TOPAZ HORIZON

The planner is a very serious one this year. It's usually colorful or has fabulous illustrations. This year, it's all business! From left, the Perks of a Bella coupons booklet, the planner itself, and a slim dotted notebook.

There are 60 partner offers inside - from beauty and wellness to fashion and food, there's a Bella experience waiting for you at a discount. And the more coupons you use, the more rewards you get! 

I'm using the notebook as my projects tracker. That list is all the courses I got from Udemy. I also have from Linkedin and Domestika. I've had those for years and I am either halfway through them or haven't started. So this is the year I finish something! The goal is just 12 - one a month. The rest of the pages are going to be for my income tracker for writing and editing projects, tracker for my works in progress (I have novels, devotionals, short stories, children's books!), and ideas dump.   

And here we are at the first part of the planner - where you're guided to visualize the life you want. This is actually useful! So I was writing all my dreams and plans and my surprising conclusion is my top priority is my...

My health matters because I had so many plans for 2025 and I was slowed down by lots of illnesses. It felt like I was sick every month! Usually a cold, nothing serious, but just bad enough to make me not want to work on my dreams and just sleep. And then there were a few times I had a really bad cold or cough and that was complete misery. And then when I wasn't sick, one or more of my family naman ang may sakit!

Oops, napa-Tagalog ako bigla. Ganyan talaga pag nagiging emotional ako haha

Anyway, so writing all my dreams in the guided vision spread of the BDJ Planner made me focus on what hindered me last year, crystallizing what I needed to focus on first so that I will be unstoppable in 2027!!! 

Here's my January monthly spread! Not a lot written down yet but that covered part, that's a big deal. I will let you know all about it soon enough! 

My Word for the Year is not final yet. But I've written down SLOW PRODUCTIVITY in my daily planner to remind myself to take it slow, that what matters is "Slow and steady wins the race" and not "Fast and furious but then you get sick and not get to the finish line." So one step at a time and be intentional in focusing on the projects that matter so I can finally finish them!