Phoenix Planner The Journal - Best Daily Goal Organizer, & Calendar for Goal Setting, Gratitude, Happiness, & Productivity - Vision Board & Habit Tracking - 12 Weeks, Undated, Hardcover - Black

This is the first diary I have actually used daily. I love the layout and the prompts.

For starters, this isn’t something that I would recommend to someone just looking for a place to write their to-do list.  This is for extremely motivated people who are willing to put in some time. The Phoenix Journal tells you right in the introduction that it “was created with a single purpose: to empower you to live to your full potential and achieve your dreams.”To live up to this promise, the journal is incredibly well structured:1. You get an introduction that explains how to use the journal and the most important concepts behind it.  2. You are asked to sign a commitment to use the journal daily.      3. You write your vision of the future (long term), a future that you fear (felt kinda weird but I did it anyway), a future 3 years from now, and a future 12 weeks from now.  If this sounds like it will take some time then you are right.  Personally it took me about 3 hours.  4. Create your 12 week goals5. Create a general overview of some things you need to do in order to achieve your goals in the calendar pages6. Start planning your first week7. Use the journal dailyFrom the very beginning of the journal everything flowed from one thing into the next.  Now that I’ve written exactly what I want in the future I feel so much more purposeful and motivated.  It amazes me that I’ve never even thought about doing something like that and I am sure that many others haven’t as well.Overall, I’d recommend this to entrepreneurs and people who want to take initiative in their lives.  Oh, also - this thing looks really cool.  I’ll definitely be buying it again!

The Journal helps me fall in love with the process of achieving my goals rather than obsessing over the result. I think that in this crazy world today...Many industries try to hone in on our insecurities to try to sell us on band-aid solutions. This phenomenon leads many people to become obsessed with outcome orientation. Obsessing over the result of a vision, or even the lack of any vision will create inconsistencies in the discipline required to make that vision come to fruition. The Phoenix Journal focuses on the discipline involved in achieving your goals. The people that enjoy the process of working out and eating healthy are the same people that reap the benefits of looking like a Greek God when they wake up every morning. The musician that puts off everything before practicing eight hours a day is most likely to be the one that reaches international recognition. It is only human to get caught up in life and find yourself searching for answers from time to time. If you're like me and you have had difficulties finding your true vision, creating an outline, and mapping out how it is that you are going to obtain that vision then this journal is going to benefit you greatly! I have struggled to articulate or find what it is that I want to do at times. This has left me helpless in many ways. Not knowing where to move, what part of town I want to get a job, jumping from business idea to business idea without necessity or dedication in mind. The Phoenix Journal lays out a very practical foundation. It questions what you want out of life then helps you achieve it! Great product. 100% recommend this to all of my friends.

Great planner. Nicely organized. Very sturdy. Paper weight is good. Appears to be based on evidence and good science in terms of goal setting and accomplishment. The size is great for me (B5), not too big or small and not at all cumbersome. But it is HEAVY. And there is no colored pages which is a REAL let down for me. Planners are visual and this one lacks that type of visual stimulation. That said, what I appreciate most in a planner is that it is engaging. It needs to speak to me in a way that when I am completing it, I feel as though I am having a conversation with my best friend about myself and my goals. That is how I measure a good planner. This planner does that somewhat but it does miss this point a little because it is a bit confusing to use. Even the example in the planner, while good, just does not do enough for me to feel like I understand what the planner is asking. There is no good website to go to to figure it out. Their Facebook page is not at all helpful. And the creator has a few You Tube videos that are dated and not as helpful as I would like them to be. Planners are a product that I usually become loyal to. However, when there is confusion or questions or whatever and there is no platform to engage with the product, then it has me looking for another planner. And that is the case here. It just feels like the creator made a good idea/product, made money on it and is nowhere to be found. I will finish using this one but unless there is more help, more insight, more examples, more creator content, more product evolution, more customer input and more creator knowledge of having a pulse of how the product is enhancing or improving the customer's life and needs, I will leave this brand for another. I do want to point out that apparently there was some issue with these planners that cause the cover to warp a little and the company was really on point about contacting me and letting me know they would replace it and provide me a refund, etc. so their customer service is very, very good but a product, without much personal direction on how to use, is really not a product worth having.

My planner has pages that are out of order or are missing. Here is the order of my planner:- 12 week target pages followed by...- Review Week 1 (shouldn't the review come after the goals for the week and the 7 days/pages)- Goals for Week 1 followed by...- 12 (???) blank days/pages - shouldn't this be 7 pages?- Goals for week 3 (what happened to Goals for Week 2?)- followed by 3 blank daily pages (again there should be 7 days.pages between weekly reviews- followed by another Goals for Week 3 pageSomeone has a quality control problem!