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Do you know what I love? 

Planners and organizers and diaries. I love them. I think that without my planner, I'd be lost. Recently a friend of mine called me in a tiny fit about how they kept forgetting to do important things because they were caught up with other important things. Obviously, I asked if they had a planner and they did but it was too small to really delve into. After helping them find another planner, I decided to share with you guys some tips I've found from others and some of my own tips on staying organized and using your planner for more than just the first few weeks of school. 

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I find it very important to purchase a planner that is visually appealing, something that I'm going to enjoy carrying around to jot down all of my assignments. I also like to buy nice pens, like the Staedtler Fine Liners -- they are amazing pens and they make writing things down more fun for me. So after you buy a pretty planner and some nice pens, then you can get down to the real business of using your planner. You bought it for a reason, remember?

So I like to write down all of my classes in the blocks by their times so that I know where I should be and at what time I should be there. It helps me stay on task and not get caught up in doing too many things in such a way that I forget all of the things I have to do. And then as you go along, fill in the blanks of your planner with things you'd like to do. Plan ahead using your syllabus, school events, and the like so that you won't be surprised by a sudden quiz or something. And I always like to take a few minutes in the morning to check out the plan for my day so that I know what I've got going on and all of the things I want to accomplish during the day or week. Good luck to all of you, because it's now September and we are all back to school for a while!

catch you later,
Karleigh

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” // Benjamin Franklin