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New Year, New Planner: The Viviamo 2020 Planner Collection

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It’s finally October! You fellow planner addicts would know what that means, right? It’s time to start figuring out which planners to use for the upcoming new year.

Picking out a planner can be tricky because not all planners work for everyone. Thankfully, there are all sorts of them available in the market these days. If you’ve been reading my blog long enough, you’d know that I particularly like the Viviamo line of planners and have been featuring them these past several years.

With that said, I’m so happy to share with you all the planner goodness that Viviamo is bringing us in their 2020 collection. Read all about their line-up of planners below. Then, don’t miss out on joining the giveaway at the end!

Viviamo 2020 Collection

A new year often marks a new beginning—and with it, a promise of hope, joy, and excitement. Goals are set and calendars are marked, whether it’s getting into shape, setting up a new business, or creating a travel destination bucket list.

It can be overwhelming when you’re faced with the reality of your decision. It isn’t as easy as you thought it would be.

Where do you start to make your dreams for the year come to pass? How do you ensure that you get to follow through on your commitments to yourself?

How do you get rid of being overwhelmed and stuck, fixing your eyes on the prize?

This October, Viviamo!, Inc., maker of the Belle de Jour Power Planner, is set to release a new line of products for their 2020 collection. Each planner is designed to fit different lifestyles and needs while helping its users achieve their goals for the year ahead.

Discover the Universe Within with the 2020 Belle de Jour Power Planner

Viviamo’s flagship offering, the Belle de Jour Power Planner, uses the theme “The Universe is in Me.” By discovering the universe within, you are opening up to the endless possibilities within your reach.

It features monthly activities that enable and challenge you to live life to the fullest. Also, weekly spreads provide enough space to write down lists, schedules, and even personal mantras.

The 2020 edition of the Belle de Jour Power Planner includes 2020 Goals Pages to ensure that you would stay focused, motivated, and on the right track. Other special pages include a Dream Board, a gratitude grid, and a daily Law of Attraction schedule.

The Belle de Jour Power Planner comes in four distinct and beautifully-designed covers.

Find Your Second Home with the Navi 2020 Planner

Built for the adventurer, the Navi 2020 includes stories from 12 travel bloggers who candidly talk about the places they consider their second home. These anecdotes are designed to inspire and invite veteran and newbie travelers to seek out their own adventures.

Navi 2020 includes a bucket list page, itinerary spread, and several checklists to make sure that you have everything you need to explore and discover a new or familiar destination.

Attract Abundance with the Everything is Possible 2020 Planner

Everything is Possible 2020 is equipped with special pages to help you set your goals, breaking them down into smaller chunks. The planner includes two 2020 Goals spreads, allowing you to list down tangible and actionable steps while setting deadlines for each.

Its cover features water-like elements, alluding to the ripple effect that one small action makes across a larger body of water.

Embrace Gratitude with the Focus 2020 Journal

The team at Viviamo believes that gratitude is one of the most important attributes to a life of success. The Focus 2020 Journal achieves just that, with monthly spreads that feature eye-catching and thought-provoking typography.

Monthly check-ups allow you the space to reflect on different aspects of life that you’re grateful for. The spacious weekly layout is designed to help you maximize the space for schedules and other events.

Zero In on What is Essential with the Essentials Planner

Minimalists will enjoy using Viviamo’s Essentials Planner. Its clean and no-nonsense dotted spreads are specially designed for bullet journaling and creative journaling. The planner comes in two covers: classic and pattern.

Each Viviamo 2020 planner is equipped with a Life Declarations page, with the intention of igniting your goals, dreams, and passions for the year ahead.

Whatever your goals are for 2020, trust that Viviamo has a planner specially made for you. Get ready to set your goals and have a meaningful year ahead.

Viviamo’s 2020 collection is available at our one-stop shop for all things paper—Crazy About Paper. Shop for planners and journals here starting October 12. The planners will also be sold at all major bookstores starting October 2019. Shop now while prices are discounted. The discounts will only last until November 4!

Planner Giveaway!

I’m so happy to tell you guys that Viviamo is sponsoring a planner giveaway for all of you readers of mine.

One (1) lucky winner will win an Everything is Possible 2020 planner on this blog. That’s not all though. One (1) more winner will win a BDJ 2020 Limited Edition planner over on my Instagram account. That means there’s 2 chances of winning!

Here are the mechanics for the blog giveaway, guys.

1) This giveaway will be open from October 15 to 21, 2019 to Philippine residents with a valid Philippine address.
2) To join, you must follow all the instructions on the Rafflecopter below.
3) Winner will be drawn randomly via Rafflecopter and announced on this page.
4) Winner will also be informed via email through the email address you provided on Rafflecopter.
5) Winner must reply with his / her complete name, address, and contact details within 3 days after I send the notification email. If I don’t hear from you within 3 days, I reserve the right to choose another winner.
6) Prize will be shipped by Mommy Plannerista.

If you wish to join the other giveaway on my Instagram, head over there and follow the mechanics stated on the giveaway post.

Please take note though that while you can join both giveaways, you can only win once.

So, what are you waiting for? Join now and happy planning!

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A Sneak Peek of the Belle De Jour Power Planner 2015

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Last week, I blogged about my 4th blogoversary giveaway and how Viviamo Inc. has partnered with me by sponsoring the giveaway prize, a 2015 Everything is Possible planner. The giveaway is still ongoing until the end of this week, so do join now if you haven’t already!

Today, though, I’d like to share with you a sneak peek of another one of Viviamo’s planners, the Belle de Jour Power Planner 2015. The BDJ planner is actually the first planner created by Viviamo and the first planner of theirs that I have ever tried. In fact, I’ve been a certified Bella for years so I’ve collected quite a few of the BDJ planners already. 🙂 That’s how much I love BDJ.

Let me tell you more about Viviamo Inc. and BDJ.

Viviamo! Inc. is the creator of the Belle de Jour Power Planner, the Navi Journal, and the Everything is Possible Planner. “Viviamo” is Italian for “We Live”. Our mission is to craft tools that will help people live out their ultimate life. Starting with the Belle de Jour Power Planners, we envision products that empower Filipinos to try, to dare, to experience, to achieve, and to live. This has expanded to creating customized paper and planner products that influence the lifestyle of Filipinos.

The Belle de Jour Power (BDJ) Planner is especially made for the Pinay fashionista achiever. The name Belle de Jour, meaning “IT Girl” in French lingo, has been expanded to define “the modern day renaissance woman who dares to achieve her goals, lives her dream life, makes a difference in her community, while doing everything in great style.

One thing I love about the BDJ planners is that they’re very colorful and fun to look at. They’re also feminine and pretty, which makes me love writing in it. The 2015 BDJ Power Planner has 192 full-color pages and is 5.7in wide by 7.9in tall. It comes in two cover options – matte-laminated and leather. Here’s what they look like.

 

BDJ LEATHER SMYTHE AND SPIRAL (2)

 

What I have now is the spiral bound one with the matte-laminated cover with the Bella woman in front (planner on the left on the photo above). This version is now on sale for only Php 538.00 on the BDJ website. For those who want a more plain cover, you can choose the Exclusive Grey Leather BDJ planner instead and it ‘s now on sale too for only Php 612.00. The planner on the center is the one with the Smythesewn cover, which is on sale for Php 538.00.

Want a more personalized cover? You can actually have your name printed on the BDJ Smythesewn version. This one will cost you only Php 638.00. Take note that the customized versions are only available from their website. Here’s how it will look like.

 

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They’re so cute, right? Now let me tell you about the inside.

 

BDJ SPIRAL

 

The 2015 Belle de Jour Power Planner includes:

  • Dance Your Way Through Life page based on “ikigai” concept to help you find your reason to get up every morning and enjoy life with a deep sense of purpose.
  • Time Management Principles -Based Layout to help you get things done
  • Advocacy Tracker to challenge yourself to make a difference
  • Goals, Dreamboard, and Checklists to help you focus on what’s important
  • Health Checklist, Immunization and Menstrual Tracker Pages so you can take good care of yourself
  • Bills and Cash Flow Tracker Pages to help you manage your income and expenses
  • BDJ Box 7-Day Challenge Tracker and Beauty Essentials Checklist to help you keep track of your BDJ Box experience and create your beauty arsenal
  • Rules of Photography & Travel Shot List pages to guide you to create your own shoot lists tailored to wherever you’re travelling.

With all these features, you will no doubt become a more organized Bella who will achieve a lot of things in 2015!

 

BDJ SPIRAL AND SMYTHE (2)

 

The calendar pages are pretty much like the Everything is Possible planner’s pages.  The Weekly Pages have weekly affirmations on top to keep you motivated. It also helps you focus by helping you organize your weekly list depending on the task you need to accomplish. Below the dates, there’s  space for you to write your most important tasks for the day. Below that is the space where you can write your schedule or to-d0 list. Then lower portion has another space for you to create special lists or just to write random thoughts.

 

BDJ SMYTHE PLANNER AND LIFESTYLE CARD

 

 

What makes the BDJ planner more special, compared to the other Viviamo planners, is the fact that it also comes with a lifestyle card. The BDJ Planner lifestyle card is a discount card that can be used to avail special deals from BDJ Partners. For this year, the BDJ Team also partnered with ZAP Philippines to give you access to over 400 merchants nationwide. Compared to the previous editions, coupons are now placed in a separate booklet, to make the coupons more handy and more convenient for the girls to bring around with them.

 

ZAP ACTIVATION INSTRUCTION PAGE

 

Who doesn’t love huge discounts and freebies, right? I know I do! But if the lifestyle card is not enough for you, take note that the BDJ planner also has over Php 40,000 worth of coupons that make living life to the fullest possible for all our BDJ Bellas. So, the planner is really such a steal! Such great #PerksofaBella!

 

BDJ DREAMBOARD AND COUPON BOOKLET

 

The 2015 BDJ Power Planner is definitely your perfect tool to break things down and tackle things one day at a time, and hopefully bring you one step closer to your dream life.

Now, if you want to buy one, check out the BDJ website at www.ilovebdj.com. They’re also available in bookstores such as Fully Booked and National Bookstore. You can also follow Belle de Jour on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

 

Roller Coaster Ride Turns 4 (and a 2015 Everything is Possible Planner giveaway!)

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Roller Coaster Ride is turning 4 on November 30. Yay! Where did the time go? It just seems like yesterday when I first started this blog. I still marvel at how amazing this blogging journey has been to me.

This blog is the one responsible for my freelance writing career. Through blogging, I’ve met a lot of my closest friends today. It has also enabled me to work with brands I love. All of these things I owe to all of you loyal readers who continue to visit this space of mine on the web. Allow me to thank you now with a fantastic giveaway sponsored by one of the brands I’ve been loyal to these past several years, Belle De Jour by Viviamo Inc.!

I’ve been a Bella for years now, ever since I first started using their awesome Belle De Jour Power Planners. Last year though, Viviamo Inc., the creators of BDJ, introduced me to one of their other planners called the Everything is Possible planner. If you’ve been a loyal reader, you’d know that they sponsored a giveaway of an EIP planner here last December. And as if the title of this post is not yet a dead giveaway…. YES, they’re sponsoring another one this year to help me celebrate Roller Coaster Ride’s blogoversary. Thank you so much to my BDJ family!

 

The 2015 Everything is Possible Planner

 

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2015 EIP front and back cover

 

But first, for the benefit of those unfamiliar to EIP, let me tell you more about it.

Everything is Possible is a tribute to the talented and creative people surrounding us, who help us do what we love and who remind us to keep at it! The 2015 EIP planner aims to ask this question: “If there is one thing you want to leave behind as your legacy, what would that be?” Scattered throughout its pages are the Braille characters for the word “possible” to remind us that we are able to achieve anything we set our minds to.

Apparently, Viviamo has identified me as one of the bloggers who aim to leave a legacy and that’s why they say they’ve decided to partner with me specifically for this planner. That was so touching, really. I am so pleased that at least some people think of me in that way. Haha!

But in all seriousness, I’ve been using the 2014 EIP  planner since they gave it to me last year. I love it! In fact, you’ll see my EIP planner on lots of my WAHM-related posts on Instagram (follow me!). It has definitely made me a lot more organized and more focused on my goals this year, especially on my writing career. Let me explain how by sharing the features of the EIP planner to you.

 

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EIP Cover and the Weekly layout

 

The 2015 EIP has 192 full-color pages, is 5.6in wide by 7.9in tall, has an expandable back pocket, and comes in a matte-laminated hard cover. The planner is packed with:

  • A special weekly layout for your weekly priorities
  • Mantras to keep you on-track in your mission
  • Micro Actions to guide you in your goals
  • Wheel Of Life to help you assess your life focus
  • Year End Workbook to document the things you’ve achieved and learned

Now let me show you the inside pages.

 

Goals Pages

I love that the EIP planner has several pages wherein you can list down your goals. It just makes it easier to achieve them when you can see them all written down, right? There are even separate pages for your Personal, Financial, Health and Career goals. You can even list down the steps you have to take to achieve those goals. It really helps to make everything possible!

 

EIP_Personal Goals

What’s new for the 2015 version though is that they’ve added some more goals pages. Now you can segregate your goals among three categories: Small Goals, Far Reaching Goals, and Goals for Leaving a Legacy. Now, that’s being organized!

 

Things I’m Grateful For Pages

Some times, we need to list down our blessings so as to remind us of them when the going gets tough. This year, EIP brings back the Things I’m Grateful For pages.

 

EIP_Things Im Grateful For

 

 Things I Love Pages

There are also times when we need to list down the things that make us happy, those that make our day.

EIP_Things I Love

 

Priority List

The priority list is for your biggest goal. Here you list down the steps you need to take to achieve it and their corresponding start date and success date.

 

EIP_Priority List

 

Notes and Year End Workbook

There are many other returning features that will allow you to track your progress. But if those are not enough, there are lots of notes pages at the back that you can write on. The Year End Workbook, on the other hand, is where you write what you have achieved for the year.

 

EIP_Notes and Yearend Workbook

 

Month View

There’s a month view available at the beginning of each month. I love that beside it there’s one inspirational quote that will motivate you to start the month right. There’s also space to list down your priorities for the month and the daily habits you want to work on.

 

EIP_Monthly Calendar

 

Weekly Layout

I love the weekly layout because with just one look, I already know which days will be hectic. On top, just below the dates, you can even list down the 3 major things you have to do on that day. I use this to pencil in my article deadlines. It makes it easier for me to keep track of work priorities. On top of the page, there are these life mantras that help keep you motivated to achieve your goals.

The rest of the page is for you to list down your schedule or your to-do list. The great thing about this is that the time stamps are printed lightly so that you can ignore them if you want to.

 

EIP_Weekly Layout

 

I love this planner and it has truly been a very useful tool to jump start my writing career this year. I’m sure the 2015 EIP will do the same for you guys too!

Now, why not win a copy for yourself! Here are the giveaway mechanics:

  1. Participants must be a Philippine resident with a valid Philippine address.
  2. Viviamo Inc. will be responsible for shipping the prize to the winner.
  3. There will be one (1) winner of a 2015 Everything is Possible planner.
  4. Winner will be drawn randomly and will be notified via email.
  5. Winner has two (2) days to respond to the said email. I reserve the right to draw another winner if I don’t receive a reply within two days.
  6. Giveaway will start on November 17, 2014 and end on November 30, 2014.

To join, earn entries by following the instructions below:

Mandatory Entry: (1 entry)

On the comment section below this post, answer this question: “What’s that one big goal you’ll work on in 2015?”. Include your Full Name and email address. Also include your social media usernames and links to your social media shares if you choose to do the additional entries.

Additional Entries: 

For more information about the Everything is Possible planner and other Viviamo Inc. products, visit www.ilovebdj.com. Good luck on the giveaway!

 

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UPDATE as of Dec. 5, 2014

I’d like to thank the 71 people who joined this giveaway. Thank you!!!

There were a total of 371 entries but in the end only one can win.

And the winner is ……..

EIP Winner Announcement

Congratulations to THERESA CRUZ – ESCAROS!  🙂

 

#Jumpstart2014 with the Everything is Possible Planner

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Let me just start this by saying that I LOVE planners. Okay, that’s the OC in me talking. But it’s true. I’ve been using planners since high school and I’ve been obsessed with them ever since. That was when my quest for the perfect planner began.

 

The thing is, every year I search for the perfect planner. I haven’t always been successful. It seems that my requirements for the perfect planner changes with each season in my life. So, I’ve been known to change planner brands over the years. However, there’s one brand I keep going back to for the past four years and that is the Belle de Jour Power Planner.

 

I love the Belle de Jour Power Planner because it appeals to that girly side of me and really inspires you to live life to the fullest. The planners are cute and very useful. Plus, they’re chock full of interesting articles AND discount coupons from partner establishments. It comes with a BDJ Lifestyle Card too! If you’ve been reading this blog long, you’d have encountered a blog post or two of my past BDJ planners.

 

I’ve been a fan of BDJ planners for years now and so imagine how surprised and thrilled I was when BDJ emailed me saying they’ll be sending me a complimentary BDJ planner just for supporting them. I was so happy! I was ready to purchase a planner for 2014 already when I got the email. So, the message came just in time.

 

What’s really great though is that they allowed me to choose from the whole BDJ line of planners. My initial choice was still the BDJ Power Planner but changed my mind when I saw this other planner of theirs called the Everything is Possible planner. It sounded like the perfect one for me at this moment in my life because I’m claiming 2014 to be the year that I will “MAKE IT HAPPEN”. So I have chosen to #Jumpstart2014 with the Everything is Possible planner.

 

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Here’s what the Everything is Possible planner is all about:

 

Everything Is Possible is a tribute to the talented and creative people surrounding us who help us do what we love and who remind us to keep at it! We hope everything is possible influences you to simplify your life – to make simple goals, and to take one step closer towards each of them every single day. It is our humble goal to instill in you a sense of what you need to live the life you want: to be mindful of anything, big or small, as a real possibility. With patience and positivity, we will all get there.

One of the symbols used throughout this planner are the braille characters for the word “POSSIBLE”. We all have imperfections, failures and weaknesses, but these should never keep us from making our best life a real possibility.

 

 

Here’s what you will see on the inside pages of the planner (photos courtesy of the BDJ website):

 

There’s a how-to guide on How to Make Everything Possible.

 

EIP Planner_How to Make Everything Possible

 

There is a Monthly View at the start of each month and it consists of the Happiness List, My One New Habit This Month, This Month’s Priorities and Monthly Divider Quotes. I love that you can see the whole month at a glance. For a mom like me who juggles work, blogging, household, mommy and wifely duties, this is extremely helpful in keeping my life organized.

 

EIP Planner_Monthly View

 

This is what the Weekly View looks like. It has spaces for 3 Major Things to Do Today, Personal List and Weekly Mantra. It just has enough space for me to write my daily to-do list.

 

EIP Planner_Weekly View

 

 

What’s really unique about this planner though are the Special Pages, which I think will really help inspire me to achieve all my goals for the coming year. It also helps organize my goals and the action steps I need to take in order to make everything possible for me this 2014. Here are some of the Special Pages.

 

Micro Actions

 

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Career and Financial Goals

 

EIP Planner_Career and Financial Goals

 

Positive Poster

 

EIP Planner_Positive Poster

 

Things I’m Grateful For

 

EIP Planner_Things I'm Grateful For

 

What I’ve Achieved

 

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I believe that I’ve already achieved a lot this year in terms of launching my career as a freelancer. But I plan to step up my game this 2014. I believe that with this planner I can really make more of my WAHM dreams come true. So, I’m super ecstatic that BDJ gave me this planner. I can hardly wait to use it! If I were you, I’d #Jumpstart2014 with  this planner now.

 

You can purchase the Everything is Possible planner for only Php 598.00. For more information about the Everything is Possible planner and the other BDJ products, visit the BDJ website at www.belledejourpowerplanner.com. You can also follow them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

 

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