Planner template - part 2 of 2 or 3 - two-week planner

Planner placement in your home

-adjacent to your phone

-in a high traffic area where you walk by and glance all the time

-on a counter high enough so you don’t have to hunch over to write

-adjacent to larger / longer calendars

-adjacent to other reference papers

You will also need

-a standard ‘free’ twelve-month calendar

-for appointments booked months in advance

-for birthdays

-transfer these every once in a while to your planner

-a ‘write-on wipe-off’ calendar

-for appointments where you have to be somewhere at a certain time

-days where there is / isn’t all day events like ‘no school’

-for other family members to be aware of what’s happening or to jot down their appointments

-mine consists of four horizontal magnetic pieces on my fridge. one piece is for each week. When the week is over, that piece gets wiped and moved to the bottom of the stack.

-a ‘magazine’ box tipped on its side to hold file folders for

-schedules of extra-curricular venues and activities

-school reference information

-cheque book

-current short-term stuff you don’t want to lose but isn’t going to become a regular part of your life

-a few envelopes

-scrap paper to jot things down on when you are on the phone

-a tear-off note pad for lists of things you need when on your errands

-a phone book

-a phone list of currently used and emergency numbers

Things you DON’T need in your planning centre:

-storage for stuff to be filed: Dealing with incoming and outgoing papers:

When physical stuff comes into your house – sort it on your kitchen table, then;

-take the stuff you’re keeping to your offce

-put the stuff that needs action on top of your planner so it’s in your face until you deal with it.

-if it is going out of your house as soon as you deal with it – leave it on your planner until you either give it to your family member to deliver, like school forms, or you deal with it yourself (if you have an ‘outbox’ by the door you usually use AND you are all in the habit of checking it before you leave, all the better)

-if it’s going out at a later date or with an appointment more than two weeks away – you may put it in a ‘holding’ file folder in the magazine box

-put it in the recycle

the 'up' page of the planner is in the next blog