This year will be different.
No more waking up on a Saturday morning, checking your calendar, and realizing you have nothing planned. Calling your friends to franticly make plans for the day, only to end up doing nothing.
It’s simple. Start by customizing your calendar — choose your location, and the calendar will populate with public holidays in your area. You can also change the theme to your liking.
Next, take it to your favorite digital playground. Download your calendar as an SVG or PNG and drag it straight into tools like Figjam, Apple’s Freeform, Miro, or Excalidraw. Wherever you like to play, it will work!
Now comes the fun part — color coding. Decide on the colors for types of events. Maybe use green for birthdays, blue for time with family, and yellow for adventures? It’s your calendar, so make it yours.
Time to start planning. I prefer to start with big things for the year, to plan everything else around these. If this year you're finally going to Japan 🇯🇵, block off that month first!
Then, I add in smaller things — like this year I finally want to try a cold plunge in sea during Winter and have a stand up paddling weekend with friends. These things need to be planned around work and other commitments.
Finally comes small stuff — like birthdays, anniversaries, and weddings. Things I need to be aware of, but don’t need to plan around.
What's next? Print it out or leave it digital. Stick it on your wall or put it up as a wallpaper on your laptop. Share it with the friends you care about or hide it next to your other debatable hobbies.
Turn your year into something you’ll never forget.
You work hard every day, grinding away at your job, your side projects. You're invited by friends and family to birthdays, weddings, and other events. It's easy to find yourself always busy, always on the go.
New Years comes, you look back to see what actually happend this year and you know what? That one project went good, your weird uncle got remarried again, and you had that one amazing trip to the beach.
Everything else is a blur. A vaugue memory of a busy year, laying on a couch binge watching another Netlix show, because nothing was going on.
Sounds familiar? Take an afternoon off, sit down with a cup of coffee, pull up your favourite digital board, download this fucking thing that I spent too much time on and start planning your 2025.
Make it massive. You have 52 weekends, perfect for 52 adventures.