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Finally, Planners That Fit You

I’m going to tell you a little secret: most paper planners don’t get you.

They’re designed by people who are stuck into thinking about keeping people productive and on schedule from 8am to 5pm.

But you don’t really do that. Your creative mind is always working on something and you don’t need a system that forces your ideas into a regimen – you need a system that helps you harness your creative energy.

You don’t need a system that helps you watch the clock. You need a system that helps you get your stuff done in the time that you have.

And, lastly, you need a system that helps you balance those Big Ideas and the small actions required to get them done.

I’ve Been Making Planners For You For A Few Years

I loved the idea of paper planners. I really did. But I never could get one that fit me…so I started making my own. I started sharing them with my friends and readers, and along the way experimented, revised, added, deleted, and developed a final(ish) product that helps creative people focus on doing what matters when it needs to be done instead of merely helping them cross stuff off on a list.

And while the planners were helpful, they were never quite complete and they were limited to being available once a month. That’s where the Premium Planners come in.

The last two pieces came together in the exclusive Annual Strategic Planner and the Monthly Objective Planner, and seeing how those two planners fit in allowed me to lay out everything in its logical order. The Premium Planners include optimized versions of the (free) Action Planners and the Freelancer Workweek, as well as the exclusive Annual Strategic Planner and Quarterly Objective Planner.

No More Trying To Sandwich Pages In The Right Order

I’ve gone through and prepared each month for you, so all you have to do is print out the desired month and you get all of the planners in the right order. I tried to anticipate every way you might want to use the planners, and they’re packaged to give you the most flexibility.

You’ll see that the year is broken down into quarters, and the quarters into months. Inside each month is a monthly combined set as well as the individual components of the month.

For the Action Planners, that means the Monthly Action Planner is followed by a Weekly Action Planner, and that weekly planner is followed by 7 Daily Action Planners. That week is followed by another week prepared the same way, so there’s no more trying to figure out what goes where.

Although the Freelancer Workweek series is much simpler, it too comes out in the order that it’s supposed to be.

At the beginning of the quarter, you’ll see a Quarterly Objective Planner, too. Finally, you don’t have to remember to do your planning at the right time – you can just follow the prompt!

Print What You Need, When You Need It

Let’s say that you go out of town in the first week of March and need to get your groove on when you return. You might come back in the middle of the month, so instead of printing out all of March, you could just print out the weeks you need.

Or perhaps you’ve lost one of the weekly planners and just want to print that one. No problem – just find the month you’re in, and that solo planner is right there.

If you’d like to print out the entire month, you can do that, too.

The point is to get the planner or structure you need right now and to focus on where you’re going.

Life is messy; your plans will change. That’s okay. When reality changes under your feet, don’t fight it – adjust your plan to the current reality and get moving.

Don’t Worry About Messing Up Your Beautiful Planner

If planners are your thing, you’ve no doubt dealt with the frustration of screwing a page up behind all recognition and usability. Perhaps you wrote in pen but didn’t mean to and couldn’t bear to line or mark through your writing. Or maybe you’ve had coffee mishaps that completely ruined the whole notebook – and now you’re frustrated and without your handy planner.

You may have also bought a strategic planner before and had a great time planning during the New Year’s honeymoon, only to find that you totally miscalculated what you’d be able to do. In short, the bundled planners can’t grow with you and handle your changing reality.

You don’t have to bear through a planner you’ve messed up. You don’t have to plan that trip to the store anymore. You don’t have to figure out where to put your revised Big Ideas. With the Premium Planners, you can just print out and change what you need.

Which Should You Get?

The two different sets represent different approaches to workflow management: the Freelancer Workweek series focuses more on task-management, whereas the Action Planners focus more on time management.

Both series help you integrate higher level goals with runway actions, though. They work equally well for creative people who have a hard time translating ideas into action or action-oriented people that sometimes forget to tie their actions into meaningful goals.

Here’s the deal, though: most people need different types of structure at different times. When you’re in your groove, you might not need to worry about time management – you just need to get projects on and off your plate. On particularly busy or stressful days, you might find a time-based structure supportive.

This isn’t really an either/or choice; you can have both. You can mix and match these planners, as they’re all designed to mate reasonably well.

So on that busy week, you can slide in a week of the Action Planners to make sure you get that momentum rolling. The next week, you can swap in the Freelancer Workweek. Your objectives won’t change – so all that matters is that you’re getting the right type of support when you need it.

Bloggers: I Have Planners For You, Too!

On the first release of these planners, I didn’t include a premium version of the planners because I didn’t think anyone would want them. Daily emails from bloggers showed me just how wrong I was!

Due to the overwhelming requests, I decided to create and package a years’ worth of Blog Post Planners and Calendars. They’re nice and laid out just like the rest – and they include their own Quick Start Guide that shows you how to use them.

Seeing Is Believing

These planners are a visual product, so you need to see them to get them.

If you’re interested in how they’re sandwiched together and what you’re getting, go ahead and give these planners from January 2010 a look:

• Premium Action Planners Demo
• Premium Freelancer Workweek Planners Demo
• Blog Post Planner (February 2010)

The full year will have all 12 months like this, broken down by quarter. These demos do not include the Annual Strategic Planner, the Quarterly Objective Planner, and the Quick Start Guide.

If these are for you, you might be wondering…

How Much Do The Planners Cost?

$12. That’s $1 per month.

For the reasonable price of $12, you’ll get a year’s worth of either set. If you buy two sets, you can grab them for $18 – buy one, get half off the other one. Or you can buy everything for $22 - half off the second, the third for a third. (Craziness, right?)

What if these planners helped you get one more meaningful task done per month? Surely that’s worth a dollar? Let alone if it helps you get one more project or objective done.

Why Buy The Cow When You Can Get The Milk For Free?

You might be wondering why you should buy these planners when you could get most of them for free on this site. Here’s why:

• The Premium Planners help you keep those Big Ideas on the board since they come with the Annual Strategic Planner and the Monthly Objective Planner
• The Premium Planners go out for the rest of 2010 – you don’t have to keep coming back
• If you buy both sets of planners, you can get exactly the support you need, when you need it
• For the Premium Blog Planners: you can prepare for special events and get those series planned out even better than you used to!

Additionally, purchasing these planners helps me. If people are buying this product, I can spend more time giving creative people the tools they need to create awesome stuff in the world. I love helping you, but I need your help, too. (Thank you!)

Ready to Grab Your Premium Planners?

Before you grab ‘em, I want to say how much I appreciate your support. I have a lot of ideas for aids and planners that I’d like to get out this year, and your support helps me put food on the table and share my ideas with the world. Thank you!

If you’d like to purchase the 2010 Premium Action Planners for $12, click the next button:

If you’d like to purchase the 2010 Premium Freelancer Workweek Planners for $12, click the next button:

If you’d like to purchase the 2010 Premium Blog Planners for $12, click the next button:

If you’d like to purchase the All-in-One Pack for $22 (BEST VALUE), click the next button:

p.s. I’m supposed to have a p.s. on my sales page, so here you go: you might be thinking that you’ll try the free stuff or come back later, but keep in mind that I routinely update these, add bonuses, and send helpful hints. You really are missing out if you delay. Just sayin.’