As I work through these, I realized these floating projects were all the more reason I needed to a stronger system for consolidating these floating, nebulous tasks. I have so many smaller projects that are “Good to Do Soon” but don’t have urgent, fixed deadlines. I started to really scrutinize my weekly to-do lists. The single biggest lesson I learned from this planner was: it’s okay to schedule less so I can do more. When we’re overwhelmed, we shut down or do the bare minimum. When faced with so, so many tasks – even if they’re tasks that are in your interest to complete – it’s just so overwhelming. I think this is where a lot of people struggle and fail with task completion. Why do one hard thing when I could do many other easier, unimportant tasks? What needed to be done so I could move my most important projects forward.Īnd yet, there were just so, so many other things I could do that were easier to complete. I noticed that the act of choosing my Daily Big 3 was…a little stressful. Since I would habitually check my bullet journal daily for my most important tasks (and general weekly tasks), filling out the daily pages in the Full Focus Planner wasn’t too much of a habit-leap. Rolling Quarters, admittedly, confused me for a while, but it’s like another calendar, only in more detail. I was too afraid the ideal would be ruined by my current reality. While I like the idea of creating an ideal week for myself, I wasn’t mentally ready for this kind of aspirational tool. I use Asana for my monthly calendar as it’s digital. I used the Daily Rituals section, but the rest I didn’t touch for this 90 day challenge. Other pages and systems in the planner include: an undated monthly calendar section that’s fillable, a Rolling Quarters section, an Ideal Week™ creator, and a place to create and record Daily Rituals. I waited anxiously until the beginning of October, the beginning of Q4, to start using it. A couple of weeks later, in mid-September, the planner arrived. I decided to invest in the Full Focus Planner to see how and if it would transform the way I planned my upcoming goals. After purchasing, you are sent introductory videos to help you set up and engage with the planner itself. Of course I want to be more focussed and productive! I’m a busy creative entrepreneur, dontcha know! □ Was there a better way to track my daily meditation progress, for example? Or my progress on Instagram? Would a structured planner actually make me more focussed and productive?Ī lot of testimonials on the Full Focus Planner website seemed to imply this was the case, which intrigued me. Habit tracking was also a big question mark to me. Or give myself too challenging a weekly goal. I had a routine that worked well for me, but it had some holes. Was there any aspect of my own cobbled-together system that could be improved upon? This was extremely helpful as it kept me focussed during the early days of the pandemic AND allowed me to re-evaluate what I could actually do while cooped up in my house without getting too frustrated about my inability to go out into the world safely. However, there were a couple of reasons I was ready to try something new: I was actively engaged with improving my planning habits.Įach week I’d review the previous week’s tasks, calculate how much I’d finished, and set weekly and daily goals. Since the beginning of the pandemic, I became far more serious about evaluating the achievable-ness of my goals and the day-by-day, week-by-week minutia of actually moving the needle toward them. Hey, my calligraphy and handwriting is NOT good, BUT, I sure do love washi tape and stickers, and using those to create a functional spread for the upcoming week. In the last two years specifically, I’ve drifted into the beautification aspect of planning. I’ve been using a modified version of the bullet journal system for a couple of years now, combined with a digital project management system: Asana. Why I decided to move from bullet journaling to the Full Focus Planner system
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