Jeffrey Keefer - George Kao Courses

Jeffrey Keefer

🔤 ABC

I am an Educational Strategist & Eco Mindfulness Guide.

I offer insightful and practical acts of nature-based mindfulness tailored for busy professionals. My approach is designed to seamlessly integrate into your demanding schedules, bringing a sense of calm and environmental connection to your daily life.

I serve busy professionals and adult students navigating the complexities of modern life. They are individuals committed to their education and work while harboring a deep-seated concern for the environment. My clients are acutely aware of the challenges posed by technology and its impact on the natural world and are seeking sustainable, mindful practices to integrate into their hectic lives. They value personal growth and environmental stewardship and are driven by a desire to live more harmoniously with nature, even in a digitalized world.
They seek guidance and strategies to achieve:

A sustainable balance between their professional, educational, and personal lives.
A deeper connection with the environment, understanding its profound impact on their well-being.
The ability to make impactful, eco-conscious choices that do not compromise their professional and educational goals.

Through our collaboration, clients find renewed energy, a stronger sense of purpose, and practical ways to integrate eco-consciousness into their daily routines.

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Practical and Informal -- I split my time between New York City and Paris, France. I am a trained spiritual director. I teach research process and methodology at New York University. I take an annual week of solitary retreat and silence to hike the Camino de Santiago (usually along an extended path in France), and I love to read fantasy novels while writing poetry about our engagement with the environment. Voila for my humanity!

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Email - jeffrey@jeffreykeefer.com

Website - https://jeffreykeefer.com/

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@jeffreykeefer

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreykeefer/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/JeffreyKeeferConsulting/

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I am an Educational Strategist & Eco Mindfulness Guide.

Active 8d ago Joined 22 Jun 2022 Liberty (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

George Kao STAFF Ⓜ️ MasterHeart 🔤 ABC

Nov 22, 2024 01:52pm in 2024 ABC Masterheart Staff Announcements

Final survey -- fill this out by Dec 10 to receive 2 course credits for 2025!

Dear ABC-Masterheart Members who are not continuing into the 2025 program,

Kindly fill out this survey by December 10 and you'll receive 2 course credits for any of my courses in 2025 🎁

Those who are continuing -- I look forward to our work together next year! Don't fill out the survey above. You'll automatically get an additional 2 credits in mid-December, along with the credits you'll already be receiving for next year :)

I look forward to serving you better in the future 😊

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Jeffrey Keefer 🔤 ABC

Great; I did not fill it out then!!

2mo ago

Fi Kahani 🔤 ABC

Dec 7, 2024 12:21pm in 2024 ABC Masterheart 🧰 Helpful stuff! (Resources)

What accounting software do y'all use?

So we were using QuickBooks and then somehow it turned into a giant nightmare. I don't think we're making enough to hire an accountant. We started to set up another QuickBooks account. Then they told us that our card kept getting declined which doesn't make sense because I've used it for other purchases. Plus I just really hate quick books.

We just tried Freshbooks but apparently any credits have to be added manually. They only track expenses. Which isn't going to work at all.

Does anyone use anything else that can pull information for when taxes are filed?

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Jeffrey Keefer 🔤 ABC

I also use Quickbooks Online. I tried Freshbooks but some things were missing there at the time (perhaps with inviting an accountant in and also with the ability to track or exclude expenses for taxes or bring in all external accounts?) but QBO was a bit tough to get my head around, I have an accountant who helped me with categories and classifications and such and then I meet with him now 2-3 times a year to review I categorized everything correctly. Once I got the setup, I no longer have that chest pain every time I open it.

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2mo ago

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Jeffrey Keefer 🔤 ABC

I have found that taking or leading 2-hour work retreats is a wonderful opportunity to focus. I am not terribly fond of the randomness of working with people on FocusMate, as I find being paired with somebody I do not know with a video on for an hour or so to be awkward. George’s space here for Work Retreats feels much safer and more aligned with my approach to work.

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4mo ago

Dipanshu Rawal 🔤 ABC

Sep 14, 2024 04:24am in 2024 ABC Masterheart 🧰 Helpful stuff! (Resources)

Anyone else building something on skool?

Skool offers an insane amount of value right now.

When you join their paid plan, as a community creator for $99/mo, you get access to monthly Q/A with Alex Harmozi, and previous q/a recordings too.

I've been watching those sessions, and OMFG it's so valuable, so deep, and so useful - everything around money, business, sales, pricing, etc.

I honestly didn't know I could access that goldmine for such a cheap price, even if I don't create a community. But yeah, I'm creating something too.

I thought not everyone in ABC would be aware of this too, so sharing it here.

Also, anyone else building something on skool?

I'd love to have a conversation about strategies and stuff.

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George Kao Ⓜ️ MasterHeart 🔤 ABC

I know someone intimately who's building 2 things on skool 😄 JoyPro and Authentic Speaking

I'm a big fan of Hormozi, ever since you encouraged us to watch something by him! I even put together a YT playlist of my favorite hormozi videos.

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4mo ago

Dipanshu Rawal 🔤 ABC

@George Kao Ok, first of all - 😂😂😂

The more I watch Harmozi videos, especially now the Q/A segments from skool games - I'm already seeing sooo much value! It's fascinating!

4mo ago

Jeffrey Keefer 🔤 ABC

@Dipanshu Rawal This is a fantastic start to your new initiative. Thanks for sharing and inspiring us!

4mo ago

Dipanshu Rawal 🔤 ABC

Sep 16, 2024 11:14am in 2024 ABC Masterheart ❓ Questions

How do you create these graphics?

@George Kao do you use any AI tool or only canva? any templates?

These fonts look so fun and cool. Specifically the 3 I circled in the screenshot.

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George Kao Ⓜ️ MasterHeart 🔤 ABC

@Dipanshu Rawal @Fi Kahani I use ideogram.ai for all of them! I'll record a tutorial about it on one of the Thursday Q&A calls (probably this week) and will share with you :)

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4mo ago

Jeffrey Keefer 🔤 ABC

@George Kao @Dipanshu Rawal I tried Ideogram a few weeks back as they seemed to have a new update, and while the live looking images they created were fantastic, I really wanted to use them for images with text on them, and could not find a way to have images look like good quality with the text that somehow never came out right together. I did not mind paying for their plan, but could not find a way to get both pieces to work well together.

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4mo ago

George Kao STAFF Ⓜ️ MasterHeart 🔤 ABC

Sep 5, 2024 02:16pm in 2024 ABC Masterheart Staff Announcements

ABC forum (and rest of my course site) is now on the "new experience" -- thoughts? :)

As you'll notice when you log into https://learn.georgekao.com (ignore the ugly homepage, I'll correct it) the whole membership site is now running on Simplero's "new experience".

What do you think of it?

Visit and try out the ABC forum again and let me know how you like it :)

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Jeffrey Keefer 🔤 ABC

My initial, 5-second thoughts -- wow, they must have changed the program they contract from or hired a new developer. Looks very different in a good way. More like Skool (thoug Facebook changes so often and is so bloated I have trouble following things there). Tell them to keep this up!!

It is nice to be able to attach files and videos as well.

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5mo ago

Everything is optional - skip pages, segments, chapters, modules that aren't interesting to you!

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Most important? Everything is optional 😄 Skip lessons & modules that aren't interesting to you!

Orientation for George Kao's Courses - How to Engage with the Lessons

You're welcome to simply come to a Q&A call, and tell me your situation (briefly) and ask me my recommended next step :)

Torill Fjæran-Granum

As a teacher and autistic person I feel this video is mindblowing! I have always been a linear rule follower, and to understand this - that everything is optional, is a game-changer to me! Who would know I would learn something so fantastic at 65 years of age! I thank you!

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5mo ago

Jeffrey Keefer 🔤 ABC

@Torill Fjæran-Granum This is fantastic learning and thanks for sharing for us! Ironically, we need to have permission for us to make decisions on how to handle something we freely choose to buy and use (or NOT to use!!). However, you are right in that many of us have been rule followers, and sometimes those rules, such as this one, can get in the way of our getting what we need. Kudos on this!!

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5mo ago