{"id":461,"date":"2019-10-29T08:25:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/?p=461"},"modified":"2019-10-22T10:27:09","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:27:09","slug":"topical-tuesday-my-planner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/29\/topical-tuesday-my-planner\/","title":{"rendered":"Topical Tuesday: My Planner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Howdy folks! It\u2019s the last week of October already- that\u2019s both amazing and a bit intimidating, don\u2019t you think? But with a new month in tow, I have plans this week to reorganize my planner. I\u2019d like to share my planner experience with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve never been an organized person. I\u2019m lazy and a clutter bug. I\u2019m easily overwhelmed, and seeing my own mess makes me feel terrified of having to go through it! I finally realized that I need to organize my life. So, I finally gave in to my urge to journal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, I was trying to do a bullet journal. I bought a small notebook at the dollar store and tried to start it, but I found I dropped it during my trip to Arizona and realized it didn\u2019t quite fit my needs. I started looking for spreads I could duplicate, but it had too little space for me to handle with my bad handwriting. I needed something a bit bigger\u2026 And a bit more flexible than I found my bullet journaling to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s when my dad found a bunch of binders that we hadn\u2019t used yet. We found four in total, and dad said they\u2019re all mine to use. Dad recommended using one of the big ones as a physical copy of my writing projects, which I\u2019ve since done. It\u2019s got everything from maps to printouts of my world building and a workbook I printed the pages of because I was intrigued by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s not the planner I started with, though. Though that too is an important planner in my life, what really became important was another binder I began using: it\u2019s filled with planner printables I found online, and though I intend to redo some of it this week, it\u2019s not just this week that I\u2019ve been using it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, I\u2019ve missed a couple days in my habit tracker and such. I\u2019ve more easily accepted my imperfections as I\u2019ve worked with this planner. I found a lot of sites with great free printables, including everything from an about me to weekly and daily planning pages. I\u2019ve got a gratitude journal, my mentioned habit tracker, and even a mental health tracker. I try to use each of them each day, and while I\u2019ve missed some as I\u2019ve said, it\u2019s really amazing to see my progress. I can see what parts of my life I\u2019m still struggling with (mainly decluttering). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do have some changes I plan to make for next month. For starters, I\u2019m going to try a mood tracker instead of the mental health one I currently use. It\u2019ll be more fun to color than just x a box about an emotion. I plan to make a headache tracker of my own using online resources, too. I\u2019m thinking I can change a habit tracker to a symptom tracker in general, actually\u2026 But I also want to track my blood pressure and heart rate, too, so I\u2019ll probably be playing around with methods to do this for a good chunk of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s more changes I plan to make, but it\u2019s mostly just changing where things are and adding labels to my dividers so that I can better access things after I readjust. If you want me to share some of the printables I\u2019ve used, I\u2019d be happy to take some pictures. That, or I can share some of my favorite places to get printables. Whatever you might want, let me know, because I\u2019ve come to really love my planner, and it\u2019s seriously helping with my anxiety!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s all for today, I\u2019m afraid. I look forward to seeing you on Thursday, where I\u2019ll be sharing the biggest event of the year to me and how it\u2019s going to affect this blog for the upcoming month. Please make sure not to miss it! I look forward to telling you all about it soon. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Howdy folks! It\u2019s the last week of October already- that\u2019s both amazing and a bit intimidating, don\u2019t you think? But with a new month in tow, I have plans this week to reorganize my planner. I\u2019d like to share my planner experience with you. I\u2019ve never been an organized person. I\u2019m lazy and a clutter…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2],"tags":[120,196,31],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8uAZQ-7r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jrolik.caludin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}