Why ProAction Planner™

Take back control and become more proactive.

My passion is helping smart, driven leaders and professionals to clarify their priorities in work and life, define their goals, and implement systems to gain control over their time and choices. I created the ProAction Planner™ to support this work and to provide a tool for people like you that are looking for a simple, comprehensive system to reduce overwhelm, take back control, and reach your goals.

Some Background

I’ve used many paper planners over time, some of which I really liked and would recommend to clients. But I found that none of them incorporated all of the important areas of goal setting, planning, and tracking that I used with my clients. To fill in the missing pieces, I created worksheets and templates to supplement the planners and continued to search for a planner that would cover it all. I couldn’t find it.

So I decided to create one.

The ProAction Planner™ follows the same steps I use with my productivity coaching clients; processes and exercises I have created and improved over the years through experience and feedback. I am so excited to finally have a simple all-in-one tool for myself, my clients, and you!

Client Testimonial

Heather owns and runs three businesses: a boutique accounting and consulting firm, a horse farm that is home to about 25 horses, and a non-profit organization centered around the retired thoroughbred racehorse. In addition to those three businesses, Heather makes time for her husband, her dog, Bo, and her passion for competing with and caring for her own horses. Life is very busy for Heather and staying organized and grounded has been challenging.

“In the past, I often felt like a failure at the end of the week because I did not meet ALL the objectives that I set for myself. The ProAction Planner, along with my weekly coaching sessions with Lori, has helped me prioritize the tasks in all areas of my life and be more realistic about what I can accomplish in a week. Working with this planner each day, I am able to stay focused, and now I more often finish the day and the week feeling productive and successful. As I am growing in new areas of my life and trying to create more positive and healthy habits, the habit tracker keeps me engaged and helps develop the consistency needed. What I love most about this planner, after having tried so many options, is that is incorporates it all. So often we set goals for the year but do not have a process to break down how we are going to get there or monitor our progress so we actually achieve what we set out to do. This planner covers all that and so much more. The ProAction Planner, and Lori’s coaching, have been a life saver to me. I truly believe that I would not have accomplished so much in such a short amount of time without her methodology of goal setting, planning, and monitoring.”

Heather Kourklas, President, Golden Gait, LLC

More Praise From the ProAction Planner Community

The ProAction Planner has revolutionized the way I plan. In the past, I worked in a daily planner, and I found I wasted a lot of time transferring information over each day. Weekly planning combined with being able to see what projects I have open and the associated tasks, allows me to be much more efficient. The ProAction Planner also does a great job as a goal setting tool. The goal setting and monthly assessment tools help me to stay on track with my progress. From a personal perspective, the habit and water trackers are health tools that I use daily and love that they are incorporated into my daily planner. In 2022, I am implementing this planner for all of my leadership team to use as we plan and work together for the year. I love the ProAction Planner!

LouAnn Wagner, CEO, Texas Auto Carriers, Inc.

I’m looking forward to next year’s planner already. I really appreciate the pragmatic design, which helps me navigate both schedule-driven days and task-driven days. I had to adopt a much more rigorous planning routine a couple years ago when I became a mother, and the ProAction Planner has been an integral part of this system.

Sarah McConnell, Rochester, NY

I love the simplicity of the planner, having goals for projects and habits in multiple places, and especially the debrief each month of what went well and what could’ve gone better. Continuous improvement in setting goals, refining them, and adjusting. Thank you Lori for an amazing tool to simplify my life and live more intentionally. I can’t wait to continue using and learning year after year.

Tonya Neihardt, Cincinnati, OH

Finally! A place where I can mesh my personal and professional plans in one place while having the ability to quickly look back in time yet remain forward looking with my goals and mindset, both short and long term. This planner is perfect…visually pleasing and easy to use while being flawlessly detailed, even offering Pro-Tips for the super-user!

Sonali Santiago Master, MD

What I loved most about this planner, and there is a lot to love, is the Weekly and daily “Focus.” When you are in a busy work environment like many of us are, this really helped me stay on top of the Must Do’s for the day and for the week. This planner incorporates that in a wonderful, easy to access way.

Trisha K Klok, Consultant @ Pella Insurance

I consider myself incredibly picky when it comes down to choosing the right daily planner. Before I even opened the front cover of the ProAction Planner for the first time, I found the size + weight + clean design luxurious. Inside, Lori offers easy to understand and follow guidance to using each part of the planner. The daily calendar space is plenty for a busy day and printed fonts throughout are easy on the eye. As a new business entrepreneur in the field of design + organization, I cannot rave enough about the several signature added planning sections. Not only do they keep me motivated and on task, I have now been able to solidify everything I need in one place without needing to keep track of several notebooks at once. I would highly recommend this planner to anyone for business + personal or like myself…both.

Glenda Criswell, 806 Design LLC

The ProAction Planner is a comprehensive productivity guide and planner that has helped me to stay organized and in forward motion. It is intuitive, clean, easy to use, a perfect size and includes tips and reminders to incorporate gratitude into the day. I am excited to get my ProAction Planner for 2022 to move me forward in my business and personal life. Thank you for creating this unique product!

R. Master, MD – Concierge Physician and Life Coach

I love the added boxes for annual, monthly, and daily goals. I need to look at the whole year and be able to manage my time each day. It is great to have all these functions in my planner. I think you have taken the best part of a planner and broken it down into easy simple steps – a sure plan of success.

Lynn R. Daly, Owner, Daly & Associates

The ProAction Planner…has helped me prioritize the tasks in all areas of my life and be more realistic about what I can accomplish in a week. Working with this planner each day, I am able to stay focused and now I more often finish the day and the week feeling productive and successful. As I am growing in new areas of my life and trying to create more positive and healthy habits, the habit tracker keeps me engaged and helps develop the consistency needed. What I love most about this planner, after having tried so many options, is that it incorporates it all.

Heather Kourklas, President, Golden Gait, LLC

The ProAction Planner made it easy for me to organize and prioritize my personal and business tasks all in one place.

Kris Curtin, Owner, A Good Deal Better

I’ve been meaning to write and tell you how awesome I think your planner is. It’s so wonderful to have a paper planner to recommend that is awesome and designed pretty much to complement my online tool. I just hung up with a client who is so excited to buy a PROACTION PLANNER! I loved that I could pick it up and show her how to use it.

Ellen Faye, PCC, CPLC, CPO®, Certified Productivity Leadership Coach

Hi Lori – I received my ProAction Planner. I love it and it arrived at the right time! In addition to being a professional organizer, I’m also a virtual executive assistant, and I recently started working as a part-time secretary at a virtual school. So, I’ve got a lot going on. I go back and forth between digital planners and paper planners. BUT, I like paper planners. I’ve been looking for something that will allow me to track goals, habits, and tasks. I’m excited to dive in and use this planner, especially since you get the Type A organizer type!

Kristi Santilli, Organized! by Kristi, Professional Organizer and Virtual Executive Assistant, Taunton, MA

Thank you so much Lori! I love my ProAction Planner and am excited for the new cover this year!

Happy ProAction Planner User

I got my ProAction Planner in the mail today. I’m so excited to try it out. I’ve used a Planner Pad for year and am looking forward to trying yours out for a change. I like all the thought provoking tools such as vision, goals and priorities, as well as the reflection, review and reset.

New ProAction Planner User

Created for You

I created the ProAction Planner™ for driven individuals who have more to do than time allows…for those who want to live their best life at work and at home…for those who have great passions and a wish to make life better for themselves and others. But if not supported with good time management habits, these dreams and goals often go unfinished. Instead, we spend our valuable time reacting to the day’s “fire” or working on other tasks that don’t support our goals. We are overwhelmed, resentful, tired, and frankly ready to give up.

If this sounds like you, then the ProAction Planner™ can help.

By using the ProAction Planner™ and its supplemental exercises, you will learn valuable skills and habits to:

Gain control over your time,
transition from reactive to proactive in your day-to-day life,
reach your short-term and long-term goals,
live out your passions,
and above all find the happiness and success you deserve.

Please get in touch any time with questions or suggestions to make the ProAction Planner™ even better!

Lori Vande Krol
Your Partner in Productivity
Owner of Life Made Simple LLC and Creator of the ProAction Planner™

Why a Paper Planner?

Studies show we have stronger brain activity when writing versus when typing on a tablet or smartphone. With a paper planner, your ability to process goals and tasks increases and you will be more intentional about how you spend your time.

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