I am a paper-obsessed planner. There's nothing like the exhilaration of a fresh new week and a crisp new page. The adrenaline pumping as the first task of the week is jotted down. There's a special thrill to planning a week visual: in colors, handwritten fonts, and in to-do lists. Here is my compilation of struggles that face every planner lover come a fresh school year.

1. SO MANY OPTIONS.

Trying to decide between options is such a struggle. From Color Crush to mead to Day Designer to Erin Condran, all the options are almost too exciting.

2. Color or no color, that is the question.

To pick a pretty interior or not. The difference between an already colorful inside and simply letting the color of planning fill it in.

3. The bleeding needs to stop.

Nothing is worse than buying a new planner and having a fresh week ruined by the bleedthrough of a previous week. Like, what, no?! Let me be the artist of my own week! Michael Scott would not approve of that paper quality.

4. Bullet Journaling?!

To jump on the bandwagon of this new fad? It's like a dangerous spiral of spending so much time planning and organizing a layout that the planning is useless because all the time is gone.

5. Binding

Choosing the perfect planner. All is swell and cheery and life is perfectly planned. Then, bam! The spiral on the new planner is caught in a zipper and there goes all the dreams of that planner ever laying flat again. Its an irreplaceable mistake that pains the soul and makes you feel like this.

6. Size

Holy wow, does size matter. Make it big, make it small, have a top bind or a side bind. There are so many options that it becomes a mess of desires. A handy pocket planner for a monthly overview, a handy dandy medium-sized planner for a daily checklist, and the whopper of a weekly planner. Or maybe it would work better the other way around?! It's an endless cycle of wondering.

7. Sold out, what do you mean SOLD OUT?!

Finally finding the perfect planner. Hours spent watching out of the box videos, looking at blogs, collecting 20 percent off coupons. And low and behold, the perfect planner that could lead to the perfectly planned life. Is. Sold. Out. Nope. It can't be true, but it is. So the endless cycle of the search for the perfect planner continues.