I've been taken back to my school days and have fallen in love with planners all over again! Well, I've always had a planner, y'all know I love to plan things out so I always have something to look forward to, but, I never have had so much fun filling out it's pages. Erin Condren has made my planning life fun and colorful with her LifePlanner™, stickers, and pens. All of their products can be personalized (monogram obsessed here) so that you can get exactly what you need/want visually! I chose the horizontal style but they also offer vertical and hourly. Then you pick neutral or vibrant pages (guess which I chose haha). You can even pick your coil color - can you believe that!? You can get a rose gold coil!
It's become a nice Sunday ritual to fill out the following week with new events and deadlines - it helps me prepare for the week ahead while easing my Sunday scaries. I like knowing what's coming up and developing a game plan for getting things done (it's very tedious balancing work, the blog, and personal life) then being able to add in grocery shopping, workouts, to-do lists, and bills that are due. I'm also a firm believer that it gets my creativity flowing. I've been hitting some serious creative ruts recently and this has pulled me out of my funk. When you design for a living (and as a blogging hobby) it can be hard to jumpstart the creativity at times!
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The Erin Condren LifePlanners make it easy to have everything you need right at hand. There are multiple add-ons that clip right into the spiral. My favorites are the sticky note add-on and the plastic zip pocket! This way I can always write a quick to-do list or grocery list and move it from day to day if my plans change. I keep spare receipts and a pen in my plastic pocket as well. It's an easy way to keep track of receipts that I need to expense or coupons I'm going to be using soon. I also have a ruler that clips in - recently I've been using this as a weekly place holder. It's easy to take in and out!
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The back pocket is my favorite... that's where I keep all of the stickers that I use to personalize my weeks! I am a very visual person - so much so that I can recount a week in review better by being able to visualize how everything is laid out in color and with stickers. I can actually memorize a spread and specific details if it's colorful and happy! It's kind of like styling your life... don't ya think?
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It's also a lot more visually appealing when it's colorful (duh, I know, haha). With my Outlook calendar on my computer I categorize things by color: blue = meetings, orange = blog, yellow = work, green = personal, etc. For awhile I began organizing my planner notes and appointments the same way. Ultimately, I decided to just use whatever color felt right because I liked an even spread of colors. However, I think I may go back to using certain colors for specific things because if a week is all blue then I will visually be able to say "hmm, I probably need a fun coffee date thrown in to make my work week happier." ;) Balance, y'all!
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Of course, what average person doesn't like the excuse to be a kid again and use stickers?? It just makes life so much more FUN. Who doesn't like that?! It can make an upcoming task like grocery shopping a little bit easier to look forward to. Personalizing my planner and week makes me realize what I have to look forward to. Even though I don't want to pay all of those bills, writing it down in ink makes me know I better get it done asap, and putting a sticker next to it gives me more of an incentive to actually write it down haha! Nothing's worse than an unchecked to-do list!
How do you organize your life? As you can see by the photos above I like to plan out a month at a time. Here's the kicker: you're not even seeing my blog posts scheduled out on there ;) haha planner to the extreme here! What style would you go with: colorful? horizontal? gold? The options are endless!
THE BEST PART! Erin Condren is offering y'all 15% off! Use code GETSOCIAL15 to start organizing your life and making it more colorful. (code expires 7/31/17 and cannot be combined with other offers)
*Thank you to Erin Condren for sponsoring this post! While it is sponsored, all thoughts and opinions are my own.
You're looking at a real life planner here, friends!*
Love Always,