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If you love personal growth, then you know there are as many ways to improve your life as there are different types of people.
And everyone has their own recipe of what works for them, whether it’s:
- Meditating (and any of its variations)
- Cold exposure
- Sauna
- Yoga / Movement
- Breathing Exercises
- Reading
- Journaling
Whatever it is that helps you show up as your best self.
I’m sure you have your own list of habits you dabble with various levels of commitment to, that sometimes work for you and sometimes don’t.
The problem is if you spend more time learning different ways to improve yourself than you do practicing what you already know is good for you—you can not only deny yourself real progress but create some new problems along the way as well.
It’s natural to want to keep seeking novelty and new solutions to the challenges we experience in life, and this will take you far-ish, but at a certain point, one has to recognize that you already know what you need to support yourself.
Sure, there will be new ideas and things to try in the future…
But 90% of the time to either make the problem go away entirely, reduce the burden of it, or even improve our odds of actually overcoming it all we need to do is what we already know is good for us.
The problem is having the discipline to do it
The Difference Between Good and Bad Days
We can make it more complicated than that, and we will.
But we don’t have to.
For me, the one thing that determines whether my day is good, or bad, is meditation.
Always has been.
A multi-phase meditation, at the start of my day, with maybe a walk or workout tacked onto the end.
If I want my life to be simple, all I have to do is ask myself, “Have I meditated today?”
If not, then I know where the source of my problems really is.
With me.
(My girlfriend also discovered this trend and lovingly, helpfully, and strategically will ask me this as well.)
So, knowing that, I wanted to make a simple system that helps me and others do what’s good for us, more often, and get more out of our practice while we’re there.
Which is why I created this Wisdom Planner.
It’s free on Notion, and you can access (and customize) it on any device.
For me, Meditating is the difference between a good day and a bad day, and this planner helps me meditate more often.
But more than that, it helps me get more out of my meditations, and the time I put aside for me each day, by turning my practice into an Evolving Discipline, that’s easier to be more consistent with.
Creating an Evolving Discipline
People suck at habits, that’s no mystery. There’s a reason why James Clear’s book Atomic Habits has been a bestseller since it came out.
We suck at habits and discipline and we know it.
It’s part of human nature.
Until we learn to tame it.
We pretend not to suck at habits by putting the blame on everything else outside of our control, but really, if we just did this one thing for ourselves, our actual lived experience would be very different.
So, here’s my take on habits and discipline:
We need an Evolving Discipline.
That’s our foundation, it’s core to our life, it’s a time dedicated to us each day—whatever amount we can commit. 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes—an hour.
Whatever you can commit consistently.
That’s your foundation, what you do what you can do each day.
And in this time, you can experiment.
Try different meditation methods. Figure out what recipe works for you to produce the right state for you each time…
And if that isn’t producing for you, change the recipe, evolve your discipline.
Allow the variables to be what you do in your time each day not whether your time each day happens or not—and watch your life change.
I designed this Wisdom Planner to help you do that.
So, What’s a Wisdom Planner?
Part Meditation Journal, part Habit, and Weekly Planner, part Customizable tool—100% yours.
Here are the components of it:
- North Star Reminder - Start each day affirming who you are disciplined for.
- Meditation Recipe - Customize your daily practice flow, updated based on what works for you.
- Lightning Bottle - Use pre-generated templates to capture inspiration, meditations, and great ideas to use later.
- Lightning Outputs - Streamline the pipeline of captured ideas to polished outputs.
- Weekly Plan - Start each day with the content of your weekly plans. Set plans 1x a week.
- Today's Top 3 Priorities - Today's top 3 priorities, everything else is noise.
- End of Day Reflection - Your way to reflect on the day, improve, and shift your state from willpower to rest.
It’s the kind of thing Moleskin would charge you like $60 for.
And since this is digital, it’s free.
I use a version of it every day (customized from this very template, and I still use the generated journal entries and Lightning Bottle entries every day.
And when you get yours, I’ll show you how to customize it to fit your discipline.
Because what matter is that you do what’s good for you and if this helps I’ll be glad.
Once more you can grab The Wisdom Planner free here »
How You Can Use This Tool:
Create Your Recipe & Track Streaks - Create your own multi-phase recipe and get the benefits of multiple methods of meditation, positive psychology, and anything else you want to do each day to alter your state.
Capture Insight & Streamline It - Our best ideas come to us through insight, intuition, and inspiration. The Lightning Bottle tool helps you capture this inspiration and generates a new template each time to capture every detail, context, and plan for each idea that comes to you. And The Lightning Outputs tool helps you streamline these insights once a week and execute them.
Systemize End-of-Day Reflection - End-of-Day Reflection has been shown to lead to improvements in memory and wiser perspectives for us to act on in the future. Use this tool to generate a new End of Day Journal that makes recording your day, and how you can improve, easy.
Keep What’s Important Prioritized - During your End-of-Day Reflection, use the Top 3 Priorities Board to plan tomorrow today, and wake up each day knowing what your most important items are. And end tomorrow by reflecting and planning your next day.
Plan Your Day & Week - Keep your weekly plan organized all on the same page, so you can benefit from the wisdom of knowing what’s actually important for you Your North Star and your plan for your week when you’re the least reactive.
This planner leverages some best practices from positive and peak performance psychology and is designed for the Meditator who wants to dig deep, find peace and use what they find to empower their work, enrich their lives, and help others.
My goal with this planner is for it to be a simple and intuitive tool, that doesn't require much explanation to be immediately helpful.
But hopefully, this gave you some ideas on how to use it.
It’s free and you can grab it here »
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