Life Planning · Values

Get clear on your values — and every decision gets easier.

Your values are the “why” behind a well-planned day. Decide what matters most, and VoiceFirstPlanner keeps every task, goal and habit pointed at it.

Start free What is a value?

Tap. Speak. Done.

The pain

You get to the end of a busy day and can’t say what any of it was for.

Everything on the list got done. The important thing didn’t — it never made the list. It rarely does, because the urgent shouts and the important waits quietly. The list keeps growing and nothing in it tells you which three things actually matter, so you do the loud ones, and the day ends busy and hollow.

The answer

Name what matters once. Everything else lines up behind it.

Your values as chips, and the first two life roles beneath them

The Add a value field, with the mic and the Add button

Pick your values from the list, or say them. Then name the roles you actually hold — parent, builder, friend — and what doing each one well looks like.

From then on, every goal you set can point at one of them. When a task earns its place, you know why. When it doesn’t, that’s easier to see too.

“Add health to my values”

It’s on the list — and every goal you set from here can point at it.

Life Planning › Values › tap to add

Tapping is the easier way to start. Both work.

Five values on the free plan, and the pages are all there from the start.

What the research found

Goals rooted in your own values drew more sustained effort and were reached more often — and reaching them genuinely improved well-being. Borrowed goals didn’t.

This is why Life Planning opens with values before it ever asks for a goal. The same achievement pays out completely differently depending on whose goal it was.

See the evidence →

The basics

A value is a direction. A goal is a finish line.

You can run the half-marathon. You never finish being healthy.

That’s the whole difference, and it’s worth ten seconds because it’s where most planning goes wrong: people write down goals they never chose and wonder why arriving felt like nothing.

Get the value right and the goals almost choose themselves.

Healththe reason behind run a half-marathon in May
Craftsmanshipthe reason behind finish the boat properly, not quickly
Presencethe reason behind Friday afternoons off by June

I ran a paper planner for thirty-five years and it never once asked me why. It held the appointments and the lists and it did that well. But the question underneath — is this the day I meant to have — that one I had to keep asking myself.

This is the part I wish I’d had.

— Dave Rees, Founder. From boatbuilder, to business owner, to Founder.

How it works

Setting your values takes about four minutes.

The values chips, mid-add

A life role, with what doing it well looks like

Pick or speak up to five.A handful you’d actually recognize yourself in beats a long list you wrote once.
Name the roles you hold.Parent, professional, friend, learner. Write one line on what doing each well looks like.
Point your goals at them.From here, every goal can carry a role — and that’s the bit that makes reaching it feel like something.

The full chapter is in the Instruction Manual — free with any account.

Know what matters. Then plan a day that shows it.

Free account. No card, no clock. Start with your values and the rest follows.

See it in action

Plan around what matters.

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