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The Simple Planning Shift That Gives Sellers 2 Hours Back Every Day

Amber Deibert

December 15, 2025

If planning feels heavy, annoying, or like one more thing on your to-do list, this episode is for you.

Most sellers either:
• Don’t plan at all and spend the day putting out fires, or
• Try to follow someone else’s “perfect system” and assume
they are the problem when it doesn’t work.

You don’t need a complicated notion board or a 2-hour CEO block.
You need a simple way to decide in advance what matters most, and keep it where you can actually see it.

In this episode, I walk you through a planning shift that takes 5–7 minutes and can easily give you two hours back in your day by cutting down decision fatigue, distractions, and low-value busywork.

🎯 In this episode we riff on:

↠ Why planning is simply making decisions in advance (and why that matters)

↠ The biggest mistake sellers make: mixing planning and execution together

↠ How a 5–7 minute planning ritual can save you hours of wasted time

↠ Why your plan needs to live in your visual space (Post-its, tick charts, simple paper)

↠ Treating your future self like an employee you’re setting up for success

↠ A Monday “list-making day” for when you struggle to get going

↠ Daily planning: morning vs end-of-day  and how to stop night-time rumination

↠ What actually happens to your quota when you “just start working” without a plan

↠ Different rhythms to test: daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly planning

↠ Using a 12 Week Year-style quarter to make decisions once and simply execute

↠ How to build a personal operating system that makes sense to you (not LinkedIn)

↠ Dropping the “shoulds” and letting your planning style match your actual brain

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Amber Deibert...

Hi, I’m Amber, the go-to performance coach for enterprise tech sellers looking to ditch mindset trash, streamline their workday, and get more done with less friction. 

I’ve been coaching full-time for over 6 years, and with hundreds of sellers (1000+ sessions and counting!) under my belt. 

I know what it takes to help high performers reach new heights—and still have time to be present with your family + personal life.


I spent years in tech, myself. In roles like Learning & Development, Leadership, Sales Enablement, and System Administration. 


I know what it’s like to manage a mile-long to-do list and the pressure of being a top performer at a rocketship startup. 


I’ve also been where my clients are: overwhelmed, unsure of myself, and thinking everyone around me was naturally more confident and driven. 


But here's the thing—confidence isn’t about being born with it. It’s about having the right mindset and habits to back yourself up. 


That’s where I come in.