​For my blog planning and organisation of my social media and stat tracking, I use a Leuchtturm monthly planner.

​I have gone in to detail in the post here (Blog Planning Organisation and Planning Goals for 2018) about how I use it, but thought today that I would do a flip through to show you visually how I use it to plan my blog and You Tube posts.

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Where did 2017 go? I know right? So it's the time of year I review my planning for the year and make new plans for my blog, You Tube channel and planning and organisation systems for 2018. I have moved into a new planner - a Leuchtturm monthly planner for my blog and I have big plans for growing my blog.

The planner is perfect, beautiful paper and it has several overview pages and trackers; one that I am using for just that and another I am using for tracking my sharing on social media. I have used a colour coding for different types of blog posts and another for You Tube so that I can keep track.

This month I have had over 500,000 pin views (yep, half a million!) to my Pinterest account and most of those pins are directly from my blog either pinned by me or blog visitors. Pinterest is my main driving force for visitors and traffic on my blog, so thought I would share a few tips and tricks for gaining page views and mastering Pinterest in a two part series for fellow bloggers. Be warned it is an intense post and series, but the rewards are worth it.

When starting out in the Blogging World we all strive for the perfect blog hoping that we get a lot of traffic and that it will inspire others.  Often it is not that easy and this week has been one of them weeks where things are not going the way I had planned them to go in my head.

What I have learnt:

1. Stay calm - what will be will be.
2. Be organised
3. Most importantly: Don't compare yourself to other bloggers.
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​The plan for this week was to create a process video for my You Tube channel to show you how I made the art journal background in the picture. I set up my camera, adjusted the area to be lit effectively and had everything all planned out.  When I recorded it, it all worked fine until the camera cut out. I didn't panic, calmly pressed record again and thought about editing it later.