The Wrong Way to Manage Your Time
If there is one thing I have learned about focus and time management over the years, it is that how we spend our time and energy is an ever moving target.
Continue Reading ›On Working From Home and Being Productive and Creative
Many of the best things about working from home serve as a double-edged sword. Here are some tips for being productive and creative when you work from home.
Continue Reading ›What Is the Ideal Structure for Your Work Week?
So what is the best way for a team (small or large) to structure their week? Well … it depends.
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 ›Meet Tyler Soenen
Tyler Soenen is an engineer, project manager, and avid outdoorsman living in Kansas City with his wife and their son. In the summer of 2015, Tyler signed up for The Focus Course. As he shares below, Tyler’s biggest challenge related to focus was to maintain clarity on what’s most important in his life and to
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.
Continue Reading ›How to Get Time For Your Projects
Between ideas, time, and focus, which do you have the most of?
Ideas, right?
We all have more ideas than time. Myself included.
Continue Reading ›Permission to be Creative — With Special Guest, Havilah Cunnington
Today’s podcast continues with our focus on Margin. And I’ve saved the best for last. Over the past several weeks we’ve covered so much ground: what margin is; why it’s important; how to get margin in our schedule, in our finances, in our creative energy, and so much more. For today’s podcast, I wanted to
Continue Reading ›Interview With Cal Newport: Deep Work and Focus
This is an episode of my podcast, Shawn Today, and I had the honor of talking with Cal Newport. Cal Newport is one of my favorite writers and thinkers. His book, So Good They Can’t Ignore You, was one of the most impactful books I read in 2015. And his brand new book, Deep Work,
Continue Reading ›Building Better Defaults for Your Time
If you have more ideas than time but more time than attention, the best way to keep the needle moving forward is to have smarter “defaults” for how your spend your time and energy. Here’s the how and the why…
Continue Reading ›