3 ways to organize your life and your time with an erin condren planner

​Listen up, y’all: I’m about to share with you how you can get your life and your time organized using the Erin Condren Life Planner!  I love using an old-school paper planner to write down and organize all the things going on in my life. I've been using a paper planner since 1989 and yes: I do keep all my old ones.  

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​Want to see how to use the Erin Condren Life Planner to get organized?  Read on, my friend!

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#1 Use your erin condren life planner to set-up your appointments
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Take it from a Professional Organizer: ​the trick to organizing your life and your time is to PLAN AHEAD.  Y'all know that I am a huge proponent of having a weekly routine to organize your whole week in advance.  I sit down on Saturday or Sunday each week and lay out the entire week ahead.  

My advice for what to do with that gorgeous Erin Condren LifePlanner:

• Set aside a time on the weekend to write in all of your work, school and work-out commitments. 
• Use my free printable Weekly Routine Checklist to make sure you've accounted for all the things.

​Related articles:
How I Created a Weekly Routine That Works for our Family
With free Weekly Family Routine Checklist

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#2 what i love about the erin condren planner
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• You can choose whatever layout works for you!  Each Erin Condren Life Planner is fully customizable so you have control over what your planner looks like. 
• Look at this ridiculous Luxe planner! If this doesn't make you swoon, then there is something wrong with you. 
• It is so pretty, but there are adult designs too, so you don't look like a sorority girl. (no disrespect to  my Greek sistahs out there). 
• I use my planner to organize my life, but also as a scrapbook.  I tape in business cards from restaurants I've visited, little scraps of wrapping paper, and ticket stubs from events I've gone to. 

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#3 organize your meal plan and grocery list in your planner too.
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​As much as I love pretty notepads, it gets to be too much for me to have to keep track of where everything is.  That's another thing I love about the Erin Condren Life Planner: you can snap accessories right into your planner!
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I plan out all the meals for our family on Sundays when I'm doing the rest of the scheduling. I look at the events we have going on that week and then sketch out a plan.  I love that if this is how you roll, you can 

• Snap in a grocery list
• Snap in aMeal Planner.

​Brilliance, right?!?!

Use your paper planner to organize your life, yo!

Paper planners are awesome!  I honestly can't get through my day without consulting my Erin Condren LifePlanner .  

Do you use a paper planner?!  What is your favorite thing about it? Let's hear what you have to say in the comments section!

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