Planner Set Up A-Z | Part 5 (Kate Spade, Filofax, Travelers Notebook)

Besides work meetings and play dates, what else can you write in a planner? See my list, A-Z, in my latest planner video.

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hello plan our friends welcome back to
my channel
yeah
hey everyone is Annie here welcome back
to another planner video
I'm excited we're just booking along
through our a-to-z list of ideas of
things to put in your planner
now this is the copy that i hand wrote
when I originally saw the pan on
pinterest from the polkadot Posey now
I've linked a link to her website blog i
guess i should say every video in the
description bar but to be honest I don't
know where this original list is on her
site
I haven't been able to find it other
people haven't been able to find it
I thought I had pinned it on my planner
love board on Pinterest which is also
linked down below in the description box
and perhaps she took it off of her sight
and the important thing is that I have
it written down
I've tweaked it just a little bit to add
a few things and take a few things off
and i have in fact given her credit for
originally coming up with this list so
that is unfortunately the best that I
can do but watch the series and you're
able to write down your own list similar
to this of every item to reference at a
later date and I thought I was gonna get
through this planner video and oh
there's the baby
so let me go check on him and we'll get
started we're on the letter G which is
the beginning of this video part 5
ok I'm back the baby i can get settled
for those of you who don't know me or
maybe this is your first video you found
on my channel real quick let me say
hello my name is Anne
I'm a wife and mother on social media
like Instagram snapchat periscope and i
have four young children my oldest is
six then a four-year-old a 19 month old
I think she is and I just had a baby
he's two months old now he's beside me
and will hopefully allow me to get
through the letter G and even possibly
the letter H in this video
ok the very first thing on our list of
ideas of things to put in our planner is
goals and actually way back here in my
list section
I labeled these tabs myself this is just
half of a small avery label that's
removable and it's actually so removable
their curling and coming off of my tabs
and my dividers are from it's time to
plan on etsy and i absolutely love her
stuff but that's how I get these labels
and I just need to redo them
but here is my miscellaneous lists
section you've seen many of these and
other videos or on Instagram or
something and I don't need to have these
in any particular order
I just flipped to the page that i need
and here is where I have my 2016 goals
now
um I do kind of follow a yearly calendar
so to speak and when the new year comes
around is a great time to reflect and
just figure out what I did achieve in
the past year and what I would like to
achieve in the future year and i like to
make goals you can see I have healthier
eating run a marathon and read my Bible
completely in a year on this page
when I make a goal i usually start with
like a list page like this because you
have to kind of brainstorm you have to
start somewhere and I usually like to
think through different goals such as
these and then I really break them down
in different ways throughout my planner
so one thing that I will do after I've
kind of written them down and
brainstormed usually the page before
this kind of prettier one is more
like it looks more like this
that is a brain dump section and it's
just very scribbly it's in my worst
handwriting that i'll hopefully only I
can read
I'm just trying to get some ideas and
thoughts down and then I take my goals
from here and i write them kind of in a
nice list format and then a lot of times
i will make sub . so you can see that
for me to eat healthier
some things I thought about our I want
to stop having creamer and my coffee you
know the extra sugar and calories I want
to try to cut out many grains and have
little to no grains
obviously no popcorn oh so depending on
where you live in the country
rarely do i want to have dessert and I
want to also limit dairy like I don't
need cheese on every sandwich i eat that
kind of thing
so the point of breaking these down is
to make my goal attainable if I just
kind of throw out healthier eating like
that doesn't help me make better
decisions with every every meal i make
or every time I go into a restaurant or
maybe one of my goals is that I don't go
to a restaurant and and said I eat at
home and cook at home so I have to break
down all of my goals into little pieces
to actually have obtainable achievable
steps and some of these may just kind of
stay in list format here and I refer to
them and they remind me of the things i
would like to do and it's also handy to
have maybe a tracking insert of some
kind where you can check things off for
the day
I know a lot of shops will have a little
sticker tracker like this one this is
the day of that this week i have been
able to make progress in my bible
reading and even though i've opened my
Bible a few times that is Thursday and
yesterday was the first day i guess i
can work that now i'm behind
I can mark that i did get some of my
bible reading done
so you can use a a check you know I have
a type tracker like this you can plug
your meals in on individual days
individual week so that we are saying on
top of prescribed meal plan and you're
not screwing around at the last minute
and making unhealthy choices and you can
have places on your inserts where you
track information as well as plan ahead
so like the meals your kind of planning
ahead to make sure I have the right
things to eat
but the Bible thing I'm kind of just
checking as I go so i hope that makes
sense that there's different ways from
the list like in the back that I was
showing you all the way to in your
calendar ways you can track things I
already promised if you saw part 4 where
I talk about exercise that I am going to
do an entire video on exercising and how
to market and all your fitness and food
log and things like that in your planner
at a different time
but to kind of tie into my goal to run a
marathon
ok buddy to run a marathon in September
and I want to try to get under a 10 or
11 minute mile which is really fast for
me like that would be really fast for me
it's not actually all that fast
necessarily it just depends on who you
are and where you are in your training
but that's a goal life's up for myself
that it's fairly reasonable since I've
I've run marathons before but anyways my
point is when it comes time to really
start training you know if my let me
turn the sep tember my races in
September
I'll be able to backtrack on my monthly
calendar
whenever you know we'll just say this is
the race and I'll know that by the night
i will want to have achieved the full
mileage and the timing
and I can backtrack and I could even set
up my my training schedule on these
monthly inserts or i could choose to do
them on my weeklies
I could have a mixture of both
and I have even seen people especially
if you're very committed to exercising
and it happens fairly regularly or you
want it to you can have a separate set
of inserts just like this in order to
plot out all of your exercises
throughout the week
whether you're training for a marathon
or whether you're just getting in 30
minutes of exercise of some kind several
times a week
so goals easy to list on easy to plug
them into various places in your
calendar and by the way this is my new
pen James thank you guys who let me know
i received this as actually a gift and a
prize in an instagram giveaway I one and
it came with the ballpoint pen
you know like refill and I wanted to
love the pen but I preferred gel ink and
this has the small like . for tip of the
gel ink and I can link the specifics
down below and if you want i think it's
ten percent off of your first pen James
order
you can follow the link in the
description box and then you can get
your own pen jump because I find I'm
like in love with this pen now it fits
in any pen loop and you can get really
any kind of gel or they call it a hybrid
or ball . you can get blue you can get
black ink and some of the links allow
you to have different colors so i
apologize i got on a tangent but I'm
just so excited to finally found a pen
that I really like and that will fit in
the pen Leo and is simple and have
everything that I want
so that is the goals the letter G
and goals buddy buddy just so many guys
okay sorry about that
it's important to film in the afternoon
when my toddler goes down for her map
otherwise I would not be able to film
ever and my baby my newborn is not
always nothing occupied at that time so
it's kind of like the lesser of two
evils
ok moving on to the next G is gratitude
and when I talked about faith and how to
document different things in your
planner in my previous video which would
have been part 4 under the letter F then
I kind of touched on how a lot of people
will fill in any blanks space in their
weekly planner
you know like monday is already over and
I could have filled in the blank space
and written down some things that I'm
grateful for if you don't have room in
your planner then you could always do it
in your monthly section again you could
devote an entire set of monthly inserts
enough and only have small little boxes
like this to fill which would help with
the whole blank page fear and what do I
right and that way you're not being
overwhelmed you could write just a
couple of key words like you know kids
and sunshine or you can actually try to
fit in you know little sentence in here
you know i'm thankful we have to play
outside at the park all day and then of
course you can have it as small or large
as you want
so you plug it into your existing
monthlies into your existing weekly is
you could have a section with more like
no pages like this and you could have a
different line for each different day
these are all so much crafting inserts
and they know she sells a month on two
pages and it looks like this for a month
on one page maybe i'm not exactly sure
of the format but it's the month written
at the top and it's lying
and instead of dots dates and anyways
the point is you're able to kind of
future plan and plug things in but it's
also perfect for one little sentence for
each day of may be something you are
grateful for
so tons and tons of options out there
really the sky's the limit
ok after gratitude is gift ideas and for
that I need to go back to my list page
I talked about under Christmas that for
each of my family members here is my
husband my six-year-old my four-year-old
my 19 month old and my baby that I like
to keep a log of things that are
interesting to them and gift ideas and
things like that so that's one way for
your immediate family but another way i
was thinking about this having like a
gift list
let's see where is it behind here
I want to get better about having a card
for people on their birthdays or
sometimes you get invited last minute
maybe want not last minute that's not a
wreck prerequisite but you invited to a
birthday party or something you want to
just give somebody a small token or
you're going to see them at church near
their birthday and so you want to have a
small gift and i find that at certain
times you can get tons of really nice
items on clearance at some of your
favorite stores like candles or lotions
or so
scarves and those can be like the summer
decorative scarves or as well as the
winter scarves if you live in the North
like I do
I thought for kids you know art type
supplies arts and crafts games and
puzzles are little things for guys
t-shirts even beef jerky and i just i
created this list and I'd like to start
putting together almost like a closet or
been somewhere where I can have a lot of
these items and
maybe keep you know 526 gifts on hand a
little assortment and then I always have
one and I mean believe it or not it
really is hard for a stay-at-home mom
with kids to run an errand like I've had
a library book on hold for the past
three days and i seriously there's no
real good time in my day either pack up
my kids and run an errand like that it
would take a normal person
maybe 10 minutes to drive there pick it
up and leave it would take me more than
10 minutes just to get everybody shoes
on
go to the bathroom into their car seats
before i could back out of the driveway
you know what i mean so having gifts
like this is a huge time saver for me
and maybe you don't have kids but maybe
you're super busy you know going from
work
maybe you're picking your heads up from
school or maybe you're just meeting your
husband at home and you guys are busy
all the time
this could really help me a time saver
and then you're never caught on your way
to an event like this having to stop and
grab something and hope you can find
something in 15 minutes because you're
getting it on the way which may or may
not have ever happened to me
I just gave myself away so gift list and
this is a gift list of ideas and then I
plan on being able to check next to
these things if I have them in my like
closet so that way I know what I have
and maybe even putting another set of
check boxes over here for 1 i've given
it away
Bonnie ok thats I list is grocery
Oh buddy are you not going to cooperate
he's sitting on my lap now my flat that
would appease him
let's see here umm i do not have many of
planning piece right now i have tried
tons of different systems within my
planner and I can function but I don't
have like amazing piece so to use the
lingo with my menu planning
I always do it I don't ever wing it
because that's I truly don't understand
that I hope you can I can do that
I go regularly every two weeks but I've
since taken stuff out of my planner and
i'm working on a new system and as soon
as I this guide me here as soon as I
decide if that is going to work for us
and for me then i am going to definitely
give you guys the details because I'm
just I just I can never find a system
that works for me
for more than six months so I'm going to
defer grocery
however do you want to make a couple
comments I have a notes section
I'm sorry this is actually in my tasks
section in the front half I have my feed
the baby logs and then back here with my
ruler i have a to do list that runs on
to the next page and then i also have a
to buy list and this is maybe doesn't
fit groceries so much as as it would be
miscellaneous things like oh we're out
of toilet paper or over out of
toothpaste or like right now I need
laundry detergent which is not on this
list yet
and the other thing i noticed last night
were dishwasher tablet thingy so i would
add these to this list and I reference
this list for anything that i can add to
our grocery list and not go over budget
so I can kind of just refer to this and
things like the blinds for our master
bedroom
you know I
until I have the money i'm not going to
invest in that but I just keep looking
down here and I know that something we
want to put some money into and as soon
as we can we well so that kind of fits
and every once in a while you know you
just you've run out of peanut butter
mid groceries Michael and Maeby milk and
i don't know like coffee
so I have a short list of like three
items and will usually go on a post-it
note like this and i will take it for
the sense
come on buddy there we go
and i will actually take my planner into
the store because it's also my wallet
and I will use this list that I've used
to post it for on the front and go ahead
and get just those few items that we
can't live without
until the next time I go grocery
shopping which does happen every once in
a while no matter how well I plan so
that is grocery and that sums up the g's
we're at eight ten minutes but i'm going
to go ahead and see if I can't really
quickly do the h's and the first one is
health
I'm this will be part of the fitness
exercise video on its own but I know
help also refers to things like medical
concerns and the one example i can show
you out of my own planner is this here
these are my trackers I got these from
oh I'm going to butcher her name on the
spot life
lavender UK and I honestly I don't know
if she sells these in her shop if she
has a shop and she sells these i'll link
it below otherwise I think she just
makes them for herself and yeah she
offered to send me some when she saw how
much
what body which is not how much trouble
I was having finding a good insert to
track my son's feedings which is a video
on a periscope all in its own so just
kind of backtrack the pic and see see
how I marked those but basically what i
use these for is to track when he eat
and how much he eats because we're
having to supplement with formula right
now to make sure he's getting enough
calories and by the way before all of
you loving well-meaning friends jump on
and give me your increasing milk
suggestions please know that i have
tried absolutely everything i tried to
pump the power pumping in addition to
pumping to feeding more often
I've put fenugreek and brewers yeast
into my diet i've done flaxseed
I've added oats and some other things
that I can't
mother's milk tea and just a bunch of
things but that you can try and we're
working on it so it's not to save you
guys a few minutes
because i think when i say i have tried
to all I have actually tried it all but
that's neither here nor there
um so I can track his health things on
here and then i have the information I
need to talk to the pediatrician and to
make decisions in my sleep-deprived
state and to be able to interpret
whether he should be hungry or not and
kind of work from there so that's one
great way
and honestly if you have a larger
medical need you probably have your own
section and you probably are just
already using it and figuring it out
and since I don't have a large medical
need in that way there's a hot not a
whole lot i might be able to offer but
definitely just start plugging away and
putting information down and continue to
tweak until you feel like you're putting
information down in a way that makes
sense
fast to your brain ok after help is
house maintenance
this could be a lot more snow blower it
could be you know your dishwasher and
kind of like when i was talking about
appliances in an earlier video and see
where my lists
this is the kind of thing where I would
have a list like this
probably some cute while she's at the
top because why not it would be labeled
house and it would just have a list of
of anything pertinent and I really
interpret these very loosely so if you
buy a new dishwasher and you want the
warranty information or you want to know
a specific part number if you want to
know the repair guy's number you know
those types of pieces of information
could be here
the only other thing other place i would
have something like that would be in my
monthly calendars because maybe i would
have you know such and such repair or
such-and-such warranty and
or you know something to that effect and
I would have it on my calendar because
my monthly calendar because it's such a
great tool for real future planning and
those sense in that sense the next h is
home info and that really relates I
think to house again you may want your
home insurance number you may want the
dates certain things happen like for
instance our water heater went here over
the weekend over memorial day weekend
and we had to get a new water heater so
you know how simple might be having that
date on there so that way if we ever
want to sell the house or wherever
needed to refer to that information for
something then I would have the ability
to flip back to the date and see it or
flip to my section that had that
information already written down
so again very loosely interpret patient
you're very you're able to loosely
interpret those things I think and
really just plug in on whatever is kind
of probably coming to your brain even as
you're watching this video to know what
would be appropriate for you
let's see what is the next eight on my
list
Oh holiday list the last one I'm this
I think can refer to a list like this
I'm sure it's hard to really read the
details but this came with
oh I know the person who gave me the
kate spade this I think was an original
kate spade insert and she didn't need
this anymore and it lists the holidays
for 2016 and 2017
it starts with new years on january
first and then at least several
countries major holidays so like your
mother's day your father's day and all
of that and this is really handy because
one a lot of our favorite inserts are
blank and don't contain any of this
information which is nice because we're
not all in the same countries and we
don't all celebrate the same holidays so
trying to fit every single one of these
on a monthly calendar leaves 02 little
room to actually fit in other
appointments and things that i need and
having it listed like this allows me to
be even pick your like for instance i
know it's kind of weird but we don't
really celebrate or do anything for
halloween
so even though that's a major American
holiday and some other countries as well
like I wouldn't really put that on my
calendar and it's nice not to have it on
matter because I might want to feel
something else in in that space
so even of the holidays that applied to
like my culture or two where I'm living
they may not I guess applied to my
family and we may not choose to
celebrate it at this time for various
you know busy reasons or you know if
you're if you don't have kids you know
your kids are gonna celebrate
grandparents day you know anything so I
mean there's just there's different ways
to do the different things and it allows
you to pick and choose the ones that you
want
so having a holiday like this is really
helpful and I know you could make your
own simply by googling 2016 holidays and
you could probably be specific like 2016
Jewish holidays or 2016 american
holidays or whatever you wanted and be
able to plug in all of them for you and
have this list or you can look at that
list up and as you're setting up your
yearly inserts you could go ahead and
plug them into your monthly calendars
so thank you guys for bearing with me in
this video I know having the newborn
crying in the background could have been
a little distracting
but you guys have been very supportive
in kind of the family comes first area
and supporting me
that and i really like getting videos
out for you and sometimes this is the
only way i can do it
so stick with me I really do appreciate
you and your support
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you guys next week for part six as we
continue going through this list of
eight of the ideas of things to put in
your planner happy planning guys