People always refer to a million different types of planners: scheduler, journal, planner, to-do list, agenda, ect. Most are pretty self explanatory. But what exactly is a productivity planner?
A productivity planner is also pretty self explanatory, it is a tool to increase your productivity. Many people write down their thoughts, schedules, and events, but a productivity planner is so much more. This organizational tool has you plan your goals and figure out how to implement them into your daily life. This approach is down with organizational planners that have 3 key components.
3 Key components of Productivity Planners:
1. They have a goal worksheet: A goal worksheet can be displayed in many different ways, such as a simple sheet saying to write down or brainstorm your goals, it can be more detailed and have you give your big and little goals, it can also ask about the goal such as reward, goal type, and approach.
2. They have a weekly preview: This is essential in a productivity planner because it allows you to implement your goals in the week. you are taking your yearly goals and breaking them up into small pieces to achieve each week.
3. It has a daily priorities section: This seems minor, but it actually is very important in the productivity planning process as now you are actually deciding when you are achieving the goal.
You can really see this goal process as planning, prepping, and implementing. Planning happens in that fist stage when you are filling out a goal worksheet, prepping happens when you write down smaller goals in your weekly preview; deciding what part of your goal you are going to accomplish this week. Finally implementation happens when you write these down in your daily to-do list, as you have prepped what part of your goal you can do that day and the only thing left to do is to accomplish that micro goal.
So do yourself a favor and no matter which industry you are in or stage of life, get a productivity planner and plan, prep, and implement.