The High Performance Planner

Before buying, please understand that this is NOT a typical yearly planner. This planner is a 60 day planner (so you'll find it only has 2 monthly planner pages, 60 daily pages, 9 weekly pages, and grid paper at the back). You are supposed to use a new planner every 2 months (which is why it's beneficial to order multiples and in different colors). Writing out goals like this is far more effective than putting it in a phone, computer, or digital device. So it's going to work better than an app or online software. If you break down the cost of the planner, it is around $10/month at full price, which is typically what a good online service or app would likely charge that did the same thing. Because it's a physical planner and we actively write in it, it increases the likelihood of actually sticking to our goals and achieving them. The dates aren't labeled, so they work anytime. I believe the reason he made it only 60 days is because it would be too big, thick, and awkward to use otherwise. It has some assessments in the beginning and weekly and monthly pages to evaluate your progress. If you've read Brendon Buchard's books or watched his videos, everything will be familiar to you. I've been a fan of Brendon for years, but I kept lacking the daily discipline to stay on task. This planner helps me with that. I wish he made a kids version so I can get my daughter doing it too. Overall, it's an excellent planner that is well thought out and makes you think about the things that matter to you and helps you work towards them. It should be used daily and in conjunction with other tools if you want to see real progress in your life. This is simply a great tool to use at the start of your day. So the key is to know what you're buying, why you're buying it, and what difference it's going to make for you. I bought this planner to help me stay on track and achieve my goals. I want to be successful, so this is a worthwhile investment. The cost is reasonable and a good value. It's a very high quality planner. If you want to see changes in your life, get it. It will help you make it happen.

I've gone through a number of planners and workbooks that are SIMILAR, but this planner words things differently. There is a difference in the psychology of it... and that will make all the difference. First is the more obvious one for me. You don't necessarily immediately "set goals" in this planner. It asks you "If I was going to... I would have to start..." and you fill in the blank. It's sparks creativity as opposed to outright setting the goal. It begins with the first spark of the idea, not "goal accomplishment". Second, I find that I'm re-framing the things I know I need to do... but naturally hesitate to do. The tasks are being reframed as becoming who I want to become and having greater congruency in my life... as opposed to making it a 'task I need to do'. It's elevating my attitude and perspective... which is naturally encouraging for me. Now, the parts I don't like on this planner... is that there's very little room to write out these things, particularly in the beginning pages. So I took the exercises, did them in Word, printed them, and taped those pages into the planner. (Hey, at least I'm doing them, right?) If it were me, I would take a week to get the beginning of the planner situated... and then begin to execute on the weekly and daily pages. It took me a bit of time, but I think it'll be good. I'm looking forward to these 2x a day, weekly, and monthly planning rituals and letting the process change me and my mentality for the better.

I can only I wish I had know of this book earlier! Like Years ago! This would of organize my life and my work and put me on the right track. Instead of wandering and using those misguided daily planners I could been successful an hitting those milestones. Once you get this planner you will never go back,

Disclaimer: I'm only on day 1 so I will edit this review in 2 months when this planner is filled out. Good things: Started off with a life assessment, grading each life area out of 10 Backed by science, structured interviews with high performers, etc. For Daily Pages: I love the morning mindset questions. I like the schedule. The evening journal is good. I like today's message to yourself. I love the daily high performance habits scorecard because it really helps hone down on practicing the high performance habits. For Weekly Pages: (Disclaimer: haven't filled it out yet) , the Weekly Learning Review looks good. I like the Weekly Life Review. For the Monthly Pages: Monthly Reflection is good, long term goal alignment is good, and the whole life assessment is good. Things that could be improved: Start off with a monthly review, the macro view On the weekly review, the High Performance Habits assessment is for "today" and that's annoying to have on a weekly review. The wording should be changed to "... was I intentional this week" instead of "was I intentional today." Include a journal page after each week and after each month for extra journaling/note taking/goal setting.

I love this planner for the ability to write down task that need to be done, but lets be honest you could write that in a notebook. What I love about this planner are the side portions. The parts that make me think about my tasks, why they need to be done and how I need to be aware of how I act while I complete them. So while this journal helps me get things done. . .it has brought a huge awareness of being mindful and intentional in even the simplest tasks each day. I love being able to review the end of my day and how I feel I carried myself. Being so much more intentional about my life, not just waking up, getting things done and just letting life happen to me. Living intentionally. Goodness it has made me aware of opportunities to be a blessing to someone else, but even to allow myself to be present and receive blessings someone has for me. I love looking back at progress I have made and things I still need to work on. I will absolutely buy another one when this one is filled up.

Unfortunately, I'll be returning the one I just received. My likes: 1. Love the idea of combining morning/evening journal with a planner. 2. 60-day "sprint" format is a plus vs quarterly or annual approach to create more urgency. 3. Brendon's weekly, and monthly journal/planning questions are solid. What I like most is that the short-answer morning and evening journal questions are in your face every day on the daily plan pages. I can see this creating a helpful tail-wind to initiating and sticking with a daily journaling habit. 4. Price is right; keeps it accessible for almost everyone. Quality appears to be sufficient so it will likely last the 60 days for which it is intended. But I would pay twice this much (and do) for a different planner. My dislikes: 1. Way too much space allocated to the daily calendar on the daily plan pages. 2. No meaningful space for top 3, other daily tasks. These were crammed in to remaining space on the pages. 3. Morning and evening journal questions are good, but no additional space is available in the daily spread for additional journal writing or taking notes as the day progresses. 4. Would prefer to see a 1-page index at the front of the journal, and for the pages to be numbered to support an index. 5. The overall size of the planner is pretty large; the space on the 2-page daily plan spread could have been utilized much better. It would be great if Brendon Bouchard and Michael Hyatt (Full Focus Planner - the planner I currently use) would get together to create a hybrid.

I am a very busy woman. Between my personal life and my business I needed something just like this! Really really love this planner.

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Der Planer ist gut organisiert und praktisch – genau wie erwartet.

This planner literally helped me to change my life. I've kept my old ones to review once in a while to appreciate how far I've come. The size is kind of large but I wouldn't want to sacrifice content for a smaller size either. I wish they had versions for long term users to skip all the intro to sections. I've tried switching to other planners that are year long, smaller size, various content but I keep coming back to this one. I wish other colours didn't cost more or that maybe there is a university /college version. But at the end of the day, this will always be my favourite planner.

The order received well before the estimated time. Good packing and better price than other portals.

I love the idea of the high performance planner and really hope my review helps for improvement/developing another version. What I like: Starting the day and ending the day mindful. It helps to see and be aware of positive moments during the day, what you can excited about. It helps to focus better and to remind you of your priorities. I was surprised when I arrived to already the second weekly review, I love that, it made me reflect on the last week, which had passed by so fast I didn't even notice so it was a good moment to hold on for a moment, to reflect and see what to focus on next. To improve: It's too bulky to use as an agenda. The A4 format is too big for my bag so I need to take it separately with me, which is quite inconvenient. I own a restaurant and I (almost) never work early in the morning. I use to wake up at 9am and my working day never ends at 7pm, so I am not using quite some space (till 9am) but I am missing space at the end of the day. To start the day every day with exact the same questions got me bored and without inspiration. I can't/need/want to surprise someone every single day. And not every single day I think something will stress me. So, some questions could be fix but please have a few rotating questions. And also, projects to have in mind although I might not work on it today, maybe could be changed to: 'today I will make 30mins time to work on this (X) big goal' like this you can avoid to postpone big goals day after day without working on it. :) One last thing that I really miss: For a better overview for the first weeks, add another monthly planner at the beginning. In short, a very good start, but needs some adjustments.