As you might have gathered from an earlier post, I like organisation. But I like it My Way. That's why I've never managed to buy a personal planner and stick with it - the ones that are a nice size have ugly covers, the ones with nice covers have bad layouts, the ones with good layouts are too heavy... at the moment, I actually format my own planner on Word, print it out and stick it into a notebook.
That's why I was really excited when I found out about Personal Planner - you get to put together your own planner, kind of like those "put your kid's name inside a book" books that you get by mail order (I had a great one about dinosaurs). You can:
- design the front and back covers (plain with text, funky pre-fab design or upload your own image)
- pick what goes on each page (columns? to-do lists? gym workouts?).
- add friends' birthdays straight from Facebook
- pick the start date
There are 4 different sizes available, and have elastic enclosures (you pick the colour of course), which I'm really appreciating at the moment - you can jam all sorts of scraps of paper in there and they have no choice but to stay!
To find out more, you can visit Personal Planner's website or Facebook page.
Now for the giveaway!
One lucky Lab Muffin reader will get the opportunity to receive their own self-designed personal planner for free! What you have to do:
- Follow Lab Muffin via GFC
- Like Lab Muffin on Facebook
- Tell me your best organisational tip - my favourite tip wins!
This is open internationally. Don't forget to leave me a way of contacting you if you win! And good luck :)
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I usually am very disorganized, need somenthing to help me, like this personal planner :)
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Make lists for everything! And schedules.
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I love these diaries!
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I have a couple of tips. I use 'compartments' under my bathroom sink, like baskets. I organise them into different categories like hair products, hair removal, sunscreen/insect repellant and so on. It really helps with time management too.
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Never leave things where they don't belong! Over time they'll accumulate and become something like 'that draw of stuff.'
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I love making to-do lists to keep organized. However, I am a major procrastinator which I guess doesn't help my problem. A day-to-day planner to would be super useful to help me keep track of stuff. Thanks!
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Write it down, write it down, write it down. Takes away the stress of remembering and forgetting.... so long as you remember to check where you have written it down! Yes, I see the irony! (Nikki - mysewingcupboard{at}gmail{dot}com
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Hi Lab Muffin! Thank you so much for the cool giveaway, it would be awesome to win!
ReplyDeleteMy tip would be... keep things simple! Have less clutter/stuff in your life to begin with and then it is far easier to organize! ...This applies to everything except nail polish. ;D
Otherwise, I am also a list maker. To-do list, grocery list, goal list... all good!
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