How do you divide up your year? Financial quarters, seasons, or just from the date you happened to first start your planner are all great options. There is no wrong way to do it.
From the date you decide to start
There's a lot of merit in just using the month of the day that you start, whatever that may be.
Any day is a good first day of the rest of your life. If you're feeling motivated to begin there is no time like the present. This could have you planning with some non-traditional segments, but as the 3-Month Undated Planner is, as it suggests, undated, you can set it up in any way that suits your needs.
Financial Quarters
This may be particularly attractive to those who run a business and want to keep track of how close to the end of the quarter - and the dreaded BAS you are.
It has the advantage of landing January as the first month of a new planner. While you can have that New Year feeling every three months, it's a particularly powerful feeling if the actual new year falls on a new planner day too.
Seasons
This just happens to be the way that my planners are timed. Not due to a concious decision, but just the way the first print run and delivery date fell. It was quite fortuitous though, and I can't see it changing in the near future.
Using the seasons helps shift my mindset more easily. I get a nice visual of how much time is left to drag myself through of the hot weather in summer, the seasonal gardening tasks are largely kept together in nice tidy Lists and Regular Tasks pages, summer school holiday plans and activity ideas can be grouped together.
Perhaps my favourite aspect of the seasonal grouping of months is that it makes for clearer theming ideas for colours and decorations.
How do you group your 3-Month Undated Planner months, and how did you get there?
How do you do three months?