by Michael Hyatt - 2018 Daily Gratitude & Productivity Journal - Grey Hardcover, 5.0 x 8.0 inches

I’m a daily user of Michael Hyatt’s Full Focus Planner (highly recommended if you aren’t already using it). The brand new Full Focus Journal is an ideal companion. The format, size, color, and quality are all perfect. One thing I really like about the planner is being able to shut everything else off really dig into it. The Full Focus Journal has that same feel to me. The daily guided questions really sync up with your quarterly goals from the planner, but they work just fine without the planner, too. We all have goals, right? The Full Focus Journal is a fantastic way to document the journey. Bonus: the index in the back is super handy for making it easy to reference specific days that become milestones. Really well done.

The journal is fun to write in, you have sections like "What are my feelings right now?" etc. This has actually helped me identify repetitive behavior, and drops in my performance. I sometimes get addicted to video games and slack off in other areas- this journal made it blatantly obvious to me when progress and things I learned started to plummet and I started to write game titles in "What I did today", and there is a section labeled "What can I do to Move Forward with my Goals", and for me, it was the same things over and over because I wasn't progressing, and it made it VERY blatent that I needed to change. Sure, it sounds like common sense, but when things happen like a winter break it's easy to just disappear down that hole of days passing by and not knowing where they went... now I know.

The Journal itself can be a useful tool to assist your thinking. The book itself is sturdy. The cover is great. The pages are thick enough so it is a pleasure to lay ink on it. But the questions laid out on the pages rate just a one star in my book. There is a reason most reading material is black ink and white page. It may be mundane to some but it is definitely the easiest to distinguish what are words. The author/creator decided to go with a light color that, depending on the light or quality of your eyesight, will make it hard to read. I did not buy a book so I could struggle to read it because of my vision. A darker color ink is definitely a must for this. Like many men (and some women) I am slightly colorblind. This means that the colors I see are not necessary the same colors you may see. Sometimes I have difficulty distinguishing one color from another. I say this because my criticism may not be valid for al. Plus, due to my diabetes my vision in the morning is not as sharp as it is after a couple of hours of using my eyes. For people like me this makes the book cumbersome. Better to buy blank pages next time. It won't be as frustrating..

I bought the set with the Focus book, full focus planner and the journal. i think it's a little expensive to pay $100 for 3 books and have to buy them each quarter to continue the process. But i guess that's a smaller price to pay than to be spread thin and disorganized. I love the journal part since it helps me think about key things I really want to recall. When i attend events or workshops, I use the journal and planners to remember key elements or action items so they don't get buried in notes. This hard copy works much better for me than a digital planner. It has really helped me be more productive and aware of where my time is going.

Michael Hyatt has designed, in his Full Focus Planner, an ideal single volume to keep my life organized and my projects on track. His simple but effective decision to facilitate weekly and quarterly planning is superb. (I've added a 45-day review, which also helps.) The Journal, which is designed to be used in addition to the Planner, contains 8 questions that allow me to focus on my work but also on my curiosity with what I read and hear and also my emotional life. Keeping track of all three, at least so far, has helped me more than almost anything else ever had to accomplish things and remain sane at the same time.It takes time to use these resources effectively, and the level of detail required will be offputting to some potential customers. I am committed to using them for two quarters, but am pretty sure I will continue.