Three 50-word stories about monthly reminders I have set on my iPhone.

Backup	Download	Love
Backing up your phone is a Covey “Quadrant 2” activity, which means it’s important but not urgent. Other Q2 activities include relationship building and finding new opportunities. Knowing I’d forget otherwise, I have an entry in my iPhone Reminder app for the first of each month: “Back up our phones.”	I like to have a personal copy of our bank and investment account statements in case we lose access to the online ones for some reason—like changing banks or investment firms or when some statements “roll off” sites after 7 years. Our beginning-of-the-month reminder says: “Download monthly financial statements.”	Back to that Quadrant 2 “relationship building” item. Like many couples, in the beginning, we “celebrated” our wedding anniversary monthly. But unlike a lot of couples, after 9 years, we still do. (This month was 110 months.) My phone reminder, set for each month on the 28th, simply says: “Anniversary.”