You could continue doing monthly videos temporarily but adapt them to the new system: -January Plan with Me: Cycle 1 Setup -February Plan with Me: Mid-cycle Check In -March Plan with Me: Cycle 1 Review Instead of creating monthly layouts, you could talk about the transition to your new system.
Yeah I was thinking we could do something like “January Bullet Journal Setup” but as part of that first video, introduce the idea of the cycles (just to anyone who would be watching who doesn’t necessarily know what I’m doing) and then ease away from the monthly titles to the cycle titles 🤔
I worked in IT, until I retired in 2015. When we did time estimation for projects, we did time scheduling as a range - average, best and worst - where worst was generally 2x average. Because this left space for unexpected issues. Fortnightly is my favoured period because my pension is fortnightly.
I love this SO much because its such an “adult” schedule and approach. I think a LOT of the planning/planner/bujo community very reasonably is school/university focused. But it doesnt have as much alignment with post-grad existence!!!! This is great!!! I cant wait to experiment and implement this myself! :)
Girl, I loved it! I’m an IT leader, my life works quarterly with a reset week in between. My planning is bi-weekly. I can’t wait to see the next episode! Cheers from 🇧🇷 Brazil!
Also - science says we are all bad at telling how long something will take but we are really good at comparing it. So with my teams we compare tasks to previously done tasks to determine if something is a bigger or smaller effort and then plan accordingly using past data. (affectionately refered to as "yesterday's weather") No clue why we insist on trying to be great at something that our brains just don't wanna do. We are weird
I think I will join you in the experiment, Jess. My main goals for 2024 involve forming new habits for physical and mental health and a 2 week period is a good trial period for trying out a habit or new schedule. Good luck to both of us.
I am so happy you're doing this! I have been so frustrated with everyone planning the same way (monthly calendar, monthly habit tracker, monthly mood tracker, maybe some weekly layouts) when that doesn't work for my brain. And I have looked and looked for people that are doing anything different. Really excited to see what comes of this.
Watching you work on your planning process has definitely been inspiring me to examine my own! I've realized that monthly planning is actually important for my job, and that annual and weekly views are really helpful with ADHD time blindness and giving me structure. But I've definitely realized that I have a lot of life/home/maintenance chores that would work well on a two week schedule, so I've been playing around with some ways to incorporate that. Mostly in my google calendar, but writing it out in notebooks has been helpful, too.
Heck yeah for multiple tools 💪 I like the scheduling function that digital calendars have, so if you want to have the same tasks or blocks on at the same time each week/second week/whatnot, setting it up in there makes things easy 😄💜 Glad you’ve been enjoying the “deep dive” into my planning process 😊
Prediciting time is also why most of my plans fall through. When one item on the list takes way longer than I expected, and I'm already behind, I can't bring myself to finish my plan. It also doesn't take into account whether or not you feel ill, just exhausted or really excited, inspired etc. Definitely trying this out, too!
I always love listening to you talk about your planning style because it's so different from what works for me. I love planning things monthly because 30ish days is easy for me to estimate how much work I can get done - I think it might have to do with the fact that so much of what I plan has to do with writing and my writing habits just fit well with that time frame. I also am not great at task batching. If I film a video, my brain will not let me stop thinking about it until I edit and upload it and do all the rest of the stuff, so it's much more productive for me to produce one video in its entirety before moving onto the rest instead of doing all the filming one day and all the filming the next, etc. It's just fascinating hearing how other people's brains work differently from mine.
I’m always so dang chuffed to hear about when people just genuinely enjoy hearing about other people’s systems, even if they don’t necessarily gel with what they do for themselves 💪 Glad you still find it interesting even if it’s a system that wouldn’t work for you 💜
I love monthly calendars! I need to know what’s coming up, so that I know how to be ready. I also love flipping over to a new month with a different vibe, and a fresh start.
she keeps talking about a month rolling over to another one being arbitrary.... but like.... a week is the same? all these conception of time is arbitrary? people just try and come up with something new for whatever reason lol
Haha fair point! I think it's more that the weekly timeline is one that's a little more present in my daily routines than monthly timelines 🤔 e.g. shops being open or closed on certain days of the week, Vogel getting his pay on the same day every 2 weeks, etc. Whereas there aren't a lot of things that are super relevant to me that happen on the same day of the month each month 😝💜
This is sort of what I do, too. I do plan "monthly." But in reality, I plan fom the first Monday of a new month through the day before the first Monday of the next month.
I appreciate your need to change your planning approach, I want to say that I loved your energy and have adopted lots of your suggestions. Please consider sharing a monthly focus on bullet journaling. I would love to continue supporting your channel.
I JUST set up my january monthly page (with trackers, goals spelled out, and the month overview) but decided to do a two-page spread of two weeks, with a shared to-do list, weekly trackers, and notes. I TOTALLY get the two-week ease you're talking about here! looking forward to seeing how you implement this and also THANK YOU for mentioning all the digital tools cuz I sometimes feel like I duplicate information from my online things to my journal just to have it there but... is it useful for ME? such good personal conversations I am having w/myself on my planner/tracking habits!
For how to title cycle planning videos, i think you could combine ideas to something like: Jan Plan With Me - Cyclic Planning And for a mid month cycle shift: May & June Plan With Me - Cyclic Planning Returning viewers should already know what planning style to expect, so we won't mind the month mention, while new viewers will find you in search, but still get a heads up that this system may be a little bit different. You're the youtuber tho so if I'm wrong about how the algorithm works, ignore me 😂😂😂
I have been thinking while you have been thinking about Cycles/fortnights. Months/weeks still work for me with habit tracking/ time to check in with goals, BUT as a Mum term time vs holidays is a huge part of our household. Its frustrating that terms/holidays are not consistent with any other time periods...weeks, months or years.... so I'll be doing some investigation around that this year.
Oh my goodness!! I resonated with all of this! I totally get blinders on when I think in terms of months or weeks and then miss important things I should have been planning for cuz of the blinders you discussed!! I love this idea of quarterly planning and have been doing it this past year -kind of- but how you explained it just makes much more sense! I'm totally going to try this with you (but with more consistency than I had been the past year) Also to get rid of the monthly blinder problem. I made a calendar in Google sheets with no monthly breaks. It continuously flows from one week to the next without month breaks and it helped my brain sooooo much last year that I am definitely doing it again this year!!
I'm going back to a 12-week year myself. I have a template for this in notion (but I think I've broken it). I have borrowed some things from you that I'll share in the discord. I've always liked my kanban method and my rest week, so it won't be changing but I will be getting rid of everything that doesn't serve me. I have too many things to check in with and I'm not even passionate about it.
I’d love to see a fortnight in the life with your journals. You have so many for different purposes. So which one do you grab when you get up? Which one do you grab when you sit down at your desk? What do you grab when you are changing tasks? What one do you use when you’re done with work, free time, weekend, before bed, planning, reset, content planning, video, brainstorming… for the as needed when do you know you need it? You have outlook and notion also. It all seems so overly complicated
I love monthly planning, but I have been tracking goals by quarters for a couple of years now and it is WAY better. Thinking that way has also made me much more aware of awkward cutoffs in weeks. I used to stick the days with whatever month they belong to, but now I may include them on a different calendar, but I basically count the week in whichever month had 4+ days. Weeklies have become so much more important than monthlies to me. Your new system has me incredibly curious and your youtube channel has become my favorite bujo channel since it is the one with the most unique and FUNCTIONAL ideas. (And I love that you tell us how long a page takes, that is just incredibly helpful)
I love this new system! It's very similar to what I do since the main purpose of my journal besides to-do lists is a budget tracker. Since I get paid every two weeks the 'fortnight' (totally going to start calling it that!) system just makes sense!
I really like this idea! I find I almost always naturally plan in 2 week cycles because that’s as far ahead as I can get without knowing how kids, illness, school etc, will change. I hate planning in months for the same reason as you! Just because it changed months doesn’t mean the week stopped! I think I will join you and try this cyclical/Quarterly planning
Hello, I’m hopeful for success! I think it’s worth a try. I plan in cycles myself. Primarily for work but personally in some areas like gardening as well. Like you, I first defined the cycle, then milestones and impediments. Then, when I review the cycle, I report/track how I’ve progressed in the cycle. Monthly, perhaps you can consider a monthly “forecast and review” video. This is where you can go over any milestones you expect/hope to hit that month. It would be what you’ve accomplished in this quarterly cycle, what you are working on and what you are looking forward to completing.
Wow, you just such amazing creative concepts and ideas! I am finding that daily lists/planning and hourly schedules might not work for me, so I like the idea of a monthly calendar with a list and/or routines. Would love to see your 5 time blocks. Gretchen Rubin mentioned the four quarters method of dividing your day into four time blocks like morning, day, afternoon, and night. There is a blog post by notes by Thalia Sunday reset routine 3 sections where you talks about a Sunday reset for 3 parts of the day like morning, afternoon and evening. Love the idea of productivity experiments like Erin floto designs in her time management vlogs tried different time management methods, Living like Leila has a video a week of pomodoros, and PetuniaRose in her video called Building a routine am and pm routines mentioned at about 7 minutes into the video about her theme days. I like how Mariane Cresp discussed a mid month review on her channel. Amy Landino talked about having A weeks and B weeks for chores in her My 4 step weekly planning routine video. So, I like the idea trying these method to see what would be helpful!
I love how intentional this is, and how carefully you're thinking through planning and making it work for you. I like the idea of quarters with week 13 as a reset week!
Don't normally comment, but honestly the instant you mentioned how your life really works on two week cycles, I was like so does mine! This has been a game changer in thinking about planning for next year. Monthly is just too long for me and I also struggle to see the future if I'm only focused on one week at a time. Weekly planning feels like survival mode and monthly is more creative if we gamify how we think about it. I need something in between and I think this just might be the solution. Next year I want to make some really progress on my goals and I am willing to try anything to help me focus and actually get stuff done.
Glad the idea of fortnightly planning resonates with you! 💜 Totally hit the nail on the head with “weekly planning feels like survival mode”; 100% feel that! 😝👏
As an IT project manager this resonates with me so much. My work is all around time blocks, 2 week sprints and quarters. But I’ve never managed to align my personal life to work the same. I love that I now will have you and your followers to help with this transition!
I think it is awesome that you are showing an alternative way to bullet journal. Sometimes it feels like there is this 'right' way and this 'wrong' way to do it, and you are showing that it really does depend on what you need and how your life works, and how you are as an individual think about things.
Ummm ok so my mind is absolutely blown. Jess you are BRILLIANT! I’ve always had a hard time with keeping up with my BuJo on a monthly basis and always felt better about working one to two weeks at a time and this planning system is GENIUS. Literally life changing. Thank you for all your amazing content ❤❤❤
Personally I would do Cycle 1: January Plan With Me, etc. Whatever month is in the set up then you include it in the title so you don't lose the engagement and SEO. But since the Cycle is more important to you and how you are planning, include that first.
Have you read the 12 week year? That book and system is what came racing into my mind when you started talking about 13 week planning. It is a great book for goal setting and productivity. I feel like I am branching out and having multiple journals this year as well. I’m excited to see your upcoming videos and to see how the new system works for you!
I think the reset week is a brilliant idea. I will get that in my system! You can call your new plan with me: Plan with me Q1 (januari) Than there is still a month in the titel. And the 4 weeks will still probably be for the most part in 1 month. So name it the month it is the most time in. I'm very excited for something new/different because my brain works the same sort of.
Yes to January plan with me etc title just makes it easy for everyone & those of us who know & love you realise what it is! Maybe a little explanation at the beginning to explain & a massive yes to reset week as even though I may not be doing quite the same system as you would love to partake in it with you 😊 excited to watch! Xx🎄♥️
This fortnightly/13 week quarters system is turning the gears in my head. Most of our family's stuff is fortnightly and I can see a real advantage in our house and yard tasks being planned quarterly. Thanks (once again) for the great inspo Jess.
I can't tell you how excited I am for this system. I was the only person I ever met who did two weeks on one day/with a dutch door, because I was becoming blind to the week ahead and it sucked with my autism brain lol. I also plan in quarters, but I LOVE your breakup of the weeks so you can do the 12 week plus the weekly reset. That's such a dope way to do things. Because I think I just get so far into projects I never plan a 'reset, look at how that went' time. And I can't be screwed to do that monthly, lol....but having a nice week in between (cycles? idk if I'm using the words you used correctly) anyway, a week in between clumps of time as a break/rest/reflect/setup for the next, is an AMAZING idea. Kudos seriously for all of this and I'm going to do my best to follow along with it, because I like it so much better. Nothing in the world makes sense less than a month that starts on wednesday and ends on tuesday. lol
I do yearly, quarterly, weekly. My steup is similar to Ryder's, except that the months of January, February and March are together. Events: Future Log To Dos: List of Eternal Sadness (big picture), then quarterly with the JFM/AMJ/JAS/OND pages. After my JFM/AMJ/JAS/OND pages I have 13 weekly spreads. I like this because I have several chronic illness and can set them up when I'm good and it's all set up when I'm dying.
Super excited to see next year how this system works out for you. In the end, we're all trying to find a way of doing things that work for us. I love that you consider "what will ACTUALLY work for me", disregarding conventional ideas of the passage of time. Very inspiring!
I took my Thanksgiving holiday break to set up a similar system a few weeks ago. Kind of a 12 week year / scrum sprints / GTD hybrid system. Awesome to hear your process. Thanks for sharing.
I'm pretty sure I've watched this video and your most recent "January" planning video close to ten times each. I've been wanting to plan more around the seasons because of my energy levels and just plotted out what that would look like as far as breaking up the time/creating spreads/etc. I'm so excited for this. And I want to echo what multiple people below have said about your transparency on changing your systems when the old ones aren't working for you. Also the permission you're giving when you change things up is so lovely.
I can’t wait to learn more about how you’re doing this! I think it will work really well for me too. Your weekly reset has already helped me a ton in being able to keep my life organized.
I think this is a brilliant use of your time. I found that I spent more time trying to keep up with my weekly spreads then getting any of the actual work completed. I moved to the fortnightly schedule when you first mentioned it and so far it’s working well for me. I’m really interested in seeing how you plan your 13th week ‘reset’. I think that’s a great way to intentionally schedule down time when you’re a sole proprietor because all SPs know we will work until we drop and that’s just not healthy (physically or emotionally). As for content, I think you have even more options since many people still use the monthly spreads and we always love your themes. You also will now have people doing fortnightly or quarterly. Aaaaaand… you introduced the various size planners so you can do monthly/weekly/fortnightly/quarterly spread layouts in different size journals. 😮 Ooooh… I hope you have one of those 13th week ‘down weeks’ coming up because you’re going to be busy in the new year. 😂 Thank you for all you do.
How Lean of you! This is how most IT teams have structured there work for quite some time now. Love how you have approached your initial iteration to the approach. Looking forward to seeing how it evolves.
I get paid every 2 weeks that idea will work for me. I can do thing for every 2 weeks unless i had don something to change like buying somwthing. That will be put in my TBM workbook. I will have 4 books. Budget, everyday, 5 year and my brain journal where I wriite all my thoughts in. I still fell like that is a lot.
I love this! Thank you! Finally, I feel like I’ve found the method that’ll work for me too! I’d been struggling with the exact same thing, feeling like I’m always not quite ‘on it,’ with what I need to do when I go to do my following week’s plan. I’m only 4 minutes into this video and had to comment cause you’ve completely made my day 😊 Thanks again! How you explain things is always so clear and I really like that you take us all through your thinking. 😊
i work better in weeks than fortnights but the idea of having a dedicated quarterly reset week will be really helpful to borrow! best of luck syncing monthly plan with me releases to useful cycle points
I'm going to try something similar. I hate monthly planning, but i can look at biweekly since that's how i've worked most of my adult life. So i'll have flip-flop biweekly plans (for two weeks, i'll focus on one project, then switch for 2 weeks, switch back if biweekly 1 is incomplete, or move on to another project) quarterly plans, and of course daily. Thanks so much for the inspiration!
The coming year will definitely be interesting with the way you're planning on doing your journalling, and I'm definitely here for it. Can't wait to see how this turns out and i hope it all works out!
Cheering you on in your new planning method! I agree with you that I find monthly doesn't match the weeks nicely and weekly sometimes feels to frequent. I appreciate that you are doing sets of 13 weeks (and explaining that extra week), it has got me thinking on the possibilities there as having a seasonal-ish reset sounds lovely! I love reflection time, but find it's best to do after completing something instead of when you are still in it. BTW, First time commenting but I've been watching for a while now. Love your videos! Wishing you much success in the new year with your new planning method.
Thanks for commenting, it’s always appreciated! 😄💜 That thirteenth week is something I’m quite excited about the concept of; it’ll be nice to have some dedicated time to reset 👏
January Cycle Planning - since you’ll do the bulk of January in the first cycle. Also I love the idea of the reset weeks. Giving space and time to planning is important too. Personally I’ve switched to trimesters for the year. It’s really working for me!
Honestly this is brilliant. I've fallen off planning and bullet journaling hard recently (somewhat due to personal issues), but I think your right where my brain just can't plan a full month well, and since I work nights and sometimes weekend nights I get in to "survival" mode so easily if I don't make an effort to plan. I'm excited to try this system out too!
OMG I am definitely going to try this new planning style, makes so much sense. I have been trying to get more organized and intentional about my goal setting and you have been such an inspiration 🙏 thanks for sharing your process with us.
I don’t have anything in the resource library about it specifically, but if you have a question, just let me know! 😄 If it helps, we already have my “January” setup on the channel which shows how to cyclic and fortnightly stuff is going to work for me 😊
This Is very interesting, and I am curious to hear how It will work for you! And I totally understand the monthly planning issue! I only keep a monthly overview to note down appointments (with the doctor, tax advisor, stuff like that), but not really any planning and even the tracking only in appointment-heavy periods. The rest is a mix of weekly or longer term planning depending on the need - both private and work life currently follow an irregular routine, so I section time matching periods/events, rather than a fixed number of days. It Is less predictable, but so far Is serving me well :) And I still keep monthly pages for reflections, accounting, changing themes and acknowledging the passing of time/reconnecting with natural seasons
I cannot wait to do this with you! I came to my own version of this conclusion over the last six months or so and I'm so excited to have someone far more experienced to do it with!
I'm especially interested in reset week. I agree that monthly planning feels arbitrary and would probably align my planning with a moon cycle. But due to my 9 to 5, I'll be sticking with monthly planning for now. I'm excited to see how this change helps you!
I started actually using a bujo about 4 months ago, so I'm still pretty new to the system and testing out things, but so far fortnight setups work best for me than weeklys as well, speacially when I have big projects coming up, so I mix the two :) I'd love to get videos of fortnight setup ideas!!
I'm really excited to see the fresh ideas that come out of this. Having fixed-length cycles is really appealing, especially thinking about the struggles of things like laying out a month that spans 6 weeks. I like the idea of a reset week and definitely want to see what you come up with for that.
I’m pretty good at predicting how much time a task will take me but I’m terrible with follow through. I think having two-week blocks of time may help me limit my procrastination because it has to fit in that two week time slot. Not sure. I’m also a freelancer with a schedule that changes with the wind. It doesn’t help! I’m going to keep trying. As always- thank you for your ideas and willingness to take us along for the work you do.
I love this so much!! I started bullet journaling when I was in high school used the system through into college/university. I recently graduated and noticed that the way I bullet journaled really worked while I was in school and had weekly/monthly assignments but with my current job it does not work as well. I ended up stopping all together because I was not sure how to bullet journal in this new time in my life but I think planning cyclically could be really beneficial for me. I really look forward to seeing your new plan with me's!!!
i’m not joining you (this year) on these changes, BUT i’m very curious to see how it works for you! i’ve noticed i love quarterly planning especially in terms of my shop so i’m very curious to see how cyclic works for you!
Love that you are trying something new! Would love to hear how this might affect your decorations or art in the journal. My system is already pretty different from yours, but I learned how to create a system that works for me by watching you :) So I can't wait to see the new ideas!
Just an idea for the title for the different plan with me thing ... whatever month the cycle primarily falls in, label it that way so for your cycle Jan 1-14, jan plan with me cycle 1, then Jan 15-28 jan plan with me cycle 2, and so on and so forth. You can still categorize it as monthly plan with me on the playlists but the cycles are still prominent as well. Or, just start a new playlist of planning on a cyclical basis and then cycle 1, cycle 2, etc. Your regular followers will knoe what you're doing and new people to the channel won't but you'll talk about it in the videos so it'll be okay. Especially if you leave a reference link to the videos this month (like this one) where you discuss the cycles and your planning process in the new videos for anyone who would like more reference.
Fortnightly aligns with how frequently a lot of people get paid. I really like your 4 times a year approach- you could align it with the 4 seasons of the year. And I love the one week reset for each season 😊. Where’s your budgeting book? Is Outlook free?
I’m so excited for this! I’ve been trying to move to fortnightly planning for a few months but have been struggling to wrap my head around how to best present it in my journal, so super keen to see your ideas!
This is so close to how I’ve been doing my planning too!!! You’ve been far more articulate in expressing it! 🤣🤣 I would just call it the January cycle, February cycle etc… I call my 4 week cycle a “block” so it’s my Jan block, Feb block etc, and then my reset week! Which is my permission to plan and not worry so much about implementation! (Cause action is my weakness! Lol!) Loved how impactful the experiment with tracking your time was for you! I struggle with that, so think I need to start doing something like that too! Thanks Jess! Love you work! So excited to trial this style of planning with you!
I will join you too, in this transition. I already do the 2-biweekly layout side by side to escape the weekly loop and forgot the monthly quickly, after it was setup. Really exciting about it, but can't visualize how to set it up properly. Hope your video comes fast before the new year! I found the 12 week year - method after this video and really like your 13th week to reset the quartal. When do you start? On 1st of January or do you go by seasons, like spring start on march, summer by june, fall by september and winter by december? I like the seasonal approach, because I plan my themes and stickers around it a little bit.
These ideas seem really cool and I am excited to kind of incorporate them into my planning as well. I think that you could still call your cyclic plan with me by the month that's coming up or that makes up the majority of your cycle so that your RUclips stuff won't be messed up
Love this! I'm trying to figure out how to implement more quarterly, or rather seasonal, planning in 2024. But I'm thinking fortnightly for financial check ins, since that works better with pay frequency
Jess, one more thing-You definitely deserve more time off, whether you enjoy your work or not! Are you saying that you don’t take any time off at all? If so you need to fix that! We talk about self-care and taking time away from work is self-care! If you want a week long break from anything electronic, then do it! We can take a sabbatical also! Anyway just wanted to throw that idea into the ring.
I will be following you on this journey. I am curious to see if something like this would work better for me too. I also have a big issue with time in my head and nothing I have tried has worked for me. So definitely will be watching! 😀
I love this planning strategy and it makes a lot more sense! Particularly in Australia and NZ the seasons dont dominate our lives as strictly as they do in other places and i think that really influences how we feel about the passage of time. I think just titling your videos Plan With Me / Weeks 1-4 would be fine surely.
Hi, i love that idea cause it's so satisfying to divide time in regular cycles. But i think the more you depend on the civil calendar, the less you can use this system. for example if u are a teacher, your schedule is based on a full year and cycles are divided by school hollidays, exams... And beside, a lot of us have our financial schedule based on monthly and yearly divisions (wages, taxes, rent...). So it may seems akward to think outside the calendar for these reasons. Nevertheless, i find that your system is really interesting and motivating. Especially for someone who works in freelance and does not depend on monthly obligations, it might be really efficient. For the title of your videos, you could write : January plan with me / quarter 1 cycle 1 will you do a video for each quarter, each cycle, each 2-weeks ? it will be a loooooot of videos :D
Totally feel you on this style not being so suited to certain situations 👏 e.g. my analytics from different platforms always get presented by month, and certain bill cycles are done monthly (unless they're my phone, which is 28 days, because the phone company wants to swindle me out of a 13th payment! 😝). Will be a fun challenge to see how everything fits together 💪 Undecided on the setup video frequency, but we'll certainly have regular check-ins about it 😄💜
For the video titles, maybe name it “January set up” excluding the word (monthly) and then in the thumbnail, name the cycle or number it and we will get it. I’m definitely excited to consume all the content you make for this. I suspect I’ll adopt your system as well next year. Because I’m finding that I have a poor sense of time lol and like you I have my reservations for weekly and monthly time blocks Also, if you find there isn’t enough time in a fortnight or a cycle to film, edit and post, for the next fortnight or cycle, maybe consider posting it AFTER the cycle or fortnight begins?
You could continue doing monthly videos temporarily but adapt them to the new system:
-January Plan with Me: Cycle 1 Setup
-February Plan with Me: Mid-cycle Check In
-March Plan with Me: Cycle 1 Review
Instead of creating monthly layouts, you could talk about the transition to your new system.
Yeah I was thinking we could do something like “January Bullet Journal Setup” but as part of that first video, introduce the idea of the cycles (just to anyone who would be watching who doesn’t necessarily know what I’m doing) and then ease away from the monthly titles to the cycle titles 🤔
How about “Q1 Planning: JAN”?
The way my entire understanding of time switched when I realized a quarter year is 13 weeks 🤯🤯 Jess what are you doing to me?! 😂😭
It's 12. The 13th is for her reset.
This is why we should just have 13 months which are each four weeks long 😝
@@JashiiCorrin , let’s name the 13th month Persnickety Biscuit month in your honor!😉
@@JashiiCorrin I'm sold on this 😌 oh all the aesthetic layouts that would allow
Or 10 months with 36 days each.
But yeah full moons every 28 days it should be however many Moons are in a year.
I worked in IT, until I retired in 2015. When we did time estimation for projects, we did time scheduling as a range - average, best and worst - where worst was generally 2x average. Because this left space for unexpected issues. Fortnightly is my favoured period because my pension is fortnightly.
Yeah Vogel's pay is fortnightly, as is his work-from-home schedule 😝 Just makes more sense for me, haha 💪
I love this SO much because its such an “adult” schedule and approach. I think a LOT of the planning/planner/bujo community very reasonably is school/university focused. But it doesnt have as much alignment with post-grad existence!!!! This is great!!! I cant wait to experiment and implement this myself! :)
Girl, I loved it! I’m an IT leader, my life works quarterly with a reset week in between. My planning is bi-weekly. I can’t wait to see the next episode! Cheers from 🇧🇷 Brazil!
Also - science says we are all bad at telling how long something will take but we are really good at comparing it. So with my teams we compare tasks to previously done tasks to determine if something is a bigger or smaller effort and then plan accordingly using past data. (affectionately refered to as "yesterday's weather") No clue why we insist on trying to be great at something that our brains just don't wanna do. We are weird
I think I will join you in the experiment, Jess. My main goals for 2024 involve forming new habits for physical and mental health and a 2 week period is a good trial period for trying out a habit or new schedule. Good luck to both of us.
Heck yeah 💪 Like the way of looking at it like that; 2 weeks is a good amount of time to try something out 👏
I am so happy you're doing this! I have been so frustrated with everyone planning the same way (monthly calendar, monthly habit tracker, monthly mood tracker, maybe some weekly layouts) when that doesn't work for my brain. And I have looked and looked for people that are doing anything different. Really excited to see what comes of this.
Watching you work on your planning process has definitely been inspiring me to examine my own! I've realized that monthly planning is actually important for my job, and that annual and weekly views are really helpful with ADHD time blindness and giving me structure. But I've definitely realized that I have a lot of life/home/maintenance chores that would work well on a two week schedule, so I've been playing around with some ways to incorporate that. Mostly in my google calendar, but writing it out in notebooks has been helpful, too.
Heck yeah for multiple tools 💪 I like the scheduling function that digital calendars have, so if you want to have the same tasks or blocks on at the same time each week/second week/whatnot, setting it up in there makes things easy 😄💜 Glad you’ve been enjoying the “deep dive” into my planning process 😊
Prediciting time is also why most of my plans fall through. When one item on the list takes way longer than I expected, and I'm already behind, I can't bring myself to finish my plan. It also doesn't take into account whether or not you feel ill, just exhausted or really excited, inspired etc. Definitely trying this out, too!
Cool that you're interested in giving it a go too 😄🥳
I always love listening to you talk about your planning style because it's so different from what works for me. I love planning things monthly because 30ish days is easy for me to estimate how much work I can get done - I think it might have to do with the fact that so much of what I plan has to do with writing and my writing habits just fit well with that time frame. I also am not great at task batching. If I film a video, my brain will not let me stop thinking about it until I edit and upload it and do all the rest of the stuff, so it's much more productive for me to produce one video in its entirety before moving onto the rest instead of doing all the filming one day and all the filming the next, etc. It's just fascinating hearing how other people's brains work differently from mine.
I’m always so dang chuffed to hear about when people just genuinely enjoy hearing about other people’s systems, even if they don’t necessarily gel with what they do for themselves 💪 Glad you still find it interesting even if it’s a system that wouldn’t work for you 💜
I love monthly calendars! I need to know what’s coming up, so that I know how to be ready. I also love flipping over to a new month with a different vibe, and a fresh start.
I'm all about the new-vibe-fresh-start so that'll still be part of my system 😄💜
she keeps talking about a month rolling over to another one being arbitrary.... but like.... a week is the same? all these conception of time is arbitrary? people just try and come up with something new for whatever reason lol
Haha fair point! I think it's more that the weekly timeline is one that's a little more present in my daily routines than monthly timelines 🤔 e.g. shops being open or closed on certain days of the week, Vogel getting his pay on the same day every 2 weeks, etc. Whereas there aren't a lot of things that are super relevant to me that happen on the same day of the month each month 😝💜
This is sort of what I do, too. I do plan "monthly." But in reality, I plan fom the first Monday of a new month through the day before the first Monday of the next month.
I appreciate your need to change your planning approach, I want to say that I loved your energy and have adopted lots of your suggestions. Please consider sharing a monthly focus on bullet journaling. I would love to continue supporting your channel.
I JUST set up my january monthly page (with trackers, goals spelled out, and the month overview) but decided to do a two-page spread of two weeks, with a shared to-do list, weekly trackers, and notes. I TOTALLY get the two-week ease you're talking about here! looking forward to seeing how you implement this and also THANK YOU for mentioning all the digital tools cuz I sometimes feel like I duplicate information from my online things to my journal just to have it there but... is it useful for ME? such good personal conversations I am having w/myself on my planner/tracking habits!
Like tasks are a good thing to get thngs done. Your 5 tadks can be move to morning or afternon or evening task.
For how to title cycle planning videos, i think you could combine ideas to something like:
Jan Plan With Me - Cyclic Planning
And for a mid month cycle shift:
May & June Plan With Me - Cyclic Planning
Returning viewers should already know what planning style to expect, so we won't mind the month mention, while new viewers will find you in search, but still get a heads up that this system may be a little bit different.
You're the youtuber tho so if I'm wrong about how the algorithm works, ignore me 😂😂😂
I have been thinking while you have been thinking about Cycles/fortnights. Months/weeks still work for me with habit tracking/ time to check in with goals, BUT as a Mum term time vs holidays is a huge part of our household. Its frustrating that terms/holidays are not consistent with any other time periods...weeks, months or years.... so I'll be doing some investigation around that this year.
Oh my goodness!! I resonated with all of this! I totally get blinders on when I think in terms of months or weeks and then miss important things I should have been planning for cuz of the blinders you discussed!! I love this idea of quarterly planning and have been doing it this past year -kind of- but how you explained it just makes much more sense! I'm totally going to try this with you (but with more consistency than I had been the past year)
Also to get rid of the monthly blinder problem. I made a calendar in Google sheets with no monthly breaks. It continuously flows from one week to the next without month breaks and it helped my brain sooooo much last year that I am definitely doing it again this year!!
I totally do that too around my busiest periods! 😝 heck yeah 💪
I'm going back to a 12-week year myself. I have a template for this in notion (but I think I've broken it). I have borrowed some things from you that I'll share in the discord. I've always liked my kanban method and my rest week, so it won't be changing but I will be getting rid of everything that doesn't serve me. I have too many things to check in with and I'm not even passionate about it.
this is my fave kind of content--i'm a systems girl, and am fascinated by how people set theirs up. thanks for sharing!!
Love your new filming set up with the bookcase background!
Thanks! 😄💜 bit if a work in progress but I’m liking it so far
I’d love to see a fortnight in the life with your journals. You have so many for different purposes. So which one do you grab when you get up? Which one do you grab when you sit down at your desk? What do you grab when you are changing tasks? What one do you use when you’re done with work, free time, weekend, before bed, planning, reset, content planning, video, brainstorming… for the as needed when do you know you need it? You have outlook and notion also. It all seems so overly complicated
I love monthly planning, but I have been tracking goals by quarters for a couple of years now and it is WAY better. Thinking that way has also made me much more aware of awkward cutoffs in weeks. I used to stick the days with whatever month they belong to, but now I may include them on a different calendar, but I basically count the week in whichever month had 4+ days. Weeklies have become so much more important than monthlies to me.
Your new system has me incredibly curious and your youtube channel has become my favorite bujo channel since it is the one with the most unique and FUNCTIONAL ideas. (And I love that you tell us how long a page takes, that is just incredibly helpful)
I love this new system! It's very similar to what I do since the main purpose of my journal besides to-do lists is a budget tracker. Since I get paid every two weeks the 'fortnight' (totally going to start calling it that!) system just makes sense!
Oh my god jess that's the best planning system you can have!!!! Thank you for sharing another one of your great ideas. ❤
I really like this idea! I find I almost always naturally plan in 2 week cycles because that’s as far ahead as I can get without knowing how kids, illness, school etc, will change. I hate planning in months for the same reason as you! Just because it changed months doesn’t mean the week stopped! I think I will join you and try this cyclical/Quarterly planning
I am excited about the 2-week set up. This is my year of form follows function!
I think that’s kind of my vibe for the year too 😝 haha 💪
Hello, I’m hopeful for success! I think it’s worth a try. I plan in cycles myself. Primarily for work but personally in some areas like gardening as well. Like you, I first defined the cycle, then milestones and impediments. Then, when I review the cycle, I report/track how I’ve progressed in the cycle.
Monthly, perhaps you can consider a monthly “forecast and review” video. This is where you can go over any milestones you expect/hope to hit that month. It would be what you’ve accomplished in this quarterly cycle, what you are working on and what you are looking forward to completing.
Totally something we could try out on the channel, I think that’d be a bit of fun! 😄💜
Wow, you just such amazing creative concepts and ideas! I am finding that daily lists/planning and hourly schedules might not work for me, so I like the idea of a monthly calendar with a list and/or routines. Would love to see your 5 time blocks. Gretchen Rubin mentioned the four quarters method of dividing your day into four time blocks like morning, day, afternoon, and night. There is a blog post by notes by Thalia Sunday reset routine 3 sections where you talks about a Sunday reset for 3 parts of the day like morning, afternoon and evening. Love the idea of productivity experiments like Erin floto designs in her time management vlogs tried different time management methods, Living like Leila has a video a week of pomodoros, and PetuniaRose in her video called Building a routine am and pm routines mentioned at about 7 minutes into the video about her theme days. I like how Mariane Cresp discussed a mid month review on her channel. Amy Landino talked about having A weeks and B weeks for chores in her My 4 step weekly planning routine video. So, I like the idea trying these method to see what would be helpful!
Oh these all sound like great things to check out! Going to have to take some time off and go on a lil RUclips binge me thinks 😝💜
I love how intentional this is, and how carefully you're thinking through planning and making it work for you. I like the idea of quarters with week 13 as a reset week!
Don't normally comment, but honestly the instant you mentioned how your life really works on two week cycles, I was like so does mine! This has been a game changer in thinking about planning for next year. Monthly is just too long for me and I also struggle to see the future if I'm only focused on one week at a time. Weekly planning feels like survival mode and monthly is more creative if we gamify how we think about it. I need something in between and I think this just might be the solution. Next year I want to make some really progress on my goals and I am willing to try anything to help me focus and actually get stuff done.
Glad the idea of fortnightly planning resonates with you! 💜 Totally hit the nail on the head with “weekly planning feels like survival mode”; 100% feel that! 😝👏
As an IT project manager this resonates with me so much. My work is all around time blocks, 2 week sprints and quarters. But I’ve never managed to align my personal life to work the same. I love that I now will have you and your followers to help with this transition!
I relate to the problem you have with the weekly, monthly and yearly planning. This system is genius!!!
Thanks! 😄 I’m really looking forward to trying it out properly 💪
I think it is awesome that you are showing an alternative way to bullet journal. Sometimes it feels like there is this 'right' way and this 'wrong' way to do it, and you are showing that it really does depend on what you need and how your life works, and how you are as an individual think about things.
Ummm ok so my mind is absolutely blown. Jess you are BRILLIANT! I’ve always had a hard time with keeping up with my BuJo on a monthly basis and always felt better about working one to two weeks at a time and this planning system is GENIUS. Literally life changing. Thank you for all your amazing content ❤❤❤
Haha thanks! 😄💜 glad you like the sounds of it 🥳
Personally I would do Cycle 1: January Plan With Me, etc. Whatever month is in the set up then you include it in the title so you don't lose the engagement and SEO. But since the Cycle is more important to you and how you are planning, include that first.
I absolutely love The Apocolist. Such a good idea.
Haha it’s a fun page title 😝💜
Great Video! Thanks Looking forward to seeing how the new planning system works for you.
Glad you liked it! 😄💜 excited to share as I work through it! 💪
Have you read the 12 week year? That book and system is what came racing into my mind when you started talking about 13 week planning. It is a great book for goal setting and productivity. I feel like I am branching out and having multiple journals this year as well. I’m excited to see your upcoming videos and to see how the new system works for you!
I super need to read this book 😝💜
I think the reset week is a brilliant idea. I will get that in my system!
You can call your new plan with me: Plan with me Q1 (januari) Than there is still a month in the titel. And the 4 weeks will still probably be for the most part in 1 month. So name it the month it is the most time in.
I'm very excited for something new/different because my brain works the same sort of.
as someone who has always done my planning in fortnights, I am really excited to see your take on it! looking forward to this new era of planning!
Exciting! It's nice to hear there are other people who do something similar to this! 😄
Yes to January plan with me etc title just makes it easy for everyone & those of us who know & love you realise what it is! Maybe a little explanation at the beginning to explain & a massive yes to reset week as even though I may not be doing quite the same system as you would love to partake in it with you 😊 excited to watch! Xx🎄♥️
Glad there’s interest in reset week! I’m excited about the concept 😄💜
This fortnightly/13 week quarters system is turning the gears in my head.
Most of our family's stuff is fortnightly and I can see a real advantage in our house and yard tasks being planned quarterly.
Thanks (once again) for the great inspo Jess.
Glad it’s been of interest to you 😄💜
I will join this experiment too, looking foward to watch the cycle reset videos
Aww yay! 🥳 glad to have you joining in! 💜
I can't tell you how excited I am for this system. I was the only person I ever met who did two weeks on one day/with a dutch door, because I was becoming blind to the week ahead and it sucked with my autism brain lol. I also plan in quarters, but I LOVE your breakup of the weeks so you can do the 12 week plus the weekly reset. That's such a dope way to do things. Because I think I just get so far into projects I never plan a 'reset, look at how that went' time. And I can't be screwed to do that monthly, lol....but having a nice week in between (cycles? idk if I'm using the words you used correctly) anyway, a week in between clumps of time as a break/rest/reflect/setup for the next, is an AMAZING idea. Kudos seriously for all of this and I'm going to do my best to follow along with it, because I like it so much better. Nothing in the world makes sense less than a month that starts on wednesday and ends on tuesday. lol
I do yearly, quarterly, weekly. My steup is similar to Ryder's, except that the months of January, February and March are together.
Events: Future Log
To Dos: List of Eternal Sadness (big picture), then quarterly with the JFM/AMJ/JAS/OND pages.
After my JFM/AMJ/JAS/OND pages I have 13 weekly spreads. I like this because I have several chronic illness and can set them up when I'm good and it's all set up when I'm dying.
Super excited to see next year how this system works out for you. In the end, we're all trying to find a way of doing things that work for us. I love that you consider "what will ACTUALLY work for me", disregarding conventional ideas of the passage of time. Very inspiring!
I took my Thanksgiving holiday break to set up a similar system a few weeks ago. Kind of a 12 week year / scrum sprints / GTD hybrid system. Awesome to hear your process. Thanks for sharing.
I'm pretty sure I've watched this video and your most recent "January" planning video close to ten times each. I've been wanting to plan more around the seasons because of my energy levels and just plotted out what that would look like as far as breaking up the time/creating spreads/etc. I'm so excited for this. And I want to echo what multiple people below have said about your transparency on changing your systems when the old ones aren't working for you. Also the permission you're giving when you change things up is so lovely.
I can’t wait to learn more about how you’re doing this! I think it will work really well for me too. Your weekly reset has already helped me a ton in being able to keep my life organized.
I love that you're doing this, It's your planner and you should make it fit you! I can't wait to see more
Heck yeah for using our planners in ways that work for us 💪💜 Glad you're looking forward to seeing more about this 😄
I think this is a brilliant use of your time. I found that I spent more time trying to keep up with my weekly spreads then getting any of the actual work completed. I moved to the fortnightly schedule when you first mentioned it and so far it’s working well for me. I’m really interested in seeing how you plan your 13th week ‘reset’. I think that’s a great way to intentionally schedule down time when you’re a sole proprietor because all SPs know we will work until we drop and that’s just not healthy (physically or emotionally).
As for content, I think you have even more options since many people still use the monthly spreads and we always love your themes. You also will now have people doing fortnightly or quarterly. Aaaaaand… you introduced the various size planners so you can do monthly/weekly/fortnightly/quarterly spread layouts in different size journals. 😮
Ooooh… I hope you have one of those 13th week ‘down weeks’ coming up because you’re going to be busy in the new year. 😂
Thank you for all you do.
Haha thanks! 😄💜 thankfully my holiday break starts next week, and honestly I hella need it 😝 Looking forward to brainstorming content for next year 🥳
How Lean of you! This is how most IT teams have structured there work for quite some time now. Love how you have approached your initial iteration to the approach. Looking forward to seeing how it evolves.
I get paid every 2 weeks that idea will work for me. I can do thing for every 2 weeks unless i had don something to change like buying somwthing. That will be put in my TBM workbook. I will have 4 books. Budget, everyday, 5 year and my brain journal where I wriite all my thoughts in. I still fell like that is a lot.
I love this! Thank you! Finally, I feel like I’ve found the method that’ll work for me too! I’d been struggling with the exact same thing, feeling like I’m always not quite ‘on it,’ with what I need to do when I go to do my following week’s plan. I’m only 4 minutes into this video and had to comment cause you’ve completely made my day 😊 Thanks again! How you explain things is always so clear and I really like that you take us all through your thinking. 😊
Glad you like it! 😄💜 I think it’s going to work well 💪
i work better in weeks than fortnights but the idea of having a dedicated quarterly reset week will be really helpful to borrow! best of luck syncing monthly plan with me releases to useful cycle points
I'm going to try something similar. I hate monthly planning, but i can look at biweekly since that's how i've worked most of my adult life.
So i'll have flip-flop biweekly plans (for two weeks, i'll focus on one project, then switch for 2 weeks, switch back if biweekly 1 is incomplete, or move on to another project) quarterly plans, and of course daily.
Thanks so much for the inspiration!
This is so smart, I run into the same 'blinders on' issue when working week to week! I will definitely be giving some of these a go!
The coming year will definitely be interesting with the way you're planning on doing your journalling, and I'm definitely here for it. Can't wait to see how this turns out and i hope it all works out!
Cheering you on in your new planning method! I agree with you that I find monthly doesn't match the weeks nicely and weekly sometimes feels to frequent. I appreciate that you are doing sets of 13 weeks (and explaining that extra week), it has got me thinking on the possibilities there as having a seasonal-ish reset sounds lovely! I love reflection time, but find it's best to do after completing something instead of when you are still in it.
BTW, First time commenting but I've been watching for a while now. Love your videos! Wishing you much success in the new year with your new planning method.
Thanks for commenting, it’s always appreciated! 😄💜 That thirteenth week is something I’m quite excited about the concept of; it’ll be nice to have some dedicated time to reset 👏
January Cycle Planning - since you’ll do the bulk of January in the first cycle. Also I love the idea of the reset weeks. Giving space and time to planning is important too. Personally I’ve switched to trimesters for the year. It’s really working for me!
Heck yeah for doing what works for us 💪 I think it’d be cool to do trimesters; I could easily do one journal per trimester 💜
Honestly this is brilliant. I've fallen off planning and bullet journaling hard recently (somewhat due to personal issues), but I think your right where my brain just can't plan a full month well, and since I work nights and sometimes weekend nights I get in to "survival" mode so easily if I don't make an effort to plan. I'm excited to try this system out too!
OMG I am definitely going to try this new planning style, makes so much sense. I have been trying to get more organized and intentional about my goal setting and you have been such an inspiration 🙏 thanks for sharing your process with us.
OMG I am obsessed with this but I need that break down! Is it in your free resource page? I am loving this so much!
I don’t have anything in the resource library about it specifically, but if you have a question, just let me know! 😄 If it helps, we already have my “January” setup on the channel which shows how to cyclic and fortnightly stuff is going to work for me 😊
This Is very interesting, and I am curious to hear how It will work for you! And I totally understand the monthly planning issue! I only keep a monthly overview to note down appointments (with the doctor, tax advisor, stuff like that), but not really any planning and even the tracking only in appointment-heavy periods. The rest is a mix of weekly or longer term planning depending on the need - both private and work life currently follow an irregular routine, so I section time matching periods/events, rather than a fixed number of days. It Is less predictable, but so far Is serving me well :)
And I still keep monthly pages for reflections, accounting, changing themes and acknowledging the passing of time/reconnecting with natural seasons
I cannot wait to do this with you! I came to my own version of this conclusion over the last six months or so and I'm so excited to have someone far more experienced to do it with!
I'm especially interested in reset week.
I agree that monthly planning feels arbitrary and would probably align my planning with a moon cycle. But due to my 9 to 5, I'll be sticking with monthly planning for now.
I'm excited to see how this change helps you!
This is such a good way to think about our time. I’m very interested in a reset video.
Glad to hear there’s interest for it! 😄💜
Just wanted to say that I love the new office layout and the shelves and purple lights in the back . ❤
Thanks! 😄 It's been nice to work in so far 💪💜
Me too!
I started actually using a bujo about 4 months ago, so I'm still pretty new to the system and testing out things, but so far fortnight setups work best for me than weeklys as well, speacially when I have big projects coming up, so I mix the two :) I'd love to get videos of fortnight setup ideas!!
Gonna put that idea on the list! 🥳💪
This is great! Thank you. I'll definitely try to follow along.
Thanks! 😄💜 glad to have you on board 💪
I'm really excited to see the fresh ideas that come out of this. Having fixed-length cycles is really appealing, especially thinking about the struggles of things like laying out a month that spans 6 weeks. I like the idea of a reset week and definitely want to see what you come up with for that.
Whooooaaaaaa 🤯 I think I’m gonna join you on this journey for 2024!!! This sounds amazing!
Glad you like the sounds of it! 😄💜
I love this idea! I've been fascinated by the previous videos that you've been giving us sneak peaks into this new format :)
Thanks! 😄 It’s been fun sharing the journey so far! 💜
I'd be interested to hear about the reset weeks. Kudos for developing a system that will work for you (even if future tweaks are required)!
I’m pretty good at predicting how much time a task will take me but I’m terrible with follow through. I think having two-week blocks of time may help me limit my procrastination because it has to fit in that two week time slot. Not sure. I’m also a freelancer with a schedule that changes with the wind. It doesn’t help! I’m going to keep trying.
As always- thank you for your ideas and willingness to take us along for the work you do.
Most welcome! I certainly know that the system I'm going with won't work for everyone (or everything, haha), but I'm feeling optimistic 😄💜
Love it! I already set my to do list on a two week spread, so I am glad to hear you're adopting this new system. I'll follow along 😊
I love this so much!! I started bullet journaling when I was in high school used the system through into college/university. I recently graduated and noticed that the way I bullet journaled really worked while I was in school and had weekly/monthly assignments but with my current job it does not work as well. I ended up stopping all together because I was not sure how to bullet journal in this new time in my life but I think planning cyclically could be really beneficial for me. I really look forward to seeing your new plan with me's!!!
This is so exciting cant wait to join along on this journey
Glad to have you along for the ride! 😄💜
i’m not joining you (this year) on these changes, BUT i’m very curious to see how it works for you! i’ve noticed i love quarterly planning especially in terms of my shop so i’m very curious to see how cyclic works for you!
Glad you’re interested in seeing how it goes 😄 I’m looking forward to the trial myself 💪
Love that you are trying something new! Would love to hear how this might affect your decorations or art in the journal. My system is already pretty different from yours, but I learned how to create a system that works for me by watching you :) So I can't wait to see the new ideas!
Just an idea for the title for the different plan with me thing ... whatever month the cycle primarily falls in, label it that way so for your cycle Jan 1-14, jan plan with me cycle 1, then Jan 15-28 jan plan with me cycle 2, and so on and so forth. You can still categorize it as monthly plan with me on the playlists but the cycles are still prominent as well. Or, just start a new playlist of planning on a cyclical basis and then cycle 1, cycle 2, etc. Your regular followers will knoe what you're doing and new people to the channel won't but you'll talk about it in the videos so it'll be okay. Especially if you leave a reference link to the videos this month (like this one) where you discuss the cycles and your planning process in the new videos for anyone who would like more reference.
Fortnightly aligns with how frequently a lot of people get paid. I really like your 4 times a year approach- you could align it with the 4 seasons of the year. And I love the one week reset for each season 😊. Where’s your budgeting book? Is Outlook free?
School teacher trait 😉 AB timetable and terms. 🤙
Called out 😂 While my school didn't have AB timetables, I totally see the parallel 😝
I’m so excited for this! I’ve been trying to move to fortnightly planning for a few months but have been struggling to wrap my head around how to best present it in my journal, so super keen to see your ideas!
This is so close to how I’ve been doing my planning too!!! You’ve been far more articulate in expressing it! 🤣🤣 I would just call it the January cycle, February cycle etc… I call my 4 week cycle a “block” so it’s my Jan block, Feb block etc, and then my reset week! Which is my permission to plan and not worry so much about implementation! (Cause action is my weakness! Lol!)
Loved how impactful the experiment with tracking your time was for you! I struggle with that, so think I need to start doing something like that too!
Thanks Jess! Love you work! So excited to trial this style of planning with you!
I would looooove to do this with you! I also get time blind each week, and then things start to pile up for me.
I will join you too, in this transition. I already do the 2-biweekly layout side by side to escape the weekly loop and forgot the monthly quickly, after it was setup. Really exciting about it, but can't visualize how to set it up properly. Hope your video comes fast before the new year!
I found the 12 week year - method after this video and really like your 13th week to reset the quartal.
When do you start? On 1st of January or do you go by seasons, like spring start on march, summer by june, fall by september and winter by december? I like the seasonal approach, because I plan my themes and stickers around it a little bit.
These ideas seem really cool and I am excited to kind of incorporate them into my planning as well. I think that you could still call your cyclic plan with me by the month that's coming up or that makes up the majority of your cycle so that your RUclips stuff won't be messed up
Yeah I was thinking that's probably the "safest" bet for them 🤔💜 glad you liked the ideas! 😄
Love this!
I'm trying to figure out how to implement more quarterly, or rather seasonal, planning in 2024. But I'm thinking fortnightly for financial check ins, since that works better with pay frequency
100% agree with that 👏 my partner gets paid fortnightly, so fortnightly financial check-ins makes a lot of sense with that.
Jess, one more thing-You definitely deserve more time off, whether you enjoy your work or not! Are you saying that you don’t take any time off at all? If so you need to fix that! We talk about self-care and taking time away from work is self-care! If you want a week long break from anything electronic, then do it! We can take a sabbatical also! Anyway just wanted to throw that idea into the ring.
I will be following you on this journey. I am curious to see if something like this would work better for me too. I also have a big issue with time in my head and nothing I have tried has worked for me. So definitely will be watching! 😀
Great idea! I'm going to try the two week planning experiment.
I love this planning strategy and it makes a lot more sense! Particularly in Australia and NZ the seasons dont dominate our lives as strictly as they do in other places and i think that really influences how we feel about the passage of time. I think just titling your videos Plan With Me / Weeks 1-4 would be fine surely.
I’m so happy I’ve found you and love this concept of fortnight’s! Thank you!
Glad you like the sounds of it! 😄💜
Hi, i love that idea cause it's so satisfying to divide time in regular cycles. But i think the more you depend on the civil calendar, the less you can use this system. for example if u are a teacher, your schedule is based on a full year and cycles are divided by school hollidays, exams... And beside, a lot of us have our financial schedule based on monthly and yearly divisions (wages, taxes, rent...). So it may seems akward to think outside the calendar for these reasons.
Nevertheless, i find that your system is really interesting and motivating. Especially for someone who works in freelance and does not depend on monthly obligations, it might be really efficient.
For the title of your videos, you could write : January plan with me / quarter 1 cycle 1
will you do a video for each quarter, each cycle, each 2-weeks ? it will be a loooooot of videos :D
Totally feel you on this style not being so suited to certain situations 👏 e.g. my analytics from different platforms always get presented by month, and certain bill cycles are done monthly (unless they're my phone, which is 28 days, because the phone company wants to swindle me out of a 13th payment! 😝). Will be a fun challenge to see how everything fits together 💪
Undecided on the setup video frequency, but we'll certainly have regular check-ins about it 😄💜
@@JashiiCorrin i can't wait to watch that 🤩 (basicfit gets a 13rd "month" in a year too and it ruins all my monthly financial schedule 🤣)
For the video titles, maybe name it “January set up” excluding the word (monthly) and then in the thumbnail, name the cycle or number it and we will get it.
I’m definitely excited to consume all the content you make for this. I suspect I’ll adopt your system as well next year. Because I’m finding that I have a poor sense of time lol and like you I have my reservations for weekly and monthly time blocks
Also, if you find there isn’t enough time in a fortnight or a cycle to film, edit and post, for the next fortnight or cycle, maybe consider posting it AFTER the cycle or fortnight begins?
Good points 💪 January setup totally works; who said it had to be for the whole month of January! 😛
I’m excited to see how you use these new planning timeframes as monthly planning doesn’t really seem to be working well for me either.
This is brilliant and I may steal this because the weird breaks in the week definitely is SO odd!!! And I also try to batch tasks based on the week.