Waves of Focus
Guiding the Wandering MindWaves of Focus: Guiding the Wandering Mind is an online course and community that helps those who struggle with their focus regardless of system. Sometimes, it’s just not about a system. It’s about how to manage the natural rhythms within. Some engage deeply and lose sight of the world around them. Some fall into scatter. Others, struggle with lists, overflowing inboxes, and a cascade of unfinished projects falling off of every horizontal surface nearby.
Whether powerfully curious, lost in time, or caught in the currents of ADHD, consider joining Waves of Focus to:
- Study the exercises that will help you guide and harness the natural ability within.
- Learn techniques to start finding focus from scatter
- Manage the “I don’t wanna” sense that can leave you feeling helpless.
- Harness the natural processes of organizing to start forming a growing sphere of trusted support around you, rather than go through binges.
- Practice the release of momentum so you don’t lose sight of the world around, while also retaining the power of those deep flow states.
- Discover how to engage things that you might struggle with so that you’re not forcing yourself, but also keeping yourself accountable.
- Find ways to harness the daydreams and drifting off course to actually help you in your work and play.
- Practice building a guide that helps you connect the strong sense of the Now with the almost ephemeral sense of the Not Now.
- Begin creating lists and messages that are supportive, rather than onerous signs of defeat.
Being Productive
Simple Steps to Calm FocusBeing Productive - Simple Steps to Calm Focus is a video course that gives you exercises to find calmer focus at work and home. These fundamentals of productivity help you build a core system to help get you to where you want to go. Each of the 16 videos are about 5-10 minutes long, providing you with a clear and concise framework.
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● Learn exercises for finding relaxed, heightened attention.
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● Form useful habits gradually.
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● Learn ways to dive deep into work.
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● Build a simple trusted system.
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● Find calm even with due dates.
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● Take large projects along a path of mastery.
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● Integrates easily with most any productivity method or task system, though neither are required.
Workflow Mastery
Creating Meaningful Work from the Basics
For those who want a deeper dive, Workflow Mastery looks at the psychology and philosophy behind mastery and meaningful work. It examines how we can have vision, how we can organize meaningfully, and ultimately how we can forge conditions for our work and play. This one is probably best after you have a system of work in place.
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● Find a deep focus.
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● Make clear decisions with calm.
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● Organize meaningfully.
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● Guide technology, rather than be controlled by it.
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● Understand motivation.
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● Do what you feel is important without procrastination.
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● Master the universals of workflows to build your own unique system.
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● Avoid bouncing from one task to the next without getting anything done.
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● Build the foundations to develop mastery and meaningful work.
Creating Flow with OmniFocus
Powerful Task Management
Creating Flow with OmniFocus helps you build a system of work using the powerful task manager OmniFocus. Task managers become useful when pen and paper just isn't enough. In today's world, we can easily gather large numbers of commitments. When you need to stay on top of all of the ins and outs of your life, personal and professional, OmniFocus can become a powerful ally.
Please note: Creating Flow with OmniFocus was written with OmniFocus 3.0. While the principles of the book remain relevant, the app itself has since evolved.
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● Learn from the most basic to the most advanced concepts.
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● Build a trusted system and get things off your mind.
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● Create a streamlined singular workflow.
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● Take control of OmniFocus at a much deeper level by mastering perspectives.
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● Build a dashboard system to manage responsibilities and tasks easily.
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● Take on the projects you want to, knowing you have a way to do them day to day.
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● Grasp basic and advanced concepts of OmniFocus through real examples.
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● Gain mastery and integrate maintenance tasks, new tasks of the day, as well as larger projects.
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● Have daily tasks and year long projects rest easily side by side.
Taking Smart Notes with DEVONthink
Powerful Idea Management
Taking smart notes with Devonthink gives you the foundation to build your ideas and store your digital life. Learn to use Devonthink as a powerhouse app for your ideas, references, and files, from the basics to the advanced, one step at a time.
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● Build an idea system so you can get to them when and where you want.
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● Use DEVONthink’s powerful AI to discover connections between ideas, references, and more.
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● Learn how DEVONthink can manage a wide array of file types, including texts, emails, videos, PDFs, RSS feeds, and more.
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● Build smart groups to hone in on what you want.
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● Create a foundation of notes and their connections.
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● Learn from the most basic to the most advanced concepts.
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● Learn how to write a paper, post, or otherwise using your own ideas, rather than a blank page.
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● Take advantage of DEVONthink’s filing and workspace features.
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● Grasp basic and advanced concepts of DEVONthink through real examples.
Video Game Play and Addiction
A Guide for Parents
Video games play a growing role in children’s lives, raising questions for parents about healthy use and potential risks. In this primer, psychiatrist and gamer Kourosh Dini, MD, offers a balanced psychological look at video gaming’s benefits and drawbacks.
Video Game Play and Addiction equips parents with practical insight to navigate what’s safe—and what isn’t—in today’s gaming world.
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● Gain an understanding of the allure of video games.
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● See how video games can provide positive growth.
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● Learn what to consider in assessing for addiction or problematic play.
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● Understand the draw of community and social networking within game worlds.
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● Consider the future of society and video games.
Choosing a Therapist
Streamline the choices
Someone seeking therapy may feel overwhelmed by countless approaches, with no clear starting point. If even therapists lack a full overview, it’s unreasonable to expect individuals to confidently evaluate options. Choosing a Therapist is a short guide that helps the user consider the important factors that go into choosing a therapist for one’s self.
