 Well hello my friends and welcome back to my channel. Today we're gonna be doing a first impressions of a planner that was sent to me by Life and Apples. This is the undated Life and Apples The Wellness Planner. It's a daily motivational journal for healthy living and it says active life, balanced eating and happiness. This is something that is available on Amazon. I will leave a link below for you guys. I am currently looking on my Amazon and it is retailing for $24.97 so I just wanted to let you all know that and then there's some information on the back as well. So it says the wellness planner, a daily planner and journal for staying healthy, motivated and inspired. It helps you focus on your diet and fitness goals, eat healthy and plan meals, lead an active lifestyle and stay fit, build and maintain positive habits, feel accomplished and happier and then down here it has 240 pages. It's a 90-day layout or it's a 90-day daily layout I should say. There's meal planning, food journal, gratitude, fitness schedule, goals, weekly review, a habit tracker and inspirational quotes. So their website is LifeandApples.com but like I said you can get it on Amazon as well. First things first there is this elastic band closure which I do like for these kind of more like softer planners and let's pull this guy off here. Here we go. Let's take it off. Oh it's naked now. So anyway on the front it is like a nice kind of a I don't know like a faux leather and it's going to be kind of hard to see but maybe you can see it but there is like a little embossed apple on the front. The spine is just like a softer leather as well and then the back is just plain but embossed on the bottom it says Life and Apples with a little apple on that as well. There is a little pen loop which is really nice so let's open this bad boy up and it does feel nice. It's not like a gritty feeling it's like a very smooth feeling even though there's definitely like you know some it looks like there's texture to it but there's not but I don't know I don't know I don't mind it. So anyway there's a little card in there that says download your free healthy living ebooks and printables at lifeandapples.com slash pages slash bonus and it looks like you can sign up to get a 10 off coupon on your next order if you sign up there that's cool. All right so first impression of opening it I hadn't opened it yet. The paper feels nice it feels thick but it's like the front page so it might feel a little different. So on the front it just says life and apples the wellness planner undated. All right so oh this is like stitch bound oh that's cool. All right so it has different sections so section one is mindset concepts and guidelines how to use this planner a self-fulfilling promise. Section two is a daily planner and weekly progress I can't talk today. Your goals daily planner wellness no daily wellness planner I told you guys I can't talk today. Weekly progress review and then section three is your progress and inspiration a review exciting things ahead and notes cool. All right so here is just some information on mindset. I'm not going to read this whole thing because I want to get through this a little faster for you guys so you can kind of see the inside of this a little bit. So I think it's just like about talking about what this planner is all about is what it kind of looks like of like how to set a short term goal daily motivation things like that so yeah oh and then there's like a little thing of like how to use this planner cool so it talks about like gratitude affirmation active day today's meal planning a wellness summary and all that good stuff all right so oh well you have to make a promise to yourself apparently when you have this planner all right cool well let's make a promise y'all so the promise to myself the day in date I will use this wellness planner to create a lasting positive change in my health and wellness and then you know why basically you put why you want to change it and then you're prepared to change and commit and then sign it all right okay this has a lot of structure to it so if you guys know me and any of my planner styles I really don't like a lot of structure but I think this would be really great for somebody that likes a lot of structure especially if they're trying to get motivated with meal planning meal prepping being active things like that so I mean I haven't looked through the rest of it but I can just already kind of tell that it's going to be a lot of structure so anyway you got my goals so then you can put in a bunch of goals so your goal and you want to achieve them by and then the action steps and there's three lines with the little faint check boxes and that looks like there's five on this page and then now we are into the daily planner okay so it's one day on two pages so you have the day in date which it's undated so you can start this at any time you write what you're grateful for your daily affirmation your active day it says exercise workouts and opportunities to keep active today and it's got seven different lines with checks and then notes it says today's priorities to do special events etc and seven category or seven lines as well with little checks so I mean clearly you would use this for like food and activity tracking but if you had like to do is like hey I need to run to the store I need to go grocery shopping or I need to like pick up the dry cleaning like you could put that in here it looks like and then down at the bottom it says universal wellness elements are you getting enough question mark and it says air and sunlight water nutrients joy and fun and sleep sleep is something that I definitely struggle with I don't know if you guys struggle with it out there but I definitely struggle with sleep water I don't struggle with that at all all right so over into the right hand side over here it says today's meal plan and then it has breakfast and some lines lunch dinner and snacks so you can either plan that ahead or you can even just write it in as it happens this is small enough that it would definitely fit in I think most people's purses let me see if I can find the size on the interwebs here all right so this is five and a half inches by eight inches so yeah I mean you could definitely throw this in your bag or your work bag or keep it on your desk at work or just keep it at home too I mean it's definitely small enough where it could suit those needs and it says on the scale of one to five how was today and how well did you follow the plan and it's one through five and it just says what could be improved tomorrow and then it's got like a little quote from George Elliott and says the strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice isn't that the truth gosh it's getting it's getting deep on the fd channel today all right and so um day and date all over again and I believe let's see here all right so you've got a whole week and then you have a weekly review so you have your day and date success and wins oh and all the days are the same like the day and date and then like your today's meal plan all those are the same throughout the seven days so at your weekly review you put the day and the date successes and wins and it says celebrate your wins what were some of the motivating moments people and things that helped you have a healthier week and then you have three lines to write about that and it says needs improvement how can you make next week a healthier one any pitfalls to avoid and it's got three lines the next section is insight and lessons what have you learned about yourself this week and three more lines and then over here is the weekly progress tracking and it says track your daily bi-weekly and weekly healthy habits so it's got three sections here and then Monday through Sunday so you can either check that off or you know if there's a certain amount of ounces of water or something like that you could do that as well and then over here it says track your progress towards your goals use parameters like weight number of weekly workouts new habits etc and it says parameter this week my goal that'd be nice if you're trying to fluctuate your weight or something like that um and then weekly notes it's got a bunch of lines and some checkboxes as well all right so then we're back into the week again all right and then you got another weekly okay let's kind of see what else is going on i kind of like that this is stitch because it like lays like it lays flat like i don't know if you guys can see that but it it does lay flat um it's hard to see because i'm like tipping it up but it does lay flat which is kind of nice it does have these as well these little ribbons wow words are hard today so you could ideally have one of them for your day and then one of them for your week especially if you're going to do one of those like weekly habit trackers or their parameters or something um so yeah but let me find if there's anything else going on in this plan that just might be it i'm not really sure so let's take a peek here and then i'll talk about paper quality in just a moment okay looks like that's all the same oh oh there's different pages hold hold on hold on hold on okay so in the back okay so this is after all of the 90 days so in the back it has review congrats on your commitment to a healthier life write down the accomplishments that you're most proud of and detail what you need to continue and improve on your journey to wellness it says i accomplished and says look back at your goals and notice the progress you've made what are your big list accomplishments and you can write them down and says i'm committed um and then exciting things ahead oh and then you got a bunch of notes pages very cool all right so we've got three one two three four line notes pages and then you've got one two three three normal pages that are blank and then this one's like more of a oh five normal pages and then this one's one more like a that's not card stock but it's like thick oh and then in the back there's a little pocket so you can put you know like a something in there you know some secrets something so yeah so this is the planner um yeah so the paper quality feels pretty nice it is a little thinner than like the erin chondron if you guys watch my regular planning uh stuff i use an erin chondron it's a little bit thinner than that and i can tell by the ink saturation underneath as well i don't have time to do a pen test today i'm kind of in the middle of doing a whole bunch of things in my home right now so i don't have time to do that today but um i feel like any like regular like ballpoint not ballpoint but yeah a ballpoint pen or like a gel pen would probably be really nice with this um like i said before there is a ton of structure with this planner like a lot of structure with this planner so if that's something that you're really seeking i think that this might be a really good idea for you if you really want to get motivated with your food and your fitness and tracking things like this might be a good one for you i know that some people have a real trouble with planners that don't have any structure at all i kind of thrive on minimal structure which is probably why i've never gotten into bullet journaling because there's like no structure with that so um i do like my erin chondron hourly because it just gives me hours and i can put in what i want to put in that's like great for me but any more structure than that i don't like so this isn't something that i would definitely use however i can see the value in it for sure especially if you're someone that just needs to have a question posed and then write it in so like having a category to say hey i am grateful for this and these are my notes and this is my lunch plan like that i can totally understand how that works really well for some people so i think the planner is pretty cool i actually really like the size of it just for portability because if i were to use it i would want to take this on the go and grab my pen and take it you know to the office or take it to visit friends or whatever and like really keep track of stuff because if that's what this planner is all about with tracking things it's just something that i would definitely want to be portable which it is it's quite light as well it's really nice it's not bulky um it's very thin so i do like that that it would fit in in most purses i would say again if you are interested in this planner at all feel free to check out the links down below if you all have any questions about anything else feel free to leave them in the comments below and if you guys want me to review any other planners out there in the world also let me know in the comments down below you guys have sent me some great ideas and i've been trying to get as many of those planner reviews and first impressions on my channel as fast as possible so anyway that's gonna be it for me today thank you guys so much for hanging out with me for a little part of your day if you like the video make sure to give it a thumbs up if you like this type of content and want to see more feel free to subscribe and i will see y'all in the next video bye guys 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