Hi Dream Girl,
Can I ask you something?
Why did you follow through in school… but not on the goals you actually care about? 😂
It wasn’t because you were more disciplined at 16. Maybe it’s because you had a syllabus. Someone told you what to learn, what was due Friday and what “done” looked like. You never had to decide what to do next. It was already decided.
Then adulthood took the syllabus away. Now you have endless dreams, zero assignments and a Pinterest board full of a woman you keep saving but never get to practice being.
So you scroll. Not because you’re lazy. Because nothing is asking anything of you.
That’s what a personal curriculum fixes. In this post, I’m showing you exactly how to build yours for 2027, step by step.
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What Is a That Girl Personal Curriculum?
A personal curriculum is a plan for what you’re going to learn and practice, on purpose, for a set amount of time.
A that girl personal curriculum goes one level deeper. You’re not just learning subjects. You’re studying the woman you’re becoming, the way an actor studies a character before she plays her. (I trained as an actress. This is literally how we became people we weren’t yet.)
Your classes are her habits. Your reading list is your Pinterest boards. Your assignments are the small things she does every week. And your grade is the proof that you’re actually becoming her.
Step 1: Find the Woman on Your Pinterest Board
Here’s something nobody tells you: you don’t save what you want. You save what you’re missing. Every repeated pin is a little flag your heart keeps planting on the same spot.
Do this: Scroll your last 50 saves. Don’t judge them, study them. Write down the 3 things that keep showing up.
Example: “Matcha at a clean desk, a woman filming content, a Pilates class.” That’s not three random pins. That’s a woman who is calm, creative and takes care of her body. And it tells you exactly what you’re missing right now.
THE BECOMING → Your Pinterest stops being a place you escape to and becomes a description of who you’re choosing to be.
Step 2: Turn Her Into 3 Classes (Not 27)
Every pattern you found is a class. But here’s where most personal curriculums fail: they enroll in 12 subjects and drop out of all of them by February.
Do this: Name your 3 classes for the first 30 days. Then circle your keystone class: the one that makes the other two easier. (Calm mornings usually make everything else possible.)
- Glow Up 101: skin, movement and how she takes care of herself
- Calm Mornings: how she starts her day before the world gets loud
- Creative That Girl Era: the thing she makes, shares or builds
THE BECOMING → You stop trying to become everything at once and start becoming her one subject at a time.
Step 3: Turn Your Boards Into a Reading List
Here’s the anti brain rot secret nobody says out loud: scrolling isn’t the problem. Scrolling without an assignment is.
The same pin can rot your brain or teach you something. The difference is whether you save it to escape or save it to study.
Do this: Make one Pinterest board per class. From now on, every save has to answer one question: “What will I try from this?” No answer? Don’t save it.
THE BECOMING → You go from consuming her life to collecting instructions for it.
Step 4: Give Every Class One Weekly Experiment
School worked because something was always due. But here’s the upgrade: don’t make your assignments pass or fail. Resolutions are pass or fail, so one bad day ends them. Experiments can’t fail. They only give you data.
Do this: Give each class one small weekly experiment, plus a minimum for your worst day.
- Glow Up 101: 3 Pilates classes by Saturday → minimum: one 10-minute video
- Calm Mornings: no phone for the first 20 minutes, 5 days → minimum: the first 5 minutes
- Creative That Girl Era: post 3 pins of your own → minimum: design one
The minimum is the secret. It’s the version you’ll do on a tired Tuesday, and it still counts.
THE BECOMING → You stop waiting to feel motivated, because something is finally due, and it’s small enough to actually do.
Step 5: Build Your Journal Ecosystem
Most women have five journals and keep none of them, because none of them has a job.
Do this: Give each class one page, tab or notebook that holds three things: what you’re learning, this week’s experiment and what happened when you tried it.
Example: Your Calm Mornings page says, “No phone for 20 minutes. Days 1–2 were hard. Day 4 I actually wanted to journal.” That’s a real lesson you’d never get from a pin.
THE BECOMING → You stop starting over every January, because you can see exactly where you left off.
Step 6: Keep a Transcript of Receipts
In school, grades told you that you were improving. As an adult, nobody tells you. So you assume you aren’t.
Do this: Start a list called “Receipts.” Every time you finish an experiment, minimums included, add one line: “Did a 10-minute Pilates video on a tired Tuesday.”
And when you miss a day? Write that down too. A missed day isn’t failure. It’s data. Miss every Monday and the problem isn’t you. It’s Monday’s plan.
THE BECOMING → Your brain stops believing “I never follow through,” because you have 30 days of proof that says otherwise.
Step 7: Book Your Office Hours
A curriculum with no one checking in is just a really pretty plan. Day 4 is where most women quit. Not because they don’t want it, but because nobody noticed when they disappeared.
Do this: Pick one 10-minute “office hours” slot a week. Review your receipts, find where you got stuck and adjust next week’s experiments. Put it on your calendar like a class you can’t skip.
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THE BECOMING → Falling behind stops being the end. It becomes something you catch and fix by Sunday.
Step 8: Choose Your Final Project
Every class ends with something you can point to. Yours should too.
Do this: Decide what day 30 looks like. Not a feeling, a thing. A morning routine you’ve done 20 times. Your first blog post. Ten pins of your own. A photo of the woman you’ve been practicing.
Personally? My final project was Pinterest itself. I spent years saving other women’s dream lives before I started posting my own. Now that same platform is how over a million women a month find mine, including you. 💗
THE BECOMING → She stops living only on your board. She starts showing up in your life.
Your 30-Day That Girl Personal Curriculum at a Glance
Screenshot this. 📲
- Days 1–2: find the woman on your Pinterest board
- Days 3–6: pick 3 classes (circle your keystone), make one board per class, set up your journal pages
- Days 7–10: set your weekly experiments and minimums
- Days 11–25: run your experiments, collect receipts, hold weekly office hours
- Days 26–30: finish your final project and plan your next 30 days
Final Word
You don’t need more information in 2027. You’ve saved enough of it.
You need assignments. Small ones, with a due date, that turn the woman on your Pinterest board into the woman in your mirror.
Pick your 3 classes. Give each one a tiny experiment. Start your receipts.
You’re not trying again this year. You’re testing. And class starts whenever you do. 💗
Xo, Chelsea Elise 💖
