Busy to Productive: Master Your Time and Priorities

What's inside

1. Level 1: Where Does Your Time Really Go? The Time AuditFree
   You'll track how you actually spend your hours for a week, so we can swap guesswork for real data about where your time goes.
2. Level 2: From Values to Goals to PrioritiesFree
   You'll link what matters most to you to a few clear goals, then turn those goals into priorities that can guide your choices each day.
3. Level 3: Urgent vs Important: The Eisenhower Matrix
   You'll sort your tasks into four boxes by urgency and importance, so you can see why urgent things keep crowding out the work that matters, and where this simple grid falls short.
4. Level 4: Capture Everything: Getting Things Done in Outline
   You'll learn the core of David Allen's Getting Things Done method: capture every commitment in one trusted place, then clarify each item into a concrete next action.
5. Level 5: Plan Your Week and Run a Weekly Review
   You'll build a short weekly routine to review your list, clear out loose ends and choose the few outcomes that will make the coming week a success.
6. Level 6: Daily Planning and Time Blocking
   You'll turn your weekly plan into a realistic daily plan by giving important tasks their own blocks on your calendar, with buffers for the unexpected.
7. Level 7: Estimating Tasks Honestly
   You'll find out why we nearly always underestimate how long things take, and learn practical ways to make your estimates, and your plans, more honest.
8. Level 8: Focus: Deep Work, Pomodoro and Single-Tasking
   You'll try three ways to protect your attention: Cal Newport's deep work, Francesco Cirillo's Pomodoro Technique of timed work intervals with short breaks, and plain single-tasking. You'll also see when each one fits best.
9. Level 9: Taming Distractions and Notifications
   You'll map what pulls you off task, both outside interruptions and inside urges, and change your devices and surroundings so focus becomes the easy default.
10. Level 10: Getting Email and Messages Under Control
    You'll stop living in your inbox by processing email and chat messages in batches, with clear rules for what you reply to, what you file and what you turn into a task.
11. Level 11: Making Meetings Worth the Time
    You'll learn to judge whether a meeting is needed at all, and how to make the ones you keep shorter, clearer and focused on outcomes.
12. Level 12: Beating Procrastination: How to Start
    You'll learn why we put things off, which often comes down to dodging uncomfortable feelings rather than laziness, and practise simple ways to just get started.
13. Level 13: Working With Your Energy and Breaks
    You'll match your tasks to your natural energy peaks and dips, and see why proper breaks, sleep and movement make you more productive rather than less.
14. Level 14: Saying No and Setting Boundaries
    You'll learn to protect your priorities by turning down requests politely, negotiating your commitments and setting clear limits at work and at home.
15. Level 15: Delegating Well
    You'll work out what to hand off and to whom, and how to brief people and follow up so that delegated work gets done properly, at work and at home.
16. Level 16: Digital Tools and AI Assistants, Kept in Their Place
    You'll set up your calendar, to-do app, notes and an AI assistant so they support your system rather than become it, and see where AI planning help is useful and where it falls short.
17. Level 17: When Productivity Backfires: Burnout and Keeping Going
    You'll spot the signs that productivity habits have turned into pressure or burnout, and learn how to slim your system down to a level you can keep up for the long haul.
18. Level 18: Final Challenge: Build Your Personal Productivity System Exam
    You'll bring the whole course together by designing, running and reviewing your own complete productivity system, from your time audit right through to how you'll keep it going.

Access

The first 2 levels are free with a free account. Every level, the podcast edition and the AI tutor come with All Access at £4.99/month or any Creator plan — see pricing.

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