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Goal Setting and Goal Planning: What's the Difference?

    The Next Level Daily planner can be used in any way that makes sense to you. Some of our customers use it as a combination daily planner, habit tracker, and goal planner. The goal planning aspect is especially important when you come to realize that goal setting and planning are two different things.   Self-help experts and life coaches have been telling us for years that setting goals is important. Not only that, but we are also supposed to set achievable goals so that we don't defeat ourselves. But setting a goal is only the start. Achieving it follows. That is where goal planning comes in.   Getting From Point A to Point B   Achieving a set...

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Your Planner Should Work for You – Not the Other Way Around

  The Next Level Daily planner was designed from the very start to be different. As a full-focus planner, it was always intended to be more than just a daily calendar. We believe it should work for you, not the other way around.   One of the biggest things that stands out to us is just how many people give up on daily planners because using one seems like more work than it's worth. People buy planners off-the-shelf only to discover that using them make things less productive and efficient.   We aim to change that with a full-focus planner flexible enough to allow you to use it in whatever way you deem best. We know that you are more...

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How to Tailor a Performance Improvement Plan to Your Own Needs

  In the business world, managers are always looking for ways to motivate and encourage their least performing employees. One of the hottest tools for doing so is something known as the performance improvement plan (PIP). A PIP can be a good tool if used the right way. Did you know that you can tailor a PIP to your own needs?   Combining a personal PIP with tools like a high-performance planner and habit tracker can make a significant difference in your quest to improve your own performance. Best of all, the PIP strategy isn't exclusive to work performance. You can use it as a tool to help improve your performance in just about any area.   Basic PIP Concepts...

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The Best Types of Habits to Track – Part 2

We recently published the first in a two-part blog series discussing habit tracking. We have been looking at different types of habits we can all track for purposes of self-improvement. Hopefully, you have read and benefited from that first post. Now we move on to the second.   The first post covered fitness, financial, and nutrition habits. This post will look at three more categories. As always, you can use the habit tracker built in to the Next Level Daily Planner to track your habits.   Type #4: Work Habits   Unless you are independently wealthy and have too much on your plate to actually hold a job, you must work for a living. Welcome to the club. The fact...

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The Best Types of Habits to Track – Part 1

The Next Level Daily Planner has a built-in habit tracker designed to help you better understand how you live your daily life. Tracking habits can help you establish good habits while seeking to get rid of those you aren't so fond of. We think habit tracking is a fantastic tool for self-improvement.   In light of that, we began wondering what types of habits our customers would want to track. Needless to say, we couldn't stop at just a few. So we have put together a series of two blog posts covering a full range of categories. This is the first of the series.   Type #1: Fitness Habits   We will start with fitness habits simply because this is...

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