Archives for 2015

I have a gorgeous free year at a glance form for you today.

I promised you that when I talked about Planning Homeschool When Drowning in a Sea of Ideas I would share my fix for my planning struggle.

Instead of staying buried in the details which I have a tendency to do on my Glam It Up Planner, Unit Study Planner and my 7 Step DIY Homeschool Planner, I always struggle with the broad strokes on any type of planning.

Year at a Glance Printable Form

First, you know I am not a fan of having house management printables, homeschooling, and blogging stuff all jumbled together in one planner.

Too, weekly homeschool planners which give you teeny tiny boxes to write in is now how I roll.

Detailed day to day lesson planning requires writing space and I have found that daily planning overall is much better. 

Each area of life needs to have details worked out. With that being said, I do see adding a few pages of menu planning or week at a glance pages to keep you seeing the broad strokes while you homeschool.

And since most of us wear more than one hat whether we homeschool, we are just plain busy mommas.

So now that you know I always tackle details first and I have pages in my 7 Step DiY Homeschool Planner for looking at the big picture in those specific areas of life. But, my struggle is looking at ALL of it!

Today, I have my fix for those buried in the organizing details and I have created a free at year at a glance form. 

I wanted to keep it free so that all of you could benefit. I try to keep my prices down for my products, but I really wanted this form available to all of you so I kept it free.

I have already filled in some of my goals for January’ I’m loving this new glance at a year form because it helps to be honed in on one area of life. 

It has already helped me to clearly see projects that I need to pull back away from and look at the big picture so that I can make the next goal.

Free Year at a Glance Form

Look at the Year at a Glance form which I have for you and me. 

Print one or two or however many you need and put it with your planner to remind yourself to keep looking ahead at your yearly goals and to keep tracking them.

Can you believe that it was painful for me to create this because I wanted to fine tune it some more for detail?

I refused to let myself go there because I needed a place to plug in general homeschooling plans, personal goals and just you name it any type of goal for the year.

Also, in the busy mayhem homeschooling sometimes I have forgotten what makes me move and rock when I need to and that is inspirational quotes.

Though I tell you how much I love them and share them occasionally, I try to limit myself on posting them at the end of my blog posts sometimes because I tend to give detailed blog posts talk a lot.  I can’t help it, I have a lot to say.

Getting back to what makes me stay on fire throughout the the whole long year of homeschooling, parenting, helping other homeschoolers and generally just being energized about life, I added a section to the top of the year at a glance form on the right side for a quote of the year.

Curriculum Pages for Planner

Your quote of the year may just be a few words that you are focusing on or verse that you are fond of. 

This year I came across a saying on Pinterest which struck a chord with me.

This is the year I will be stronger, braver, kinder and UNSTOPPABLE. This year I will be FIERCE.

Some years I have just wanted to mildly goal plan and other years, like this one I need some fierceness.

With a few trips planned back to the states this year and in between catching up on homeschooling, updating my blog and writing a book along with some other changes, it will be one hectic rocking year.

By the way, I wanted to update you on what came from this form. Look at what I accomplished the next few years with this year at a glance form.

• I wrote a book, Homeschooling 31 Day Boot Camp for New Homeschoolers: When You Don’t Know Where to Begin

• Also, the New Homeschooler Boot Camp I taught for years in person and wrote a curriculum for, I put it online for all homeschoolers.

A bit of encouragement for you too. Whether you meet your goals or not is not the sign of success, but by planning you greatly increase your chance of successfully meeting them.

It is better to plan than to not plan.  Also, though I remind you of this, I need the reminder myself too and that is, as I explained in Planning Homeschool When Drowning in a Sea of Ideas don’t over plan.

Over planning and not meeting goals is just a road for burnout. 

With goals clearly marked in order from 1 to 12, a plan stays reachable.

Then at the bottom  of the form, I left an area for a 6 month evaluation to write in what you have successfully done and what you may want to work on half way through the year.

Too, sometimes goals can completely change mid-year. 

We may have a child struggling with a subject that we may think it will take all year to master and they may do it in three months.

Again, big picture goals change and hopefully, this general year at a glance form will keep all the goals you make wrangled in one place to remind you and me both to look up sometime.

I hope you love the new form as much I do.

Remember it’s a two page spread so be sure to bind it that way in any planner you use of mine.

Look at these other homeschool planner products that I know you’ll love!

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Step 1. Choose a Pretty Front/Back Cover

Step. 2. Choose Calendars/Appointment Keepers

Step 3. Choose Goals/Objectives

Step 4. Choose Lesson Planning Pages Right For You!

Step 5a. Choose Unique forms JUST for You! Not a kazillion other people

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Step 5c. Choose MORE MORE Unique Forms Just for You!

Step 6. Personalize It

Step 7. Bind it! Love it!

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Hugs and love ya,