HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 It’s been a snowy weekend here in North Carolina, a place where this kind of snow is rare from what I understand. Yesterday we spent time clearing snow off our cars and playing outside, and during a quiet afternoon I started my weekly planning — including my new favorite part: analyzing the voice notes I’ve recorded all week. This system has transformed how I understand my own patterns and honestly feels like having a personal coach for $21/month. I think it...
9 days ago • 4 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Wednesday 🌞 This morning, I spent 5 minutes setting up a daily journal where I set intentions for the day ahead. This small system has been foundational in how I’ve grown over the last few years. As someone who lives a fairly busy life at home and at work, this is the kind of system that is making an outsized difference. Here’s more about how I use my daily journal and the exact template I use. If you joined recently, hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always created systems for my...
21 days ago • 4 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 In my last newsletter, I talked about starting a page for next year. Today, I want to walk you through something that makes that future planning so much more powerful: end-of-year reflection. Even though we’re not quite at the end of the year yet, this is actually the perfect time to bookmark this exercise. Things tend to slow down in December, and you can tackle this reflection in multiple sittings whenever you have space. Personally, I love doing this between...
2 months ago • 2 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 Sometimes it feels like all I need is a good list to help me achieve anything I want — most of my goals start out as a list, and there’s something magical about writing them down and then bringing them to life. Well this week I’m starting to work on a new list for 2026. If you joined recently, hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always created systems for my work (as a Marketing leader at Buffer) and life (as a remote worker and mom of two) where I can stay productive, calm,...
3 months ago • 2 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 I’m so glad to be back in your inbox. The last few weeks I have been in a Minimum season — where I had less energy but my usual amounts of time, and it was helpful to experience this season of capacity with more awareness instead of just feeling frustrated about being tired. Minimum season is one of the names of the Seasons of Capacity framework I shared a few months ago, you can read about it here, but the quick overview is that it helps you see where your...
3 months ago • 3 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 Hailley here, writing this battling another daycare bug. Between these bugs and new school routines, September has reminded me that I can't operate at my 'aspirational capacity' — I need to plan for my actual capacity. If you joined recently, hi 👋. I've always created systems for my work (as a Marketing leader at Buffer) and life (as a remote worker and mom of two) where I can stay productive, calm, and organized. This week, I'm sharing about a pattern I keep...
4 months ago • 3 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 In my last few newsletters and in several of my social posts, I’ve been pretty open that this has been a fairly challenging season of life. We recently moved with two young kids, which was exhausting in itself. Then we were very slow to unpack, and all the while we’re renovating the house (here’s a mid-construction photo of the flooring we’re installing). With all of this, I’ve been thinking about different seasons of capacity as a concept. Last week I shared...
5 months ago • 3 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 We are well and truly into September now, and at this point in the year, I start to feel like we're rolling downhill towards a new year. The rest of this year — a time filled with holidays — feels like it’s going to fly by. I absolutely adore the end of the year as that's when I get to start reflecting and planning for the year ahead. But September is another favorite of mine! If you're someone who enjoys marking the new year with fresh planning and goals, then...
5 months ago • 2 min read
HAILLEY GRIFFIS Happy Monday 🌞 It’s been a little while! Hi 👋 I’m Hailley. I’ve always created systems for my work (as a Marketing leader at Buffer) and life (as a remote worker and mom of two) where I can stay productive, calm, and organized. If you’ve been subscribed for awhile, you know we recently moved our family from Tennessee to North Carolina for my husband’s work. Moving with two kids (as opposed to one last time we did this) was much more challenging than I expected. I ran low on...
6 months ago • 2 min read