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“in today's video we are going to be talking about planner Whiplash so stay [Music] tuned hey guys my name is Nikki and I want to welcome you here to Carrie Grace all right so today we are going to be talking about planner Whiplash it is a thing I don't know if people talk about it I don't know if that's what they call it but that is what I am calling it planner Whiplash you're in one planner you switch to the next in a planner switch to the next in a planner switch to the next and for me it has been very very abrupt and that's why I'm calling it planner Whiplash so at the beginning of the year let me start last quart the last quarter of 2024 last quarter of 20124 as a content creator that creates content or specifically planner content I buy a lot of planners to review I'm sent a lot of planners to review it's really hard to make decisions and narrow things down because you want to use all the pretty things but you just physically can't so then you make a decision and then for me this year I had a lot of things change kind of over the course of Janu like mid January till about mid-February a lot of things changed um and so I've kind of just been in and out of things trying to figure out what I'm doing and I have felt like a fish out of water it's been a real thing for me I know it's not something that everybody go goes through I feel like it is more of a thing for Content creators than maybe people that are not content creators but I do remember being just you know a person that didn't create content I do remember having periods of time where I would be in a planner and then just kind of have an itch to want something different or circumstances would change and I would do something different but it is like magnified as a content creator and like I said the biggest reason I think is because we have so many planners at our disposal because like I said we have all purchased a lot of them to review we've been sent planners things like that and so this year has been severe for me so I started the year in several different planners a lot of that changed I've already done this is going to be like the third I think the third big change for me over the year and it may not be the last I don't know I hope it's the last but it may not be so in my last video I talked about or I showed you I don't know last video last two videos I can't remember I purchased a plum paper vertical priorties planner a discbound planner and I purchased this so that I could completely customize it and my goal was to see if I could get all of the things kind of in one planner because I've just been overwhelmed with all the things and I thought it was the planner like the planner like having multiple planners so I knew that it was a risk like very risky when I ordered an 8 1/2 by 11 planner because I knew it was going to be big now this is the bloom daily 8 1/2 by 11 planner it's the ultimate planner and you can see it's just it's not super thick and I really really enjoyed this planner but I was just kind of needing some more flexibility for like papers and things so when I got the plum paper one it was so thick I just felt like I was carrying around an encyclopedia I know that sounds crazy but and because it is a dis system like I could have taken things out I could have done all those different things but that wasn't the point for me the point was to try to have everything in one place and like I said I knew going the bigger route was a risk the reason I did it is because I really wanted to have like printables and paperwork and things that I have to print out and keep with me I wanted to be able to just print those things out and not resize and not cut and not have to do all that I was just really trying to simplify and it just ended up feeling like too much the other reason and I'm going to like you're going to see a lot of different things this is now a Plum paper notebook it's a plum paper discbound notebook it started out as a planner but I have rearranged a bunch of things so at the beginning of March I also I'm going to move this stuff out of the way cuz we're going to talk about all of that too the beginning of March I purchased the what was it the um the sticker subscription kit because all the white space was feeling a little overwhelming and so I liked that I think that was my last video there's a lot of things that I still like like I really like this page I was feeling like I needed all of this in here so I'm not having to rewrite things I liked the idea of keeping it with my meals this way I ended up taking a lot of stickers out of here after my plane with me because it ended up just feeling like too much like it was cute when I did it and then it just felt overwhelming to me and then this it was like I just couldn't touch the planner for some reason and I finally realized the issue it was the size I should have gone I'm going to say I should have gone 7 by9 but I don't really think I should have I think I just should have not done anything I should have left a few things the way they were but sometimes you just have to try things so that you know the other thing that the biggest thing though other than the size was that I started feeling overwhelmed by the amount amount of choices so one of the things that I really wanted was lots of extra room for lists because I need them for certain things and so I liked having this but then when I added this page in here like I had all these extra things this felt like a lot of extra this was a lot of extra and I just realized that it was like I didn't know where to put stuff I would come up with a plan and then it just it was still too many choices for me too many decisions and so I found that I I just didn't even want to open the planner and I can't do that like I have things I have to keep track of I have things that I need to know about and so I decided to change things up again now I'm really just going to kind of be putting this on the back burner there's a chance that I may hop back into this later on in the year if I don't I'm okay with it if I do I mean we'll see I'm probably going to just go ahead and cancel my sticker subscription for now um which is kind of unfortunate but that's what I'm going to do but these are the discs that I got from Plum paper yeah Plum paper and then I just you know pulled everything out and put it in here so what I ended up doing is I kept the cover I moved to some small discs these are actually happy planner discs that I already had they're the smallest one and this makes this this size really good for me so I ended up pulling out the front pages of the plum paper planner so I've got this like my year at a glance I've got like special dates and then this goal page and then I pulled out the notes section out of the back of the planner so I've got the notes Tab and I pulled out all of my Note Paper from the back I have my 2026 yeara glance and then I pulled the plum paper pocket because I do really like this pocket so then what I did is all of the things that I wanted in here and I I know that I had this a couple videos back I had this in this big giant thing but this has like the big giant discs on it this kind of leather cover is super bulky it's really nice but it's really bulky and so like I said I felt like went from needing things separate to wanting things together and then realizing that everything together was not my answer so because I had all of this pretty Plum paper stuff I just decided to make a new notebook so I ordered I found some really thin dividers these are clear dividers that I got on Amazon I'll leave a link for them I wanted these specifically because they're really thin like I had other dividers that are like really colorful I didn't like the colors but the reason I got new ones is specifically spefically because these are thinner and so I just created some sections so I've got home family Carrie Grace and then some church things that I need in here and then I just have all my stuff back here and then in the very back I have my day designer monthly planner that I purchased on Amazon and like took it apart and punched it and put it in here this is the same stuff that I had in that big leather disc thing this is just more Compact and so this is what I use for my work planner it's where I schedule out all of my content and things like that and then in the back I've got more notes that I can use for work so I am back to using separate things and having things more compartmentalized and it's working really well the other reason I think that I was struggling with the plum paper planner was simply that I had not really created this as a system yet and I think sometimes when you're in just a really busy season that's probably not the time to try something new because I think that's why I was having so much decision fatigue is because this wasn't already established and it just left me feeling kind of crazy feeling so like I said this is something that I could see myself coming back to later in the year maybe as things kind of settle down if I want to but for a lot of reasons it just ended up not being right it wasn't the planner it was literally just me so I have this now as a notebook and this is where I'm keeping just kind of all of my things so I've got like lots of things in here but everything is in here it's nice and thin and it's beautiful I like it because like I really like this cover it just feels nice and so we are good here so that left me with figuring out what I needed to do for just a planner and so I ended up going back to something very different this is not where I thought I was going to land but I'm going to explain why I did because that is what I do so the first thing I have is a lot of weeks I will sit down and I will just kind of do a brain dump and I like to set at it into work and personal and I just all the things that I'm thinking about for work all the things I'm thinking about just for life and home I just write them down and then I can tear this out and a lot of times I'll just punch this and I'll just stick it in the front of this and then when I'm you know like planning or whatever I can transfer these things to my planner or to wherever they need to be or I can cross them off or whatever but sometimes when I just need need like a brain dump this is what I am doing this is where it's happening and then it usually like I said either lands in here or sometimes if it's like I'm going to be working on the list I'll pull it out of there and I'll put it in one of these planners where wherever I happen to be so I wanted to throw that out there this is a bloom daily notepad and I really like it I um I wish they came in some other colors like I like this one I just don't feel like it goes with my stuff but that's not a big deal because it is super functional and it does the job the other cool thing about this is this is perforated down the middle so when I tear it off if I want to separate work from personal and have two separate lists I can totally do that okay so at the beginning of the year I didn't really want a daily planner well actually I did I wanted the Aaron condrin daily Duo planner and for whatever reason I can never make that planner work it's like I always want to be in that planner but I can never make it work and I feel like when I need a daily I always always always come back to day designer now my only thing with day designer is that I do wish that their monthly calendar was a Sunday start instead of a Monday start and that's kind of the reason that I always feel want to try something else is because of this however I just really like the day designer I like the way this is laid out I like the the way this paper feels I like that it doesn't feel fussy I like that I can just write on here with a pen and it's totally fine sometimes if I'm feeling extra I will use a highlighter or I'll pull out a couple Bloom stickers or whatever but for the most part I keep this really really simple and I have found that being back in a daily planner is working really well and so this is where I'm at right now I'm using my day designer again and I really really like it so what I decided to do for my weekly is to get back into the passionate Penny Piner home planner and you guys I've said this over and over this is the planner that I always want to be in and then sometimes I feel like I just can't do it but I feel like right now I'm in a place where this is what I actually need and so this is what we're doing all right so a couple of things that I really really really really like about this planner are really there's a lot of things I really like all the list in the front I really like this monthly checklist I always have this in some form in a planner I really this year I really liked this I like that I don't know this page for my personal goals I've got the sticker book that has has the little um scales on it and so I really like seeing this all in one place because this is kind of my biggest goal for the year I liked being able to just kind of list out goals without having to give too much thought to it I like the little books to read thing these are some books that I'm working through I like that there's just a page for me to list out home projects and there are several extra like notes pages in here which is really nice I like this um yeara glance a yeara glance is probably one of my most used pages in a planner and the other thing that I really like is the notes page at the beginning of the planner it's just one notes page but really it does what I need it to I've got a place to list some goals and then I have plenty of room to list out the Bible verses that I'm working to memorize each month and there's still a little bit of room for decor the other thing that I really like about this is it's just pretty I like that Lai has sticker packs and everything matches she's got new pens and new highlighters and there's washi tape this year and just so many things and I feel like each year it just gets better and better like as a system and so this is what I'm doing this year I mean yeah this is what I'm doing now so for March I went ahead and I set up my goals and then I just grabbed a habit tracker cuz one thing that I'm doing this month is walking every day a place to put that this is not overwhelming it's not too much I like the monthly spread there's a nice list on the side I'm not really planning different it's just in a different planner the biggest thing though is that I'm learning that if I have a weekly and a daily it's okay for me to keep the weekly really really simple and this planner helps me do that so in this weekly I'm not listing out todos I really am just listing like time sensitive things appointments places we have to be things like that if there's something that's extremely specific for a day I may put it on here but for the most part those kind of things are going in my daily and it's been really nice because this has a place for me to list out like specifically my meal plan something I'm thankful for it has a place for me to write in like what I spend at the grocery store which is something that I really like to track I like the prompts for Bible reading and even though the other thing that I like is that all of these tasks like all of these home tasks even though I don't do them on these specific days usually they're already here they're already built into to the planner and I can just check them off when I do the task this section up here is a morning routine and an evening routin routine and some of these things I do some of them I don't a lot of them I already kind of do they're just worded different than how I like for things to be worded but it's not that big a deal it's still there I still did the thing I check it off and it's just simple and so I'm going back to this I'm using this even though it is a Sunday start and even though it is not vertical because I'm still using a daily planner to hash out details and like see my day like the whole day and all of my you know little tasks and things this is working really well other thing that I like is I talked about the stickers um she's got lots of habit trackers that match and so for like things that I'm working on that are separate from this I can put it right here as a little reminder and I'm just enjoying it I finally don't feel like I'm overwhelmed and so yeah that is what I am doing I am jumping back into the passionate Penny Pincher home planner as my main overview planner and then I am using a day designer to list out all of my details now something that I am still doing is I am still decorating the monthly in here for reference I have to be careful though like I mostly use this one because it is a Sunday start but I do still like to decorate this one just because I think it's cute it's neutral it's a fun place to play I like to use my Bloom stickers in here and just like a highlighter and I just do it for fun it's not necessarily something that I have to have because I have this monthly but it is fun so that is my story of planner Whiplash we have moved things again and it's okay I've got three books I've got this one for just all of the things I've got this for my daily to-do list and then this is my weekly home planner and then this is what I'm using for a brain dump so I wanted to tell you guys real quickly too about how I'm going to be changing my schedule just a little bit I was going to do like a plan with me in here but I'm not going to do it this week because this is kind of turned into a really long video but it's pretty much going to look like this it'll just be on the next page and I what I'm going to start doing though is I have been doing a Sunday video which has been a plan with me type video and then a Thursday video I've been doing that for quite a while and Thursday is more like a home related video Sunday is a planner video I started adding a Tuesday video and I decided to do that before I had some extra things added to my plate and I've been mostly keeping up with it but it's becoming a lot so I've decided that I'm going to go back to a Sunday video and a Thursday video the Sunday video though is going to be changing quite a bit instead of it just being a plan with me video I want that video to be a Sunday reset so from not today but next week on Sunday my video will be a Sunday reset and you will see me planning for the next week and then you will also see the um like the cleaning that I did now it's a Sunday reset I don't usually do my cleaning on Sunday it's going to be the cleaning that I did or some of the cleaning that I did the prior week but I want it all in one video because I feel like Sunday is such a good day for that kind of video and that is just how I want to do it I don't want to try to do that on Tuesday and have the two separate things we're going to combine them Thursday for right now I'm still doing some decluttering and things that you guys will see on Thursday but it's always going to be like a home related video and then what I'm going to do for the Tuesday video is I'm not going to have a video every Tuesday planner season is starting back up again very soon for the midyear launches for the different planner companies so for Tuesday I'm going to use that as a day where I can post planner content that is like reviews and um just different things different planner videos that I want to do there's not going to be one every week we may go through periods of time where there are one every week but I'm not going to have one every week all of the time at least for this season and um so that's how I'm going to do that so Sunday is going to be a Sunday reset where you get a plan with me for the week and cleaning content and then Thursday will be some kind of home related video video and then Tuesday is going to be like a an extra video and if there is an extra video on Tuesday it will be planner content let me know if you have any questions hopefully you guys are going to be super excited about the monthly re not the monthly reset the Sunday reset videos I'm really excited about them I think they're going to be fun and like I said for my schedule for my schedule right now that's how I need to change things so that I can stay consistent so so I'm feeling really good with my planning system right now I feel like it took me such a long long route to get here but I'm feeling really good about it again and I'm excited so thank you guys so much for watching today's video if you're new to my channel and not already subscribed please consider subscribing down below and I will see you guys soon [Music]”