 Hi, I'm George Kow and I want to tell you about my online course, Georgeville Productivity. It's my favorite topic to teach out of all the classes that I create and teach. This one is my favorite one. And I think it's my favorite because if you truly embody the practices of bringing joy and calm focus and a simple organization into your everyday work, then everything else works a lot better. Your entire business will be built on a foundation of personal sustainability and the pattern will be long-term thriveability for your business. So this is why I say if you take one course from me, I recommend it to be Georgeville Productivity. So let me walk you through some of the points that I'm going to be covering in the course so that you have an idea of what it's about and whether or not you want to take it. I've got my notes here in front of me. So I'm just going to be walking through what we're going to be covering in the six sessions of the Georgeville Productivity course. So in the first session, we're going to cover beginning with the foundations of productivity because Georgeville Productivity, again, it's about working with more efficiency, effectiveness, but most importantly, joy, calm focus and love. Now, Georgeville Productivity is about productivity. So we cover the foundations of productivity first, which includes eating well, sleeping well, moving well and frequently enough. We'll also talk about the importance of light and connection. And one of the fun things about the course is that I will be tapping into the wisdom of our course participants. Of course, I have my own best practices to share and I will share those with you. But even more than mine, you're going to get a list of the best practices of the course participants. If you happen to be joining the course live, you'll get to participate in that experience as well. After we talk about that, we're going to talk about the importance and the discipline of rest. Now, why is rest so high up on this, you know, on the list of Georgeville Productivity? Because one of the things that happens when we are building our business is that we're working for ourselves and when we're working for ourselves, nobody's telling us when we start work and when we end work. Nobody says, well, you better take a lunch break or you better, you know, it's mandated that you take a certain number of breaks a day or however many minutes a day. You have to set that for yourself. And so most business owners, most solar printers, people who work for themselves don't take enough. And even most people who work in jobs don't take enough breaks. Small breaks as well as the vacations. A lot of people miss their vacations, don't take them. So we're going to talk about the discipline of rest. And I'm going to show you the routine that I do multiple times every day between my work sessions, my break routine. And I'll actually demonstrate it for you and see if you want to borrow any part of my practices. And of course, once again, we're going to crowdsource the best ideas from the participants, the live participants in the course that you get more than just my best practices, you're going to get the best practices of others as well. And a lot of the people joining my course are, you know, coaches and mentors and healers themselves so that they'll have great practices that I'm looking forward to having you understand, at least get to see what they are. We'll also talk in the first session about the importance of a daily review. I do something to end my work day every day that I work where by the end of that day review, I feel complete. I feel like I can actually stop working for the day. And I know a lot of you probably feel like you have to work all the time and that there's never an end to your work. I actually experience this every day where I'm like at the end of my work day, I'm done. I'm like, oh, there's nothing more to do. There's nothing more to do. And believe it or not, I actually experience boredom oftentimes in the evening or the weekends when I'm not working. And boredom has its benefits because out of boredom comes creativity and comes, you know, true the ability to truly rest when there's absolutely nothing, everything is wiped clean on your on your plate. So that's the experience I want to give you as well on a daily basis. So we'll talk about that in session two, we're going to start going into layering the greater purpose of each of our lives into our moment by moment work. And when you embody this practice, it will change your entire day, because you no longer are hyper focused, myopically focused, which most of us tend to be when we're working. Oh, I got to get this done. Oh, this better work. Instead, when we learn the idea, the principles and the embodiment of a greater purpose in our everyday working moments, everything has a different perspective. Everything has a much bigger perspective. And with a bigger perspective, we can bring, guess what, more play into our work. And that's how I really think about my work is it's it's a joyful play. In the second session, we're also going to talk about, and I'm going to give you the experience of the power and importance of writing down the simplest steps. I know the sounds so simple, but most of us don't do it. Most of us keep so much of it in our heads without even realizing the doing that. But what I do every day is to write down the specific steps for any working session where if it's not already obvious, I'm already, you know, very accustomed to doing it, I write down the steps. Well, I'll talk about that. I'll give you an experience of a short experience of that. And then I'm also going to talk about the importance of documenting the processes in your business. I'll give you a template for doing that. And in the second session, we're also will end with I'll end with giving you a process for how to approach any working session throughout your day. Besides working, if you're in a meeting, that's that's different. But when you're working on your own, which a lot of us do, especially those of us building a business, we have to do a lot of work solo, right? And I'm going to give you that process that I do that I use for every working hour so that you can embody that joy and that playful experimentation in your work. Now, in session three, we're going to get into organizing. I'm going to give you a system for organizing the information in your business. And this will include your computer bookmarks. This will include your to-do list. And this will also include your overall, how do you capture ideas and put them into categories. So we'll talk about that in session three. In session four, we're going to talk about creating consistency. If you don't have a consistent schedule to work in your business, it's not you're not giving yourself the best chance of having a successful business. Just like when you're in a job, your employer doesn't say, oh, don't worry about coming in any time and don't worry about deadlines. Just do whatever you whenever you want to. Almost no employer says that. Well, why is it that we have such a, not we, I have a very stable schedule, but so many people I see have so much inconsistency and instability in their schedule and when and what they do in their business. No wonder it doesn't sustain and thrive like most established companies do. Established companies have a very stable schedule. They know exactly when workers are coming in and doing what, etc. So we're going to talk about how do we create consistency, joyful consistency, especially when we are the ones who have to set our own schedule. And in this session, I'm also going to show you my exact time template and I'm going to show you on the screen my exact calendar. You'll see what I actually do at what times on my Google calendar, everything is laid out and you can ask me any questions about it. We'll also talk in session four about boundaries because one of the reasons why a lot of you don't have a stable schedule for your business is because you have forgotten how to maintain good boundaries with other people's requests and not just other people's requests, but even just like email, you think you have to pay attention and keep so many emails. It's an issue of boundaries and about integrity. It's related. Okay. Session five, we're going to go into talking about very important creative discomfort and self doubt when you are creating a business, especially the possibilities are unlimited for what you could create and you don't know if it's going to work. So there's a lot of the feeling that you may not have labeled creative discomfort, but that's what I label it. And it's important to have a great relationship with creative discomfort, which I do every single day. For example, before I made this video, I'm like, is this video going to turn out okay? I don't know. And, you know, even outlining the video, et cetera, creative discomfort. So we'll talk about that. We'll talk about self doubt when things don't go as well as you want. You put something out there and it doesn't get the kind of response that you, how do you deal with it? How do you deal with it? I'll talk about how I deal with it. And of course, like I said, it's a very participatory class. So you're also going to see how many coaches, mentors and healers deal with self doubt. It's going to be powerful. Section five, we're going to end with talking about outsourcing and automation. Actually, in this order, automation first and outsourcing. So I'm going to walk you through quickly the overview of all the tools I use in my business. They're not that many, but I wanted to make sure you knew about them. And then the tools that can't automate the things that should be automated. How do we then find good support? How do we outsource well? So that's part of session five as well. And finally, in session six, this is the first time I'm going to be doing this. And I'm excited to share it with you, which is a digital decluttering session. That's session six is completely dedicated to that. So you're going to actually experience, I'm going to give you the time to, well, I'm going to share with you my principles of how you declutter your email inbox to get to zero. I have a zero email inbox most days of the week, almost every day. Now, certain days, like on Mondays, I might let it flow to Tuesday, but certainly several times per week, my email inbox is at zero, no emails at all, not no archives. I have worrying about nothing zero. What about you? There is a palpable difference in the feeling of lightness that you get when your email inbox is completely clear. When you're to do list for the day is completely empty and done, everything's done. And when you eat, where your computer desktop is completely clear as well, my computer desktop is completely clear at the end of most of my days every week, several times a week, my computer desktop is completely empty. How would that feel? How would it feel to have that? Well, I'm going to give you that experience in session six. So I'm excited to share the principles with you, share the system, and then have you experience it, and then have some back and forth Q&A to make sure you know how to implement the system. So those are the six sessions of Georgia productivity. If you happen to have taken the 2018 version of Georgia productivity, the 2019 version is much better, much, much better. So I recommend the 2019 version. It's something that I've already designed here and I'm quite proud of. So if you have any questions about the course, contact me, let me know. And I'm actually recording this video in a live Facebook video right now. So I want to thank those who are joining me, Tom and Tanya, Clara, Maria, Barbara, Yule, Linda. Thank you so much for joining me for this live video. And for those watching on YouTube, I know a lot of you on YouTube don't even realize I have online courses. I don't talk about it often enough, I think in the videos. So I hope you'll come to my Georgia productivity course. The link is www.GeorgeCow.com slash Joyful Pro Workshop. Joyful Pro stands for Joyful Productivity, but I think also stands for being a joyful professional. Joyful Pro Workshop. GeorgeCow.com slash Joyful Pro Workshop. It's not that expensive of a course right now as of this recording. It's only $60 for the course and you get a 60 day 100% money back guaranteed by the course, completely go through it, go through all six sessions. If it's not the right fit for you, don't worry, just contact me, I'll give you another course or I'll give you your money back. It's no big deal at all for me. But I think you're going to love it. And for those of you who are wondering, gosh, you know, I missed the live part of the course. Can I still take it later if I'm going to miss any sessions? Of course, everything's recorded. And the recordings are all sent out within two business days of when I record the course to everybody who bought it. So don't worry, you can't attend live. But if you've ever been part of my live course, you know that the energy is is wonderful to be among so many like hearted, smart people with great practices of their own. So if you can attend the live course, when I say live, I mean, it's virtual in real time online. Be sure to do it. If you can't, you're still going to get a lot out of the recorded version of the course. And let me know what you think of it. All right. So with that, I hope to see you in the course. And whether I see you in the course, I wish you joyful productivity in your work today. Be well.