You have 744 hours to invest this month...

That's the first thing you'll see once you create a copy of our Monthly Planning and Debrief Spreadsheet.

In a 31-day month, you get 744 hours to do everything you want to do.

That's a heck of a lot of hours.

You can make a lot of improvements to your life in 744 hours.

How many of those hours are spent well? How many are building your life up? All of them? Probably not. Wouldn't life be more marvelous if you spent more of those 744 hours in the way that gave you the best life possible?

So we built a tool for you to make months run better.

Both Ultraworking founders — Sebastian Marshall and Kai Zau — run Monthly Planning protocols. A month is a long time. You can get a lot done in a month if you're dialed-in on what's going to make a real difference for your life.

Sebastian has been running Ultraworking-style Monthly Planning since January 2017, every single month — this guide is launched in September 2018, which means 20 months straight. It's lightweight, and in just an hour or so, you can get a grip on how your whole month should go. We regularly get notes like this (we've got a lot of them) —

"Hi Sebastian and Kai -

Just wanted to say thanks a ton for the free monthly planning program y'all ran in July. I've benefitted loads, and it's the framework I'm using to plan September as well.

WHY I wanted to reach out is simple --- for the longest time I've tried to conceptualize how to REALISTICALLY frame and plan for longer time stretches than a week or two at a time --- never created a framework that really worked. Until you ran the July training.

It's also helping me plan further than just one month out --- so, for real, thanks a ton for the training, it's nipped a longstanding problem of mine in the butt.

All the best!

Al"

So yeah, Monthly Planning works great for a lot of people. This guide will give you all the best practices.

Technical Note Before We Get Started

You can always make a copy of the Monthly Planning template here —

https://ultra.work/monthlyplan

By default, that's private to you. We won't have access unless you share it with us.

You can review a couple of Sebastian's actual Monthly Plans here —

https://ultra.work/demo-monthlyplan-june

https://ultra.work/demo-monthlyplan-august

And an important technical note: fields in purple are carried over to prioritization, and fields not in purple are not —

Which became —

Okay, almost everything about the Monthly Planning spreadsheet is intuitive — that's the only thing you need to know.

If there's an important takeaway for next month, write it in the purple boxes.

Do that and you're good to go. Check the rest of the guide for the theory and best practices on running Monthly Planning.