Get Going with this Printable Planner

Get organized and get going with The Print & Go Planner, a printable planner that you can print, bind, and customize however you like. 

Overwhelmed? Not sure where to start in getting organized? Not sure even what’s for dinner?

I have been there.

With six kids to raise, feed, and homeschool as well as a small business to run, I often found myself drifting throughout the day, scrambling to catch up. How was I going to do all the things that needed doing in a day, feed my family (mostly) homecooked meals, and still feel like I had some time for me?

I needed to organize my life!

A printable planner ended up being the thing that helped me daily to identify what quick tasks I could do while still working toward our family’s goals. My personal planner became a tried and true resource for organizing, meal planning, and time blocking. 

I couldn’t find any weekly planners that suited my needs so I designed one myself. The Print & Go Planner is the perfect combination for any parent or home manager who wants to add order to the day without sacrificing one’s dreams. 

What’s in the Print & Go Planner

The Print & Go Planner is pretty simple. With its streamlined black and white design, it’s a daily planner developed to bring order to a harried life — to get you (and me) from point A to point Z without a lot of fuss.

This printable PDF file is designed around a simple system: dream big dreams, break them down into yearly priorities, and then slowly chip away at them over the months and weeks. At the same time, keep the home fires burning with a meal plan and a weekly time budget.

When you open the planner, you’ll find pages for:

What I Want

This is the space to dream big and identify the characteristics you want to describe your life. Do you know what you want? It’s a planning page that quickly became a communication tool for me and my husband. 

By understanding what I wanted I was able to communicate that better to him and we have been able to craft a life we love, including travel and living debt-free.

What’s Going Well & My Strengths

This 2-page planner template is designed to help you build from your strengths. Drawing from eight spheres of influence common to moms, it’s a place to identify your blessings so that you can grow in confidence and thanksgiving.

Priorities for the Year & Goals or Systems to Develop

On the priorities for the year page, you’ll identify which things from your overall vision to focus on during the year. This might affect your personal health, spiritual and intellectual growth, relationships, home, finances, hospitality, work, and travels.

On the facing page in this printable planner are fields to draft your ideas for goals or systems to develop over the coming eyar. This may be areas of challenge or simply places you want to improve in your life.

My Monthly/Weekly/Daily To-Dos

Since some months, weeks, and days have regular tasks, you can jot them down here to keep them top of mind. We recommend using the different size post-its on this page so that you can switch them out as your tasks and circumstances evolve over the course of the year.

My Ideal Week

We are big believers in the time budget, so we’ve included a page to draft an idea week in your planner. While you might not hit the target every week, you never will if you don’t know what to aim for.

The Month’s Priorities at a Glance 

Each month, you can chip away at those yearly goals by laying out specific steps to take during the coming weeks. We’ve lumped them into four main categories: relationships, home, personal, and finances.

Monthly Calendar Pages

Each month’s calendar page will help you see the time you have to work with and to plan accordingly. There are dated 2026 calendar pages in this year’s planner.

Weekly To-Do’s and Meal Plan

Similar to our post-it note to-do list, this weekly to-do page and daily planning page combo allows you to grab tasks from your monthly list to place on the weekly list. Then each day pull a few from the weekly list to work on.

You’ll also have your week’s meal plan right there.

Weekly Time Budget

Each week’s time budget provides space to plan out the week and where you’ll put feet to those big dreams and priorities. It may or may not reflect your ideal week, depending on what’s going on in that specific week.

Quarterly Recap

Every three months, there’s a place for you to review what went well, what you learned, what you hope to do going forward. This dovetails perfectly with 90-day planning to help you make progress on your goals for the year.

Bonus Pages

There are a number of bonus pages sprinkled throughout the year’s pages, including

• a reading log – you gotta track your TBR!
• pleasant surprises to record
• things you’re grateful for
• the year’s accomplishments

These are designed to help you keep track of all the good that God is doing in your life. Spoiler: it’s probably more than you think!

The Print & Go Planner is available for purchase in a printable PDF that you can download instantly as well as print-on-demand. There’s even a Print & Go Student Planner! 

You can print the planner and bind however you like OR load it into a PDF annotation app like GoodNotes and use it digitally. Digital planning is my jam.

This is what I use every day to track my days and help me build a better life. Here’s how I use mine.

More Good Ideas for Planning

This post was originally published on July 13, 2015. It has been updated for content and clarity.