How I use my Planner to Crush my Goals

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This year Passion Planner came out with their daily version for the first time. While I was pretty attached to the original Passion Planner, I decided to try out the daily a few weeks ago. WOW… what a game changer. I found that by using this planner and customizing it just a little bit, I was able to be more intentional, more reflective and as a result be able to focus on getting my goals.

Here I share how the Passion Planner Daily looks and how I use it to crush my goals.

 

Overview of the Passion Planner Daily

 

First, let’s go over the Passion Planner Daily’s Features. For a detailed look at these pages you can download the full planner PDF for free on the Passion Planner website.

  • Passion Roadmap – we are looking at 3 months to lifetime here. When I cast the vision of my life years ahead of me and keep that vision on top of mind, I find that I am intentional about my actions and that I steer them in the direction I want, rather than just letting things happen to me.
  • Month – GameChanger Goal Page. I love how this page gives you room to create a mindmap with your goal and related tasks. Also it gives you prompts to guide you through the goal setting process.
  • Year – these 4 pages has the months of the year represented verticially. Fill in the important events in this calendar and you will get a great overview of your year.
  • Next is the sets of pages for each month. They contain:
    • Blank Calendar
    • End of Month Self Check-in
    • GameChanger goal
    • The last page in this section is called “Since you Started this planner” – this is the final check-in page for the planner. I call this the Quarterly Review Page.
  • Daily Spreads – there are 93 these per books. Plenty of pages for a quarter’s worth of planning
    • Upper left: has prompts to be completed before you start your day.
    • Lower left: has reflections to be completed at the end of your day
    • On the right hand side of the left page you have space to write your appointments and to timeblock activities.
    • The right page is left for you to doodle, journal, write to do lists and more!

For a closer look of the daily planner feel free download the full planner PDF for free on the Passion Planner website.

 

Michael Hyatt’s Goal Setting and my Passion Planner Daily

 

Here are the tools that I use for preparing my planner for the quarter. For details about my tools and links to purchase, you can visit the link to my website in the description below:

Credit: I borrowed many of the concepts I use her from Michael Hyatt’s Full Focus Planner.  I have used the Full Focus Planner and it is a great product but I personally find the Passion Planner better for my needs.

  • Rituals
    • Michael Hyatt calls rituals, recipes for success. You already have habits and daily rituals now. Formally defining, refining and enforcing their use for the 4 key times of the day will help you self-automate and be more productive.
    • I am not the best at following my rituals but when I do, I always feel good at the end of the day and prepared to hit the ground running in the morning.
      • getting those important morning and evening things done.
      • Work startup and shutdown routines help me bookend my work day, which is especially important now since I’ve been working from home.
  • Ideal Week
    • What I love about the practice of defining the ideal week is that it helps me to know what can and cannot be done during my day.
    • Before I defined my ideal week I used to beat myself up each night for not getting all my things done.
      • By setting this up my ideal week, I learned what can realistically be done within the hours in the day.
  • MICHAEL HYATT’s goal setting method
    • YEARLY: 10 goals per year.
    • QUARTER: 3-4 goals per quarter.
    • WEEKLY Big 3 – These actions will advance me in my quarterly goals and big projects.
    • DAILY Big 3  – Three most important tasks for the day – At least one of these should be related to my WEEKLY BIG 3.
  • Quarterly Goals – Gamechanger Goal Pages
    • These pages are meant to be per month but my goals are quarter-based so I fill all three of these pages out at the beginning of the quarter.
    • I revew this page, especially “WHY” and the “VISUALIZE” sections weekly.
  • Daily
    • The DAILY BIG 3 – are the most important things I need to get done for the day, I write these under the “Gamechanger goal” section on the daily spread. At least one of these should help move me forward in my WEEKLY BIG 3 goals.
    • Others listed in the DAILY BIG 3 could be related to an important projects, not necessarily goal related. The BIG THREE may contain an important item that must be completed that day.
  • Weekly Review
    • In the Full Focus Planners there are 4 pages dedicated to the weekly review.  I had limited space here so I condensed it to a half a page. This works best for me.

 

So there you have it – you’ve seen how I leverage the passion planner for crushing my goals. As you saw, most of the bones are already in the planner. I customized it just a bit so it works perfectly for me.

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