The ultimate system for becoming a relentless implementer, developing deep focus & achieving your goals.
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The ultimate system for becoming a relentless implementer, developing deep focus & achieving your goals.
Week 1 is all about creating maximum clarity about your priorities and setting goals the right way.
An overview of what's coming in the following weeks.
How to join the focus & action community and how to find the right time slot for upcoming live calls.
Let's draw a line in the sand, right here. Define your current situation and set a clear point from which to improve.
Laying the foundation of what we will do in this class and the how focus & action approach is different.
Are you suffering from the always-in-the-zone fallacy? Believing this is what keeps countless people stuck...
Don't let this opportunity pass you by.
This simple tool will make your progress through the class much easier.
In the following lessons, we'll be using this repeatedly.
Discover why goal setting usually doesn't drive action & how to do it in a way that actually motivates you.
Uncover your push & pull forces, the daily process & get aligned with your core values.
This lesson is about setting clear priorities and decluttering your big picture projects.
In this lesson, we bring everything from the previous exercises together to determine a top priority.
Here's how to go from big, ambitious goals to clarity about the next steps.
The theme in this module is environment. By the end of this, you will have a carefully designed environment, both digitally and physically, all honed for maximum focus and productivity.
Copy my templates & discover how this workflow creates clarity & immediately actionable steps.
Do you work with a team? Then these tweaks to the Notion work board are for you.
So far, we've looked at the work boards, which are the heart of the system I use in Notion. In this lesson, we take a look at the rest of my setup.
How to create a digital environment that supports deeply focused work.
How do you remove the proverbial cookie jar from your digital work environment? Here's where app blocking comes in.
Why I don't use app blockers on my phone & what I recommend doing instead.
Optimizing your work space for deep focus and productivity is simple, but very powerful.
Make use of multiple devices (smartphone, computer, tablet...) to create a stronger deep focus habit.
In this module, we focus in on deeply focused, distraction free work segments & the use of calendars for time blocking.
This week is deeply focused, distraction free work time. And it starts right here!
This is a simple but powerful framework for making your calendar an ally in your pursuit of deep focus.
Here's a way to categorize your work (and why I heavily favor one category over the other).
In this lessons, we build up on the time blocking and scheduling tools we've introduced previously.
This module is all about the key to making productive habits easy: building habits.
This is a new, simple but useful habit that we will do every Monday, from now on.
Habits, whether good or bad, all follow the same rules. Master these rules and you can design habits at will.
Putting habit building into practice, let's build a habit stack for the beginning of the day.
5 simple rules that make for better mornings, leading into better days.
Here's how and why I created the morning ritual I currently follow.
This is a simple but crucial addition to building habits that stick.
These are the tools you need to build the perfect habit & tracking system for your needs.
In this module, we cover the tools for highly efficient, time saving workflows.
There's one tool that creators, entrepreneurs and knowledge workers use more than anything else. Speed this up and every part of your workflow becomes more efficient.
These are my tips for faster, more efficiency focused input devices.
Another lesson about keyboards?! Yes, indeed.
Here are the 6 ways to optimize efficiency + a case study on how we roughly 10x-ed productivity in our video workflow.
Avoid this trap, which can turn the pursuit of optimization into just another distraction...
A collection of recommended tools & resources to improve your efficiency.
Given all the tools and strategies for highly productive work, what can still get in our way? Fear.
In this writing exercise, we uncover fears that may be at the core of procrastination and other destructive habits.
If fear is what's holding you back, how do you solve that problem? That's what we cover in this lesson.
There's one exception to the gradual, step-by-step approach we've taken in this class so far...
If you feel strong resistance to doing something, can you use a commitment device to your advantage? And should you announce your goals to people or keep them to yourself?
This lesson is about the most effective commitment device I've ever encountered.
This week is all about building a strong, solid foundation that supports your work and life goals.
Intro to the module + 2 important questions to ask yourself, for building a strong foundation.
A good night's sleep is the foundation for a productive and successful day. Do these 4 things to improve your sleep quality.
Exercise & movement are fundamental to creating a high performance mind. But most of us have been told many unhelpful stories about what exercising means.
How does food affect our ability to focus & perform? Are there brain-boosting foods we should all be including in our diets?
Social connection is a strong predictor of overall health, wellbeing, happiness and human performance.
Discover how to create a daily reminder document that keeps you on track for your most ambitious goals.
What the mantra document is about & how to create the first version of it.
Here's a look at my current mantra document and everything you can learn from how I created it.
This is the simple method I use to keep my mantra document evolving & up to date.
Here is an example of several previous versions of my mantra document.
A few more points about how to create your mantra document, based on questions & discussions in the community.
In this final week of the class, we tackle some of the more advanced productivity concepts that can take your output to another level.
Here's a quick overview of the week's content & the unique challenge for week 9.
A dissection of a hyperproductivity sprint during which I created and launched 2 entire online coruses in the span of a couple of months.
These are the principles & strategies that make a hyperproductive sprint work.
Why is it that even when we take time off or spend a lot of time unproductively, we still don't always feel recovered and recharged?
How to implement 3 levels of recovery in your life.
3 things to help you apply the principle of leverage to all areas of your work.
In this lesson, we tie everything in the focus & action system together and look at a framework you can use anytime to troubleshoot productivity problems.
Let's close the loop on one of the first things we did in this class...
Here's what's next...
Replays of the live calls in week 1.
Recordings of week 2 group calls.
Replays of week 3 Q&A sessions.
Recordings of week 4 group calls.
Recordings of the week 5 group calls.
Recordings for week 6 group calls.
Recordings of week 7 group calls.
Recordings of week 8 group calls.
Recordings of the week 9 calls.
This is one of the main reasons people "fail" at implementing new habits and reaching their goals... and the most important thing you can do to solve it.
Is perfectionism keeping you from starting work and/or finishing work? Here are the strategies that have worked for us, to overcome this problem.
Multitasking saps your energy and makes you less efficient. But single tasking can do the same, if you don't avoid this mistake...
What's the difference between visualization and mental rehearsal? And why does one help and one hinder our progress towards our goals?
What does the "failsafe" principle from habit building look like when applied to the entire focus & action system?
A common story of failure, and how to avoid it.
A systematic approach to processing your fears & making strategically sound decisions.
Unfortunately, many of us experience resistance from people around us, when we try to implement positive change in our lives. Here are a few strategies to deal with that.
The topic of "information diet" has come up on several live sessions. Here's a simple model I use to filter information and decide what is and what isn't worth paying attention to.
The further ahead you plan, the more uncertainty you have to deal with. How can we incorporate this into the way we plan out a whole year, without always being disappointed by missed deadlines and changes of plan?
This is a way of planning out projects that helps me be more productive by creating clear "pull goals" for myself.
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