Journaling & Planning All of the Things
It’s a new year! If you are anything like me, you are ready to start writing down things to prepare for the year ahead. Journals and planners galore. I thought that I would share with you how I streamlined all of the things.
I’m a planner freak. Through the years I’ve had a budget tracker, personal planner, tarot tracker, weekly planner, goal tracker.. ALL at the same darn time!
Not only is it hard to find time to update these things , it’s costly! Planners are no JOKE in the money department.
One day I finally said “ There has GOT to be a better way.” I decided to streamline it ALL into one .
One disclaimer is that all of my family’s appointments , work deadlines and things I cannot forget are on my phone AND on our family wall calendar. I need those things to be found at a moments notice and not in a planner at home.
After reading Jessica Simpson’s book where she said she only uses simple lined cheap notebooks ,a light bulb went off in my head.
Here’s what I did . I bought a composition book . Less than $1.00 at Walmart. and I combined all of my four planner worth of things into one. The BEST part about it is that i determine what goes in there. If I want to throw in writing about something or added gratitude for that day, I can . I have as many lined pages as I want to do all the things I want. No rules !
These photos are from November because I was planning on doing this post earlier, but yeah.. 2020.
I thought January was the best time to share what helps me stay on track stress free!
Here it goes.. Every morning I write 5 things I am thankful for and 10 things I MADE happen and well as what I’m going to accomplish first out of that ten . For those of you that follow the Hollis’s , this is directly from them . Their gratitude journals were one of my four planners at $30.00 a pop. So .. yeah.. I just do the same thing in my own $1.00 notebook.
When you write the ten things that you want to happen, you place them as if they already happened.
I am debt free
I paid my house off
I went on an amazing trip to vegas
I am an awesome mom and wife
In the FIRST area you write which of these ten things you are making happen first.
Placing these goals as if they are already achieved makes you attain them easier. Every time you achieve one of those goals, another replaces it .
On my daily page I also write the tarot card I chose for that the day.
Every Sunday in my journal I place a week ahead plan. I write out what I have going on that week and what I would like to accomplish in that week .
I have weekly goals that i try and hit.
I also leave a space for something I want to manifest for that week .
In the past I used Passion Planner and I loved so many aspects of it, but was missing a lot as well. ( this was also around $35.00 a planner)I started implementing what I LOVED from that planner which is placing prompts weekly that I go back and fill in the following Sunday.
What amazing thing happened this week ?
What challenge did you face?
How did you overcome that challenge?
I also do monthly goals as well with the same concept of the weekly pages .
I found that my budget doesn’t really need to be documented in writing. We have Dave Ramsey’s app and Kyle and I discuss weekly our accounts and what is happening the week ahead. You can totally place a weekly budget into your week ahead pages.
That’s what’s nice people.. you make ALL of the rules in your $1.00 notebook !
This is the first system that has left me stress free and that I have been doing daily since early 2020. The best thing is that you never have to worry about ordering a new expensive journal somewhere because they can be found anywhere at anytime at target or staples.
I’d love to hear what works for you and if any of my planner tips have helped you streamline documenting your goals.
Happy New Year!!!