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The Anti-Planner: How to Get Sh*t Done When You Don’t Feel Like It
USD $58.00
Do you know what you need to do, but struggle to get yourself to do it? Get bored easily? Abandon every planner you’ve ever tried? Beat yourself up a lot? Yeah. Me too. The Anti-Planner is an activity book specifically designed to help procrastinators:
- Try unique, entertaining ways of completing tasks
- Untangle emotions that make it hard to get sh*t done
- Smash through productivity roadblocks
- 300+ full-color pages (with over 100 activities)
Description
The Anti-Planner is not a planner; there are no dated pages or calendars! Think of it as a productivity recipe book—a survival guide of 165+ strategies for when you’re struggling to get shit done.
It’s been called “a life-changing masterpiece,” “a secret weapon for getting hard adulty stuff done,” and “the Bible for procrastinators.” Check out the reviews to see what others are saying!
231 reviews for The Anti-Planner: How to Get Sh*t Done When You Don’t Feel Like It
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No boring, repetitive spreads. No calendars or dates. No stupid, cliché advice. No guilt. No empty pages.
No way to fail, even if you tried.
The Anti-Planner teaches you how to:
- Light a fire under your own butt
- Make boring tasks suck less
- Use inconsistency to your advantage
- Avoid overwhelm + burnout
- Give perfectionism the middle finger
- Make decisions faster
- Set goals you’ll actually stick to
- Stop getting distracted by screens
- Function when sh*t hits the fan
- Say no to people + ask for help
- Re-ignite lost motivation
- Stop beating yourself up
Exercises include:
Activities
Challenges, worksheets, step-by-step techniques
Strategies
How-to guides, tips, actionable advice from pros
Games
Dice, cards, paper football, unique takes on classics
Comics
Illustrations and infographics to help explain how our brains work
Prompts
Fill-in-the-blanks, personal pump-ups, journaling, and self-exploration exercises
Resources
Helpful apps, websites, books, podcasts, quotes, and much more!
Learn to deal with all the feelz:
Stuck
- Having difficulty starting
- Indecisive
- Perfectionistic
- Distracted
Overwhelmed
- Intimidated
- Over-committed
- Panicking
- Burnt-out
Unmotivated
- Lacking accountability
- Waiting to “feel” like it
- Disinterested
- Uninspired
Disorganized
- Messy
- Having difficulty prioritizing
Discouraged
- Hopeless
- Insecure
(+ Extras)
- Bonus pages
- Duplicate copies
In-depth reviews:
Jesse J. Anderson
How to ADHD
Avory Faucett
Catieosaurus
Additional details:
- 7.25 in x 9.5 in
- Vegan leather hardcover with gold foil stamping and rounded edges (classy AF)
- 300+ full-color pages (with over 100 activities)
- Colored section tabs for easy navigation
- Wire-o spiral binding (because let’s be honest, trying to hold a softcover book open and write on the pages is super-annoying)
- Elastic cover band attached
- Pen loop
- Belly band
- Shrink-wrapped
You may feel like you’ve tried it all. But I promise… you’ve never tried anything quite like this.
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Alarice Earlene Chan (verified owner) –
Started using the planner and making headway with actually getting the mess in my room cleaned up for good.
Whitney T –
Just got the Anti-Planner. No joke, I read the beginning and started to tear up. I already know this is a godsend for me.
I have tried some of the activities and skills and it’s worked amazing for me so far! Obviously not every single thing will work for me but that’s what the books for. If you struggle to get things done, I HIGHLY recommend you think about getting this book. It may be expensive to a broke student (like me :’> ) but it is SO worth it.
Thank you Dani for creating this book. I will be forever grateful <3
B (verified owner) –
My only complaint is I wish this came with a giant stack of blank pages and templates so I can do the activities over and over (nothing a notebook can’t fix). This was well worth the wait and the pre-order, and both my partner and I are already using it to help “troubleshoot” the cycles we get stuck in with our ADHD and to guide ourselves out when our executive function just isn’t good enough to figure things out on our own. I love it, i love that it exists, and while not every exercise will work for each of us, there are so many options to flip through (and guiding prompts to help filter!) that there’s always something to try
In time we might pick up a second copy so we can each have one but for now it’s going to live in the office with a blank notebook next to it so we can both find and use it as we need
Craig Shackleton –
Just got this yesterday, one for me, one for each of my daughters, a gift from my amazing wife. Everything I’ve seen resonates with all the work I’ve been doing, and I appreciate the reminders of that and the tools for moving forward when I’m stuck. Can’t wait to wipe my greasy pizza fingers on it.
Jasper Lee (verified owner) –
Received the book just in time for summer. I’m very excited to have it now since I’m also in therapy. Ms. Donavan compiled a high quality resource guide I fully intend to expand upon as my sessions continue. Previously I would read and compile the resources into a word doc before abandoning it. Now I have a physical resource I’m more inclined to retain and refer back to. The activation energy I needed. Each “unit” and subsection has a brief intro page with Ms. Donovan’s relatable experiences, area for reframing/thought, and applicable resources. It is a very easy read. More templates would have been appreciated, but nothing a photo copier can’t fix. I spent two days marking the book and adding post-it’s to the exercises that feel most compatible to me. So far, there have been positive changes in my work and personal life. I would highly recommend the “Anti-Planner” to folks with or without ADHD. It’a a great stepping stone.
Other notes: It is indeed left-handed friendly. When the book is flipped 360 degrees the spine extends upward about 2-3 stacked quarters. The spine rings are thick enough and placed close enough they don’t bite too terribly into the palm or the wrist. Very possible to have neat/legible handwriting along the left margin.
It has a thick hardcover (similar to the old high school hardcover textbooks). I suspect the gold graphics on the cover is embossed so it should withstand 2-3 years of heavy abuse before fading/chipping away. The tabs for each “unit” or “section” is spaced well enough for chunky fingers to grab a hold of and flip through. There was some resistance when trying to flip the tabs rapidly, but I haven’t had it long enough to see if the rings will tear along the hole punches. Each page is made of thick high quality paper. Not at all like the copy papers from Costco or Staples.