Imagine that you are a character in the game. But the game is not yet defined. It is up to you to build the game and then play it. You can share your journey with friends and the community or keep it yourself. It doesn’t change the planner.

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How to play

A planner is just a tool that will help you complete your goal and achieve the last level of your journey. It doesn’t matter if it will be a journey that follows the steps of some successful person or your own story - now it is in your hands.

1. Define Values - What matters to you the most?
2. Define Levels - What games are you playing?
3. Set Goals - What is your current target?
4. Define Skills - What makes you better than others?
5. Find the 6th Element - What is making my life balanced?
6. Achievements - What is making my life fun and exciting?
7. Streaks - What is rewarding you for consistency?
1. rewarding → something which brings closer to the goal
8. Gantt Chart - What is your game plan?
9. Define Rewards - What will keep you motivated?
10. Define Perks - What are the things you deserve to do?
11. Define End Game - What are things you need but hate doing?
12. Month planning - What is this month about?
13. Weekly planning - What is this week about?
14. Weekly review - How can I become better next week?
15. Monthly review - How can I become better next month?
16. Additional
1. Organize retrospectives - How can I become better at anything?
2. Freewriting - What is on my mind?
3. Life lore - Who am I?

Values

Before discussing goals, you need to know what matters to you the most. Values are the north stars that define what is right or wrong, success or failure. Many people live their lives by inheriting their values from their surroundings. They believe they live their own life by having and achieving goals, but the motives behind goals are hidden.

Values will define your goals and will give you a framework for decision-making. Some values always will have more priority in your life than others. For example, you may value freedom more than money or honesty over friendship.

Your values can and will change. As you grow, you may realize that your values no longer fit your lifestyle. You may notice that you are moving slower than others or are not as happy as they are. It will be when you pack to this page and re-organize your priorities.

Always consider edge cases when setting priorities for values. Imagine you get a job that will solve all your money problems, but it is in another city, and you can’t move there with your family. What would you value more, family or money?

Select all values you think you have and start matching them one with another. Replete it till the time you get a clear framework for decision-making.

Levels

We can’t know a direction if we see no path. Make levels your path. Make it your world. Every day, you wake up, and what do you think about it? How am I doing at my levels? This is what this page is about.

You can start setting goals based on levels. Most people skip levels while goal setting, and that is what hurts their success the most. Their goals are not systematic but too ambitious or not ambitious enough.

Levels give you a framework that helps you set perfectly balanced goals - Look at where you are right now, imagine a path toward the end, and set a goal to achieve a level above you.

For example, some people can describe their levels as follows:

1. You own some assets, but you have to work for a living.
2. You own enough assets to retire.
3. You own enough money to start five companies with three full-time team members and operate them for five years without revenue.
4. You own enough money to build, promote, and sustain your tiny city of 1000 members.
5. You own sufficient wealth to fund a large-scale philanthropic foundation that can significantly impact global issues.

I can’t say this scale is money-oriented, but it is also not wholly impact-oriented. It is unique, and it makes levels amazing. Some people have a goal to start a philanthropic organization. That is an example of a goal that can be frustrating. At that point, it would be better to do as the formula says, “Imagine a path toward the end and set a goal to achieve a level above you.”

Goals

It is essential to understand that to complete a Goal, you need Time, Luck, Action, and Leverage. Some goals require more time, while others require more luck. Some can be achieved just with your Leverage, while others require serious actions.

Set Right Goals

Sometimes, it can be frustrating to come up with a goal; here are some techniques you can use inside of the gamified planner:

Levels Framework. Imagine a path toward the end and set a goal to achieve a level above you.

Complete Life Lore. What if someone would decide to write a biography about you? What would that look like? Would it be inspiring or sad? Extraordinary lives are making great stories. Make sure that your life is worth writing a biography.

Imagine your funeral. Everyone you know is together in the room to say your last words. Imagine your wife, son, boss, colleague, and friend coming and telling you how they remembered you. What will they say? What do you want them to remember you for?

Convert leverage you don’t have into goals. Let’s imagine you have a goal to become a billionaire. To become a Billionaire, you probably need to leverage some of your existing money and connections. But you don’t have money or connections. Now, you can set a goal to “Get your first 1 Million” and a second goal to “Develop a network of 20 close connections”. Each of them will require its leverage and may spawn even smaller goals.

Execute on goals

After setting goals, it is crucial to make sure you have included them in your life plan. Goals without actions are just dreams. All active goals should be tracked in the Goal Tracking section of the planner.

You will come to Goal Tracker and update us on your monthly progress toward achieving the goal. Start by asking yourself, how much out of 10 am I satisfied with my goal progress this month? Put your answer in there, and then add a two-line description of why you made that score.

Skills

Our team thinks of time as an investment or as a skill point. The average person will spend 90,000 hours at work over a lifetime. You may also spend 20,000 hours learning something as a hobby or studying at university. Think of it as your skill points. How are they distributed already? How would you distribute them?

It is expected that it takes 10,000 hours to master a skill. It doesn’t work exactly like that; some skills are more challenging than others. You can invest 50,000 hours into learning physics; there will still be plenty to solve and discover. You can also invest 1000 hours learning to clean, and you will be pretty satisfied.

In the sticker box, you can find an x50 small stars to distribute between skills to highlight their complexity and importance.

You can also find stickers with hours attached that you can use on the skill page:

1. x3 stickers 10k hours
2. x6 stickers 5k hours
3. x12 stickers 2k hours
4. x24 stickers 1k hours

Every time you complete a milestone in some skill, you can open the planner and add one more sticker to the skill. It's a pretty satisfying feeling.

Choose the Right Skills

There is not a single system of skills that will fit all. However, it is often divided into Soft and Hard skills.

While choosing skills to add, do not add everything. Make sure your skills align with your goals.

Reward Yourself

Every time you earn a skill point, you become substantially better. Ensure you reward yourself with a random perk or a reward for getting your life leveled up.

Life Radar

Finding balance in life is more important than winning. At least not much less important. Imagine being that billionaire guy with four divorces and a lifetime antidepressant prescription. He won in life, but he hasn’t found balance.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

- Stephen R. Covey

Of course, everyone will have a sense of balance. For some, eating one apple per week is healthy; for some, being vegan is healthy. Set your complexity and find the sixth element!

Choosing 6th element

Everyone has their balance. Some can find it in mental calmness, some in the number of likes they receive on social media. It is up to everyone to figure out, but a gamified planner can help. Every week, you can set different sixth elements and analyze how satisfied you felt at the end of the week.

You should set a goal to find your sixth element for a balanced life. When you do, it will complete your life.

Rewards

Choosing Right Rewards

Getting Rewards

Achievements

Life is not linear, and it pays off to be diverse. Look for things not part of your goals but that you would love to complete in your lifetime. I bet there are a lot of them. It's a place you heard about many times but never visited. The person you always wanted to talk to but never got the courage to do so. Do not just let them go; save them for a better time as an achievement.

Choosing Right Achievements

What is not crucial but can give you additional leverage in completing goals?

What will make you feel more satisfied with your life?

Organize Weekly Planning

While setting a goal for the week, think of the one thing that will satisfy you at the end if you complete it only. Make it a core goal, and add more goals for the week.

Quests

Think of quests as bets with yourself. If you win the bet, you will get a reward. If you lose - you roll the dice on the End Game page.

Here are some examples of quests:

1. Week without caffeine
2. Survive on the minimal wage of locals.
3. Send 50 cold emails of your dreams.
4. Smile every time you meet eyes with someone.
5. Join a new club or group and attend their meeting.

It would be best if you chose quests based on your goals. You can schedule quests up front and be surprised why did “you in the past” do it?

Organize Weekly Review

Lessons Learned

Time Planning Circle

Keep your life consistent and book time for important things. That is what Time Circle is about.

Why would you use that? Well, day time planning is not a new concept. A lot of planners have it.

Looks familiar, right? Gamified planner is not about every day planning. There is no point in gamifying time, so we got rid of that concept. Instead we promote a Time Circle, that helps make your life more structure.

I personally can’t keep track of every time slot change in my calendar. I use Google calendar that is linked to 3 other calendar and I also let people book slots with me during the day. It would be just not usable to track all of it on paper.

So the idea is, you track strategy on paper and details on screen.