Beyond size, you will also choose between a weekly or daily planning layout. This is one of the most important decisions when choosing your planner, because it changes how you interact with it every single day.

The LH Agenda’s weekly layout has been designed with a ‘Dashboard’ on the left page for your overall weekly intentions and Week in Review, with plenty of blank space for notes and to-dos. The right page features a 7-day table in a horizontal layout for planning your daily priorities and schedule. Feel free to divide each day into columns for planning all the different areas of your life, for example priorities, schedule and self-care tracking.

The LH Agenda’s daily layout gives you a full page to plan your week and a full page per day. It includes half-hourly time slots from 5:30am to 9pm, a dedicated top priorities section and a gratitude prompt. Saturday and Sunday each have half a page.

The LH Planner was built in collaboration with leadership, career and life coaching experts and draws on a substantial body of research in positive psychology, habit formation and productivity science. Here is why what is inside it works.

Decades of positive psychology research led by figures such as Martin Seligman have linked regular gratitude practice to improved mood, greater resilience, better sleep and stronger relationships. Incorporating positive psychology through gratitude reflections — based on Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center research — has been scientifically shown to lower cortisol and improve sleep quality. The Week in Review includes a gratitude prompt not because it sounds nice, but because it consistently works.

The Week in Review does more than track tasks. Recording wins and challenges side by side is a direct application of Carol Dweck’s Growth Mindset research, which shows that people who reflect on both their successes and their setbacks — treating obstacles as information rather than failure — develop greater resilience, learn faster and sustain motivation over longer periods. When you write down what went well and what you learned this week, you are not just journalling. You are actively rewiring how you process difficulty. Over time, this builds the kind of mental flexibility that high performers rely on. The LH Planner makes it a non-negotiable two-minute habit at the end of every week.

Time-blocking (assigning specific tasks to specific time slots) has been consistently shown to reduce decision fatigue, minimise procrastination and increase the likelihood of completing high-priority work. The daily layout’s half-hourly schedule makes this straightforward to implement without needing a separate system.

Annual goal-setting is too infrequent to be responsive. Quarterly check-ins allow you to course-correct while there is still time within the year, stay motivated by acknowledging genuine progress (The Progress Principle), and adjust goals that no longer fit your circumstances. The LH Planner builds all four reviews into the structure of the year, so the habit forms naturally.

Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and behavioural scientists studying motivation consistently find that one of the biggest barriers to taking action is not lack of desire — it is the activation energy required to start. The bigger and vaguer a goal feels, the harder it is to begin. The LH Planner’s monthly planning pages deliberately break the year into smaller, focused sprints. Each month, you choose one clear goal or focus, set an intention and define a single challenge. This dramatically lowers the activation energy required to take the first step because the next action is always visible, specific and close. Rather than staring at a 12-month ambition, you are simply starting this month’s chapter. That is a principle the most effective goal-setting systems in the world are built on.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, is credited with a prioritisation framework that has since become one of the most widely used productivity tools in the world. The core idea is simple: not all tasks are equal. Tasks fall into one of four quadrants based on two questions — is it urgent, and is it important? Urgent and important tasks need your attention now. Important but not urgent tasks (often the ones that move your life and career forward most meaningfully, like planning, learning and building relationships) need to be scheduled deliberately, or they will always lose out to the noise of the day. Urgent but not important tasks should be delegated where possible. And tasks that are neither urgent nor important should be eliminated.

The LH Planner incorporates this logic through the dedicated Top 3 Priorities section on every daily and weekly page. Rather than asking you to work from a long, undifferentiated to-do list, it prompts you to identify the three tasks that will matter most today. Research on decision fatigue shows that the fewer high-stakes decisions we make about what to focus on, the more cognitive energy we have left for the actual work. Starting each day by naming your three most important tasks is one of the simplest and most evidence-backed productivity habits you can build.