Full Focus Planner by Michael Hyatt - Grey 4.0

I have been an avid user of journals/planners for decades, this one is by FAR my favorite, I knew as soon as I saw it that I would love it, and Im on my second one now. Yes, its expensive, but for me this is a nice luxury spend that feels like a worthwhile investment in myself. (And it lasts 3 months, I spent $50 at a stadium on a pizza and 2 margaritas and that only lasted 2 hrs.) The format is clean and logical, and just the right balance between detailed enough without being overkill. I love that it helps me focus on 10 'goals' at a time, and that I can start at any date I want (although the older version had 12 goals I noticed). I love that the lines are small and efficient. I was surprised to find this version is easier to write in than the spiral version. I like taking the time to really be intentional with what I want and how Im going to get from A to B. The weekly preview is great for preparing mentally for the week ahead on Sunday, and the daily pages have a notes section AND are great for maximizing your lists and leftover minutes here and there. But beyond productivity, this journal for me is about alignment, about being intentional and correcting those little ways I get mindlessly off track. Can't say I would change anything about this planner. 5 stars!

I had gone away from paper planners for a number of years, looked at several planners before choosing this one, it is a little costly, but keeps you on track. Easier to acquire on Amazon than the company site.

Great look, great feel, organized very well…I feel like I missed the one notification I now see that it’s only a 90 day planner. I get it you can’t have this level of detail in this format unless it’s quarterly but why hide that? $200 a year for four identical planners is a bit of a hard sell for most. I would rather see a larger 8.5 x 11” option, just as thick incorporating 12 months. I get it, there is probably something to the quarterly method, right? So why not make it more clear? Just kinda disappointed to see a great tool fall 3/4 short in my opinion.

The media could not be loaded.  2023 hasn’t been kind to me. One of the reasons is that I was not prepared and for the first time in years thought I would get by without a paper planner. I was so wrong! My life got somewhat out of control because I spread myself so thin that I was burned out by December and highly unmotivated.After a lot of thinking and rest in December 2023, I researched a planner that would fit my needs: stay focused on important things, optimizing my time management and most importantly have control of my time back. All of this while achieving my longer term goals.This is how I found the Full Focus Journal after days of searching for the planner that would change my life.One of my big problems in 2023 was giving my time and energy to everyone except myself. This journal helped me understand how important it is to rest not as a reward but as part of my time and do rejuvenating activities.I am into my third week of January and I already feel much better prepared and focused than last year! I am so happy I picked this planner over the dozens others I almost bought.

I’m on my 7th Full Focus Planner. I’m a lifelong planner junkie, so I still have tried other planners over the last couple of years (including a $70 custom one). But I always end up coming back to this planner in a matter of weeks.The size is perfect, and the format of the daily pages is the only one that seems to work for me. It’s simple enough:- the day of the week preprinted, so I just put the date;- a schedule with half-hour lines and the right amount of space to mark meetings and plans;- a call-out area for high priority items;- a to-do list to capture all of the tasks that pile up during the day; and- a FULL page for notes, which I usually use to record notes from meetings, overflow to-do list items, things that crop up that I need to [temporarily] remember, etc.I have not found any other planner with the right balance of space, and that doesn’t require me to work within an overly segmented daily-page structure.Unfortunately, the same can no longer be said about their weekly planning pages. The old version had a full page for weekly notes, which I used for figuring out what I’d be doing for different projects that week. Now the space has its own overly segmented structure that I never use. And I don’t want to use the back pages for that purpose, because I don’t have enough room/organization for breaking it down week-by-week. But if you want to brainstorm your weekly plans for sleeping, eating, exercising, socializing, and relaxing ... well, they’ve got you covered. And maybe I’ll try repurposing that section at some point.I also don’t use the front material much anymore. The format for goal-planning just doesn’t work for me. I wish they weren’t so structured. And the monthly calendars are always forgotten because they’re off on their own. But the “system” might work for others.I’m going to stick with Full Focus Planner simply because of the daily pages. I don’t regret it, because it really helps me to manage my daily workload. And I wouldn’t hesitate to suggest it to someone who cares most of all about managing their day-to-day work life.