May: Nature Themed Journal Spreads

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Let's take a look at my May 2025 planner spreads.
If you'd rather watch or listen to a video about these pages, skip to the bottom for a link to my youtube video. It features a time-lapse of me actually creating it, and also showing you some of the pages in better detail, as well as giving a voiceover to explain some of my choices.
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But, for those of you who would rather read (or skim), let's get started.
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First up we have the quote. So every year I have a word of the year. For 2025, that word is still.
And then every month, I pick a quote that uses that word.
For May, my quote is: “For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.”
Which led me to kind of a nature-y theme. I actually used Adobe Firefly to come up with this landscape, and then printed it out on sticker paper. The rest of the decoration in my journal for this month really boils down to: rocks. My landscape picture kind of got me onto a river rock theme, which led me to using Adobe Firefly again to generate some river rock stickers that I then printed on the same sticker paper and just cut out individually—which was a bit of a hassle—and stuck them all over just for some extra decoration that could be pretty simple.
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​​The next page is my monthly overview calendar. This is where I record any appointments I have, any meetings, birthdays, things like that. To make these numbers in my calendar, I used my stamp set but I wanted a certain color palette, and the only stamp colors I have are blue and black. So, as an alternative to using the ink, I simply colored onto the stamps with my markers. It worked out beautifully!

Next, I have what I call my aims page. Basically, it's just a whole bunch of lists of different things that I would like to accomplish for the month. As I get ready for the upcoming month, I go back to my yearly collections journal to look at my goals for the year, and then I pick out steps from those goals to do every month.
These lists tend to be things like To Get, To Clean, Goheen, Aims, Tasks, and Goals.
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Then on the next page I have a space set up for my monthly review, which I'll do at the end of the month. I have several different stats that I track, that I write in later.
So, this is a pretty easy page.
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Next I have a space for journaling—I do that at the end of the month as well.
I also have a spot for my finances, where I'll write in what we have at the beginning and the end of the month in each of our virtual theoretical envelopes.
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The habits page—I track a lot of habits. So, across the top I put the number of the day, and then down the side I write all the different habits that I am tracking.
This looks overwhelming, but it's really not. A lot of this is just optional, and there are several things in here that I only try and do once a week, but I just have to track whether or not it has happened this week in order to know if I have done it at all, because my memory is shot.
I use a system where I have high-low bars for my habits. So, for the low bar, I use a circle, and then if I reach the high bar, I color it in.
So, for example, walking—I would like to go on a walk twice a day, ideally. So, the low bar is if I go for one walk, and the high bar is if I go for two.
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​The last few pages in my spreads are all for the weeks. My current system is to have a weekly dashboard on the left side of the spread, and just a space for notes on the right.
On the dashboard, I have a menu for the week. I have another set of my weekly habits (because sometimes it helps to write things down in different places).
I also have a very small weekly calendar, where I remind myself of anything significant going on that week.
And then I use a rolling tasks list. I have all the days of the week in the columns, and then I write my tasks in the rows. That way, I can use a marking system for whether or not I've worked on a task, even if I haven't completed it. That can happen with a lot of my to-dos, and if I go down the entire to-do list and you haven't been able to cross anything off, it can be a little bit depressing.

For example, let's say I need to get my sister a birthday gift—I may work on that task by looking for a gift on Monday, but I didn't complete it, so I can't cross it off. So, this rolling tasks method means that I can go in and mark a dot on Monday to say that I worked on this, and then maybe a dot on Tuesday because I actually bought the gift.
And in that case, I take my dot, and I draw a line all the way over to the task, and I cross it off.
And that way, I know it's actually done.
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The last part of my weekly dashboard are the circles that go down the side of the task list. I use those for a weekly review, where there's a whole bunch of things that (ideally) I do at the end of the week to get prepared for the next one.
So, when I'm feeling extra productive, I will actually go through those and mark them off on the circles.
But a lot of times, I'm just surviving, and that's more of an aspirational thing.
But it's still helpful to have it there just in case I can manage it.

​So here you go—these are my finished May spreads.
I hope you've enjoyed seeing my planning.
If you have any questions, let me know in the comments down below.