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It has been three years since I began to document “coloring outside the lines” with my day planning.
Oh, yes. It was a wee bit disconcerting to begin planning in a way that organized my life, my dreams — my miscellany and random art-full moments! — along with the various tasks and steps to where I want to go. 
It began with stickers, color markers and highlighters in my very left-brain day-planner. Complete with its lines and boxes to check, the linear record system … etc. etc. However, I began to add creative addendums to my planner — extra pages or Post-it® notes for creativity, for thoughts and ponderings.
From there I began to compile daily lists of regular activities using MS Word; then I would print a weekly list (or even an occasional master To-Do list, etc.) and add color via markers, Post-it® notes, stickers and assorted labels, cut-outs, and even strips of patterned paper, newspaper or magazine pages. I eventually ”graduated” to collage-journal pages within my new eclectic, color-outside-the-lines “planner” …
Pondering: Why it is that we often lose the wonder of childhood coloring pages and “art projects” like doodling and such? Remember? When purple or green was a fabulous choice for hair and coloring outside the lines was perfectly acceptable?
If we could perhaps keep just a bit of that freedom (and curiosity) life would go a bit easier. We wouldn’t have to relearn how to delight in the day; (read: attend seminars and workshops, pore of over countless books and hire pricey consultants). …
Because life is rather complicated and a bit of artistic freedom — a scoop of vibrant color with a dash of imagination — is like a spoon full of sugar (to help the medicine of our dailies to get down and done)!
Otherwise, exploring possibilities and the flight patterns for spur of the moment trips tends to blur from view. We establish impregnable boundaries, lock-boxes to keep everything in its place; structure eclipses spontaneity and deadlines stream in each day single (and double) file. 
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Favorite!: “Because life is rather complicated and a bit of artistic freedom — a scoop of vibrant color with a dash of imagination — is like a spoon full of sugar (to help the medicine of our dailies to get down and done)!”