Helen, I was diagnosed with adhd primarily inattentive type at 42 years old. It was cathartic but difficult thinking about what could have been, if I was diagnosed earlier. I’ve also struggled with depression and anxiety for as long as I can remember. I’m so proud of you for sharing the parts of your journey with your friends, family, and fans. Removing the stigma surrounding mental health issues is a huge lifelong priority for me. We would never think less of a person because of a physical disease, so why do we (the proverbial we) do so surrounding mental health or mental illness? You are an amazing and beautiful human being, I know that sharing this part of yourself is not always easy; but know you are being heard and making a positive impact on others who are struggling. You are a light in the dark for many people! ❤️
As a fellow adult diagnosed ADHD 😅, I have realized that a planner is an accessibility aid for me. I need a big chunky planner with all my lists, a detailed schedule, goals, tasks, reminders, etc etc. LOVE your tracking idea for specific symptoms and notes about treatment. I'm inspired.
Hi Helen. I appreciate your opening up on certain topics, but really applaud you setting boundaries. Good for you. On another note I LOVE that fitness vinyl-you have given me a lot of ideas for a fitness journal. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing so much vulnerability with us, Helen. You gave me some great ideas for my med tracking as well as “bad habits”. I also love the idea of the private journal.
I had to pull out my Hobo Weeks as I watched this. I love this little planner but the past few years I have changed my mind so much with how to use it. But I always end up repurposing it in some way. Thank you for being so open about your mental health issues. Obviously you don't need to share everything. But there are so many of us out here who also struggle so it's nice to not be alone.
Your monthly example of bad habit-- genius. I'm going to copy that in my Weeks. (I'll be using mine for budgeting and finances, and one of the things I want to track is my shopping bad habits.)
Wow, AND I love that My 100 idea. Also might adopt that for my budgeting Weeks (instead of my 100 runs, it could be my 100 wins/ savings/ best purchases).
Same! I'm using my 2025 Weeks for health and fitness, which includes physical and mental health tracking. I'm definitely going to be logging my impulse spending as part of that, since it's such a major coping mechanism for me. 🫠
I love that you are so ambitious and trying to make the Hobonichi Weeks work! I think that making the Hobonichi Week specifically for mental health and fitness is perfect! I'll be following you on this journey ❤
I picked up this pattern in the Hon and The Weeks and it’s just beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing how you’re going to use your Weeks. It was so helpful and insightful. Have a great week ♥️😘
A get so much joy and inspiration out of watching your videos. I am new to journaling and new to the Hobonichi weeks and cousin. I have purchased both in the hope that it will go some way to help me handle going through the menopause, which brings a whole set of challenges both mental and physical. Listening to you share your challenges and seeing the support from the community that everyone gives you and each other is very heart warming. Thank you for all you do and please keep up the great work❤❤. .
Helen thank you for being willing to share YOU with us. I’m so happy you have found a place to also keep your most personal inner thoughts safe. I love that idea as and although I don’t share on social media I don’t always want an option for others (co-workers, friends, family) to see all my thoughts.
I have been using the hobonichi weeks for a good 5 years, and it has worked so well for me. Very happy to see you using it, and I can't wait for the cute decorations video!
I can't tell you how happy I am to see this! I also managed to end up with a Hobo Weeks that I was intending to use as a health/wellness planner! You always inspire me, so this is completely cool!
I had to open up my Weeks to see those two dots you mentioned they have, and I was like, "Huh. Didn't see those.." so that does give me a certain idea of how to use the Weeks next year, since I do use it for my blood sugar numbers and what I have to do that day. Thanks for the ideas and your Weeks is very beautiful!
Thanks for sharing Helen, now I want to get another Weeks solely for health/wellbeing - love this idea. One thing I came across recently was using one vertical square space on the right hand side of page of each week for a mood tracker with a simple hand drawn facial expression, for the entire day you could denote morning, noon evening. I’m going to incorporate that somewhere next year, although I’m not sure I’ve explained that terribly well.
Dr Potato made me smile :) thanks for sharing this! I’m definitely doing a health and fitness (got the Paddington weeks for it!) and I really like the way you’re personally using it. I have a few mental health conditions and autism and I was thinking of having the weeks as the one I could share with professionals/ psychologist and I was going to have a separate one to have more notes/ vents/ goals/ food diary. I love your cute designs and this video was super helpful 😊
Thanks for sharing your ideas! I also plan on using a weeks as a health and fitness and running tracker! I deal with autoimmune issues so mine will serve me In a little different way but very similar to my set up! Love watching your thought process and ideas!
I just got most of my stickers and weeks in the mail this week. Although I didn't really use any planners this year, I'm getting ready for next year. Sounds like you have a good plan on what you are going to do with your weeks. Best of luck! I hope it will be what you need it to be. Thank you for the ideas, and sharing all that you are comfortable with. I'm planning on rewatching your video about your ADHD planner, and might try it out in the weeks I have this year. I didn't realize I was doing some thing similar last year, and kind of did the same with a digital tool. But now, I just want to have something more tangible. I hope you have an awesome day!
this time of the year and setting up planners is also my favourite!! and seeing your weeks that you are using alongside your cousin is dangerously tempting me to get a weeks too 👀 they are just too cute!!!
I love it so much Helen! I also have a health related planner! I am so excited to post all my planners. I am doing a 12 days of planmas in December and will show each planner/journal/notebook set up on those days!
Love love love the cover and the way you are going to be using the Weeks in 2025, Baby Bear. Sooooo looking forward to the little envelope to hold the weeks kits. It looks DA BOMB! Love you!!!
Adult ADHDer here. I also have a bad habit. I love the idea of the using the monthly page to record it. I talk to my counselor once a month and sometimes can’t remember certain things that are important for me to talk to her about.
Thank you, Helen for sharing. I am also using the same planner as a health planner next year. I took away some great ideas. Looking forward to the cousin set up.
I got a 2025 Weeks for health and fitness, too, and I love the way you've set yours up! I'm doing basically the exact same thing for the yearly index but haven't figured out how to use the monthly spreads yet, and this video has inspired me to do a bit more brainstorming. 💕
I purchased a B6 Horizontal common planner to use for health and wellness in 2025. I definitely found this useful and got some ideas for things to track in my planner! I don't run (my knees say no thanks) but I do have a peloton and a road bike! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for showing your set up! I really appreciate your openness and willingness to share your mental health journey and ADHD the way that you do. I struggle as well and you have given me some amazing ideas!
Helen! This was so on time. Thanks for sharing. I will be using a hobo weeks for my health and wellness journal as well and you gave me so many ideas! I love using the supplement for private journaling. I will definitely be using that. Thank you.
You have no idea HOW MUCH THIS WEEKLY SETup MEANS TO ME and HOW much HAPPINESS I feel....and a little teary...caz you know...but I have fought hard this year and am about 90% of days free of my bad habit...75 Hard which I am documenting on @thebalancedplanner channel is absolutely making a difference once again...this time I have added back sugar but doing a intermittent fasting window 18 hours eating window 2-8 pm...you wouldn't believe that closing down the 9 pm to midnight window and going to bed 10:30 pm (not saying I fall asleep then!) has incredibly eliminated my bad habit. With my mom's downhill slide this year...I kind felt like I downward slid to from Jan-June until I started the 31 day journal prompt challenge with the Avec on my channel. Your WRITING PROMPTS SAVED ME! It was the start of it all...thank you so much! I was wondering as a have the MEGA WEEKS and LOVE LOVE all your ideas...I used to run half marathons trail races one time in back to back weekends...and love your idea of the 100 runs...also, starting to get random here (ADHD) would you consider a BAD HABIT BUSTING award sticker for the MONTHLY calendar !?! Lots of LOVE...here in Blaine not far from you at my parents...and the weather ugh wow...a LOT of rain! It was pouring yesterday! Your stationery art extraordinaire saved me....jenean
Thank you! I'm using the Weeks as an analog companion to my digital-forward work planning. I was planning to use the annual index to track days I'm in office vs. remote and number of hours worked. I had no idea what to do with the top portion. LOVE the idea of a total & avg by month, so I'll be doing that next year!
I agree that there is not enough space with the weeks planner. Getting back into journaling and using planners, I didn’t want to invest in a 2024 Cousin for the remainder of the year so I got out my Midori Travelers Notebook and bought some inserts, one of which is a weekly (very similar to Hobonichi ) weekly. I use the right side for a running list that gets carried over day by day and the weekly side to highlight the appts I have that day. It is very brass tacks for me. What i like about the TN is I can add additional inserts for things like journaling, projects planning pages, and doodling and so I have everything all in one. I will invest in a 2025 Cousin and see if that will be a good sub for the TN but so far, with all the inserts, I am loving the TN (including the weekly). Love your channel!
Helen, you are always inspirational! I've been keeping up with my planner, but not my daily sketching and journaling (although I do mini journaling in my planner). I have a Weeks that I've abandoned and i'm going to see if I can use it for healh like you (I was using it for language learning, but I haven't had time for that either, LOL). Thank you always for being open and sharing both the fabulously done pages as well as your not-completely-filled pages. It makes me feel less guilty about not filling every page of my notebooks. :)
Hi Helen! I 💜 your weeks setup. I also have struggled with the weeks but want to make it work. I chose the A5 HON this year, but now I'm reconsidering 😂 Thanks again for talking about your ADHD. It helps me 😊 It makes me realize i do the same things or think the same way & maybe I'm not so weird. Happy Sunday!
I'm doing something similar but for finances and health. For me, those two are closely related. I have noticed that when I'm not happy I tend to overspend or when I'm too excited. So, I decided to track that and see how my mood affects my finances.
I've been using the Hobonichi weeks as my fitness planner, too! I put it in the wallet I got from Hobonichi. I track fasting, meals, sleep including deep sleep, and crossfit workouts. Found out sleep impacts my weight loss more than I expected. The blank pages are for recipes so I have my shopping list in my wallet.
Wonderful video, dear Helen. I had heard of this planner before, but was not familiar with it. Thank you for this in-depth look. I would have never thought it would be one I would use, because I don’t write as tiny as you, BUT I love the idea of using it as a tracker. There’s a couple things I’ve been toying with tracking, and I like the idea of having a separate book like this rather than in my ‘daily’ planner. Also, I love the stickers you previewed. LOVE THEM!! You are so talented and creative, and so amazingly smart!! Take care, lovely lady! Thanks for all the hard work you put into your beautiful creations for us. 😁👍🏻❤️🌹
I totally get WANTING to make a planner work. I tried using the Hobonichi Cousin for the last 4 years and stopped after a few months every year. I finally sat myself down and said that it just doesn’t work for me and my lifestyle 🥺 I started using the N2 from Sterling Ink and I LOVEEEEEEE it! I’m going to use the OG Weekly from Sweet Freckled Designs (Soft Paper Studios) for 2025 and I’m so excited ❤
I use a habit tracker that I printed out and taped to my wall but the “habit” I’m tracking is also a bad habit that I’m trying to get rid of. It isn’t life-threatening but it is something I’m ashamed of so I abbreviated what it is on the tracker instead of spelling it out. So I relate!!!
I loved this setup! Definitely excited for the releases in November. I hope the weeks works for you, it sounds like it will be very functional. I ended up getting the one piece weeks for 2025! Very excited to use it. ❤️
I use the Weeks exclusively to track all my health items and have done so for 2 years. I hope you find it useful, as it truly can be a great aid to have patterns of symptoms and side effects in these small, portable notebooks, especially to hand to a provider and point over and over again to data they wouldn't have access to otherwise. Super helpful for validating chronic illness experiences and get more effective diagnoses over time.
I got a sterling ink n2 common planner (the weeks size) as my health planner too - both physical and mental health! I was thinking of doing the same thing for my monthly section, for the weekly, on the left side instead of tracking workouts, i will be tracking my meals. I’ll use the notes section for therapy stuff plus any raw thoughts and feelings. Thinking of getting that booklet as a supplement too!
I prefer to use the Weeks and its dupes as Reading Journals. In the front I glue in books, podcast, and manga tracking, on the monthlies I list out the books, podcasts, audio books, e-books, and manga I"m reading that month, and I note when I finish them, and on the Weekly spreads, I write what I read/listened to each day, and if I had any thoughts or notes on those chapters, I write them down on the adjacent page. I truly enjoy the portability of the Weeks and its versatility, but don't feel bad if you can't make it work. Planning includes experimenting, and not every system will be perfect for everyone.
This was very helpful in giving me ideas! I also grabbed a Weeks for health & fitness but i’m a beginner when it comes to exercise so im hoping it keeps me accountable. I referenced your 2023 weeks several times when brainstorming ideas, and now this gives me more perspective! Looking forward to seeing how it goes Do you ever decide to start using the Weeks in December since the weekly spreads are there?
I''m using a weeks a very similar manner. With my ADHD, having a dedicated planner to keep near my rower and workout equipment will help keep that compartmentalized. If my planer has too much going on I won't use it. LOL
I have the same problem with the weeks, I love how beautiful it looks but it doesn't work for me...because the cousin does everything I need in a planner and I don't want to repeat myself on the weeks. I decided to give it another chance as a budgeting planner, hopefully it works this time 🤞
I've been using the sticker release trick for awhile with my Leuchtturm B6+ and my pocket Moleskine... only I put it in the front because that's where those extra pages are. Initially I did it for "stickers on the go" but it looks so pretty... so I never use it. 🤭 I just transfer it from book to book... at this point it's a decorative dashboard 😆
I wonder for the notes section if you cant draw graphs of your progress? For example, the duration of your long run as well as the length. Another graph could be all tempo runs, and another one could be your slow runs. Another one could be all glutes. And you could draw a graph per thing per month on a page, so you'll see it go up and down across 4-5 weeks. You could also combine months.
Do I think you can keep this up? Yes! For as long as it serves a useful purpose for you. 🥰 Horizontal weekly is hit or miss for me (and I don’t prefer the darker Weeks pages), but I did use a Weeks as my main planner in 2022 until October. I used stickers and tried lots of layouts. I think it’s a great idea as a supplemental planner, though. In addition to the journaling and planning, I’m always impressed with how much you get done in a day/week plus your exercise regimen. Did you run track or play sports in high school?
I love the weeks but for me it works bc I don’t use a cousin. This year I used a weeks and an a6 hon and I love the hon cover I have but I struggle to use it. I bought the same system for 2025 because I liked the covers but no idea what I’m gonna do 😅
If your nails are really getting weak, why do you have stuff on them? They can't breath to get stronger. You are making them weaker!!! Ive been a nail tech since i was 19 I'm now over 40 lol
Thank you so much to show us everything, including how you want the monthly pages! I want start a health planner for 2025 too and you gave me so much inspiration. My mental health is really bad and I need to look more to everything! I hope it‘s ok to use some of your ideas… big hug 🫂
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Helen, I was diagnosed with adhd primarily inattentive type at 42 years old. It was cathartic but difficult thinking about what could have been, if I was diagnosed earlier. I’ve also struggled with depression and anxiety for as long as I can remember. I’m so proud of you for sharing the parts of your journey with your friends, family, and fans. Removing the stigma surrounding mental health issues is a huge lifelong priority for me. We would never think less of a person because of a physical disease, so why do we (the proverbial we) do so surrounding mental health or mental illness? You are an amazing and beautiful human being, I know that sharing this part of yourself is not always easy; but know you are being heard and making a positive impact on others who are struggling. You are a light in the dark for many people! ❤️
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Thank you so much for this kind & encouraging comment!!! I’m cheering for you Andrea 🫂💕
As a fellow adult diagnosed ADHD 😅, I have realized that a planner is an accessibility aid for me. I need a big chunky planner with all my lists, a detailed schedule, goals, tasks, reminders, etc etc. LOVE your tracking idea for specific symptoms and notes about treatment. I'm inspired.
Hi Helen. I appreciate your opening up on certain topics, but really applaud you setting boundaries. Good for you. On another note I LOVE that fitness vinyl-you have given me a lot of ideas for a fitness journal. Thank you.
Hiii!! Thank you so much Renee 😁💕
And yay I’m glad you found some inspiration here!
Thank you for sharing so much vulnerability with us, Helen. You gave me some great ideas for my med tracking as well as “bad habits”. I also love the idea of the private journal.
Thank you Sharon 🫂💕 I’m happy to hear you found some inspiration here!
I had to pull out my Hobo Weeks as I watched this. I love this little planner but the past few years I have changed my mind so much with how to use it. But I always end up repurposing it in some way.
Thank you for being so open about your mental health issues. Obviously you don't need to share everything. But there are so many of us out here who also struggle so it's nice to not be alone.
Haha yeah 😭 I hope it works for you this year!!
And thank you Celia 🫂
OMG the sticker paper in the back is GENIUS!!! TYSM for that, she says as she runs to her desk to immediately do this in all her books 😅
The same thing happened to me with hobo weeks. Every year I buy one and never finish it.
Excellent video and as always very inspiring ❤
Thank you Nessy!!! I’m glad I’m not alone 😭
Your monthly example of bad habit-- genius. I'm going to copy that in my Weeks. (I'll be using mine for budgeting and finances, and one of the things I want to track is my shopping bad habits.)
Wow, AND I love that My 100 idea. Also might adopt that for my budgeting Weeks (instead of my 100 runs, it could be my 100 wins/ savings/ best purchases).
Same! I'm using my 2025 Weeks for health and fitness, which includes physical and mental health tracking. I'm definitely going to be logging my impulse spending as part of that, since it's such a major coping mechanism for me. 🫠
Ohhhh yes yes maybe I’ll incorporate some spending stuff in mine too hmmm. Great idea!
I love that you are so ambitious and trying to make the Hobonichi Weeks work! I think that making the Hobonichi Week specifically for mental health and fitness is perfect! I'll be following you on this journey ❤
Thank you!!!! I will keep everyone updated 😁💕
I picked up this pattern in the Hon and The Weeks and it’s just beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing how you’re going to use your Weeks. It was so helpful and insightful. Have a great week ♥️😘
It really is!! I hope you have a great week Charissa!!!
I needed this video today. Not only did it provide a great idea of a workout planner. 🎉 It provided a discussion with personal boundaries. 🧡
A get so much joy and inspiration out of watching your videos. I am new to journaling and new to the Hobonichi weeks and cousin. I have purchased both in the hope that it will go some way to help me handle going through the menopause, which brings a whole set of challenges both mental and physical. Listening to you share your challenges and seeing the support from the community that everyone gives you and each other is very heart warming. Thank you for all you do and please keep up the great work❤❤. .
Helen thank you for being willing to share YOU with us. I’m so happy you have found a place to also keep your most personal inner thoughts safe. I love that idea as and although I don’t share on social media I don’t always want an option for others (co-workers, friends, family) to see all my thoughts.
I have been using the hobonichi weeks for a good 5 years, and it has worked so well for me. Very happy to see you using it, and I can't wait for the cute decorations video!
I can't tell you how happy I am to see this! I also managed to end up with a Hobo Weeks that I was intending to use as a health/wellness planner! You always inspire me, so this is completely cool!
Happy TCMC day, i mean Sunday. Always look forward to seeing your vids. Excited for the A5 most of all. Thank you ❤
I had to open up my Weeks to see those two dots you mentioned they have, and I was like, "Huh. Didn't see those.." so that does give me a certain idea of how to use the Weeks next year, since I do use it for my blood sugar numbers and what I have to do that day. Thanks for the ideas and your Weeks is very beautiful!
Hehe now you know!! I hope the hobonichi weeks work for you!!
Thanks for sharing Helen, now I want to get another Weeks solely for health/wellbeing - love this idea. One thing I came across recently was using one vertical square space on the right hand side of page of each week for a mood tracker with a simple hand drawn facial expression, for the entire day you could denote morning, noon evening. I’m going to incorporate that somewhere next year, although I’m not sure I’ve explained that terribly well.
I love this idea!!! Thank you for sharing as well!
How did you know I needed this video in my life? lol!
I had a tingling feeling ✨
Dr Potato made me smile :) thanks for sharing this! I’m definitely doing a health and fitness (got the Paddington weeks for it!) and I really like the way you’re personally using it. I have a few mental health conditions and autism and I was thinking of having the weeks as the one I could share with professionals/ psychologist and I was going to have a separate one to have more notes/ vents/ goals/ food diary. I love your cute designs and this video was super helpful 😊
Thanks for sharing your ideas! I also plan on using a weeks as a health and fitness and running tracker! I deal with autoimmune issues so mine will serve me In a little different way but very similar to my set up! Love watching your thought process and ideas!
I just got most of my stickers and weeks in the mail this week. Although I didn't really use any planners this year, I'm getting ready for next year. Sounds like you have a good plan on what you are going to do with your weeks. Best of luck! I hope it will be what you need it to be. Thank you for the ideas, and sharing all that you are comfortable with. I'm planning on rewatching your video about your ADHD planner, and might try it out in the weeks I have this year. I didn't realize I was doing some thing similar last year, and kind of did the same with a digital tool. But now, I just want to have something more tangible. I hope you have an awesome day!
this time of the year and setting up planners is also my favourite!! and seeing your weeks that you are using alongside your cousin is dangerously tempting me to get a weeks too 👀 they are just too cute!!!
I love it so much Helen! I also have a health related planner! I am so excited to post all my planners. I am doing a 12 days of planmas in December and will show each planner/journal/notebook set up on those days!
Love love love the cover and the way you are going to be using the Weeks in 2025, Baby Bear. Sooooo looking forward to the little envelope to hold the weeks kits. It looks DA BOMB! Love you!!!
Adult ADHDer here. I also have a bad habit. I love the idea of the using the monthly page to record it. I talk to my counselor once a month and sometimes can’t remember certain things that are important for me to talk to her about.
Thank you, Helen for sharing. I am also using the same planner as a health planner next year. I took away some great ideas. Looking forward to the cousin set up.
I got a 2025 Weeks for health and fitness, too, and I love the way you've set yours up! I'm doing basically the exact same thing for the yearly index but haven't figured out how to use the monthly spreads yet, and this video has inspired me to do a bit more brainstorming. 💕
Aww yay I’m glad!! I hope you find your perfect system!!!
I purchased a B6 Horizontal common planner to use for health and wellness in 2025. I definitely found this useful and got some ideas for things to track in my planner! I don't run (my knees say no thanks) but I do have a peloton and a road bike! Thanks for sharing!
Oooo I hope it works out for you!!!
Thank you so much for showing your set up! I really appreciate your openness and willingness to share your mental health journey and ADHD the way that you do. I struggle as well and you have given me some amazing ideas!
Thank you Kathy!!! Ahhh I’m glad! Good luck 🤞🏼💕
Helen! This was so on time. Thanks for sharing. I will be using a hobo weeks for my health and wellness journal as well and you gave me so many ideas! I love using the supplement for private journaling. I will definitely be using that. Thank you.
You have no idea HOW MUCH THIS WEEKLY SETup MEANS TO ME and HOW much HAPPINESS I feel....and a little teary...caz you know...but I have fought hard this year and am about 90% of days free of my bad habit...75 Hard which I am documenting on @thebalancedplanner channel is absolutely making a difference once again...this time I have added back sugar but doing a intermittent fasting window 18 hours eating window 2-8 pm...you wouldn't believe that closing down the 9 pm to midnight window and going to bed 10:30 pm (not saying I fall asleep then!) has incredibly eliminated my bad habit. With my mom's downhill slide this year...I kind felt like I downward slid to from Jan-June until I started the 31 day journal prompt challenge with the Avec on my channel. Your WRITING PROMPTS SAVED ME! It was the start of it all...thank you so much! I was wondering as a have the MEGA WEEKS and LOVE LOVE all your ideas...I used to run half marathons trail races one time in back to back weekends...and love your idea of the 100 runs...also, starting to get random here (ADHD) would you consider a BAD HABIT BUSTING award sticker for the MONTHLY calendar !?! Lots of LOVE...here in Blaine not far from you at my parents...and the weather ugh wow...a LOT of rain! It was pouring yesterday! Your stationery art extraordinaire saved me....jenean
Thank you! I'm using the Weeks as an analog companion to my digital-forward work planning. I was planning to use the annual index to track days I'm in office vs. remote and number of hours worked. I had no idea what to do with the top portion. LOVE the idea of a total & avg by month, so I'll be doing that next year!
I agree that there is not enough space with the weeks planner. Getting back into journaling and using planners, I didn’t want to invest in a 2024 Cousin for the remainder of the year so I got out my Midori Travelers Notebook and bought some inserts, one of which is a weekly (very similar to Hobonichi ) weekly. I use the right side for a running list that gets carried over day by day and the weekly side to highlight the appts I have that day. It is very brass tacks for me. What i like about the TN is I can add additional inserts for things like journaling, projects planning pages, and doodling and so I have everything all in one. I will invest in a 2025 Cousin and see if that will be a good sub for the TN but so far, with all the inserts, I am loving the TN (including the weekly). Love your channel!
Helen, you are always inspirational! I've been keeping up with my planner, but not my daily sketching and journaling (although I do mini journaling in my planner). I have a Weeks that I've abandoned and i'm going to see if I can use it for healh like you (I was using it for language learning, but I haven't had time for that either, LOL). Thank you always for being open and sharing both the fabulously done pages as well as your not-completely-filled pages. It makes me feel less guilty about not filling every page of my notebooks. :)
i was so looking forward to this! cant wait to see the cousin set up!!
Hehehe enjoyyy!!! I’m excited to finish my setup 🤭🩷
Hi Helen! I 💜 your weeks setup. I also have struggled with the weeks but want to make it work. I chose the A5 HON this year, but now I'm reconsidering 😂
Thanks again for talking about your ADHD. It helps me 😊 It makes me realize i do the same things or think the same way & maybe I'm not so weird.
Happy Sunday!
I love this so much!! You’ve inspired me to add some of these ideas to my own weeks 💞
Aw yayy!! Thank you Sam 😁
Um that sticker release hack is EVERYTHING. thank you for that!!!
Happy Sunday Helen❤❤❤❤
Happy Sundayyy Kimiko!! 😁
You only need to run twice a week (and even then you can miss 4!) to run 100 times in the year ◡̈ you got this!
Omg major math fail 😂 Thank you for the correction!!!
I'm doing something similar but for finances and health. For me, those two are closely related. I have noticed that when I'm not happy I tend to overspend or when I'm too excited. So, I decided to track that and see how my mood affects my finances.
This is a great point!! I may have to incorporate that hmmm
I've been using the Hobonichi weeks as my fitness planner, too! I put it in the wallet I got from Hobonichi. I track fasting, meals, sleep including deep sleep, and crossfit workouts. Found out sleep impacts my weight loss more than I expected. The blank pages are for recipes so I have my shopping list in my wallet.
Oh and I use TCMC stickers in my weeks. I love the healthy eating and little pig stickers to reflect good and bad eating days. Lol
Wonderful video, dear Helen. I had heard of this planner before, but was not familiar with it. Thank you for this in-depth look. I would have never thought it would be one I would use, because I don’t write as tiny as you, BUT I love the idea of using it as a tracker. There’s a couple things I’ve been toying with tracking, and I like the idea of having a separate book like this rather than in my ‘daily’ planner. Also, I love the stickers you previewed. LOVE THEM!! You are so talented and creative, and so amazingly smart!! Take care, lovely lady! Thanks for all the hard work you put into your beautiful creations for us. 😁👍🏻❤️🌹
I’m using my Hobo weeks as a health and fitness planner next year too! Twins! 👯♀️
I totally get WANTING to make a planner work. I tried using the Hobonichi Cousin for the last 4 years and stopped after a few months every year. I finally sat myself down and said that it just doesn’t work for me and my lifestyle 🥺
I started using the N2 from Sterling Ink and I LOVEEEEEEE it! I’m going to use the OG Weekly from Sweet Freckled Designs (Soft Paper Studios) for 2025 and I’m so excited ❤
I use a habit tracker that I printed out and taped to my wall but the “habit” I’m tracking is also a bad habit that I’m trying to get rid of. It isn’t life-threatening but it is something I’m ashamed of so I abbreviated what it is on the tracker instead of spelling it out. So I relate!!!
This is SO good!
Adorable. I hope it works for you! Can’t wait for Black Friday!😊
Thank you Kyla!!!
Loved this! Thanks for sharing!
I loved this setup! Definitely excited for the releases in November. I hope the weeks works for you, it sounds like it will be very functional. I ended up getting the one piece weeks for 2025! Very excited to use it. ❤️
excited for this topic!
Yay!!! Have a great Sunday 🫂🩷
Oooo i like the idea of the example month
Hehehe thanks Stareena!!!
You always have the BEST ideas.... how do you do it Helen? 🥰
I use my Mega for everything! 😂 But I am semi-retired and purposely have slow days with only a few tasks.
I got one this year for health and fitness too!!!
Woohoo!! I hope it works out for us 🤞🏼💕
I use the Weeks exclusively to track all my health items and have done so for 2 years. I hope you find it useful, as it truly can be a great aid to have patterns of symptoms and side effects in these small, portable notebooks, especially to hand to a provider and point over and over again to data they wouldn't have access to otherwise. Super helpful for validating chronic illness experiences and get more effective diagnoses over time.
I got a sterling ink n2 common planner (the weeks size) as my health planner too - both physical and mental health! I was thinking of doing the same thing for my monthly section, for the weekly, on the left side instead of tracking workouts, i will be tracking my meals. I’ll use the notes section for therapy stuff plus any raw thoughts and feelings. Thinking of getting that booklet as a supplement too!
I prefer to use the Weeks and its dupes as Reading Journals. In the front I glue in books, podcast, and manga tracking, on the monthlies I list out the books, podcasts, audio books, e-books, and manga I"m reading that month, and I note when I finish them, and on the Weekly spreads, I write what I read/listened to each day, and if I had any thoughts or notes on those chapters, I write them down on the adjacent page.
I truly enjoy the portability of the Weeks and its versatility, but don't feel bad if you can't make it work. Planning includes experimenting, and not every system will be perfect for everyone.
This was very helpful in giving me ideas! I also grabbed a Weeks for health & fitness but i’m a beginner when it comes to exercise so im hoping it keeps me accountable. I referenced your 2023 weeks several times when brainstorming ideas, and now this gives me more perspective! Looking forward to seeing how it goes
Do you ever decide to start using the Weeks in December since the weekly spreads are there?
I''m using a weeks a very similar manner. With my ADHD, having a dedicated planner to keep near my rower and workout equipment will help keep that compartmentalized. If my planer has too much going on I won't use it. LOL
I have the same problem with the weeks, I love how beautiful it looks but it doesn't work for me...because the cousin does everything I need in a planner and I don't want to repeat myself on the weeks. I decided to give it another chance as a budgeting planner, hopefully it works this time 🤞
I've been using the sticker release trick for awhile with my Leuchtturm B6+ and my pocket Moleskine... only I put it in the front because that's where those extra pages are. Initially I did it for "stickers on the go" but it looks so pretty... so I never use it. 🤭 I just transfer it from book to book... at this point it's a decorative dashboard 😆
saying a silent prayer that our hobonichi weeks make it through more than just a month LOL
I wonder for the notes section if you cant draw graphs of your progress? For example, the duration of your long run as well as the length. Another graph could be all tempo runs, and another one could be your slow runs. Another one could be all glutes. And you could draw a graph per thing per month on a page, so you'll see it go up and down across 4-5 weeks. You could also combine months.
Do you track your food, what you ate and mood of the day. Maybe tracking what you ate and mood will create some enlightenment as well
Do I think you can keep this up? Yes! For as long as it serves a useful purpose for you. 🥰 Horizontal weekly is hit or miss for me (and I don’t prefer the darker Weeks pages), but I did use a Weeks as my main planner in 2022 until October. I used stickers and tried lots of layouts. I think it’s a great idea as a supplemental planner, though. In addition to the journaling and planning, I’m always impressed with how much you get done in a day/week plus your exercise regimen. Did you run track or play sports in high school?
wait, I got lost, what do you use the a6 for? I thought you had just the avec🤓
There’s a video on her instagram about the a6. She bought it for recipes.
Stay tuned 👀 Haha jk yes I got it for recipes! Won’t be using it as a dated planner.
I love the weeks but for me it works bc I don’t use a cousin. This year I used a weeks and an a6 hon and I love the hon cover I have but I struggle to use it. I bought the same system for 2025 because I liked the covers but no idea what I’m gonna do 😅
just starting the video but I think the drawing in your weeks looks like jim and pam!! am I right? do I win a prize? 😂
You are correct!!!!! You get a good job sticker ✨✨✨✨
Wow if your Dr is really called Dr Potato that is fate!
0:42 OMG is that Jim and Pam?!?! (I’m still watching but am so curious 😅)
If your nails are really getting weak, why do you have stuff on them? They can't breath to get stronger. You are making them weaker!!! Ive been a nail tech since i was 19 I'm now over 40 lol
I haven’t had the time to take them off 😅 I will at some point!!
Thank you so much to show us everything, including how you want the monthly pages! I want start a health planner for 2025 too and you gave me so much inspiration. My mental health is really bad and I need to look more to everything! I hope it‘s ok to use some of your ideas… big hug 🫂