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Complete Every Project You Start: Be Your Own Producer

Name: Complete Every Project You Start: Be Your Own Producer
Rating: 4.7 (201 reviews)

Finish long-term side projects, on time, without crunch. Examples covered: YouTube channel, podcast and game development

Created byChris DeLeon

Last updated 1/2024

English

What you'll learn

Create a realistic schedule to break long-term side projects into manageable steps
Consistently finish projects on time, without crunch
Learn basic strategy and planning that go into creating your own YouTube channel, podcast, or team game project
Narrow down hard decisions between many options and factors to make rational, transparent, justified choices you're less likely to regret or later second guess
2 full audio programs included cover ways to stay on task and take on new types of projects

Course content

6 sections • 17 lectures • 4h 14m total length

You Can Finish Bigger Projects5:33
Never have an unfinished project again! What stops most people from achieving bigger results isn't their main skill area - art, writing, programming, etc. - it's their not knowing how to think like a producer. This introduction provides an overview how this course will equip you to successfully finish larger projects, without needing inhuman willpower, by turning your big ideas into actionable, simple plans made out of smaller steps you can more easily fit in.
Section 1 Review
Easy Concepts to Get Started8:56
Part of why many people overlook producer considerations is some can be abstract. We'll use background props to ground ideas producers think about.
Section 2 Review
Planning Tools2:02
Overview of the features we'll need for the central techniques in this course. Though Trello is used for most examples, any platform that supports this general framework will do!
Section 3 Review
The Basic Plan17:36
In this section we'll discuss a super simple example, mostly for illustration of the basics, of building a plan paced over time, including how we can adapt around changes and surprises as we follow along.
Section 4 Review

Planning to Learn25:54
Let's walk through how we'd plan a realistic project, specifically one where it's going to involve building in time for learning and unpredictable factors beyond our control. For this section's example we'll look at planning to launch your own YouTube channel.
Section 5 Review
Adapting Plans, Pt. 114:45
A plan will become useful over time if it's not updated and maintained as you go. In this lecture you'll see examples of how this plan might evolve as it proceeds, discussing common issues that arise and ways of handling those factors.
Section 6 Review

Grounded Decisions15:35
As a detour from the long-term planning we'll take a short look at a technique to make decisions you'll feel better about, even when you have a lot of options and factors to weigh. That might sound like a huge promise, but it's a transparent, straightforward, logical system that's easy to generalize and adapt to get you a clear answer for a wide range of questions.
Section 7 Review
Plan with Uncertainty23:18
For this next example we'll plan a project where the scheduling includes an element of uncertainty from the availability of other people. As our case we'll focus on planning a podcast, but many of the concepts can be generalized to other kinds of projects.
Section 8 Review
Adapting Plans, Pt. 210:55
Let's go through some common things which might come up or go wrong, and ways we can adapt the plan around those.
Section 9 Review

Planning With a Team/Roles26:59
Building up further on past ideas, this will be our most complex example, adding new strategies and techniques related to working with a team of people who have different skill areas. Even if you're a solo developer many of these same tips can apply, and reduce the risk of overlooking important details.
Section 10 Review
Keeping a Team Plan on Track21:15
Let's step together through ways this game plan might unfold, and what we'll do in response to always pull it back on track.
Section 11 Review
Mood Board References7:54
Next we'll cover an easy way to assemble references get a team on the same page, or efficiently capture and externalize ideas to discuss and iterate on.
Section 12 Review
Building in Proper Feedback19:13
A proper round of feedback doesn't have to be complex or time consuming, but it can make a world difference in how the outcome is received. Testing can surface small changes which can reduce the number of people who bounce off of the work. We'll look over common questions, and then demonstrate how to use a common tool for setting up your own testing.
Section 13 Review

Producer Mindset21:34
Managing a project effectively - even if you're the only or main person on it - isn't simply applying techniques, but also how we think about what we're doing. This section focuses on ways to frame and navigate thoughts through common situations to stay on track and release projects on time.
Section 14 Review
Be the Project's "Worrier"13:30
Whether you're doing it on behalf of a team, or setting aside and defending specific time to regularly apply this lens on your own projects, as the producer it's on you to worry about things that outside of what specialists pay attention to.
Section 15 Review
Business Development15:47
Though projects in this course have been non-commercial as part of keeping things simple and introductory level, especially as your long-term or team projects grow towards becoming commercial a producer is often expected to look out factors such as funding, burn rate, contracts, and other fundamentals of operating a business entity professionally. This section provides an initial overview of some of the topics which most frequently apply to people who are working on a shift to take their side projects commercial.
Section 16 Review

Conclusion and 2 Included Productivity Programs3:49
See the downloadable Resources for this section (to the right under this part in the course curriculum) for the audio and ebook downloads. Bonus - late addition, not mentioned in the video - Self-Calm (modernization of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius) bonus 7 hours of audio and matching ebook formats.
Shout out to testers who provided helpful feedback on this course during its development: Jared Rigby, Patrick Moffett, Cassidy Noble, Brian J. Boucher, Oasis Rim, Patrick McKeown, Neil Urwin, Chris Lange (hypedoncoffee), Abhishek, Patrick Moffett, and Joël "Klaim" Lamotte
Section 17 Review

Requirements

The focus is on concept level and planning, including how to plan around learning new skills, in real context, as you go. No technical or content creation experience is required.
Though examples include starting a YouTube channel, interviews podcast, and team game development project, no equipment, special software, or related experience in these domains is assumed

Description

Ready to stop leaving projects unfinished and start achieving real results?

It's time to learn how to think like a producer. If you're like most people what's limiting you from the next step isn't really your main skill area - whether that's programming, writing, or otherwise - it's about learning how to use your time in a way that adds up to something releasable.

In this course, you'll learn how to use a simple process to avoid indecision or wasted effort while making continual progress towards achieving your bigger goals. No more feeling demoralized over hard work that never seems to go anywhere. You'll learn to plan effectively and stay on track to launch your long-term projects, every time.

Whether you want to start your own YouTube channel, set up a podcast, develop a video game, or something else entirely, the strategies you'll learn here can be applied to nearly any kind of project. Even better, you'll learn how to adapt your plans as you go, so instead of feeling anxiety around predicting the future you'll move forward with confidence that you're prepared to make the best of how things are playing out.

2 Full Productivity Audiobooks/Ebooks Included (Additional 7 hours 24 min Audio)

To help you even more, at the end of this course you'll receive two full productivity audiobooks (including the ebook transcripts!): Self-Command (run time 4 hours 54 minutes) and Self-Doubt (2 hours 30 minutes). These audio programs teach techniques and effective ways of thinking to help you follow through on the current task, as well as the tools to give yourself a chance doing something you've never done before. By combining those techniques with this course you'll have everything you need to not only set up a plan, but act on each step of it, and target your plans at goals you never thought possible.

These 2 audiobooks were developed separately, sold as a bundle for $41 with a 5/5 rating, but will be yours with this new video course at no extra cost. You'll be able to simply download the audio or ebook versions as the resources attached for the final section.

Stop letting indecision or wasted effort hold you back - enroll in this course today and start achieving the bigger results you've always wanted.

Responses to Self-Command and Self-Doubt, my two productivity audiobooks/ebooks both fully included with your purchase of this course (downloadable as the resources for the last section):

"Ever since I started Self-Command, I get so much more done in a day than ever before, with less unintended side tracking. I'm so very grateful for Chris' wonderful work. I highly recommend it."

-Sang Nguyen

"Several years after listening to Self-Command, Chris’ whiteboard technique continues to be central to my daily productivity. Having already been a bit of a nerd for productivity hacks and techniques, I found the techniques and mindsets Chris discusses to be really fresh and incredibly practical."

-Praneil Kamat

"I have diagnosed ADHD, so it's always hard to make decisions about how I should be spending my time. Self-Command gave me new tools to help cut through the noise and spend more of my time on things that matter... the things that I want to be doing."

-@Spriteborne

Game Designer

"Veteran shoutout for Chris's book Self-Command. Talks about solving a meaningful problem many of us have. If you find yourself struggling to start, I can not recommend it higher. We all know service jacks you up, especially with setting independent, meaningful goals. Check it out"

-@RethinkJeff

"Great book (Self-Doubt), even better than Self-Command - A++. Excellent format. Loved the often snappy-answers/reality checks for the quick answer, followed by the longer explanations. Truly great compilation of questions."

-Joe Cassavaugh

Puzzles By Joe

"As a mid 30's career changer, these addressed deep seated fears I have but didn't really want to articulate. I thought this [Self-Doubt] was great! A lot of value added for me, the answers had some great nuggets of wisdom. Especially because the ask is a little over 2 hours this is an easy recommendation I'd make to others as an addendum or expansion pack for Self Command."

-Jeremiah Franczyk

MMO Associate Systems Game Designer

"The last part - 'what if I don't see or feel myself making progress?' - was really good. The language is very understandable for me (English is not my first language). The pacing of the speech is spot-on."

-Barış Köklü

Who this course is for:

Do you have unfinished side projects? You'll learn how to finish and launch it
Do you not know when your current project will be finished? You'll learn to pick and stick to your answer

Complete Every Project You Start: Be Your Own Producer

What you'll learn

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Course content

Introduction4 lectures • 34min

Convert Your Big Ideas Into an Actionable, Adaptable Blueprint (YouTube Example)2 lectures • 41min

Making Choices We Won't Regret & Planning for Unpredictability (Podcast Example)3 lectures • 50min

Planning Bigger Projects for Multiple People (Team Game Development Example)4 lectures • 1hr 15min

Producer Mindset and Basics of Business Development3 lectures • 51min

Wrap Up and 2 Included Productivity Audio/Ebook Programs1 lecture • 4min

Requirements

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Who this course is for: