If Your Life Isn’t on One Page, It’s Too Complicated

If you can't organize your life into eight simple boxes, you're probably not organized and you're probably not operating efficiently. And I'm going to

operating efficiently. And I'm going to show you how to plan yours right now.

For people that don't know me, I'm Jesse Sler. I'm a serial entrepreneur. I've

Sler. I'm a serial entrepreneur. I've

sold four businesses, including one to Coca-Cola. And our private jet company

Coca-Cola. And our private jet company got sold to Warren Buffett's NetJets.

I'm an entrepreneur at heart, but I also have four kids. I'm married to another entrepreneur who's super busy. My wife

started a company called Spanx and our life is busy and I'm super easily distracted. As my life got more

distracted. As my life got more complicated, I really needed a system to help me organize my thoughts, organize my goals in a very simple way. I came up

with this idea about 2 years ago and it's completely changed the way that I focus and it's completely changed what I've been able to accomplish and it's so

damn simple. So pull out a piece of

damn simple. So pull out a piece of looseleaf paper, just a blank piece of paper and make eight boxes and then think about the buckets that matter the

most in your life. So for me it was adventure that's a huge part of my life, business, my marriage, financial, my

health, my kids, my personal and charity. Those are the eight things that

charity. Those are the eight things that matter at right now to me the most. If

something isn't in one of these buckets, it's not that like I'm not going to address it. I'm not nearly as focused on

address it. I'm not nearly as focused on that as I am on what's on this piece of paper. Of course, friends go under kind

paper. Of course, friends go under kind of family, friends, and family. But

anyway, these are the eight buckets. So,

take out a piece of paper and write down the buckets that are most important to you and then fill in those buckets with what you want to accomplish. So, these

buckets are going to look different for everybody. Before you even start, you

everybody. Before you even start, you have to identify what are the main buckets. What are the most important

buckets. What are the most important things in your life? It's going to be different for someone that's single than than me because I have four children and I'm married and my life looks different than what it did when I was 22. So,

think about like what are the most important categories for you? Is it

financial, which could be like budgeting, saving money, maybe hiring a financial advisor, maybe taking a course, I don't know. Is it your health and wellness? Is it your adventure

and wellness? Is it your adventure bucket? Is it your personal bucket? Just

bucket? Is it your personal bucket? Just

a list of things that you want to accomplish in your personal life. For

me, in my personal bucket, I have journaling. I want to journal more. I

journaling. I want to journal more. I

have read 10 books this year. I want to grow my YouTube channel. That's in my personal bucket. I want to visit my

personal bucket. I want to visit my college friends that I haven't seen in 5 years. It's in my personal bucket. So,

years. It's in my personal bucket. So,

think about the buckets that matter most to you. And maybe you don't have eight

to you. And maybe you don't have eight buckets. Maybe you start with six

buckets. Maybe you start with six buckets because you know your life is a little bit more consolidated than mine.

My life is a little wider because of my kids and my marriage. So maybe you start with four. But whatever those most

with four. But whatever those most important buckets are, go deep. This is

a master life to-do list of what you want to accomplish. I found that, you know, when you write down your goals, you're way more likely to achieve them.

And just by looking at this, I'm super visual, you know, and it's always keeps things top of mind. It keeps things focused. So, this might seem

focused. So, this might seem insignificant like what really? You put

all your ideas on one piece of paper?

Yes. Yes, I do. It decluttered me. It

made me more focused. It made me get laser specific on what I wanted to accomplish in the buckets that move the

needle the most in my life. So, yes, it is super simple and super simple works.

Harvard did a famous study in 1973 where they asked their graduating class how many people had goals and of course a 100% of the people raised their hand and said you know we have goals and then

they followed up 20 years later they realized that only 5% of that graduating class had actually written their goals

down on paper and that 5% that wrote their goals down on paper were worth more 20 years later than the 95% of the Harvard graduating class that didn't.

Writing things down is a completely different intention than just saying them. So, when you put your ideas on

them. So, when you put your ideas on paper, your odds of success go up dramatically. This is also a permission

dramatically. This is also a permission sheet to say no to things. When life

comes at you and starts to, you know, you get bombarded with people asking you and requests for time and different ideas or whatever, this gives you permission to say no. Because if it's not moving the needle in one of these

buckets, that's a good indicator that you probably shouldn't be doing it. By

the way, just thinking through what buckets matter the most to you is a really good place to start because I feel like most people don't even know like what is most important to me. And

for most people, the biggest challenge is distraction. So if you can get

is distraction. So if you can get organized and eliminate distraction, then just by definition, you're going to go deeper into the things that matter the most. So, for me, the best way to do

the most. So, for me, the best way to do that is get it on paper. Get it out of your head. Get it on paper and simplify

your head. Get it on paper and simplify it. And what's more simple than a one

it. And what's more simple than a one piece of paper? So, if you're watching this and you're thinking like, I don't even know what my buckets are. What

would I put in my buckets? Let me share a couple of tips that I think can help you get your get the ideas rolling. So,

one of the buckets that I picked was adventure. For me, adventure is a really

adventure. For me, adventure is a really big part of my life and it's a big category. It's the races I wanted to

category. It's the races I wanted to run. It's the places I want to go to.

run. It's the places I want to go to.

It's trips that I want to take. It's

just anything adventure oriented. So, if

adventure is something that interests you, you might think about like, yeah, like what are the races that I want to run? So, for me, there's a race called

run? So, for me, there's a race called Badwater. It's an ultramarathon. I've

Badwater. It's an ultramarathon. I've

never done it before. I might not even do it in 2026. I might not do it in 2027, but it goes on my list anyway because this is my in my lifetime list.

In my lifetime, I want to do Bad Water.

So think about things that maybe you're not a runner, but one day you want to run the New York Marathon. Put it down on the list. Start to breathe it into reality by putting it down on paper.

It's never going to happen if you don't dream it up and say, "One day, one day on my personal bucket. I always wanted to have a farm." Like, I would never think to put that on my to-do list or my

vision board, but I want a farm. If you

want something like that, put on you want an RV. Maybe you want to own uh an Airbnb or something. put it on your list. This list should be your dream

list. This list should be your dream list, things you always wanted to do, always wanted to accomplish, and start to build it off of that. And you know what happens when you start to write

that stuff down? You get something called enthusiasm. You get excited. And

called enthusiasm. You get excited. And

dormant ideas, ideas that like were just like, eh, could never happen, start to get a little bit of a heartbeat to it.

And over time, that heartbeat starts to beat a little faster and more enthusiasm and passion becomes around it. That's

what makes dreams happen. Maybe there's

a festival you want to go to one day on your adventure list. Maybe it's running man. Maybe it's Bonnaroo. Maybe it's

man. Maybe it's Bonnaroo. Maybe it's

Burning Man. I don't know. But put it down. You know, this is a compilation of

down. You know, this is a compilation of everything that I want to do. You know,

I just keep adding to my compilation.

And if you can just check off even half the stuff that you put in your buckets, you're going to have an incredible life resume. Incredible life resume. And

resume. Incredible life resume. And

you're going to show up at work better because you're going to be more excited about the life that you're building.

You're going to show up at home and to your friends better because you're going to be feel better about what you've been able to accomplish. The one thing everybody watching this video has in common. You're probably here for

common. You're probably here for different reasons and maybe getting different things out of this, but the one thing we all want is we want to feel proud of oursel. We want to feel accomplished. So, if you can put things

accomplished. So, if you can put things down on the list and you start to check them off and become more accomplished, your self-esteem is going to go through the roof, you're going to feel way better about yourself and you're just

going to show up happier to everything that you do in all the buckets of your life. And it starts with just getting

life. And it starts with just getting things down on paper. I literally bring this with me everywhere. I keep it in the folder of my planner which travels with me everywhere and I look at it all the time and I'm adding to it all the

time, you know, and at the end of the year I take inventory what got checked off. I put this in a folder at the end

off. I put this in a folder at the end of the year and then I write a new one.

I carry over what I didn't accomplish. I

add new things and the things that I have accomplished are checked off and they live in a folder that I can refer to all the time. It's basically the greatest, most honest autobiography of

my life just by looking at these pieces of paper. It's the most honest

of paper. It's the most honest autobiography of what it is I wanted to accomplish and what I have accomplished.

I mean, how many times have you said, "Oh, I want to see this person in concert." And it just never happens. I

concert." And it just never happens. I

want to go see the Rolling Stones goes in my adventure bucket. You can hold yourself accountable. This is your

yourself accountable. This is your accountability partner. And then when

accountability partner. And then when you go see Mick Jagger, check it off.

And now it's done. And if you don't go see them, well, now you know, oh my god, I never did that. Like, where's your scorecard? I mean, this is a really

scorecard? I mean, this is a really honest way to have an accountability partner of the things that matter the most. And when you look at it every day,

most. And when you look at it every day, you get a reminder, you know, it's top of mind of what it is you want to accomplish. There's so many

accomplish. There's so many distractions. You need a reminder of

distractions. You need a reminder of what it is you want to accomplish. So,

for example, let me go through my eight buckets really quickly. The first bucket is adventure. I make a running list of

is adventure. I make a running list of all the different adventures that I want to do in my lifetime. So last year on on that list was rimto- rim. I did that. I

wanted to do a race called Ultra Man. I

did that. I wanted to do the Clearwater Marathon. I did that partially. I did

Marathon. I did that partially. I did

that because they're on my list. I'm

starting to visualize it and dream about it and know I have to plan it. Other

things are on my list like for example the 300 club which is a sauna and cold punch competition. And then I go over to

punch competition. And then I go over to business. Uh, I want to spend about

business. Uh, I want to spend about three minutes a day networking every single day. That's in my business

single day. That's in my business bucket. I want to finish this book

bucket. I want to finish this book called Living with Sarah. It's in my business bucket. Start to fill in the

business bucket. Start to fill in the things that you want to accomplish on your life vision board. Then I go to my marriage. I want to take one trip, one

marriage. I want to take one trip, one time a quarter with Sarah. It could be a station, but I want to make sure that she and I are getting one-on-one time, one time a quarter in the form of a

trip. I want to have a date night every

trip. I want to have a date night every single week for Sarah and I. That's

Wednesday nights. I want to go on more family trips. I want to have a dinner

family trips. I want to have a dinner party with our friends this year.

Whatever you think of in your marriage bucket, put it down on your life vision board. This then I go over to my kids

board. This then I go over to my kids section. I want my kids to learn how to

section. I want my kids to learn how to play an instrument. I want my kids to learn a language. It might not happen this year, but that is on my lifetime vision board. My lifetime goals. It goes

vision board. My lifetime goals. It goes

in these buckets. I go to health. I want

to get down to 190 lbs by a specific date. Having a specific date for a goal

date. Having a specific date for a goal matters. So, I put that down. I want to

matters. So, I put that down. I want to fast every Monday. That's on my health section. So, little by little, I start

section. So, little by little, I start to add these little goals and habits to each one of these quadrants. And I check them off the list and then I add a new

thing. And I keep this in my little

thing. And I keep this in my little planner. I keep it in the folder in my

planner. I keep it in the folder in my planner. I have it with me. And I have a

planner. I have it with me. And I have a vision board on the go with the most important buckets. Now, this might sound

important buckets. Now, this might sound super simple, but simple work. And just

by doing this, I've already accomplished more in the last two years than I have in the previous five years because I'm organized, focused. I look at this every

organized, focused. I look at this every single day. I just glance at it. Just a

single day. I just glance at it. Just a

reminder of what it is that matters most, what I'm focused on, and what my goals are. The eight box quadrant, your

goals are. The eight box quadrant, your onepage vision board. So, I like this eightbox system so much. I literally

built it into our planner. This is a company that we have. We sell these amazing calendars called the big ass calendar to help you plan your life. But

this helps you plan yeartoear, daytoday.

And um we actually put the eight boxes in this planner. So you can, you know, literally schedule. This is a desktop

literally schedule. This is a desktop calendar, the size of a desktop calendar, but you can travel with it and it has months at a glance. But we also put the eight boxes in here, too, if you

want more. So, every single page you can

want more. So, every single page you can see your whole month at a glance. And we

built in, this is a dry erase board, by the way, which is great for to-do lists every day. But we also built in the

every day. But we also built in the eight boxes because everybody needs a simple eight box vision board. So, if

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Let me know what you guys think of this system in the comments.

Like, that's what I'm say. That's what's

so good about this.

If things that are in this bucket, they're not this is not my 2026 list.

These are things that I want to do in my lifetime. So like last year I had swim

lifetime. So like last year I had swim across um Lake Tahoe this I didn't do it this year. I'm not beating myself up. It

this year. I'm not beating myself up. It

still lives in the box. You know what I mean? Like that's the difference. Like

mean? Like that's the difference. Like

when you write all these goals down for one year, if you don't do them, you feel like you lost. But when you have a list of things you want to this is this is the list I want to accomplish in my lifetime. You really should have two.

lifetime. You really should have two.

You should have a year and a and a lifetime one. But I just keep one and

lifetime one. But I just keep one and it's like my lifetime. Like yours might be like, I want to make $15 million in my lifetime, you know, or this year you

might say, I want to make a million dollars but I like it better like for my life. My I have like my own for this year. I mean, my kids learning to

this year. I mean, my kids learning to play an instrument isn't something that like has to happen tomorrow. You know

what I mean? But it's something that it lives on my thing on my list. I love

this as a master organization tool for me. I'm going to literally have it in my

me. I'm going to literally have it in my planner.

>> Do you fold it up or you just keep >> Wait, I like it so much that we put the boxes in the planner this year. It's in

the planner. We actually have a page in the planner with eight boxes to do