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🌱 The Joyful Productivity Course
Welcome!
13:10
Course Platform Orientation
Bonus Q&A Webinars -- Live Support Calls
🎁 2 Months Access to Work Retreats
6:37
꩜ Spiral learning
The Joyful Productivity Self-Assessment
6:33
Why it matters
🙌🏾 Progress thread -- share how you're growing 😊
Some motivation to get you going 👟
54:10
19:24
🧘🏻♀️ Developing Consistency and Discipline, and moving through resistance...
15:42
Befriending your calendar 🤗
19:04
Parkinson's Law & building a viable business...
✨ The Energy Reboot: Why & How
53:46
22:00
Creating a deep sense of ease as a foundation for joyful productivity -- sustaining your efforts toward a viable business
15:46
The essence of joyful productivity - the Energy Reboot - and what it's done for me...
4:40
The Energy Reboot (sample exercise)
2:09
What sources of wisdom informs your spiritual practice?
9:11
How do you remind yourself to keep returning to your own energy reboot?
🎹 Deliberate Practice
44:12
19:15
What is Deliberate Practice and my background with it
8:25
Resistance to deliberate practice 😅 and ADHD
12:35
The Deliberate Practice Template
2:06
Overwhelm with too many sub-skills...
0:24
Deliberate Practice Reflection Prompt
1:27
It's an ongoing practice :)
Well-Being
25:56
25:56
🥰 Well-Being Practices
💪🏽 Habit Creation
11:44
6:17
Habit Creation
5:27
Tracking your habits consistently
Morning Review 🌞
27:15
27:15
🗓 The Morning Review + Energy Adjustments ✨
Co-Working
32:00
26:04
⏱ 25-minute Work Session, in the mode of of Joyful Productivity ✨
5:56
Focusmate -- George Kao Community
Weekly Planning -- Part 1 -- The Basics
59:37
26:55
Plan with CARE, Stamina, and Multiple Calendar Modes
9:28
Minimum Business Time
4:04
How much time to allocate to your projects and tasks?
9:03
Do you schedule "screw the schedule" times? Re: Sabbaths and Vacations...
The power of routine
5:14
Rest before you need to
4:53
The importance of practicing the BREAKING of flow...
Time Logging / Tracking - A Practice of Awareness
28:42
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
1:24:33
24:02
Detailed Weekly Planning
11:58
Examples of Calendars -- including George Kao's own weekly plan
10:15
What if your stable calendar needs to change?
2:54
Notice your energy throughout the day and schedule mindfully...
20:01
Managing calendar while making space for client appointments and unexpected meetings...
4:41
Putting open client spots in Google Calendar without blocking off that time in your appt scheduler
(Optional) Planning Your Business Time
(Optional) To-do list vs Calendar: detail & quick capture vs. coordination of categories for action
6:36
(Optional) why switch to Digital calendar instead of Paper agenda or physical calendar?
4:06
(Optional) Creating color blocks on google calendar
Overwhelmed... "I'm just not cut out for this!"
19:46
4:56
The factors needed for success in any field...
7:07
"Feeling very overwhelmed and defeated..."
4:45
"I'm just not cut out for this... I'm not you, George."
2:58
"One step at a time..."
Unwinding & Quick Breaks
53:16
24:01
Unwinding throughout the day...
6:15
Design your Quick Break routine
2:36
After a break, getting back into momentum...
2:09
You are already doing enough 🥰
12:09
(Optional) Creative Tension & why we can't create fulfillment without some "strain" thus unwinding...
6:06
(Optional) Unwinding when you are running errands...
CCC: Capture, Categorize, Calendar
40:56
27:08
Capture, Categorize, Calendar
10:09
When should you categorize and prioritize your ideas?
3:39
(Optional) The 4th "C" to Capture Categorize Calendar...
Organizing by Deliverables + Decluttering Your Desktop
32:26
8:00
Organize Information by Deliverables... not by Knowledge Base
11:28
When you have so many notes to gather & integrate to create a book, course or program...
3:03
Clear your desktop regularly...
1:30
Empty your computer trash occasionally...
But what about Learning Notes (e.g. from Books & Courses) including from this course? 😆
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
25:21
12:26
(Optional) Further discussion about organizing our learning
6:47
(Optional) Organizing Client Notes -- brief discussion of strategy for this
6:08
(Optional) Quick tips about using Google Docs and Drive to organize a launch
Hat Manuals
57:53
34:02
What is a Hat Manual and how to create one?
3:08
Hat Manuals vs Project Documents
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
12:14
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
Your Start-of-work Ritual
1:10:46
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
2:05
What to do next? Life's silence is beckoning you forward...
11:51
How to prioritize our work time? DIVE into PLAN -- framework for working well
10:10
Why I always work with a timer (and questions about it)
Working Lightly Part 1
41:53
8:00
Working Lightly -- a Primer
28:08
Approaching your work more lightly so that you have stamina to succeed rather than burnout...
5:45
(Optional) Energetics of meetings w/ clients or students -- leaning back metaphorically, letting them lead their own transformation
(Optional) Quantity vs Quality
15:19
10:30
Quantity vs Quality in Content and Offers
4:49
Will people stick with you through lower-quality content and offers?
Transitions / Context Switching
29:03
22:52
Transitions, Context Switching, and Segmenting Work
6:11
Transitions from meetings to "by yourself" types of work
Managing Overwhelm
29:42
2:29
An Overwhelming To-Do List? Time it, Trim it, Transform it..
11:07
My essential tool for managing overwhelm: Temporary Constraints 🚦
7:37
Example of resetting from overwhelm by quickly writing down...
4:15
Tool for overwhelm: one step at a time
4:14
Allow more organic timelines for yourself...
(Optional) More guidance about Overwhelm
41:45
41:45
(Optional) -- In-depth exercises for dissolving Overwhelm
Creating Healthy Boundaries
32:36
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 🔖
59:53
9:27
Intro to the Browser Efficiency Module...
1:44
Browser Shortcut -- Zoom in or out -- easier to read!
2:12
Browser Shortcut -- Go to left or right tab, or last tab
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
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
1:42
Close your browser tabs to make your internet faster! :)
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
38:41
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
7:12
EXERCISE -- truly working deeply
How will you remember to truly work deeply?
9:38
Dealing with tech challenges 🤷🏻♂️ with less frustration, a bit more sacredness & Spirit 😄
Following Your Calendar (Productivity Integrity)
1:00:41
6:50
Repair your relationship to your calendar...
23:51
Repairing our relationship to our timers... 1-minute exercise x3
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 ✨
24:11
7:20
How to work lightly with tech challenges?
6:38
Frequent Energy Reboots
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)
26:56
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
26:52
8:10
The importance of Inbox Zero
4:36
Begin with inbox zero -- takes only a few minutes!
14:06
The ongoing 7 steps for inbox zero
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!
26:58
6:23
The importance of practicing Letting Things Go (and it's not forever - out of sight out of mind for now)
10:01
Start with your 3 Big Rocks
4:31
Simple Embodied Releases
4:05
To-do list and how to let tasks go...
1:58
For Solopreneurs – To-Drop vs Truly Productive List
To Do Lists
28:02
2:25
Why do you keep a To Do list?
2:25
Remember to CCC
13:25
Occasional Process of Clearing of To-Do List -- when you're overwhelmed
2:00
Why we have trouble estimating time for tasks
7:47
Daily To Do List clearing process
What if your tasks/projects seem to be *all* Big Rocks... no sand? How to prioritize?
Come to my Q&A
The EADA method -- how to do less by analyzing your regular tasks
23:24
10:28
First list out regular tasks & evaluate enjoyment, expertise, effect...
11:08
Then do the EADA process -- Eliminate Automate Delegate Appreciate
1:48
Find someone to do EADA with 🤗
Search tips
14:05
2:43
Don't organize so much -- learn to search well instead
3:56
Label your files & folders with more keywords
1:54
When searching, press enter or return to see many more results than only the suggested ones
2:07
Then add in one or more keywords to the search...
3:25
Then filter the search...
Working Lightly Part 3 -- Necessary For Success 😄
22:43
7:47
The shocking realization of what it takes...
5:21
Therefore, Work in Versions...
9:35
OK to embarrass yourself now 😅 because your future audience will be so much bigger...
Archive / Even More Optional Lessons :)
6:01
Manage Your Trances -- Conscious Living / Time Blindness 😑
6:01
How I find joy in the discipline of creating consistently...
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