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Start loving Mondays! Courtney, Blake, and Verbs give you practical tips and proven strategies for increasing your focus so you can be more productive than ever before. Based on the proven Full Focus method used in the Full Focus Planner™ they'll help you banish distractions and get the right stuff done so you can start loving Mondays again. They also speak with guests and listeners who share their own productivity tips to help you make the most of every day. It's the most productive podcast ...
Business Bootcamp Podcast is made for small business owners. My name is Mike Andes. I started college at the age of 13 with full intention of going to medical school. I went to school for an MBA and now I own a landscaping company, an Anytime Fitness gym, and 3 online businesses. I share my highs, lows, and experiences being an entrepreneur. You can learn from my mistakes and identify with the day-to-day struggles of a small business owner. Call in or ask a question online and get concrete a ...
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Idea2Actions hosted by award-winning creative marketing consultant Greg Davis is a podcast designed to help creative professionals turn their idea into actions that can help them pursue their dreams. Entrepreneurs, Artists, Musicians and Dreamers benefit from the creative marketing strategies, coping tools and action oriented discussions taking place each week on Idea2Actions podcast. Greg Davis has spent the past 25 years specializing in creative marketing strategies in the music industry, ...
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The Elite Advisor Blueprint®: A Podcast for Financial Advisors
The Elite Advisor Blueprint® is a podcast dedicated to sharing the "blueprint for success" in the independent financial advising world. Based on Brad's decade of experience consulting the top advisors in the US, that could mean doubling your revenue, doubling your vacation, or BOTH! Continuing the successful formula of idea sharing that led Advisors Excel to be the #1 player in its industry, Brad distills the best advice from top thought leaders and applies it to the world of independent fin ...
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Marketing Your Business - Marketing Strategies for Business Owners
Marketing Your Business is a podcast dedicated to all things marketing. It’s a behind the scenes look at the marketing tactics and strategies that lead to a loyal following, growing sales and a business that gives you (the business owner) more freedom in your everyday life. Each episode will be short, punchy and packed with takeaways to help you get what you have, in front of a lot more people. It’s about leveraging your marketing to build a business that is high in profit, low in stress and ...
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Know Your Enemy: Defeating Your Productivity Obstacles
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The old saying "Know Your Enemy" is derived from Sun Tzu's book, The Art of War - a Chinese military treatise that dates back to the fifth century BC. While it's doubtful that Sun Tzu had your Daily Big 3 in mind (but, maybe he did), we can use that ancient advice to battle the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving our goals. Courtney, Blake…
The “messy middle” is a place where we’ve come too far to go back but we can’t yet see what’s up ahead - and it’s normal. In fact, if you haven’t hit the messy middle yet, you probably will soon. The messy middle is typically where we feel we’ve hit the end of our own resources. It's at this moment that you have to start getting creative and asking…
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2 Reasons to Trade Remembering for Writing
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Let's face it: We have a tendency to be overconfident about what we can remember. We think we'll remember the important ideas from that meeting or the date of that event or the email that you have to send. By simply relying on our memory to get us through our lives, we put some of our most important goals and priorities at risk. Blake, Courtney, an…
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Using Your Enneagram Type to Maximize Your Planner
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Understanding your personality type is a helpful tool to unlocking ways to become more productive and satisfied. Of course, the Full Focus Planner is a great tool for everybody, but in this episode, we break down every Enneagram personality type and how you can leverage the planner to achieve your best results. Courtney talks with Terrie Power. Ter…
This is the last episode in our three-part look at the Weekly Preview. We previously talked about the Weekly Big 3 and the After Action Review. Our focus this time is on planning the upcoming week. This is the moment where you take all of the lessons learned from your After Action Review and combine those with the Weekly Big 3 tasks that you've alr…
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Better Together: Involve People to Boost Goal Achievement
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Because goals are something that we often set for ourselves, we forget that we don't have to achieve them alone. Reaching out to family, friends, colleagues, or mentors can provide you with valuable feedback and motivation that can push you through the messy middle and get to the finish line. But, in order to get that support, you have to be honest…
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Change Your Mindset & Accomplish Your Goals
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Megan Hyatt Miller, CEO of Full Focus, drops by to explain why your mindset is maybe the most important element of achieving your goals. You can do everything right when it comes to writing a goal. It can follow every step of the SMARTER Goal framework and it can be recorded down on your Goal Detail page in your Full Focus Planner. However, if your…
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Avoid Repeating Mistakes: Weekly Preview Pt. 2
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As we continue our exploration of the Weekly Preview, this week we turn our attention towards the After Action Review (AAR). Completing your AAR is a critical step in building momentum towards accomplishing your goals, but you have to make sure you think critically as you fill it out. In this episode, Courtney and Verbs talk you through the four qu…
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What Matters This Week?: Weekly Preview Pt. 1
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The Weekly Preview is essential to the Full Focus System and it's one of our users' favorite tools. In order to really dig into who and why it works, we're starting a three-part miniseries all about the Weekly Preview. First up: Setting your Weekly Big 3. While this actually happens at the end of your Weekly Preview, it is perhaps the most importan…
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The Best Tip to Keep Goals Front and Center
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We’re well into January and might be starting to feel some friction on our goal journeys. After a couple of weeks of the new year, good intention and effort alone are no longer enough to see your goals through. Now is the perfect time to let your processes and strategies carry you forward so you can build some momentum. Verbs and Courtney talk abou…
So, you have your goals set and you've figured out what the next steps are to help you start moving towards those goals. What's next? Well, now is the time to start focusing on the foundational tool of the Full Focus Planner: The Daily Big 3. Even if you've used your planner for years, it's always good to refresh your memory and build upon your own…
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Start with Simple: Building Goal Momentum
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Happy New Year! It's 2023 and it's time to make sure that you've set yourself up for success. Every year, in order to start off on the right foot, it's important to take a step back and plan your year with some very simple actions that will build up speed and propel you all the way until December 31 with a list of completed goals. Courtney and Blak…
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Slow Down to Speed Up: Goal-Setting During Crazy Seasons
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Sometimes the quickest way isn't the best way. While it would be very fast to simply write a list of goals on December 31st and then just hope that they work out, the research proves that it's not an effective way to reach your goals. The Full Focus System is built on the idea that you have to slow down at the beginning (and periodically throughout…
So often the areas we want to set goals are areas we’ve tried to set goals before - and failed. We’ve become discouraged. We’ve lost hope. We don’t want to try again. Along the way, we’ve turned those "failures" into limiting beliefs. We say things like, "I simply can't reach that goal." But the truth is that it's the limiting beliefs themselves th…
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Give Me a Verb: The Grammar of Goal-Setting
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As a kid, did you ever wonder, "When will I need to know what a verb is?" Well, the answer to that question is: today. How you write your goals is a crucial element of your ability to achieve them. A poorly-worded goal can leave you feeling adrift and like you've failed. A correctly-worded goal not only helps you accomplish what you've set out to d…
Sometimes goal-setting can feel overwhelming. It can certainly feel like there are too many choices that you have to make before you can accomplish your goals. However, of all of the open questions that you need to answer, there is one that is more important than the rest. Blake, Verbs, and Courtney share that most important question, why it is so …
While the holiday season is wonderful, it can also disrupt all of the routines and rituals that you've spent all year developing. With more family, more events, more time with friends, more gifts, more meals - there's seemingly not enough time to devote to pursuing your quarterly and annual goals. When there's so much "more" happening in our lives,…
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Cultivate Gratitude Naturally & Combatting Workaholism
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The research tells us that gratitude makes us both happier and healthier. With that in mind, it's easy to say, "Okay. I'll just be more grateful then!" However, forced gratitude runs the risk of just being robotic. So, how do you create the feelings of gratitude without forcing it? Verbs, Courtney, and Blake provide you with two tips to help you in…
The question, "When you set your Daily Big 3?" is perhaps the most debated and most personal choice that every planner user has to grapple with. Should you set your Daily Big 3 during your morning ritual, the workday startup, your workday shutdown, or even the (apparently) controversial evening ritual? Courtney and Blake identify the four potential…
"You're a mixture of the five people you're closest to." That's how the saying goes at least. We believe that the same thing is true for the things that we pay attention to. The movies we watch, the books we read, the hobbies we participate in all change both who we are and who we will become. In today's episode, Courtney and Blake explore two tact…
Everybody loves a good costume - even your tasks! There are things we do every day that might feel like productive work, but they're actually tasks that are simply filling your time and keeping you from accomplishing the goals you've set for yourself. The question is: How can you tell the difference between actual productive work and the downhill t…
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Reclaim Your Time by Setting Simple Tech Boundaries
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The good news is that most smartphones now have built-in apps that will tell you how long you've used your phone and what you're using it for. The bad news is that people tend to avoid looking at the numbers. The reality is that everyday you probably spend hours on your phone - those are hours that could be used to accomplish the big goals you've s…
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#162: The Overlooked Key to Growth and Vision
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Journaling is the type of activity that most people seem to recognize would benefit them, but they don't know where to start. When do they write? And, more important, what do you actually write while you're journaling? In this episode, Courtney and Blake give you two questions that will jumpstart your journaling practice and get you going on the ri…
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#161: 2 Tactics to Finally Install Your New Habit
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If developing a habit were easy, then everybody would just snap their fingers and enjoy their life with their new awesome habit. However, that's not how it works. Developing any habit takes time and repetition. The goal is that a habit requires no decision-making so it frees up your mind to focus on the tasks and projects that will help you reach y…
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#160: Improving Your Ideal Week & Managing ADHD
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One of the most common questions in the Full Focus Planner Community is "How can I use the planner to manage my ADHD?" In this episode, we're giving you some initial thoughts to help steer you in the right direction. First, Verbs, Blake, and Courtney talk about three questions that you can ask yourself to help improve and streamline your Ideal Week…
