Summary

The HB90 Planner Method is an effective quarterly planning system designed by Sarra Cannon, which the author of the content has found to be transformative in organizing personal and professional life, leading to increased productivity and goal attainment.

Abstract

The HB90 Planner Method, created by Sarra Cannon, has significantly improved the author's productivity and organization. This method involves setting three true goals each quarter and breaking them down into projects and tasks, with the help of detailed worksheets and instructions. The author, who is writing a book, focusing on Medium, pursuing a master's degree, and working full-time, found that the planner helped manage the complexity of these responsibilities. The planner's effectiveness is attributed to its ability to provide clear deadlines and time frames for tasks, which helps in avoiding procrastination and the feeling of tasks being overwhelming. The author highly recommends the HB90 Planning Method for its ability to enhance time management and achieve powerful outcome goals.

Opinions

The author was initially introduced to the HB90 Planner Method by a friend and became quickly hooked.
Before using the HB90 Planner, the author's planners were often cluttered with notes and revisions.
The HB90 Planner is particularly useful for authors but is adaptable for non-authors as well.
The author found Sarra Cannon's course on the HB90 planning method to be enlightening, revealing additional ways to utilize the planner effectively.
The planner has helped the author to see both long-term and short-term goals more clearly.
The author appreciates the flexibility of the planner, which allows for daily, weekly, and monthly planning.
Assigning time frames to tasks has been crucial for the author in managing the mental load of daily responsibilities.
The author emphasizes the importance of planning for those who carry the mental load of household management.
The feeling of accomplishment from completing tasks on time has been described as liberating.
The author does not need to schedule family time as strictly due to personal household rules but acknowledges the importance of including personal life in the planner.
The author endorses the HB90 Planning Method without hesitation and encourages others to explore Sarra Cannon's resources for more information.

The HB90 Planner Method And My Experience

If you’ve heard of this planning method, more than likely, you’re a fan of Sarra Cannon, or you’ve taken her HB90 Method course. This is my experience with it.

Images provided by Sarra Cannon and HB90 Bootcamp

So, I got into this planner as a friend turned me on to it while showing me this author that she enjoyed watching on YouTube. My friend knew I was fanatical about planners, productivity, and anything that had to go with it, and so she pointed me specifically towards Sarra’s planning classes and videos.

Friends, I was hooked.

I’m writing a book, focusing on Medium the best I can, and getting my master’s degree, and working a full-time job. My planners are a hot mess sometimes with lots of scribbles and sticky notes. This one, however, helped me organize myself even more and get my… stuff together in a way that I hadn’t imagined that I could. And I thought I was already efficient!

Now this quarterly planning is mostly for authors; however, it works just as well for those that aren’t either. It has walk-throughs on setting 3 true goals for each quarter (there are quarterly layouts), projects based on those goals, and then breaking projects down into tasks. There are worksheets included for this and instructions on how to do so; that way, you’re not overwhelmed trying to figure out how.

Sarra also has a course for the HB90 planning method as well as a course to help you learn how to self publish and teach you how to be more productive in planning and invaluable information for publishing. I had been using her planner before the class and thought I was using it fairly well, but it wasn’t until I took the course that I found there was so much more I could get out of it and how much writing time I could squeeze in with more information.

Not only was I planning my goals, projects, and tasks ineffectively where I thought I was extremely effective, but it helped me see what I was looking for in the long term and the short term by setting goals quarterly and not just some nebulous goal in the future with no end date in sight.

I’ve been using it for the past 2 quarters, and I have to say I’ve never been as effective as I have been in that time frame, it’s no wonder this is a huge bestseller. I get more done, and I have more time to do things because my tasks are being completed on time and for what needs to be done to move things forward. I’m not rewriting things down the next day that didn’t get done the day before (well, sometimes, but not all the time).

Being productive doesn’t mean you have to plan down to the hour, but planning out my day and estimating how long it will take to do something gives me more of a goal to shoot for. There’s room for that in these planner pages, along with space to write anything else that’s needed for your day-to-day, and weekly and monthly spreads.

When filling out my planner pages every Sunday for the week, I sit down and write out everything that needs to be done. Appointments, cleaning, work, writing, etc. Anything that needs to be accomplished gets put in that week, and I assign anything and everything that needs to be accomplished a time amount in which I should finish it.

This not only allows for me to have a goal to shoot for to finish it but gives me that concrete deadline rather than “I’ll get it done at some point.” At which that ‘some point’ never comes, and by the time you’ve noticed it’s not done, the entire day is gone.

For those who carry the household’s mental load, things can be overwhelming when they’re not organized into bite-sized tasks. These mundane tasks If you don’t know what the ‘mental load’ is, it’s typically when one person in the household handles everything from chores, planning schedules, juggling work, and everything else on top of it because they ‘have to.’ This is usually any parent or partner that handles a giant to-do list and sometimes involves a partner that doesn’t always pitch in when needed or utters that phrase “You didn’t ask!”

Planning out even the most simple things and assigning them a time frame for your dream life can be at first daunting, but believe me, you’ll find it almost liberating (unless you’re someone that stresses terribly about deadlines). The feeling of accomplishment when you get something done, and done on time, is amazing, and checking it off in that planner, whether paper or digital, leading to a more productive life.

I found the HB90 method useful for 90-day goals, my career, quarterly goals and those day-to-day tasks that needed to be handled, even those that are part of the daily grind. Sarra frequently adds her family time to her planner despite mostly using it for her business and writing her books. That’s right, she puts her entire life in there. This is important to her, so it’s no surprise.

For me, I have no children, so family time, while important, I don’t feel I need to carve out that time to make sure it gets done as my husband and I have a hard rule of cutting off work and anything like it at 7 pm to spend the rest of the evening with one another before bed.

So would I recommend the HB90 Planning Method? Absolutely. Without hesitation to get those powerful outcome goals and learn effective time management. Head on over to Sarra Cannon’s website and YouTube channel for more information and don’t be afraid to say hi as she’s quite involved with the community.

The links in this post are affiliate links to the HB90 Course, Publish and Thrive, and the Thriving Author Course Bundle in which I will receive a small commission on each sign up when courses are open for enrollment.