BETTER MADE PLANS

BETTER MADE PLANS™

BETTER TOOLS. BETTER PLANS. BETTER RESULTS.

Your goals and your life are uniquely yours. Your planning system should be too.

PLANNING CARDS

Portable. Durable. Premium without being precious and color-coded to work with how our brains work best. Purpose-built tools for the purpose-driven.

EXPLORE PLANNING CARDS

Picture of a printed Better Made Plans Planning Sheets series six month calendar laying on top of the cover for the Planning Sheet.

PRINTABLE PLANNING TOOLS

Color or Monochromatic. Tabletop or folded. Choose your paper. Choose your style. Print and plan on your own terms.

EXPLORE PRINTABLE PLANNING SHEETS

UTILITY CARDS

Designed to be used... Designed to be useful. Premium 130# cardstock grid cards for freeform notes and planning.

EXPLORE UTILITY CARDS

Realistic illustrated image of a man's hand holding a pen over a diagram laying flat on a table as if prepared to write on it.

1-ON-1 COACHING AND ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING

Accomplish your goals and stay focused on what matters most by working with our team to level-up your strategic planning.

EXPLORE COACHING AND CONSULTING

EFFECTIVE PLANNING IS ABOUT EMPOWERING FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS MOST

PLANNING IS ABOUT ACTION

The quality of a plan is judged by how effectively it drives action and the results it achieves.

EFFECTIVE PLANNING NEEDS SYSTEMS

Consistent action to achieve long-term goals requires systems (processes and tools) that work together.

PLANNING IS PERSONAL

Individual uniqueness (goals, preferences, lifestyle, etc) impact planning and need to be accounted for in system design.

FRICTION IS THE ENEMY

Function is the highest priority in system design. Frustration, complexity, and inefficiency are barriers to use that must be overcome.

Colorful spines of packaging for Better Made Plans planning cards listing the names of cards in each box and the series.

OUR PLANNING TOOLS ARE BASED ON REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE

Our passion for empowering human potential is rooted in experience leading high performing projects, programs, and teams and frustration with planners that over-promise and under-deliver.

OVERLY-SIMPLISTIC OR OVERLY-COMPLICATED planners that are either a glorified to-do lists or include so many different elements that planning becomes chaotic and burdensome.
FOCUS-DESTROYING FORMATS that require constant flipping back and forth in a binder or notebook to reference key information or make you dependent on a screen with endless distractions.
UNFOCUSED DESIGNS that do not integrate into a strategy for how goals, tasks, and activity are prioritized systematically.

TRADITIONAL PLANNERS FAIL WHEN THEY DON'T TREAT PLANNING SYSTEMATICALLY AND CANNOT ADAPT TO INDIVIDUAL NEEDS.

BETTER MADE PLANS DIFFERENCE

Our ultra-compact signature 4x6 inch PLANNING CARD series and our printable PLANNING SHEETS are function-focused to address a full spectrum of planning needs and preferences.

Fully modular, they can become the foundation for your personal planning system or be used to address specific planning challenges in combination with your existing productivity tools.

DESIGNED AROUND YOU

Whether our compact PLANNING CARD system or the extra space and customization of our printable PLANNING SHEETS, pick the tools and the formats that work for your productivity style.

SEAMLESS INTEGRATION INTO YOUR PERSONAL PLANNING SYSTEM

Our tools are designed to work as the foundation for a planning system or seamlessly integrate with and elevate your existing planning practices.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED, NOTHING YOU DON'T

Incorporating the most proven productivity practices in a modular style where you choose only the tools you need. Less focus on making the plan and more focus on executing it.

DESIGNED TO REDUCE MENTAL FRICTION

Color coding, visual planning, and the ability to scope each planning tool to your productivity need reduces friction and allow you to stay in your flow.

TOOLS THAT MEET YOU WHERE YOU ARE TO GET YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO BE

Designed to address the most common frustrations with traditional planning tools to reduce planning friction.

Various Better Made Plans planing cards laying on a wooden table with a notebook and pencil.

VISUZALIZE YOUR PLAN, YOUR WAY

Lay your cards on the table however you want to keep key information visible and organized however you need.

Better Made Plans Day planning card laying next a pencil and elastic-closure notebook on graph paper in front of a window.

SIMPLIFY YOUR DAILY CARRY

True planning modularity where your daily carry is only the tools you you need. No bulky planner forcing you to bring your entire year with you each day.

Close up of upper left corner labels on stack of Better Made Plans planning cards on a graph paper background.

ENHANCE VISUAL PROCESSING WITH COLOR

Color guides attention for faster identification and reference of key information. Locate the precise information you need quickly so you stay in your flow with our signature color-cue system.

Stacks of Month and Task planning cards with each card hand-labeled to show different planning focus for each card.

DIVIDE AND CONQUER YOUR TASKS

Our tools scale so you can divide your tasks as broadly or narrowly as you need. Your plans stay visible so you stay focused. No more trying to fit everything on a single calendar in the front of your planner.

Stack of planners including Better Made Plans color and monochromatic Planning Sheets and Better Made Plans planning card.

FORMATS FOR EVERY PLANNING STYLE

Our entire planning tool series comes in PLANNING CARD and printable PLANNING SHEET formats so you can choose precisely the style that works for you.

READY TO START?

EVEN OUR PURCHASE OPTIONS ARE BUILT AROUND GIVING YOU THE POWER TO CHOOSE

Explore with a planning card kit, build your own toolbox, or explore our printable options.

EXPLORE THE POWER OF A PERSONALIZED PLANNING SYSTEM

Product packaging for 'Better Made Plans Essentials' with a colorful planner on a grid background.

THE PURSUIT OF "JUST RIGHT"

A plan is only "good" if it drives progress towards your goals. Those goals and how we motivate action are unique to each individual

DAILY ROUTINES, ENVIRONMENT, PERSONAL PREFERENCES AND PERSONAL LOGISTICS ALL INFLUENCE OUR GOALS AND HOW WE PURSUE THEM.

The tools and processes we use to plan—our personal planning system—needs to be structured around our personal context if it is going to be effective. This is the crux of why planners promising to be all things to all people fail.

Inevitably, there is a gap between the planner's capabilities and your individual needs that leads to frustration and ultimately leads us to fail at building a consistent planning practice and take meaningful action.

WE TAKE AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT APPROACH TO DESIGNING PLANNING TOOLS.

Rather than forcing you to fit into our vision of "good planning" we start with you and give you a broad range of tools and resources so you can build a planning system that meets your needs and enhances your best focus.

LEARN MORE ABOUT BUILDING A PERSONAL PLANNING SYSTEM

SUPPORT ON YOUR PRODUCTIVITY PRACTICE JOURNEY

1-ON-1 COACHING AND ORGANIZATIONAL CONSULTING TO ACCELERATE PROGRESS

Realistic illustration of two individuals sitting at a table with notebooks, pens, and papers appearing to be collaborating or a meeting.

PROGRESS THROUGH PARTNERSHIP

Our passion is empowering individuals and teams to reach their potential through tools and processes that hone focus and drive action on what matters most.

Whether you are a student or professional looking get traction towards your goals and feel in control of your productivity or an organization looking to improve your strategic planning—we are here to help.

With decades of experience in project and program management, process improvement, and change management—leading teams and initiatives—we draw on a wealth of experience in building tailored solutions for your planning challenges.

OUR PASSION IS THE PURSUIT OF POTENTIAL

Our company is committed to providing personalized support to allow individuals and teams to meet their unique goals.

We don't sell cookie-cutter programs. We don't tie you down with long-term commitments and retainers. We collaborate with you to discuss your needs and work with you to design a targeted program. Throughout, we are your partner in execution and refinement as you pursue your goals.

EXPLORE COACHING AND ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT