How to start BIWEEKLY PLANNING 

It was really nice and helpful to see someone who works a 9-5 job plan their time. I find many planners are content creators and their work /life schedules (time management) are so far removed from my reality that it isn't helpful. So thank you so much for the content you do. I can't wait to take a biweekly look at my schedule! 😊

I design my own laminated 8wk cleaning rota. There's daily tasks & normal cleaning that get highlighted. I set a timer for ½ hr then get to it. When the timer goes off, i migrate the other tasks to the next week. Deep clean tasks on 1 day, again for ½ hr. Weekend's are the normal daliy tasks and ironing. I created 12 week cleaning rota for my mother as well, that works for her huge house. Friends system: I have contact (phone, text, song or a coffee) a friend once per week. That covers over 7 wks. Beauty regime system: this rotas over 4 weeks. Manicure (biweekly), Pedicure (once a month), Eyebrow/lashing tint, brow wax (once a month). All this is on my google calendar, so when I'm using my paper planner, the mental work has already been done. Xxx

I have ADHD, I think this will help me not forget important tasks and projects (yes I will forget an ENITRE project). I just spent 2 hours working on this. I couldn’t do the post-its though. My ADHD wouldn’t allow me. 😂. I did a vertical monthly schedule, bujo style. Left column for AM, right column for PM. I feel accomplished. Now I just need to actually execute everything. 😅

I can’t wait to see your channel grow exponentially. Your content is so theory based that it’s easy to apply and make it work for me.

I’d like to hear more about your RADAR meetings with partner. I have a family of 4 and tried to do the family meeting because I felt overwhelmed trying to juggle everyone’s schedule. Everyone ended up hating it - including me (because it was met with so much resistance and I wasn’t “doing it right”) - that we don’t even have them anymore. I’m lucky if we talk a total of 3 hours in a week or 2

The “wanna be organized” part of me is living vicariously through you 😂

OMG as someone who works 8-5 and goes to school this makes SO MUCH SENSE!!!

Something others may want to add to this, particularly if you have a house which has more stuff in it that needs taking care of, is to expand even further into seasonal planning of infrequent chores. I have landed on a 2monthly schedule for certain tasks, some which occur annually or biannually (like washing our winter blankets or cleaning the aircon filters) and some which are just on a weird schedule like 6-8 weeks (cleaning and descaling washing machine, sharpening knives) Running a household and not forgetting important maintenance is HARD (especially on top of full time work and having kids, no wonder I watch planning videos for fun 😂) and this schedule has helped me for years, highly recommend. Each month I check it, and have a 'monthly' to do list, and I'll get each thing done gradually over the 4-5 weekends each month.

I love how you talk about time in your videos...as someone who is in a very different season of life, I still find myself trying to find time for everything and your techniques are so extremely helpful. Thanks for sharing such relatable planner content!! ❤

This saved me from so much anxiety and feeling like I dont have enough time in a day... Thank you for reminding us that we can do some things every other week or once a month! Now I feel like I actually have time to tackle everything and still spend time on myself and with loved ones.

This is kinda how I’ve planned my life out mentally and it does feel like living with ease compared to the other methods I’ve tried. It also matches the length of my short term memory really well.

Simple hack=The Daily 3…1 load of laundry, 1 load of dishes, 1 pickup session 10 min✨I run DW every night, I put in a load of wash most mornings, and pickup/tidy the house with a 10 minute timer after dinner. This takes the stress and planning out of most days‼️❤️✨

To be honest when you placed the notes on the monthly calendar, I got some sort of anxiety…but it got better when you placed them in the weekly calendar, cause it didnt seem so crowded and did show that there would be ore time in the day. Thanks for the video. I will try this method and see how it works for me.

Lovely video, I love how you share the process with specific examples of how it fits into your life and what that looks like. Super helpful, thank you ! Woud love to hear about your "radar" process in the future :)

I love your channel! Concrete planner ideas like these are golden. I will definitely try planing on a biweekly basis. If you have any advice on how to utilise a planner while being on sick-leave or while not working, I would love a video on that too. Thank you for great content 🥰

I have the opposite problem of most in my life right now (I am off work over the summer). I don't have much I HAVE to do in the month, but I think this will be useful for me to make myself schedule the projects and house renos I want to do. I think when I try to schedule that stuff on a weekly basis I get overwhelmed by choice. Maybe thinking in two week or monthly blocks will help! Thanks for this.

This is absolutely brilliant. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing. I’ve been feeling the need to move some tasks to biweekly and taking a closer look at my schedule a couple weeks at a time. I really appreciate how you broke it all down and walked us through your process. 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

I love flexible planning with sticky notes. The kanban board in a planner is a good possibility not to get overwhelmed. Thank you for your great work! Greatings from Germany, Ana mit Jot 💝

I love the real tangible examples you give. Great video.

I love the simplicity of this idea! I bought a monthly calendar two months ago and I haven't even used it yet bc I haven't figured out how I want to make it work for me and my family. But this is going to be perfect.

Love this concept ❤ I recently resigned from my full time teaching job and felt overwhelmed with all this free time I ended up wasting it doing nothing. This inspires me to get everything together and sort my time again.

this is as busy as the weeklys 😂 I admire your discipline!

This was great! I love a new way to look at my planning routine especially as the season changes and my schedule changes with it. It really helped me look at my whole life and not just all the work obligations. Thanks for sharing! Always enjoy your content. I used an undated monthly to plan out my ideal month / bi-weekly schedule… worked great!

I absolutely love this and it is something I need right now in my busy life. Seeing the bigger picture of the month, and being able to move things around, allowing “free space” (wow, what a concept, right?), knowing we need that too, is a great reminder. Perfect timing for me. Thank you! I really enjoy your channel!

I’ve been looking on a good weekly planner. This is what’s going to work with me. Oh! Girl you’re amazing. This video is so modern… So genius!!! Thank you so much for sharing!!!

I love this. I work a flexible job where the hours change throughout the year. On top of that I have significant volunteer responsibilities and eldercare. One moth has always felt too long and a week too short and inflexible because everything moves around so much and I am only in the office some weeks. I am going to try this and line it up with my work pay-periods so I can feel that over the course of those two weeks I have worked what I need to without worrying about hitting exactly 20 hours in every given week since, with few exceptions, work doesn't need care and it helps me to stay on track..

I can't wait to try this! I've been really burning myself out and doing this method will (hopefully) help me with actually doing things instead of just saying "meh I'm too tired"!

Love this! just made my own schedule and i love seeing how everything i wanna address is in the schedule :D Great work Rachelle

I'm just sitting here binging your videos today. Man, I wish I had these videos when I first started getting more into planning.

I'm a bullet journal user but your hobonichi contents are so interesting and also inspiring. Especially I love this biweekly idea with sticky notes :D

i might try to apply this to my planning as a full-time student, i have to look ahead so much so that i don't reach a certain week and realize i don't have enough time to complete everything. also love ur content :)

I love this idea! Going to give it a try!!

This seems great. I definitely want to try it!

I was sold on the biweekly idea back in your distraction method vid where you shared work plans in sprints. That unlocked analog planning for me!

Love this! Also recognize this pattern in myself where the next step is back to the hobonichi weeks. :) I think I want a vertical weekly view, but really it just makes me think I have more time than I actually do.

This video was great, can't wait to get my first hobonichi weeks and try this out!

So happy I found your channel!❤

Game-changer. So helpful Rachelle.

Your good shuffle work and consideration was good to see. I need more things i directly do with other people not just groups so it’s easier to set things that don’t move. To much of my calendar can move which makes it harder.

I love this idea!

Breathing room is so important. Watching this I realised I intuitively do something in between a weekly and a biweekly: a very casual 10-day view of my time so that I have a general/tentative idea of the following week, especially regarding work since I freelance/work on contract. (And thanks, again, for another video drawn from your own experiences and usage, showing us Rachelle-in-theory...in practice.)

I absolutely love this idea! As I'm in the process of a planner reset in preparation for August, now's a good a time as any to give this a shot. Btw, I remember there was a video from earlier in the year where you'd talked about planning your functionality first, THEN decorating. Well, I did that for a couple of weeks, then got back to decorating first, and found myself in planner overwhelm. Woops! lol I've found my planner peace again though, and I'm definitely becoming more of a functional planner!

Absolutely genius thank you so so much

Oh to change the sheets as a reminder just add an alarm in your phone. Mine is every Sunday … Chang Sheets. So you eliminate those simple chores from your card system. Just keep it simple. I also use Google Calendar to post appointments. You have the same view as your planner and really view it very quickly.. You can duplicate the events very easy making the time you spend writing ,posting and editing shorter. I try to complement the card system with the electronic calendar. Use the cell phone alarm like an alert to go grab your supplements -- don’t skip those.

Hey! I've dabbled with this before. I just don't like weekly planning, by the time I have a week layed out and ideas filled in I have to start it all over again. I figured changing the scope might help reduce the stress of that turn around time.

Just had this video show up as a suggestion this morning. I really appreciated it and will be subscribing. Love the idea of the sticky notes and moving them around. We are empty nesters and self-employed. We have an Amish taxi service, which can be very unpredictable making scheduling hard, but I think this idea will help greatly. Looking forward to using it. In a way of reminds me of a kanban board. I am curious as to what an everything shower is. 😊

I would love to see what your RADAR meetings include!

This video shows me that I am not alone... My life feels crazy and I always feel like I'm doing something wrong but this video and other videos you have done just prove that life is naturally crazy and we sometimes don't get it done get it right so thank you... Going to try this next

sweet. i'm working on an overhaul of my rhythms and 2-week sprints will work nicely! i haven't incorperated before at home - we live them at work - it will fit some long term goal steps.

Great video! Full of good ideas….

I love how you use “enshrined” when setting aside time. It’s such a small thing but that word brings an added weight and value to those buckets. Like, I know laundry has to get done, but “enshrining” time for it puts extra value on it even though it’s not super glamorous. It makes me feel better about the time I take there, because it really is important in the long run and will set me up for success for other stuff, so it’s worth the time and energy. In a similar way, what tasks am I tempted to enshrine that aren’t actually that valuable to me or worth putting on that pedestal? Can I take them out or move them to monthly/quarterly tasks instead? Anyway. Just a little thing I noticed as I’ve been binge-ing your content this week. Love what you bring to the table and keep it up! 😊

This is an amazing idea! I really want to try it!

I love this! My husband works swing shifts that include weekends and often takes on a bi-weekly somewhat predictable rhythm, so ideal weeklies has never really worked for us and I found bi-weekly to be more fitting to our lives.

I really enjoy this idea. I am a daily planner & make a brain dum at the beginning of each month & va smaller one at the beginning of each week. I will implement this for August and see how I enjoy it, Thanks for sharing

my experience: if everything is grouped in 4 groups (1. chores & maintenance & the admin of life, 2. selfcare & sports & relaxing, 3 people & freetime activities and 4. project, sidehustle, growth, education) >> per week it is possible to do 2 and a half of the 4 (62,5% of all 4). Each week i prioritize which of the 4 groups gets resources, i cant do 100% of all 4 categories each week, only about 62,5% or 2 and a half, e.g. half chores, half relax, half people and 1 and a half projects. important: half selfcare is usually not negotiable (the body demands breaks), so who allocates two halfs to dilligently do all chores and two halfs people every week, reaches the limit of 2 and a half and will never get around to do category 4 (projects, sidehustle, growth, education). that's why i look at the (few!) events already scheduled for the week, (i dont do fix weekly appointments!) and the things that need attention that week (eg car repair), and prioritize which categories get resources in one week and which ones have to be reduced until another week. with this rough compass I can be flexible during the week and make sure that all categories get their fair share of resources over the course of a couple of weeks. i get a lot of projects done this way. hope i explained it clearly enough, any questions ask. important: my example is without kids.

Thank you!!!

Been watching your vids consistenly, althought its not planner/stationary focus like many people in the youtube comunity, I've really enjoyed the productivity content

Wow!!! This is amazing. I’ve been tracking/scheduling only on my monthly because my work schedule is so chaotic I needed to see where I could fit in major chores/tasks while caring for my newborn. Instead of scheduling a to do list of 10 things (never obtainable) everyday I’m off. This idea seems SO MANAGEABLE and something I definitely am going to try!!!

Awesome 🎉❤

Hi Rachelle! Woild you mind explaining the difference between RADAR meetings and couple meetings? I'm confused there. Thanks!

I love the separation of things that need to be done and time expected. I was wondering if you could schedule a couple of things at a time. For example doing a load of washing while preparing a meal. You know how long a load takes. Maybe plan it for after the gym or when you are writing in your journal. Basically, I’m thinking that if you put a load on and do something else important to you, it will be a habit. Folding and or putting the washing away will feel less of a chore because at best it’s only 10 minutes of work. Is a house cleaner worth paying for to come in once a fortnight? 4 hours housework seems excessive shared between the two of you. He’d have to do it if he lived alone. Keep up the great work.

27:34 my husband calls this phenomenon “friendship maintenance”!

Thank you for always having such intentional information

I really love this idea and I love how much of your personal plan you shared and showed off to all of us. What's an "everything shower"? I don't know yet how to translate this kind of planning into my own life but I do think this food for thought will help me, it's planted a seed that will grow... I've already been trying to tell myself certain things might be only once per every 3 weeks and that's okay and doing some kind of 3 week routine, within a 12 week year system (based on that 12 Week Year book sorta kinda, but majorly adjusted for ADHD and the complexities of self-employment etc etc).

Great content. Liked and subscribed!😍

The best segway I found with Time management is as mentioned in another Blog you did is Time what you do (or not do) find the dead space and the places where you actually fall down, for some this migh be sheduling a space for Gymn but also looking for a Gymn that not on the other side of town that take 45 minutes to drive to and has poor parking. I changed to a gymn that a bit more expensive, but I can walk to from my apartment, and is 24/7. I also removed all my social media from my phone and that included you tube and instagram. (I still have it on my desktop) I use my iPad specifically for clients and workshops, but I also have several hand written books and the like to brainstorm with post in tones on whiteboards with clients for direction and future focusing and the 3 year plan thing we do. I stopped some of my work and study at home, I walk to my gym then have client meet ups and study in the cafe in my area. Because its central and I can do a few things at once and I am in the space I don't get side tracked byt not doing things at home (Snacks and procrastinating)

I like this

Can you tell us more about radar and couple meeting? How does it work and do you feel it helps?

I have made a biweekly planner out of a blank notebook that is one week per page all throughout the book, mostly because I like looking ahead without getting overwhelmed. First time I'm doing that this year so I'm curious to see how it will work!

This was great! Moveable post it tabs🤦‍♀️🤯lol

I would LOVE to know what you think of Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies

I love love love everything about this, and the pragmatic real talk of your channel. I’m trying to think of a word that isn’t “sprint” to use for this cadence….. too bad fortnight is sorta taken 😂

Do you know of any existing planners with a biweekly layout? I haven’t come across any but love the idea!

The other day I was thinking maybe I should do theme days and not have to plan specific tasks for each day. So I wrote out the themes and whoops it was more than 7 😬 so kinda feel I have to spread them over two weeks.

The biweekly and your sprint cut up is definitely migrating into my planning slowly. Have you ever tried that book flip flat open on your common planner?

For this layout, I felt confusing. Would it better if you put all biweekly include social media plan in list with color tags and put the color tags in monthly Hobo ? The rest is for monthly chores (utilities etc). So you can get a quick glance everything in monthly layout.

Still super busy. I would also think of out sourcing deep cleaning twice a month and hire someone.

Please do a video on the mastermind

What about todo task? Also it appears that you have 2 items a week. What do you do if you have 5 items a day?

Yeah, I've tried this many times before in many ways. Every one of my weeks gets blown up within the first two days so now I just walk into every week of life and wait for the F*ckening to occur. Cause it's gonna. But glad it works for others

What was the everything shower

Wow this is still way too overwhelming. However I understand it's her life schedule. I'm just so impressed that she can actually get this much done.

Can you please recommend a B6 size planner (A6 is too small and A5 seems too big) that has both monthly, weekly vertical, and has good paper for fountain pens?

What is an "everything shower"?

…what is an everything shower?

It looks the same as Google calendar ?

What is an everything shower?

Are you still doing this? I like the idea.

Just do a load a day, quick and easy

Trying to figure out if biweekly is 1/2 a week or a fortnight?

In addition, what is an “everything shower”?

**** e n s h r i n e d ****😌

Very interesting and helpful - but I still think you should SLOW DOWN AND BREATHE!! 🧘‍♂️ 😊

Love ya to death but I cringed just watching the Ideal Week video. I would DIE with all of that on my calendar. However, the important thing to remember is it's just that: an "ideal".

BIMONTHLY 😬

work on eliminating your vocal fry

Starts at 14:00. The first 14 mins are a waste of time