Each module centers around a specific theme. Each day you’ll be given a fun and simple task to complete along with a teaching lesson about the value, relevancy, and practicality of that day’s task. You can read your way through the course, watch the teaching videos, or both.

The days and modules build on themselves. The Focus Course has been meticulously and intentionally designed to lead you along the easiest and most impactful path. It starts out simple and fun and culminates in profound change and understanding.

What are the Focus Course Benefits?

The Focus Course offers the training you need to improve in productivity and time management, as well as your work-life integration and ability to focus on work that is important and meaningful.

The Focus Course introduces its students to many ideas and principles that have been proven to increase productivity and morale as well as overall quality of life.

What sets The Focus Course apart from other training material is the way it guides people in the implementation of these principles through small and simple action items they do each day (taking less than 15 minutes). This implementation strategy helps people go beyond head knowledge and into experiential knowledge — thus, helping bring about a more profound and lasting change.

There are a handful of specific topics and activities within the Focus Course that are particularly beneficial. These include:

Bias Toward Action (The Ability to Follow Through)

One of the greatest challenges for being productive is in bridging the gap between idea/task and action. The Focus Course places a significant emphasis on developing what we call “personal integrity” — which is someone’s ability to follow through on an idea, a task, or an assignment and see it through to the end. We do this by showing people how to reduce the activation energy required for common tasks, learning how to maintain a healthy amount of breathing room in their daily responsibilities, and in creating a daily schedule and routines that encourage getting things done.

Social Support and the Gratitude Principle

Studies done by Harvard professor Shawn Achor and his team show that when a person takes time to be thankful for somebody in their life by encouraging them, then the support of their (real life) social network is strengthened, and their overall sense of happiness is improved. When people are happier, they are also more creative and productive.

The Progress Principle

In studies performed by the Harvard Business School, individuals who take time to recognize their progress and celebrate small wins show an increase in productivity due to an increase in self-efficacy.

Ideation and Creative Thinking

Solution-oriented people are able to take more ownership of their time and attention, manage incoming requests, and think outside the box. Strengthening your team members’ “idea muscle” is a way to strengthen their creative imagination, which gives them confidence, and helps build momentum when working on projects.

Inbox Addiction & Urgency Addiction

Throughout the Focus Course, the topics of urgency addiction, inbox addiction, and margin for thought are emphasized, and students are given a picture for what these issues are, why they are important, and how to overcome them.

Discerning Between Urgent and Important

Do those in your office know the difference between what is urgent in the moment and what is truly important? Do you spend too much time working in a reactive state by responding to “fires” and “urgent requests” rather and thus you do not have enough time to work on the tasks and projects which are most important? The Focus Course dives into the principles of how to discern between what is urgent and what is important, how to define meaningful work, and how to do that meaningful work on a daily basis.

Through The Focus Course, we help people get organized and back in control of their time.

After going through the Focus Course, our alumni have more focus, more breathing room in their daily life, more ownership of their time, and are making progress on their most important goals.

The goal of The Focus Course is to help people grow in their practical skills and mindsets for better management of their time; to grow in their ability to navigate and prioritize incoming tasks; and to be more empowered to take ownership of their own "work-life integration" and to feel at liberty to live a healthy lifestyle in the office and out of it.

No calendar app or task-management app is going to help you establish the right foundation

If you want to stop spinning your wheels; if you’re tired of ending the day feeling like you didn’t actually get anything done; if you want to create work that matters; if you want to keep your work and personal life in balance… then you have to ask yourself some hard questions. You have to make changes.

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer

“The greatest wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.” — Peter Drucker

In addition to learning, each day there is a small action item — a simple (though not always easy) assignment. Through each day’s action, you’ll take the wisdom from the course and apply it in a practical way to the action and behavior in your everyday life. Learn by doing. Knowledge alone is not always enough to create lasting change.

This sets The Focus Course apart from every other productivity course, life hack, or self-help book. By taking the course, you will get real clarity about what actually works best for you.

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The Course Contents

Module 1 → Foundations: Personal Integrity; Encouraging Others; Recognizing Progress; Ideation & Creative Imagination; Reducing Distractions; Simplicity; Decluttering.

Module 2 → Honesty: Your Roles; Your Legacy; Your Values; Your Life Vision; Goals for Your Inner Personal Life; Goals for Your Physical Health; Goals for Your Relationships; Goals for Your Rest & Down Time; Goals for Your Vocation; Goals for Your Finances.

Module 3 → Clarity: How you spend your time; Routines for Inner-Personal Life; Routines for Your Physical Health; Lifestyle Practices for Your Relationships; Routines for Your Rest & Recreation; Routines for Your Vocation; Routines for Your Finances; Your Current Time Commitments; Time Budgeting Your Routines and MITs; Creating a Weekly Time Budget; Deeper Clarity.

Module 4 — Action → Resistance: Inbox Addiction; Urgency Addiction; Dealing with Distractions How to Eliminate or Delegate; How to Automate Common Tasks; Planning.

Module 5 — Meaning & Momentum: Finding Flow; Joy in the Journey; Creating Margin for Thought and Energy; Defining Meaningful Work; Community; Dancing with Fear; Conclusion.