Waves of Focus - Guiding the Wandering Mind
8.3
(4 ratings)
10 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
There’s too much to do, you’re drowning in your Inbox...what if there was a way out?
8.3
(4 ratings)
10 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
There’s too much to do, you’re drowning in your Inbox...what if there was a way out?
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Hosted by
Kourosh Dini, MD
Clinical psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst, Author
Course overview
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.
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
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You’re willing to put in some time and effort to watch the lessons, engage in the class, and practice the exercises
Using the Anchor Technique, you’ll be able to more consciously decide what to do and when to stop.
Discover fundamentals of organization that work in physical, mental, and digital realms alike.
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.
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.
Discover ways to use the messages your mind tells you when doing “hard work” to decide if you want to continue or not.
Give your Future Self a leg up with well-crafted messages. Convert tasks into realistic invitations.
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.
Design your lists to be workable, engaging, and meaningful.
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)
Kirby
Student
Beverly
Student
Gurleen
Student
Scott
Student
D
Juan
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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4:00 - 5:30 pm Central Time
The first session of the course.
Module 1 - The Voyage: An Introduction
4:00 - 5:30 pm Central Time
4:00 - 5:00 pm Central Time
4:00 - 5:30 pm Central Time
Graduation