AP Productivity: Cohort Seven is Underway!

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What is AP Productivity?

In AP Productivity, we do not build you a system that only works "in theory." By the end of the cohort, you'll have a reliable productivity system that is tailored to accomplish the work that's important to you, and customized to overcome your specific productivity hurdles.

AP Productivity is not GTD. If you like the idea of GTD, but you've always struggled to implement it, AP Productivity is your answer.

💡Outcome

At the end of the six-week, live cohort course, you'll be:

✅ Confident building, adapting, running, and maintaining productivity processes in Tana

✅ Comfortable integrating Tana with other apps or processes as needed for your work

✅ Comfortable designing and diagramming complex system structures using Obsidian Canvas

✅ In control of your time

✅ Clear on your priorities

✅ Equipped with valuable routines & habits, as well as templates for your recurring processes and projects

✅ Able to handle urgent work without being overwhelmed by it

✅ Equipped to further develop your system to adapt to future changes in your life and work

✅ More efficient and effective than you've ever been with systems you've used in the past—because this system is tailormade for you

❓How does the cohort work?

AP Productivity: Cohort is a six-week, live cohort course. We are focused on action. Though you certainly will learn tips & tricks along the way, our goal is far bigger: you'll come away with a reliable system and you'll know how to use it.

Here are the pieces:

🆓 My Tana for Tasks self-paced course is included so you can learn the mechanics of task management in Tana (a $127 value, available before the cohort begins!)

🆓 An invite to Tana is included, if you need one

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Once weekly live group coaching sessions via Zoom

❓ Twice weekly live Zoom office hours for Q&A

⏺ All live Zooms are recorded and available to watch later

📆 See the calendar of live events: Google Calendar | iCal link

📺 Easy-to-understand video lessons

✍ Templates and prompts to help you understand and apply what you learn

📢 A course community for discussion and learning from each other

🧭 Group Orientation Zoom so I can learn what YOU need

🎓 Curriculum

Because this is a live cohort coaching course, the curriculum listed below is subject to adjust a bit as we recognize what specific issues you face. But this will help you understand the structure of the framework you'll learn.

Prior to Week 1 (before January 13)

• Work through Tana for Tasks to have your task management system ready to go in Tana
• Watch a few pre-cohort videos (released the week prior to the cohort beginning)
• Get your calendar set with the live cohort sessions you can attend

Week 1 (January 13)

• Learn the Hub & Subsystems approach to productivity
• Learn the basics of your task management hub in Tana
  • What's an Agenda?
  • What's a Log?
  • What are Bins?
• Learn what Subsystems are and how you customize your system with them
  • Track your work
  • Link and develop ideas
  • Convert information into action
  • Anything in your work or life can be a subsystem. For example:
    • Sales pipeline for deals
    • CRM
    • Knowledge management
    • Meal planning & Recipes
    • Portfolio for legal cases
    • Birdwatching and cataloguing
    • To Read or To Watch lists
• Learn the fundamentals of diagramming your system in Obsidian Canvas
• Continue Tana for Tasks as needed to establish your task management hub

Week 2 (January 20)

• Diagram the big picture of your productivity system
  • What do you need to accomplish?
  • What work do you do often, so we can streamline and simplify it?
• Learn the "next level" of your task management hub in Tana
  • What are Recurring Tasks?
  • What are Procedures?
  • Why use Projects?
  • Why develop Project Templates?
• Learn how Subsystems "plug into" your task management Hub
  • Activating your work
  • Leveraging Recurring Work
• Continue Tana for Tasks as needed to establish your task management hub

Week 3 (January 27)

• Diagram the task management hub itself
  • This introduces us to the real power of our diagrams
  • And prepares us to diagram the subsystems we need for our custom systems
• Break down common Subsystems in Tana and how they work by diagramming them in Obsidian Canvas
• Diagram one or two of your Subsystems and begin to implement them in Tana

Week 4 (February 3)

• Begin system demos
  • What's working for you?
  • What's not working for you?
  • How can we help each other?
• Dig deep into the logic of Tana (and how we can model that in our Obsidian Canvas diagrams)
  • How do we structure and organize the information in our subsystems?
  • How do we activate it?
  • How do Supertags and Fields make Tana superior for this process?

Week 5 (February 10)

• Continue diagramming and implementing our Subsystems
• Continue demoing our systems
• Learn productivity principles to make our systems more useful and valuable

Week 6 (February 17)

• Troubleshoot our systems
• What's next? How to keep building and adapting in the future
• Continue demoing our systems
• Celebrate!

Course Guide: R.J. Nestor

R.J. Nestor is a business & executive coach, musician, and writer. He is a communication and productivity expert with 20 years of experience helping people say what they mean to say and do what they mean to do.

As a coach, R.J. helps you get important work done. He coaches entrepreneurs and executives from diverse industries: technology, finance, architecture & design, real estate, insurance, fitness, law, and more.

You have great ideas and boundless potential. R.J. provides the tools and guidance to execute your ideas and realize your potential.

FAQ

When does the course start and finish?

Cohort Seven will be January 13 through February 24. See the calendar of live events: Google Calendar | iCal link

How long do I have access to the course?

All lessons will be available to you in our cohort community indefinitely.

What if I am unhappy with the course?

The refund policy is simple: If you can demonstrate you completed the Week One content, and at that point you decide the cohort isn't for you, DM me in the Circle community to request a full refund. Once the video content for Week Two is available (sometime January 20), no further refunds will be processed.

How do I access the private course community?

The sign-up link will be available when you enroll. If you have trouble joining the community, contact me.

Are there scholarships available for cohorts?

There are! Use this Scholarship Application Google Form to apply!