Hello beautiful peeps of YouTube and welcome back to my channel. My name is Kat and you're watching Planning Calm. And here in this channel I love, love, love to share with you all the many ways I can help you plan your way to calm and plan a calmer life. Now in this video I thought I would share with you something that I can ask a lot and I mean a lot on my Instagram. And if you're not following my Instagram I would love for you to follow me there. It's at Planning Calm and check me out also on TikTok at Planning Calm as well where I love to share just some calming planner tidbits, planner organization to help you live a calm life. And I always get asked what is a simple way to plan? I am not a big planner person and I hear Kat I don't like stickers, I hate stickers. That is basically a bottom basic way to plan and I thought I would share with you something a technique that I used years ago to help me plan and it's a simple way. I turn my husband on into it and he loves it a plan. So this is my 50 cent notebook planner system to help you plan a calm life and I'm going to share my system with you. Now this planner that I have here, I got it from the thrift store and it was 50 years ago 50 cents from the thrift store. I believe that it's originally sold at Walmart just because of the brand, standard composition notebook and this book is great. Now I just, I picked it up because I love notebooks. Comment down below if you're a notebook lover like I am and I just bought it because it was 50 cents. I love the cover and most recently I just put my name and the channel on there and yeah I thought I would share with you how I organize it for just simple basic planning for those people who don't like the plan. So here we go. So in this planner I use just a standard pencil, nothing fancy, nothing crazy to help me jot things I need to get jot down. But in here again this is basic basic planning. Now there's no frills here. I will show you my system if you want to see just kind of how I use it. But I just put 2024 here just to let me know what's up. I put a page to indicate the month and then this is how I set it up here. I have almost like a month out of view. So I list all the things in the month that I have to get done that are pressing bills that need to be paid, running things that happen on a weekly basis and so on. I just put that underneath here so I put the month and then all the things that are due. I don't have all the bills that I pay and stuff in this notebook because I do that in my passionate penny-pinsure planner which I'll throw up in a car for you if you want to check out that video and how I set it up as well. But this is just again bottom basic planning for people who don't like to plan. So here I just put the date. So the day which is Monday so that's what the M is for and then one which is the day of the month. And I just jot down pretty much all the things that I have to do that day. Now this takes me literally seconds to do. I just like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, if I have any extra time I'll put down some things on the side. Just things to remind myself, usually reminders in the form of reminders or things that I want to strive towards working on for that week. That goes there. But it has just been a fabulous, quick way to plan not only about all the extras when it comes to planning. This is, like I said, basic planning to help you live a calmer life. My husband uses something similar to this and he loves it as well and he doesn't, he thinks this is too fancy. But for me this is just how I write. This is like my form of chicken scratch, which you know, it's not perfect, but it's not supposed to be perfect. It's just supposed to be bottom basic planning. And so yeah, I just, you know, put again the day so Monday, the eighth of January, Tuesday, Wednesday, the hours for Thursday so I don't mix it up with Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Sometimes I blend it depending on what I have going on. Sometimes I breathe the days again depending on what I have going on. And I tell you it is just basic. Now sometimes I put like a grocery list here, sometimes I'll put the things like I said I have to do on the side and it's just so easy, so easy again, a 50 cent notebook that has changed, like changed the way I've do planning. And I'm a, I've been a planner nerd my whole life. Hashtag planner nerd comment down below if you're a planner nerd as well. All my planner nerd is out there. But again, so simple, so basic. And this system works really, really well if you have to plan on the go, if you have to plan quickly, if you got a lot of things going on, if you're busy mom, a busy, you know, working person, working individual, somebody who hates all the fuss and, you know, the extras when it comes to planning and like paper planning and so on, but you want to jot things down so you know what's up. This is a great system for you. Again, 50 cent notebook that I've turned into a state of there planner that works for me. Now again, you don't have to do it like this. You can set up how you want. You can do whatever you want, whatever works best for you, but it's such a great way to stay organized and organization a key. Now this is, that was January. So now we're moving into February and again, I have my February month, week, week, week, week, week, week, week. Hopefully to do, so all the things that I have to, to do on February or in the month of February, I should say and then in same system. So one, a lot of snowy days here in the Atlantic, Canada and so we had a snow storm, we had a few snow, snow days, which is always fun, and you notice that there's no stickers. There is no extra fluff, there is none of that stuff. just me and my pencil and the dots that you see here are when I accomplish it. I just like to make sure I'm a listar. So comment down below if you're a list or two. Listors get a list. And I like to just make sure I use something to jot it off, dot it off, check it off, what have you to remind myself that I've done the task, but that's it. And today is my husband's birthday. I'm filming on a Saturday. So I just got back from, you know, running around and doing things and stuff. And so I'm getting ready for that. But it is such a great way, a simple way to plan. If you are somebody who wants to be organized, but you don't want all the rigour merole of planning and you just want a simple, basic way to plan. This is not only an inexpensive way to plan, simple way to plan, but it's an effective way to plan. So I always like to show you ways you can simplify your life with common living. And this is definitely fits the bill. A great way to stay on top of things so that you can live a calmer life. So thank you so, so much for watching my friends. If you like this video, don't forget to give it a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe to the channel for more planner content to help you live a calmer life. And until next time, my beautiful friends, take care. Be well. Be blessed. And I'll see you all in the next planner video. Bye. Bye. Planner peeps.