Here’s Exactly How to Fix Mental Load This Week

Do you find the mental load or cognitive labor – anticipating needs, identifying options for filling them, making decisions, and monitoring progress – as a busy parent to be both taxing and invisible to you and your partner? If you said yes, we’ve built a tool to help!

This post is all about the calendar tool that we built to remove your mental load. First, we will walk you through the tool’s features and then explain the easy steps to take to get your personalized calendar.  

As a busy mom myself, I found it exhausting trying to juggle keeping track of all the details for our family, work, and household — and Moments was my solution to better anticipating and preparing for my own little family’s celebrations. This step-by-step tutorial will walk you through Moments and how it can help you automate all the mental load checklists and tasks that race through your mind as a busy parent. So let’s say goodbye to the stressful, last-minute chaotic feeling and hello to looking forward to the big and small moments in your life again!  

 

What is Moments?

Moments is like Google Maps for parenting. You tell us what holidays, events, and celebrations you want to enjoy as a family, and we’ll create a personalized calendar for you that makes a blueprint for getting ready for the big and small moments in life. It helps automate all the components of cognitive labor so that you can relax and be more present in each moment, knowing that when it’s time to start brainstorming Halloween costumes (for example!), we’ll remind you! 

 

LET’S RELIEVE YOUR MENTAL LOAD!  

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The Tool

• Your (free) personalized calendar will:
  • Live Where You Live – Whether that’s in Outlook or Google so that your life is centralized and all in one place. 
  • Break Down Planning into Small Tasks – So that you can get ahead of the logistics of any event/holiday/seasonal activity/celebration
  • Include Curated Recommendations – To help provide guidance for brands, products, and services that will bring your vision to life. 

How it Works: Step By Step 

To start, fill out our LIFESTYLE QUIZ

• • We will curate your calendar to include only and precisely what you and your family want to enjoy/accomplish. We’re biased, but we think this is far better than all the free “mental load checklist” printable out there that are one size fits all and another piece of paper to keep organized. 
  • When you complete the survey, we will do a lot more than adding the holiday, for example, to your calendar. 
    • • Let’s take Halloween. 
      • If you say “Yes” you want to celebrate Halloween, we will also ask you, do you want to Buy or Make the Costume this year?  
      • In the background, we will take that information and build the custom tasks that give you all the lead time you need to get ready for Halloween – from early reminders and curated recommendations (click here for our favorites Halloween shops in 2021!) to order the costumes so you/your kids can choose the costume you WANT (because it’s still in stock, has enough time to ship, etc.), reminders to coordinate your trick-or-treating plans with families and friends, the best time to buy the Halloween Candy and more… 
  • We created a comprehensive list of life moments as a starting point, so please choose to select as much or as little as you want!! We’ll even create additional event sequences if you want to prepare for a moment that isn’t listed, so request away!!! 
  • Snapshop of Moments “Events”:
    • • Holidays (Christmas, Halloween, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Easter, etc.)
      • Seasonal Moments (Back to School, Apple Picking, Gingerbread Making, Super Bowl, etc), 
      • Birthday Calendar (Sending a Card, Getting a Gift, Throwing a Party), 
      • Preparing for Travel and Trips,
      • Other major Celebrations, and more! 

Our goal is to give you a plan so that you can show up as your most thoughtful self without losing your mind! 

LET’S PUT YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY ON YOUR CALENDAR FIRST! 

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Complete the QUIZ \\ THEN, We’ll SeND you your personalized calendar!! 

• We will draw up your personalized calendar and share it with you! 

 

Receive Your calendar! \\ you will have full control over YOUR calendar 

• • Delegate Tasks – You can invite your husband/partner/kid to certain events/tasks so that they can help carry the load and be part of the planning, decision making, etc!! 
  • Move Events – Up or back, as often as you need. Our tool is meant to have a little wiggle room since we get that LIFE IS BUSY and you might need to move a task out a couple of days because it’s just impossible given your commitments at work, etc. We promise, even if (ok, let’s be honest, WHEN!) you need to do this, our tool will help you tremendously!! 
  • Responsive Technology – If you want, you can add a new event to your Moments calendar and we’ll pick up the new event and then ask you if you want help getting ready for it as well!! 

 

FEATURES OF EVERY CALENDAR EVENT | the calendar event itself has a few components 

• • • Event Title – This is the main reminder/task. You should be able to glance and know what should be on your list to accomplish that day 
    • Event Description – We’ve included brand, product, and service recommendations to make your planning even easier in the body of the event so make sure you click through for even more information. We work really hard on this section for you!! 

 

Our hope for Moments is that it will allow you to create a beautiful, fun, and curated life for the entire family.

GO FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING!

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We hope you find this post all about the calendar tool we built to remove the mental load of busy parents helpful!