11.03.2015

How to build your perfect planner system? Week 21: Make your life simpler: routines and checklists

There are in our life so much things what is always the same. Happens on the same time of the week/month/year. Has to do the same thing. If you write them down, you don't have to think about so much. This makes things automatic.

Daily routines

I have a daily routine list since I tried out the FlyLady system. I don't do it any more, but having routines is a great idea!
- You can have a list for all routines somewhere in your planner (I have it by the R divider.) If you can be think on that, you can go every day there, and check, what you have to do. You might need to write to your plan: daily routine.
- Or keep a little card with the tasks by the dailies.
- Or have a sticky note to your day marker, and stick that to your daily, and move it to the next day, if you finished.


- You can have also a weekly chart for the whole week on your weekly spread
- or on your day marker.

Some of mine:

http://srplanner.blogspot.ch/2015/05/page-marker-with-daily-routine.html



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- or on a separate insert:
http://choretell.com/kids-5-12/patterned-weekly-to-do-chore-checklists/


So much options!

Weekly routines / repeatedly appointments

- You can have a list by your routines list again. You can go to check it there if you not forget it.
- You can write a reminder to your weekly review checklist: write weekly routine tasks/appointments to the days. (This is, what I do - more writing, but I can't check things on different places :))
- You can write a list with this things on your day marker.
- You can write the repeatedly things on replaceable flags. Move this every week to the next week's pages.

Monthly routines /repeatedly appointments

Same options as by weeklies.

Seasonal/Yearly things

- List again.
- Copy from the list to the place.
- Have an insert/post it for every month: write on this every birthdays/appointments, to do-s you have for this month (like making book keeping, changing clothes for seasons etc.). You can stick the post it to the months, or you can use your insert as a divider.

http://srplanner.blogspot.ch/2015/01/the-17-divider.html

Checklists

They are genial helper! If a bigger task need always the same steps, and you need to do that task more times, you can make a checklist for it.
- The most simplest way: Have in your planner (or in a notebook) a place for checklists, and list all the subtasks what you need to the bigger task. When you have to do it again, go there, and make it.
- Make laminated checklists. Then you can mark the finished subtasks with white board marker, and use the checklist next time again. Disadvantage for this: laminated pages make your planner bulky. But why should you keep all of them in your planner? You can find a place for your checklists outside of it. Place only the actual to your day (week).


2 comments:

  1. Hello my name is Maria Eugenia, but everyone calls me Eu I am delighted to have found his blog, explaining well as planning, I'm new at this, and do not speak English so I read traduciciendo with goolgle. I want to tell my case two years ago by the crisis lost my job and in this time I have been diagnosed a degenerative disease mitochondrial encephalopathy, now I'm in the process of diagnosing which one it is, the fact is that because of this and I can not work and have much free time but very poorly run, I have not found any blogs in Spanish that could help in planning and say with such planning and with his blog on Pinterest, and I'm really delighted !! I'll read slowly and I'm taking notes on his advice, then start planning is one of my goals for the new year, in these missing to finish the year I study hard days, I was really lost and did not know how to start you inspires me and follow his blog from now on always, thank you very much and I wish you and your family a beautiful month and a merry Christmas. Greetings from Spain (sorry if the translation is not correct, also use google translator to write)

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    1. Thank you very much for your kind words! I wish you the best. I'm glad I can help! Never mind English, I'm also not native, and I make a lot of mistake in writing, even if I not use Google translate (I should try? :D) Merry Christmas Eu!

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