A5 Planner Flip Through | Planner Update | March 2021

hey guys welcome back i am so happy that you're joining me it's been a while since i've posted a video so if you're new to my channel my name is rebecca and i don't usually take a few weeks off it just happened that way this time because i do usually post uh planning content on a weekly basis so if you're new here i am so happy that you're here and that is what you can expect from my channel and if you are um a regular watcher thank you so much for coming back i really appreciate all of you so like i said before it's been a minute since i posted a video uh life got a little bit hectic in a good way actually if you do follow me on instagram uh you can stay up to date a little bit more i am um i am pretty active over on instagram so i did share that i opened an etsy shop so at the beginning of the month i just went for it it was something that i've been wanting to do for a while but i couldn't uh i couldn't build up the nerve to do it so i just did it and it's been a lot of fun so if you have supported my etsy shop thank you so much from the bottom of my heart it means the world to me it is a little bit scary to put out your uh you know your creativity and just be vulnerable but you guys have received it so well and have sent me so many encouraging messages so thank you thank you thank you and uh also our oldest had a birthday party so i was busy planning that and then we just had a couple of home projects that we really wanted to tackle so you know how it goes you you real when you look back it's been three weeks and you don't even realize it but i'm back i'm here i'm not going anywhere and i thought that a great way to jump back into youtube is to give you a little planner update so if you um if you've been with me since the beginning of this year you know that i did a um a setup video for my 2021 planner and it was an a6 so an a6 is a much smaller planner than this one and since then i have definitely upgraded so i did move into an a5 and the reason is because of the size honestly it the a6 just wasn't working out for me uh with homeschooling and just everything in life just kind of picking up uh i needed more space so i set up exactly the same way um my a5 and i'm gonna walk you through it and uh let's start talking about the cover first of all so this is a mo term color uh a motor cover in the color taupe it is the stiff version so mo term has two versions of covers they have a floppy version which is the newest version and then this one which is one that came out i want to say at the end of last year so this one i actually picked up in the facebook buy sell trade group because if i'm not mistaken these are not available anymore so they do have available the floppy version so i did get lucky and i purchased this one um a month ago i think and i um i did it because i needed bigger rings so i was using the filofax original and it's beautiful i love that planner but i needed more things in here so then i upgraded to the mod term but in i want to say in a week hopefully fingers crossed my first vds custom planner gets here so i cannot wait to share that with you so i will definitely be putting this beautiful cover aside when that uh cover gets here so stay tuned for that video okay so let me share with you my setup so like i mentioned before this is a mo term cover it has a 30 millimeter rings in gold i did when i i did go ahead and i changed the rings because it came with silver but i prefer gold and it was pretty easy to switch so you just you know you just take out the little screws and you just switch the rings and the layout of this planner i absolutely love i love the configuration of the pockets it has a pocket here it has a big pocket here that i keep my most used stickers and these are the ones i kind of like to stay within certain colors for the week or weeks or months that way i'm not going crazy and looking through all the stickers and i just keep them in here tucked away here i have a little just deco card from an order from cloth and paper and here i keep some sticky notes for appointments and just a blank um a blank set of sticky notes as well for just quick notes now this planner does not leave my house so this is the planner that houses everything so it is my main planner but i do have the pocket which i use in my purse and it's set up as um as my wallet so that is the one that i carry around and it's very functional and it just works great for me so i have no problem uh stuffing this planner and just keeping it at home and then it does have a big back pocket uh but i don't use it i don't think that an a5 really needs a big back pocket just because it's already big but you know i love it i love this smoke term cover because even with the big back pocket it doesn't feel bulky so if you are definitely looking for an a5 cover i highly recommend moterm it is budget friendly the leather is super squishy and smooth they have a ton of colors they do sell some of the colors on amazon so you can check them out there if not you can find them on aliexpress and they do ship from china so it does take a while or you can opt to get uh expedited shipping uh the first thing in my planner is always uh you know my dashboard that has the pictures of my family the calendar of the month that we're in and this is a gratitude card that i made and this is actually all the dashboards that you'll see except for two and i will mention them are designed by myself and they are available on my etsy shop and the name is eat pray plan designs so um so yeah i'm i'm really loving designing stuff so it's been a lot of fun to be able to have them in my planner and then in the back pocket i have some of the uh the small uh dots that i use all the time in my um in my weeklies you'll see them and throughout my planner these are from papery planning and then my favorite stickers from paper panda these are the word sets and then just some little deco here with sticky notes that i don't i'm sorry with page flags i don't use these i just keep them there for decoration and then a a little deco card that says make it simple but significant so yeah so when i thought about my setup just like i did with my a6 i wanted it to be functional and to have just exactly what i needed so i didn't over stuff it with a lot of dashboards but the vds so the vander speck that i'm getting pretty soon has 35 millimeter rings so in that setup i will definitely add a little bit more of decoration as far as dashboards go okay so then we start off with the front page and i have it clipped with an ollie clip so this is from the uh one of the limited edition ollie clip and cloth and paper collaborations and um and i believe the color is avogado but unfortunately they don't have this one available anymore and i love it okay so then we have the first dash and it is uh one that maria plans has as a freebie and then i just laid it over one of my own dashboards and i just love the way it looks so then i have here in the back i have the holiday card that almond paper co sent out at the beginning of the year with our orders and it's just perfect because i get to see the holidays there and just move them around to the monthly so my planner is set up with using six sections i use the ceo dividers by cloth and paper and it has a schedule it has a list section projects finances goals and ideas and miscellaneous and then i use top tabs i don't have them labeled because i use them as page markers so i this is where i flip if i want to go to my monthly section to the month that we're in so march then here i would flip to the week that we're in here i flip to the day so my daily planning but the day that i'm in and then this one is for the day of our homeschool schedule so i am a homeschool mom so i do keep our homeschool schedule and lesson planning in here and then this one right here takes me to my uh work section which is my social media section okay so the first section is the schedule section and again this dashboard is uh designed by myself so it's available in etsy and in the schedule section this is the chunkiest section of my planner so it has monthly weeklies and dailies and it does have a yearly section as well so this is a year overview and i use it for birthdays and for homeschooling uh days so like the important homeschooling days that i need to remember i marked those off here and then here on the other side i just have family birthdays and then here in this section i keep uh i pre-plan so i plan ahead appointments important things that i need to just keep in mind and this is how it looks so this is from infinite lotus my inserts are the majority are from infinite lotus elmon paperco simple and trendy co um plan to create and i hope i'm not missing anyone but if i do i'll mention it when i do the flip but then i will also link all the shops that i've used for my setup in the description box below um okay so then we go into the weekly section so i've divided the weekly section with just a dashboard and this is how i plan i'm sorry my monthly this is the monthly section so this is how i plan my month i do prefer a month on one page because i like to do it in list format so i mark important events appointments um holidays just things that i need to block out birthdays and then i just write them down here in list form and then i cross them out here with um the highlighter once they're completed and i do come i do check this every week and then i move the the the events that are happening to the week that i need to move them to and this is how it looks empty so as you were as you can see it's lists and just little boxes which i personally prefer when it comes to planning out you know my activities next we have the weekly so the weekly section is one of the main reasons why i decided to switch from um a6 to a5 i was finding myself that i was running out of space in my a5 so i saw one of my friends using this layout and this is from infinite lotus and i loved it so i did plan the first and the second week of january in my a6 so when i moved into my a5 i just kind of planned like wrote down the important things that i just wanted to keep but um just to make sure that it worked for me so uh that's why it's a little bit empty but i've quickly realized that i love it so this is what a completed week looks like and it just works great for me so it i have it has two columns and i did get the lined version so you can have it without lines or with lines i prefer lines so i use the first column for time sensitive activities then here is just things that i hope to get done that day but then here on this side i there's two lists so it's kind of like a brain dump and i separated between top three's personal things work related things which is social media and then home things and then i have certain trackers of things that i want to make sure that i get done on a daily basis and then here just like a section for notes and i usually write down a quote here so it works out really well for me let me show you what an empty week looks like so you can see it so this is it i honestly for a5 this this layout has been great for me i absolutely love it and then i have my weekly section so the weekly section is where i play around a little bit more with stickers in my i'm sorry daily section so the daily section is where i play around a little bit more with stickers my weekly is very functional stickers and minimal because i want to make sure that i see all the things and i don't get sidetracked with the stickers but in the daily section i just uh you know let my creativity loose and just play around with stickers when i'm in the mood if i'm not in the mood i have no problem just having it be pen and paper so here let me show you my weeklies so i started off using these from infinite lotus i've used the same style of weeklies for a while now i started using ones from simple and trendy co and then i just moved to infinite lotus when i got the weeklies but it's a column for the schedule priorities to do's and a notes section and i do like to use um little memos or sticky pads when i don't have a super busy day and just write down my to-do list but then my friend sent me the cloth and paper week on on to i'm sorry the weekly that has two days on one page and i absolutely love it so this is what it looks like i am able to decorate i'm able to have my schedule a notes section to do's and top priorities or important things for that day and it just works great for me so i've been using this since i got them so since february 16th these are dated so i do i mean i do daily plan every day so i have no problem using a daily but let me show you so this is another way that i use them and then let me show you one that is empty so you can see what it looks like so this is what it looks like so it has top threes to do's notes and the schedule and i am really loving it it's been working out really really well for me and then we get into the homeschool section so in my home school section i use an hourly section so i plan out the activities that we need to get done that day and again very functional a few very minimal stickers and just pen and let me show you what it looks like so this is what it looks like empty i do um i do switch out my inserts every three months so at the end of march i will clean out this planner hopefully i will receive my new one and i will add my new inserts so it's really exciting it's like setting up a new planner all over again and then we get into the list section so in the list section i have let's see what i have in here i have just a few fun lists that i like to keep around and the main focus of this section for me is my reading list section so this is a beautiful um i'm sorry dashboard for self-care by eo edits and it just gives you ideas for physical soul and mind self care so i have um laid it over one of my own dashboards and it just takes me right to my reading list which i absolutely love my reading section in my planner so this is the bloom reading challenge um you can find this group which i highly recommend it is uh run by my friend stephanie uh and she i will link her uh social media below so you can follow her instagram and facebook because she shares amazing and inspirational things regarding reading and just her life in general so um i have the reading challenge here and then i have a reading log so i just write down and list to form the books that i've read so far and then here i have my reading journal so this is from yours truly and i like it because it's very simple straightforward and to the point so i filled out the three books that i've completed already i'm halfway done with the nightingale which is the one that i'm reading right now so i'm gonna add it right here but this is how it looks so it has author genre start date end date the day that it was published summary thoughts quotes and notes and in the notes section as you saw here i print out a small photo of the cover so i know what it looks like and i tape it down i have a few pages here and then we go into my projects section so my project section is mainly home projects and then i have here also my work planner i decided to add my work section within the project section just because um you know youtube and etsy just it involves a lot of planning and steps so the inserts that i have for projects really work uh well with that so i have here just lists of things that we want to get done around the house um and then i have here projects so once i decide that i wanna i'm ready and have the energy and everything for to tackle that project i create this little project page and this is from infinite lotus and it has let me show you here so it has the project name the start date the end date the budget what it cost the objectives a brainstorm section a to do a dubai and then here in the back uh just a grid and you can use it for notes or whatever you want i use it like this so you know i fill out this section i use this for inspiration so kind of i've used this also to plan out my planners set up so i use i use here for like the color scheme that i'm going to use or the inspiration and then i just write down things that i need to move around or buy and then here it's kind of like a vision inspirational board and the places that i need to get these things or if i need to make them so that's how i use my project inserts i'm really loving them i've been using these inserts since i started rings and they are they work great for me and then here i have a dashboard from eo edits and it is a planner purge and this is great for um me to just you know revisit every couple of months and make sure that i'm doing all these things so i don't uh start hoarding things that i don't need and then here is my a5 planner set up so i do write out my setups and i like to keep them in the planner just you know to make sure that everything is working the way that it needs to work and serving the purpose that it needs to serve and next we have my work section so in my work section i have um monthly and i have some notes pages so let me show you how i plan for social media and uh how it looks without any writing so for example this is january and here i've highlighted the days that i've published videos for etsy now i am using the same sticker so these blush dew drops by paper panda but i'm using the gray ones so for march you would see the days in pink for youtube and in gray for etsy because those are the two main you know sources of income for me and um that way i can just separate them so i do use uh this one this layer which is the same as my personal monthly and this one's from infinite lotus again you can see that i you i like just being able to highlight with little bullets and have lists here this is how it looks without anything let me show you so this is what it looks like and then this section i use it for ideas ideas and then um i mar i also write down any inspiration uh that i've seen and then i write down my i mark here my um my social media content and then here in this section i just have notes for ideas for etsy and instagram and youtube so it's just notes pages like this these are the ones that i'm using and i can't remember the name but these are from cloth and paper and i love love love these these pages like the way that it's set up so it has the subject day month date and it's great and i personally prefer grid versus dots uh for notes so i really love this insert and then here are just a few of the dashboards that i've designed i like to print them out ahead of time just kind of to see how they print so i just i've kept the ones that i've released here in the back of my work section and then we get into the finance and i won't show you this because it's filled out and it's personal but it has inserts from infinite lotus and it has bill trackers and expenses that's it so you know very functional and straight to the point then we have goals and ideas so my goals and ideas section did change a little bit from the beginning of the year i started off using the moxie life goal planning system the companions and i loved them but it wasn't working out for me because those companions they're perforated so when you put them in the pages are a little bit smaller than 85 they said that they're hoping to come out for 2022 with a five true eight five sizes so i would love to see that because it was driving me a little bit crazy to see the pages that were smaller my own crazy head but i just couldn't do it but i'm still using you know the idea of that goal setting system in my goals here so uh for my goal section i have two trackers i have my wellness tracker from uh plan to create and i need to go in and update it with washi luckily i get to track my exercise in my uh on my apple watch because as you can see this crazy time right here i haven't been able to uh go into my planner and just update it same thing with my um with my faith when i do the devotional with the kiddos so i need to go after i'm done here i'm going to sit down and just update that because i don't know about you but when i don't have something updated in my planner it drives me crazy so i need to have this done okay so for my goal section i have two set of goal inserts one of them is for personal goals and the other one is specifically for work slash social media slash etsy goals so the first one is my personal goals and i've i had already set up the moxie life once so i just need to again make time and sit down and just transfer all that information here and these are actually freebies from sami planner and they are amazing you guys so it's divided into one month three months six months nine months and one year and then six goals so i'm gonna use the same thing i'm gonna do personal uh faith uh so like um you know for relationships and so on i'm not gonna do work here just because i have a specific section right here for work goals and then it has a section so you can write down your action steps and just reflect every month three months six months and so on so these are great very well thought out freebies by sammy planners so yeah thank you so much because this has been great and next we have my work um my work goals and this was also a gift from one of my friends um sent me this and i so appreciated it because i've been able to just focus on those goals here so this is from cloth and paper and it's divided by quarters and then i've just added a sticker there to highlight the month and then i just fill it out here with the goals that i want to achieve so this is how it looks and let's see and then i just have some um extra pages for notes and whatnot and then last but not least my miscellaneous section which here i have uh inserts with contacts and passwords so they're from infinite lotus and they're very you know they're very simple and it says contacts the name the address phone and same thing with the password so i have that here and then i just have some random notes like mildliner and tombows the colors that i have to see which ones i want to use but i always stay with the same one i love all these colors are super nice and neutral but my go-to is n89 that is my favorite uh tombow it's the one that i used you can't even see the number because it's so well loved so yeah i don't know why i even did this because i don't use the other ones and that's it so this is how i have it set up and then here i just have some more stickers from paper panda these are the freebies um these are the samplers so again if you follow me on instagram you know a little bit more about what's going on in my planner life but i am part of the paper panda pr team for the year which i'm really excited because i love emma's shop and these were the freebies that you would get last month in february if you used my code so every month there is a new code and this month is eat pray plan march and you get a different freebie and then here i just have the the word sets that i'm using this month so like i mentioned before i like to keep it consistent with the same color scheme and i'm using the uh the ones in taupe which i really really love and that's it so this is how i have my a5 set up i've definitely minimized everything as far as planners goes i like i like having everything in one planner so that is why a5 is working really well for me for on the go like i said i'm using pocket but i i think i will be switching things out up a little bit and i'll share with you uh when um i decide because i am really loving my journal and my journal is a strategy so never in a million years did i think that i would be in a book bound anything because it's a lot of commitment you can't move around things but i am obsessed with this little notebook so this is what it looks like it's grid and i was a little bit apprehensive about the pages because they are very thin but once you write in it it just gives you the feel of like vintage like a vintage journal i don't know i'm loving it and then i just i just move my hand around and just feel the the writing i don't know it's it's crazy i know but i don't know i just love it i love this little notebook so i did go ahead and order another one to see if i like it for daily planning so i don't know we shall see because right now i am pretty obsessed with this little uh notebook journal here and the cover it's just to die for this is my favorite cover color by uh jillio and it is the color lotus in the polka leather and it's just beautiful and smooth and it just makes me happy so we shall see but anyway this is it you guys this is my little planner update i uh i really appreciate you sticking around and um i will i will be back every week on a weekly basis like i was before um so yeah if you have any questions or anything check out the description box below i will link all the shops below but you know that you can always reach me on instagram and here on youtube in the comments section thanks again so much for hanging out with me for watching this uh flip of my a5 and just for being always so supportive and encouraging it means the world to me i hope you have a wonderful rest of your week you stay safe and healthy and i will catch you on my next video bye you guys take care

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Length: 33min 9sec (1989 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 17 2021