Pick the perfect planner to organize your freelance or entrepreneurship goals
It takes major organizational skills to be a successful freelancer or entrepreneur. The best way to knock out your growing to-do list? Actually write things down!
These days, online calendars -- and lots of apps -- support an organized lifestyle. But for us, there's something about going analog that makes your goals and timeframes tangible and totally doable. Here's a roundup of perfect planners just for freelancers and entrepreneurs that are just as effective as they are adorable. And for more organization tips, check out Paste BN's Lightpost, step-by-step guides to help you become the best freelancer yet.
Your Best Year 2017: Productivity Workbook and Creative Business Planner
The average person drops their New Years’ resolutions after two weeks. Hello, it's February! Don't fall into that trap. Fight the urge to revert to old habits and truly make this year the bet year yet for your creative and entrepreneurial ventures. This planner includes “dozens of worksheets and strategies” to “make your most ambitious goals come true in 2017 and beyond.”
The Productivity Planner
Procrastination a problem? Yup, for us too. The Productivity Planner provides six months’ worth of templates for prioritizing tasks, touting that it “combines productivity principles based on scientific research and used by successful people thoughout history.” (These are the same guys who created the popular Five Minute Journal.)
Pi Leader’s Journal & Notebook
Self-improvement can be daunting, so this journal breaks down different leadership attributes by week so you can manageably focus on one skill at a time. Specifically designed for business leaders (or those aspiring to greatness), you’ll find everything you need to record, reflect, and own the work you do.
Women’s “I Am Very Busy” Classic Agenda
We are all very busy. Let’s manage it, eh? This pretty pink 17-month agenda book from ban.do includes stickers, “weekly fun to-dos,” a gallery of art from female artists, empowering phrases and complements, stickers and more. Why not make organizing your business fun? (Also comes in this awesome “Lady of Leisure” design.)
Erin Condren planners
EC planners are the OG of planner porn. They’re gorgeous, comprehensive, sturdy, and ubiquitous amongst productive professional women (and men who love rocking a print). Upside: it’s a well-loved versatile planner. Downside: it clocks in at $45.
The Planner Only For Unexpected Ideas
The title says it all. How many times have you had a self-proclaimed stroke of genius only to forget it a moment later? Plan for those non-plannable moments by carrying around this nifty Nava journal to record your more brilliant thoughts. For those with a more visual disposition, check out this unlined visual version.
Totoro Weekly Day Planner (Korean version)
Who doesn’t love Totoro? This planner has everything you need to organize your work and life — just don’t get confused and take off during Korean holidays! A perk, and potential downside: “The hard cover protects the planner from any folding or other external damage -- it resists water, but is unfortunately not entirely stain-resistant,” reads one Amazon review. Noted. In our Totoro planner.
EPIC BLOG
One-Year Editorial Planner: You may write digital, but why not get organized analog? This planner specifically for bloggers “helps you create a purposeful and profitable content plan for your blog through a mini blog business plan, ideal reader survey, monthly theme planning, monthly content planning, and standard monthly calendars.” Strategy worksheets, exercises and improvement trackers could be of use beyond the blogging world, too.