Blurry, but you get the idea.
For many years I resisted schedules, and plans and anything that made me feel tied down and obligated. That is until I felt the peace and freedom that a well planned day/week/life could provide. Now some would say I go a bit overboard. Thing is, I like planning. I like writing things down on paper and looking at my goals and then checking them off later as each one becomes a piece of the history of my life.
I use not one, not two, but three planners to keep things organized. Friends and I often joke about how sad it is that we can’t make commitments until we consult with our calendars, so I guess I’m triple sad. 
One of my friends refers to her daily planner as her Magic 8 Ball.
“Oh, Magic 8 Ball, can I go out and play today?”
“Signs point to Yes!”
My magic happens when I keep my life organized. If I don’t, my life falls apart, and I mean that quite literally. Mama becomes unhappy and well, you know how the rest of that saying goes.
This year I am using a combined daily planner and lesson planner. It adds to the size and to the bulk, which I dislike, but even more frustrating is when I sit in bed late at night doing my homechool planning, and inevitably have to get up and walk to the other side of the house to retrieve my daily calendar so that I can find out (and plan around) what is going on that week. Combining the two in one spiral bound place makes my life easier!
The other two planners are for my work. One is for my teaching job and the other is to keep track of my homeschool consults and evaluations. I just don’t have room in my personal calendar for all of that, and having separate plan books makes it easier to keep track of it all. Right now I add a little *eval or *consult at the very bottom of my day in my personal planner which reminds me to check my consult planner.
The planner I use for my part-time teaching job is completely separate. I can’t find a way to integrate that into the other plan books I keep.
I wonder if the Well-Planned Day would have room for all of these categories? It might be nice to have them all in one large and heavy place, although I might have to get a rolling cart to carry it around in though. Let’s see what the Magic 8 Ball says about that . . . “Outlook good.”
