Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Do you want a journal meant for 12 year old children? Do you need daily affirmations, or find yourself looking in the mirror repeating, "I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!" Well, you are in luck! Rocketbook brings you their new planner. Unreal. I should have known by the panda on the cover that this wasn't going to be the planner I had hoped Rocketbook would release. I have had Rocketbook notebooks for years. I currently carry the executive version everywhere with me and I have the letter sized one on my desk. I have created planner pages in my executive sized Rocketbook using a permanent pen, but always thought it would be great if Rocketbook released a planner akin to At-A-Glance planners. Well, they did not and the preview images here don't provide enough information to let you know that what you are actually buying is a child's diary minus the heart-shaped lock. Page 1: A good start... A simple, clean 12 month future event planning page Pages 2 through 7: Full-sized month pages to fill out by the day's planned events, meetings, and goals. Page 8: Now we are off the rails... This page has blocks for Family and Friends, Relationshipo, Personal Devolopement & Achievement, Health and Fitness, and Wealth and Finance. The sixth area on the page is for "Prioritize" and provides numbers 1-5 to order your warm fuzzies from the aforementioned categories. The header reads, "Write down anything that you want to do, accomplish or experience, based on the category. The timeframe can be this quarter, this year or this lifetime: it's up to you." THIS IS A REUSEABLE NOTEBOOK! A PLANNER! NOT A PERMANENT DIARY/JOURNAL/SELF-HELP WORKBOOK! The point is to use it, wipe it clean, and use it again. Is it your intent to write all of your hopes and dreams in a planner and then take a wet cloth to it and blot them out? Dumbest possible imagining of what a Rocketbook planner should be. It just gets more rediculous from here... Page 9: Sections for My Goals, Target Metrics, Milestones, and Key Habits. Page 10: Roadmap. A 13 week roadmap to attain your goals... Page 11: Obstables and If/Then Routines Page 12: Motivation. Here is a line from this page: "What type of person do you need to be to accomplish your goals and integrate your new habits? Write down and tie it into your personal values. i.e. I am a runner. I run at least a mile per day and I will finish a half marathon to be an example of perseverance for my family." Page 13: Motivation. More of the same. This page actually has daily affirmations. Here is one from the page. "I will forgive myself when I falter (because I know I will), buy I will get back on track as soon as I am able. Page 14-17: "Week of" planner pages with minimum space to use the week laid out at the very bottom of the page, but with plenty of space for "Things I will do to make this week great." Page 18-27: Daily planner pages. Carrying on the theme of being a self-help "planner," the top third of the page provides room for what "I'm grateful for, I'm excited about, Today's wins, How I'll improve, and, of course, a space to write your daily affirmation. Seriously. A space to write your daily affirmation. Fortunately, the bottom two-thirds of the page is left for daily priorities and a 5AM to 9PM schedule. The final five pages are blank. Buy this for your child for journaling under the covers at bedtime. Buy this for yourself if you are working through some personal issues and could use a tool for daily affirmations or accountability. (Albeit a disposable, erasable, impermanent one that by its nature can absolve you of your committed, written goals with the swipe of a wet cloth!) Don't buy this if you are a dedicated student needing a real planner. Don't buy this if you are running a home or a business. Don't buy this if you are a professional with a full schedule and a genuine need to keep track of multiple upcoming events and/or information. Don't buy this...