How to Build a Handwritten Note Habit (Even If You're Busy)

Written By TBU Design Group
note card with four leaf clover and handwritten message, "make someone's day, one handwritten note at a time." designed by Viola and Beatrice Stationers

The reason most people don't write notes isn't laziness. It's friction. The cards aren't nearby. The stamps ran out months ago. By the time you've found everything, the moment has passed.

The fix is a system, not a resolution.

  1. Make it stupidly easy: Keep a small tray or box on your desk with everything in one place — cards, a pen, stamps. When the impulse strikes, it takes two minutes, not a scavenger hunt.

  2. Batch it, don't force it: Set aside 15 minutes once a week — Sunday evenings, Friday mornings, whenever feels natural. Write two or three notes at once. It's easier when you're already in the headspace.

  3. Lower the bar: A two-sentence note is a note. It counts. Waiting until you have something profound to say means you'll wait forever.

The habit builds itself once it becomes effortless. And once it's effortless, you'll wonder how you went so long without it.

TBU Design Group

Not just a collection of brands, but a collection of people, ideas, and passions.

TBU Design and TBU Design Group founder Kelsey McDonald has had an artistic flair for most of her life. Believing in the power of design, problem solving, the ability for simplicity and organization to alleviate stress and experience to drive creativity, she founded Blue Umbrella in 2009 after graduating with a degree in Design and English from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.

McDonald has helped designed and produced numerous projects ranging from intimate and stylized events and wedding, to business brands, logos and strategies, to simple stylized greeting cards. Having guided many clients through this exciting, yet sometimes confusing process, it has shown her what it takes to both customize and personalize any goal that is brought before her. McDonald has had over 15 years of professional client-based design experience. She has help small business hit the ground running as well as work will with some of the industries heavy hitters. What started out as a small wedding invitation adventure, has now grown into four businesses and a passion to help and support others on their own business journey.

 

 

 

 

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