Author: stargardener

Braveheart, I believe art heals — and that art is as simple as abiding outdoors with the morning sky or jotting lists or having a favorite color. I created Right Brain Planner® because I needed a "planner" that offered space but didn't trigger my daily expectations — space to dream and chronicle my life. I needed a planner that was a journal — a place to collect my blurts and random bits of color and collage. Perhaps you are in need of the same? If so, I hope you will join me via our shared online connections. ♥

Day One Guide 🌷 (Happy Spring!)

stargardener

Right Brain Planner Seasonal Guide:

Any Day Can be Day One

(Habits, Routines & Micro-Creativity)

 

*This is a DIGITAL FILE. You may use it as a digital file and/or print at home (or take to a print shop) for your personal use. This file cannot be resold, redistributed or used for any commercial purpose. Because this is an instant download, no refund is available.

[Day One Guide page view]

This Guide includes options for daily, weekly and monthly entries—and a journal for entries sequenced with the four main lunar phases. It provides index card art templates, tiny templates for collage, mark-making and doodles, collage art + quick-start prompts for [Habits, Routines & Micro-Creativity]—to be used with a notepad, journal, monthly calendar or a dated planner to practice right brain planning.

Related: pen-to-paper | One Line a Day: A Five-Year (journals by Chronicle Books)

Download this insert with the 2025 lunar phases + monthly tabs—and the 2025 Right Brain Planner themed quotations to use in your “planner” at no charge:

2025 Lunar Phases, Tabs and Themes

For 2025—along with the resources I offer to my Ko-fi patrons—I will be publishing guides on a seasonal schedule to help simplify the process of developing a right brain planning practice.

  • For the past twelve years I have published an annual Kit for creating a creative record of intention and story.

My intention is to compile ideas + resources focused on how to move through the seasons of Life.

➡️ With the aim of facilitating the collection of data about our [habits and patterns] that facilitate [daily sequences and lunar practices] that are doable (achievable—without self-loathing, constant-comparison, trying-hard and then giving up).

The 2025 Right Brain Planner theme is:

[Chapters 📖 The Magic of Your Story Unfolding]

For Guide 1, I included 29 pages of content and reference materials about getting started with a right brain planning practice + 12 monthly journal pages with prompts + a quarterly month-at-a-glance page.

  • The focus for Guide 1 is an overview of right brain planning with assessments and guidance to determine what is doable + useful for you as a right brain planner. 😊
    • Guide 1 also includes content and templates about:
      • Right Brain Planner Life Quad
      • Beginner’s Mind
      • Values Assessment
      • Feelings & Needs Inventories
      • (12) monthly journal pages to serve as a scaffolding for a theme-based monthly right brain planning practice.

Right brain planning fosters self-compassion (instead of a system based on performance) because it prioritizes expression, your well-being and checking in with yourself; tracking your phases [energies, moods, progress] with nature’s seasons and the moon’s phases; tending to your Life Quad, nourishing your senses and noticing the details of the world around you.

Thank you kindly for your interest in right brain planning! ♥

any day can be your Day One

stargardener

✨〰️✨ Micro-acts of creativity is the focus for the second Guide for 2025. And, any day can be Day One.

Also—everything counts as progress: unseen (thinking; processing) progress and seen (tangible; tracked) progress. Also everything counts when you get anything on the page.

  • ✂️📏📄 As in, collage can be a therapeutic starting point. (This includes even one teeny, tiny piece of collage a day…)
  • 🖍️🖌️🖋️ As in, making marks (doodles, shapes, lines) qualifies as “journaling” (when words are elusive).
  • 🌀🌀🌀 As in, slow-drawing swirls on the page when you are feeling wonky and need to get grounded (using pen-to-paper).

🔔 The second Right Brain Planner Guide includes LOTS of collage fodder for ✂️ you to add to a monthly calendar, journal and/planner, along with templates for making 🖍️🖌️🖋️ marks and 📝 micro-journaling.

Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Stillness is vital to the world of the soul.

John O’Donohue

Ko-fi posts | why right brain plan? | blog

Thank you kindly for your interest in right brain planning! I am so grateful for your presence and support! ♥