The premier training for goal setting, time management, habit building, and productivity.

There are many productivity and goal-setting courses out there... A few things that make Focus Course Live different:

1: Our 4-Focus Method that makes it simpler and easier to stay focused on the most important things of your life, without getting bogged down in the weeds.

2: The step-by-step process we walk you through that bridges the gap between the important goals you have in your life and your daily habits and schedule.

If you are a creator or leader who wants to uncomplicate things, get clear on what matters, and finally have the breathing room to focus, then Focus Course Live is for you.

You can benefit from the full value from Focus Course Live in just a few hours per week ... and do so without having to memorize some new complicated system or implement a bunch of new tactics.

The next live-online cohort will begin September 8, 2023. Don't miss out.

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Focus | fo•cus

Noun: Maximum clarity.

Verb: Bring something into alignment.

Verb: Direct one’s attention on something.

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So much of the advice out there for "productivity" or "habits" or "time management" offers the wrong advice to the wrong person at the wrong time.

There are two big problems with bad productivity advice:

For one, it wastes your time. You try to implement some new habit or routine, only to discover that it's not for you.

Secondly, most advice out there treats the symptom instead of addressing the root problem at hand.

Despite the insane volume of “productivity advice” good people everywhere are still trying to wrap up their week without feeling overwhelmed at life and pissed-off at their task list.

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When you lack focus and clarity, it’s a challenge to stay on track and do the things that matter most.

There are two conversations regarding focus and productivity. I like to call them The Weeds and The Clouds.

These two conversations will always lead to one another.

1. Whenever you "get into the weeds", and talk about the details of how to do things or what tools to use, people will always want to know "why".
And, vice-versa... whenever you get into big-picture strategy and vision, people will always ask about "how" to actually get it done.

This is a big reason why so much productivity advice is just not helpful. Most advice offers one or the other (the How or the Why), but usually not both.

But you need both. You must know the WHY just as much as the HOW.

The Why is your life’s purpose, your values, and your big goals.

The How is your schedule, your daily habits, and your to-do list.

• Goals without habits are just wishes.
• Habits without goals are just random acts of focus.
• You must combine your goals with your habits if you want to see the true power of a focused life.

That is one of the reasons why people walk away from the Focus Course with such massive breakthroughs: You will get the complete system of both the Why and the How.

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Something that makes Focus Course Live different is the action-centric approach. You will learn a ton of theory and wisdom that's surrounded by action. Throughout the course you'll be able to take the wisdom you are learning and apply in your everyday life.

Focus Course Live paces you in such a way as to make things fun and simple for you. The whole process is guided — all you need to do is show up.

After completing Focus Course Live, you will have: a vision for your life; clear goals for the areas of your life; more control of your time each day and an ability to keep things in a healthy balance; the tools you need to make progress over the long run and not fizzle out.

You will walk away with clarity on the values that will drive your goals, your time, and even your habits.

• Take the guesswork out of goal setting.
• Make drastic improvements to your time management.
• Restore that much-needed breathing room and margin to your life
• Hands-on coaching and accountability from Shawn Blanc and team (in order to help you make sure you get things right).

If you are a leader, a creative entrepreneur, a stay-at-home parent, a working parent, a retiree… all of these folks and more have gone through the Focus Course with tremendous results. It’s amazing how liberating it is to have clarity on where you want to go and know the necessary steps for how to get there.

Leaders and Entrepreneurs

When you are struggling to manage your time and focus it’s frustrating. It hinders you from doing that which only you can do, and so you’re never able to get the traction you need.

In our experience, we’ve found that most leaders don’t need more time (a resource which cannot scale), they need more focus.

As a participant of the Focus Course Live, entrepreneurs and leaders will walk away with a clear framework they can use on a daily and weekly basis to free up their time and improve their focus, ensuring they are giving their attention to that which only they can do.

Creative Professionals

Do you struggle to get in the zone and do your best creative work? Do you wish you had more hours of uninterrupted time? Does it feel as if your schedule is at war with the creative work you are trying to do?

As a creator and knowledge worker, your work ethic is not about the number of hours you put in. Rather, it’s about the quality of your focus during those hours. This is constant struggle. We know. We’ve been there. And we can help.

Productivity Nerds

The Focus Course offers a unique and highly-effective framework for how to manage your time, build habits and routines, and set goals.

We find that most productivity advice is directed toward the superficial. Which is why we do things upside down, placing significant emphasis Personal Integrity and clarity of your core values.

As someone who is already familiar with productivity, you already know how to wrangle your calendar and task list. Which means you are primed to experience a massive and sustained improvement to your own productivity systems thank to the fresh ideas you will get during the Focus Course Live.

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When you’re over toward the left on the “un-focused” side of things, you don't feel in control. It's stressful. You don't feel like there is any breathing room. And you're so frequently responding to the urgent issues of others that you lack any clear plan forward.

However, when you are on the “focused” side, you are very much in control. You have clear goals and you have the time and energy you need to meet those goals. You are far less stressed and anxious than your reactive counterpart. You're thriving.

A lack of control and no clear focus may already be costing you far more than you know.

Are there areas of your life that don’t get the attention you want them to? Of course there are. And it’s easy to get stressed out about it.

When our actions and behaviors don’t line up with our vision and values, it can cause stress and frustration. We feel tension when we find ourselves spending time on things we don’t really want to be doing, yet we feel helpless to do anything else.

You know what’s awesome? When your actions and behaviors align with your vision and values.

There’s a huge misconception that says you should be giving your full attention to every area of your life. Well, if you’ve ever tried, you know it’s just not possible.

There is no way you can deploy your full attention to your health, your relationships, your finances, your career, your personal hobbies, and your inner personal life all at the same time.

You and I only have enough mental and emotional strength to focus on just one, maybe two areas of our life at a time. Like really focus on them. The other areas simply can’t get our full attention.

And but so, what do you do with those other areas of your life? You certainly don’t want to leave them out in the cold — you can’t just ignore them.

The secret is in a little thing called routine.

By establishing healthy habits and routines for every area of your life, then you’re able to keep them on track even without giving them your full attention.

It’s a way to keep all of your life on track and in balance, no matter the season. It’s a way to ensure you’re not giving an unhealthy amount of time to one area at the detriment to the other areas of your life.

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Think about some of the most accomplished and successful people you know.

Not in terms of the most well-off or well-known. I mean, who are the people you look up to as mentors and role models? Who do you know that has it all together?

Do you notice how they always know what’s next for them? They’ve got something they’re working towards, and they always seem to get things done.

They have a confidence and motivation that is more than just a personality type. Because it’s a confidence based on focus and clarity. They have a direction and know how to get there.

Good news! Diligence and focus are not a personality type. Focus is a skill you can learn (and continually improve).

And that’s exactly what I teach you in The Focus Course. You will walk away with the ability to focus on the areas of life that matter most to you, while still maintaining a healthy balance in the others. This is how the most successful people maintain breathing room in their daily life while also being so prolific and productive.

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Margin: How to shift from overloaded to breathing. The necessity of breathing room and margin, and the only two approaches that work to restore it.

The 5 Components of a Focused Life: The overarching framework of The Focus Course.

The 4-Focus Method: My simple flywheel that I use to stay perpetually focused and productive in every area of life — for big projects and areas of responsibility, all the way down down to the small tasks each day.

Schedule-Value Fit and how to spend your time on more of the right things more often.

The 8 Laws of Focus and how to use them maintain your clarity and your direction.

What motivates you: balancing the roles in your life with your core values; drafting out your life's mission.

The Ownership Matrix: A tool that helps you cut back on the tasks and activities that are pulling you away from the more important things so you can eliminate or delegate your low-level tasks, and double down on the important things that only you can do.

Personal Integrity: The critical ability everyone needs in order to keep commitments to themselves and follow through with their goals and routines.

Success Strategies: How is it that focused people get (most of) the right things done day after day (most of the time)? (Hint: We don't get it perfect every day all the time. But we have a way to stay on track, even when we lose motivation or have a bad week.)

A simple task and time management approach that keeps you on track and can work with any type of app, tool, or schedule.

Cornerstone Habits and the connection between your big, desired outcomes and your small, daily actions.

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Look. There is so much knowledge and advice out there. There is no shortage of information.

The shortage is with implementation and application.

It is difficult to go through all the best books, blog posts, think pieces, and podcasts and then dig out the main ideas and apply them to your life.

Don't waste your time trying to be this person:

The easiest (and fastest) path forward is to be guided.

This is what the world's best performers do. They don't get coaching because they're too lazy or stupid to figure it out on their own... The exact opposite — they get guidance because they have better things to do with their time; they are hungry to excel in life.

Focus Course Live is the fastest path forward for you. You will be guided through all the steps you need to take and be shown how it all fits together in your life.

You can get a clear head amidst the craziness. You can thrive in the midst of the tensions of life. But the answer is not in a methodology, system, or app.

To spend your time creating meaningful work goes far beyond white-knuckle focus or ripping your internet cable out of the wall.

You don’t have to solve the tensions of life before you can create something of value. Meaningful productivity means consistently giving your time and attention to the things which are most important.

You can do work that matters, build momentum in your personal integrity, establish habits that stick, bring a healthy balance between your work and personal life, and re-define what you think of when you say productivity. Learn about your own lifestyle, the way you work, what your values are, and more.