Hi, everybody, Cheryl Knowlton, coming at you with one of my very, very favorite tools. I’ve recently been introduced to this tool and I can’t wait to share it with you. It has been transformational in my life. This beauty is called the High-Performance Planner by Brendon Burchard. His organization—he is the one who masterminded and orchestrated this with many years of research with high producers of every single arena of life, business leaders, actors, athletes, you name it.
I’m going to show you some of the specifics about why I love this so much. You can decide if it is a good fit for you.
This planner helps you keep your focus
First of all, it forces me to sit down absolutely every single day, seven days a week and focus. That is something, believe it nor not, with all my energies, truthfully—truth-bomb, I have a little trouble with. It’s something my coach is constantly bringing me back into focus.
So, this is so great. First of all, you’ve got your date, today’s message to myself and then you go through the morning mindset. You ask yourself specific questions. “One thing I can get excited about today is____.” “If one word could describe what I want to be today that word is _______.” Those are the first two.
Then we go over to the other side of the page. Today’s top goals or priorities and tasks that absolutely must be done today.
Turning the page—I see this is actually a work day for me—a couple days ago. It has a message. “I can go the distance.” That is what I remind myself all the time when I run and when I’m working on a huge project., like earning my Certified Speaking Professional designation from the National Speakers Association or finishing my first book.
Turning priorities into tasks and blocking out your time
Next page has tasks that absolutely need to be done. You take your priorities and turn them into tasks. On this side it shows persons I need to lead or connect with today. It shows how to do it well. Then you block out your time. This is so, so important that we’re going to spend a different segment talking about time blocking. It’s absolutely essential that we take our priorities, then them into tasks and then schedule them specifically. You will know when you are going to do them. Otherwise our to-do list is turned into a great big overwhelming elephant that we cannot eat one bit at a time because we don’t know where to start.
Last but not least, we’ve got out evening journal. We’ve got “a moment that I really appreciated was _____.” Something I realized or learned today______.” “If I were my own high-performance coach, I would tell myself this statement about today_______.” The you give yourself a score card in each of six essential areas: Clarity, Energy, Necessity, Productivity, Influence and Courage.
I highly, highly recommend that you take a look at this planner. You can go there to www.highperformanceplanner.com.
As with everything I recommend to you, I have no affiliation with this company. I don’t make a dime off recommending it. I just wish I had found this so much earlier. To the friend who introduced this to me I am so grateful. Now I have officially introduced it to you.
Go and use it and be awesome!