Category: plans

I feel so lucky that I was chosen for the Danielle LaPorte 2025 Planner release launch party team.

I have said it before and I will say it again, this business gives the best customer service. I love being a part of this team.

Planner set-up for my first notebook (the daily planner comes in two volumes: one for January to June; the second, July to December):

I put my name on the title page. Then I put a paper clip on two different pages.

I will need to put monthly tabs on it at some point. I don’t have tabs that I like yet. I put monthly tabs in three different planners—and cut them out of three different planners when I decided I disliked them.

I didn’t remember to buy my Midori monthly tabs when I placed my last JetPens order.

I do have a tab punch somewhere. Once I find that, I will make my own tabs.

Until then, no tabs.

I find myself flipping through the empty planning pages. I re-read the pages in the front. I review the pages in the back. I repeat this entire process.

But eventually, January arrives and I have to get busy.

This is still a planner, but it fills a need. I am using this planner as my health and wellness planner.

For the first week, I sat down and looked through the first week of January’s pages.

There is a monthly spread on two pages. The monthly calendar part comes with holidays and events already pre-printed. The Moon cycle is highlighted on the page. The soul quality for the month is highlighted and defined down in one corner.

For January, the soul quality is compassion. This gloves right into where I wanted to go during the month in my own personal health care journey.

Flip over to the next two pages and it shows two days, daily pages. There are minor differences between the day on the left page and the day on the right page.

On the left page at the top of the page, it says Nourishing Thoughts’ (left column) and ‘Soul Quality Focus’ (right column). Then there is some space for you to write.

Moving down, staying with the left side column of the page, it gives the day and date for the day with plenty of room under that to write whatever you need or want to write. There there is a heart with a line. Then it says ‘Grateful”.

Going back to the right side column, the header of ‘Action” with 1, 2, 3 numbering the first three lines for your three most important tasks of the day, followed by twelve blank lines. And under that, directly across from the ‘grateful’ on the other side, it says ‘because’.

The left bottom of the corner of the page has a word (for example joy, dream, flourish, tender. The right bottom corner on the opposite page has the same thing). In the bottom outer corner of every single page in the book are these little words, words to encourage, words to inspire.

In the center of the bottom of the page is an inspirational quote, question, sentiment, something more to inspire and nourish.

The only difference on the right-hand page is the topmost two lines. ‘Key Actions’ replaces ‘ Nourishing Thoughts’ on the left column. ‘What I Trust’ replaces ‘Soul Quality Focus’ on the right column. The rest of the page is the same layout. The sentiment at the bottom is different, as is the word in the very corner of the page. But they are there.

I sit down for a weekly planning session, replete with reflection on the past week and the coming week, and I have taken this planner into my mix.

As my health and wellness planner, the things that I am throwing down as my action steps include: stopping periodically to center myself by taking three deep calming breaths during the day, walking up and down the basement stairs at least three times a day (these stairs and my asthma hate one another), a slow stretch session in the morning, a slow stretch session in the evening, and as my gratitude practice is already a given with this planner, drinking plenty of fluids during the day, including my herbal tea.

Then I pull up any negative comments or negative self-talk from the week that have been echoing around in my head. I examine these thoughts, one at a time, and I turn each one into a ‘nourishing thought’. I fill in a nourishing thought for each appropriate day of the week.

For the weekly soul focus, I create an affirmation or statement that reinforces that concept for me where I am and write that out for the week. Sometimes the sentiment is the same for each day; other times, it changes for each day.

Key Actions I have decided I will use this space to reinforce something I want to do to improve my health, like drinking that herbal tea, or taking a walk outside, something that reinforces my goals gently, but firmly.

I do not fill in the what I trust spot until I reach the day where it sits. Then I write in something or someone that I trust that corresponds to my nourishing thoughts and soul quality focus that aids in doing those key actions.

Sounds convoluted, but it really isn’t.

Gratitude is done daily when I sit down with my planner.

At the end of the week, we arrive at the weekly reflection. This is a one-page reflection of the week gone by. There are lots of questions to prompt you into deeply connecting with yourself and the past week.

Alongside this reflection page is the page for ‘Projection’, looking forward to the coming week. More prompts and questions to feel your way into what you want in the coming week.

As it is not February yet, I have not made it to the ‘January Reflection’ page. Looking at it, it seems like a stand good vs bad and some insights page.

It is the next page that draws my attention. ‘February Projection’. This page is all about how you plant to nourish yourself in February. After that comes the February monthly spread. I am excited to reach this reflection to see how it helps.

Now, there is the write and burn ritual at the Full and the New Moons. Did I do them?

No.

Why not?

Because I have no desire to delve that deeply into anything that involves my childhood without my therapist there with me.

I am willing to explore this exercise with my therapist, but not otherwise. I know where I come from. I know what I have been through. There is a reason I am not a Method actor. What is in the past stays there. I am working with other modalities in order to comb through and dissipate any energy blockages that this ritual aims to engage.

That’s all I have at the moment.

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Until next time.