Plan ninety days, then run them a week at a time

A free planner that turns where your life is right now into one 90-day plan. You choose three core values, score eight areas of your life, name the season you are in, and pick one area to focus on. The builder suggests an objective, weekly commitments and a daily minimum for that area, and you rewrite any of them. Then you run the plan for twelve weeks on a board that scores each week.

A year is long enough to put off starting. Twelve weeks is short enough that the deadline feels close from the first week, and long enough for a change to show. The idea comes from Brian Moran and Michael Lennington's The 12 Week Year, which treats twelve weeks as the planning year.

Each week, the board counts the weekly commitments you kept and the days you kept your daily minimum, and divides by what was planned. The week you are in is scored only up to today, so a good Monday reads as a good start, not as a seventh of a week. A week you mark as paused, for illness or a holiday, is left out. The line on the chart sits at 85%, the mark The 12 Week Year sets for a week on track. It is the authors' rule of thumb, not a research finding, and most weeks land below it.

Because one missed day should not wipe out six good ones. In Phillippa Lally's 2010 study of how habits form, missing a single day did not materially set people back, and a counter that resets to zero teaches the opposite. The board shows each week's score and the average so far instead.

It is a plan for the moment the week goes wrong, written ahead of time, in the form "If this happens, then I will do that." Psychologists call it an implementation intention. A 2006 review of 94 studies by Peter Gollwitzer and Paschal Sheeran found that people who made such plans reached their goals noticeably more often than people who only set the goal.

Because attention is the scarce part. The builder suggests your lowest-scored area, since one area that is falling apart tends to drag the others with it, but you can choose any area. The support area is there to make the focus easier, not to be a second goal.

In this browser, after every change, so you can close the tab and come back each week. If you are signed in, it is also saved to your HourLife account, so it opens on your other devices, and you can delete it there in Settings. Signed out, nothing is sent to HourLife or anyone else. Clearing your browser's site data removes the plan, so copy it as text or print it to keep a copy.

Yes. Print from the workspace and you get the plan on one page, followed by the twelve-week board with your weeks so far. You can also copy the whole plan as text, or add a weekly check-in to your calendar.