 I'm George Cao, and I am excited to announce the 2022 Joyful Productivity Coaching Program. So let me tell you what this is, and I'll even give you a quick outline of what we're going to cover in the program. So as many of you watching this know, I have been talking about how to build authentic businesses for now many years. And one of the key aspects to business success is consistency. Have you noticed? Because when you're not consistent, it's really hard to build an audience and to also build the skills that allow you to deliver value to your audience reliably in a way that they would be happy to pay for. So the challenge with consistency, I find that a lot of people have, is that they are in resistance, two issues. One is they are either not clear about how to prioritize their time. Maybe you've had this experience. You show up to your computer or however you work, and you're not really sure what's the most important thing to be doing. You might just be doing some admin tasks or responding to email, but you're not really sure if it's moving your business forward. So part of this program, the Joyful Productivity Coaching Program, which by the way, you're going to see the acronym TLC. When you go to the program description page, you will see TLC because that's sort of the short name of the program. It stands for Thoughtful Life Calendar. And the purpose of the program is to kind of help you by the end of the program have a really clear, prioritized calendar that is designed to help you step by step build your authentic business and to have a really friendly and supportive and gentle relationship to your calendar so that you don't resist, you don't have, you know, you don't, you know, overwhelmed with anxiety and procrastination and perfectionism when you approach your priorities and your calendar. Because here's the thing, without a structure and a system, as you probably have experienced, I have certainly for many years before I started doing this, without a structure or a system like a calendar, a thoughtfully prioritized calendar that's aligned with your goals and your values and your style of working. Without that, we tend to just flail around and we don't really make progress in our business because no matter how much we want to imagine what our life should be like and what we want our business to be like, there's the real world. You know, you have your inner world and there's the outer world. And the challenge for most of us heart-based business owners is to meld the two. To really, yes, we create from within, but we create that vision. We clarify the values. We source that energy that allows us to work, hopefully work in joy, but that's the inner work, which of course we will talk about in the program as well, which leads to the outer work of the day-by-day supportive structure and system where you can see yourself, the evidence of yourself continuing to make progress bit by bit by bit. So the program, so back to this idea of why consistency is such a challenge for so many of you. It used to be a challenge for me, but not anymore since I have become quite expert at the story for productivity thing, but why is it such a challenge? Why is consistency a challenge? Because one is you might not be clear about your strategy, your priorities, that kind of thing. So we will be covering that generally in the program of where, you know, this is not to be clear. This TLC is not a program where you're gonna learn how to do Facebook ads or you're gonna learn what your offer is, how to clarify your offer. This program is more about the calendar side of things and the inner work to relate to the calendar with more productivity. So, but we will, we can and we will cover the overall gist of the priorities that you might have in your business that might fit into your calendar, but then the challenge is a consistency. It's like once you are clear that, okay, I got it. I'm going to create content that builds an audience. I'm going to do the market research that creates a compelling offer that people would love to buy from me. Once you're clear about the overall strategy, then are you being consistent in doing it? I see that many people don't. Like people, I see this year by year by year, like people might take my specific classes about how to clarify their offer or how to create content or how to do networking or how to distribute their content to a lot more people, how to do search engine. They might take my specific classes on these kind of like business skills, but then they're not consistent in applying it. They're not, they just, you know, they might consume the class and maybe you have this experience. You know, you take a class, it's enjoyable, hopefully. You feel like you learned something, but then you don't do it consistently. That is the common issue that I've seen in so many of you, which is why this program, I have such a passion around it, thoughtful life calendar, TLC. Some of you just might know it as joyful productivity. So consistency, okay. So consistency creates greater skill, which leads to the great results that you're looking for. But the problem of why you're not consistent is you haven't found a joyful way into consistency. This is why I talk about joyful productivity. And that's the secret is if you can find a joyful way into a daily consistency, you've got it made. Because then you can figure everything else out because you're consistent at doing the work of building your business. Instead of being, you know, pulled here, being pulled there by your whims and your desires. Oh, this shiny object. Oh, that thing, I should try that thing to be consistent again and again in doing the things that you understand, the strategies at work to be consistent day after day is what builds your skill, the audience, the value that you add to the world. And therefore, not surprisingly, the income and the fulfillment that you have from doing your work. So let me go ahead and share my screen to show you more of the specifics of what we're gonna be covering in the program. I just put this together today and I'm excited to share this with you. So let me go ahead and bear with me here. I'm gonna share my screen in just a moment here. All right, here we go. Okay, so here are, thank you, sorry for the scrolling fast here. Here are the various topics that I'm gonna cover. I'm not gonna read everything to you because you can hopefully see this on the screen yourself. But I'm just going to highlight a couple of things. One is gentle ambition. This is how I think about productivity differently than a lot of the mainstream guidance and the videos out there about hustling and working out, working everybody else. And imagine being a millionaire, a billionaire or whatever it is that the ambition that tends to be very ungrounded and can even cause quite a bit of stress or like disbelief in oneself, okay? So gentle ambition is the process that we're going to, I'm gonna teach to you and we're gonna continue working. And one of the things I'll say about the reason why I put this program together, it's one year of practicing together. That's the key. To be consistent, if you're not yet consistent, it means that you probably need a structure and it's so helpful to have a structure that you're together with others who are also following the structure so that you have kind of training wheels so that by the end of the year you can take off the training wheels and be consistent going forward. So it's a year of practicing together in the structure that I've created for us. It's weekly calls. So it's a half hour weekly call in your time zone. There are two different calls each week, two different time zones. And it's a half hour call and the call will either be a lesson I'm teaching you that week to really help you to hone some particular skill that I'm guiding you through, such as gentle ambition or how to capture a categorized calendar or how to deal with overwhelm or how to overcome resistance and get a flow process or how to clear your email inbox regularly. Yes, I have a zero inbox on a regular basis even though I get probably more emails than most of you here. So every week you'll either get a very digestible lesson. These are all live calls that you get to interact with me. So I'm either teaching you live and all these are of course recorded for you so you can watch them again and again going forward. So I'll be teaching either half hour teaching session each week or half hour Q and A session where you bring your questions and your challenges in implementing things. We also have an optional Facebook group. It's not required, but for those of you who enjoy Facebook and want to interact there, that's optional. Or if you want to ask questions outside of Facebook that's possible by asking your questions underneath the videos. The videos are hosted on YouTube, but they're unlisted. So nobody can find them except those who are in the program itself. But you can comment underneath those unlisted videos and I will respond to you as well. If there are more questions than can be covered in the Q and A calls, I will be creating additional Q and A calls for the program members to address questions like that. So we'll also be covering things like decluttering your computer and workspace. Yes, how to organize your information. I have a framework called organizing by deliverables which I will teach you. How to work more lightly. This is something I've noticed a lot of my students and clients when they first start to work with me, I noticed that they're working with such intensity and such, yeah, it's harshness on the body. And so I'm gonna teach you and we'll practice together how to work more lightly. So the way that you work is much more sustainable and joyful because with joy comes consistency, with consistency comes skill, and with skill comes results, right? Of course, I will also be giving you my recommended amount of time for the various business areas, basically how to prioritize the time, your schedule and your business. Of course, you'll be able to modify that plan based on your goals and we can do more Q and A around that, of course, based on your needs. We'll talk about how to start the day and end the workday. A lot of you don't have a very effective end of workday ritual, I've noticed. So we'll talk about that specifically. How to clear your to-do list every day. And this lesson alone has been life changing for the people who participated in this program last year or this past year. Let's see, I will share with you how to create your hat manuals. What's a hat manual? A hat manual is basically because as a business owner, you wear different hats in your business. Sometimes you are a writer, sometimes you are a coach, sometimes you are an administrative person in your business, maybe you're doing some planning or some bookkeeping or whatever. Every hat that you put on needs to have a manual. A manual doesn't have to be very complex. It can be simply a single document that where you track very specifically what it is you're doing in that role so that it's clear to you so that you don't have to always be scrambling and have to reinvent the wheel so much. So this has also been transformational for a lot of the people. I'm also, I'm excited that this year's TLC program is gonna include how I use Zapier to automate the various tasks in my business. This has saved me so much money and headache over the years. Zapier is a software. I pay Zapier just with $20 a month, $20 a month. I mean, come on. I think it's 20 or $25 a month. It's like having an assistant 24 seven that does things perfectly and you could connect your various softwares and processes in your business so that you don't have to always be doing repetitive things. So I'm gonna teach you how to use it. So I'm spending at least three sessions on it because now I'm gonna teach you step-by-step how to use it. So even this alone, I think it's gonna be worth the price of admission for a lot of you. So if you are interested, I hope you will take a look at the program description page, which will give you... So if you are watching this video, you'll probably bring you to this particular blog post and at the bottom of the blog post is the link to the program description page. And on there, you can read about the time, exactly what you're gonna receive, et cetera, et cetera. So I look forward to hearing if you have any questions for me about the program. And even if you don't sign up for the program, I hope you got something out of this video by understanding that the key to consistency of action is to find your joyful process. So whatever it is you're not consistent with, what is it? Is it writing? Is it doing outreach? Is it creating offers? Is it sending email newsletters? What is it that you're not consistent with that you know that if you were only consistent with it, you'll probably have a lot more clients, at least over time. So whatever it is you're not consistent with, your work at this time is to find a joyful process into that action. And if you can design a joyful process into that action, whether you do it with me in our TLC program or whether you do it on your own or whether you have a coach already or a friend that you can talk with to work with, how do I find a joyful process into this? If you find a joyful process into it, then you're not gonna be dreading it every time you see it on the calendar or see it on your to-do list. Even the process of clearing your to-do list every day, you might need to find a joyful way into it. So that's the secret. If you can develop a joyful way for every process you need to be consistent with, then bit by bit by bit you are bringing more and more and more joy into your day-to-day work. And by doing that you become more and more consistent and by doing consistent work, you become more and more skillful. And by becoming more skillful, naturally you'll have more and more of the results because people can see you clearly adding value, making their lives better with the things you're putting out there. So adding value comes from being skillful. Being skillful comes from being consistent. Being consistent comes from finding a joyful way into each action, each process. So I hope this helps. And if you have any questions, I look forward to answering it below in the comments below. And I'll answer a couple of the common questions about this program, right? One is it's meant to be a year-long program, but some of you saying, George, I noticed there is a month-to-month payment option. What if I can I join a month-to-month payment option and if the program is not right for me, can I cancel and just having paid for one, two or three months or whatever? Yes, of course, I don't want anybody in the program who is not enjoying it. I only want people who are enjoying it. So if you're really unsure about this thing, well, if you're really unsure, I would say don't join honestly because that's a pretty good sign. But if you're like 80% or 70% sure that this is right for you, then yeah, you might want to join on the month-to-month payment plan. And then if it's really not right for you, 30% chance it's not right for you and it's not, then sure, you can cancel. Of course, I'm not gonna keep taking your payments, but just know this, this is important. I'm going to, because people who join the program get the full archives of whatever I've already taught, right? Like if you join the program in month four or five, you get the benefit of all the archived recordings that I've done. I am gonna raise the price every month for the month-to-month payment. It's only fair because so that whatever month you join, by the end of the 12 months, by the end of the year, you have paid approximately the same as the people who joined in the beginning. So just know that it's probably a better idea to join sooner. So at least the month-to-month payment is smaller in the beginning. Anyway, so that's how I'm doing it just to make it fair for everybody, right? It's like, if someone can't join in month nine and get all the archives and just pay a little bit, that's it, that's it. So anyway, the price is gonna go up a little bit every month, allow you to test it as a result. And if you don't like it, you can cancel. But please do try to set an intention that I'm gonna do this for a year. I'm just gonna stick with this for a year and practice together with George and the group. What if you are only a part-time worker in your business? Will this be valuable? Of course, especially if you're a part-time worker, then this program helps you to set your schedule in a very efficient and effective way. How large is the group for the weekly half-hour sessions? So like I said, there are two types of sessions. There's the teaching sessions and then there's the Q&A sessions. The teaching sessions, it's actually great for more people to be there because there's more interaction in the chat, it's more exciting, there's more ideas being shared. The Q&A sessions, some people really love having a lot of people there, but like I said, I will make sure that if there are too many people in the Q&A's and I'm not able to get to all the questions, I will create additional Q&A sessions for that time zone so that people feel like they're taken care of. So I will, anyway, looking forward to your questions below and perhaps as programmers of interest. And if not, I hope this video is at least has had some beneficial effect on you for understanding consistency of action. Thanks so much and I'll see you soon.