Get a Jump Start on Planning 2019 with this Collection of Yearly Planner Printables

This is my favourite time of year. Not only because of the wonder and magic of the holiday season, but because the new year is just around the corner. A new year is like a new notebook, full of endless possibilities and potential. To help make the most of that potential I like to spend a little time thinking and planning the things I want to do in the new year with the help of my yearly planner printables.

You can use the yearly planner printables to get a snap shot of what your year is going to look like.

A tall, light beige rectangle is the canvas of this image. At the top there is a green text in a sans serif font that says "Planners and Planning". Under the text is a photo of a wooden desk the the right side of a letter size planner showing. The planner is open to a special dates planner page. Just under the photo is a tan box with dark brown serif text that says "Get a Jump Start on Planning the New Year"

Once the chaos of the holidays (minus New Year’s Eve) is behind us, I always like to spend a little time looking at the up coming year and making plans. I don’t dive into detail planning, but I like to come up with an overview or a snap shot of what our year is going to look like.

To help me create this snap shot, I created a collection of yearly planner printables to help. These printables were made as part of the Tropical Paradise collection and match the 2019 calendars. Click here to check out the dated 2019 calendars.

The Yearly Planner Printable Collection

To me, yearly planning is kind of like creating an outline for what the next 365 days are going to look like. It’s not super detailed because things will change month to month. Instead it offers you a chance to put some guide posts down on paper to help you navigate through the things you need and want to do in the coming year.

Special Dates

I have a page like this in every single planner I use. Whether it’s personal, home-school, work, or home related, there are always events, special days, and appointments that you don’t want to forget. Keeping a list of them in your planner is a great way to make sure they don’t get forgotten.

This image links letter size, Special Dates PDF printable from the Tropical Paradise Collection.
This image links to half letter size, Special Dates PDF printable from the Tropical Paradise Collection.

Yearly Planner

The yearly planner is an updated version of one I made for 2017. Instead of making this version year specific, I made it perpetual so you can use it year after year if you want. Because I made that change I was also able to make it into a half-size version, which I’m thrilled to be able to offer.

You can use the top section to map out holidays, vacations, school breaks, birthdays, or whatever else it is that you need to keep track of year.

Below that you’ll find room noting special dates and there is a place to jot down your top three priorities or to-do list items for the year. I also made sure to leave room for a notes section, in case there are other things you need to have on this page.

This image links to letter size, Yearly Planner PDF printable from the Tropical Paradise Collection.
This image links to half letter size, Yearly Planner PDF printable from the Tropical Paradise Collection.

Yearly Overview

These ones are new additions to the printable collection. In all my planners I have something like these yearly overviews. They’re just scribbled down on note paper, but the concept is the same.

I really like being able to sit down and set some goals for the whole year. I use the top three section to plan out what three things I absolutely MUST do each month or two things and a goal I really want to work on. The notes section is sometimes used to break those three items down in more detail and other times I use it for reminders of other things.

I kept it purposefully vague so that you can use it in a variety of ways to best fit your needs.

This image links to letter size, Yearly Overview PDF printable from the Tropical Paradise Collection.
This image links to half letter size, Yearly Overview PDF printable from the Tropical Paradise Collection.

Yearly planning sounds like a daunting task, but in reality it shouldn’t take too long. You just want to create a snap shot of what your year is shaping up to look like.

Planning Tip: Use pencil or erasable ink when making your yearly plans. Life has a way of changing on us, and this way you’ll be able to easily change your plans to fit your new direction.

Whether you use all the printables in the early planner printable collection, or none of them, I hope that you are able to carve out a little time in the coming week to look ahead at the new year and start planning for how you want it to go.

Do you have a yearly planning tradition or exercise that you do? I’d love to hear about it. Drop a line in the comments below and let me know what it is.

Before You Go

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Until Next Time,

Happy Printing!

This image is a tall rectangle with a photo taking up the top two thirds and a beige background filling the bottom third. The photo shows a yearly planner printable from the Tropical Paradise collection in a teal and white leather planner lying open on a wooden desk. There is a dark tan rectangle that sits half on the bottom of the photo and half on the beige background. In white text it says "Planners and Planning" and below that in large, dark green text it says "Yearly and Monthly Planner Printables."

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6 Comments

  1. Deb Jones says:

    Clicking on the pictures is not working. I love these and want a copy of all of the half-size ones.

    1. ScatteredSquirrel says:

      Thank you so much for letting me know that there was a problem. It’s all fixed now.

  2. Deb Jones says:

    I don’t know it you received my first post or not. It is not showing here. I wanted to let you know that when I click on the pictures to download the different 2019 printables nothing happens.

    1. ScatteredSquirrel says:

      Ack, I’m so sorry I didn’t reply sooner. Thank you so much for letting me know that they were not working. The plug-in I use to make it possible to link the pictures to the PDFs doesn’t work with the new WordPress. They should be working now though.

  3. I love all your planning tools and easy-to-download forms! Thank you so much for all the time, effort, and creativity! It’s just taken one more thing off my own to-do list!!

    1. ScatteredSquirrel says:

      I’m so happy you like them Kelly. I hope you found a few to use in your planner this year.

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