My 2024 word of the year
Let's talk word of the year!
- What is a word of the year?
- Why to choose one
- How to choose one
- My word of the year
With bonus shire horse metaphor.
Welcome to Spacious Planning
I created this site because I want to talk about planners (and notebooks, and stationery, and journaling, and productivity, and goals, and personal growth, and probably other things I haven't even thought of yet).
You can also find me on YouTube.
My 2024 planner stack
A quick video running through my 2024 planner stack. What did I do in 2023, what worked (and what didn't), and what am I shifting to in 2024?
Includes my rather emotional goodbye to my Erin Condren Compact Vertical: thanks little planner, you got me through a house move and some fairly stressful weeks at work!
Goal planning: Part 2 - If goal planning doesn't work for us, how do we effect change?
Back in October I recorded an off-the-cuff video explaining how I struggle with goal planning, and wrote a short blog post summarising it: Goal planning: Part 1 - Why is it a struggle?. I got a bunch of great responses, and also did some extensive research (I asked Google and ChatGPT). This post and video is a follow-up. It looks at a few possible reasons for goal planning being a struggle, and suggests some next steps to try.
My thanks to Kate helping clarify the key question: if conventional goal planning doesn't work for us, how do we effect change in our lives?
What I'm NOT buying for 2024
A list of planners I'm NOT buying for 2024. Including the ones I really wanted to get. This is mostly a not-so-humblebrag, shamelessly seeking praise for my self-restraint. I go through some that very nearly made it into my 2024 stack, ones that weren't ever that close but that I'd love to try, and then a couple of entire categories I'm skipping (and why).
Clipboard folio as commonplace book
A quick look at using a clipboard as a commonplace book, including:
- What is a commonplace book?
- What I've done in the past
- How I'll use the clipboard
Sprouted Planner 2024
I just got a large Sprouted Planner order! In this post, I will share what I got (spoiler: four planners and a notepad) and how I plan to use them in 2024.
Goal planning: Part 1 - Why is it a struggle?
I recently recorded an off-the-cuff video explaining how I struggle with goal planning. This post contains that video, and a brief summary. I plan to follow up with a part 2 that covers some of the responses I got, and maybe (if I'm feeling brave) a part 3 where I set up a type of goal planning for 2024.
Not a review
This was meant to be a planner review.
Instead: here's why I won't be doing (many) reviews. And how incredibly hard, and wonderfully liberating, it is to do something purely for fun.
Letting go of planner perfectionism when choosing your planner
When the prep work on choosing your planner goes too far, and starts stressing you out, it's time to let go of the perfectionism.
There's a much shorter version of this post, with bonus cat: