Why use a planner? Here are five good reasons: Keeping track of your future appointments Each planner features both a portable monthly calendar and daily or weekly space for writing down your appointments. Having this information with you helps you avoid double booking–you can schedule your next dental visit for six months and know …
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When it comes to reaching your goals for the coming year, nothing is as effective as a solid plan—taking the time to set goals, breaking them down into achievable parts, and scheduling them into your planner. Although any planner is better than no planner, not all planners are created equal. What works for one person …
Going over the river and through the woods in a horse-drawn sleigh sounds like all sorts of fun, and I’m sure was. But you can be sure those holiday trips involved plenty of planning and preparation. Today’s holiday travel is much faster and more comfortable, but it still requires all sorts of forethought and preparation. …
When I was in 4th grade we held a Christmas program for our school. One of the songs in our program was The Christmas Candy Calendar Song, by Robert Maxwell. “It’s six pink peppermints ‘til Christmas,” we sang, “and there’s lots and lots of things for us to do.” With Christmas only six weeks away, …
During the holidays, the demands on your time come from everywhere – preparing your home, keeping up with your family’s schedule, handling end-of-year work projects, and coordinating all the gift giving. Using your planner effectively can help pull all of these demands into a single place, making them easier to manage. Here are a few …
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It’s that time of year again. Time to gather for food and fun. But what if the gathering place is your home? Here are six tips to help you host your holiday guests. 1. Plan your holiday get together early. Now is the perfect time to prepare for your holiday gathering. Collect recipes, shop for …
By Patty Gardner I have a planner. I admit it. I’ve actually had a planner forever. I can’t function without it and my family will testify to that fact. When I’ve gone through brief periods of rebellion against using a planner, my life falls apart. If you have a planner but it isn’t working for …
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However you feel about Daylight Savings Time, you can blame Benjamin Franklin. As an American delegate in Paris in 1784, he toyed with the idea as a way to save candles in an essay called, “An Economical Project.” That was all it took for George Vernon Hudson, a British-born entomologist living in New Zealand, to …
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What to do in the next three months to have a happier holiday. So much about the holidays revolves around good feelings – the warmth of giving a gift, the joy of spending time with family during Thanksgiving, the rekindled wonder of watching a small child’s excitement. At least, that’s how we’d like the holidays …
When we design planners, we try and think of ways to catch your attention. After all, planning doesn’t happen in a vacuum – you have a big, distracting world competing for your attention. Designing a planner that appeals to your senses without impeding your planning process takes careful thought and decades of experience. That’s why …
You’ve probably noticed that the more organized you are, the more smoothly your life goes. You don’t waste time in the morning searching for socks and car keys. You don’t forget to pack your toothbrush before you zip up your carry-on, and you show up on time. But few of us, if any, started our …
As one of FranklinPlanner.com’s longstanding traditions, Organized October is a month dedicated to organization of all types. Starting today, we’ve put up our Organized October Calendar with tips, ideas, and product suggestions for each day of October. And this year, we’re featuring excellent ideas from our full family of sites, helping you organize and enrich …
With all the cool devices at our fingertips, perhaps the best gadget is one invented centuries ago—the pen. That’s why so many people continue to use paper planners, calendars, and notepads. Today, technology is growing ever more prevalent and convenient, so our challenge is to keep it all in sync. How do we do that? …
You are a complicated person with many different responsibilities. You work to provide for your family and your lifestyle, and you try to enrich your life with new and exciting experiences. So why is it that whenever you travel, you’re expected to completely remove one half of the business/personal balance? Think about your last trip. …
If you don’t live in an area where the seasons change, autumn is worth a visit. Colors go from vivid green to bright yellow, orange, read, and finally brown as temperatures glide downward until autumn careens into winter. Changing seasons are impressive. In homage to Mother Nature, we’ve gathered a few things to help you …
It’s funny how we tend to slice up each year, almost like we’re living life based on the decoration schedule from our 1st grade classroom. We go from summer sun with a bright beach ball to colorful leaves and a football, followed up by the jack-o-lantern and the turkey. By this point of the year, …
Music is an integral part of our lives. Whether it’s the perfect lyric that describes how you feel, the melody that somehow resonates with your soul, or the perfect rhythm that gets you going, music moves us. Music is like the wrapping paper of our memories. How often has someone asked you, “What do you …
By Patty Gardner Planner pages don’t have to be used the way they’re designed. If the way they’re designed works for you, great. But if not, do it your way!!! This is Franklin Planner’s compact 2 pages per day. All I did here was skip the lines and the single column and make two lists in …
The beginning of the school year is a great time for a family’s schedule. With new time commitments after a relatively unstructured summer, it focuses the family’s attention back on daily patterns and schedules. If you do it right, updating your family scheduling in the fall can become a recurring habit of organizing your life. …
Heading to college? You’ve got a lot to pack. Of course, some things may be more important than others. If it gets too crowded in your tiny compact car, you may need to prioritize. Here are a few things that we think should remain near the top of your list. Backpack or Tote College students …
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