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  Welcome!

  • Here is the link to the orientation...
  • General Questions -- ask here
  • Bonus Q&A Webinars -- Live Support Calls
  • Joyful Productivity ✍🏽 Work Retreats to give you time to learn & implement the course!
  • ꩜ Spiral learning
    6:37
    
  • The Joyful Productivity Self-Assessment
  • Why it matters
    6:33
    
  • 🙌🏾 Progress thread -- share how you're growing 😊
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  Some motivation to get you going 👟

  • 🧘🏻‍♀️ Developing Consistency and Discipline, and moving through resistance...
    19:24
    
  • Befriending your calendar 🤗
    15:42
    
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  ✨ The Energy Reboot: Why & How

  • The essence of joyful productivity - the Energy Reboot - and what it's done for me...
    15:46
    
  • The Energy Reboot (sample exercise)
    4:40
    
  • What sources of wisdom informs your spiritual practice?
    2:09
    
  • How do you remind yourself to keep returning to your own energy reboot?
    9:11
    
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  Well-Being

  • 🥰 Well-Being Practices
    25:56
    
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  💪🏽 Habit Creation

  • Habit Creation
    6:17
    
  • Tracking your habits consistently
    5:27
    
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  Morning Review 🌞

  • 🗓 The Morning Review + Energy Adjustments ✨
    27:15
    
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  Co-Working

  • ⏱ 25-minute Work Session, in the mode of of Joyful Productivity ✨
    26:04
    
  • Focusmate -- George Kao Community
    5:56
    
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  Weekly Planning -- Part 1 -- The Basics

  • Plan with CARE, Stamina, and Multiple Calendar Modes
    26:55
    
  • Minimum Business Time
    9:28
    
  • How much time to allocate to your projects and tasks?
    4:04
    
  • Do you schedule "screw the schedule" times? Re: Sabbaths and Vacations...
    9:03
    
  • The power of routine
  • Rest before you need to
    5:14
    
  • The importance of practicing the BREAKING of flow...
    4:53
    
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  Time Logging / Tracking - A Practice of Awareness

  • Time Logging Time Tracking Intro
    7:52
    
  • Time logging - how to remind yourself
    5:28
    
  • Clarify an uplifting ritual for your time logging...
    5:10
    
  • Auditing our time log - questions to ask to improve your model calendar...
    10:12
    
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  Weekly Planning -- Part 2 -- Advanced

  • Detailed Weekly Planning
    24:02
    
  • Examples of Calendars -- including George Kao's own weekly plan
    11:58
    
  • What if your stable calendar needs to change?
    10:15
    
  • Notice your energy throughout the day and schedule mindfully...
    2:54
    
  • Managing calendar while making space for client appointments and unexpected meetings...
    20:01
    
  • Putting open client spots in Google Calendar without blocking off that time in your appt scheduler
    4:41
    
  • (Optional) Planning Your Business Time
  • (Optional) To-do list vs Calendar: detail & quick capture vs. coordination of categories for action
  • (Optional) why switch to Digital calendar instead of Paper agenda or physical calendar?
    6:36
    
  • (Optional) Creating color blocks on google calendar
    4:06
    
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  Overwhelmed... "I'm just not cut out for this!"

  • The factors needed for success in any field...
    4:56
    
  • "Feeling very overwhelmed and defeated..."
    7:07
    
  • "I'm just not cut out for this... I'm not you, George."
    4:45
    
  • "One step at a time..."
    2:58
    
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  Unwinding & Quick Breaks

  • Unwinding throughout the day...
    24:01
    
  • Design your Quick Break routine
    6:15
    
  • After a break, getting back into momentum...
    2:36
    
  • You are already doing enough 🥰
    2:09
    
  • (Optional) Creative Tension & why we can't create fulfillment without some "strain" thus unwinding...
    12:09
    
  • (Optional) Unwinding when you are running errands...
    6:06
    
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  CCC: Capture, Categorize, Calendar

  • Capture, Categorize, Calendar
    27:08
    
  • When should you categorize and prioritize your ideas?
    10:09
    
  • (Optional) The 4th "C" to Capture Categorize Calendar...
    3:39
    
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  Organizing by Deliverables + Decluttering Your Desktop

  • Organize Information by Deliverables... not by Knowledge Base
    8:00
    
  • When you have so many notes to gather & integrate to create a book, course or program...
    11:28
    
  • Clear your desktop regularly...
    3:03
    
  • Empty your computer trash occasionally...
    1:30
    
  • But what about Learning Notes (e.g. from Books & Courses) including from this course? 😆
  • Do I store video files somewhere?
    4:34
    
  • Basic system to organize all your important information...
    3:51
    
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  (Optional) Additional tips about Organizing by Deliverables

  • (Optional) Further discussion about organizing our learning
    12:26
    
  • (Optional) Organizing Client Notes -- brief discussion of strategy for this
    6:47
    
  • (Optional) Quick tips about using Google Docs and Drive to organize a launch
    6:08
    
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  Hat Manuals

  • What is a Hat Manual and how to create one?
    34:02
    
  • Hat Manuals vs Project Documents
    3:08
    
  • Routine is boring -- how to make it interesting so you can be consistent?
    8:28
    
  • Hat manuals should keep evolving...
    5:41
    
  • How I organize my Hat Manuals
    6:34
    
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  (Optional) Google Docs for Hat Manuals

  • Use Google Docs' heading styles for easily clickable document outline...
    9:15
    
  • Google Docs headings - how to set default styles?
    2:59
    
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  Discussion ✍🏽

  • Structure vs. Freedom
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  Your Start-of-work Ritual

  • Pep talk - why it's important to create a start of work ritual...
    7:12
    
  • Creating your Flow Process for dissolving Resistance to working on what you planned
    26:54
    
  • What to do next? Life's silence is beckoning you forward...
    2:05
    
  • How to prioritize our work time? DIVE into PLAN -- framework for working well
    11:51
    
  • Why I always work with a timer (and questions about it)
    10:10
    
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  Working Lightly Part 1

  • Working Lightly -- a Primer
    8:00
    
  • Approaching your work more lightly so that you have stamina to succeed rather than burnout...
    28:08
    
  • How to work lightly with tech challenges?
    7:20
    
  • (Optional) Energetics of meetings w/ clients or students -- leaning back metaphorically, letting them lead their own transformation
    5:45
    
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  (Optional) Quantity vs Quality

  • Quantity vs Quality in Content and Offers
    10:30
    
  • Will people stick with you through lower-quality content and offers?
    4:49
    
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  Transitions / Context Switching

  • Transitions, Context Switching, and Segmenting Work
    22:52
    
  • Transitions from meetings to "by yourself" types of work
    6:11
    
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  Managing Overwhelm

  • An Overwhelming To-Do List? Time it, Trim it, Transform it..
    2:29
    
  • My essential tool for managing overwhelm: Temporary Constraints 🚦
    11:07
    
  • Example of resetting from overwhelm by quickly writing down...
    7:37
    
  • Tool for overwhelm: one step at a time
    4:15
    
  • Allow more organic timelines for yourself...
    4:14
    
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  (Optional) More guidance about Overwhelm

  • (Optional) -- In-depth exercises for dissolving Overwhelm
    41:45
    
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  Creating Healthy Boundaries

  • 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...
    5:29
    
  • On Caretaking for others...
    10:39
    
  • When going on a long break or vacation, how to think about our Social media management as a solopreneur?
    10:59
    
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  👩🏽‍💻 Browser Shortcuts + So Many Tabs! + Organizing Bookmarks 🔖

  • Intro to the Browser Efficiency Module...
    9:27
    
  • Browser Shortcut -- Zoom in or out -- easier to read!
    1:44
    
  • Browser Shortcut -- Go to left or right tab, or last tab
    2:12
    
  • Browser Shortcuts -- New tab, Set homepage
    3:49
    
  • Quickly open a specific Google Drive folder using a Chrome bookmark!
    1:21
    
  • Bookmarks Bar -- How I organize mine
    15:37
    
  • How to create and organize bookmarks / bookmarks bar
    4:44
    
  • 🏷 Rename your bookmarks & folders to save space in the Bookmarks Bar
    1:24
    
  • Bookmark Folders: moving them around / opening several bookmarks at once
    3:49
    
  • 🧹 Decluttering your bookmarks
    3:18
    
  • Pin your frequently-accessed browser tabs
    1:32
    
  • Close your browser tabs to make your internet faster! :)
    1:42
    
  • An efficient way to clear browser tabs in Google Chrome
    2:00
    
  • Google Chrome: use Task Manager to see which tabs drain the most energy and slow down your computer
    1:55
    
  • Browser cache? No need to clear it.
    5:19
    
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  Truly Deep Work

  • Truly Deep Work -- reframing work as more than a means-to-an-end...
    17:10
    
  • 4 ways to reframe Work as worthwhile in itself
    4:41
    
  • EXERCISE -- truly working deeply
    7:12
    
  • How will you remember to truly work deeply?
  • Dealing with tech challenges 🤷🏻‍♂️ with less frustration, a bit more sacredness & Spirit 😄
    9:38
    
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  Following Your Calendar (Productivity Integrity)

  • Repair your relationship to your calendar...
    6:50
    
  • Gradually build up your productivity stamina & following your calendar
    2:55
    
  • How do you remember to look at your calendar? Notifications and reminders / calendar habit
    3:40
    
  • Strict, Lenient, Gentle... and Big Picture Perfectionism
    10:09
    
  • TNT -- Trance, Next, Trust...
    2:42
    
  • Successfully following your calendar is a suite of productivity skills to revisit...
    1:11
    
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  Working Lightly Part 2 -- A Lighter Touch ✨

  • Frequent Energy Reboots
    6:38
    
  • Your spiritual practice vs your "work"
    3:15
    
  • When not working lightly, where do you feel that in your body?
    1:53
    
  • Change your seating position occasionally
    4:06
    
  • How else might you work more lightly?
    0:59
    
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  EOD Process (End-of-Day)

  • Why it's important to have an EOD process
    4:23
    
  • The EOD Checklist
    17:24
    
  • When will you do your EOD process (and how long)?
    5:09
    
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  Email Inbox Zero

  • The importance of Inbox Zero
    8:10
    
  • Begin with inbox zero -- takes only a few minutes!
    4:36
    
  • The ongoing 7 steps for inbox zero
    14:06
    
  • Archive or Delete?
  • Beginner tutorials: how to use your gmail (and other software)
  • More email tips
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  Daily Practice – You’re doing enough – let stuff go!

  • The importance of practicing Letting Things Go (and it's not forever - out of sight out of mind for now)
    6:23
    
  • Start with your 3 Big Rocks
    10:01
    
  • Simple Embodied Releases
    4:31
    
  • To-do list and how to let tasks go...
    4:05
    
  • For Solopreneurs – To-Drop vs Truly Productive List
    1:58
    
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  To Do Lists

  • Why do you keep a To Do list?
    2:25
    
  • Remember to CCC
    2:25
    
  • Occasional Process of Clearing of To-Do List -- when you're overwhelmed
    13:25
    
  • Why we have trouble estimating time for tasks
    2:00
    
  • Daily To Do List clearing process
    7:47
    
  • What if your tasks/projects seem to be *all* Big Rocks... no sand? How to prioritize?
  • Come to my Q&A
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  The EADA method -- how to do less by analyzing your regular tasks

  • First list out regular tasks & evaluate enjoyment, expertise, effect...
    10:28
    
  • Then do the EADA process -- Eliminate Automate Delegate Appreciate
    11:08
    
  • Find someone to do EADA with 🤗
    1:48
    
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  Search tips

  • Don't organize so much -- learn to search well instead
    2:43
    
  • Label your files & folders with more keywords
    3:56
    
  • When searching, press enter or return to see many more results than only the suggested ones
    1:54
    
  • Then add in one or more keywords to the search...
    2:07
    
  • Then filter the search...
    3:25
    
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  Working Lightly Part 3 -- Necessary For Success 😄

  • The shocking realization of what it takes...
    7:47
    
  • Therefore, Work in Versions...
    5:21
    
  • OK to embarrass yourself now 😅 because your future audience will be so much bigger...
    9:35
    
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  Archive / Even More Optional Lessons :)

  • Manage Your Trances -- Conscious Living / Time Blindness 😑
  • How I find joy in the discipline of creating consistently...
    6:01
    
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  Soul Gym Members

  • You'll get a new module every 2 weeks :)
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  Spiral Learning 🌀

  • Begin again...