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The 2 Reasons ADHDers Struggle with Deadlines

The Next Level Daily Planner was designed to be as flexible enough to use regardless of how a person organizes their thoughts. That makes it the ideal daily planner for ADHDers. As you may already know, people with ADHD struggle with deadlines. Our planner is designed to make it easier to manage them.   With that in mind, a detailed article published by ADDitude Magazine offers some insight into why ADHDers struggle to meet their deadlines. It explains why they have difficult planning for the long term. We encourage you to read the article if you or someone you know has been diagnosed with ADHD. Meanwhile, we will offer an overview here. What you are about to read may sound...

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So, How Do You Really Feel About Your Daily Planner?

How much structure do you plan into your daily life? If you have a daily planner, how do you really feel about it? Sometimes it seems like we got so obsessed about things like time management and being the best we can be that we forget to just be people. Hopefully, that's not a normal experience for you.   Researching this post led us to an entertaining 2016 article published on the Odyssey website. Entitled 'An Ode to My Planner', the article was the author's attempt to describe her relationship with her daily planner in a creative way. She did a nice job.   Perhaps the biggest take-away is the realization of how much so many of us rely on...

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Daily Planner, Daily Journal, or Both – What's Best?

If you are a big fan of our high-performance planner, chances are you are not the type of person who likes to be put into a box. You probably don't appreciate the one-size-fits-all approach to anything. So that being the case, do not stress over trying to figure out whether to use a daily planner, daily journal, or both. There is no 'best' way.   Our modern culture likes things to be neat and clean. As much as people claim to want to be different, we seem to strive for sameness. That doesn't work for certain groups of people. Some of these groups are not like everyone else. We aren't all the same within our own group. That's okay. That's...

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You Don't Really Need a Luxury Notebook Journal, But…

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...

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How Important Is Effective Daily Planning to You?

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...

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