We’re Still Doing 8 Week Cycles With Sabbaticals
We’re coming up on four years of our eight week cycles. Some thoughts on our cycle cadence.
Continue Reading ›Closing Focus Course Registration
Just a quick housekeeping note to let you know that registration for The Focus Course will be closing on this coming Thursday, August 17. If you had been planning to sign up for The Focus Course in the near future, now would be the time to do it.
Continue Reading ›Why We Use Giant Post-it Notes as our Publishing Calendar
Post-it notes have become one of our favorite analog tools here at Blanc Media. Here’s how we’re using them as a publishing calendar.
Continue Reading ›A Few Mac Apps I use to Stay Focused
I was recently at my desk, and I leaned back in my chair and thought for a moment about the handful of apps I use on a regular basis to get the job done. And I figured that there is surely an app or two here that you could get some value from if you were to incorporate it into your own workflow.
Continue Reading ›The Value of Focusing on One Thing at a Time (Video)
There is significant value in having a clear goal, a single focus, and a deadline. When you have these things you work with greater efficiency, you produce a higher quality of work, and you have more fun doing so.
This is one of those things that we know in principle, but many of us do not actually walk it out. We take on every new idea we have, we say yes to too many incoming opportunities, and we just generally have too much going on at any given time.
Continue Reading ›How To Build Your Own Index of Notes and Ideas When Reading Books
This is something I learned from Maria Popova during her podcast conversation with Tim Ferris, and it’s simply brilliant. In the year since I began using Popova’s method for note taking, I’ve added a few additional components to my note taking.
Continue Reading ›The Blanc Media 8-Week Work Cycle with Sabbaticals
For 2017 we decided to trying something new here at the Blanc Media Global Headquarters. It’s an 8-week schedule with six weeks spent on focused work, a single buffer week, and then a week of vacation.
Continue Reading ›How and Why I Schedule Every Minute (Video)
On Scheduling Every Minute of The Day After breakfast, I sit down and schedule out my day. I literally schedule every single minute. It’s an activity that takes me about 5 minutes at the start of my day. When I’ve got that plan for how I’m going to spend my time, and what I’m going
Continue Reading ›The Basecamp Way To Work: Workshop Retrospective
This half-day workshop in Chicago had a massive impact on my approach to building a business, managing my time (and the time of those I work with), and more.
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