There are times in our lives when we are faced with the decision of whether to buy something we don't really need. For some people, the conundrum can be overwhelming. We get it. We also get the fact that there are also times when investing in something you do not really need turns out to be a good thing. We can illustrate the point with our luxury notebook journal. Truth be told, no one really needs a luxury notebook journal. Anyone who wants to journal can use a cheap notebook from the local department store. Even pieces of scrap paper will do the trick. So why spend money on a designer journal like ours? Motivation. Journaling is good...
There is no shortage of experts ready to say that daily planning is necessary regardless of your station in life. They are quick to assert that everyone needs a daily planner to organize their thoughts and prioritize tasks. But is it true? More to the point, how important is effective daily planning to you? Truth be told, nearly all of us engage in basic planning even if we don't write things down in a journal or high-performance planner. When we go to bed at night, we do so with a plan to get up in the morning. We plan to eat a couple of meals every day. We plan to take a shower, go to work, etc. Even...
We are big fans of using a high-performance planner to keep track of things. We appreciate habit trackers, daily brain dumps, and journaling. But all these things are just tools. It is possible to use them and still not come up with a daily plan that actually works. For the record, this is one of the main reasons we developed our daily planner and the companion luxury notebook journal. We wanted to give our users tools more suitable to the way they think. To us, it's all about coming up with a doable daily plan that's easy to implement. If you're using a daily planner but still struggling to stay organized and get things done, don't be quick...
People with ADHD can struggle with daily planning if they don't have a way to prioritize their tasks. With that in mind, our high-performance daily planner is designed to help users categorize priorities as follows: urgent, important, and non-urgent. Categorizing priorities helps users understand the order in which to complete their tasks. We cannot take credit for this principle. It's a common business principle that borrows from the well-known Eisenhower's Urgent/Important principle for solving problems. For our purposes though, it is not about solving problems. It's about prioritizing tasks. A Way to Organize Workload In 1954, then President Dwight D. Eisenhower had his plate full. He was overseeing a post-war expansion of the American dream while simultaneously...
Have you ever read those articles about what makes highly motivated people tick? Highly charged posts talking about things like having a vision and making a plan certainly have their place. Yet they can be intimidating to people who are not planners. If you are in that category of non-planners, it's okay. You don't have to try to be someone you are not. So you are not a planner. That doesn't make you less of a person than someone else who charts out every minute of every single day. People are different. Some people do very well with ironclad plans. Others are better playing things by ear. One thing we would say is this: if your lack of...
