🌱 The Joyful Productivity Course

The power of routine

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5:14

Rest before you need to

2 9

4:53

The importance of practicing the BREAKING of flow...

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Time Logging / Tracking - A Practice of Awareness

7:52

Time Logging Time Tracking Intro

5:28

Time logging - how to remind yourself

5:10

Clarify an uplifting ritual for your time logging...

10:12

Auditing our time log - questions to ask to improve your model calendar...

Weekly Planning -- Part 2 -- Advanced

Learn to create a well-designed calendar to fulfill your priorities.

Lesson -- Calendaring_ 168 Hours Per Week

24:02

Detailed Weekly Planning

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Example of Weekly Planning -- George Kao's Calendar

11:58

Examples of Calendars -- including George Kao's own weekly plan

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10:15

What if your stable calendar needs to change?

2:54

Notice your energy throughout the day and schedule mindfully...

Calendar Part 3 - adjusting your self-appointments based on clients and others

20:01

Managing calendar while making space for client appointments and unexpected meetings...

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4:41

Putting open client spots in Google Calendar without blocking off that time in your appt scheduler

(Optional) Planning Your Business Time

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(Optional) To-do list vs Calendar: detail & quick capture vs. coordination of categories for action

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6:36

(Optional) why switch to Digital calendar instead of Paper agenda or physical calendar?

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4:06

(Optional) Creating color blocks on google calendar

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Overwhelmed... "I'm just not cut out for this!"

4:56

The factors needed for success in any field...

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7:07

"Feeling very overwhelmed and defeated..."

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4:45

"I'm just not cut out for this... I'm not you, George."

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2:58

"One step at a time..."

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Unwinding & Quick Breaks

Practice frequently unwinding throughout the day, so that by the end of the workday, you still have energy to enjoy additional personal time.

24:01

Unwinding throughout the day...

6:15

Design your Quick Break routine

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Recovering after a break and getting back into momentum

2:36

After a break, getting back into momentum...

2:09

You are already doing enough 🥰

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Creative Tension and why we can't create fulfillment without some strain and unwinding

12:09

(Optional) Creative Tension & why we can't create fulfillment without some "strain" thus unwinding...

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6:06

(Optional) Unwinding when you are running errands...

CCC: Capture, Categorize, Calendar

Master the process of Capturing tasks & ideas, Categorizing them regularly, and Calendaring those categories.

27:08

Capture, Categorize, Calendar

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10:09

When should you categorize and prioritize your ideas?

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3:39

(Optional) The 4th "C" to Capture Categorize Calendar...

Organizing by Deliverables + Decluttering Your Desktop

Practice organizing knowledge based on deliverables, rather than aim for a overwhelming knowledge base...

8:00

Organize Information by Deliverables... not by Knowledge Base

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So many notes to gather and integrate for a book course or client program

11:28

When you have so many notes to gather & integrate to create a book, course or program...

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3:03

Clear your desktop regularly...

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1:30

Empty your computer trash occasionally...

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But what about Learning Notes (e.g. from Books & Courses) including from this course? 😆

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4:34

Do I store video files somewhere?

3:51

Basic system to organize all your important information...

(Optional) Additional tips about Organizing by Deliverables

Discussion about Organizing by Deliverables

12:26

(Optional) Further discussion about organizing our learning

Client Notes -- Organizing by Deliverables

6:47

(Optional) Organizing Client Notes -- brief discussion of strategy for this

Quick tips about using Google Docs and Drive to organize marketing launch

6:08

(Optional) Quick tips about using Google Docs and Drive to organize a launch

Hat Manuals

Create "hat manuals" for many of your work processes, to help you feel calmly organized and on-task.

Hat Manual what is it and how to create one plus templates

34:02

What is a Hat Manual and how to create one?

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3:08

Hat Manuals vs Project Documents

Routine is boring -- how to make it interesting so I can be consistent?

8:28

Routine is boring -- how to make it interesting so you can be consistent?

5:41

Hat manuals should keep evolving...

6:34

How I organize my Hat Manuals

(Optional) Google Docs for Hat Manuals

9:15

Use Google Docs' heading styles for easily clickable document outline...

2:59

Google Docs headings - how to set default styles?

Discussion ✍🏽

Structure vs. Freedom

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Your Start-of-work Ritual

Design a start-of-work ritual that you consistently use to get into flow...

12:34

What to expect in the first 15 minutes of any work period...

7:12

Pep talk - why it's important to create a start of work ritual...

26:54

Creating your Flow Process for dissolving Resistance to working on what you planned

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2:05

What to do next? Life's silence is beckoning you forward...

How to prioritize our work time? DIVE into PLAN -- framework for prioritizing and working well

11:51

How to prioritize our work time? DIVE into PLAN -- framework for working well

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10:10

Why I always work with a timer (and questions about it)

Working Lightly Part 1

Practice working lightly (e.g. publishing sooner) rather than perfectionism and overwork.

8:00

Working Lightly -- a Primer

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28:08

Approaching your work more lightly so that you have stamina to succeed rather than burnout...

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Energetics of meetings with clients students and leaning back metaphorically letting them lead their transformation

5:45

(Optional) Energetics of meetings w/ clients or students -- leaning back metaphorically, letting them lead their own transformation

2 4

(Optional) Quantity vs Quality

10:30

Quantity vs Quality in Content and Offers

4:49

Will people stick with you through lower-quality content and offers?

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Transitions / Context Switching

22:52

Transitions, Context Switching, and Segmenting Work

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Transitions from meetings to working isolation

6:11

Transitions from meetings to "by yourself" types of work

Managing Overwhelm

Have a clear method, whenever you feel overwhelmed, to quickly dissolve that overwhelm and find footing again.

2:29

An Overwhelming To-Do List? Time it, Trim it, Transform it..

How to deal with overwhelm_ Apply temporary constraints.

11:07

My essential tool for managing overwhelm: Temporary Constraints 🚦

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When chaotic & overwhelmed, how do you reset yourself_

7:37

Example of resetting from overwhelm by quickly writing down...

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4:15

Tool for overwhelm: one step at a time

4:14

Allow more organic timelines for yourself...

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(Optional) More guidance about Overwhelm

41:45

(Optional) -- In-depth exercises for dissolving Overwhelm

Creating Healthy Boundaries

5:29

Checking social media too often? Ways to break your addiction and use the apps just enough...

5:29

Checking email too often? A few tips...

10:39

On Caretaking for others...

10:59

When going on a long break or vacation, how to think about our Social media management as a solopreneur?

👩🏽‍💻 Browser Shortcuts + So Many Tabs! + Organizing Bookmarks 🔖

9:27

Intro to the Browser Efficiency Module...

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1:44

Browser Shortcut -- Zoom in or out -- easier to read!

2:12

Browser Shortcut -- Go to left or right tab, or last tab

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3:49

Browser Shortcuts -- New tab, Set homepage

1:21

Quickly open a specific Google Drive folder using a Chrome bookmark!

15:37

Bookmarks Bar -- How I organize mine

4:44

How to create and organize bookmarks / bookmarks bar

1:24

🏷 Rename your bookmarks & folders to save space in the Bookmarks Bar

Bookmark Folders_ moving them around _ opening several bookmarks at aonce

3:49

Bookmark Folders: moving them around / opening several bookmarks at once

3:18

🧹 Decluttering your bookmarks

1:32

Pin your frequently-accessed browser tabs

Decluttering your browser tabs (close them to make your internet faster!)

1:42

Close your browser tabs to make your internet faster! :)

How to efficiently clear browser tabs on Google Chrome

2:00

An efficient way to clear browser tabs in Google Chrome

1:55

Google Chrome: use Task Manager to see which tabs drain the most energy and slow down your computer

5:19

Browser cache? No need to clear it.

Truly Deep Work

Reframe "work" to approach it from a sacred, joyful place, rather than an energy of annoyance or avoidance...

17:10

Truly Deep Work -- reframing work as more than a means-to-an-end...

4:41

4 ways to reframe Work as worthwhile in itself

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7:12

EXERCISE -- truly working deeply

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How will you remember to truly work deeply?

Dealing with tech challenges with more joyful productivity

9:38

Dealing with tech challenges 🤷🏻‍♂️ with less frustration, a bit more sacredness & Spirit 😄

Following Your Calendar (Productivity Integrity)

Learn to follow your calendar consistently, and deal masterfully with time blindness.

1 Repair your relationship to the calendar

6:50

Repair your relationship to your calendar...

Repairing our relationship to our timers (which allows us to follow our calendars)

23:51

Repairing our relationship to our timers... 1-minute exercise x3

2 Gradually build up your productivity stamina : calendar following

2:55

Gradually build up your productivity stamina & following your calendar

3:40

How do you remember to look at your calendar? Notifications and reminders / calendar habit

10:09

Strict, Lenient, Gentle... and Big Picture Perfectionism

2:42

TNT -- Trance, Next, Trust...

1:11

Successfully following your calendar is a suite of productivity skills to revisit...

9:23

Still hard to follow calendar? Telescope it out... use a short priorities list instead.

Working Lightly Part 2 -- A Lighter Touch ✨

7:20

How to work lightly with tech challenges?

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6:38

Frequent Energy Reboots

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3:15

Your spiritual practice vs your "work"

1:53

When not working lightly, where do you feel that in your body?

4:06

Change your seating position occasionally

0:59

How else might you work more lightly?

EOD Process (End-of-Day)

4:23

Why it's important to have an EOD process

17:24

The EOD Checklist

5:09

When will you do your EOD process (and how long)?

Email Inbox Zero

Practice having a clear email inbox. It'll give you a daily sense of calmness & organization.

8:10

The importance of Inbox Zero

For those who are newbies at using Gmail, here are some short tutorial videos... How to Archive Emails in Gmail: Find, Delete or Archive Emails How to use snooze button in Gmail How to Organize Your Gmail Inbox to Be More Effective (Labels, Tabs, & Folders) If you use a different software and have found any YouTube tutorials to be helpful, add a comment below with the link! Thank you.

4:36

Begin with inbox zero -- takes only a few minutes!

14:06

The ongoing 7 steps for inbox zero

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Archive or Delete?

Beginner tutorials: how to use your gmail (and other software)

More email tips

Daily Practice – You’re doing enough – let stuff go!

6:23

The importance of practicing Letting Things Go (and it's not forever - out of sight out of mind for now)

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10:01

Start with your 3 Big Rocks

4:31

Simple Embodied Releases

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4:05

To-do list and how to let tasks go...

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5 My business Big Rocks and also my to-drop list

1:58

For Solopreneurs – To-Drop vs Truly Productive List

To Do Lists

At least several times a week, practice clearing your to-do list and feeling great having done everything you planned!

2:25

Why do you keep a To Do list?

2:25

Remember to CCC

3 Occasional Clearing of To-Do List when you're overwhelmed

13:25

Occasional Process of Clearing of To-Do List -- when you're overwhelmed

2:00

Why we have trouble estimating time for tasks

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7:47

Daily To Do List clearing process