#planner layout

What Happened / How I Felt / What I Need

Reflection gets easier when the page separates the event from the emotion and the next care step.

Use three lanes

Write what happened, how you felt, and what you need. The layout keeps the entry from becoming one tangled paragraph.

Why the order works

Start with facts so the entry has an anchor. Then name the feeling. End with the need, because the goal is care, not just analysis.

Reflection works when the page gives the feeling a place to land.

...sigh...

I can’t believe it’s already my birthday month 😱♎️🎉 Anywho! I’ve decided to start rereading the Harry Potter series for the first time since I read them as a teenager so I made that this month’s theme 🪄📚👓⚡️ Also, In honor of my sapphire Anxiety Buddies & dust bunnies, I leaned into a blue & silver color theme 💀✨🐰✨ Hopefully this will be a magical month for everybody!

Not fully satisfied with cover, but I'm proud that it turned out as well as it did! It was fun (and surprisingly easy) to make book cloth and having hardbound covers is pretty sweet. I think it'll go better next time, now that I know what I'm doing.

Inside the front cover we have some marbled-pattern scrapbook pages for end paper and a page for blank sticky notes.

The end paper was one of the things I was looking forward to the most, because it seemed like it'd be a cool place for decoration and stickers.

And I was right! I'll eventually get more on here, but I didn't want to rush the process. I love how this looks though.

The DQB2 stickers are from @vidramon's store. Excellent as always! Thank you, Vi!

After that, we have the usual several pages of colored card stock for grouping sticky notes onto and the 60 pages of pen & ink sketchbook paper.

Then we hit the actual planner pages! Like usual, they're tiered with navigation dates in the lower and upper margins. Every page has a piece of art and prompts for art, self care/de-stressing, and personal growth.

A new thing I trying in this planner is that all the planner pages are removable and re-insertable (kind of like an arc binder)

The reason is to be able to put the current day in the sketchbook section. That way I can have expanded space for journaling and I'll have a dated system for sketches and notes. I'm aiming for a journal/commonplace book type of deal, but with a planner that actually allows me to plan.

The back of the planner pages has a page for journaling

I was going through some of my old planner formats and came across the "Today I Am" mood tracker which I like better than the RPG Status type mood tracker that I've been using lately. So that's back in.

Also a BGM space to write whatever I'm listening to that day. I think it's cool to look back on that.

After the daily planner, we've got monthly calendars with fields for goals, things I'm looking forward to, and upcoming things with unclear dates.

Set up a minimalist week in my Hobonichi Weeks Mega with me! 🥰

I had a little chat with a friend this morning about how self care is SO important. Especially when you’re so focused on productivity and checking off your achievement to do lists that you forget to stop, breathe, and do things for yourself. For me, seeing little reminders in my planner like, “play video games” or “spend time with God” or “drink water, dummy” helps remind me all week that my priorities should be less about “churn out things to make other people happy” and more about “I’m a person who deserves happiness too”. 🙏

I’ve spent the last couple weeks focused on journaling, house maintenance, and playing a *lot* of video games! 😂 I beat Last of Us 1 Remastered on PS4, beat Pokémon Legends Arceus (and am now playing the after game), bought Last of Us 2 and am working through it, have been enjoying some new Steam games, and just spending a lot of time in my Bible and with God who is my strength and my shield. ✝️ If it means I’m not posting much to my social media, so be it! Because I’m having fun, and I’m happy!

But don’t worry. Lots of new content coming soon. I have boxes and boxes full of cool stuff to show you, am replenished with ideas on cool new stationery content to dish out, and am just overall excited to dive back in. … When I feel like it. Lol.

My weekly Midor MD B6 Slim planner. Peek inside at my inner layout for cover and back cover design.

This was a really fun setup and design using Appree pressed flower stickers as the stand out.

I will be posting weekly layouts shortly as this is undated for the weeks which I really love!

1-7/100 DoP roll up:

This week… āiyā. So many meetings… and migraines.. ugh.

Things that did get done:

• quotes/orders/miscellaneous follow up

• servers that needed to be physically and logically reconfigured got done

• documentation review happened and some editing of that documentation commenced

• some 中文 vocabulary happened (not as much as originally planned but forward progress none the less)

Still outstanding this week:

• regular yoga practice and household chores

Today:

• I did some artwork for my 弟媳 just because (she’s a huge fan of 兔子🐰）

• Currently, I’m working on a goal setting worksheet that I snagged from the passion planner website since I haven’t done a quarterly goal review yet and I’m feeling like trash today anyway (read as: probably not going to get much physically done… might as well try some brainwork)

week 91: pokemon mystery dungeon (skitty and mudkip)