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I’ll come clean. I use a weekly planner to keep track of everything I need to do and then cross it off the list. There is nothing quite like the smug sense of achievement as another task is obliterated from my weekly schedule. And I’m not the only one. The increase in weekly planner printing at A Local Printer is testimony to the fact that there is a place in this world for having everything for the week ahead in front of you, available at a glance.
This one is printed by our friends at Green Gables.
Whilst I use my planner for listing my ‘to-do’ work items and memory jogging notes, there are plenty of other ways a planner can be used and designed to incorporate more than just tasks and events. Here are a few of my favourite uses……
A weekly planner can be used as a fitness and nutritional journal, a meal planner, goal tracker, note taker and list maker all in one!
- Divide the days in to three sections for morning, afternoon and evening. This gives you more of a chance to achieve what you have planned and is easier to stick to. Incorporate some note taking space as well – always useful!
- Make some space in your planner design as an area to plan ahead for things coming up the following week. Preparing ahead helps to streamline your week and takes the stress out of last minute organisation.
Available from Cherith Harrison 
- A personal favourite - Use your planner as a nutrition and diet aid. Create an area for you to record you meals each day with a space to tally up all of those bothersome calories. Seeing over the course of a week how you are doing is very motivational.
- Make your weekly planner in to meal planner – great for helping with the shopping requirements, sharing the cooking and giving you a nutritional overview for the week ahead.
- Whilst you are designing your weekly planner for diet/nutritional purposes add a ‘water intake’ chart to each day that can be coloured in to record how much water has been drunk during the course of the day. It’s good for us – honest!
Great Design Ideas for Weekly Planner Printing
- If water is good for us then alcohol is the black sheep of the family. Create a similar chart to record all the alcohol downed each day and don’t skimp!
- Continuing down the health route your weekly planner printing could be all about exercise goals and an opportunity to record how much you have done each day. You could plan the weeks exercise into walking, cycling or any type of sport. If you wear a step tracker add a box for this too and tally up at the end of the week. It’s surprising how far we all walk in a day!
- Make time to relax. The craze of colouring is in indicator of how much we all need a little down time. Create a planner that has areas to record books to read, films to watch, hobbies to indulge in, shows to go to etc. and make sure that the time allocated to these important moments in included in the planner.
- Finally, design your weekly planner as a mindfulness planner and record one good think that happens every day and for which you are grateful. These are perhaps the best things to look back on.
Our weekly planner printing comes in A4 size and with 52 sheets printed in full colour on recycled paper. Why not use some of these ideas to create your own weekly planner for retail or even as a promotional item.
