BEST Planner Tips for Moms with Kayse Pratt

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Do you have a hard time making a planner useful in your day to day life? Do you want to use a planner, but you feel like you're just wasting your time or doing something wrong? Kayse's tips on realistic planning and making a planner fit your life are gold!
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Kayse serves Christian women as a writer + designer, creating home + life management resources that help those women plan their days around what matters most. She designed the S.O.S. Planner, helped over 400 women create custom home management plans, and works with hundreds of women each month inside her membership, teaching them how to plan their days around what matters most. When she’s not designing printables or writing essays, you’ll find Kayse homeschooling her kids, or reading a cheesy novel with a giant cup of tea in hand.
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A game changer for me in this season of life is a simple daily list notebook. At first, it was simply a page per day. When that got too crowded, I went to a two page spread --- in an A5 (5 x 8) notebook.
I date the top of each spread for a month. Then I have a parking spot for those random thoughts or useful bits of information as they come and placed on the appropriate day. So they don't get lost on random bits of paper or slip my mind completely.
It is purely functional. I do add a strip of washi tape to highlight a new month or a birthday or a goals page. That's my only nod to decorative.
I use mildliners to mark through completed items.
The left side is for to do's or appointments. The right side is notes or lists or reflections or whatever I need it to be. Nothing fancy.
I even use dollar store notebooks that work just fine. And this can flex and grow with me.
This is my working brain that I use constantly. I have a yearly dated planner where I house "set in stone" appointments and commitments that I consult weekly. Purely functional, but not all the random and daily ideas that make up a full life.
Example, if Thursday is errand day, on the Thursday page I will include all the things I can do en route to save time and gas and to make use of the on the go momentum. I need all the reminders so I don't forget what to take or drop off or pick up or buy or deposit.
This helps me stay calm and organized, knowing what I need to remember is housed where I need it to be and things won't fall through the cracks. Eg. This week I wrote down what I want to study or read each day to meet my learning goals. History, civics, classics, theology, domestics, current events, etc. But it's all flexible, because "Life Happens".