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Achieve
Planner is an effective productivity tool because it was designed from the ground up with
key time management principles in mind.
1. Capture, Organize &
Manage All Your Projects
In order to manage your time
effectively, you need to write things down instead of using
your
memory to keep track of them, especially if you are
dealing with multiple projects at the same time.
Achieve Planner is
a practical system that helps you to quickly and easily capture, organize, and
manage all your projects and their tasks in one central
place. You'll have a to-do list that really works!
Achieve Planner uses tree-like outlines,
which means you can break-down large items into smaller
steps using as many levels as you need.
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One of the problems with traditional
to-do lists is that they tend to lump everything you
need to do together into one big long list without any
order or structure.
As you get more and more things to do,
your to-do list becomes bigger and more chaotic, and
pretty soon you get lost in all the details. You can’t
see the forest for all the trees that are surrounding
you.
Separating Projects & Tasks
That's why Achieve Planner makes a
distinction between projects (the outcomes) and tasks (the
action steps.)
Projects are a good way to collect,
group and organize tasks that are all contributing to
the same common purpose. Projects are a logical “container”
to organize related tasks.
If you
follow this model for organizing your tasks, you’ll end
up with the following structure:
1) A Master Project List that
contains a list of all your projects
2) A Task List for each project
that contains only the tasks for that project
Separating projects from their tasks
means that your Master Project List will be smaller,
easier to organize and manage, and will give you an
overview of all the outcomes you are working on.
Focusing on outcomes and not just actions helps you work
more effectively throughout the day, increasing your
personal productivity and helping you get things done.
Your project-specific Task List helps
you focus in on just the tasks for one specific project
without getting distracted or overwhelmed by everything
else that is on your plate.
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"After trying Achieve
Planner for nearly two months I can honestly
say that it has revolutionized the way I
work.
I have an incredibly busy
schedule so I need something that can cope
with a multitude of tasks, projects and
appointments whilst at the same time keeping
me focused on what is most important.
Achieve Planner does all of this and much
more besides.
Over the years I've tried
pretty much every system on the market and
nothing, absolutely nothing, comes anywhere
close to this. It looks great, works
superbly, comes with excellent instructions,
is a pleasure to use, but most important of
all - IT REALLY WORKS!
For anyone who wants to
get organized and take their productivity to
the next level Achieve Planner is an
absolute must. It's one piece of software
that I'm certain I'll be using for many
years to come."
- Paul Smithson |
Video Tutorials
The tour includes some video tutorials
that show you how Achieve Planner works. These tutorials can take a lot of screen space,
so you might want to
enable full-screen display in Internet Explorer or Firefox by pressing the F11 Key. You can turn it off by pressing F11 again.
NOTE: Since Achieve Planner is updated regularly, the tutorials may look
slightly different from the version of the software you are using. The main
ideas and functionality should still be the same.
Video Tutorials (links open in new
window):
Achieve Planner helps you prioritize your projects &
tasks using the ABCD priority system. Priorities are
made up of a letter ('A', 'B', 'C' or 'D') with an
optional numeric rank.
Achieve Planner uses
customizable color-codes for each priority level, and
you can use ranked ("A1") or unranked ("A") priority
values.
 Using
priorities will help you
apply the 80/20 rule and spend more time on your most
important/valuable projects and tasks.
You start by giving each item
in your list one of four priority values:
A - Very important items that you
need to get done
B - Important items that you
want to do, but not as important as the A's
C - Items that you may want to do
at some point, but not right now
D - Items that are not important
enough to do at all
Next, look at all your A items and
select the top five to ten most important items and give
them a rank. A1 for the most important, A2 for the next
most important, and so on.
One of the advantages of
separating projects and tasks is that you can prioritize
them separately.
It's much easier and
effective to prioritize projects by comparing them to
other projects because you are basically deciding which outcome
is more important to you right now.
It's also easier to
prioritize the tasks of a project, where you are
deciding what actions are most important for that
project.
It's much more difficult
to prioritize one big, long list of tasks from different
projects that are all mixed together.
Using priorities will
help you focus on what is most important.
Video Tutorial (link
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Here's a case study from
an Achieve Planner customer...
Case
Study # 1 - Executive/CEO
As CEO of Animal Products, Primal
Foods, Bob Fritz is very busy and has to manage dozens
of projects. He was frustrated because he couldn't find
a solution that could keep up with all his projects and
communicate well with Microsoft Outlook.
“Before using Achieve Planner, I had
lots of loose ends, dropped balls, etc.” Bob says. With
Achieve Planner, Bob was able to consolidate different
moving parts & projects into a single location for
clarity and action.
“Now I can keep it all going,
amazingly. Anybody who feels it's all crashing in can
get a lot of benefit from your software. Lower cortisol
is better!”
Bob estimates that since he started
using Achieve Planner, he saves about 7 hours of
productive time each week, which translates into
thousands of dollars worth of productivity gains each
year.
Bob says, “If you're workload is large
and/or diverse, and your butt is on the line for getting
it all done, somehow, someway-and getting it done on
time-then this is the program. Period.”
Bob found the “project blocks” feature
of Achieve Planner particularly helpful. Project blocks
allow Bob to schedule time for projects/tasks directly
in the calendar, which helps him plan his days and weeks
in advance. Bob added, “Transferring a task into a
scheduling block is very powerful.”
“Achieve Planner is the best
planning/organization software around; and I've used
them all. Limitless scale, simple to use. Plus it keeps
my stress hormones much lower, as well,” Bob says.
“Excellence is rare and this program embodies it.”
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