EXCLAIM "THERE IS ENOUGH TIME!"
IN JUST 6 WEEKS WHEN YOU EXPERIENCE
the Renew Course
Imagine waking up each morning and knowing EXACTLY what you need to do to redeem the time.
OBTAIN CONFIDENCE WITH OUR STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH
The Evergreen Planning Method will take you from feeling overwhelmed to finally being at peace with space to thrive in your schedule—no matter how many roles and responsibilities you currently manage.
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WEEK 1
Self-Starters
Embrace the conviction that you're called by God to the unique dynamics He's called you to steward—including your unique people, pressures, and problems.
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Identify your Productivity Personality (Visionary, Task-Crusher, Strategist, Coactive, or a combination).
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Identify your Productivity Season (Surviving, Reviving, or Thriving).
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See how the Lord has uniquely equipped you with exactly what you need to serve Him in your context.
WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH:
By the end of this week, you'll have the foundations of a customized approach to time-management that meets you where you are, leverages your God-given strengths, and counteracts your natural weaknesses.
WEEK 2
Morning Brew Crew
As a woman created in God's Image, you were created to diligently follow His example of bringing order out of chaos. 🌊🕊️
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Build a daily habit of stepping away from distractions to Plan Deeply with our signature approach.
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Discover all of the mental bandwidth you need to solve your most challenging time-management problems.
WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH:
By the end of this week, you'll have formed a strong habit of using your planner every day while learning the basics of our signature layouts.* You'll begin to feel confident in your approach to planning.
*Includes a printable version of every layout in the Evergreen Planning System, allowing you to test it while simultaneously organizing every aspect of your life.
WEEK 3
Tame Your Todo List
You desperately want to focus on what matters most each day, but how does this translate to your todo list?
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Declutter Your Mind of all the things it's struggling to juggle using our step-by-step prompts.
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Obtain radical clarity on what tasks and projects matter right now.
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Learn exactly how to organize future tasks, projects, and ideas so they don't fall through the cracks.
WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH:
By the end of this week, you'll have built a custom framework in your planner to help you recognize important tasks the moment they become your next right priority.
WEEK 4
Week Commanders
Rhythms are key to peaceful productivity—but forced routines are destined to fall apart.
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Use our Week Audit to see how much space you need for each of your goals and responsibilities.
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See which activities you're trying to do that are clashing with your Productivity Season so you can prioritize and make decisions about what's essential right now.
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Learn exactly how to craft a custom, resilient Weekly Rhythm.
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Integrate everything you're called to manage while carving out enough time to actually rest and be creative!
WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH:
By the end of this week, you'll have crafted a flexible Weekly Rhythm that fits your unique life like a glove.
WEEK 5
Timeblocking Mavens
When everything feels like a priority, little gets done.
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Master the art of Flexible Timeblocking (we promise our approach to this practice is mercifully down-to-earth and doable).
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Learn how to select 3 Top Targets each day.
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Learn how to use your week's Agenda and Goals to balance what's urgent and what's important.
WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH:
By the end of this week, you'll know exactly how to use Flexible Timeblocking to carve out space for each Top Target in terms of your Daily Rhythm—and graciously pivot when things change.
WEEK 6
the 8%
With razor sharp time-management skills and all of this newfound peace and possibility blossoming in your schedule, you'll find yourself feeling deeply inspired about the future.
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Congratulations—you have the foundations you need to get started with our ROOTED Goal Setting System!
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Learn why 92% of people don't follow through on their goals (it's not laziness!) and exactly what you can do differently.
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Enjoy a robust introduction to our life-changing Workbook.
WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH:
By the end of this week, you'll have learned the basics of ROOTED Goals and will have practiced setting a Next-Right-Step Goal.
ENJOY ONGOING SUPPORT
Celebrate Your Wins & Continue Making Progress
🏆🎉 When you complete Renew, you'll earn a celebratory discount on the ROOTED Goals Workbook—inviting you into the next level of your journey. The workbook will teach you, step-by-step, how to set deeply compelling goals each quarter that make sense in your real life. This is the easiest way to keep making incredible progress with the Evergreen Planning Method and to maximize your planner to accomplish great things.
You'll also have the opportunity to subscribe to the Classic Day Planner and continue your membership in the Collective free!
Enrollment includes two months free in the Collective so you can get your questions answered by Team Evergreen & like-minded students.
God promises in 2 Peter 1:3 to give you everything you need for life and godliness—and that includes enough time.
Trade random scrolling 📱 for a course and community that is focused on living out God's promise of “enough time” each day. 🌾 Gain the motivation, clarity, and troubleshooting help you need to totally organize your life around the important work God is calling you to do.
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I'm personally using [the Evergreen Planner] right now. It's so helpful—I'm loving it. They are experts on time-management.
LEAH MCHENRY
8 FIGURE ENTREPRENEUR + HOMESCHOOL MOM OF 5
God Has Given You Enough Time
Want to level up in productivity? Create more space for rest? We believe these go hand in hand. The Evergreen Planning Method will help you organize your life, solve practical problems, get focused on what matters, and uncover the abundance of time God has given you to do what He's calling you to do.
Pairs Seamlessly With the Evergreen Planner
6 Week Course and Beautiful Leather Planner System
Renew is an online course that teaches the Evergreen Planning Method in six transformative weeks. Combine it with the Evergreen Planner System to anchor your new life-giving habit with the power of a distraction-free analog planning environment.
BUILD YOUR "TOTAL TRANSFORMATION" BUNDLE
STEP 1:
Add the Renew eCourse to Cart
STEP 2:
Add Your Classic Day Planner
Note: It is easy to complete Renew with just the Classic Day Planner!
✨ However, the rest of the planner system will greatly enhance your experience. ✨
STEP 3:
Add Your Annual
A 12-month undated calendar booklet for a birds-eye view of your year.
If you already have one for this year, feel free to skip this!
STEP 4:
Choose your Heirloom Cover or Minimalist Sleeve
The Heirloom holds 4 booklets, has reinforced sewn binding, 6 pockets, loops for pens and washi, and has an elastic closure.
The Minimalist Sleeve is made with the same genuine leather, holds 4 booklets, and has an elastic closure.
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⏰ If you see a colorway you love, move fast! ⏰
Our limited edition leather pieces never stay in stock long!
STEP 5:
Unlock ongoing progress with the ROOTED Goals Workbook!
ROOTED will empower you to solidify everything you learn within Renew into a streamlined, quarterly habit.
(Samples of this workbook are introduced in Module 6. Purchase is not required to complete the course.)
Are you nervous to buy another course you won't finish and another planner that you won't use?
BETTSEY WAS WORRIED ABOUT THE SAME THING...
Wondering how you'll fit this course in to an already overwhelmed life?!
We understand the feeling.
Finding enough time to focus on what matters is the first step.
So we invested the last three years of our life carefully designing a program that cuts out all of the fluff and helps you to rapidly get organized and find that time as quickly as possible.
By committing to this single course, you can join the growing ranks of Christian women around the world who have gone from lamenting "there just isn't enough time!" to finally breaking through and making massive traction on everything that matters most to them.
We made sure to break everything down into transformative and logical bite-sized pieces so you don't have to figure any of it out yourself. We also paired the course with an active private community so you can reach out for help any time you're feeling stuck!
This is not just another planner.
It's a whole new way of living.
You've tried everything else.
Is the EPM really the missing piece?
THE LEAD DOMINO EFFECT OF THE EVERGREEN PLANNING METHOD
This domino effect begins the "flywheel effect" of your upward progress in life.
A flywheel takes time and effort to get turning, but once you get it going, the laws of momentum take over. Each rotation of the flywheel increases that momentum, causing all of the work you originally invested to yield greater and greater amounts of fruit over time.
The Evergreen Planning Method leverages these laws of momentum to help you to keep making deeper and wider progress on all of the things that matter to you.
As you get better at implementing the EPM, everything you want to do keeps on feeling a lot more doable, you become wildly more productive, your follow-through increases, and the life you're building becomes stronger, more organized, and a lot more effective. This in turn allows you expand your horizons so you can start tackling bigger and bigger things.
You see, staying in the overwhelm is costing you too much of your most precious and only unrenewable resource: your time.
Like most people, you've purchased countless resources that are sitting unfinished on your computer or bookshelf. You purchased these things for a reason—there were things you wanted to change in your life!
Why haven't you followed through on your other intentions?
Because you "didn't have enough time," right?
When you adopt the Evergreen Planning Method, you will leave behind the trial-and-error misteps and all of the distracting noise, allowing you to finally uncover the abundance of hidden time that God has given you to do the things that He has been calling you to do.
The next six weeks could be the moment you transform from being someone with good intentions and a series of unfinished projects and un-pursued goals...
...into someone who knows exactly how to prioritize their next-right-step and then make space in their life to finally follow through on what truly matters most to her.
This course will help you to knock over the "lead domino" in your life of finally experiencing that there IS enough time—IF you know how to find it, protect it, and leverage it for effectively.
Knocking over this lead domino will open up the doors to everything else you want to do.
(Couples and families often go through it together for a total reset!)
In 2016, "not having enough time" was keeping me from making traction on everything that mattered.
I'm Shelby Shepherd, co-founder of Evergreen Planner.
For me, the promise that God has given me enough time for what matters and that I have been created in His Image to do the hard work of bringing order out of chaos in my circumstances has not just been an eloquent thought.
It has been a lifeline.
The photo above was taken January 21st of 2016.
Still moving slowly from recently giving birth, I had just sat down with a four day old baby asleep on my shoulder, and cracked open my laptop. Taking a deep breath, I opened up my most urgent contracted project and dove in.
Within days, I would be back to working 60+ hours per week for the family business—but this time with a newborn to care for, too.
I loved the work my husband and I were doing together, but I was buckling under growing concerns about our future. We wanted more children and were set on home educating them. We wanted a rich home culture filled with nourishing meals, hospitality, and slow moments like reading aloud beside the fire. We also dreamed of showing our kids the world some day.
I wondered how I could continue bringing in an income (at the time, our little family depended on it), while still pursuing excellence in motherhood and homemaking—things I already knew would be a full-time job, themselves.
I was desperate for anything that would help me build a bridge from the growing chaos I had been managing to the beautiful life that my husband and I were longing to cultivate for our children.
The Evergreen Planning Method became that bridge.
My original EPM worksheets, which gave me my first taste of successfully bringing order out of chaos in my days—starting with essentializing and organizing my nine page long todo list. The method would take about five more years of meticulous development, field-testing, and trial with 1:1 clients to become what it is today.
Our CEO McCauley (my sister and co-founder) digging into the project with determination. She worked hard to refine my original worksheets into our streamlined (yet mind-blowingly robust) planner system. The physical system was rigorously field-tested and improved. She designed a stunning leather Cover to hold it all together.
Seven years later...
Thanks to the Evergreen Planning Method (and the gorgeous planner system McCauley designed to make it tangible), my husband and I are living the life we envisioned.
We work from home together, provide our children with a deep and beautiful home education, and enjoy homemade dinners followed by fireside read alouds. We can be present in the moment when discipling and playing with our children because we know that our work has a place to live in our rhythms.
We just bought a school bus that we’re turning into a home on wheels for a coast-to-coast adventure 🚌, and have even started planning a month long worldschooling trip to Greece.
And that's just my story.
In addition to my two co-founders' stories, we now have the profound honor of watching the EPM transform the mindsets, habits, and confidence of a growing number of women (and their families!) around the world.
This has now become a passion project for McCauley, Clari, and myself.
The results we have personally experienced with this system in our own lives—as three business owning, home educating mamas with twelve kids between us—fuels our drive to share the Evergreen Planning Method with the world.
The Evergreen Planning Method helped us to believe that God has given us enough time for everything He is calling us to do.
Pairing it with our ROOTED Goal Setting System helped us take the lifestyle-crafting power of our daily planning habit and leverage it for vision-casting years into the future, and then set quarterly goals that translated that longterm vision into the fabric of our daily choices.
This has yielded a flywheel of progress that continues to bring greater levels of clarity, peace, and productivity into the course of each and every day.
Now we want to do everything we can to empower each and every woman we can with the tools she needs to build her bridge from the chaos of her current circumstances into the life-giving future she knows God is calling her to build.
More Students, Building Their Bridges...
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It's life-changing you guys. I was very much a productivity junkie. I would try to apply some things, but I was never able to get cohesion. I started learning the Evergreen Planning Method and I immediately had some quick wins that motivated me forward. I'm coming up from drowning in overwhelm. Having this Kingdom-centered mindset has helped me see my time as a resource to be stewarded to show up for the things that God has called me specifically to do.
ROSALIA H, BOOKKEEPING PROFESSIONAL & MAMA
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This planner has changed my life! I’ve been using the Evergreen Planning System for almost a year now, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that it has completely transformed my life! Not only is my everyday life now more organized and less chaotic, but I am finally making progress on goals that I’ve had on my list for YEARS. It’s the best feeling! I am unbelievably grateful for Evergreen, and I can’t recommend it enough. Try it now!!! You’ll be so glad you did.
STEFFI W, COLLEGE PROFESSOR & MAMA
Tour the Evergreen Planner
ABOUT THE CLASSIC DAY PLANNER
Stay totally organized with the most gorgeous and intuitive planner in the world for as little as 50¢ /day with a subscription!
The Classic is the muscle of our planning system. It’s a five-week undated day planner featuring week spreads, habit trackers, time-blocked day pages, and plenty of dot grid flex space to make the planner completely yours.
Our signature dutch door layout allows a consistent view of your weekly and daily agendas at the same time (and makes navigating your planner a breeze). Our research-based prompts represent the world's most effective time management practices distilled down into one simple routine.
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5 week dashboards with habit trackers
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35 timeblocked day spreads
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extra bullet grid flex space pages
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detachable perforated dutch doors edges
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86 pages total
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saddle-stitch (staple) binding
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70lb white interior paper, 80lb white cover
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half letter (5.5" x 8.5") when closed*
Both the Heirloom Cover and Minimalist Sleeve are slightly larger to adequately protect the booklets.
*Our booklets are US Half Letter (5.5" x 8.5") which is similar to A5 (8.5 x 8.3"). As a side note, we've been told that A5 booklets do fit in our Cover, if snugly.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Kelly - "Game Changer"
The Classic Day Planner really helps me to be more thoughtful in how I approach my daily planning. I bought this because I was looking for something fresh with room for my personal creativity. I love the intentional spaces to plan for my own self-care. My life is extremely full and sometimes these things fall by the wayside. This planner system is helping to bring order to life, while leaving the "white space" to be flexible for the detours of my day. Thank you!
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bettsey - "Like no other planner I've tried!..."
...and I have tried many! What I love: dutch doors allow me to see the overview of the week and plans for that day all at once. There are no time slots, I can customize this depending on my season in life. Free space allows me to make this my own and use it as needed. I also love to come back to this space at the end of the day and fill in what really happened or special memories. The top three: to do lists can get overbearing, the top three helps me focus and prioritize. Lastly, I love the habit tracker. I am very aware how important it is for me to start incorporating better habits and this is a great way to see it daily.
ABOUT THE ANNUAL
ABOUT THE LEATHER COVERS
Protect Your Booklets! Each of our planner booklets can be used powerfully on their own, but when bound together in our Cover along with anything else you need, the booklets are transformed into a personalized system that can stand up to the demands of constant use.
ABOUT THE ROOTED GOALS WORKBOOK
Tired of goal setting systems that pump you up, introduce massive tension between your goal and your daily responsibilities, and then leave you feeling like a failure?
We were too. So we created a system that is mercifully realistic, embraces everyday responsibilities as valid, and helps us become more deeply rooted in our broader life callings. This will show you how to "seek first the Kingdom of God" in even your most practical goals. We believe that the best goals are the ones that fuel a beautiful way of life, and that a beautiful way of life will fuel your most life-giving goals.
If you want more than a mountain top experience—if you're ready to actually translate your goals into daily action—then this workbook was created for you.
Life-giving goals are...
[R]ooted in Your Core Calling - Other goal setting systems start by asking what you want for your life. This system starts by asking how you're uniquely called as a disciple of Jesus to show up in the spaces of the world where He has placed you.
[O]rganically Growing Out of Your Context - Other goal setting systems tell you to close your eyes and imagine where you want to be in the next twelve months—dream big!—then hustle and grind to make that dream come true. This system encourages you to face the future with great hope, while at the same time rooting you in today's reality by helping you figure out a set of logical next-right-step goals for today's real life circumstances.
[O]utlined for Clarity - Other goal setting systems do encourage you to outline your goals for clarity—and there's a reason for this. Our brains crave step-by-step clarity. This phase is all about being specific about your goal and breaking them down into actionable steps.
[T]ailored to Your Lifestyle - Other goal setting systems might show you how to reverse-engineer your goals, but then end there and wish you good luck. This system shows you how to look at your goals in the context of your daily life, then make those strategic shifts in your schedule to make space for these goals. It also teaches you an incredibly powerful lifestyle-shaping skill called habit stacking.
[E]tched in Your Memory - This phase gives you the secret sauce for making progress on your important goals—even when things change. When you train your brain to care about your goals, your subconscious joins the team and starts looking for every reasonable opportunity for you to make progress on them!
[D]eveloped by Providence - The Kingdom of God does not rise and fall by the successes and failures of our goals. Knowing this gives us an incredible amount of liberty to simply follow the Lord's leading through the messy middle. Leading our lives with integrity and excellence is a deeply meaningful endeavor, and God loves to give us grace to do that. Having a Christian growth mindset allows us to set our goals with an "amen" posture towards God's unknown plans for the future, knowing that when we give our goals back to God, we can trust Him to develop them in the best of ways.
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Vision-cast at the beginning of each year
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Set ROOTED Goals & refresh your rhythms to support them each quarter
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Includes QR codes to encouraging audio lessons 🎧
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Step-by-step exercises
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Designed to integrate seamlessly with the Evergreen Planner System
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5.5" x 8.5" full color paperback workbook
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Fits in the Heirloom Cover or Minimalist Sleeve
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Includes QR codes for full-sized printable exercises
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Digital version can be used with GoodNotes
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150 pages
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"As a woman in ministry, a wife, mom, church member, entrepreneur—all these things—this system has been a complete game-changer. It's unlike anything I've ever come across." - Rachel
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"Things I have tried so hard to do, and have had the best intention about—I am finally doing them! I'm almost in happy tears because of the progress I've made. My life has been changed by ROOTED Goals. - Bailey
ROOTED Goals is introduced in the 6th and final module of the Renew course.
It is not required to purchase this workbook to complete the Renew course, but it is the next step once you complete Renew!
ROOTED will lead you through the process of vision casting each year, and then setting deeply compelling (and mercifully realistic) goals each quarter. Each pass through the ROOTED Goals Workbook will also guide you step-by-step through the process of updating your rhythms and habits so that they directly support and fuel the success of your ROOTED Goals.
Because of Renew, you'll be able to fly through these steps of the workbook each quarter like a time-management pro!
PLANNER ACCESSORIES
I’ve been using the Evergreen Planning System for four months and I love it. It is helping me organize my life. Since going through some health challenges, then becoming a mother, my life has not been as organized as it used to be. :) This system is helping me get my life back in order while being flexible enough to accommodate daily challenges. My favorite part is the dutch door in the Classic Day Planner where I can see the weekly plan as I plan each day. It helps me so much! I love the dot journal pages and the prompts in the daily planner; especially hydration, movement, targets and gratitude. But you don’t have to use them if you don’t want to. The flexibility of this system is marvelous!! I like that the annual planner does not have dates, so I can start it anytime. The dot journal pages are wonderful! It is a great combination of a structured planer and a bullet journal.
All this fits in the gorgeous leather cover. It is so soft and supple and fits the Classic Planner, the Annual Planer and more! There is so much space! I have an additional small notebook in mine. I use this for taking notes at meetings, zooms and phone calls. The small loops in back are great for adding a pencil, pen and wash tape. A nice little add on purchase is the accessory pack that includes pretty paperclips and a binder clip to help me find the pages I’m using at the moment.
I am so excited I discovered the Evergreen Planning System and I look forward to using for many years to come.
I’ve been using the evergreen planning system for almost a year now, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that it has completely transformed my life! Not only is my everyday life now more organized and less chaotic, but I am finally making progress on goals that I’ve had on my list for YEARS. It’s the best feeling! I am unbelievably grateful for Evergreen, and I can’t recommend it enough. Try it now!!! You’ll be so glad you did.
I am not exaggerating, this planner is absolutely the best in the world. It has two full pages per day in the classic, which I love (and need). The annual is perfect for keeping track of long term goals and progress towards those. The cover perfectly keeps everything contained and easy to access. No more piles of notebooks, index cards, and post it notes. I take it everywhere. This planner has made a huge difference in my life and it will in yours as well! I promise you won’t regret buying it!
I love having this gorgeous planner! It allows me to keep all of my important information in one spot! I love it.
This planner system has given me clarity and sanity back into my days & weeks! It’s so useful to see the big picture of your week, month, quarter and year, but also can get into the details of planning out the rhythms which make up your days. This planner is such a blessing to my home & life!
Renew is backed by a 100% Money Back Guarantee
We are so confident in the transformative value of Renew that we make it painless to get your money back if you're not fully satisfied. Simply reach out within 30 days of purchase, and we'll refund your purchase in full.*
*Immediate refund applies to digital Renew Course only. Physical Planner products can only be refunded if returned in their original condition.
Frequently Asked Questions
Many students have taken the recommended approach and have chosen to aggressively tackle this course at the pace of one challenge per week.
The time it takes to get through each challenge varies based on your unique life dynamics, but most will take 1-5 hours to complete.
This has allowed them to completely transform their mindset, habits, schedules—and ultimately their lives—in just six weeks!
But we understand that things happen, so the course is available in a self-paced format.
When you enroll, you'll create an account with our course and community platform, hosted on the Circle app and desktop website.
This purchase includes two months free to our private online community, the Evergreen Collective, giving you access to Renew's student and alumni spaces and priority support from Team Evergreen for two full months.
You'll then have the opportunity to continue your membership to the Collective for just $15 per month. You can choose instead to subscribe to our Classic Day Planner at $15 per month, which will make your membership to the Evergreen Collective free for as long as you stay subscribed!
Regardless of your membership status in the Collective (or your subscription status to the planner), you will retain lifetime access to the Renew Course.
The time it takes to get through each challenge varies based on your unique life dynamics, but most will take 1-6 hours to complete.
We've worked hard to cut the fluff from each of the lessons and make them as to-the-point and impactful as they possibly can be. That being said, the process of combing through your schedule is a time-investment upfront. This is not easy work, but it's 100% worth it.
The process is broken down with such step-by-step clarity that every minute you spend doing this work now will carve out an abundance of available time for what matters most in the very near future—a result you can begin to enjoy in after just six weeks.
Yes, and we have several alumnae who enjoy doing just this!
Renew Student & Alumnae spaces (and priority support from Team Evergreen) will be available to you for as long as you continue your Collective membership. You have two months free with this purchase, and can enjoy getting your membership free if you subscribe to the Classic Day Planner.
We will note, however, that our ROOTED Goals Workbook is designed to be the next step once you complete Renew. ROOTED will lead you through the process of vision casting each year, and then setting deeply compelling (and mercifully realistic) goals each quarter!
Each pass through the ROOTED Goals Workbook will also guide you step-by-step through the process of updating your rhythms and habits so that they directly support and fuel the success of your ROOTED Goals. Because of Renew, you'll be able to fly through these steps of the workbook each quarter like a time-management pro!
First of all, this is amazing and we applaud you! Rest assured, we would never tell you to abandon an existing system that's genuinely working for you. In fact, our coursework actually includes the process of identifying what systems and habits are currently working for you so that you can reinforce and build on them!
As far as being too obvious, we don't think you'll find this to be the case. This is not a rehash of your typical time-management ecourse, but with a little Christian spin.
The Evergreen Planning Method reimagines time-management and productivity from the ground-up, starting with the conviction that God HAS given His people enough time to accomplish everything He wants us to accomplish—and that this truth has extremely practical implications for the choices we should make with our gift of time each day.
This is a deeply practical framework of proven strategies that distills Biblical principles such as...
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calling
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prioritization
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discernment
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contentment
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diligence
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division of labor
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counting the cost
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sowing and reaping
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gratitude for specific challenges
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patience in trials
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and future-orientation
...into a peace-filled daily habit of deep planning (and a motivating quarterly habit of setting ROOTED Goals, if you continue with the workbook!)
The course also begins by helping you to identify your Productivity Season:
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Students who feel like they are "drowning in overwhelm" self-identify in the Surviving Season and are given a clear path forward for getting out of "survival mode" as soon as possible.
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Students who have some rhythms in place self-identify in the Reviving Season, and are given a clear path forward for refining and solidifying their most life-giving rhythms and habits.
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Students who are already rockstars at managing their time and following through on their goals self-identify in the Thriving Season, and are given an opportunity to reframe (and therefore establish) their approach to productivity so that it is built on the solid Rock of God's Word and they can keep expanding and growing their impact rapidly, season by season.
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It also reminds students that undertaking huge new projects, experiencing transitions, or adding new members to their family from a place of Thriving can often throw them into a temporary Survival Season while they figure everything out—and that such an experience totally normal. Students who self-identify as being a part of this season will have a fast-track to "figuring everything out" so they can build sustainable rhythms around their new circumstances and get back to that place of Thriving as quickly as possible.
You do not!
Renew was designed to be a stand-alone Course that can help you get your schedule totally organized, even if you do not currently use the Evergreen Planner. It includes a printable version of all of the layouts that you need to complete each of the challenges (including our one-page Day Planner printable so you can complete the daily planning challenge).
In fact, many students have used Renew as a way to get totally organized while also "trying out" the Evergreen Planner and our entire approach to time-management and productivity before investing in the physical planning system.
That being said, this is not just a series of fancy tutorials showing you how to use our physical Planner System or trying to sell you on it.
While we of course use our layouts to organize the exercises, this Course is an experience of being led step-by-step through everything you need to do to:
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find enough time in your schedule for what matters
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sort out and essentialize all of your tasks
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plan ahead realistically and effectively
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craft custom rhythms that peacefully integrate all of your roles and responsibilities
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prioritize and focus on your most essential tasks each day
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get started setting ROOTED Goals
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experience levels of productivity, focus, creativity, and rest that you never knew were possible!
If you want to experience the physical Evergreen Planner System while going through the Renew Course (without going "all in" on a leather Cover, etc.) then we recommend just adding the $20 Day Planner to your cart along with Renew. It will allow you to tangibly experience using the heart of our system for 5 full weeks. The planner booklet is also undated, allowing you to start it anytime.
Hello, friend!
We have worked hard to make the Collective a welcoming and non-judgmental place for our students to thrive. While the vast majority of our students are Christians and post from that perspective, we have strict community guidelines about respecting other students and that prevent delving into off-topic debates.
That being said, there are a couple of things you might want to be aware of before diving in:
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All of our content is written with the assumption that the student is a Christian. It is extremely practical and would be useful to anyone who read it, but it does strongly come from that perspective.
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Our community guidelines require students to be respectful of others' lifestyle choices and priorities, but they also disallow students to post anything that sounds like it's promoting or sanctioning something that goes against the commands of Jesus. This means that posts that are welcoming to LGBT ideas, abortion, chauvinism, or anything else that is in violation of the Word of God will be immediately deleted. If a member persists in this manner, their privileges to post in all community spaces or DM other members will be immediately revoked.
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Discussions or debates about irrelevant politically-charged subjects (such as vaccinations) have plenty of places to live on the internet, and are completely disallowed in this community so that everyone can focus on the work we're all really here to do! The full set of rules and guidelines are made available inside of the community so there's never any confusion about what's okay to discuss. Our students have always found these gentle guidelines to be reasonable, the environment cheerful, and our admins very relaxed (in the best of ways)!
These guidelines have served to make the Collective an extremely pleasant and life-giving place for women of different walks of life (but who all care about intentional living) to connect and encourage one another.
Welcome, brother!
If your wife has purchased Renew, you are totally welcome to go through it with her without purchasing your own seat. A lot of couples have even gone through the exercises together (including within Team Evergreen!) and have experienced it to be very fruitful.
If you're not the husband of a student and you're interested in this for yourself, you are welcome to purchase and take the Course! (Heads up, though: the content in Renew is written in a way that assumes the student is a woman, and uses exclusively feminine pronouns, anecdotes, and aesthetics. Even so, the exercises themselves thoroughly practical and applicable to both men and women.)
At this point, the Collective is also designed for women and foster conversations that are usually most relevant to the concerns of women, but you do not have to participate in the "girl-talk" to benefit from the Renew Course!
You're welcome to post your homework in the Student Spaces or to just do the homework privately. You can also post questions to Team Evergreen or DM us directly.
The physical Evergreen Planner System also has a few feminine flourishes in its design, but we often see husbands purchasing their own planners and enjoying the system. We've been asked if we plan to create a dedicated "men's planner" and while that is on our radar, it is not slated to happen this year. When we do decide to undertake that project, we'll be doing extensive research with men who are willing to field-test and help tweak the system so that it works best for their preferences, way of thinking, and priorities.
We offer a 100% money back guarantee on our Renew Course if you reach out within 30 days of purchase. Reach out and we'll make the refund process painless, and will remove your access from the Renew Course and Student Spaces for you.
It's also easy to cancel your subscription to the Collective within your Circle account. If you can't quickly figure out how to on your end, you can simply reach out to our customer care specialist Abby (hello@evergreenplanner.com) and she'll take care of it for you.
Returns and refunds for our physical Evergreen Planner System:
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If you're subscribed to the Day Planner, it's easy to pause or cancel your subscription within your account on our shop website. If you can't quickly figure out how to on your end, you can simply reach out to our customer care specialist Abby (hello@evergreenplanner.com) and she'll take care of it for you. If we haven't yet shipped out the booklets but your subscription hit and you want to cancel it, reach out and we will cancel the order and refund your payment.
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If you receive physical products that are damaged or flawed in any way, please let reach out to our customer care specialist Abby (hello@evergreenplanner.com) and let her know immediately! It helps if you send photos of the concern. We have high standards for the quality of our products, and will do everything we can to make it right.
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If you want a refund on your purchase of any physical products, you can return product in its original condition within 30 days of of receipt. We will refund your order once we receive and examine the product. We cannot offer a refund leather Covers or planner booklets that look used in any way.
The Renew Course was created specifically for you if...
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You believe God's promises. 2 Peter 1:3 says that He has given us everything we need for life and godliness — including enough time!
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You want to uncover the abundance of hidden time that God has given you.
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You want to learn, practically, HOW to get focused on everything He is calling you to do.
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You're tired of one-size-fits all approaches to time-management and productivity that feel like a straight-jacket on your creativity and intuition or expect herculean levels of "discipline" out of you.
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You need instant relief from overwhelm and are willing to do the work and make the hard decisions you need to make that happen.
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You want someone to give you a simple step-by-step process so you can focus on your transformation, not reinventing the wheel.
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