2009 Weekly Planners to Help You Focus on Your Values

Posted: 2008-11-03

I often find myself wondering if I'm devoting time to the things that are more important to me (e.g. family, health, home, work, learning, delicious food, weekly goals that help me become the person I want to be, and activities like volunteering). I hate going to bed and regretting not spending more time focusing on my kids, spending time with my husband, or not doing something to achieve my dreams.

So I wanted to make a calendar that would help me plan my to-do lists and schedule around those things that are most important to me. I spent a month trying variations until I found a layout that worked for me. I call it my Weekly Planner for Value Focused Tasks (a very plain name I know, but descriptive).

You can get your own to help you keep your values in focus at:
http://www.kristensguide.com/Printables/calendars.asp

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New Free Printable 2008/2009 Monthly Calendars with Weekly Routine Schedules

Posted: 2008-10-09

The 2009 monthly calendars are here (or at least the first two are). And these ones also include the months of October, November, and December for 2008.

They're perfect for people who typically follow a routine but may need to make note of special events and appointments once in awhile. Or you can use them as a supplement to weekly planners or daily schedules. Monthly calendars on top. Weekly routine schedules for each month on the bottom. One without holidays. One with national holidays, special days, and fun days as celebrated by the UN, USA, Canada, and Mexico. And, of course, one that's completely blank, so you can fill in your own dates if you wish.

Go check them out at:
http://www.kristensguide.com/Printables/calendars.asp

Oh! and more calendars are on the way. I'm working hard this year on creating a variety of calendar styles, dated and blank, all for free. So stay subscribed to the KG Updates to find out when they're available.

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New Weekly Routine Planning Printables

Posted: 2008-09-15

If you're trying to figure out how to juggle all the new autumn schedules, but don't want to set up or print out complicated daily calendars that repeat the same routine tasks over and over again or hope that your PDA battery doesn't die right when you need it, try using a printable weekly routine planner (or two). They're perfect for people who tend to have the same routine every week.

Print out a weekly routine planner for each group or family member you need to keep track of. (If you're lucky enough to have a everyone on a similar schedule, then you might only need to print out one.) Fill them out, post them on your bulletin board for everyone to see, and refer to them whenever you need to add something new to your schedule to avoid schedule conflicts.

Now you'll be sure that your new weekly class won't interfere with your spouse's weekly meeting, and with a quick glance you schedule your 4:30 doctor appointment, knowing that it won't overlap with picking up your children from their afternoon chess club.

To get the new free Weekly Routine Planning worksheets, go to
http://www.kristensguide.com/Printables/calendars.asp

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ALL Printables Are Now Free!

Posted: 2008-09-03

Sometimes the best thing you can do to help the world is to do something little, something to help people take a little more control of their lives, so they can work toward achieving their dreams and in turn help somebody else achieve theirs. During the last few months, I've been wondering how I can make more of a difference in the world, and I came up with a small idea.

Kristen's Guide is well known for all the free printables, but I've also offered higher quality printable and hard copy organizers, calendars, workbooks, planners, forms, and customized documents for sale. To ensure that people on a budget could afford such items, I've always set low prices, and even with those low prices I still made a respectable amount of money from those sales. Then I started thinking about people who couldn't even afford to buy those low priced items: kids, people without bank accounts, people who were counting their pennies.

I grew up poor, so I know what it's like to be limited to only free items offered by libraries, schools, government programs, and non-profit organizations while my more financially secure friends got to go shopping for high quality products whenever they wanted. But that was before electronic media. Of course we needed to pay for paper, printing, the overhead for the store that sold it, transportation, materials to produce tapes or CDs, storage space, etc. Those kinds of resources are limited. But in today's electronic age, it just doesn't seem right to keep an electronic document, a bunch of binary code that can be reproduced and distributed infinitely and easily, from financially challenged people.

So I'm no longer going to sell electronic printables. I'm giving them all away for free.

Go to
http://www.kristensguide.com/Printables/index.asp to find out more.

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Free 2008-2009 Weekly Planner for Students is Here!

Posted: 2008-08-17

It's finally here. The 2008-9 Weekly Planner for Students, and I'm offering it for FREE.

It's a weekly calendar (for the school year), time schedule, and assignment planner all on one sheet.

Help kids keep track of their project deadlines as well as events, appointments, extracurricular schedules, and study schedules. Four subjects (language arts, math, science, and social studies) are filled in, and there are still four more slots open for other classes and activities. Time (6am to 9pm) is in one-hour increments. Space beneath the date allows room for writing in holidays and special days. Each page also includes the week number and season.

This printable is designed for two-sided printing. (Print odd pages first, flip them over, then print even pages.) The back of each weekly planner page contains sections for writing down goals, to-do lists, and quick notes.

Get this free printable at
http://www.kristensguide.com/Printables/student_schedule.asp

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