Planner Perfect: A Fresh Idea on Organizing Your Life
Posted by Carlie | 42 comments
Congratulations to Courtney, Ariana, Pamela Jorrick, Hillary M, and Bethany LeBedz!!
*Please note: We hosted a Planner Perfect giveaway a couple of weeks ago but the comments on the post were lost. If you entered that giveaway, please go ahead and re-enter on this post.
If you are anything like me, life works out much better when it is scripted. “Then the LORD answered me and said: ‘Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it’.” (Habakkuk 2:20) I have found this scripture to be of great importance; reminding me to prayerfully write things down rather than trying to remember everything on my own. Because of the importance of staying organized as a stay-at-home homeschooling mother, using planners has been a wonderful and necessary tool in my life.
Does this describe you? If so, then I have the perfect resource to recommend you!
Recently I had the honor to review the eBook, Planner Perfect: A Fresh Idea on Organizing Your Life by Jenny Penton. The Planner Perfect is unlike any planner that I have ever used in the past. It is truly a breath of fresh air that I know will help me out with planning many wonderful thins to come in the new year. It is well written, well organized, keeps God at the center of your planning, and very simple to understand. The beautiful thing about Jenny’s eBook is that it teaches you how to become a master life planner, taking control of your own scheduling, rather than being held captive by your schedule.
The story behind the concept is absolutely heartwarming. Jenny has fashioned the planner around the influence of her precious Proverbs 31 mother and the example she modeled while Jenny was growing up. Rather than the typical “task manager” planning, the Planner Perfect is a place where you create your life and can dream up new things birthed in freedom, rather than being tied down by an impossible to-do-list.
One of my favorite things about the Planner Perfect approach to goal setting is the simple fact that it is more about dreaming and living life than about the legalistic aspect of making lists to “check” off. While lists do serve their purpose, the Planner Perfect gives you a whole new understanding about the importance of not overbooking yourself and family. This new “mindset” will help anyone who has been giving their calendar too much control in their life plans.
Some of the many wonderful topics this fabulous eBook covers are:
- creating a space of your own
- secrets to why we can’t stay organized
- the role of your calendar
- daily and monthly pages
- organizing and exploring your strengths and talents
- organizing your wardrobe
- party planning
- vacations
- emotional and physical health
- keeping your home clean
- meal planning
- holiday’s and special occasions
- aspiring for more
I would highly recommend purchasing this eBook if you want a fresh and exciting new start to your life planning. I love the way Jenny teaches us to become the master of our own life planning accompanied with living life, accomplishing goals, creating and accomplishing dreams, and above all else; living a life pleasing to God.
You can purchase Jenny Penton’s ebook here: Planner Perfect: A Fresh Idea on Organizing Your Life.
We have FIVE copies of Jenny’s planner to give away! To enter, simply leave a comment on this post. The giveaway will remain open until Wednesday 2/8 at 10pm EST. If you are reading this on Facebook, please note that you must enter your comment on the original blog post on our website.
Carlie has been blissfully married to the love of her life, Michael, since June of 2000. She has been a stay-at-home homeschoolin’ mama to their 3 children since 2001. Carlie currently resides with her family in Germany courtesy of the US Army. You can read about her homeschooling adventures and Christian faith at her blog: So You Call Yourself A Homeschooler?
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I’d love to win this. Thanks for the opportunity!
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OH!!!! i woke up this morning thinking I need something along this line! I’m looking forward to checking it out. Thank you for sharing!!
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Thank you for the chance to reenter. Sorry you lost all of your previous comments. Good luck with this one.
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I’m currently working on life planning, would love this eBook to help me with the journey.
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oooh, this would be awesome!!!
kathy k
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I am always searching for ways to be better organized. Thank you for the opportunity.
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I’m always looking for new ideas to organize my schedule! And we all know how much I love organizing
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Oooh! Sounds like exactly what I need right now!
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Oh I could so use this. Seems like no organizing planner has worked for me. I don’t know what it is. But maybe this is just the one I’m looking for!
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Thank you for the opportunity to win this! I could really use some help in a lot of those areas.
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I love the idea of a planner based on dreams, and I’d love to win this book. Thanks for the chance!
Pamela
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I cannot wait to get this! It sounds perfect for me and my family! Thank you Carlie for writing about it!
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This sounds amazing. Who can’t use a little more organization and planning? I am all about making this homeschooling life and our life in general a little bit more easier with a planner or organization. Thanks all!
Tara
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This would be really helpful thank you!
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Organized? Whats that?? HAha I need all the help I can get. Thanks for offering this.
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I could definitely use any kind of help with organization, too.
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I am a planner, professionally speaking. I thought I wouldn’t need my beloved 7 Habits when I transitioned the the home as my place of work, but I need it even more. I have a great system, but I’m looking always for new and better ways and I’m looking for a method to teach my teen. Calendars don’t work unless you have cast a vision for your life. It is a more involved process than jotting appointments in, unless you want to be a slave to your day. The big thing is figuring out what to put in and what to intentionally exclude. What urgent things are taking the place of important things? I hope this new book speaks to how to do so. I thought that I didn’t need to roadmap short and long term goals for schooling, as I did for work projects. I was wrong! Efficiency gets us to fun much faster! I’m hoping to win! This one looks good.:) I appreciate your use of a fresh Word, not the same scripture we always hear in regards to organization. Great review!
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Followed you here Carlie to read you post and maybe win a ebook!
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I can’t say enough good about the E-Book having read and implemented it myself. I was a hard core Franklin Planner girl, but I really enjoy the freedom Jenny offers women in tuning in to their own vision and journey with planning their days! Great job with the review. It is a bargain to get the e-book, and I did make my own following her instructions. Next year I will be buying her pre-made one, I am hoping! Good luck to everyone!
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I’ve been trying to find a planner that works for us…maybe this is the one.
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This is the perfect giveaway for me. I need help!!
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This is an answer to my prayers. I have been tossed around by all the things I have to get done every day as a stay at home military wife and homeschooling mom. The review touched my heart when Carlie said that ” the Planner Perfect is a place where you create your life and can dream up new things birthed in freedom, rather than being tied down by an impossible to-do-list.I feel like that is the life I have been living and a change is very much needed!
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I would love to win this!!
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Looks wonderful. I’d love to win.
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I would LOVE to win this, as I am a list-junkie and would love the freedom!
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Love this and so want it!!
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I have really been feeling the need to be more organized but haven’t found a planner that I liked. I am NOT an organized person that despartately wants to learn!
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I could really use a different style planner, this sounds like something I would Love to try. Thanks for the oppurtunity.
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I definitely could use a little more (okay, a lot more) planning in my life. Thanks for the giveaway.
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I totally would have replied to this sooner, but when I’d get on here to do it, I couldn’t remember what I was doing with my laptop on my lap! An organizer sure would have helped me stay on task! I seriously could stand to be better planned!
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Wow! This looks great! Thanks for the contest! Lately, it feels like we are the most unorganized family in the city. I really need to get a handle on it.
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Wow! Could I use this! Thanks!
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Wow – this would defintiely be a blessing for us. I am in dire need of organization in ALL asepcts of my life and would like to get started before my family visits in s couple of months. LOL. I would absolutely LOVE to win this planner … maybe just maybe … it will be the perfect planner to help me out. Please enter me in this giveaway and thank you for the opportunity!
God bless,
Tracey M.
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I need a new approach to organizing and planning. I have been given internal obsticles in my life (depression, adhd, and sciatica). I have a 1 and 2 year old that I hope to homeschool. Meals and chores are getting in the way of the much needed play and, educational activities that I want to do with my children. My husband is a firefighter/emt so much of his time away from the house helping the people of our community. Please let me know if you think this book would help our family stay ahead and feel fulfilled.
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I would love to win this! I am expecting our third child in just a month and am totally overwhelmed right now. I so need something to help me get life back in perspective and re-organized. Thanks so much for the giveaway opportunity!
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Homeschooling just seems to get more all-consuming! 4 kids, a home, a business, etc.: I could really use the help!
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Ahhh, organization and planning. Always need it, yet seem unattainable:
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This sounds like exactly what I need
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Boy do I need this! I’m about to embark on my journey of homeschooling and my biggest fear is how to plan my days and still get everything else accomplished on my long list of “to do’s”! Would love to win this!
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Overwhelmed. Best of organized intentions, but I get lost on the follow through.
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Hello,
I came across your homeschooling blog and this post regarding organization and wanted to share a new online calendar that is rapidly becoming popular in the world of homeschooling. PlumLife simplifies your hectic life: managing schedules, to-do lists, babysitters and much more all from one place. It even communicates with the people in your network, notifying them of events or important information for you. One of our homeschooling moms uses her PlumLife calendar to schedule every minute of her day- including when the kids brush their teeth!
It is completely free to use and we invite you to check us out at http://www.plumlife.com
Sincerely,
Tia Gannon
PlumLife Team Member
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i’d love to wint his. with 5 kiddos, i can use the help organizing that i can find!
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