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Sept. 2015 Setup FI
September 2015 Planner Setup

September 2015 Planner Setup

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I love September because of what it brings with it: the beginning of the school year introduces our routine back into our lives, and, of course, the beginning of Fall, what I personally believe is by far the best time of year.

With September also comes school and extra-curricular schedules, so my planner setup invariably changes. My system always remains the same, but changing my setup allows for more room on each day.

All of the applicable links are below the video.

DIYFish FN Planning Pages (vCarie)
New Field Notes Size Planning Pages (vCarie) from DIYFish

New Field Notes Size Planning Pages (vCarie) from DIYFish

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I’ve developed several bad planning habits. I’m not entirely sure how that happened, but they’re definitely habits that need to go.

Chief amongst these bad habits is that I haven’t been maintaining a Long View as far as projects are concerned. I’ve had an absolute lack of focus. Every week I go through my project lists, picking and choosing a few; this would be fine if I also completed said projects. However, I’d take the whole week to prep for those projects (namely, video projects), get bogged down with everyone else’s needs (which really can’t be avoided in The Frat House), and then I’d be planning out the next week again, sifting through my lists again… right back at The Dreaded Square One.

As it’s the beginning of the school year, I was helping two of the Frat Boys plan out their book projects for the first quarter. While we were sketching out the pages for these projects in their Field Notes notebooks, it occurred to me that something similar might help me regain the focus I’d lost and find my Long View again.

I hastily threw together a few sketches and sent them to DIYFish. What she created from those sketches is even better than I could’ve imagined.

From the epic brain of DIYFish, I give you vCarie (yes, she named it after me, even though she’s the brilliant one).

 

#onebookjuly2015 Wrap Up FI
#onebookjuly2015 Wrap Up

#onebookjuly2015 Wrap Up

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Better late than never, right? Right?

Finally, my One Book July Wrap-Up video is complete. Please ignore the puffy-wrinkly-allergy-ridden eyes, mmm-k?

 

 

Monthly Review and Setup FI
Monthly Setup and Review

Monthly Setup and Review

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A thorough Monthly Review is key for my planning system. I do a thorough Weekly Review as well, but the Monthly Review has two indispensable benefits:

  1. It gives me a Big Picture look at what I accomplished during the month, which keeps me motivated to continue moving forward.
  2. It helps me to catch any tasks I didn’t complete that I may have missed during the Weekly Reviews.

I do my Monthly Review while doing the setup for the upcoming month. This way, I can immediately migrate any unfinished tasks. I explain in the video below how I do a Monthly Setup and Review. I’ve also listed the steps below the video for those of you who may want to try this method for yourselves.

My steps for a monthly review/upcoming month setup:

  1. Prep the upcoming month booklet. For me, this means moving my Yearly Chart from the prior month booklet into the upcoming month booklet, inserting my DIYFish Monthly Calendar & Chart, inserting the upcoming week’s schedule (DIYFish v3s3, currently), and adding a tip-in for the weekly task list. (Having the weekly task list as a tip-in allows me to see it at the same time as my daily pages.)
  2. Migrate dates from my forward planning calendar onto the upcoming monthly calendar. I also check the shared family calendar (digital) for Mike’s schedule and anything else I may have missed.
  3. Migrate any applicable bill due dates from my financial planner pages onto the monthly calendar.
  4. Browse through prior month’s pages and index anything that I may have missed during the weekly reviews. These are only things to which I may need to refer at a later date; if it’s important enough, I snap a picture and upload it to Evernote.
  5. Migrate any incomplete tasks from the prior month to the proper place. If it needs to be done immediately, it goes on the upcoming week’s task list. If it just needs to be done sometime during the upcoming month, it goes on the monthly task list. If I’m not sure where to put it, it goes on The Big List (which gets reviewed every week, so things don’t fall through the cracks). (Full Disclosure: things do still fall through the cracks. I am human.) 🙂
  6. Check The Big List and all project pages for tasks that can be completed this month. I add these tasks to either the monthly or weekly task list, depending on when I want or need to complete them.
  7. Process all items tabbed with page flags. I use page flags to indicate notes and tasks that need to be processed, meaning that they need to go somewhere else (onto a list or project page, into my writing notebook, etc.).
#onebookjuly2015 Week 4 Update
#onebookjuly2015 Week 4 Update

#onebookjuly2015 Week 4 Update

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A peek at the last two weeks in my planner and the explanation of the added pen…

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