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This how-to guide will walk you through your planner’s features. It includes examples to give you a jumping off point as well as video tutorials for the visual learners out there.
While there are guides and suggestions provided for this planner, it’s designed to encourage personalization according to your unique preferences and needs.
Six calendar layouts are located at the start of the planner for easy access. Lay the foundation by establishing your goals and priorities at the beginning of each month. Add your events and appointments on the calendar to keep them top of mind. The Notes/Reminders section allows you to jot down important on-the-spot thoughts, ideas, or quick reminders, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.
Dive into a world of financial organization with 6 monthly expense sheets. Each expense sheet is divided into two segments, corresponding to two pay periods.
- Begin by defining your financial objectives. What’s the purpose of your savings? Is it for a much-needed vacation? A new car? Perhaps to establish a savings account for unforeseen circumstances? Whatever it is, identifying what you are working towards is the crucial first step on your path to financial empowerment
- Once you’ve established your purpose, set a target for the amount you intend to save and the desired completion date
- Assess the timeframe available to achieve your goal and break it down into manageable monthly portions
- After determining your monthly goals, it’s time to dive into your expenses. By analyzing your spending habits, you can allocate savings per pay period effectively, ensuring that you’re consistently moving towards your financial aspirations
Understanding the Expense Sheets
Each pay period segment consists of three sections: income, bills, and additional expenses.
Each section is assigned a color:
Each section is assigned a color:
- Income Track your earnings, ensuring you’re fully aware of your financial inflow
- Bills Monitor your regular expenses with clarity and precision
- Additional Expenses Capture unexpected or additional expenditures that pop up
- The blue field labeled save determines your savings objective for the pay period
Visual Summaries: At the bottom of the sheet, you’ll find fields with colored borders, corresponding to each section. Here, you record the totals from your income, bills, additional expenses, and save goal. The result? A crystal-clear view of your financial landscape with the equation:
Income – Bills – Additional Expenses – saved = Remaining funds to TREAT YOURSELF💅
Start of the Week Set aside some time at the beginning of each week to prepare for the week ahead.
Gratitude, Affirmations, Intentions Incorporate positivity and mindfulness into your life by expressing gratitude, reinforcing self-belief, and setting intentions to guide your week
Guide on Gratitude, Affirmations, Intentions
Priorities and Goals Keep your goals and priorities at the forefront. Arrange your priorities in accordance to significance, using red check boxes for urgent tasks, yellow for those of average importance, and green for tasks that, while important, can be pushed back
Planning and Performance Chart Use this adaptable chart to strategize various activities for each day of the week, such as meal planning, cleaning routines, or workout schedules. Alternatively, record outcomes for each day, like daily steps, calories burned, or book pages read
Hobby & Routine Tracker Rediscover joy through consistent engagement with your passions and interests. By monitoring your progress, you can witness the growth and fulfillment that comes from nurturing what truly excites you
Memory Time Capsule Record cherished
memories and moments, preserving
experiences that contribute to your unique journey
Daily Planning This clean layout empowers you to efficiently prioritize tasks on a day-to-day basis. Within each day, you’ll find:
- Lined space to jot down notes, record thoughts, or document anything that comes to mind
- A priority list color-coded for task prioritization
- Two 1-10 meters designed to facilitate tracking throughout your day. These versatile meters can monitor various aspects that matter to you. For example, the first meter can record the number of cups of water you consume throughout the day. Meanwhile, the second meter may serve as a Happiness Meter, enabling you to monitor daily well-being and recognize any influences or factors impacting your mood Guide to the Happiness Meter
Time Manager Leave no moment unnoticed or forgotten with the daily time scheduler, segmented into 30-minute intervals. This section is tailored for straightforward tasks, meetings, events, and other commitments scheduled throughout your day.
Creativity Corner While all other sections within the Weekly Spread remain consistent and recurring, a one-of-a-kind coloring page is incorporated into each spread. Coloring has proved a number of benefits including:
- Stress Reduction: Promotes relaxation, lowering stress and anxiety through rhythmic, meditative engagement
- Mindfulness and Focus: Full attention to coloring enhances mindfulness, redirecting thoughts from stressors to the present moment
- Fine Motor Skills: Improves precision, hand-eye coordination, and dexterity
- Positive Mood Enhancement: Induces the release of endorphins to uplift your spirits
- Cognitive Benefits: Engages cognitive processes, such as recognition and spatial awareness
The Brain Dump page is your canvas for everything and anything: ideas, plans, sketches, and more.
Utilize it to draft business plans, brainstorm witty one-liners for your next social event, or purely allow your mind to wander freely through artistic expression.
Week Reflection The last page of the weekly spread is a Reflection Page, typically intended to be completed on the final day of your week. Here, you have the space to record your wins, challenges, key learnings, and general thoughts of the week. The practice of weekly introspection is an essential practice that cultivates self-awareness, encourages personal growth, and empowers informed, balanced living.
- Wins: Acknowledge your progress and celebrate achievements, both big and small
- Challenges: Identify hurdles and obstacles you faced. Transform challenges into opportunities for growth
- Key Learnings: Extract valuable lessons from your experiences and harness your newfound wisdom to fuel future endeavors
- Thoughts: Reflect deeply. This is your space to explore, question, and expand your understanding
Tips and tricks to elevate your planner experience
- Be kind to yourself. It’s absolutely okay if you don’t always achieve your goals or if you take a break from your planner. The important thing is to eventually resume from where you left off.
- Like with everything else in life, consistency is key.
- Be honest. This planner is a safe space to be your true self. The path to personal growth lies in your complete transparency and deliberate intent with every word you pen down.
- Establish realistic goals while prioritizing mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
- This planner is designed to encourage personalization according to your unique preferences and needs.
- Keep your planner within sight in the spaces where you primarily spend your time.
- Reward yourself for completing goals and reaching achievements. You deserve it.
- HAVE FUN! Every section of this planner was created to enable you to plan, organize, and reflect, all while encouraging laid-backness and creativity. There are no extensive prompts, overwhelming questions, nor incorrect responses.
Gratitude, Affirmations, Intentions
The act of writing down statements of gratitude, affirmations, and intentions holds significant power in promoting positive mindset and personal growth.
Gratitude involves acknowledging and appreciating the positive aspects of your life. This keeps you grounded and promotes a sense of contentment and happiness.
I’m grateful…
- For my good mental and physical health
- For my tutor, I’ve learned a lot
- For this weather today! It’s finally cooling down
- For my friends who pick me up when I’m down
- For my coworkers and positive work environment
- For the progress I’ve made toward my goals
Affirmations are positive statements used to challenge and overcome self-sabotaging or negative thoughts. They are meant to help you cultivate a positive mindset and boost self-confidence..
- I believe in myself and my abilities
- I am capable of achieving great things
- I love and accept myself unconditionally
- I am in tune with my body’s needs
- I have the skills and resources to turn my dreams into reality
- I am resilient and capable of overcoming any challenge
Intentions give your actions purpose and direction. They’re the driving force behind your behavior, helping you stay focused on what you really want to achieve. This boosts your dedication and determination towards your goals.
I intend to / I will..
- Read one new book each month
- Complete this project ahead of the deadline
- Cook meals at home rather than eat out
- Spend more quality time with my family
- Communicate openly and honestly with my partner
- Crush my savings goals to go to Japan
- Dedicate time each day to my hobbies
The Happiness Meter
Tracking mood and self-care on a scale of 1-10 can be a simple yet effective way to monitor your well-being and progress over time.
The recommended approach is to designate a consistent daily time to check in with yourself, such as after work each day or before bed every night. By using this scale consistently, you can track patterns in your moods and self-care practices over time. This involves not only identifying triggers that have a positive impact on your well-being, but also those that present challenges for you.
Below the meter, you’ll find lined space for jotting down any notes or reflections stemming from your self-assessment.
Remember that everyone experiences and interprets emotions differently, so the descriptions might vary from person to person. The scale is meant to provide a general guideline for tracking and understanding your mood over time.
1 = Extremely low mood/self-care: This signifies a profound sense of feeling down, overwhelmed, or neglecting your self-care needs entirely.
2-3 = Very low mood/self-care: You are experiencing noticeable negative emotions or struggling to prioritize self-care but are slightly better than the lowest point.
4-5 = Low to average mood/self-care: Your mood is generally stable but not particularly positive or negative, and you are taking some basic steps towards self-care.
6-7 = Average to good mood/self-care: You feel relatively content and are actively engaging in self-care activities, although there is still room for improvement.
8-9 = Very good mood/self-care: You are experiencing high levels of positivity and are consistently dedicating time and effort towards your self-care routine.
10 = Excellent mood/self-care: This represents the highest level of well-being and self-care, indicating that you feel extremely positive and are consistently prioritizing your mental, emotional, and physical needs.