The school year is drawing closer, causing kids and adults alike to feel excitement and stress about the upcoming changes. Kids who are starting school for the first time or moving to a new school have to make the biggest adjustments, but even moving up a grade comes with new challenges. The good news is …
The Franklin Planner system has been proven to help you be more productive and accomplish your goals. However, if you don’t enjoy the time you spend planning, it will be difficult to be consistent and successful. What can you do to look forward to planning? Make your planner fit your personality and lifestyle! We offer …
Why do you do what you do? It can be easy to get caught up in the day-to-day rush, with shortsighted focus on daily tasks. Take time to step back and look at the roles you play in your life: parent, employee, family member, friend. As you plan, remember that your days reflect your …
By Patty Gardner I don’t know about you, but my planner’s page finder is a really important part of my system. Most of the time my planner is open, on the counter or my desk, where I can see it easily. But if it’s closed, I need to be able to get to my daily …
By Patty Gardner I have a planner. I admit it. I’ve actually had a planner forever. I can’t function without it and my family will testify to that fact. When I’ve gone through brief periods of rebellion against using a planner, my life falls apart. If you have a planner but it isn’t working for …
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By Patty Gardner Planner pages don’t have to be used the way they’re designed. If the way they’re designed works for you, great. But if not, do it your way!!! This is Franklin Planner’s compact 2 pages per day. All I did here was skip the lines and the single column and make two lists in …
By Patty Gardner Planners are extremely effective tools for helping you keep your ducks in a row. I’ve been using a planner for 20 years. Before that I had a calendar and a to-do list. My family knows that if I don’t use my planner, bad things happen. In case you’re skeptical about the benefits …
By Patty Gardner I’m pretty sure that all time management experts recommend using a personal planning system of some sort. It can be anything: an electronic planner, your smart phone, a paper planner (my personal favorite), your computer or tablet, or even notebooks, steno or legal pads, or index cards. It doesn’t matter what you …
