EP. 389: Planning Isn't About Productivity (And That's Why Most Planners Fail)
ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka
Tracy Otsuka
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🗓️ 17 June 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We are almost halfway through the year, and I'm curious, what number planner are you on? |
| 0:05.0 | Number two, three, four. |
| 0:08.2 | Because if you're anything like me, every planner starts with the same promise. |
| 0:12.7 | This one is finally going to be the one. |
| 0:16.5 | You know the planners, the ones with 400 pages. |
| 0:19.8 | The ones that want your tenure vision, your life purpose, your goals before death, and possibly your blood type, before you're allowed to write down buy dog food. |
| 0:29.7 | Yeah, you know what I mean, right? It's almost like planner companies believe the more complicated a planner is, the better it must be. |
| 0:39.2 | But what if that's actually the problem? |
| 0:42.3 | Every single time you want to use a traditional planner. |
| 0:45.8 | Think about it. |
| 0:46.7 | You have to tab to the right month, then the right week, then the right day. |
| 0:50.6 | By the time you find Thursday, you've forgotten what the hell you even wanted to write down. |
| 0:55.9 | You know what I'm talking about, right? |
| 0:58.1 | Look, after years of abandoning planner after planner, I finally realized something. |
| 1:03.7 | Maybe the problem wasn't me. |
| 1:05.5 | Maybe the problem was the planner. |
| 1:07.6 | So I started removing things instead of adding them. And that's what led me to |
| 1:12.7 | create AOK every day. In fact, we call it the unplanner. It's a simple card-based planning |
| 1:19.3 | system that keeps your current week right in front of you, visible, accessible, easy to use. |
| 1:26.0 | I've spent my entire life abandoning planners. This is the only planning |
| 1:31.0 | system I've ever been able to stick with. I've used it every day for the past eight years. |
| 1:36.9 | A few years ago during COVID, I released a hundred of these planners. They sold out immediately. |
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