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I want to be a planner user. Like, so bad. But every time I buy them I get real hyped for a week, deck out the monthly spreads with birthdays and events I know are coming, then never reference it again. Can anyone else relate? The money I have dropped on rando planners that I haven’t used over the years is embarrassing, but this is a safe space and you can’t judge me for it, my blog my rules.
Now, the reason I think I struggle so much with keeping up with planners? I just want them to be pretty. I want them to look Pinterest worthy and colorful and cool and that shit is exhausting. All the power in the world to the people who can devote the time and energy to beautifying their planners but my ass is way too lazy to do it with any consistency.
So, with that in mind, I decided to revamp my planner….well, plan for 2020. This year, I’m ignoring the idea of being picture perfect and focusing on using a planner as the organizational tool it is meant to be and hopefully creating a system that I can stick to.
The main things I need to make this work is an hourly set up to keep me on track with everything I need/want to get done in the day. Mostly I gotta figure where the time is in my day to go to work, nap, and still actually put the time into this blog. I want it to be easy throw into my bag so I’ll actually add to it when something comes up, and though I’m not doing the fancy thing, I still want it to look cute. A girl’s got priorities.
There are SO. MANY. planners to choose from, especially at the new year, but for this new me new organizer challenge I’ve decided to go with Erin Condren’s Life Planner. It’s a little more expensive but it was the only one of the dozens I looked at that that checked off all the things on my list. The site was also having a sale and ya girl loves saving a couple bucks on cool shit.
Since I’m always so on top of things, my new planner showed up this past Tuesday, a full week into the new year (do you see why I need help keeping track of my life?) I had customized my own cover (Erin Condren has hella options for customizing whether it cool patterns, colors, adding your name, or even your own images) and it turned out really nicely. Cuteness? Check.
There are monthly spreads, the weekly hourly spread I coveted, and a handy page at the beginning of each month to list birthdays, goals, or whatever else you’re into tracking. Each month section also has a dotted grid note page to fill with any to do lists or doodles you see fit.
Will all these cool pages and cute cover really get me to be the planner paradigm I yearn to be? Who knows. But it’s worth a shot. Keep an eye on the gram for updates on if I can get my shit together enough to do right by this planner instead of letting it fall into the blank wasteland of all that came before it.
Are you guys into using planners? Do you deck them out with different pen colors and washi tapes and stickers for days? Or would you rather just throw stuff into your calendar app and call it a day? Let me know your planner thoughts in the comments!
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