I have my new planner- NOW WHAT???

hey guys it's Heather from Calvin plan and today I'm filming a video that I'm titling I have my new planner now what do I do because it is almost January 1st which means we are probably going to have a lot of new friends joining the planner community this week as they picked up their very first heavy planner and are ready to dive in on January or December 31st when our happy planners start so since we're having so many new people I usually like to make a video of like some tips for newbies and all that kind of stuff when I still have videos like that I have a whole playlist called happy planner 101 so go check it out especially if you're new to decorative planning go check that playlist out I'll try to link it in the description but this video is all about I have my heavy planner I'm ready to go now what do I do so I want to start with the very first things that you should do when you have a planner because planners are so special for lots of reasons let's start with that why do we plan and why is everyone not everyone but why do so many people get excited about new planners at the beginning of a new year well the reason is because it's like a fresh start it's a new slate you have a chance to to plan your year make your year different you're excited about it you're excited about the plans that could come and the biggest problem for people when they buy a paper planner is they buy it and they're really really excited about it for maybe two weeks and then it dies off and they quit using it and that's probably the biggest issue when it comes to paper planners and so I really want to talk today about how you can make this planner work for you what can you do today to really set up a lifestyle that incorporates your planner so that you can use it more often so the first thing I want to tell you it's my favorite quote comparison is the thief of joy if you are on YouTube or you're on Instagram and you are looking at people's planners like this is my 2018 planner and you're looking at people's planners and you're thinking her planner is beautiful my planner isn't that pretty I'm gonna give up or I'm never gonna be that good or my planner is always just number one stop doing that comparison as a thief of joy you have a planner make it work for you I have a planner I make it work for me don't worry about what other people's planners look like worry about what your planner works looks like and if your planner is working for you and if it's not working for you change it change your system if it is working for you keep doing it but don't get caught up in comparison comparison is the thief of joy and as I think another reason that people drop out of paper planning because they look at other people's planners and they get too caught up in the comparison game and they get overwhelmed with oh my gosh my planner has to look like that no it does that your planner has to look like however you want it to look like okay so the next thing that I want to talk about is setting up a consistent schedule of when you're gonna plan because if you want to keep up with a paper planner you have to make it a habit so right now I want you to ask yourself how will I create a habit of using my planner how often are you gonna play it you're gonna play it once a week are you gonna play it once a month are you gonna plan every day what is your planning schedule gonna look like and be realistic don't say how many I'm gonna play in every single day if you're not gonna play in every school day if you need to sit down on Sunday and plan out your whole week and then just refer to your planner and everything's already written in there then do that if you're someone who needs to plan your whole month and write it all in and then just refer to it all month then do that I personally touched my cleaners everyday and write in my players everyday but that's my personal preference so you need to ask yourself how often am I gonna plan how can I make this a habit how can I be consistent with my planner and don't give up it takes a couple of weeks for a task to become a habit okay so after a week or two if you're still forgetting keep going keep trying make it a habit okay my next tip of actually how do you play in setup your planner to work for you every single year my planner has looked different last year I used multiple planners they were all separate they had all their own purposes and it worked really well for me this year I'm doing kind of the same thing I'm using multiple planners and they each have their own purpose they're each separate purpose but I put it into this transformer planner which you can I have some other videos that you can kind of see how I made the transformer planer but this is my main planner then it can flip into my social media planner and then it can flip into my work planner and then it can flip into my faith planner and then it can flip back into my main planner now that is a lot if you're ready to plan it I don't recommend using that many planners um but set it up in a way that works for you and I'm super excited this is I think my fourth year to use a heavy planner and so I'm just really excited because now I know what works for me and how to set it up so I'm gonna show you a few things that I've kind of done in my planner to help me really set it up and get it going so the first thing is this year - Glantz which is actually my December project for the happy planner so this is gonna be posted on their feed you're getting a little sneak peak um basically I know I know that I like to use this page so I started out I got some highlighters and I color-coded it so yellow strips Pink's his birthdays and blue or holidays and I only did really the first six months although I did go ahead and highlight some birthdays and some holidays down here and then I color-coded it and I went ahead and highlighted it but then I also learned that when I look at it I don't always remember what like whose birthday is the 31st I don't know so I made this year to glance page to refer to so then I have these things highlighted and then my January box tells me what those things actually are these things highlighted my February box tells me what those actually are so that's kind of I don't have a separate video on this but that's how I have it set up and now I can look at this and kind of see an overview of my whole year I can refer to this page and see what the overview actually is so I really really like that another thing is I know that I love using my monthly dashboard for budgeting I don't use it for future planning future planning I do in the actual weeks with sticky notes I put actual sticky notes in the weeks some people put their sticky notes in the monthly I just personally use the monthly for bills so it's totally up to you but I am gonna pause for a second and say that the very first thing you should do you have your planner in your hand the very first thing you should do after even maybe before honestly this might be the very first thing because you're gonna be so excited to use your planner is the very first thing you have your planner you're watching this video you're like Heather tell me what I need to do I have it what I needed it the very first thing you need to do is you need to get some sticky notes I personally use cute sticky notes because they're cute why not I have a whole book of see you notes for me tons of them they're adorable you can get these at Michael's Hobby Lobby Joanne's probably a staple there everywhere okay cute sticky notes I personally put these sticky notes on the weekly view a lot of people put them on their monthly view it's totally up to you but basically what you don't want to do don't do this don't take your pin and go write all of your things all of your appointments and your birthdays and your trips and just write it on your monthly or your weekly don't write ahead because you're gonna your style is gonna be changing as you learn how your planner works for you your monthly you're gonna use it differently every month you're tweaking your weekly you're gonna tweak it um so and if you already write in it then when you get to that week you're gonna be mad but you wrote in it because you're gonna like uh I wouldn't put it there there or me and that's that the things not been cancelled and I already wrote it or that was new to different day and I already wrote it so don't write it in your planner but I want you to put it in your place with your sticky notes the beauty of a sticky note is if something gets changed a different night you pull up the sticking out and so like let's say this is a meeting that I have and I'll put it on the seven let's just say meeting work just a generic of course you would want to be more specific so I'm a seventh maybe I've been your phone call that's been moved to the eighth okay not home yet or maybe I get a phone call on this we move to the 20th painters on the 20th but if I'd already written it on the 7th I would be really mad okay so once you got some sticky notes cute ones are more exciting to use you're gonna be more likely to use them if they're cute at least that's what I've learned get you some sticky notes and you are going to write your important tasks on sticky notes and you're gonna put them either on your monthly view or your weekly view I personally put them usually on my weekly view and then I move them if I need to so I actually already know that I have a haircut on February 4th I already know that I've already planned it so I'm gonna take my sticky note and I'm gonna put it right here and then when I get to that week I'm gonna remember oh I have a haircut that day and then I can actually decide how I want to put it in my planner now you may be asking what kinds of things do I write on my on my sticky notes okay you're like okay Heather when boma sticky notes got'em I'm ready to go what kinds of things should I be prewriting on my sticky notes so let's talk that through so you have your sticky notes you have your planner and you're ready to do your first task what are some things that you should put first off appointments like my hair appointment that I just put in there it could be a hair appointment it could be a doctor appointment it could be a dentist appointment or whatever whatever kind of appointment you might have for playing for the whole year if you already haven't planned right and I'm sticking out stick it in your planner if you have kids go ahead pull out their school calendar and go ahead and mark the important dates on a sticky note in your planner then you can go through and do birthdays especially if I'm trying one of my goals for 2019 is to send more birthday cards but if I'm gonna send more birthday cards I need to know when birthdays are I need to be better about tracking birthdays um if you already know of weddings that you need to go to this year go ahead and mark those I'm just taking up in your planner okay you can go ahead and mark holidays you can go ahead and mark seasonal activities even if for seasonal activity an example might be maybe in October you know you want to go the pumpkin patch you really want to go you didn't go this year you missed your photo op you you really hate that you miss it you're afraid you're gonna forget it next year right on a sticky note plan a pumpkin patch day and then stick it on the October monthly spreadsheet and then when you get to October automatically gonna remind you go ahead and write those out if you need reminders to plan date nights with your spouse right I'm all sticking out stick them in your planner okay you could also write in cleaning schedules on sticky notes especially things like I need to change my air air filter every so many weeks put it a sticky note in your planner okay so those are just some ideas put them on sticky notes please trust me click on that you do not want to write in your planner and you may be thinking right now yes I do how about I write my letter and you know what if that's you you go write in your planner and in six months when you get to that page and it's written in there and it's changed and you're sad and you're like don't you come back here but Heather you were right no I'm just kidding you don't have to do that but seriously sticky notes are your best friend when it comes to planning um so that is the very first thing you're gonna do go ahead and do your sticky notes and then sit down and ask yourself how am I gonna make this a habit how am I going to make sure that I'm always cleaning and maybe you then write in your planner the days that you are gonna sit down and plant that could be another thing then you can go watch some videos to kind of help you get more ideas of how you want to use your planner I have it tons of videos I think I have almost 600 videos or maybe more than that on my channel I literally have a video I feel like for everything so if you have a question about how you need to use your planner you can pretty much search on YouTube tell of a plan and then whatever your idea is it will probably come up tell of a plan storage ideas for planner spots tell of a plan [Music] bucket lists summer bucket list I don't know I'm trying to think of some things off kelvil plan cleaning chart tell the plan phone chart like I'd have a video for everything all kinds of things you put in your planner so go check those out that will help you get an idea of how you can use your planner how you can make it more friendly for you some other things I did was I added in some dividers like this one says budget and so then no matter what section I'm in maybe I'm in my work planner section but I really need to flip straight to my monthly budget then I can just click budget and then be there okay so that's a really easy way to flip um I have PIFAN E which is my job I can flip straight to it sermon notes when I'm at church even if I'm in a different section I can flip straight to that week's sermon notes and then my last one is social media that will stay in my the current week of social media I can flip straight to my current link so that's just another thing that I did especially with this transformer planner I do have the dividers but I also like that I have each of these sections so those are just a few tips if you have just joined the planar community we're excited to have you here if you have any questions please let me know I'd love to help I also have lots of videos on my channel that will be a great resource for you and welcome to happy planning we are happy to have you here so if you like this video be at the like button if you're new and you want to see more of my videos hit the subscribe button and happy planning

Channel: Heather Kell

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Length: 15min 53sec (953 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 26 2018