There’s a plenty of tools in the internet. Sometimes I find it extremely hard to find what I am really looking for, and, by reading various websites, I get sometimes to the most weird, strange points of the infinite space called internet. This is the moment I usually think to myslef: ‘it’s definitely all I’d like to see for today’.
The same thing happened to me when I was searching for the most comprehensive planner that would be the perfect response to my needs. I’ve seen thousand of printable planners available online: better, worse, free, cheap and expensive ones, more and less eye-pleasing, but none of them really contained what I expected – and some of the planners-contained website links took me to the most absurd sites You would believe. That moment I realized I’m finished with searching and decided to design the planner which would not only give the space to plan the Future, particular months, weeks and days, but its structure would naturally support people in organizing their lives, setting the goals, executing their ideas and make them more concentrated on the little things that really matter in life.
This is how the idea for ‘the Highlights – life planner’ was born.
During the month of designing I asked people (mainly women) about what types of pages they would like to have in their perfect life-planner, I managed to order the suggestions logically and filled some pages with the doses of inspirational quotes, life hints and thoughtful tips, but also with the life and personal coaching tools to give to ‘the Highlights’ Life planner’s Users the possibility to self-analyse weekly and monthly their unique Way of Life and to decide what, how and for what they want to change.
I had a lot of fun, designing the planner. Plenty of ideas buzzing in my head had to explode somehow, so I chose that planner will be the great space to give You additional place to make Your life not only planned, organized and analyzed, but also extremely reflective and funny – because that’s the main point of why we are here, on this planet. To put our little sparkle into other people’s lives, to make this place better than it was, when we came here and to experience our unique and only one life happily and with plenty of fun.
I also took care about its look, paying attention to the littlest details to make the Organizer the real piece of tresure – the additional space in Your life, designed and dedicated for You and in order to Your needs.
WHAT DOES IT CONTAIN?
FEATURES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF USE
The full title of the planner is ‘The Highlights – the most important moments life – planner. Take the quantum leap in living the life You love’, which actually emphasizes what it’s been designed for and suggests how its pages’ structure might look like.
‘The Highlights’ life planner has been created with love and good vibes just for You - to help You find, organize and/or create Your very own space in this World. Its pages are here to help You find the time just for Yourself in the tangle of everyday life. It’s been designed to support You in setting various goals, coming up with creative ideas, executing Your plans. Also, to keep You always inspired and up to date with Your exciting, New Year’s Life Journey.
Its pages are enriched with self-asking questions to let You wonder regularly, self-coaching tools to improve Your life and keep it balanced, funny instruments and parts to let You enjoy daily issues and change your points of view, discovering something new about yourself and the world around all the time. What’s more, You will find there the secret page corners You can bend to hide the written thought or simply to indicate finished week or month.
Also, bending the last page according to the of each month You can turn it into the bookmark which introduces new month from the outside and hides Your last months’ reflective thoughts inside.
It lets You create Your own legend of symbols to mark Your various activities done for each day and control their regularity. You can treat it not only as any year planner, but with ‘creative side of me’ pages as an art journal to let Your creativity explode.
The pages contain the ‘day happiness scale’ and each day of a week is visually divided at three columns to let You fill it with three different categories You like (e.g. ‘to buy’, ‘appointments’, ‘to do’) or divide the day at three parts (‘morning’, ‘afternoon’, ‘evening’). You will find also the shopping list, with 6 squares, where You can put the name of product categories You are about to buy and put in each category sticky note to cross it out and keep it fresh or write down straight away the shopping list, not caring much about the sticky notes. Each month You can start with the 4 basic goals to achieve and arrange the 4 square fields for each with the little steps – 1 per each week.
With the ‘Monthly summary’ page You can evaluate Your monthly goals and plans, analyse Your life-balance and decide what You would like to change, to make Your life better and more fulfilled. Also, You can use the miniature of ‘Wheel of Life’ – popular coaching tool, to mark the level of Your self-satisfaction in each of life’s fields to visualize and analyze it.
‘The Highlights’ planner isn’t only the yearly organizer. Its pages are dedicated for You to discover what the real sources of Your life happiness are, what makes You feel grateful and what are the things that really matter to You. Moreover, the ‘Monthly highlights’ page lets You take some of the last month’s conclusions and lessons learnt to the next month, modify your current goals, set completely new ones, discover Your inner-life needs and evolve Your life overall. Most of all though, it creates a space to manage the ‘worth-to-remember’ memories and lets Us highlight these most beautiful - to save them in our hearts and for them to be a reminder of our actions in the near or distant future.
Draw it, bend it, highlight the phrases, divide with additional lines its parts, and fill it with anything You like and the way You want to – Your imagination’s the only limit.
THE CONTAINED PAGES:
1. MENTAL REMOTE PAGE – play with buttons to control Your life: press PAUSE to think before You act, push the REWIND button to return for what You’ve left behind, PLAY to start new life chapter, or RECORD to save the special moments in Your memory.
2. YEARLY GOALS – set Your yearly goals in 6 categories: career, mind, money, body, travels and personal.
3. PLANS BY MONTH – set the most important events of the year in particular months’ fields.
4. MONTHLY GOALS – set the 4 most important goals for this month and write down the little steps to get it!
5. MONTH DIVISION – divide the month at six parts, writing down what should be done or what is going to take place before 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, 25th, 30th day of the month or write down whatever You need.
6. MONTHLY CALENDAR – 35 squares with inspiring quotes for the different days and a personalized symbols legend to mark with them particular days.
7. WEEKLY PAGES – pages to help You organize each day of the week.
8. CREATIVE SIDE OF ME – page ready to be changed into what You feel, You art journal page You can torture with the colours, notes, quotes, own ornamental shape designs based on the suggested one.
9. SHOPPING LIST – set the 6 categories of shoppings You do and fill them with Your lists – always freshed with the changeable sticky notes or written down directly on the page. Just as You like!
10. MONTHLY SUMMARY – sum up the month, evaluating Your monthly goals and plans executions and considering Your life-balance, based on the Wheel of Life coaching tool.
11. MONTHLY HIGHLIGHTS – page to help You remind Yourself the best moments of the month, important whiles that brought something worth to learn from, things You are grateful for, and … check for the rest! ;)
12. YEAR’S HIGHLIGHTS – All Your year in a nutshell! You can also describe it, using the page with YEAR-END REFLECTIONS.
ADDITIONAL PAGES:
- LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE THAT MAKE ME HAPPY – write down the little things that let You wonder, dream, forget about the whole world or simply make You aware of the fact the life’s here and now.
- MY BUCKET LIST
- CREATIVE IDEAS
- THINGS I’D LIKE TO DO
- THINGS I’D LIKE TO HAVE
- PLACES I’D LIKE TO SEE
- QUOTES I LOVE
- BOOKS TO READ
- MOVIES TO WATCH
- WEBSITES and BLOGS I FIND INTERESTING
- ONLINE TOOLS I FIND USEFUL
- PAGES FOR YOUR OWN, PERSONALIZED PURPOSES
- NOTES
‘The Highlights’ printable Life Planner vel Organizer is designed in A5 format, which matches almost all women standard purses’ and bags’ sizes and gives You enough space to plan everything You want. Additional feature is that it is not dated, and You put the number of the days and highlight the month names by yourself, so You can print and use the yearly planner for any year You wish!
It’s been designed to let You print it directly on Your own printer. All You have to do is to:
1) download and print it in colour
2) cut the A4 pages in half and make sure the already numbered pages have the appropriate sequence in Your piece
3) comb bind it with the plastic spring to create a notebook-parameters companion.
That’s all You have to do, to get it for Your personal use. Easy as pie.
If You owe the metal ring binder / organizer / planner already, instead of comb binding the pages, You can put the planner’s pages on the metal rings – it’s up to You how You would like to use it.
For cutting the printed A4 pages in the half and comb binding processes I would strongly recommend to purchase the services of any xero / copy / office accessories points in the place You live.
Printing on Your own in colour would be much cheaper than in such places.
HOW TO PRINT IT?
1. Please make sure You want to print in colour. The black-colour only prints might give You the fuzzy results, overfilling the pages with ugly and unaesthetic background blurries and, depending on the black ink Your printer uses, may cause the horribly dirty stains on Your hands, when You try to write on Your copy of planner. Make sure You print it in colour for the best results, for the light and gentle colours of the background graphics and for the highest level of usability.
2. Make sure You print it in A4 sheet format, both sides of the paper, along the short edge, printing actual size of the file, in landscape orientation (or automatic – the file’s electronic pages are already in landscape orientation and the printers automatically recognize it)
It is absolutely essential to make sure that on one sheet of A4 paper You have 4 pages of A5 format planner (always 2 pages of A5 format per one side of the A4 sheet of paper).
The pages are already numbered and designed the way to fold it after cut in half into a complete, brand new, personalized planner, not engaging You into the processes of counting anything or thinking how to print which pages.
All You have to care about is to make sure You print it in A4 sheet format and to set the printing setup to print both sides of the paper, along the short edge of paper and print the actual size of the file (please DO NOT choose the option ‘scale to fit’, ‘crop to fit’, or ‘fit to page’).
If some of Your devices don’t necessary listen to You (my electronic devices sometimes don’t work for me, it always break down somehow for no reason and refuse to do something for me, even if I am asking them politely – I think it’s just because the electronic devices don’t like me in general) and if Your printer might not want to print both sides of A4 paper, try to print all the odd numbered pages only and after the printer’s finished to print all odd numbered pages, change the sheets’ pile sequence manually - shuffle the sequence as You were counting the printed A4 sheets, so the first page of Your pile will be at the bottom and the bottom page will be at the top of the pile. Then put the shuffled pages’ pile this way to the printer and choose to print ‘even numbered pages only’ to make the printer print the even pages automatically on the plain side of the paper sheets for You. Make sure the bottoms of the A5 pages are always printed according both sides to the same edge of A4 sheet (so the side 'A' of the A4 sheet isn’t upside down according to the 'B' side). Done! :)
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?
WHERE TO GET IT?
A basic version of ‘The Highlights’ life planner I was sharing with You for over three months was absolutely for free. During this time You downloaded it
over seven thousand times from almost all the countries of the World I could only imagine. You sent me hundreds of beautiful emails, gave me constructive feedback, shared plenty of ideas and this way let me improve the free version to the greatest, fully enriched one - available to purchase online
for $7,99 only! Obviously,
once You buy it, You can use it for ANY YEAR or
give its printed copy as a beautiful gift to Your beloved ones.
But this is not over... For those who helped me to hit the tops and for those who
want to buy it online...
I HAVE PREPARED A FEW NICE SURPRISES!
1. What I am grateful for - I prepared
the analytistics of Your downloads, comments summary, word of thanks page to let You
see everything in a glance – Your downloads, chosen opinions, comments and shares – it was
a pure craziness I fell in love with! You can see it HERE.
2. FOREVER FREE 'Weekly Pages' of 'The Highlights' life-planner -
I decided to let You download weekly pages of 'The Highlights' planner for free - forever!
I think it might be especially useful for those who use existing, ring-binding planners - this page will be perfect as an printable insert.
It will be also great for those of You who had downloaded very first free version of a planner before 18th of November 2015 - and thus have a version of 4-weeks system (28 days). I am sure You will find it useful to print and put those pages additionally to have version of 31-days monthly structure - just as it is in complete versions downloaded after 18th of November.
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eparate weekly pages are HERE.
3. Complete, ultimate and buyable version of 'The Highlights', that includes additional pages, and awesome, brand-new features!
You can read about them
HERE or directly purchase full version of a planner below:
SHARING AND EXCHANGING THE POINTS OF VIEW
Please share with me Your personal and constructive opinions about the planner in comments section – I look forward to see what You liked about it most, what would You suggest to add or change. If You’d like to show me the way You use it, You can send the pictures on email or on my personal Facebook profile (I read the ‘other’ messages folder). I will write a post about it, including Your pictures, names and preparing some nice surprises for those, whose pictures will be included in blog post :)
Sending a lot of positive Energy to All of You, Guys! :)
Enjoy the little life moments and keep Your new Yearly companion with You! :)
GALLERY
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