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...
Among the tools built in to our high-performance planner is the habit tracker. We didn't invent the habit tracker. We just implemented it in a way that makes it more usable. If the habit tracker concept is new to you, it is worth looking in to. Habit trackers represent just one tool a person might use to improve daily performance. Since daily performance is individually defined, people use habit trackers in different ways. Use one and you just might find it to be the most important component of your daily planner. What It Is, What It Does A habit tracker is a tool for recording and tracking your habits. Let's say you have a list of daily...
Despite worldwide knowledge and acceptance of ADHD, people diagnosed with the disorder often feel misunderstood. While those feelings are sometimes misplaced, they are spot on at other times. Unfortunately, many of the characteristics that define ADHD are misunderstood by people who have no experience with the disorder. ADHD brains are wired differently. Moreover, the disorder doesn't manifest itself the same way in every person who has it. This only seems to confuse people who struggle to understand ADHD. For the record, misunderstandings about ADHD explain why so many daily planners don't work for ADHDers. Our ADHD daily planner is designed specifically to give the ADHD brain access to the tools necessary to stay on task. You can look...
