Eco-friendly planners (write down your dreams!)

If you want to take your life forward, you usually need a plan! And life planners make that a lot easier, once you have your life dreams down on paper!

This personalised eco-friendly life planner is just the ticket to sort your life out! We all have dreams and it’s proven that writing things down helps to focus the mind, to make things happen for the good.

But you don’t want a boring white pad. You need some creative inspiration, and this life planner is just that! Made from sustainable emboassed card, this can ‘turn wishes into practical plans’, and is filled with useful contents and inspiring quotes, to help you move through the year with clarity and purpose.

What’s inside this life planner?

The dusky teal planner (also in blue) is embossed with the name of your choice. Inside you’ll find weekly planning spreads and an empowering bookmark, to pause and reflect. The undated version means you can start any day you like – from tomorrow?

The life planner includes:

• Year-at-a-glance spreads
• Double-page monthly calendar for 12 months
• Yearly goals and intentions pages
• Weekly spread to set daily and weekly goals
• Weekly thoughtful quotes
• Monthly reflections and planning pages
• Review of the year reflection pages
• Spaces for notes
• A unique keepsafe pocket

The planner is refillable so you can add content, but keep the folder for years to come.

Good Tuesday’s eco life planner pads

Getting tired of losing all your appointments or not sticking to good habits? Treat yourself to one of these plastic-free diaries or organised. Good for you and good for the planet!

Check out these lovely diaries and planners by Good Tuesday. This Cornish company offers lots of lovely inspiring designs, all printed on recycled paper and sold in plastic-free packaging. A few items are also designed in recycled plastic.

There are even ‘corner stickers’ you can use, also made from biodegradable materials in plastic-free packaging.

Why use a diary or planner?

Life is complicated these days. So using a diary or planner, is a great way to keep track of appointments and goals, and give you a clear vision on how you would like your life to look either in the next few weeks or months, or even years. It gives you a good roadmap to get there:

• Reduce mental clutter (once down on paper, you can forget about it, and clear your head).
• Help not to forget things. Ideal if you’re a bit of an amnesiac!
• Breaks down large goals into small steps.
• Lets you practice mindfulness and gratitude
• A paper planner is a good way to ‘get offline’ and work things out with pen and paper.

It’s easy to lose interest if your goals are so big that results feel far away. Realistic goals break the journey into short stops along the way, which makes it easier to stay on track. Each time you hit a small target, you get a little boost that pushes you onward.

Ways to keep your motivation up:

• Celebrate every little step forward, not just the end result
• Keep a written list or notebook to track your progress
• Give yourself small rewards when you reach each checkpoint

For example, if your goal is to save £20 a week, you’ll watch your savings grow over time. That’s far less daunting than waiting for a year to check if you’ve somehow reached a much bigger total. You stay focused because each move forward feels real.

Here’s what steady progress might look like in everyday life:

If you walk 5000 steps a day, that’s over 140,000 steps a month.

If you save £20 a week, that’s £80 saved in a month: and that’s almost £1000 saved in a year.

If you don’t have time to cook a meal each night, do it for 3 nights a week. Then that’s 12 healthy home-cooked meals you’ve managed in a month. Well done, you!

Keep track of your progress

Writing down your progress helps you see what you’ve done and what’s next. It stops the goal from feeling like a vague idea floating in your head. Tracking can be as simple as a checklist, a journal, or an app where you mark your steps.

Here’s an easy way to do it:

• List your small steps in order
• Tick them off as you do them
• Note any challenges or how you felt afterwards

When you see a list filling up with ticks, it’s like proof you’re moving forward. This makes it easier to keep going, even on tough days.

Making a plan helps to keep you on course. Instead of making endless ‘to-do lists’ that never get finished, make a weekly plan, and then have a weekly review on Sunday evenings.

Fall down seven times. Stand up eight. Japanese proverb