Full Focus Planner by Michael Hyatt - how to plan your days & weeks to achieve your biggest goals
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- I love how the Full Focus Planner is designed to help you see new perspectives and illuminate what's most important each day.
My in-depth review of Michael Hyatt's Full Focus Planner! The 4th edition is out today and I think it is a great structured planner with 3 new styles and 7 different colors, including the Black Leather "Executive" style, 2 "Classic" colors, and 4 new colors in the "Bold" style with beautifully designed end pages and two-tone ink on the pages.
I highly recommend the Full Focus Planner as a goal-focused planner to help you achieve what you care most about in life. You can purchase a new edition of the Full Focus Planner by using my affiliate link: fullfocusplanne... (I get a small commission at no cost to you).
This is a massive review because there's so much to cover, so feel free to skip around on the timestamps to find the section you're interested in. Or watch the entire thing and give me a boost in the ol' CZcams algorithm.
01:25 - Full Focus Planner contents and overview
03:05 - Annual Goals
04:29 - Goal Details
05:58 - Monthly Calendar & Rolling Quarters
07:40 - Daily Rituals (I loved this section)
09:54 - Ideal Week
11:19 - Daily Pages
14:25 - Weekly Preview
18:08 - Quarterly Preview
19:55 - Notes, Sketches, & Index
20:28 - Inside look at Bold & Classic styles (end pages really pop)
22:37 - Outro, yo
Whew! That's a lot to review, hope you like it! Again I'm a big fan of the Full Focus Planner and Michael's work, he's been an inspiration and "online mentor" for years.
Remember if you are picking up your own Full Focus Planner please consider using my affiliate link as a way to support the channel - fullfocusstore.com?aff=112
Next week I'll be sharing an interview with John Meese from Michael Hyatt's team! We talk specifically about using the Full Focus Planner "in the wild", why analog productivity matters, plus how attention and focus are superpowers in today's busy, distracted world. Thanks for watching!
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Thanks for watching this review! What do you think of the Full Focus Planner? Is it one you are planning to use for planning your days and achieving your goals? Enter the giveaway to win one on Instagram too: instagram.com/p/B2hKY7HBI7i/
Watching this in May 2022, when I see you write “Q1 2020” I’m like, “Oh, buddy, you don’t know what you’re in for that quarter..” lol
I decided to transition from a full calendar year goal planner to a quarterly goal planner in an effort to prevent burnout &/or overwhelm. I just purchased my first full focus planner & am excited. Seems a very limited amount of CZcams videos are available, so I appreciate your taking the time to film this.
Thanks for your well-informed video!
The Full Focus format, an AM/work wrap up/PM ritual/top 3 tasks, has been my ideal daily plan for yrs. I have list for: non-negotiables, must-dos, & extra tasks; I also like extra space for general notes.
Altho this planner’s format would suit me, the issue making me hesitate is what I discovered upon researching the owner. His out-of-touch, limiting, self-serving business ethics; even the FB group disclaimer, that many are “Christians & may not understand your world view & jargon...” makes it clear which group his company deems as “other/outsider.” 🚩 Major deal-breaker.
Thanks for highlighting this, but I’ll stick to the wise & open, not alienating nor divisive, BuJo products & community.
This is the best review of the Full Focus Planner on CZcams. Thank you for being so thorough...great job!
I've been so interested in his planner. I personally prefer bullet journal but I love taking ideas from different planners and adding them to my system. Thanks for sharing!
Same for me! I like to keep my layout flexible but I always learn something new! Thanks for watching!
I do the same
I had the old version of the Full Focus Planner and I love it. It helped me achieve my goal and I was more focus at work. But The new ones are really nice 😍
I have used the FFP. Wonderful product for being productive and reaching your goals. The planner assists the user during the weekly preview to help set themselves up for reaching their goals for the upcoming week, and to determine what behaviors need to change. Thanks for the review.
Glad you liked it Lala, thanks for sharing your experience with it!
Thanks for the review, Matt. I find that the flexibility of a bullet journal works better for me long-term, but I might try this out for a quarter in a spirit of research. There are a lot of good features.
Re: Big Rocks - yes, this is a metaphor for major projects. I first encountered it in the Franklin Planner literature, likening planning your day to filling a bucket with rocks, gravel, and sand.
Thanks Denise!
I have been using this planner system for a while, and I see it as an advantage over bullet style journals. I just gifted my wife’s cousin with this system as he is midway through high school, and should be focusing on his next pathway of life. I bought him just the first quarter and sent him the link to this video, to see if he would gain an interest in using it. He is excited about it, so I ordered him the next 3 quarters.
Hi Matt, I just found this video of yours. 3 years down the line, are you still using this on a daily basis? This is a super in-depth explanation and demonstration of this product so I'm genuinely interested if you're still actively using it, or not.
Hey, Matt, after using the FFP for the better part of a month, I have found that wasted space isn't really a problem. On days I have more notes than will fit, I thread back to one of the pages with leftover space. For me, at least, it balances out pretty well.
Sir, you are amazing. This is the kind of review we are looking for. In-depth, critical, with demonstration!
I have been using this for 3 three years and love it! Thank you for the update version as I have the original. New colors sound fun!
I love this planner system and just became an annual subscriber. Great review! 👍🏾
I just started the FFP -- beginning Oct. 2019 as my first Q -- so watching your video was really timely and a good back-up for the FFP videos themselves. I hope they keep old plain one, however -- I would find all the colors too pretty and distracting. IMO, FFP is a super system, it is already helping me quite a bit. Getting ready to do my first weekly preview! Thanks!
Thank you for this review. I really appreciate you. I really appreciate your time.
Thanks Abbie 🤗
Amazing planner. I loved everything except for the cheap paper. I couldn't get into it because I'm addicted to fountain pens. A pilot kaküno EF with Robert Oster ink ghosted and almost bled through. The paper was worse than exceed from Walmart. But it is extremely functional and if you follow the system it's amazing.
Thanks for such a good review Matt. I hope many people will find it to be very useful!
Thanks Paul!
When at the very beginning you say that it’s going to be a very ‘in depth’ video, I was like, Yeah, Yeah, I’m at the 34 second spot and I just had to let you know that ‘today’ I need to see what this planner is all about, so, on to the rest of the video, but I just wanted to let you know at the onset, THANKS
Thanks Luann 🙌if it's *too* in-depth I did include timestamps 👍
Matt, This was a great video. I just did the annual subscription, as it is ‘exactly’ what I’ve been working on writing in my bullet journal for the past several months. Having a more in-depth perspective already printed in, will make better use of my time. I love the idea of ‘tweaking’ monthly and then quarterly. I would only suggest that the ‘ideal week’ could be a monthly inclusion, as what is my ideal is influenced by the changing of seasons, etc. BUT,, I’m looking forward to a ‘cleaner and more clear’ quarter coming up. THANKS 🙏
I like some of the tips and the structure here. I will borrow for my Notion account--which is cheaper and more customizable.
Nice Steven, good plan making it work for your own system!
Love the video, Matt! Just got a copy and this video was super helpful getting a good walk through!
Great Video and tips on the review of the executive planner. It's not apparent to me that all of the new editions have all the same updates that are in the executive planner this video reviewed? Is the affiliate link for Favs only? On the FF website it has no affiliate marketing? I'm assuming their policy changed and they didn't get to updating their site.
Seems to have stolen foundational franklin covey principles, hence you're not knowing what Big rocks referred to. The two page dailies are also very similar to FC. This planer is likely appealing to franklin covey users due to the weekly and quarterly reviews which aren't as prominent in franklin covey pages. Very thorough video!
Do you think it's worth the $40 price tag? It seems really expensive, and while they look beautiful and ai understand where the price comes from, I already have issues with keeping up a bullet journal and I'm worried about spending so much on just one book that might not work and now I have this journal that just sits there.
I'm also a minimalist so having something I don't use and just ends up sitting somewhere hurts my soul a bit.
Good question Lauryn, can understand you want to be mindful of what you're doing with purchasing. I would say that if you watched the video and it looks like a system/structure that could work for you, then it's worth a 3 month try at it :)
@@MattRagland agree
This vs the best self journal. Is this one worth the extra 10 bucks? Which one do you prefer?
It's personal preference, I like them both. The $10 shouldn't be a factor in my opinion :) I'd try them out over a couple months then decide which you like.
From the final glimpses of the planners at 22:28, it looks like each has a couple ribbon markers. Do they have 2 ribbon markers each? It's a bit difficult to tell.
Thanks!
Yes, 2 ribbon markers - good eye!
Hi Matt, thanks for introducing this great thing to me
I see they have an annual subscription, does each planner only have a quarter worth of pages?
Hey Matt! I'm just starting to get into bullet journaling but my personality is one of perfection and am scared to mess up pages or decide to completely change the format of the journal. How do you get over the fear of messing up and how do you allow yourself room for flexibility? Thanks for the great videos. Love the channel so far
Mitch Girling that’s the beauty of bujo. It can change and grow with you. If you mess up, go to the next page. I think not having pre made pages keeps flexibility open. Cheers.
Mitch Girling I use a pencil
Thank you
Hi Matt
Great review! What are the measurements of the planner?
Thanks Matt. I used two planners for the first time this year. My master planner which is a hybrid bullet journal in a Filofax, and one for my writing/business stuff.. and the structured planner I used for that was nice, but I didn't love it. Looking to try something new next year and this might just be it.
Hey Matt (or anyone else) - I'm reading through Hyatt's "Free to Focus" and wondered if this might help me. Is it an expectation to carry it around with you all the time (like the Franklin Planner OR a BuJo)? There are times I want to just slip a Field Notes in my back pocket and a pen and just go without worrying about carrying a bulky book. The answer may be there in the book or somewhere, but I haven't found it.
Hey back - The expectation is to carry it around, but if you want or need to travel light sometimes, I've found it works fine to carry a small notebook, or perhaps an index card, and transfer key notes to the planner or bujo later.
This system has actually been used by: chick fil a, the us navy, amazon, coca-cola and many others. Micheal Hyatt has amazing leadership books and courses as well. It's a legit system. Not just a journal.
The lay out is very very specific...so many (for me) useless pages. Why would I have pages dedicated to rituals and routines etc.? So I have to check in a book to have morning coffee? Yeah it’s fun to write stuff down but 90% of it I would never look back at it again. I would only look in to the future (what are mine appointments).
Fair point! That's why day planners or blank notebooks are so great too :) Something for everyone!
Why would I have have pages dedicated to rituals and routines? ADHD. That’s why. Yes checking in a book to see if I’m having coffee (and meds) and when is very helpful. Wish I could just operate without that but it is what is.
And, as a habit developer. Eventually, you’d be able to complete the tasks, in certain order, without thinking about it. But, you’d likely need to adjust as you go so that all justifies writing it down.
@@susiekidd9183 so you guys also need to write down to go to the toilet?
I'm sorry to say but men make much more detailed video's. Many videos on this subject are done by women. Most of the videos I've seen done by women focus more on the look of the planner and drawing pictures.