Daily Passion Planners
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Daily Passion Planners
And How I Plan To Use Them Going Forward
When Passion Planner first debuted its undated daily planners, I wanted to try them out. So, I bought four of them. At the time, it was a buy three and get one free. I figured it was for an entire year, so let’s do it.
I worked in them for about nine months, also using Passion Planner Weekly as well. Before the nine months were over, I had decided that I needed more room for my daily spreads.
At that time, the daily planners came in one size: A5. Maybe if I had had an A4, I could have made it work. Passion Planner has since expanded their sizes. I actually did order an A4 daily in the past week, thanks to Ebay. I originally thought, I will test this size out. If I like it and it works, I will buy more of that size.
So, I bought the original four undated daily planners way back when. Each planner covers three months. I had one of these planners left from my initial four. Then I caught a sale by Passion Planner where these daily planners were five dollars each. I bought three more. That way I would have another full year.
Months later, if not the next year, I caught that sale again. Five dollars for one daily planner. This time I bought four.
So I now have two years’ worth of undated daily planners sitting in my stash.
Why would I do this if I knew that they were too small for what I needed?
Good question.
My initial thought was to use the daily planner in conjunction with using my bujo and my weekly planner. Create the plan and the to-do lists and the break-downs of everything in the daily planners. Keep my bujo for memory keeping and whatnot. Use the weekly planner to keep up with family, appointments, holidays, and the like so nothing gets overlooked.
Yeah. I haven’t tried that yet. I don’t really have a reason why I haven’t, other than I just didn’t get around to it. I have been happy with my daily planner being a hybrid bullet journal. I’ve had no real reason to rock the boat of my current journal peace to fight my way through something else.
Now, the two years’ worth of daily planners that I have is all Version 1 types. That means they are daily planners. No weeklies. No monthlies.
Passion Planner does now have Version 2. These include the monthly spreads. As well as the additional sizes. I recently ordered one of the version 2 daily planners, also an A5. I wanted to see how it differed from Version 1. It arrived today.
These undated daily planners are set up the same way their undated weekly planners. All the monthly spreads are in the front. The daily spreads are behind them. Or in the case of the weekly, it’s monthlies first, followed by the weeklies.
This division between the monthly spreads and the weekly spreads, although usable and doable, is not my favorite way of doing things. In this instance, I prefer the original Version 1 daily planners.
However, I now have another idea for my A5 daily planners.
Each planner is one quarter long. One quarter is three months long, in case I’m not being clear here.
This is the perfect place to start planning out the goals that I want to achieve per quarter.
I have already started this. I have started creating a brain dump in a completely different journal because I hadn’t even thought of my Passion Planner daily journals for this until I ordered the Version 2 daily planner. In this case, I have been using my diary/writing journal to brain dump and ponder. It’s not quite a list at the moment. This is more of a stream-of-consciousness vomiting upon the pages. I go back after each journaling session—there have been three so far and I am not yet done—and highlight the main goal or desire that I talk about so it doesn’t get lost in the surrounding detritus. If nothing else, I am becoming much more clear on my whys, even if the hows are in need of more fine-tuning.
My plan is to create my master list of goals for each quarter of the coming year. Then I will figure out what tasks will need to be done and completed to reach my goal. Those tasks will be broken down as far as I can break them to ensure that 1 I do them and 2 I am able to do them, even if I am not feeling well. Then I will populate each planner, each day, with the to-do list of items that I need to get done.
This way I can keep track of my goals through the daily planners, while still maintaining my bullet journaling (hybrid) notebooks…and whatever else I need to do what I need to do.
My only thing now is trying to figure out how or if I decorate my daily planners. Do I hand-write everything, the day and date…or do I use stickers? Should I use washi tape on the edges to demarcate each month from the other? Should I add doodles or will I need to break pages down by adding lines or will I need to cover up the timelines or anything else?
Those things I am still working out.
I worry about setting up four planners for an entire year because what happens if my goals shift and change in the middle of the year?
I think that I will utilize a weekly planner specifically for the purpose of holding on to my quarterly goals. A long-term goals journal. This way every quarter I can come to that weekly planner and re-evaluate what I had originally planned. I can see if this is the direction I still want to go.
I can either create a new plan for that quarter or I can continue on with the original plan and populate my daily planner accordingly.
I have also been thinking that since I already have a fourth quarter journal set up, minus dating the pages, I might try to use that daily planner for this last quarter of the year coming up.
I had added the monthly tabs to all four of my original daily planners. I wrote in the days of the week/month when it was time to use the journal itself. That way I can give this planning plan of mine a test run and good try before deciding if this is the way I need to go for the coming year.
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