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As requested, I’m doing a series of posts about my Monthly Planner/Journal. This is Step 1 of a Do-It-Yourself Guide! Here are Step 2, Step 3, and Step 4.
Background: Stephanie from So Many Stories wrote a post on a “non-review” of the bullet journal. Of course, I love to plan and couldn’t not comment. For your convenience, I’ve added links to my Amazon Affiliates account – which helps me write more on my blog – thanks in advance for clicking through 😉
In brief, there is a planning method called “bullet journaling” by a man who developed this system to personalize an individual’s productivity. I’d love to be more productive, and maybe I should step-in, but there are lots of rules and symbols – much like a scaled-down version of a FDP35414 – Original Dated Daily Planner Refill January-December, 4-1/4 x 6-3/4, 2017” target=”_blank”>Franklin Planner. I LOVE Franklin Planners, but I seriously don’t have the time for all the ins-and-outs. I don’t like to waste the paper if I don’t utilize everyday, but if I do, I find I’m not being as effective.
Don’t get me wrong, I could wax poetic on my love of the Franklin Covey Planner system and subsequent books on effectiveness, time management, and the like – I really could*.
I’ve read them all with great enthusiasm and oftentimes realized that the business and government worlds I was working in was not really made with a woman in mind. They also were not made for a woman who has children on-the-go, not behind a desk all day.
Now I use the Happy Planner – and while it isn’t beautiful, I have Scrapbooks for that, it is pretty!



How do you get your planning accomplished?
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It’s all about my iPhone & iPad for me. I keep everything on it. Calendars, lists, notebooks…. And they are all synced between all devices. I don’t know what I would do without it. Last month I found a cover that lets me mount it on the fridge. I decided to use it on my old unused iPad. Now I have the family calendar up on the fridge for everyone to see whenever they want. And it makes a great TV to watch when cooking dinner.
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Wow! I’m not sure I could go without paper! We don’t do Apple devices {ahem, I don’t do Apple devices!}, but it’s a great solution. Thank you so much for offering it up 🙂
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Cool! I like your “cloud” pages! Your Franklin Planner poem cracked me up! I look forward to the continuation 🙂
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I didn’t get to it today {sorry!! The sun, it pulled me away!!} but I will this weekend 🙂 Glad you liked it — more this weekend 🙂
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They look fantastic and fun! I love organization and I couldn’t live without paper either. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you! I’ll have more that I’ll post tomorrow. It’s was gorgeously sunny today, so I didn’t finish the post – but I did get some of the images posted I took at the Tulip Festival this week. Enjoy!
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