My Annual Planner is now available!
This planner won’t make you more efficient and productive… well, unless that’s what you intend for it to do.
I’m thrilled to share that you can now purchase my Annual Planner through Barnes & Noble!
This is a planner I created in late 2019 after trying many other planners that were good, but not exactly what I was searching for. I wanted help clarifying, documenting, and staying connected to my intentions for my life from a perspective that is optimistic, expansive, and grounded in my actual experience of living. Many planners are focused on productivity, which is fine for me sometimes, but is only a fraction of the life I want to design for myself. In fact, since I started using it in early 2020, I’ve benefitted from the planner’s consistent and steady reminders of my intentions to take my time and stay focused on what nourishes my whole being, which has been invaluable throughout the tumult of the past four years.
I’ve made a few revisions and updates along the way, and am really happy with how it works. Friends and family have asked for copies, and the good folks at Barnes & Noble Press made it easy to publish to a wider audience, so voila! Here it is!
The planner is a distillation of many of my thoughts about living an intentional life. As such, unpacking it requires some space and attention, and I’m working on a longer post diving into some of those details. In the meantime, here’s the broad overview.
Update! I’ve published several sections of the planner in a related post:
The basics
The planner is undated, and while you can start using it in any month and circle back to the beginning when the year turns over, the book itself begins with January and runs through December.
The year kicks off with some questions to identify your superpowers, set intentions for your year, and make plans to bring those intentions to life.
At the start of each quarter (Jan, April, July, Oct), there are quarterly reflection pages to help you connect with your big-picture priorities.
The majority of the notebook consists of monthly segments. Each month has a guided reflection section followed by a number of pages of dot-grid paper for notes, drawings, or inspiration. I find that monthly is the cadence that’s most sustainable because it gives me both consistent information to look back on, and is infrequent enough that I don’t burn out on it. I’ve had planners with weekly check-ins, which have been thrilling at the beginning of the year, but by spring it starts to feel like a chore. Including blank pages allows me to add more thoughts and notes when I feel inspired, without feeling pressured to do so when I’m not.
Finally, at the end of the year, there’s a section to look back on the year as a whole, and prepare for a new one!
If you have any questions about the planner, please let me know. Your questions will help inform my more in-depth post on the thinking behind the planner and how I use it in my own life.
Here’s the link if you want to get a copy!