Put on your "Feminist Hat" do you think these overly " therapy like self help" planners set women up fail, or reinforce the idea that women should have this much introspection to " succeed at life" are men expected to have this much thought out. set goals and life gets in the way- does this good intention and unfulfilled self care lead women to think they are always failing at having it all together? Is this type of planner lending to self sabotage or eventual negative self talk. Show me a planner girl who has completed one of these 100% for one year. now show me a planner girl who has a good start and a half finished introspection - which makes her feel like shit
If you don't mind I'm going to screengrab this and talk about this on the podcast. Probably in a few weeks. Because this is some food for thought! (On a side note, i've been that half finished guilt tripping person, but right now I'm actually on top of my powersheets 6 months in and it feels delightful! soooo I might have just proved your thesis haha)
for sure - screengrab and discuss away :) Planner world is ripe for psychoanalysis! haha! also, don't get me started on fitness trackers and diet culture! ( podcast for another day )
I think men should do this too, I work with my husband and brother, we are all creators/ artists, and I often ask these questions to then to help with the direction and goals of our business and it is like pulling teeth sometimes because they are not used to answering these questions.
Have you checked out any comparative "male" focused planning systems like GTD or Franklin Covey? They're pretty whohooy in places too. Having a discussion or a video about the differences would be very interesting though.
I think it would make an awesome planner for if you have a specific goal. Like fitness. I think it would make a good planner for people who are becoming sober. Cause the 1st 90 days is crazy important. I wish I had it when I first went to N/A I might start giving it to women who ask me to be there sponsor
Maybe those vague questions could be more useful if you apply the fortune cookie method to them? Instead of adding "in bed" to the end of each, you could add whatever your 90 day goal is to the end of each question: What do I value with budgeting? What comes naturally to me with food? What are my talents with exercise?
This looks really useful for a time of transition or change. The questions feel overkill for normal life, but guiding and helpful for when life is tough. Three months feels more manageable than a year like Cultivate What Matters. Very cool!
I have said many, many times that I wish I could find a planner like this that has room for monthly, weekly, and daily planning consecutively in ONE planner. This one does that AND has room for random notes also. I'm really impressed with this planner I have to say! The price is a little high, but since you can spread the cost out over the year and it gives you so much I could look past that. Thanks for the detailed review! :)
I used this last fall for about a month. It’s changed a little here and there since then. I credit my work in this planner with helping me look at what I wanted over the next 10+ years and do two big things: lose a chunk of weight (not all I want to lose, but a good bit) and buy a house for vacation/retirement. I loved/used the ‘container’ pages to do lists by project/context/area of focus but the structure made me feel I needed to re-write them each week which wasn’t feasible. (And I took a jaunt into digital planning from here.) I just pulled it out a week or so ago to see what I can incorporate from what worked in it for me into my current system. Nice to see some little tweaks they’ve made. My other thoughts on it at the time were that some of their ‘story’ elements didn’t jive with one another etc. and it was overall a little ‘fluffy’ for my personality. Overall I wasn’t sorry I got it, I wasn’t sorry I abandoned it, and I could see me using it again potentially.
Omg this is hilarious, I always love your candid reviews. I was looking for their self-care/beauty planner and wanted to get an honest review, glad to see you had one!
absolutely would love to see how youd use it. I think the extensiveness of it is amazing. i would love to think on how one could use it. to me it would be for more specific type of planning, not just like whole life but I think it looks awesome
Thank you for describing the materials and textures of planners. I'm VERY fussy about these things. And also whether the dot grid is a dot or a cross! 🤓 As an aside, I've invested in the 6 month powersheets for the first time due to your videos, thank you for your walkthroughs of your set up and check ins each month, they have proved very helpful.
I've been wanting a planner with additional pages between the weeks and this is such a good start! Instead of writing my daily todos in a separate notebook or sticky notes or wherever, I could keep them all within one book. And the extra note pages would be so helpful when I inevitably have stuff come up that I want to keep track of somewhere. This is kind of like a guided bullet journal, in some ways although the price point would make it difficult to splurge on for a full year. :\
I am so thankful you reviewed this! This looks like something I can have my teenager use to help her through her struggles with depression and anxiety.
I would love to see you use it. This is the first planner in a while that's made me go "oh that's different in a useful way" & not just different for the sake of difference. I agree some of the goal setting seems a bit meh, but the weekly layouts have so much potential I'd love to see you use it when you have time. Heck I'm stealing the weed/plant seeds idea for my goalsetting.
I think this planner is best for either - like you said - someone new still trying to figure out their planning style and willing to really commit to it OR for a very particular season of life - like you’ve got to move the family for a job transfer this summer and you want to stay sane. It’ll take a few months to plan, move, and settle. It’s not your normal routine so a contained planner like this with lots of room to list and brain dump that also guides you to think about being and not just doing could be really helpful. But I’d have to rip out some of those first pages. I couldn’t handle the soft fade in style language.
I’m getting this to use as a budget planner. Sounds counterproductive due to the cost but I have serious overspending issues and I’d like to write thoughts out about my spending and what I want my future to look like so I can develop better habits. Awesome review. Thanks for sharing.
Shakeela Robinson I like hearing that! Thanks for sharing. I’m getting the impression this planner could work best for specific goals / life domains and am thinking I might use it as a complement to my reg planning and for money, meals, and working out exclusively if I try it out.
The beginning part is really too touchy feely for me but wow the weekly sections really have me intrigued. Would love to see you using it when you are able to.
I am the consummate planner nerd. I love how all of the sections are defined. I’m also very willing to get out my white out and change a few things if necessary. I have this planner and set it aside for the same reasons you did. After watching your video, I’m going to give it a try! Subscribing to your channel now! Thank you! Donna
I use this planner because I am better with short sprints. I like the self care daily emphasis and the heartiness of the weekly pages. This also helps me with my annual planner that I have for work easy lift between planners. I would love to see how you use this planner. You use very colorful language.
I'm a big believer in 90 day plans, though I'd gotten off track during the last two years. I'm finishing up my first Savor Life planner--currently starting Week 11--and wanted to share my results: - Achieved a stronger sense of urgency in daily life by mapping out my goals - Made great strides in establishing balance in my relationships at home - Most importantly, my planner helped me pursue, land, and start a new job within the 90 days, at a 50% pay raise. Yeah, the Savor planner is a great tool. I appreciate how it's mapped out with broad sections and has its optional notes areas for Area IV in each week. I've already ordered my next planner so I can keep this goal momentum going into the end of 2019.
As a concept, I do quarterly (90 day) planning in my life because I work for the government and we go by fiscal year, then quarter. And it is actually supposed to increase efficiency (there are a ton of articles that I've read about it) and I do find that style of planning/goal setting very helpful in my practical every day/work life. I'm not a fan of this particular planner because it seems a bit froo-froo and extra - but I'm not into the beauty community stuff, so that's just me. I do like the structure of the weekly (minus the combined weekend) and how there is specific places for 3, 4, and 5 though. That is interesting.
I appreciate this video. Thank you so much. You do a fabulous job of sharing this. I just couldn't figure out what it all contained while looking at the website. Nice work!
I think the thing that drives me crazy about this planner is that the tabs for each week are in a weird place. If you grab the tab and flip it to the left side, you are on the second page of the week rather than the page with the 0, 1, and 2 parts. I know it's a simple thing to flip the tab to the left and then the right again and it's so you're on the planning part of the week to refer to later more easily, but it just bothers me. Other than that though, it looks pretty stinking awesome!
funny thing, I've learned from this review AND the latest ec planners that some people feel really strongly about tab placement and I don't. I need to put a post it note to remember to mention it when I review because left to my own devices I don't care enough to notice! (This isn't the first time I've had to train myself to notice something that doesn't bug me, but people in the comments ARE bothered by it!) so thanks!!
So many thoughts... I love the music notation/theory references, but think they could go even further and explain the DS al Segno reference (and other references) throughout - as i am a music nerd like that. They could also talk about cadences, chord progessions/resolutions. I’m not sure where planting seeds fit with the motif, but like the concept. Regarding the level of introspection, maybe I am operating too much in survival mode, but feel I don’t have time to sit down to figure this stuff out - or maybe I am afraid of the commitment, or maybe I literally don’t know. I realize there’s no right or wrong answers. Certainly an area where I struggle. Regarding the feminist/positivity convo, planners with ‘go girl’ quotes usually annoy me. I want to live in whatever mood I am in at the moment. Also, I wonder if there is an untapped market for ‘male’ planners - less flowery, but still organization/goal focused. Or perhaps unisex/gender neutral is a better descriptor. Yes, daytimer, Stephen covey are available, but pretty ‘basic’ imho. Dudes like color, right? As an aside, I often find productivity & planning organization inspiration from men in the bullet journal community. They often have a different take/approach on planning that is more usable/sustainable for me Day to day. Love you and your channel!
I am trying bullet journaling (in addition to my schedule and power sheets and so far am a big FAIL. I think this might work for me. I don't know I would do it longer than 90 days but might carry out some of the ideas. Part of why I attempted bullet journaling was to break down my week a bit more but this does it nicely. I would suggest a little bigger wire-o (even though I don't love that binding system) to accommodate any decorating, especially those vision pages. It looks like there isn't a lot of page turning room. Thanks so much for your great review. I think I am going to give it a go!
Not for me but watching more planning videos from you? Sign me up! Talk about planning procrastination - watching other people plan has to top the list!
This looks great to me. Goes along with my own personal practice, a little better than the power sheets does. Love the mantra/manifestation sections...might be something I can manipulate my current book to mimic.
Thanks for this! I realize your video is a few years old but I just got one of these as I was looking for a quarterly planner and I'm not a beauty or wellness connoisseur so the self care crap caught me off guard and I had to roll my eyes - I appreciate your commentary on that! I'm more of an artist so I'm going to turn those sections into collages or something. But the brain dump section is cool! You may want to try the Full Focus planner if you haven't already - its kind of a simpler/more masculine version of this though its a lot more pricey. Thanks for the video it introduced me to your page and I'm going to check out the backlog! Happy new year 2023..~!
I really like the idea of the flexible week. I never finish all of my to-dos that I write out for one day, and let myself finish them over the course of several days. I actually need to use both a weekly and a daily planner for all of my stuff that I need to do, and keep track of. I personally like the flexible column for the "Hourly" area, in addition to an area for to-dos. With a lot of Verticals, it's a choice between time tracking and to-dos. This actually looks really good. Like someone also said, this helps to keep everything in one book.
I really wish they’d picked either the music or the gardening, because the music thing is great but as a musician it bothers me that it’s pretty secondary
I agree about the combinded weekend format. I work a M-F job but my weekends tend to be volunteering and community activities. I do need more space on Sat and Sun then I do for week days. I usually don't get a planner unless their are full days for weekends.
Thank you for sharing this review. To many pages per week for me but only because my day job doesn’t require any planning or tracking. It’s my side interests and life that gets the pages of a planner. I especially Loved the weeds and seeds idea. I’m thinking I’ll be adapting that concept into my planning.
This would be so great for your health planner. This is amazing. Great way to develop long term goals as good habits will be developed. What a cool layout. I might buy one myself to help me on my good health journey.
RE: podcasts, I think you'd get along with Faith who does the Radical Transformation Podcast. She's also an uncensored lady who tells it like it is about mental health.
This is a great planner but it’s not something I personally need right now. I’m still at Planner 101 basics... sad to say but I’m still working on just trying to get through one day at a time and this would very time consuming and extremely helpful to figure out who you are and what your needs are. I’m just not ready for that right now. I really do like it and how in depth it gets. Thank you for sharing this. Watching your channel I have learned so much about different planners, types and needs they fulfill. I love learning about them all.
I think a planner with that kind of space would be great to get you through a specific large project or if you’re just looking to get super organized for 90 days to kick off goals or to manage home projects but for my it would be hard to keep up with it long term. It’s also pricy if you have to buy 4 to cover the year. It’s pretty though!
One of my biggest pet peeves about the "weekend" column in planners is that every planner ive seen do it has a monthly spread that starts on Sunday. How are you going to make your monthly weeks start on sunday but not have sunday at all on the weekly spread? That's so baffling to me.
I really like how detailed they get and how you can really use this planner to be intentional with your planning and your life. However, I can't help think I can find the same info and structure elsewhere and apply it to my current planner (I'm a devout TN/ kanban board/ agile girl!)!
I love this! It’s like the original STM bullet planner but better. I would totally use this. But I have 4 HP’s for all the things which is still cheaper so 🤷♀️.
Thank you for such a thorough review! First I’ve come up on your page yet love the pointed yet round run through and on-point community discussion about male/female expectation imbeddedment etc. As per your question, I actually love all the pages per week! ..so much I may overlook my typical disdain for vertically-oriented day spreads! I’ve tried the Lion Planner (panda dupe) and have currently been using the Phoenix Planner, yet haven’t geled with something about its weekly format. I think it’s space! And horizontal comparability - ironically available by the vertical spreads. It shares the piecemeal approach (“12 wks” v 90 “days”) which I do think I’ll continue with. Anywho, thank you! A little bummed by the minimal gratitude + seed space. Wonder how that fairs for others.
My time "franken-planning" in my happy planner taught me that I don't like how each day of the week is spread out over multiple spreads. I don't want all the to-do lists on one page and then meal planning on another and goals on another, id rather they just give you daily pages or two days on a page instead of how they broke up the week. I want all of each day together instead of on different pages.
I think this planner is awesome. I am also intrigued. I am trying to finish up my graduate work and this seems like something that could be beneficial. Or, I'll just set up my Frankenstein bullet journal planner thing to match this for the time
Would love to see how you use this planner! I might also need to pick it up, lots of projects/life changes happening currently and I could use the space to get my shit together
your reviews are so fricking helpfull. it would make an awesome planner when you have a definite goal in mind and I would give it a try. there are some things that are plain annoying me in it but that is why stickers where invented :)
If I weren't all the way in on Bullet Journaling I would definitely try this out! But as it is I'm in the market for something that will help me set goals and intentions that would be a BuJo supplement I can leave at home, not a replacement planner.
Does anyone have 90 day planning recs? I'm thinking of implementing something like this in my bujo but a lot of the search results I get are for company managers or weightloss :P
So I’m looking at this and do you think this would be a way for someone to ease into the Powersheets? I want to use them. I’m trying to carve the time to really focus on it. But life keeps getting in the way so I wonder if this is a way to start thinking? Hmmmm.
Do some of you know a FRENCH version of this type of planner ? Even a simplify version would make me happy. Even if I understand and read English pretty well, I am a french speaking person from Canada and I always prefer that my daily stuff is in french.
I like this spread. I would probably use the extra containers to track things like spending, social media analytics, savings/tips, etc. But I'd prefer not to buy 4 planners but I'm assuming all this in one would be to bulky.
Cindy would you consider using this as a fitness planner? I know its not a wellness planner but i feel like its open ended enough that you could track a lot of stuff! Anyway just a thought, you are awesome!!!
This is not a half bad idea, this planner... and if you’re like me and you use both a weekly planner and a bujo and something like the power sheets... I would quite easily be able to force myself to overlook the woo woo - or heck, sticker the shit out of that baby to cover it all up 😁 I can already hear my work bag breathing a sigh of relief because I would consolate alllll my work planner/bujo/lists/andyeswoowooshit into one rather elegant cover
For someone that struggles to keep up with my trackers this planner is doing waaaay too much. I agree with Stephanie's comment. I review seasonally but this is a bit much for me to personally use.
I'm struggling with keeping up with my power sheets through intermittent boughts of mild depression so even though the prep is more vague I don't think I'd be able to do all of that every week. Maybe in a different phase of life where I'm not working 10 hour days & caring for my mom.
All of the manifest woo makes me roll my eyes. At best it's useless, at worst it's used to blame people for shitty things that happened to them because they were putting out the wrong "vibes" into the universe and attracted the bad things that happened.
Put on your "Feminist Hat" do you think these overly " therapy like self help" planners set women up fail, or reinforce the idea that women should have this much introspection to " succeed at life" are men expected to have this much thought out. set goals and life gets in the way- does this good intention and unfulfilled self care lead women to think they are always failing at having it all together? Is this type of planner lending to self sabotage or eventual negative self talk. Show me a planner girl who has completed one of these 100% for one year. now show me a planner girl who has a good start and a half finished introspection - which makes her feel like shit
If you don't mind I'm going to screengrab this and talk about this on the podcast. Probably in a few weeks. Because this is some food for thought! (On a side note, i've been that half finished guilt tripping person, but right now I'm actually on top of my powersheets 6 months in and it feels delightful! soooo I might have just proved your thesis haha)
for sure - screengrab and discuss away :) Planner world is ripe for psychoanalysis! haha! also, don't get me started on fitness trackers and diet culture! ( podcast for another day )
I think men should do this too, I work with my husband and brother, we are all creators/ artists, and I often ask these questions to then to help with the direction and goals of our business and it is like pulling teeth sometimes because they are not used to answering these questions.
Have you checked out any comparative "male" focused planning systems like GTD or Franklin Covey? They're pretty whohooy in places too. Having a discussion or a video about the differences would be very interesting though.
that would be interesting!
As someone whose entire career has been in retail, I always appreciate your soapbox about how not everyone has a Mon-Fri job.
I think it would make an awesome planner for if you have a specific goal. Like fitness. I think it would make a good planner for people who are becoming sober. Cause the 1st 90 days is crazy important. I wish I had it when I first went to N/A I might start giving it to women who ask me to be there sponsor
Agreed!
Maybe those vague questions could be more useful if you apply the fortune cookie method to them? Instead of adding "in bed" to the end of each, you could add whatever your 90 day goal is to the end of each question: What do I value with budgeting? What comes naturally to me with food? What are my talents with exercise?
or maybe... add in "in bed" lol
This looks really useful for a time of transition or change. The questions feel overkill for normal life, but guiding and helpful for when life is tough. Three months feels more manageable than a year like Cultivate What Matters. Very cool!
Great point!
I have said many, many times that I wish I could find a planner like this that has room for monthly, weekly, and daily planning consecutively in ONE planner. This one does that AND has room for random notes also. I'm really impressed with this planner I have to say! The price is a little high, but since you can spread the cost out over the year and it gives you so much I could look past that. Thanks for the detailed review! :)
I used this last fall for about a month. It’s changed a little here and there since then. I credit my work in this planner with helping me look at what I wanted over the next 10+ years and do two big things: lose a chunk of weight (not all I want to lose, but a good bit) and buy a house for vacation/retirement. I loved/used the ‘container’ pages to do lists by project/context/area of focus but the structure made me feel I needed to re-write them each week which wasn’t feasible. (And I took a jaunt into digital planning from here.) I just pulled it out a week or so ago to see what I can incorporate from what worked in it for me into my current system. Nice to see some little tweaks they’ve made. My other thoughts on it at the time were that some of their ‘story’ elements didn’t jive with one another etc. and it was overall a little ‘fluffy’ for my personality. Overall I wasn’t sorry I got it, I wasn’t sorry I abandoned it, and I could see me using it again potentially.
Omg this is hilarious, I always love your candid reviews. I was looking for their self-care/beauty planner and wanted to get an honest review, glad to see you had one!
That is a LOT of pages per week...I just don’t know that I could keep up with it!
absolutely would love to see how youd use it. I think the extensiveness of it is amazing. i would love to think on how one could use it. to me it would be for more specific type of planning, not just like whole life but I think it looks awesome
right? like, I was convinced I wouldn't like it and then BAM! it's giving me planner 🍆
@@CindyGuentertBaldo yup!!! me too!!! eggplants all around.
Thank you for describing the materials and textures of planners. I'm VERY fussy about these things. And also whether the dot grid is a dot or a cross! 🤓
As an aside, I've invested in the 6 month powersheets for the first time due to your videos, thank you for your walkthroughs of your set up and check ins each month, they have proved very helpful.
I've been wanting a planner with additional pages between the weeks and this is such a good start! Instead of writing my daily todos in a separate notebook or sticky notes or wherever, I could keep them all within one book. And the extra note pages would be so helpful when I inevitably have stuff come up that I want to keep track of somewhere. This is kind of like a guided bullet journal, in some ways although the price point would make it difficult to splurge on for a full year. :\
Craftic Land yes! I’m with you there on wanting a planner w the pages and space to not separately write the to-do list
I am so thankful you reviewed this! This looks like something I can have my teenager use to help her through her struggles with depression and anxiety.
Hey @madsky how is your teenager holding up? 2020 was such a crap year many of the teens and parents I know are struggling.
Cindy I just think the world of you! Putting it simple YOU ROCK!
awwwwww thank you ☺️
I would love to see you use it. This is the first planner in a while that's made me go "oh that's different in a useful way" & not just different for the sake of difference. I agree some of the goal setting seems a bit meh, but the weekly layouts have so much potential I'd love to see you use it when you have time. Heck I'm stealing the weed/plant seeds idea for my goalsetting.
I think this planner is best for either - like you said - someone new still trying to figure out their planning style and willing to really commit to it OR for a very particular season of life - like you’ve got to move the family for a job transfer this summer and you want to stay sane. It’ll take a few months to plan, move, and settle. It’s not your normal routine so a contained planner like this with lots of room to list and brain dump that also guides you to think about being and not just doing could be really helpful. But I’d have to rip out some of those first pages. I couldn’t handle the soft fade in style language.
'I'm using planning as a procrastination tool. '
Me 😂
Madisyn Davis ik!!! So relatable
I’m getting this to use as a budget planner. Sounds counterproductive due to the cost but I have serious overspending issues and I’d like to write thoughts out about my spending and what I want my future to look like so I can develop better habits. Awesome review. Thanks for sharing.
Shakeela Robinson I like hearing that! Thanks for sharing. I’m getting the impression this planner could work best for specific goals / life domains and am thinking I might use it as a complement to my reg planning and for money, meals, and working out exclusively if I try it out.
Please show us how you use it like you have with the powersheets
that's a great idea! it likely wouldn't be until august once my surgery is over.
The beginning part is really too touchy feely for me but wow the weekly sections really have me intrigued. Would love to see you using it when you are able to.
I am the consummate planner nerd. I love how all of the sections are defined. I’m also very willing to get out my white out and change a few things if necessary. I have this planner and set it aside for the same reasons you did.
After watching your video, I’m going to give it a try!
Subscribing to your channel now!
Thank you!
Donna
I use this planner because I am better with short sprints. I like the self care daily emphasis and the heartiness of the weekly pages. This also helps me with my annual planner that I have for work easy lift between planners. I would love to see how you use this planner. You use very colorful language.
There was a line about structuring your life like your closet and my first thought was “well, my closet is a fucking mess.”
😂
I'm a big believer in 90 day plans, though I'd gotten off track during the last two years. I'm finishing up my first Savor Life planner--currently starting Week 11--and wanted to share my results:
- Achieved a stronger sense of urgency in daily life by mapping out my goals
- Made great strides in establishing balance in my relationships at home
- Most importantly, my planner helped me pursue, land, and start a new job within the 90 days, at a 50% pay raise.
Yeah, the Savor planner is a great tool. I appreciate how it's mapped out with broad sections and has its optional notes areas for Area IV in each week. I've already ordered my next planner so I can keep this goal momentum going into the end of 2019.
Brett Andrews thank you for sharing your experience / success!
As a concept, I do quarterly (90 day) planning in my life because I work for the government and we go by fiscal year, then quarter. And it is actually supposed to increase efficiency (there are a ton of articles that I've read about it) and I do find that style of planning/goal setting very helpful in my practical every day/work life. I'm not a fan of this particular planner because it seems a bit froo-froo and extra - but I'm not into the beauty community stuff, so that's just me. I do like the structure of the weekly (minus the combined weekend) and how there is specific places for 3, 4, and 5 though. That is interesting.
I appreciate this video. Thank you so much. You do a fabulous job of sharing this. I just couldn't figure out what it all contained while looking at the website. Nice work!
I think the thing that drives me crazy about this planner is that the tabs for each week are in a weird place. If you grab the tab and flip it to the left side, you are on the second page of the week rather than the page with the 0, 1, and 2 parts. I know it's a simple thing to flip the tab to the left and then the right again and it's so you're on the planning part of the week to refer to later more easily, but it just bothers me. Other than that though, it looks pretty stinking awesome!
funny thing, I've learned from this review AND the latest ec planners that some people feel really strongly about tab placement and I don't. I need to put a post it note to remember to mention it when I review because left to my own devices I don't care enough to notice! (This isn't the first time I've had to train myself to notice something that doesn't bug me, but people in the comments ARE bothered by it!) so thanks!!
So many thoughts... I love the music notation/theory references, but think they could go even further and explain the DS al Segno reference (and other references) throughout - as i am a music nerd like that. They could also talk about cadences, chord progessions/resolutions.
I’m not sure where planting seeds fit with the motif, but like the concept.
Regarding the level of introspection, maybe I am operating too much in survival mode, but feel I don’t have time to sit down to figure this stuff out - or maybe I am afraid of the commitment, or maybe I literally don’t know. I realize there’s no right or wrong answers. Certainly an area where I struggle.
Regarding the feminist/positivity convo, planners with ‘go girl’ quotes usually annoy me. I want to live in whatever mood I am in at the moment. Also, I wonder if there is an untapped market for ‘male’ planners - less flowery, but still organization/goal focused. Or perhaps unisex/gender neutral is a better descriptor. Yes, daytimer, Stephen covey are available, but pretty ‘basic’ imho. Dudes like color, right?
As an aside, I often find productivity & planning organization inspiration from men in the bullet journal community. They often have a different take/approach on planning that is more usable/sustainable for me Day to day. Love you and your channel!
I am trying bullet journaling (in addition to my schedule and power sheets and so far am a big FAIL. I think this might work for me. I don't know I would do it longer than 90 days but might carry out some of the ideas. Part of why I attempted bullet journaling was to break down my week a bit more but this does it nicely. I would suggest a little bigger wire-o (even though I don't love that binding system) to accommodate any decorating, especially those vision pages. It looks like there isn't a lot of page turning room. Thanks so much for your great review. I think I am going to give it a go!
I would love to see this as inserts, either for a 3 ring or unpunched, so we could build our own amount of weeks!
Not for me but watching more planning videos from you? Sign me up! Talk about planning procrastination - watching other people plan has to top the list!
This looks great to me. Goes along with my own personal practice, a little better than the power sheets does. Love the mantra/manifestation sections...might be something I can manipulate my current book to mimic.
This is the most inspiring so far, and u like that there are not too many things to think about. Thanks for sharing!❤️
Just got mine!! Thanks for this walk through!
Amazing review. Thank you for sharing all your thoughts in such great detail, as usual.
Thanks for this! I realize your video is a few years old but I just got one of these as I was looking for a quarterly planner and I'm not a beauty or wellness connoisseur so the self care crap caught me off guard and I had to roll my eyes - I appreciate your commentary on that! I'm more of an artist so I'm going to turn those sections into collages or something. But the brain dump section is cool! You may want to try the Full Focus planner if you haven't already - its kind of a simpler/more masculine version of this though its a lot more pricey. Thanks for the video it introduced me to your page and I'm going to check out the backlog! Happy new year 2023..~!
Also in the updated version it looks they expanded the weekend days section to its own page! Good feedback..
I really like the idea of the flexible week. I never finish all of my to-dos that I write out for one day, and let myself finish them over the course of several days. I actually need to use both a weekly and a daily planner for all of my stuff that I need to do, and keep track of. I personally like the flexible column for the "Hourly" area, in addition to an area for to-dos. With a lot of Verticals, it's a choice between time tracking and to-dos. This actually looks really good. Like someone also said, this helps to keep everything in one book.
I'd love to see this planner in use.
I really wish they’d picked either the music or the gardening, because the music thing is great but as a musician it bothers me that it’s pretty secondary
Thank you for such a great review! Going to go get one now :)
I agree about the combinded weekend format. I work a M-F job but my weekends tend to be volunteering and community activities. I do need more space on Sat and Sun then I do for week days. I usually don't get a planner unless their are full days for weekends.
Thank you for sharing this review. To many pages per week for me but only because my day job doesn’t require any planning or tracking. It’s my side interests and life that gets the pages of a planner. I especially Loved the weeds and seeds idea. I’m thinking I’ll be adapting that concept into my planning.
This would be so great for your health planner. This is amazing. Great way to develop long term goals as good habits will be developed. What a cool layout. I might buy one myself to help me on my good health journey.
RE: podcasts, I think you'd get along with Faith who does the Radical Transformation Podcast. She's also an uncensored lady who tells it like it is about mental health.
This is a great planner but it’s not something I personally need right now. I’m still at Planner 101 basics... sad to say but I’m still working on just trying to get through one day at a time and this would very time consuming and extremely helpful to figure out who you are and what your needs are. I’m just not ready for that right now. I really do like it and how in depth it gets. Thank you for sharing this. Watching your channel I have learned so much about different planners, types and needs they fulfill. I love learning about them all.
I think a planner with that kind of space would be great to get you through a specific large project or if you’re just looking to get super organized for 90 days to kick off goals or to manage home projects but for my it would be hard to keep up with it long term. It’s also pricy if you have to buy 4 to cover the year. It’s pretty though!
I would love to see you using this. This looks like it would be really helpful for those who do the "12 week Year."
Do you have a video showing us this planner filled out?
Wowow im only a few minutes in and super impressed with your in depth review!!!!
One of my biggest pet peeves about the "weekend" column in planners is that every planner ive seen do it has a monthly spread that starts on Sunday. How are you going to make your monthly weeks start on sunday but not have sunday at all on the weekly spread? That's so baffling to me.
I feel like you're doing so well with the Power Sheets!! That seems to be working for you!!
I really like how detailed they get and how you can really use this planner to be intentional with your planning and your life. However, I can't help think I can find the same info and structure elsewhere and apply it to my current planner (I'm a devout TN/ kanban board/ agile girl!)!
thank you for sharing. i really think this may help me kick start some things i need to do! I also agree id love to see this in use.
what an awesome review! you are certainly thorough!!!
I like it but the costs kill me. Maybe if they did a bundle deal. I would rethink it.
I love this! It’s like the original STM bullet planner but better. I would totally use this. But I have 4 HP’s for all the things which is still cheaper so 🤷♀️.
Love your humor😂
can i save this and show it to my kids to prove someone loves it? ;-) #teenagers
Ummm....of course!!! Wouldn’t expect any less💁🏻♀️Such a big fan btw, thanks for the reply, made my day:)
Thank you for such a thorough review! First I’ve come up on your page yet love the pointed yet round run through and on-point community discussion about male/female expectation imbeddedment etc.
As per your question, I actually love all the pages per week! ..so much I may overlook my typical disdain for vertically-oriented day spreads!
I’ve tried the Lion Planner (panda dupe) and have currently been using the Phoenix Planner, yet haven’t geled with something about its weekly format. I think it’s space! And horizontal comparability - ironically available by the vertical spreads. It shares the piecemeal approach (“12 wks” v 90 “days”) which I do think I’ll continue with. Anywho, thank you!
A little bummed by the minimal gratitude + seed space. Wonder how that fairs for others.
My time "franken-planning" in my happy planner taught me that I don't like how each day of the week is spread out over multiple spreads. I don't want all the to-do lists on one page and then meal planning on another and goals on another, id rather they just give you daily pages or two days on a page instead of how they broke up the week. I want all of each day together instead of on different pages.
I think this planner is awesome. I am also intrigued. I am trying to finish up my graduate work and this seems like something that could be beneficial. Or, I'll just set up my Frankenstein bullet journal planner thing to match this for the time
Meghan Roig that is what I do. ;) I will include different things in my weekly like a weekly reflection
Would love to see how you use this planner! I might also need to pick it up, lots of projects/life changes happening currently and I could use the space to get my shit together
You should try to reach out to the By The Book podcast I think it would be fun to have all three of you do a book together
I’m getting one of these now... I can’t wait to get going!!
I’m not sure this planner is for me. But wow! It’s extensive. If you end up using it, I’d love to see how it works out for you.
your reviews are so fricking helpfull. it would make an awesome planner when you have a definite goal in mind and I would give it a try. there are some things that are plain annoying me in it but that is why stickers where invented :)
I want to see you use it!!!!
i'm totally thinking about it!
It’s a cute planner. It does feel like a lot to keep up. I feel the same with I don’t have time for all that s**t!
If I weren't all the way in on Bullet Journaling I would definitely try this out! But as it is I'm in the market for something that will help me set goals and intentions that would be a BuJo supplement I can leave at home, not a replacement planner.
I think this would be a very interesting challenge for you to take on, even if it's only for one month
Does anyone have 90 day planning recs? I'm thinking of implementing something like this in my bujo but a lot of the search results I get are for company managers or weightloss :P
So I’m looking at this and do you think this would be a way for someone to ease into the Powersheets? I want to use them. I’m trying to carve the time to really focus on it. But life keeps getting in the way so I wonder if this is a way to start thinking? Hmmmm.
It could most definitely be a solution for someone that has to use multiple planners... 🤔
I would rip out the first few pages!
Do some of you know a FRENCH version of this type of planner ? Even a simplify version would make me happy. Even if I understand and read English pretty well, I am a french speaking person from Canada and I always prefer that my daily stuff is in french.
Any Prek as-tu trouvé? Soit des agendas memes ou des youtubeuses. I feel similarly. Prefer planner in Spanish or French.
I like this spread. I would probably use the extra containers to track things like spending, social media analytics, savings/tips, etc. But I'd prefer not to buy 4 planners but I'm assuming all this in one would be to bulky.
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Cindy would you consider using this as a fitness planner? I know its not a wellness planner but i feel like its open ended enough that you could track a lot of stuff! Anyway just a thought, you are awesome!!!
Thanks for the review
Seems pricey. For the whole year with shipping it’s almost $150 🤔
I would love to see a pwm in this
I think is super cool planner in my opinion, but I think it might be too time consuming
This is not a half bad idea, this planner... and if you’re like me and you use both a weekly planner and a bujo and something like the power sheets... I would quite easily be able to force myself to overlook the woo woo - or heck, sticker the shit out of that baby to cover it all up 😁
I can already hear my work bag breathing a sigh of relief because I would consolate alllll my work planner/bujo/lists/andyeswoowooshit into one rather elegant cover
Can you look at the Filofax inserts?
Did you pick a wellness planner?
For someone that struggles to keep up with my trackers this planner is doing waaaay too much. I agree with Stephanie's comment. I review seasonally but this is a bit much for me to personally use.
I'm struggling with keeping up with my power sheets through intermittent boughts of mild depression so even though the prep is more vague I don't think I'd be able to do all of that every week. Maybe in a different phase of life where I'm not working 10 hour days & caring for my mom.
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Have you reached out to the "Unfuck your Mind" podcast???
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Its numerals not music notes sweetie lol
All of the manifest woo makes me roll my eyes. At best it's useless, at worst it's used to blame people for shitty things that happened to them because they were putting out the wrong "vibes" into the universe and attracted the bad things that happened.
I hate this New Age bullshit. I would never, ever use this unless someone had a screwdriver to my eye. And then I still might not use it.
Too much space for me.....
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