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5 Steps To A More Productive Planner

Because a new semester is just around the corner.

Nan Rittenhouse

Aug 21, 2018

Fordham University

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The school year is approaching—are you ready yet? I always love this time of year and find myself excited to go school shopping. The one thing I couldn't survive without is my planner.

My planner has everything. It's how I remember what I did last week, what happened at that meeting, and when my next appointment or assignment will take place. Without it, I'm lost! It took me a while to find the best way to organize my planner, and I have found that simple is efficient. It just takes a couple of minutes to be that much more organized.

1. Buy a planner

Maybe it's just me, but I can't do bullet journals. I really wish I could, but I get lazy and neglect it, defeating the purpose of having one. So buy a planner—a nice sturdy one that will get through the whole year.

2. Fill in the month in advance

This is for the full-day events—or at least something big enough that you have to plan for it. Then you know you can't do anything September 27 because you have a test the next day. It's the section that it good for at a glance instead of the daily micro-planning.

3. Fill in the week on Sunday night

I like to fill in my week as I schedule it, and Sunday night I check that everything is filled in. This way, nothing can take me by surprise and I'm fully prepared for Monday morning.

4. Use the notes section for goals...

I like to set at least 3 goals at the beginning of the month and check them at the end of the month. It can be anything from texting someone you haven't talked to in a while to finishing a book series—whatever fits your fancy!

5. ...and quotes!

Finally at the end of the month, I find 3-5 quotes that I feel really captivated my feelings and experience. I like this because it helps me remember the month when I look back and then sets the tone for a new month.

While I know I can't keep a bullet journal, I have found ways to make my planner into a more simple journal. It is easier because I don't have to draw the lines, but I can still write my quotes and goals somewhere.

There are some great pre-organized planners available, but I have found you don't have to break the bank to have a great planner. It's easy if you maximize your space and do what works for you!

Don't like quotes? Maybe you like doodles! There are so many options and something different works for everyone. Keeping an organized planner and putting time into this will help you center yourself by remembering what the past month was like and preparing for the upcoming weeks!

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Cool Off with These 8 Beers!

North Carolina State University

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Summer is hot and humid, and it's almost like summer was made specifically to drink the refreshing, cold, crisp wonderful, delicious, nutritious nectar of the gods. Which is none other than beer; wonderful cold beer. With summer playing peek-a-boo around the corner while we finish up this semester, it's time to discuss the only important part of summer. And if you haven't already guessed, it's beer. There are few things I take more seriously than my beer, in order are: sports... and beer. Here are my favorite summer brews:

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5 Steps To A More Productive Planner

Because a new semester is just around the corner.

1. Buy a planner

2. Fill in the month in advance

3. Fill in the week on Sunday night

4. Use the notes section for goals...

5. ...and quotes!

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Appreciation for some of life's most discredited pleasures.

1. Sun showers

2. Smiles

3. Tight hugs

4. Discovering new foods you like.

5. Laying in bed after a long day.

6. And being completely relaxed

7. "This reminded me of you"

8. Breakfast foods

9. Over-sized clothes

10. Contagious laughs

11. Car rides with that one person

12. Random (I miss you/ I love you) texts

13. The city at night

14. Surprises

15. Blanket cocoons

16. Good hair days

17. Really good coffee

18. Days where you're in a good mood naturally and for no particular reason

19. Conquering a fear

20. When they give you a lot of guac at Chipotle

21. Being so comfortable with someone that you can literally talk about anything

22. Home-cooked meals

23. Tattoo stories

24. Leaves changing color in fall

25. Butterflies in your stomach

26. Peanut butter & jelly sandwiches

27. When you can't stop laughing

Cool Off with These 8 Beers!

Coors Light Summer Brew:

Leinenkugel Summer Shandy

Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat

Want to know more about beer?

Sam Adams Summer Ale

Hell or High Watermelon

Blue Moon Summer Honey

LandShark Lager

Corona

75 degrees and sunny, plus, no humidity. I mean do I really need to say more?

Perfect Weather

You'll get an effortless tan

You can exercise with a view

You don't have to worry about bug bites

In n Out all day, every day

We have outdoor concerts

We live where people vacation

Because let's be honest, we all use lyrics.

1. “Don’t get too close, it’s dark inside. It's where my demons hide.”

2. “Tonight, we are young.”

3. “Cuz I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.”

4. “Tell me how they got that pretty little face on that pretty little frame.”

5. “I can’t wait to fall in love with you, you can’t wait to fall in love with me.”

6. “Sweatpants, hair tied, chillin with no makeup on.”

7. “Why you so obsessed with me?”

8. “We ain’t ever getting older.”

9. “I didn’t know that I was starving until I tasted you.”

10. “Didn’t they tell you I’m a savage?"

11. “I’m gonna make you miss me.”

12. "Cheers to the freakin weekend.”

13. “Love’s a game. Wanna play?”

14. “You don’t know about me, but I bet you want to.”

15. “Let’s set each other’s lonely nights, Be each other’s paradise.”

16. “Trippin’ on skies, sippin’ waterfalls."

17. “Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days.”

18. “But you will remember me for centuries.”

19. “Something about you makes me feel like a dangerous woman."

20. “Don’t act like it’s a bad thing to fall in love with me.”

21. “Darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”

22. “Find me where the wild things are.”

23. “I’m high on lovin’ you.”

24. “If you’re gonna be somebody’s heartbreak, somebody’s mistake, if you’re gonna be somebody’s first time, somebody’s last time, be mine.”

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1. "Talk about a dream
Try to make it real
You wake up in the night
With a fear so real
Spend your life waiting
For a moment that just don't come
Well don't waste your time waiting." (Badlands)