The Fay Edit

Maybe the problem isn’t that you’re bad at planning. Maybe your planner is asking too much of you. There is something I’ve noticed about the way we’re taught to plan our lives. Everything has to be organized. Your goals have to be clear. Your habits have to be consistent. Your mornings have to be productive. Your week has to be planned before it even begins. And somehow, if you miss a few days, the whole thing starts feeling like another task you’re failing at. I don’t think planning is supposed to feel like that. I think a planner should make life feel lighter , not make you feel guilty for being human. Maybe you don’t need another perfect routine I used to think getting my life together meant knowing exactly what I was doing. What I wanted. Where I was going. What I needed to accomplish this month. What habits I needed to build. What I should stop doing. Basically, I thought I needed a beautifully organized answer to every part of my life. But real life doesn’t work like that. Som...

  A very honest look at what I tried, what didn’t work, what changed, and what I learned while building The Fay Edit. A month ago, I was still trying to figure out what I wanted The Fay Edit to become. I didn’t have thousands of followers. I didn’t have a huge audience waiting for me. I didn’t even have my niche completely figured out. I was experimenting with ideas, changing directions, questioning whether certain things were worth pursuing, and trying to understand how Pinterest actually worked. And now? The Fay Edit has reached 538,000 monthly views. That number honestly surprised me. Not because I thought Pinterest was impossible to grow on, but because I had only been doing this for about a month. And the interesting part isn’t really the 538K. It’s how I got there. Because I didn’t follow one magical Pinterest formula. I didn’t wake up one morning knowing exactly what to post. I experimented. I changed things. I got things wrong. And eventually, I started und...