My name is Nicole Bar-Dayan and I created 101 Planners.
101 Planners is dedicated to providing premium-quality yet completely free tools and resources designed to help you stay organized, reach your goals, and enhance personal growth. Whether you’re looking for worksheets and journals to set and achieve your aspirations, planners and calendars to streamline your schedule, or habit trackers and other productivity tools, you’ll find everything you need—all without hidden costs or sign-ups. Our mission is to make high-quality personal development and organizational resources accessible to everyone, empowering you to take control of your time, mindset, and success.
I’m a planner addict. I always have been and probably always will be.
Ever since I can remember, I have never been content doing only one or two things at once. If I don’t utilize every minute of the day, I start getting anxious. Therefore, I LOVE to plan to ensure I get the most out of every day. I am always in the middle of a new productivity book and love learning how to get as much as possible done.
When I was in high school, I studied Photoshop as well. When I was in law school, I also studied Japanese, numerology, and accounting and I worked as a freelance graphic designer to pay the bills. When I did my MBA, I also studied coding, graphics and took more advanced Photoshop courses. Today, I work full time as a lawyer and use this site and the hundreds of projects I always have going on at any one time as my creative outlet.
I created this site to share the tools that keep me organized and productive and help me reach my goals. I hope that you will find them helpful too. I strongly believe that planners need to be customized to suit each user. Everyone’s needs are different. Your planner should meet your needs and you don’t need to force yourself to work with whatever you could find. That’s why all my planner printables are customizable and free. I want to help as many people as I can without charging them.
I LOVE getting letters from users who let me know how much the printables have helped them. That is what motivated me to add so much content to the site. I also love getting suggestions for improvement and requests for new planner printables.
Fun Facts About Nicole
- I started my first journal when I was about 6 and I still have it today. It was a pretty pink Hello Kitty journal which is in a huge box with many other journals that I kept since then. I started keeping a journal way before studies proved that it has many benefits. I felt them before they were confirmed. That’s why you can find many journal templates on this site as I use them daily and truly believe in their power.
- Gratitude is an important part of my life. I make it a point to add to my gratitude list every single day—there’s always something to be thankful for!
- I strongly believe that everyone should find their passion in life, and this site is mine. I wake up each morning full of excitement, eager to create and share new content. Most days, I find myself waking up around 3:00 a.m. and diving straight into work on this site. I often tell people I can’t sleep, but if I’m honest, I think I wake up because I’m just so excited to work on new ideas and bring them to life!
- In between raising my three kids and all the above, I am usually training for a marathon, triathlon or just trying to burn calories and lead a relatively healthy life (despite being a chocolate and coffee addict).
- It took me many years to write this page as I don’t usually talk / write about myself.
Education
I have a degree in law (LLB) and a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA), with a major in marketing and finance.