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Waves of Focus - Guiding the Wandering Mind

8.3

(4 ratings)

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10 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

There’s too much to do, you’re drowning in your Inbox...what if there was a way out?

Hosted by

Kourosh Dini, MD

Clinical psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, Author

Course overview

Waves of Focus: Guiding the Wandering Mind

In this course, you will have exercises to get out from under the overloaded lists, chaotic desktops, and a sea of sticky notes to start guiding your powerful and creative mind to where you want it to go.

Who is this course for

01

You’ve been struggling with your attention, constantly fighting yourself rather than finding flow

02

You get lost chasing one inspiration after another, leaving a trail of incomplete things

03

You get into the flow of something and then lose track of other important commitments

04

Your relationships are burdened by needing to keep you on track


05

You find flow but don’t know how you get there


06

You fear taking on commitments because you can’t keep promises to yourself

07

Your inbox is constantly flooded

08

You’re open-minded about learning in an online class setting

09

You’re willing to put in some time and effort to watch the lessons, engage in the class, and practice the exercises


Topics covered

Anchor

Using the Anchor Technique, you’ll be able to more consciously decide what to do and when to stop.

Organize

Discover fundamentals of organization that work in physical, mental, and digital realms alike.

Raise Sails

Set up your environment to guide yourself into the things you need to do so you can get to the things you want to do.

Change Course

Design your environment so you can shift from one thing to the next. That way you don’t lose sight of the things you need to hold on to while also giving yourself permission to fully get into what you want.

Stay the Course

Discover ways to use the messages your mind tells you when doing “hard work” to decide if you want to continue or not.

Craft Messages

Give your Future Self a leg up with well-crafted messages. Convert tasks into realistic invitations.

Chart Distant Voyages

Further strengthen your Future Self so you can even start building habits where you may not have been able to before. Begin charting courses for distant voyages.

Clear Decks

Design your lists to be workable, engaging, and meaningful.

Restore

Having built structures with the previous modules, you can now take on the Inbox and more fully be the captain of your ship. 

8.3

(4 ratings)

See what people are saying

        "I wake up happy... The course has not only given me a few tools, but has actually given me the means to leverage those tools into a system that will allow me to process what really is almost 50 years worth of accumulated desires that are represented by reams of post-its, papers, notebooks, etc. which I’ve been carrying around."
Kirby

Kirby

        Kourosh I think you are on to something wonderful. This course does not tell one how to live their life but gives one the tools to figure out how to live with dignity. I needed to figure out how to get myself out of my chaotic existence. You presented the materials with respect to all, no judgements .
Student

Student

        It was a really great course! I loved the kind and gentle approach and the care of describing what having a wandering mind is like as a description and not a judgement. The philosophy and tools introduced here were and are incredibly helpful. I think about them and use them throughout the day.
Beverly

Beverly

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        The Anchor Pad and other techniques have been revolutionary.
Student

Student

Author title
        What especially enabled was being part of a group: recognizing that I had membership in a global tribe that shared this poignant condition, this procrastinating-not knowing how to bring into focus condition (whatever its causes), that we wrote and read about in the shared posts, that we shared on the screen.
Gurleen

Gurleen

Productivityist
        The premise of the class is grounded on presence. How simple but difficult for one to maintain. The course gives one a method on how to get back sane living after losing their way. Having an exact technique to gather up ones ideas, goals and actions is invaluable. The emphasis on being honest with ones self is an important part of this method.
Student

Student

        I loved the course.  As with most of your work you leave the student to make their own path. My guess is that your background as a psychiatrist leads you to provide information for people to be help themselves rather than you just giveing them the answer you think is the answer.
Scott

Scott

        What struck me with the cohort was what accomplished, brilliant and productive people identified with having a wandering mind and struggled with many of the same things I do. I learned so much from the others in our group. This approach seems like a basic life skill for me that I didn't get until now. Thank you!
Student

Student

        Waves of Focus met several needs for which I had long struggled to find resources. It helped me recognize the subtle emotional dynamics that not infrequently thwarted even my best-laid productivity plans. It helped me approach these challenges from a place of gentle awareness and accountability rather than paralysis, panic, or shame.
D

D

        After years of trying multiple time management methods and applications, I have finally started to improve my productivity thanks to this course. It teaches the basic concepts that can be applied to several systems (from pen and paper to fancy apps).
Juan

Juan

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Meet your instructor

Kourosh Dini, MD

Kourosh Dini, MD

As a clinical psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author of several successful productivity books and a self-paced course, I’ve built a series of exercises and best practices, with and without tools to help thousands of readers get to their goals.

But the fundamentals of a good solid system are sometimes not the issue. Several clients and readers would come to me, despite having put in their best efforts, having collapsed into an exhaustion of messy apps and lists. They felt they were unintelligent or weak.

“Why can’t I just focus?!” 

But it wasn’t about the system, and it wasn’t about intelligence.

In fact, working with clients like these directly, I often see strengths like creativity and intelligence go hand-in-hand with such problems. Instead, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not about being bright or using a particular tool or method.

In working through their systems, from simple to complex, we would often run into several common blocks to getting things on track.

I built this course to bring together the exercises that help a wandering mind not only find focus but to bring their inherent creativity into play.

Course syllabus

01

The Voyage - An Introduction to the Wandering Mind

A wandering mind is a powerful and creative mind. We’ll orient ourselves to these strengths and consider how we can begin building on them. We’ll outline the ideas and exercises that you’ll be learning and practicing along the way.

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The Anchor Technique

Knowing how to stop and start should be easy, right? Not really. And definitely not when you have a powerful creative mind. The playful mind hardly likes being told what to do, whether that’s from someone else or yourself. By using the Anchor Technique, you’ll be better able to make clear decisions as to what you want to start and stop.

03

Organizing – Pillars & Foundations

Knowing is rarely enough. More than explore the fundamentals of organizing, we need to consider our motivations to do so. We’ll apply the principles of organizing to simple objects, but these foundations will reverberate throughout the rest of the course.

04

Changing Course - Maps & Lighthouses

Reminders are a great way to create a mess. Each tries to shout louder than the next one to get your attention. It can be quite easy to brush them off without even realizing you’re doing so. By knowing the principles of the mind’s momentum, you can start creating meaningful guides so when they appear, you not only see them but you welcome them.

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Engaging - Raising Sails & Making Visits

You don’t have to wait for a deadline to do something. Getting into something is not about forcing yourself. Faking deadlines never seems to work. But there are ways to bring yourself to work or play that is genuine. By learning the natural waves of your mind’s ability to engage, you’ll be honest with yourself and still make things happen.

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Staying on Course

Hard work doesn’t have to be a misery. In fact, by knowing how to pay attention to your reactions, you might even find that moment where the work changes from “hard” to “neat puzzle”. When something falls into the right window of challenge, the sails align and you’re often off and flying with the wind.

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Distant Voyages

Too often, a trail of unfinished projects and ideas can follow in your wake. It can be a struggle to keep track of what you have been doing and what you'd like to get to. Learn to create a structure that lets you keep an honest conversation going between Past, Present, and Future You. Doing so will help you to choose and guide your day.

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Crafting Messages - Tasks & Lists

Writing something down is more than just getting it off of your mind. It’s about setting up your Future Self for success. Having the skills to craft your ideas well gives you a tremendous advantage and makes the likelihood of something actually getting done.

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Clearing Decks – Buckets & Overflow

Overflowing lists, unread emails, and more are regular sights for the Wandering Mind. With the skills learned throughout the course, we can now apply methods to begin clearing them and getting powerful tools like an Inbox back into the fold.

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Graduation

Bringing it all together, we’ll review all we’ve learned. We’ll also attempt a settling exercise that incorporates the entire course’s fundamentals. With it you can create the conditions for a settling flow anytime you feel the urge.

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Active learning, not passive watching

We’ll build each component, one at a time. At every step, you’ll be able to engage, bring up what has and hasn’t worked for you, and practice the skills.

Learn with a cohort of peers

Throughout the course, you’ll be engaged in a discussion with a group of like-minded individuals, all interested in guiding themselves. Any challenges you are facing are quite likely faced by others willing to find a path forward together. The classroom can provide a unique environment to begin and strengthen a path forward together.

Accountability and Feedback

You’ll have a direct connection over regular meetings where you can report back on your work. One of the useful levers for those with wandering minds is that of accountability. When you have somewhere to report to and a time to be there, you’re that much more likely to engage and make things happen.

Additional Benefits

The building and exercising nature of the course means that, at any point, you can always pull back to rebuild more fundamental levels. In fact, it needs to happen for any real mastery to occur. Mastery, after all, does not simply go in a straight line. The course lays out building from the fundamentals to advanced tactics so you know exactly where to return and rebuild.

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Schedule

  • Thursday, October 8th

    4:00 - 5:30 pm Central Time

    The first session of the course.

    Module 1 - The Voyage: An Introduction

  • Mondays - Live Sessions

    4:00 - 5:30 pm Central Time

    • October 10 - Anchoring
    • October 17 - Organizing
    • October 24 - Changing Course
    • October 31- Raising Sails
    • November 7 - Staying on Course
    • November 14 - Distant Voyages
    • November 28 - Crafting Messages
    • December 5 - Working Through

  • Thursdays - Live Q&A & Implementation

    4:00 - 5:00 pm Central Time

    • October 13
    • October 20
    • October 27
    • November 3
    • November 10
    • November 17
    • November 28
    • December 8

  • Monday, December 12

    4:00 - 5:30 pm Central Time

    Graduation

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