A Tour of My Daily Planner

Despite bullet journaling for four years now, I only recently started a daily planner.

Instead I had a weekly planner that listed out my “weekly goals” (a set list of things I do every week to move me closer to my bigger goals) along with any additional plans and activities specific to the week in question. I tried to break out that weekly planner into days with little success.

But that changed when I recently got a new journal that isn’t really fancy but has a little date section at the top and clearly meant for daily use.

Now I reserve one page for my weekly planner as I mentioned above and the next seven pages to focus on each day.

In this blog post I’ll share with you how I set up my daily planner in it’s current state.

(Note: I say current state because if there’s anything I learned through bullet journaling it’s a trial and error process and there will be many modifications until I figure out what works for me and what doesn’t)

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The top half of the page is split in half. One side is for my to-do list for the day and the other half is further broken into three sections:

-Habits

-Movement

-Small Wonders

 

Habits:

Here my morning, day and night routines are denoted by M, D and N. There are the routines and habits I want to do every single day like stretching and flossing. (Each activity is denoted by a single letter to save space)

Movement:

One of the habits I’m trying to develop is at least fifteen minutes of moderate movement in a day. On workout days this is easily achieved, but on the other days I try to go on a walk or run through choreographies just to have some movement.

Small Wonders:

This is where I leave space to list out three small wonders throughout the day. Some days it’s the sunshine that lit up my room, or maybe a meme I saw that made me laugh or a song that really resonated with me, basically just leaving space for small moments of gratitude for the day.

 

The second half of my planner is for cycle syncing which I started doing mid-last year and you can read my blog post about it here: https://sneakersnshakes.blogspot.com/2022/06/all-about-cycle-syncing.html

This is where I keep track of what phase, and how many days into that phase, I’m in. I also denote which POWR (Plan, Open, Work, Rest) state I’m in according to the phase. 

The next two are rough gauges of how much energy I had throughout the day and how much sleep I got the night before. Usually if I’m really tired it speaks to the phase or the amount of sleep I got.

The few lines reserved for mood is my space to write out how I felt through the day and the few lines underneath that is for self-care. Self-Care could be as simple as sleeping early or making time to watch funny youtube videos.

The other side is for listing out the food I ate that was in accordance with my cycle syncing and a section at the bottom for seed cycling which is by far the easiest way to start cycling syncing. 

The two S’s stand for sunflower and sesame which should be eaten in the latter half of your cycle and F and P stand for flax and pumpkin which is for the beginning half of your cycle.

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And that’s my daily planner! It may seem like a lot but it’s really only five to seven minutes over the course of my whole day to fill it in and check in throughout the day.

I usually set up everything on Sunday for the next week, so everything is ready for me to just fill-out during the week.

This is my daily planner, as in this is what I plan to do, but there will be days where I don’t get a lot of it done and that’s totally okay. Not every day can be ideal and everything gets checked off, so if you’re thinking of starting a daily planner but are intimidated then know it’s okay to leave things blank or not finish everything.

This is what works for me, but you can always find inspiration from Pinterest and other online sources. I recommend, if possible, to make your own planner template after finding inspiration from other places since you will likely need to tailor whatever you find anyway to see what works for you.

Start small and build up from there, happy planning and I hope this blog post helped in giving you some ideas!

Please comment and thanks for reading!