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My september reset: the iMessage collage for a month

The same iMessage-bar collage, pointed at a month: a calm phone photo, six white-edged stickers, marker labels. Two slides, ten minutes. · 2 min read

Same iMessage-bar collage, pointed at a month instead of a weekend. A calm phone photo, your desk, a fresh notebook, the gym bag by the door, with the bar reading my september reset and six photo stickers around it labelled in marker: gym 3x, inbox zero, early nights.

Why it works

Reset is the word of late summer. Everyone wants a clean page in september and nobody wants another to-do list. The sticker layout lets you name six intentions without a single line of typed text, so it reads like a collage on a fridge, not a planner. The iMessage bar makes it personal: you're telling a friend, not announcing. And the second slide, what i'm leaving in august, is the one people tend to reply to, because the leaving list is funnier and more honest than the starting one.

What you need

• one calm, quiet photo: the desk, a notebook, the bag by the door, the morning window. Nothing posed.
• six small photos, one per intention. Shoot the ones you're missing today: the gym shoes, the water bottle, the phone face down.
• a free photo editor with layers, the markup pen on your phone, ten minutes.

Step by step

1. In any iMessage chat type my september reset, lowercase, and don't send. Screenshot, crop to the bar, cursor and send arrow included.
2. Ground photo into the editor, bar layered across the middle. Keep it the width of the frame minus a thumb on each side.
3. Stickers: crop each photo to a rough square and add a thick white border, or long-press the subject on iPhone to lift it out for the die-cut edge.
4. Six stickers around the bar, each tilted differently, two of them overlapping a corner of the bar so it feels stuck on, not placed.
5. Markup pen, one colour, your own handwriting: gym 3x, inbox zero, early nights, meal prep, walks, less phone. Typed fallback: the rounded family (SF Rounded on iPhone), small.
6. Slide two: the bar reads and what i'm leaving in august. Stickers: doomscroll, iced coffee at 5pm, saying yes, the group chat, screens in bed, overthinking. Caption: my september reset, six things, no pressure. Ask for theirs.

Make it yours

Beauty: spf daily, hair mask sundays, water actually, nails done, bed by 11, no new products. Business and UGC: pitch 5 brands, rate card updated, one reel a day, invoice on time, a rest day. Mom life: school shoes, early bedtimes, one batch cook, a date night, my own dentist, say no more. Any month works: swap the word in the bar and the photo on the ground.

Plan it in Cora

Save the card, build both slides, drop them into the Plan tab at the slot Cora suggests, the last days of august or the first of september, and let the reminder handle the posting.

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