Category: Planner Tips
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End of the Year Planning Tip #20 – Break Down Your Goals Into Interim or Step Goals
Christa’s latest planning tip emphasizes the importance of breaking down annual goals into manageable interim steps. By mapping these goals on a year-at-a-glance calendar or using sticky notes, individuals can visualize their progress, avoid overwhelm, and adjust plans as needed. This structured approach enhances goal achievement and facilitates regular progress tracking.
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End of the Year Planning Tip #19 – Set New Goals
Goal planning with a long-term, near-term and 1-year goals ensures that what we are working on in the days and month right in front of us is leading us toward achieving our dreams. Looking at goal planning using a process improvement framework gives us a structured approach for identifying the big actions needed to move…
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End of the Year Planning Tip #18 – Begin Migrating Data to Your New Planner
Picking up that pen and pointing it at a brand-new planner can feel a little intimidating. Planners can be a big investment, and we don’t want to mess it up. But it will be fine. It will be like all handcrafted items – perfectly imperfect. And yes, once you put pen to paper, you are…
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End of the Year Planning Tip #17 – Perform a New Ink Test
Performing a quick ink test on any new planner will prevent the frustration that would arise from possible incompatibilities between the pen/ink and paper. Even if you’re using a brand you’ve tested before, the paper used often changes due to availability and/or costs. So testing a new planner is still worth the effort.
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End of the Year Planning Tip #16 – Streamline The Sections in Your Planner
Streamlining your planner sections comes down to personal preferences and what feels right and works best for you. Removing redundant or unused pages reduces any guilt that may be felt from not using them. And it frees up space for more of what you do find helpful. Rearranging your planner pages and sections can improve…
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End of the Year Planning Tip #15 – Purge Old Notes and Lists
Clutter increases stress levels, and that includes clutter in our planners. Old pages we don’t need and loose bits of paper can make it harder to use our planner. Planner clutter can distract us from focusing on our priorities, schedules and goals. It can make trying to use the planner frustrating. Keeping it current and…
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End of the Year Planning Tip #14 – Review Your Goals From Last Year
With Christa, the Christmas Elf with a Plan – 14 December Christa is all dressed up for End of the Year Tip #14. It must be something really important. And I think she’s right. It is important to review our goals from last year. We need to gain insight about not just how well we…
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End of the Year Planning Tip #13 – Create Wish Lists
Wish lists are an easy way to capture all those bits of information that we come across save them for when we need to remember them. It’s like handing a note to your personal assistant to hold on too until you ask for all the note with ideas about something in particular and they hand…
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End of the Year Planning Tip #12 – Select and Start Setting Up Your New Planner
Here it is Day 12 of Christa’s 24 End of the Year Planning Tips. I knew she’d be bringing this up soon. If you’ve not already selected a new planner for the coming year, it’s time to do so. She says don’t wait until the new year gets here to start setting everything up. Be…
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End of the Year Planning Tip #11 – Choose a Word or Theme for the Coming Year
Choose a word or theme for the year. A carefully chosen word (or theme) can act as a compass that keeps you true to your values and priorities. Your word can inspire positive change and personal growth. It can lift you up when you are feeling overwhelmed by reminding you of all you are accomplishing. …
