in today's video i am going to be sharing with you 20 yes 20 different ideas to help you get more out of your planner here in 2022. so whether you just bought a planner for the first time or if you have one that goes through 2021 and 2022 or you are a seasoned planner it is never too late to add something new [Music] hey y'all my name is lauren here with plan with lore i am your type a bff and i am here to help you create calm out of the daily chaos i always say that a planner is a tool to help you it's not a magical one that will transform your life though i wish it was but planning can slowly and gradually help you to squeeze more out of the time that you have in that spirit like i said i'm gonna be showing you 20 different things that you can do in your planner to use it in 2022 and i want to let you know that i have used every single idea in my planner at least once over the past couple of years and some of them i'm still incorporating here today so if they've worked with me i bet that they can go ahead and work for you i gotta know before we jump in today's video let me know in the comments down below why are you planning here in 2022 whether you are new to planning or like i said you are a season planner what is the reason for planning in 2022 i am literally so excited to read these comments because we all use planning for different purposes and it just warms my heart we got a lot to cover in this video like i said 20 ideas of things to put in your planner so you actually use it let's go ahead we are starting with number one which is actually other people's plans now i know that we put our own plans in our planner and i was not going to take up a number with that because you know that's kind of a given but i think putting other people's plans in our planners are so important take a moment to figure out where the people that you love and support are going to be in the world this year ask them for important milestones in their life weddings anniversaries birthdays maybe they're running a half marathon or they have a big presentation at work or they're up for a promotion or something that they are nervous about and mark that date on your calendar having these things like these birthdays and these anniversaries will keep you on top of your game this year so whether you are gift giving or you just want to send them a text or even just a birthday card planning is all about living your life intentionally and nothing and i mean nothing bugs me more than having to rely on facebook to let me know like when people are doing big things in their lives take a second reach out to your people and add their important dates to your calendar this year and this kind of segues into number two and the second thing is a gift tracker it is no exaggeration to say that i love giving gifts it's my language it's how i show people that i love them but gifts don't have to be elaborate or ornate to be special i truthfully believe that it is the thought that counts so i always in the back of my planners like to create a gift tracker i put a couple columns of names of people that i love and anytime i hear them say oh i love this or maybe we're talking about something and say this is my favorite starbucks order or i'm loving this new makeup brand or something i go ahead and i jot that down in my gift tracker and i'm not just gonna buy them something because they said they liked it but when it comes to gifting season when it comes to when i want to show them a little bit of extra love i can go ahead back to this gift tracker and say great sarah told me that she loves this new tea brand and it is her birthday so i'm going to send her i'm going to send her a gift from the sea coming i don't know this is just an example this example ties into the fact that i view gift giving as intentional and like an extension of planning of saying hey i thought about you i went through the effort to go ahead and get this to you and i want to show you how special you are to me i also use this as kind of like pseudo gif budget i'll usually write out how much i spent on these individual gifts so that i know that i'm staying within my budget for the year and i'm not going over the top okay so number two is actually your annual goals and i know that a lot of people in the planning community will actually go ahead and use a separate planner to track their annual goals i've done it before so there's like no shade in this but i believe that regardless of what your goals are and i can say that i am using like one of these pseudo goal setters for 2022 i think that it is important to go ahead and put your annual goals somewhere in your main planner that you are looking at every single day and the segways into number four which might fourth thing is to put daily and weekly goals in your planner again this is even in addition if you're using one of those pseudo planners whether it is something that you do daily or something that you're doing weekly i think it's important to go ahead and map out the steps that you're going to take to go ahead and achieve your goals because the difference between a dream and a goal is a plan and so putting down the steps of what you're actually going to do in your weekly and or your daily planner is important to make sure that you're staying on top of them i personally like to include some of my monthly goals in the back of my planner like in the notes pages section but then put out those weekly and daily action items in the heart of my planner the next thing is one of my favorite things that i do is actually my daily routines page this is number five and so whether you do this on your notes page or you do it at the beginning of every single month take a sticky note and write out your ideal daily routine now i use a sticky note because one i love them but because also my ideal morning routine changes i have been in this planning game long enough to know that even the best laid plans do not work out and so my ideal morning routine again is ideal it is not necessarily always realistic so i want to go ahead and i want to keep track of what my routines are but be able to change it whenever i need to now i take that sticky note and i can move it from month to month if it's something that i'm staying consistent with or i can go ahead and toss it and grab a new sticky note to go ahead and change it up if i need to change it mid-week mid-month or even mid-year now with the daily routines you can go ahead and be as specific or as vague as you want i like to create one for the morning and the evening but you could create like a routine for a morning routine and a workout routine or a planning routine and a reading routine it really doesn't matter and like i said it's nice because i can keep the sticky notes to see how things have changed over time or i can toss them out and i can just use a new one and my page keeps working and serving me over and over number six is gonna go ahead and be a health and wellness tracker i like to think of my health holistically which all in all means that health means a lot of different things for me and i think that there are a lot of different components of being quote unquote healthy and well so for instance i don't track weight loss in my planner but that could be something that you are interested in doing but you could also use a health and wellness tracker to track a series of workouts or you can use it to take notes from your therapy sessions or just even journal about how your therapy sessions went at the end of them there are literally so many different ideas and i think that wealth and health and wellness is such a popular idea to go ahead and track in your planning okay so now we have number seven it kind of has two parts to it so it could be seven i don't know you guys make a decision but if you have a partner you can go ahead and create a date night tracker this is john michael and eyes one of our favorite things that we go ahead and we do together now if you don't want to have a partner or you and your partner already have so many date nights you're like i'm focusing on me this year it is the year of 2022 which is me and my best version of myself go ahead and make a self love tracker or you can be like me and you can just go ahead and make both of them this year so the whole idea behind this page is pretty much the same as all of what i think when it comes to planning how can you take intentional and special time nurturing some of your most important relationships either with your partner or with yourself so john michael and i go ahead and keep a running list of date nights to do especially here in new york city and there are so many things on the list we literally i don't think we'll ever run out and so this makes it incredibly easy for us to just go ahead and pick something off this list especially if we aren't feeling super creative when it comes to date night and self-love is unbelievably important as well so whether it's drawing yourself a hot bath pouring yourself a drink getting your nails done journaling reading what taking time to watch your favorite tv show it's a great way to remind yourself what self-love looks like because we all burn out it happens in a year but when we do let's go ahead and have a page of some of our favorite things and kind of create like a little if i'm burnt out or i'm getting stressed or getting overwhelmed what's a little routine that i can do to help get myself out of it i know top of my list would probably be lighting candles a really dark bath and then some form of like pampering myself so whether that was getting my nails done getting a facial or like you know just like spending time alone in the quiet our true number eight thing that you can go ahead and add into your planner is a book log now i gotta be i gotta be honest with you i am not the best of going ahead and following through when it comes to my reading list it's like every year i forget that my least favorite thing about school was actually a summer reading list that being said john michael's actually a prolific reader and so i will say that one of his favorite ideas and one thing he told me i had to add to this video was a book log i think there are two ways to do this either one you can track the books that you've read maybe get a little bit of a synopsis and rate it on a one to five and maybe make some notes if like you were going to recommend it to a friend what are the things that you loved about it or some pro cons or number two is to go ahead and create a list of books that you want to go ahead and read you can also combine them both and have a little bit on each page number nine as something you go ahead and include in your planner is vision boards regardless of aesthetics vision boards can be super easy to put together and can help you create a guiding principle for your planning and your goal setting and your dreaming this year i also think a vision board in your planner can be an incredible idea especially if you make it a priority to look at it pretty often another thing in number 10 is that we can go ahead and add our planner our routine trackers so i think that this is where a routine or habit tracker comes in whether it's tracking how much water you're drinking whether you've showered and put on clothes for the day or something else entirely a dedicated routine or habit tracker in your planner will help you understand how you're performing towards your goals for me i personally use a habit tracker to go ahead and track new habits that i am creating and working on so if you are using number six which is that daily routines page these two things can actually complement each other number 11 home improvement so the joy of owning your own place is that you're constantly finding different ways to spruce it up or things need to be repaired anyway it's probably finding ways to keep you busy so whether you're cleaning up and more on this later or you're making actual improvements i think that this is such a fun thing that you can go ahead and add to your planner now what john and michael and i do not own our apartment in new york we are renting and there are so many projects that we want to do so i went ahead and created this home improvement tracker just to put things that we need to buy for each room projects that i want to go ahead and accomplish over the year and honestly just things that came top of mind for me it can be as simple as getting some new pictures to hang up on the wall or organizing your thoughts to a major home renovation and so you'll have everything organized and easy at least in one place at least to start number 12 is a gratitude list honestly i really think that the simple act of taking time to think about what i'm grateful for and thankful for instantly puts me in a good mood and i think that sometimes we just think about it when in terms when it comes to thanksgiving but it obviously doesn't always have to be just for that the gratitude list is something that bloom daily planners does in their planners a lot they actually have a full list of things for you to write at the beginning of your planner of things that you're thankful for and that you're grateful for and i love that you can go ahead and take this idea and put it in your own planner just start creating a list don't feel the need to fill it all out now you can go ahead and fill out new things throughout the year that you become grateful for or that you're reminded of or you can go ahead fill it all out then it is there in your planner to serve as a reminder every single day about the things that you are grateful for all right let's jump over to number 13 which is movies and shows to watch i will not lie it always seems that netflix or hulu or amazon prime or whatever it may be is always on while i'm going through my house and just doing different chores or even when i'm planning so first off let me know hulu netflix amazon what are the shows that i have to go ahead and watch i love binging shows so shows movie it all i watched pretty much everything so let me know in the comments down below and what i'm going to do is because i've created this page in my notes so i'm going to use your recommendations to go ahead and jot down things that i want to watch in my planner because i cannot tell you how many times i finished a series and i'm like what should i watch next and i'm like i know so many people have given me recommendations so i never actually take the time to sit down and write them down so that's what we're doing here in this page now all my friends and family knows to go ahead and text me because like i said i'm always into new shows i have just started watching downton abbey i know very late to this game absolutely obsessed i literally believe that in another life i was a lord or lady number 14 actually is different foods to go ahead and cook i'll also add restaurants that you want to go ahead and try jamaica and i shift on our cooking responsibilities depending on the different seasons if he's in a busy work life season i'll take over the cooking responsibility and vice versa but i will really say that our rule of thumb is john michael loves to cook and i really love to bake we went ahead and started making different trackers in our planners and in our notebooks of things that we want to try things that we know that we love that are easy to go ahead and replicate and make again whenever we're not feeling creative or we don't want to take the time to go ahead and look through pinterest or all these different blog posts we can just turn to this page find something that we know that we are interested in or something that we've loved before and that it will be a hit for dinner that night number 15 is travel ideas slash kind of like a travel bucket list now john michael and i have also always been major travelers sort of like a larger bucket list of life we have a bucket list of all these places that we want to go ahead and travel together and this can be as specific as you want it to be so it can be as specific as like i want to stay at this hotel and this place on this day or if you already know that you have a trip for 2022 planned you can go ahead and just start jotting down ideas of things that you see if like oh this could be so fun when we traveled there lots of flexibility when it comes to this idea to put in your planner number 16 is to go ahead and start creating a cleaning log and not even adjust the cleaning log of like daily like did you wipe your counters but like when's the last time you cleaned your air filters like that's my problem or like when's the last time you went ahead and you dusted your baseboards i literally could not even tell you so that's to me why a cleaning page is essential i can go ahead and track a lot more of these deep cleaning items these things that maybe i'm only doing once or twice or a couple of times in a year i'm going ahead i'm making a space to check in with them number 17 is life goals we talked a little bit earlier about some annual goals but when's the last time you wrote out those big insane intense life goals that you have for yourself i cannot tell you how many times i've written out like five-year life goals and 10-year life goals and wrote it on some piece of paper and never ever came back to it right i never came back to it i lost it and while those probably some have come true and some haven't i would definitely have loved to see like where i was in a moment of time and how that is relating to where i am five ten years later so what better place than your planner to go ahead and write those down anywhere in the planner just to have it just to take the time to sit down and think about your life and some of the goals that you have and a place and a keepsake that you'll know that you'll have around number 18 is a bucket list now similarly this can be a seasonal bucket list so you could create one for each season of the year super specific to your family where you live and what that looks like or you can go ahead and create a life bucket list i went ahead and this year and i did just like a 2022 bucket list of just things that i want to do in the year of 2022. again some are like larger this is a cameo for my partner john michael but number 19 is a budget planner this is definitely one of the most popular things i see people going ahead and putting in their planners is tracking their budget tracking their debt and tracking their saving and spending along the way you can go ahead and create specific trackers you can use the gold pages to go ahead and set out your monthly goals when it comes to bunching budgeting and daily you can go ahead and write everything that you are spending i've also seen people keep receipts in their planner so if like you're out shopping throw your receipt in your planner at the end of the day or the week or the month you can go ahead and settle up now number 20 and our last thing that i'm gonna give here today i think this is one of the most important tips when it comes to using your planner is put your name in your planner we are in 2022 going to go ahead and personalize our planners by putting our names in it we're going to go ahead we're going to use pens and stickers and washi and covers and things that we love because i find that when you go ahead and take the time to personalize your planner you are so much more likely to actually use that planner on a day-to-day basis because you took the time to set it up so that's what we're going to do here with some of the ideas that i showed you this year by putting our names in our planner we are going to go ahead and set up our planner to be something that we want to open up every single day i need a water break but i gave you 20 different ideas of things that you can go ahead and put in your planner this year to use it and to be successful here in 2022 i gotta know before i sign off it is is there something that i didn't mention that you add to your planner that you couldn't live without or do you have a different idea of something that i need to go ahead and add in my planner let me know in the comments down below remember that your planner is a tool and there's always a way to make your tool a little bit more effective each year hopefully one of these ideas works for you and if it does y'all gotta make sure and let me know i want to see all the planners so tag me on all of my socials all right y'all now that is all that i have for you here today i upload new videos every single week if you found this helpful make sure to hit that red subscribe button and as always y'all my name is lauren here with plan with lore i cannot wait to see how you guys are setting up your planners here in 2022 all right y'all bye-bye [Music] you