 Hey everyone and welcome back to Nora's Cove. I'm Yoshida and here at the Cove we do business, budgeting, finances, planning, anything business planning related you can find it here. So you guys let's jump in. So first I was just going to do my regular plan with me for the week which I'm still going to do but we're in a new month and currently I'm in love and love with this pad from cloth and paper. So as you can see on the pad I have mapped out my whole month. I've been waiting on this pad because I like to kind of pre-plan. I need a bird's eye view of the month so this is how I'm using the pad. I'm using the pad to create quarterly content for my YouTube channel and for my business. I'm also using it to map out release dates all that great stuff but basically it is for my business. Content emails I consider YouTube as a business well at least a portion of my business. So I include YouTube, I include my email subscribers, I include business stuff all that will be mapped out here on this calendar. Also you guys let me show you. Coming to the shop this Friday, November the 6th, I have new inserts coming okay. There's been a couple of rough graphs but this is the final graph with graph which is monthly brain dumps. I need this. I need this and I need it in my planner. I can't take this whole pad all around the house or outside of the house with me so I created this monthly brain dump insert that you can put in your planner. That way you can look at what your goals are for the month. What are your important tasks for the month? What are dates to remember? And it's kind of outside of your calendar so basically you can take things from your calendar and you can have it here in your insert or you can either just put it in your monthly but this is what I decided to do for me and I figured someone else may need this. So what I'm going to do is pull out this insert. I'm going to get my, I don't think I have them. And then this is just for every day but I like to put some things from my business on here as well so we're kind of planning for the month. So I have these and these things are covered up the little strips you see here they're covered up because that's kind of top secret information that I only share with my Facebook group. If you're not a part of my Facebook group do me a favor go down in the description bar you can find out and get easily to my Facebook group that's some information that I'm just solely sharing with them and some of this is covered up that they don't know yet but they'll know soon enough. So let's set that aside I have the calendar over here and I'm going to start with my brain dump. So this is for the month of November now this is very minimal I'll just warn you it's very minimal I don't really need to use stickers for this that was not the purpose of this it was just to kind of be functional and straight to the point. I did the calendar here at the top so that you can highlight important dates so you can highlight these with stickers or dots I'm using some of my stickers and these are just for me they were like oops and I just like to use them so if you want to highlight important days like the 11th is my mom's birthday so I can highlight that so you can see it there and it fits inside the box and those are our teeny stickers so I'm going to put here the 11th mom's birthday and then the third is election day 26th is Thanksgiving and any important dates that you need to remember you can put those there let's say you have an important bill that is due and that you do not want to forget and that's a certain bill that you don't want to forget so you can put that there in this section here of dates to remember important tasks for the month for me then get my oil changed that is the number one task for me now referring back to my pad here I know that on dates to remember the 6th is new releases now this will go into my everyday caring but it will come in every side so if you want this in your business planner you can have it in your business planner everyday carry or whatever and use it for however that you want um important task this month is um Black Friday Black Friday sale okay now I kind of skipped over goals because I really want to spend a little more time on talking about goals I set every month I put out the goal and I'm mainly using numbers I know what those numbers mean to me um everyone may have a different type of goal let's say you want to lose 10 pounds for the month lose 10 pounds you can put that there for me I'm going to put down my numbers that I do want to lose 10 pounds I really want to lose more than that but that was just an example and sometimes 10 pounds is good you know you don't need to lose anymore but for me I'm going to put down my numbers so these are goal numbers for me they're not all related to cash or anything like that they're just numbers that I keep in my mind and I know what they are I can later on fill in the part that these numbers go to so that was how we're going to do our monthly brain dump that's how I meant monthly excuse me mainly do my monthly brain dump and then as you do those things you check them off I just believe in having goals and seeing your goals on a consistent basis because the more you see the goals the more you're going to either do um actions to achieve those goals you're going to constantly be reminded of your goals so that you can stay focused and on your goals and achieve your goals again these are dates to remember important tasks and I just told them one and any again anything that you need to highlight with maybe a teeny sticker you can use that and then you can highlight those dates that are important to you so now we have our monthly brain dump and then this will come front and back let's get into our monthly again what I normally do is put those goals over here I do sell goal stickers but I'm just going to write it out here so the first thing I like to start with is my um numbers again these numbers mean something to me I like to just see them I know what they mean and one of these numbers change on a consistent basis um from month to month just depending and then um some of them basically stays the same so we know election day is Tuesday that wasn't included on the calendar um I'm going to do a podcast my podcast actually comes out that is on my calendar I think it was new releases come out my mom's birthday is on veterans day you've been highlighted um any important things I need to get my oil changed so I'm going to look to do that uh podcast then podcast also if you've never listened to my podcast that should be listed in the description box if not is listed on my instagram where you can find me at Norris Cove um I'll save like my um design days email days things like that for the calendar and for my business calendar but podcast I like to listen and see it in my everyday carry because I need to see it in several places so I can be reminded um but so far that's what I have I'm trying to think I feel like there's something I'm missing and as usual and when things come up I will um list them on my calendar um I like to put my bills here just the main ones on my everyday carry um which is my car note which is due mom's birthday and sometimes I'll even add the small things because I have a hard time of remembering bills so my main things is car note car insurance credit cards which are barclays and I think my wayfarer is due on the second and then today is the first and I think so right now that's just the nitty gritty um I I'll be honest with you guys I use stickers mainly here to show you guys like um different ways that you could decorate your planner without you know leaving it too dry so I'm going to add just a few little stickers okay and so that it's not too too dry um I'm using some icon stickers from my shop and I'm just going to put down for my credit card um I really like just um and I have some gift boxes here and I'm going to use that for my mom's birthday and I thought I made some podcast stickers but I think that's what I'm going to do um and then here this is from uh the giving girl of her stickers um this is like a laptop I'm just going to use that I wish I had plenty so I'll just use those and it'll just give my planner just a little color so now that we have those in um I'm going to use this builder sticker by her and I'm going to put it here under build under capital one and just put build do and then I have this sheet here from Anika over at Anika creative uh closet I'm going to use these eyeglasses y'all know I love me some eyeglasses and I'm just going to put them at the top of November I'm going to use this planner and it is perfect because it's small enough to fit in the box and I'm going to put that down here on the 30th because I will be planning for next month try to see what else I can get in here that's not too big that'll fit I'll use these little slippers and just kind of put those over here in the corner I'm just looking for a small artwork that'll fit and give me a little balance so that's that that's good so now we have a little bit of something extra in my planner that is just not too too bare for those who like to see something but for real I could just leave it there it wouldn't bother me at all so let's snap these back in so my November is ready you guys I love a monthly calendar I was designing some monthly inserts I'm still tweaking them but I really dislike um fucking papers you know so I don't know I don't know what it is and then so we're gonna put in our monthly brain dump I need to put like a sticker on it so I can keep up with it yeah so I did a little bit just to play it out with October and then as you can see in October it well when I first designed it I designed it to be just a little different but I decided I just wanted it kind of plain illegible so that's that so that is all that I have for today for my monthly process of planning indeed I love this pad so that's all that I have for my monthly process of my monthly planning I started on this pad as soon as I got it because I knew I needed this for my business and just everyday life but I'll use one I have two of them so I'll use one for like planning the business I'm actually going to just take some out and stick them up for each month and each quarter that way I can go directly to it and put it up on like a poster board and then again one for like personal so that is my monthly planning process at the moment you guys know it changed but as it changes I will update you um I just want to say thank you all for stopping by if you're new to my channel and you've never been here before you've never seen any videos from me and you enjoyed today's content and you would love to see more from myself do me a favor hit that subscribe button also hit that notification bell and I'll see you 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