I love learning about other people’s planner systems and peeking on their pages on Instagram so I wanted to add to the planner universe and show what I’ll be using in 2021.

A lot of this is an evolution from years past.

So first you should probably check out my 2020 planner post. And my 2019 planner post. And my peek into the 2021 Hobonichi here. Because I’m going to refer back to all of those.

On New Year’s Day I had a marathon planner session. First I had to assemble alllll my new washi I bought before the holidays to make some free shipping limits. lol

I collected all the stickers and post-its and notepads so I could fully see what I had to work with and what was going to work in 2021.

I put together a little combo vision board/ kanban board. I tried the full on Sarra Cannon kanban board method in years past (discussed here) but in 2021 that type of kanban didn’t feel right to me.

First of all, after taking a Better Faster course this fall, I decided to focus on my goal setting on a shorter time period than a quarter. I’m adopting a monthly schedule for goals and when I select those, I’m simply going to write them on my vision-kanban board (above) so I can see them out in front of me and then check them off when I complete those tasks.

I re-ordered the Sessa Vee inserts for my Louis Vuitton MM agenda and this will be my social media/ newsletter planner. Above, you’ll see that I’ve highlighted the days my Inner Circle Newsletter will be sent out. (Not in the Inner Circle yet? Sign up here.)

What I love best about the Hobonichi Cousin is the inclusion of the monthly, weekly, and daily pages. The daily pages I use for my morning journal/ morning pages. I’ve been reading a few pages of Seth Godin’s The Practice every morning before I journal and I thought it was funny that this quote showed up on January 1, the day that I was setting up my agenda.

The evolution of the HB90 method for me is going to be coming up with monthly goals instead of quarterly goals, like I said before. And I’m using these blank pages to write those down in my planner and then again, I’m putting them on my habit tracker pages., so I can remember them as I enter my habits each day. (See an example of the habit tracker pages on this post.)

Also last year’s system for recording books, media and DNF’s worked so well I’m doing that again.

I loved the in-planner kanban board that I did last year so much, I did it again this year, using the empty December month and some fancy washi and stickers to transform the page. I’m using these peach plastic page flags to mark my repeating personal tasks that I wanted to prioritize on a monthly basis.

Here’s what’s in each:
Louis Vuitton MM Agenda: social media/ newsletter planner
Louis Vuitton Couv Carnet: Hobonichi Cousin - ALLLLL of the things.
Louis Vuitton Desk Agenda: professional notes in a notebook
Louis Vuitton Desk Agenda: personal/ spiritual development w/ discs

So… that’s mostly it! (I may have a few extra notebooks floating around. I am a writer after all. I have to scribble stuff down!) A lot has been carried forward from last year and I feel good about that because that means I know what works for me and that it did work for me - even in the weirdest, least-planner-y year ever.. The tweaks and changes I’ve made are ways that I can improve upon the system and that’s kind of the goal for my year, I guess. I’ll be blogging soon about my word of the year and how that’s impacting all this ^^^ planning.

If you’re into planners and love to sneak more peeks, make sure you follow me on Instagram because one of my New Year’s resolutions is to share more planner pics there. I love that community and it’s a beautiful little spot in a distracting, often disturbing real world.

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