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Welcome!
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Here is the link to the orientation...
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General Questions -- ask here
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Bonus Q&A Webinars -- Live Support Calls
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Joyful Productivity βπ½ Work Retreats to give you time to learn & implement the course!
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κ© Spiral learning6:37
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The Joyful Productivity Self-Assessment
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Why it matters6:33
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ππΎ Progress thread -- share how you're growing π
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Some motivation to get you going π
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π§π»ββοΈ Developing Consistency and Discipline, and moving through resistance...19:24
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Befriending your calendar π€15:42
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β¨ The Energy Reboot: Why & How
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The essence of joyful productivity - the Energy Reboot - and what it's done for me...15:46
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The Energy Reboot (sample exercise)4:40
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What sources of wisdom informs your spiritual practice?2:09
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How do you remind yourself to keep returning to your own energy reboot?9:11
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Well-Being
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π₯° Well-Being Practices25:56
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πͺπ½ Habit Creation
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Habit Creation6:17
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Tracking your habits consistently5:27
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Morning Review π
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π The Morning Review + Energy Adjustments β¨27:15
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Co-Working
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β± 25-minute Work Session, in the mode of of Joyful Productivity β¨26:04
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Focusmate -- George Kao Community5:56
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Weekly Planning -- Part 1 -- The Basics
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Plan with CARE, Stamina, and Multiple Calendar Modes26:55
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Minimum Business Time9:28
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How much time to allocate to your projects and tasks?4:04
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Do you schedule "screw the schedule" times? Re: Sabbaths and Vacations...9:03
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The power of routine
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Rest before you need to5:14
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The importance of practicing the BREAKING of flow...4:53
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Time Logging / Tracking - A Practice of Awareness
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Time Logging Time Tracking Intro7:52
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Time logging - how to remind yourself5:28
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Clarify an uplifting ritual for your time logging...5:10
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Auditing our time log - questions to ask to improve your model calendar...10:12
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Weekly Planning -- Part 2 -- Advanced
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Detailed Weekly Planning24:02
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Examples of Calendars -- including George Kao's own weekly plan11:58
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What if your stable calendar needs to change?10:15
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Notice your energy throughout the day and schedule mindfully...2:54
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Managing calendar while making space for client appointments and unexpected meetings...20:01
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Putting open client spots in Google Calendar without blocking off that time in your appt scheduler4:41
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(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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(Optional) why switch to Digital calendar instead of Paper agenda or physical calendar?6:36
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(Optional) Creating color blocks on google calendar4:06
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Overwhelmed... "I'm just not cut out for this!"
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The factors needed for success in any field...4:56
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"Feeling very overwhelmed and defeated..."7:07
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"I'm just not cut out for this... I'm not you, George."4:45
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"One step at a time..."2:58
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Unwinding & Quick Breaks
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Unwinding throughout the day...24:01
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Design your Quick Break routine6:15
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After a break, getting back into momentum...2:36
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You are already doing enough π₯°2:09
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(Optional) Creative Tension & why we can't create fulfillment without some "strain" thus unwinding...12:09
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(Optional) Unwinding when you are running errands...6:06
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CCC: Capture, Categorize, Calendar
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Capture, Categorize, Calendar27:08
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When should you categorize and prioritize your ideas?10:09
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(Optional) The 4th "C" to Capture Categorize Calendar...3:39
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Organizing by Deliverables + Decluttering Your Desktop
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Organize Information by Deliverables... not by Knowledge Base8:00
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When you have so many notes to gather & integrate to create a book, course or program...11:28
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Clear your desktop regularly...3:03
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Empty your computer trash occasionally...1:30
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But what about Learning Notes (e.g. from Books & Courses) including from this course? π
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Do I store video files somewhere?4:34
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Basic system to organize all your important information...3:51
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(Optional) Additional tips about Organizing by Deliverables
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(Optional) Further discussion about organizing our learning12:26
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(Optional) Organizing Client Notes -- brief discussion of strategy for this6:47
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(Optional) Quick tips about using Google Docs and Drive to organize a launch6:08
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Hat Manuals
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What is a Hat Manual and how to create one?34:02
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Hat Manuals vs Project Documents3:08
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Routine is boring -- how to make it interesting so you can be consistent?8:28
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Hat manuals should keep evolving...5:41
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How I organize my Hat Manuals6:34
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(Optional) Google Docs for Hat Manuals
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Use Google Docs' heading styles for easily clickable document outline...9:15
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Google Docs headings - how to set default styles?2:59
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Discussion βπ½
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Structure vs. Freedom
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Your Start-of-work Ritual
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Pep talk - why it's important to create a start of work ritual...7:12
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Creating your Flow Process for dissolving Resistance to working on what you planned26:54
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What to do next? Life's silence is beckoning you forward...2:05
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How to prioritize our work time? DIVE into PLAN -- framework for working well11:51
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Why I always work with a timer (and questions about it)10:10
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Working Lightly Part 1
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Working Lightly -- a Primer8:00
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Approaching your work more lightly so that you have stamina to succeed rather than burnout...28:08
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How to work lightly with tech challenges?7:20
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(Optional) Energetics of meetings w/ clients or students -- leaning back metaphorically, letting them lead their own transformation5:45
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(Optional) Quantity vs Quality
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Quantity vs Quality in Content and Offers10:30
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Will people stick with you through lower-quality content and offers?4:49
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Transitions / Context Switching
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Transitions, Context Switching, and Segmenting Work22:52
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Transitions from meetings to "by yourself" types of work6:11
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Managing Overwhelm
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An Overwhelming To-Do List? Time it, Trim it, Transform it..2:29
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My essential tool for managing overwhelm: Temporary Constraints π¦11:07
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Example of resetting from overwhelm by quickly writing down...7:37
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Tool for overwhelm: one step at a time4:15
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Allow more organic timelines for yourself...4:14
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(Optional) More guidance about Overwhelm
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(Optional) -- In-depth exercises for dissolving Overwhelm41:45
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Creating Healthy Boundaries
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Checking social media too often? Ways to break your addiction and use the apps just enough...5:29
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Checking email too often? A few tips...5:29
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On Caretaking for others...10:39
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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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π©π½βπ» Browser Shortcuts + So Many Tabs! + Organizing Bookmarks π
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Intro to the Browser Efficiency Module...9:27
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Browser Shortcut -- Zoom in or out -- easier to read!1:44
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Browser Shortcut -- Go to left or right tab, or last tab2:12
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Browser Shortcuts -- New tab, Set homepage3:49
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Quickly open a specific Google Drive folder using a Chrome bookmark!1:21
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Bookmarks Bar -- How I organize mine15:37
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How to create and organize bookmarks / bookmarks bar4:44
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π· Rename your bookmarks & folders to save space in the Bookmarks Bar1:24
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Bookmark Folders: moving them around / opening several bookmarks at once3:49
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π§Ή Decluttering your bookmarks3:18
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Pin your frequently-accessed browser tabs1:32
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Close your browser tabs to make your internet faster! :)1:42
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An efficient way to clear browser tabs in Google Chrome2:00
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Google Chrome: use Task Manager to see which tabs drain the most energy and slow down your computer1:55
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Browser cache? No need to clear it.5:19
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Truly Deep Work
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Truly Deep Work -- reframing work as more than a means-to-an-end...17:10
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4 ways to reframe Work as worthwhile in itself4:41
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EXERCISE -- truly working deeply7:12
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How will you remember to truly work deeply?
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Dealing with tech challenges π€·π»ββοΈ with less frustration, a bit more sacredness & Spirit π9:38
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Following Your Calendar (Productivity Integrity)
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Repair your relationship to your calendar...6:50
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Gradually build up your productivity stamina & following your calendar2:55
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How do you remember to look at your calendar? Notifications and reminders / calendar habit3:40
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Strict, Lenient, Gentle... and Big Picture Perfectionism10:09
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TNT -- Trance, Next, Trust...2:42
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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 β¨
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Frequent Energy Reboots6:38
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Your spiritual practice vs your "work"3:15
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When not working lightly, where do you feel that in your body?1:53
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Change your seating position occasionally4:06
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How else might you work more lightly?0:59
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EOD Process (End-of-Day)
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Why it's important to have an EOD process4:23
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The EOD Checklist17:24
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When will you do your EOD process (and how long)?5:09
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Email Inbox Zero
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The importance of Inbox Zero8:10
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Begin with inbox zero -- takes only a few minutes!4:36
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The ongoing 7 steps for inbox zero14:06
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Archive or Delete?
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Beginner tutorials: how to use your gmail (and other software)
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More email tips
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Daily Practice β Youβre doing enough β let stuff go!
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The importance of practicing Letting Things Go (and it's not forever - out of sight out of mind for now)6:23
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Start with your 3 Big Rocks10:01
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Simple Embodied Releases4:31
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To-do list and how to let tasks go...4:05
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For Solopreneurs β To-Drop vs Truly Productive List1:58
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To Do Lists
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Why do you keep a To Do list?2:25
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Remember to CCC2:25
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Occasional Process of Clearing of To-Do List -- when you're overwhelmed13:25
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Why we have trouble estimating time for tasks2:00
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Daily To Do List clearing process7:47
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What if your tasks/projects seem to be *all* Big Rocks... no sand? How to prioritize?
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Come to my Q&A
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The EADA method -- how to do less by analyzing your regular tasks
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First list out regular tasks & evaluate enjoyment, expertise, effect...10:28
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Then do the EADA process -- Eliminate Automate Delegate Appreciate11:08
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Find someone to do EADA with π€1:48
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Search tips
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Don't organize so much -- learn to search well instead2:43
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Label your files & folders with more keywords3:56
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When searching, press enter or return to see many more results than only the suggested ones1:54
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Then add in one or more keywords to the search...2:07
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Then filter the search...3:25
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Working Lightly Part 3 -- Necessary For Success π
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The shocking realization of what it takes...7:47
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Therefore, Work in Versions...5:21
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OK to embarrass yourself now π because your future audience will be so much bigger...9:35
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Archive / Even More Optional Lessons :)
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Manage Your Trances -- Conscious Living / Time Blindness π
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How I find joy in the discipline of creating consistently...6:01
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Soul Gym Members
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You'll get a new module every 2 weeks :)
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Spiral Learning π
Begin again...
I wish this could be true for you:
"I've watched this course... implemented the concepts that resonate with me... and now I'm forever joyfully productive!"
Instead, it is a series of practices that get clearer and stronger as you return again, and again.
So while you're waiting for more modules or pep talks:
May this course support your continuing growth into joyful productivity for many years to come ππΎ
Last updated 2 Jun 2023.