You need a place to get what’s in your head onto paper, name what matters most, and move forward without overhauling your entire life. You need…
The Playbooks
The Lazy Genius Tool to Making Your Planner Work Better for You
Each one focuses on a different part of life — a season, a project, a trip, a celebration — and gives you a way to hold the details without holding the stress.
The Seasonal Playbooks
Inside the original Playbooks, you’ll find thoughtful questions to help you see your season clearly, notice what matters most, and gently shape the next three months around what you actually need. Not just what’s yelling the loudest.
The weekly pages help you sift through what needs your energy now and what can wait. You’ll still use your planner for appointments and to-dos. Your Playbook is where you do the thinking before the scheduling. It’s a home for the important stuff. And since it's small enough to tuck into your planner, it goes where your life goes.
The Seasons
December - January - February
The Playbooks help you name what matters during this season of life so you can plan your next three months.
The Playbooks help you:
Reflect on what’s going on in your right now life
Identify how you want to feel over the next three months
Notice what actually matters to you and your people over what you think should matter
Plan for your routine life stuff and the seasonal things that you don’t want to miss
Acknowledge what you have to do and what you hope to do
Notice how things are going and if you’d like to make a change
This is not your planner; it makes your planner more effective.
The Playbooks were inspired by my book The PLAN and created to work concurrently with whatever planner or planning system you love using. They’re approximately 8.25 inches tall by 6 inches wide.
Inside, you’ll find premium 70# uncoated white text paper, all wrapped in sturdy 100# Mohawk cover stock embossed with the name of each season. Saddle-stitched for a lay flat design, they're made to be both lasting and practical.
This listing is for the Winter version of the Playbooks! It covers December, January, and February.
Interested in the whole set? Get a discount when you buy the bundle!
June - July - August
The Playbooks help you name what matters during this season of life so you can plan your next three months.
The Playbooks help you:
Reflect on what’s going on in your right now life
Identify how you want to feel over the next three months
Notice what actually matters to you and your people over what you think should matter
Plan for your routine life stuff and the seasonal things that you don’t want to miss
Acknowledge what you have to do and what you hope to do
Notice how things are going and if you’d like to make a change
This is not your planner; it makes your planner more effective.
The Playbooks were inspired by my book The PLAN and created to work concurrently with whatever planner or planning system you love using. They’re approximately 8.25 inches tall by 6 inches wide.
Inside, you’ll find premium 70# uncoated white text paper, all wrapped in sturdy 100# Mohawk cover stock embossed with the name of each season. Saddle-stitched for a lay flat design, they're made to be both lasting and practical.
This listing is for the Summer version of the Playbooks! It covers June, July, and August.
Interested in the whole set? Get a discount when you buy the bundle!
March - April - May
The Playbooks help you name what matters during this season of life so you can plan your next three months.
The Playbooks help you:
Reflect on what’s going on in your right now life
Identify how you want to feel over the next three months
Notice what actually matters to you and your people over what you think should matter
Plan for your routine life stuff and the seasonal things that you don’t want to miss
Acknowledge what you have to do and what you hope to do
Notice how things are going and if you’d like to make a change
This is not your planner; it makes your planner more effective.
The Playbooks were inspired by my book The PLAN and created to work concurrently with whatever planner or planning system you love using. They’re approximately 8.25 inches tall by 6 inches wide.
Inside, you’ll find premium 70# uncoated white text paper, all wrapped in sturdy 100# Mohawk cover stock embossed with the name of each season. Saddle-stitched for a lay flat design, they're made to be both lasting and practical.
This listing is for the Spring version of the Playbooks! It covers March, April, and May.
Interested in the whole set? Get a discount when you buy the bundle!
September - October - November
The Playbooks help you name what matters during this season of life so you can plan your next three months.
The Playbooks help you:
Reflect on what’s going on in your right now life
Identify how you want to feel over the next three months
Notice what actually matters to you and your people over what you think should matter
Plan for your routine life stuff and the seasonal things that you don’t want to miss
Acknowledge what you have to do and what you hope to do
Notice how things are going and if you’d like to make a change
This is not your planner; it makes your planner more effective.
The Playbooks were inspired by my book The PLAN and created to work concurrently with whatever planner or planning system you love using. They’re approximately 8.25 inches tall by 6 inches wide.
Inside, you’ll find premium 70# uncoated white text paper, all wrapped in sturdy 100# Mohawk cover stock embossed with the name of each season. Saddle-stitched for a lay flat design, they're made to be both lasting and practical.
This listing is for the Fall version of the Playbooks! It covers September, October, and November.
Interested in the whole set? Get a discount when you buy the bundle!
Prepare, live, adjust, and notice with The Playbooks! The Playbooks help you name what matters during this season of life so you can plan your next three months.
The Playbooks help you:
Reflect on what’s going on in your right now life
Identify how you want to feel over the next three months
Notice what actually matters to you and your people over what you think should matter
Plan for your routine life stuff and the seasonal things that you don’t want to miss
Acknowledge what you have to do and what you hope to do
Notice how things are going and if you’d like to make a change
This is not your planner; it makes your planner more effective.
The Playbooks were inspired by my book The PLAN and created to work concurrently with whatever planner or planning system you love using. They’re approximately 8.25 inches tall by 6 inches wide.
Inside, you’ll find premium 70# uncoated white text paper, all wrapped in sturdy 100# Mohawk cover stock embossed with the name of each season. Saddle-stitched for a lay flat design, they're made to be both lasting and practical.
This bundle contains all four seasons. Each Playbook helps guide you through what matters on a broad scale for a specific time of the year.
Plan the fun without losing your mind.
Some celebrations come with big expectations (and big feelings). Others are just a regular night that turns into something special. Either way, this Playbook is here to help you mark the moment — without turning it into a production.
Whether you’re planning a birthday, a holiday, or a Tuesday hangout, this Playbook helps you think through what matters, get a loose plan together, and reflect on how it all went.
Use it for six events, big or small. Write down ideas when they come. Tape in a picture when it’s over. Skip pages, change your mind, and definitely don’t try to make it perfect.
Inside, you’ll find:
A space to list out the things you want to celebrate (or at least remember)
Planning pages to help you brainstorm, prep, and focus on what actually matters
Reflection prompts to help you capture what worked (and what you’d never do again)
Extra pages for memories, traditions, and maybe even your grandma’s cake recipe
You don’t need matching napkins or a theme. You just need a way to celebrate on purpose in a way that works for you.
Celebrations
This Playbook helps you plan the fun without losing your mind.
Whether it’s a birthday, a holiday, or a new tradition you want to start, the Celebrations Playbook walks you through what matters about the event, what needs to happen, and what you want to remember later.
It’s a flexible space to gather ideas, make a loose plan, and mark the moment well without turning it into a performance.
Start the project. Or don’t. Either way, this helps.
Some projects feel like a full-body burden. Others feel exciting until you realize you don’t know where to start. This Playbook helps with both.
With space to plan up to five projects, it walks you through the Lazy Genius steps of deciding what matters, breaking things down, and moving forward one doable thing at a time.
It also helps you ask the better question: Is this even the right project right now? (Because doing less is also a valid plan.)
Inside, you’ll find:
A project queue to track what’s calling (or just whispering) your name
Space to work through five projects from idea to done
Questions to help you know if now’s the time or if it can wait
Step-by-step planning pages so you know what to do next (and after that)
Projects don’t have to be overwhelming. You just need a place to think before you act. This Playbook is that place.
Projects
When you’ve got something to do but don’t know where to start (or if it’s even worth doing), this Playbook is the place to go.
With space to plan up to five projects, it helps you figure out what matters, break down the process, and move forward at your own pace. Or, it gives you permission to pause or let something go entirely.
Because getting something done is great. But feeling good about how you got there? That’s better.
Leave the chaos. Take the charger.
Whether you’re going across the world or just across town, this Playbook helps you name what matters before you pack your bag. You don’t need a perfect itinerary or five color-coded tabs. You just need a place to think through your trip.
Use this Playbook to plan five specific trips — or dream up the ones that aren’t happening yet. It’s flexible enough for a family vacation, a solo weekend, or the conference you didn’t want to attend but said yes to anyway.
There’s no wrong way to use it. Just open a page, jot down what’s in your head, and make space for the kind of travel that fits your life.
Inside, you’ll find:
A travel list to keep track of dream trips and real ones
Planning pages for five trips from first idea to final detail
Space for packing lists, notes, and things you want to remember
A spot to finally write down the stuff you always forget (hi, toothbrush)
This Playbook won’t make your trip perfect. But it might help you feel like yourself while you're on it.
Travel
For real trips and dream ones, this Playbook helps you get out the door with less stress and more clarity.
Use it to plan five trips, reflect on what worked, and track what you always forget to pack. Whether you’re traveling with toddlers, coworkers, or just yourself, you’ll have space to think ahead and remember what matters.
It’s not about doing travel “right.” It’s about feeling like yourself wherever you go.
Because you’ll forget if you don’t write it down.
This isn’t a scrapbook. It’s not a diary. And it’s definitely not a productivity tool hiding in a memory-keeping costume.
The Yearbook is where you notice your life as you live it.
It holds the funny stuff your kid said, the song you played on repeat, the thing that saved your life one Sunday afternoon. It’s where you write down what you’re hoping for, what surprised you, and what felt like you.
You don’t fill it out all at once. You don’t do it in order. And you don’t need a fresh start or a new year or a perfect memory.
You just open a page and start paying attention.
Inside, you’ll find:
Prompts to help you reflect on the year without overthinking it
Pages for your favorite things, your big hopes, and your small joys
A place to name what mattered (even if it’s just your go-to lunch order right now)
Space for memories you don’t want to forget
The Yearbook
This one’s for remembering what actually happened; not just the big stuff, but the small, surprising, ordinary moments that shaped your year.
The Yearbook gives you space to reflect as you go, capturing what mattered, what made you laugh, and what you want to remember later. You won’t fill it all at once, and you’re not supposed to.
Start in January or July or some random Tuesday. This is less about documenting perfectly and more about noticing kindly.
For everything outside the calendar.
Life isn’t only lived in seasons. Sometimes it looks like a half-planned trip, a project you’re not sure how to start, a celebration that snuck up on you, or a moment you don’t want to forget. That’s where these four Playbooks come in.
The Extras Bundle includes Yearbook, Celebrations, Travel, and Projects. Each one designed to help you think clearly about a different part of your life.
You don’t need a new system. You just need a little space to get your head on straight.
What’s inside:
Projects for making progress on what matters (or letting it go)
Celebrations for planning meaningful events without overdoing it
Travel for organizing your trips without losing your mind
Yearbook for remembering the good, the weird, and the worth-it moments of the year
Whether you use them one at a time or keep them on hand for when life gets loud, these Playbooks are built to be flexible, kind, and actually helpful.
Sara H.
“The Playbooks have solved an issue I haven’t known I’ve had for years! A planner is too much and too big, but bullet journaling was too open-ended. I still need the physical aspect of writing things down to check off, so having these things in my Playbook has been so helpful.”
The Complete Set - $95
Eight Playbooks. One bundle. A simple, flexible way to support your whole life. Plan your season, track a project, prep for a trip, or reflect on what matters at your own pace.
All the clarity. None of the chaos.
This bundle includes all eight Playbooks, so you’re covered no matter what season or situation you’re in. Whether you’re trying to get through the week, plan a trip, celebrate a birthday, or remember the moments that mattered, there’s a Playbook for that.
You’ll get the four Seasonal Playbooks — one for each quarter — plus four extras for the parts of life that tend to sneak up on you:
Projects, Celebrations, Travel, and the Yearbook.
You don’t have to use them all at once. In fact, please don’t. But when you hit that moment of “I need to get my head on straight,” you’ll have the exact tool to help.
What’s included:
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall — to help you plan your next three months with intention
Projects — to make progress without spinning your wheels
Celebrations — to plan events in a way that actually feels fun
Travel — to get organized without needing a spreadsheet
Yearbook — to remember the small and sacred moments of your year
This bundle is for you if:
You love having a rhythm for your year
You like being prepared before things get loud
You want a way to reflect and reset without starting from scratch
You’re a gift-giver or future-you-prepper
Or you’re just really into paper goods that help your life feel more like yours
The Playbooks won’t give you more to do. They’ll help you figure out what to do next, and why it matters.
Frequently Asked Questions
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It’s a guided, undated workbook that helps you think clearly about one part of your life — like your season, a trip, a project, or a celebration — without making it a whole thing.
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Not really. Planners tell you where to be. Playbooks help you figure out what matters so your planner isn’t just a list of other people’s priorities.
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Whenever you want. Seriously.
The Seasonal Playbooks are organized by quarter, but they’re undated so you can start in the middle of a year or season.Winter: December–February
Spring: March - May
Summer: June - August
Fall: September-November
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Start with what feels loudest in your life right now.
If your calendar is bursting: try a Seasonal Playbook
If your kid’s birthday party is creeping up: Celebrations
If you’ve got a big thing to figure out: Projects
If a trip is on the horizon (or in your dreams): Travel
If you want to remember this wild, beautiful year: Yearbook
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Buy what you need. Each Playbook works on its own, but if you want to build a rhythm with the Seasonal set or keep one of each topic on hand, bundles are available.
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They're around 5.8 × 8.3 inches (A5-ish). Just right to tuck into your planner or toss in a bag without turning into paper clutter.
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Not inside. Each seasonal Playbook follows the same flow. The only difference is the months labeled on the tabs.
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Nope. These Playbooks are helpful all on their own. But if you have read The PLAN or listen to the show, these will feel like a very natural next step.
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US: 5–10 business days via USPS Media Mail (economy), with faster options at checkout.
International: We ship to Canada, the UK, Germany, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Shipping times vary, and you may need to pay customs or import fees.
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