Print your own free printable pink coffee planner page and DIY your own spread for the week with a pink coffee theme.
Today I wanted to share my plan with me notebook with you and how I create a weekly spread using free printables. I realize that often, it’s easy for me to fall off the bandwagon of planning, because life gets busy and I want to skip over parts. When planning gets too complicated, then it’s not really serving the purpose anymore.
I’m someone who falls in the middle of being super practical and minimal in my planner versus full-blown creative layouts and loads of decoration. I want planning to be functional of course, it has to work for me. However, I still want it to be cute and pretty to look at as well.
So the happy medium is to use printables or prepared decoration that is easy to add into my planning routine.
Let me share my current plan with me notebook and a super easy planner setup using the free printable pink coffee planner PDF. You can download it for free for your personal use below. Enjoy!
Looking for an inspirational, yet simple and cute free printable calendar?
Well, it’s not just for decoration, because this printable also makes a great yearly tracker for new habits you are wanting to form. Let me share the multiple uses possible for this printable, not just as a simple wall decoration.
We all love to have a wall calendar with a year-at-a-glance, but I have found that over time it just slips out of my mind. It’s like advertising that is always there, so much so that you forget to even look. I realized it’s because I was not interacting with the calendar, so it slips into the background that way.
Then one day, it sort of dawned on me that a yearly calendar would make an amazing yearly tracker. It’s simple and focused! In the bullet journaling world, we all know about habit trackers and how extensive they can sometimes be. A huge list of things we hope and wish that we will do on a daily or weekly basis. The problem with those trackers for me personally, is that it’s an end of day list to check-off that can often result in a lot of disappointment…having missed or forgot to do a lot of things.
When it comes to new habits or forming new habits especially, it requires a lot more effort than just the accountability of need to check off a box.
I realized that with all habits, we need a trigger that gets us to do that thing. Once it becomes a habit, then we probably no longer need to track it, because it already happens naturally.
So that’s how I got the idea of using this free printable calendar as a habit tracker. If I actually put it in the location of where the action should happen, then it’ll serve as a reminder (the trigger) to doing the action. Yay! Even though it might seem like we might have too many calendars stuck all over our house… it really goes to show what is truly a top priority in our lives and what it is we really want to make a habit.
The good thing about habits is that once you form them, then you probably don’t need to track them anymore. Check out my video on this very topic, as I go through how I use this free printable calendar in multiple ways.
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Download this free printable calendar in your preferred paper size and track away!
Use this free printable check-in review worksheet to get clear on your current situation and how to optimize and get more productive.
Leading up to the new year, I’m sharing my planning process for 2018 and posting the printables I’m using here on the blog.
The final step is the most crucial and that is to check-in, review and adjust your plans!
When a new year rolls around, I think it’s natural for all of us to want to start fresh, embark on new endeavors and plan for an amazing year.
However, the reality of life is that no matter how meticulous or amazing our plans might be, they often have to change with the times and situation. Or unexpected factors might enter and adjustments must be made.
So it’s actually crucial to regularly check-in with goals, review your progress and adjust as necessary. Not only on the front of if you are following your plans, but how you feel throughout the process and evaluating if what you are working towards is actually what you want.
The only thing we can be sure of in life, is change, right?
I recommend doing this monthly and also quarter, so that you aren’t always only looking back on the previous month… but taking in big chunks of time all together to see any patterns or big picture realizations.
I have always resisted doing these kind of exercises, thinking it was all woo woo and fluff. But it is so helpful to take some time to journal out your feelings, thoughts and take stock of the situation. It’s as simple as that, but so many people never stop to look back and see how they can improve!
Without taking stock, you might be heading in a direction successfully, but that doesn’t resonate with your needs and wants in the end.
Don’t skip the checking-in with yourself and allowing yourself the time to reflect and ultimately adjust your plans.
Download the free printable check-in review worksheet:
You can use this worksheet whenever you need a check-in with yourself, but definitely consider a review to adjust your plans every month and quarter.
Download this Free Printable Project Plan of Action to help you organize and plan out any future project you have in mind.
Leading up to the new year, I’m going through my own planning process for 2018 and sharing the printables with you here on the blog.
After the past couple of weeks, we’ve finally gotten to the project planning!
When it comes to actually getting things done, it really doesn’t have to be complicated. I used to be a project manager with big teams and lots of dependencies. So there are loads of fancy software programs to help create intricate project plans. There’s definitely merit and reason for all of that, but when it comes down to a personal goal or solopreneur ventures – you are basically the only guy on the job.
Rather than over complicating the process and spending way too much time on the planning part, I suggest getting things down and dirty, as quickly as possible, then moving into action.
Ultimately, you aren’t going to accomplish anything if you don’t take ACTION!
So from the previous brain dump exercise, you would have gotten everything out of your mind and on paper. Then you can categorize and prioritize, deciding what projects you actually want to tackle.
Now, if you can’t decide, no worries… you can create a project plan of action for each of your project ideas… then make your decision on what to actually take action on. I have found that when you go through the process of actually thinking through what you have to do to accomplish a project – it will help you make up your mind.
If you really want to do something, you’ll do it even if there are some hard tasks in there. Or something that seems super challenging, will actually seem doable, because you break it out into the small bite-sized tasks. So feel free to do this exercise for all your project ideas!
The printable plan of action is simple a sheet to name your project, set a finish date and list out all the milestones and actions required to get the project done.
It’s a simple list of actions!
Easy peasy, right? It really does not have to be more complicated than that. If you are worrying about the order in which things must happen and nested or related tasks – you can certainly try to put things in relative order and make your milestone list, then subitems under those.
But ultimately it doesn’t really matter. You can add to your list over time and check items off out of order. The point is not to have a pretty plan, the point is to make sure you take the actions required to get the project done. When you realize you might have forgotten a few steps or learn from experience there are other things to consider, no problem. Add your tasks, adjust your finish date.
Make it useful and make it help you move forward and take action!
Now if you think there are soooo many lines I’ve included on the sheet, it is because you want to break your tasks down to the smallest bits possible. If you are like me, you’ll take some satisfaction in checking off items done. It really helps with motivation.
Breaking items down also helps to make it approachable and doable even with small bits of time.
If one of your line items is “marketing plan” that is way too big. Instead you have to be specific and maybe write gather photo props, take 16 photos, edit photos, post daily photos – something like that. Try to break it down as much as possible.
If you find that you just don’t have a lot of tasks, maybe it’s not really a big project, but that’s okay too. It should be quick and easy to get done and you will have a project completed under your belt!
And it’s really as simple as that. I think we often overcomplicate things, so I’m really looking for effectiveness and simplicity for 2018.
Download the worksheet in your preferred paper size below and print as many copies as you need. Plan away and let this exercise help you prepare your plan of action and maybe eliminate or put on the back burner some projects that don’t really float your boat after all!
Use this free printable brain dump worksheet to get everything on paper, and start the process towards organization and productivity.
Leading up to the new year, I’m going through my own planning process for 2018 and sharing the printables with you as well
This week is all about getting everything in your head out on paper.
The brain dump exercise is my favorite and often quite necessary, especially when you feel stressed out and overwhelmed. Somehow, when things are on paper, it does make it seem less daunting and looming, as it often gets exaggerated and all mixed up in your head.
Getting everything on paper in black and white is the only way to make plans for the future. Otherwise, it’s quite easy to minimize or maximize whatever thoughts you might have in your head.
So the idea of a brain dump is to write it ALL down.
Seriously, everything!
Do not limit yourself in terms of all the things you want to do or wish you could do. From personal to work to whatever – write down all the projects that are swirling in your mind. The things you want to accomplish or hope to accomplish in the new year or even one day.
You’ve got to get it all out of your head! This way, you free your mind from having to be a repository of a million thoughts.
Print as many pages as you find necessary and list everything out. After getting your list done – when you feel totally free of all the project ideas in your head… then you can categorize.
Some people like to categorize business goals versus family goals versus personal exercise or spiritual goals. However, you want to split it up – or not at all – is up to you.
But I have found it is helpful to create different buckets and that is why the category column is so helpful.
Once you have categories, then you can address each category separately and prioritize them. In order of important – whether how strongly it is for you – the urge to get it done.
We all know it’s impossible to do it all (at least in one year), so it’s important to prioritize and I find it easier when I have different buckets, because work priorities and family priorities just don’t mix for me.
If necessary, feel free to recopy the lists to a new sheet of paper, so you can put them in order, if things get a bit messy.
By the end of this exercise, you will feel a bit lighter, because all the ideas are out of your head and down on paper. And you will have categorized them and organized them into an order of priority.
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