There is nothing more motivating than a brand new planner. Am I right? The key is knowing how to organize your brand new planner for college!

I love the way a new planner can make you forget about your past procrastinating ways and make you feel like you’re THE productivity queen [GIVE ME A CROWN IF YOU CAN]!

In this video I’m going to walk you through how to set up your planner for the new semester so that you can better manage your time, stop procrastinating and get more done this term.

Make sure you stay tuned until the end because I’m going to give you The SheRocks@College Method to Planning Your Months, Weeks and Days in college check list. This is the planning method that I teach to all the college women I work with that has been getting them As & Bs with lots of free time to live their life.

How to Organize Your Brand New Planner in College

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So let’s talk about how to setup and organize your planner in college.

STEP ONE: SELF REFLECTION + GOAL SETTING

My favorite kind of planners are the ones that have life reflection and goal setting pages at the front because I feel like if I’m going to get my life together, I need know where I’m coming from, who I want to be, what I want to do and have. I need some vision and direction.

So before I start putting due dates in and all that, I always start my planner setup process with some journaling and self-reflection.

STEP TWO: SEMESTER AT A GLANCE

After I’ve set my goals I like to create a place where I can see everything that will be happening this semester in one place. This helps me to see when my busiest points of the semester will be so that I can prepare for it ahead of time, because I feel like sometimes those moments sneak up on us and all hell breaks lose — you don’t sleep for days and you’re hating life.

Sometimes I will do this on a big wall calendar, I’ll put all the months up but I like that The College Productivity Kit has a place where you can do this.

STEP THREE: MONTHLY PLANNING

I will sit down and plug in all due dates, exam dates, events, birthdays into my month view but I take it one step further.

I also like to break down my monthly planning by class. I usually will write down all the exams/assignments coming up for that class and then I will break down those exams/assignment into small easy to do tasks so that when I sit down to study, I never have to guess what I should be doing or working on. —

STEP FOUR: WEEKLY PLANNING

At the beginning of every week usually on Sunday I sit down and plan my week by first looking at my Monthly Class Assignment Breakdown, using the SheRocks@College Method to prioritizing my tasks, I highlight the things that are coming up this week or need to be started this week.

Next I transfer those things to my weekly layout by category and I brain dump anything else that is on my mind.

Then I make sure to put in any prescheduled time into my weekly schedule (lectures, meetings, work schedule, appointments)

This allows me to see how much time is mine to play around with.

STEP FIVE: DAILY PLANNING

At the beginning of every day in the morning while I’m having breakfast or drinking my coffee I will sit down and and review my brain dump list and how much time I have to play around with that day and I pick the Top 3 Things that MUST be done that day.

I schedule them into that day and then show up for that appointment with myself. If I have more free time, I can choose to knock off more things from my brain dump list or not. That’s the beauty and freedom of this way of planning.

You can trust that everything that needs to get done is getting done at the right time so you don’t feel guilty when you’re relaxing and you can actually enjoy your down time.

If you want to learn how to organize your time and planner like this make sure you download The SheRocks@College Guide To Planning Your Months, Weeks and Days below.

And if you don’t have a planner yet for the new semester, You can order The College Productivity at bit.ly/cpkshop

As always thank you so much for watching and I will see you in the next video.