this cardboard that was supposed to become the “focus of the week”. However, I stopped using it immediately, and here's why. After carefully writing the name of the first project on the cardboard, I inadvertently touched the handwriting. As a result, the writing was smeared, and the cardboard began to look very untidy. Deciding next time to let the written time to dry, I found that this did not help. The inscriptions made in calligraphic handwriting are smeared, and the cardboard becomes extremely unattractive.

Probably, at the moment these are the main disadvantages that I want to highlight.

What has changed in my life due to the acquisition

1. I can’t say that Happy Mom’s Diary made me really happy (maybe I should give it time. I’ve only been using it for three weeks). However, I started:
Don't forget to take care of yourself.
· Don't overlook the little things, such as phone calls, handling administrative issues, and even defrosting chicken for dinner.
· DO MORE. Thanks to the diary, I became a little more organized.

2. I am pleased that I have a nice business notebook in my bag that helps me to be more disciplined and collected.

Here is a mini-study Natasha did for us. By the way, you can purchase a copy for personal use right on the page happy mom diary.

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. - M.: Mann, Ivanov and Ferber, 2013. - 512 p. – ISBN 978-5-91657-562-0.

I liked a lot about the journal. First of all, it does not have dated pages like traditional annual gliders. But the pages are titled with the days of the week, which is very convenient when you work at home and often have to focus not so much on dates as on the employment of the people interacting with you and their official, approved by the state and superiors, days off. Moreover, sometimes some days fall out - due to illness or because of a vacation away from home, and blank sheets remain in the dated notebook. The same diary can be used in this way for more than 12 months.

E another one interesting feature my new organizer - it looks like Encyclopedia of Young Woodchucks do you remember this one? Each week opens with a page of useful information. Over 50 useful tips for all occasions: from everyday psychology and recommendations on how to dress a child according to the occasion, to home fitness. In fairness, it should be noted that not all information is relevant or revolutionary for me personally, but I think any mother will find something interesting for herself. In addition, there are a lot of things that we certainly know about, but do not remember here and now: how to prepare for a vacation, get rid of the winter blues, organize children's holiday what to do with the offspring, who decided to show who is the boss in the house, and so on.

I was pleasantly surprised by the pages at the beginning of the diary, reserved for Goals for the year and My projects. And not generalized, but broken down into categories. In general, the pedant and formalist in me rejoiced. Previously, in my large yearly notebook and electronic organizer, I set aside a special place for lists of books that I want to read, films to enjoy watching and dishes that I will definitely cook; as well as the places I want to visit, and the activities that are not usual for me, which I want to try, not to mention the good habits that I want to cultivate in myself, and the bad ones that I decided to get rid of anyway. Zarina Ivanter's diary has separate pages dedicated to these lists. There are sections Go to Vacation and For the Holiday with columns that help to distribute tasks according to the items “make”, “buy”, “take”. Here, at the beginning of the year, you can write down not only the birthdays of loved ones, but also sketch gift ideas in a special column opposite the date.

O very necessary sections for me I promise to find time for and the summary page for every three months pleased no less than the rows Project-Child-For myself on daily pages. Willy-nilly, but you don’t lose focus, and classes with kids are structured and not chaotic, and you also plan to take care of yourself: here it is all before your eyes, you won’t turn away.

At the end of the Diary are lists of books, toys and cartoons recommended for children in a certain age group. Also indicated are Internet resources aimed at parents who are concerned about the harmonious and comprehensive development of the child.

BUT The second offers several ways to fill out the diary, with concrete examples. Interestingly, in addition to the traditional lace, the diary comes with a bookmark made of thick cardboard, on which you can write down your main projects and keep them constantly in sight.

In general, the Diary is a rather curious fusion of all kinds of methods and techniques of traditional time management, applied to maternal and female experiences and needs. On the one hand, accounting and analysis of the dry residue from what has been done, on the other hand, advice familiar to most women who read glossy magazines and popular news portals from time to time.

P The first in my rich experience as a lover of various notebooks and planners, a daily planner aimed at women. Moreover, on women - mothers. But it seemed to me that to a greater extent, despite all its versatility, it is designed for a business mother living in a relatively big city and occupied more with a career than with housework. For example, I spend more than half an hour a day with my weather and do not use the services of a nanny and housekeepers. And I also work at home. But this is a special case, and I know many business mothers for whom the advice of Zarina Ivanter will be more than relevant and utilitarian.

In general, the diary (and a directory of small life hacks with it in one bottle), although in paperback, is quite voluminous, and every day in a bag that already contains a lot of necessities like a camera, tablet, spare diapers, drinkers, cosmetic bags , a wallet, a dump truck for a son and a beloved bear for a daughter, you can’t drag him around. But as a home organizer that helps you concentrate on the main areas of life that are, however, not related to the organization of the household, I found it very convenient.

Ouch, New Year just right on the nose! Just do not be ironic, pointing fingers at the regular New Year's notes on our website - I'm not talking about crafts this time.

Have you already bought your diary? I have long wanted to brag about my treasure: I heard more than once about the publishing house "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber", here and there I looked and licked my lips, but in the end I got the same one for personal use. And now, with a clear conscience, I'm ready to talk about how beautiful, interesting, pleasant, sincere, bright and warm he is.

Like many women, I like to feel things with my hands. I take off the cellophane packaging - and immediately I get the first charge of tactile pleasure: it is not visible to the eye, but the fingers feel the texture of the cover, voluminous flowers, veined leaves, the relief of twigs, the bird is almost alive. This is such an incredible tangible joy - you want to stroke, touch, hold and ... possess. I personally don't really like the cover design (I generally have a very narrow-minded mind in these matters), but these touching details in the truest sense of the word more than compensate for the wild combination of sneakers with a firebird.

The paper is unexpectedly dense and of high quality (usually something simpler and cheaper is used in diaries). And - yes, again a bookmark, a cute sewn-in bookmark, such things conquer me completely!

I open the diary - and on the flyleaf there is a nice detail: a place for a family photo. I have an eternal problem with printing digital pictures, but my daughter immediately said that she would draw me a beautiful joint portrait of all members of our family. I'm not upset: in my opinion, it's even better!

Further more. Details. Little things. Ideas. They have all the charm of the diary, they make it not just pleasant, but unforgettable, you don’t want to part with it, it immediately causes a strong and irrevocable desire to share not only plans, but also thoughts, and then, after a year, leave it as a keepsake the most expensive "Moleskine" or just a diary with memories.

It is very close that there are no printed dates in the diary - practice shows that it is more convenient for my personal nature to enter them on my own. Moreover, there is no reference to time - any mother knows that her day is built not according to the hours of office work, but according to her own chronometer, which often requires a special division.

I don’t know how much this diary will help me become happier (however, much more?), But the fact that I plan to be a successful mother with might and main is unequivocal!

One problem. My handwriting and best years was far from indicative, but over the years and permanent job with a computer became completely disgusting. Well, how can I decide to spoil such charm with my scribbles? In general, "Happy Mom's Diary" is too beautiful, I will probably make the first entry on the first of January with shaking hands.

Oh yes, I also really wanted to tell you about the bank have a good day. And about the bookmark with "There is nothing here." And about ... However, no, I will not. Run to the store and quickly buy yourself a diary - you need to this is you read it yourself. This and many more - smart, interesting, kind, necessary and useful.

Dear friends! Today I want to present you a very useful book for every woman, or rather, a diary. How do you plan your affairs? Do you write down your plans or keep them in your head? In my opinion, a woman who seeks to combine raising children, doing what she loves or work, household chores, and even look great at the same time, it is difficult to do without planning her time. Of course, it is simply impossible to keep in mind such a volume of cases. Just for this, smart people came up with a diary. And Zarina Ivanter adapted it specifically for active mothers. Sarina successful person passionate about what he loves, journalist, author electronic journal, owner and leader of children 's developing clubs and a happy caring . It is difficult to combine everything and keep up with everything! What do you think? Using your knowledge and personal experience, Zarina created "Happy Mom's Diary" , and the Mann, Ivanov and Ferber publishing house made it available to a wide audience.

Why was the "Happy Mom's Diary" created?

First of all, I want to note, no matter how busy mom is, she should have time for her personal affairs when she can do something for herself. What these things will be like is a personal matter for every woman. Perhaps it will be a walk, meeting with friends, reading a book, visiting a beauty salon, fitness center, shopping, whatever, but this is time dedicated to yourself. Mom should be happy, huh! Having kids, a lot of responsibilities, a job, and so on, making time for yourself is often difficult, but possible. It is very important to organize everything correctly, allocate time, and planning is the key to a competent organization. " happy mom diary” was created just to ensure that everything was organized correctly, so that mom had time for everything and even take time for herself.

« happy mom diary" will help:

- reasonably plan daily household chores, work, activities with children, personal affairs;
- competently determine priorities, dividing things into important and secondary;
- define long-term goals, for example, for a year, and ensure their implementation, breaking down into easily achievable tasks;
- distribute household chores for the day so that nothing is missed and everything is in time;
- plan holidays, various events, birthdays, vacations;
— fix those things for which there is not enough time and monitor their implementation.

And the most valuable thing in any diary is the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of your planning and work on the mistakes. Often this helps a lot to find free time and save your strength and nerves.

"Happy Mom's Diary" and its features

We begin to love many things in our life from the first touch. It happened to me with Zarina Ivanter's diary. Good embossed cover, very pleasant to the touch, white sheets, neatly marked so that you can use this markup in different ways, depending on your habits. The place for a family photo is especially touching, because the diary is intended for mom, and for mom, the family is of particular importance. The original bookmark, on which on one side there is a place for projects, and on the other side there is a mysterious inscription "There is nothing here." This bookmark, as it turned out, has a magical property: to remove from the field of view on the page of the diary those things that are not relevant at the moment, so as not to interfere with the current affairs, not to make mom worry that a lot of other things are planned.

Instructions for using this magical bookmark are attached. Zarina shares her experience on this topic and more.

Further, long-term plans for the year are placed, a separate section with dates that you need not to forget, everything that needs to be taken into account when preparing for a vacation, for the holidays. In addition, each week also begins with plans, but already for a week.

At the very end of the diary there is a “Useful Lists” section, where you can find tips on what the baby can watch, read, what toys can be suitable for children of a certain age, what sites for moms to visit.

Before the start of each week, small tips from an experienced successful mom are posted that will be useful to many. As for the worksheets themselves, it is not entirely convenient for me that they are not dated, but not everyone likes this.

In addition, for example, leaflets that fall on vacation will simply disappear and remain unfilled. Yes, and you can start keeping such a diary from any date, not necessarily from the very beginning of the year. It's also convenient.

Considering all the advantages of this publication, I can say that it is not even just " happy mom diary", this is a real guide, a reliable assistant in planning your affairs and a wise adviser! It will be a wonderful gift for any mother who wants to do everything: to do everything at work with high quality, to devote time to the family and, of course, not to forget about her beloved! Such a gift from the publishing house "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber" was received by the participants of the competition of children's crafts Yana Muzychina and Tatyana Saxon for a wonderful craft

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