My shameful secret … Planner menty B / personal rings /  

I JUST experienced something similar. I figured out that, for me, simplicity alleviates those feelings. Taking a step back and assessing what do I really need/want? Ignoring expectations. Having a separate place to keep the sentimental items that tend to overwhelm my planner. It's a mental breath of fresh air.

No judgment here, and nothing to be ashamed of! Honestly, I think sometimes we just enjoy the process of looking through all of the things we have collected over the years and re-assembling them just because it is a fun activity that helps de-stress! What I miss most about rings and discs is re-organizing all the "things."

I like everyone else, planner and journal. Every year I want to have one planner. Every year so far I have purchased more, I have 4 this year. Talk about burnout and guilt. Guilt I spent the money so use it and burnout is trying to fill them out and it’s exhausting and confusing. This year I am busting out the personal rings and using inserts I have and printing for free to fill in the gaps. One thing that changed for me this year is I was laid off in May so I dropped everything and scrambled to find employment. I would say do what you want and give yourself grace.

My comfort place is the b6 stalogy. Right now I am again trying to make personal rings work for me. I want personal rings to be my planner peace. But if I’m realistic it isn’t. So I’m struggling to figure it out. You are not alone 🤗

That’s why I have a calendar and my journal. I have so many things I am going through from my youngest autistic daughter turning 20. My eldest daughter is moving out at 26 with my 10 year old grandson. My middle daughter is buying a house with me. But the worst thing is my heart and rheumatoid arthritis is kicking my butt. Other open heart surgery, can’t get out of bed my joints hurts but my major problem is my planner is not working. Everything else is a season but I need my planner and journal to process all my feelings.

I love all the dashboards, pics, and pretty deco - but, I can get overwhelmed with all of it. I have to keep it minimal and functional.

When I get like this I take everything out. Make a list of what I really need and want in my planner. Maybe switch covers. I will even get a couple new inserts and change up my decor a bit and just simplify because I can’t have too much decors in mine. I love it but it overwhelms me. You’re not alone and not crazy. I think we all go through it.

It’s not a waste if you use the paper. The paper is the value. I go simple and reassess and I go back to basics. I also find just changing it up helps. I also find that when I switch a system it takes two full weeks to find out if a system works. To find my groove and find if I truly like or don’t like it.

Thank you for sharing your Stalogy! There’s nothing to be ashamed of! ❤ I cut up an A6 Stalogy and put it in rings. I love the paper so much, and have a Stalogy in rings now!

Commenting before I watch this one just to say I'm always so excited for your videos! You've very quickly become my comfort planner creator and I tend to watch your new videos on repeat until you make another one. Ever relatable (hi, adhd-er here!) and the best thing to have playing while I'm getting in the mood to plan. Just had to say thank you so much for sharing!

You’re not the only one that does this. I’ve been planning for years and have hopped around more times than I remember. I’ve learned it’s only paper and a pen. It doesn’t make people bad even if they waste things. It’s supposed to be an enjoyable hobby not yet another thing that brings stress. I think the problem is the lack of sleep. Personally I get super irritated by everything when I’m exhausted. Just my opinion though. 😬 I found and love your vids recently so whatever you wanna share I’ll watch ❤

Yep! Fellow 'Pause gal here and I often feel like shredding my planner in my GAHHH moments even though my planner has brought me peace. I want to burn everything and start over for seemingly no reason, but I never know what that would look like. So now I carry a companion "ugly" notebook for when I want to crawl out of my skin and do something drastic. I dump everything into it before I make any drastic changes and try and work out what I want, what I need, what it might look like, has it worked in the past, did I like it...and on and on and on. Does it always work? No. But I like to think it helps. There really should be a planner support group for us 'pause ladies😅

I get it. I use planner perfect. I script out my day. Use a journal. Then use my rings for other stuff and also have daily and weeklies. I have an aura Estelle I quit using but have considered taking it apart and using in my rings so I don’t waste it. The struggle is real. One book is hard for most of us.

I had just told my hubby yesterday tht your planner caused me a lot of anxiety but tht I loved how you found planner peace in your madness. ... and here we are today. Lmao. I have a very clean planner myself but also my handwriting is very neat. Ive kept the same system for about 9 yrs. I'm not a planner hopper. Lol. I think you might just need a refresher and a new set up, maybe even your paper. I'd love to see your progress. Love your honesty ❤️

Hello! I've seen your other videos and now this one and I'm trying to help. I keep several books, one for each purpose. I cannot stand the mix of topics on the same book. I have like 6 different ones but 2 are maintained daily (the finances/appointments and the other for medical tracking). In your case, I think it could be overwhelming having multiple. I think you need 1 planner and 1 journal. If you want the chunky book instead of 2 different ones, split one into 2 parts but make it clear with different color of paper or something that marks the splits so you can keep crossing out the must dos. You can have a bound notebook slipped into the cover of that rings book. The planner for you to see the MUST DOs. This one should be simple in your case. No pictures, no deco... so it doesn't feel overwhelming and helps you get things done. It needs to be all pre-set with dates and time. I think it's risky to fall into chaos on the must dos because that unbalances the rest. Don't take pages off or anything. It should be a bound notebook in my opinion, no rings (not flexible, no cheating). The journal, with no setup... just write whatever comes to mind and even add deco and pictures. I have this and having conversations with myself helped a lot. Trackers are journaling, not planners. It's not a problem missing a tracker, it's a problem to miss out deadlines, appointments... planned stuff. Hope my POV helps. Best luck!

I would definitely burn it to the ground and really sit down and dig into what you really want in a planner and how you like to do things. I wouldn't judge yourself over it. Make it a fun discovery of sorts and then have fun making your new system. I also spotted a page in there where you'd noted some tarot cards that stood out to me. It said 'Hermit in reverse, the Sun, High Priestess' that kind of points toward the same thing. At least to me it spelled 'Step out of your comfort zone, shine a light on things and dig into it to figure things out' 🙂

I personally am not attracted to rings in the slightest, and I love the stalogys 😊. My fav is a6 but i jump between a6 and b6.

This is part of why it’s good to not pre-fill too far into planners or notebooks. If you want to change your layout the next month, it’s easier when it’s not already written in. I’ve had the feeling you’re going through for a while. I’m going to do a rolling weekly / Alastair method Bujo, so far that’s stuck the longest. But I still watch planning videos! Haha

Hi Beverly! I love your videos. Thank you for sharing. I've tried bound books, disc bound, and rings, all sizes, over the years just because I'm curious. And I've enjoyed them all at different times and for different reasons. Currently, I'm in an FCC size ring agenda for planning, and I've been loving using a B6 Stalogy as my journal for a few years now. My planner is minimal with beautiful dashboards that I change from time to time, many of which I create myself. But mostly, I get my creative energy out on paper in my Stalogy. I think that when you feel a need to change, you should. Sometimes changing the cover is enough and other times a complete overhaul is imperative. Go with it and enjoy the process of creativity and discovery that helps you to evolve and grow too. ❤

Hang in there Beverly. Do whatever you want to do. Mental health and just too many choices out there too. We need to figure out what size and things we need. Enjoying watching how you figured out the paper choice you prefer. ❤. Happy Planning always.

First, I have been there a lot! I have similar issues and sometimes it’s not the planner as much as my life. However, one thing that helps me is to go through my planner and note what things I still like and that are working well. Sometimes it’s a small thing that just needs tweaked. And sometimes what I’m doing just doesn’t match my life and it does need overhauled.

I am so glad I am not the only one that just realizes I hate it and then I go searching and trying others 😵‍💫🤔🥰 decided to go back to simplicity. Just a monthly to add appointments and meeting and using the extra notepads for lists! ❤ I also journal and memory keep so I want the processes to be simple 🥰

I recently had an overwhelming feeling about my planning/journaling and just had to “down-size” to a minimalist system. I thought I had an easy system before but found I had been adding stuff which after going through and doing my down-size I saw that I was trying stuff but it was just cluttering things for myself which was making my mind cluttered and unhappy. For me, simple and streamline just works so much better for me.

As much as I love the deco and pics and stuff. I can’t have all that stuff in my rings. It’s too much and clutters my mind. I can have a small bit for dividing like vellum but not all the things. But I love flipping thru the things. So I setting up a separate rings for that just for the relaxing comforting flips. I’ll be sharing soon well setting up on a video but I’m excited. Gives me the best of both worlds.

I’m so much right with you. I have the need to figure out how to make my planner work for me. I cannot seem to get what I need right if I get the data I hate the layout and vice versa. I want to do a calendar and an Omni journal but no one needs to see my mess while I’m trying to plan I can’t carry my emotional processing with me everywhere it gets ugly

Went through the same thing. Went from a5 to b6, also went from rings to stology type. Now have peace with everything in one book. So i do a new book a month and am loveing it!!!

This makes complete sense to me and it doesn’t sound crazy - but it feels crazy. When I am not in my rings I feel like I am not being true to myself…it’s weird, I know but this is me processing it and telling you how it feels for me. I venture off for a day or two, maybe even a week, away from my rings but I always always end up back in them. I have yet to find another system that feels right or fits my brain. Glad you shared the video!

It must be something in the air. After about 3 years of being in my personal and it working, I moved to an A5 at the weekend. Just felt the need.

Bev, I’m right in the middle of my own menty B! My personal rings I think has just gotten too big. It doesn’t help that most of my pages are 32# paper. I need to at least move to 24#. However, my crisis has just resulted in me buying a b6 stalogy and a Hobo weeks mega. I’m going to just keep appointments in my hobo for now and have a simple planner. The stalogy will hold ToDo list and anything else that truly needs keeping up with. I just need a break, change and to calm my mind from too much stuff. Goodbye One Book July. I feel zero guilt….just searching for what I need right now. Thank you for sharing…..I’m not alone now.❤

I’ve planner hopped month to month for years. End of March I moved into personal rings and I’ve actually stuck to them. I have ADHD and your videos really helped me figure out how to make rings functional for me . Hopefully you figure it out but your rings were so functional so maybe you need to have a reset and just see what you need and don’t need. 💙💙

I wish stalogy would sell their paper unbound, that would just be so convenient lol. I feel you on feeling like it's too much and being anxious over it. That's kinda how I was feeling prior to June and now I'm only just starting to think about opening mine back up again and getting it ready for August.

It's funny because I saved your video to watch later and them 7 days later I am here watching while I am in the middle of my own planner crises. For me it was the paper and the dot grided printing I was using and now I'm changing things up and feeling a little less overwhelmed 🎉

Girl, you are amongst your people!! I’m only 3 mins into the video but I can totally relate to this! ❤

I have been there so many times! But I like to hop from size to size and keep a monthly in all of my different sizes i switch to. Thank u for sharing the “crazy”. Lol

Hi!! Don't feel bad i am like that too I want to stay in one planner the entire year but i haven't been able to. i get so anxious about that and i feel overwhelmed .It is a horrible feeling . However I am trying to do whatever i feel at the moment and stop thinking of the reason why i can't stay in one place. There is nothing to feel ashamed of . right now i am using an a6 mottern cover for stalogy but i put rings and i "created " my own size which is personal size inserts downsized 91% and i am loving it ...not too sure for how long tho (because my mind plays tricks all the time abou this ) when i don't like anymore then i will try something else

I have adhd, depression and anxiety too. Thank you for your inspirational videos ❤️ i have 3 planners. You're not crazy. It's okay!!!❤

I live the stayology but I need sections and the a5 size is perfect so maybe cut the binding off and throw it in an A5 rings....I would leave the dash boards blank so you can add new stickers as you go. At least that's what I am trying to do

I totally relate to this video. I currently hate my planner system and I am not using it. I don’t know what is wrong with me

This happens to me all the time! I totally feel ya!

No shame in an emergency planner detox or new experiments! Hoping you feel better about your setup soon 🥰

I wish that Stalogy sold loose sheets. Which paper is better, Kukuyo or Tomoe River? The last planner I dropped like a bad habit was my Moterm personal with FCC inserts. It was ok, until it wasn’t. When I’m done, I’m done. Been in Franklin classic and an LV pocket since then. You aren’t crazy and you’re definitely NOT alone. You’ll figure it out.

I didn't read the title. I just saw your name and got excited. I think you should ride it out. I wonder if this is anxiety of trying to do onebookjuly. I wonder if trying to put yourself in a box you just pound on the lid to get out, even though the lid was never latched. I love your videos.

I love your videos. Thank you for sharing. I am also going through something similar and this helped 😊

It's like breaking up with your boyfriend it's not you it's me situation the best I can advise is go back to the bare bones of what you need to function don't burn the house down and be kind to yourself we have all been there ❤❤❤❤❤

My bet is hormones , I went through that hating everything about everything for no reason!

I think that you need a Scrapbook not a planner. With all the crap in there, no wonder you have anxiety. A planner should have mostly planning papers and a few embellishments, not the other way around.