The Focus Course

Margin is so important because having that breathing room in your life is healthy. You need margin in your schedule, in your finances, and in your relationships. You need breathing room for your creative energy. Margin helps you show up every day to do and focus on your best creative work. And much more. Sometimes,

In this podcast episode, I’m joined by very special guest, Corbett Barr. Corbett is the co-founder and CEO of Fizzle, an online business training resource plus community for indie entrepreneurs. In the show, Corbett and I discuss building an audience, building an online business, doing your best creative work over the long-run of a decades-long

In his book, Deep Work, Cal Newport states that as our information economy grows, there is an ever-increasing advantage for knowledge workers who are able to focus. His Deep Work Hypothesis is this: The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our

I love how David Allen says that you can’t actually manage time. If you start with 5 minutes, there’s no way to manage it well enough that it will turn into 6 minutes. What you can do is manage how you spend your time. Which is more like time stewardship — because you alone are