Product Description
Daily Planner vs The Anti-Planner
Escape the cycle of procrastination with The Anti-Planner: How to Get Stuff Done When You Don’t Feel Like It, an innovative approach to productivity that’s perfect for those who struggle with traditional planning and productivity methods. This activity book offers over 100 fun tasks tailored to overcome productivity hurdles and emotional distress. Its flexible, non-dated system helps you manage adulting without the extra stress. Celebrated as a secret weapon and a life-changing tool, The Anti-Planner is your ally in navigating adulthood with ease and humor.
- Break Free from Planning: The Anti-Planner is a vibrant activity book with over 165 strategies designed for those who find traditional planners boring or hard to use.
- Explore Creative Task Completion: Engage with over 100 activities that make your daily to-dos a fun experience and help you with emotional and productivity roadblocks to tackle your to-do list.
- More Than Just a Planner: This productivity activity book is undated and doesn’t have calendars, allowing for a flexible schedule and task management.
- Life-Changing Impact: Described as a “life-changing masterpiece” and “the Bible for procrastinators,” it’s a secret weapon for tackling those responsibilities without the stress. Created by an Adult with ADHD for people with ADHD, but it works for anyone struggling to get stuff done.
- Vibrant and Inspirational Design: Features over 300 full-color pages to inspire creativity and enhance the joy of completing tasks, improving mental health visually.
JackyAGLUVR –
I am an adult with ADHD. I’ve had it my entire life. It’s not an excuse, it’s not a curse, it’s not a blessing… it just is what it is. It’s the way my brain works. For the past 5 years, I have really struggled to stay on task (probably due to the part of my brain that can only focus when it is having fun, or under immense stress). So I would try to come up with ways to make things more fun. I have bought many ADHD books… you might be shocked to learn that I haven’t actually read most of them, because, well… yeah. I ran across this title on Amazon while I was looking for a different ADHD book. I had never heard of this book, but the name interested me. I was a bit taken aback by the high price point, but impulsivity got the best of me and I got the book.First of all, the book just looks fun. It looks like a planner, but it is totally not a planner. It is full of drawings and color and even starts with a little story. The book is organized by symptoms so that you can reference a certain section based on the struggle you are having at that moment. You do not need to read it cover to cover. This book is basically a treasure trove of brain hacks for ADHDers… a book with a bunch of strategies to convince your brain to do the adult things by tricking it into thinking the boring thing is kind of fun. It is PACKED full of different ideas. I would guess there are 100-150 ideas in this book. Of course, you are not going to like all of them- some of them I skimmed right over…But there were about 10 that I loved. And there were 3 I did right away. And there was one that has ALREADY changed my life. Now I don’t think it would be fair to the author to tell what exactly I learned (sharing information for free), but I can say it was something I had never heard of, and actually, at first read, I thought it sounded nuts. Like, something only weird people would do. Then I looked in the mirror and remembered. And I did the thing. And I got done AT LEAST 50% more work than I would have if I hadn’t used the strategy. And that was just ONE thing. If I use nothing else out of this book ever (which I doubt!) it would already have been worth what I paid.If you are considering this book, don’t hesitate. It might do for you what it has done for me in just 3 days of owning it.
Elezibeth A. Morgan –
I used this book for hope. .. .So, one specific task I needed to accomplish actually turned out to be quite the project. No wonder it gave me so much anxiety.But I broke it down into manageable bites.Then I was overwhelmed by the sheer number of tasks, so I flipped to the section about half-a$$ing it.Along the way, I ran into the section of, “unrealistic expectations,” and proceeded to laugh at myself.When I returned to my project list, I remembered I was looking for the half-a$$ing it section, so I made it there the second time. I reduced my project into four easy steps.But I was still anxious, so I looked at the “distractions section” and eliminated those. 30 minutes later…I proceeded to accomplish the “half-a$$ing” it by 10:00.Still hungover from the anxiety, I’ve decided to use the “reward” section to take a nap and write this review. After all, never managed to knock this out before 2:30 in the afternoon.After 15 minute nap and lunch, I’m going to start finishing the project using some gamifying strategies. But I didn’t procrastinate till the last minute, so finishing this before it’s due is going to be an epic reward in itself.Thank you!!!
VD –
i fell for the scam, i preordered the book and waited 2 years for it, i paid 68 dollars for an unfinished mess. she had no business accepting preorders when it took a year in general for her to finish making it, then she… ran out of time? i got my book in January of 2023 and yet… my friend just bought a copy and it’s the same thing. no improvements in almost 2 MORE years.inconsistent art styles to the point of being distracting, unclear/run on sentences, the organization in general is terrible.something to know about certain versions of this book (mine) the material is sloppy, the odor from the ink and paper is terrible, i had to leave it outside for a couple days, the tabs rip so reinforce them if you try to use it.the planner is….terribly organized? the tabs divide it into sections which only really cover 2 topics. so many times she would cite another activity for your “problem” referring back to another section. but it wasn’t helpful, it just makes it obvious it’s just a repetitive grab bag of adhd tips and tricks that are pretty commonly found online already. if you take something ADDitude mag did in an email and add “roll a dice for it hehe” why are you claiming that activity as an original thoughtoverall it’s just a really sloppy product marketed toward a group of people that deserve better. so many people get stuck paying for poor-quality adhd tips and tricks and adhd novelty products and this is very squarely in that arena.my last issue is with the author, dani donovan. shortly after the books released, or were finally shipped, she lead the charge in attacking a company with a planner called “the anti-planner” that started publication pre-2020. encouraging people to review bomb it and contact amazon when she just… didn’t realize it has nothing to do with her. it was wild. publishing is hard, making a book is hard but this is such a good example of what not to do, how not to treat others.