
Learn to get twice as much done in half the time and live your best life. Apply the 80-20 principle, focus on high-value tasks, and embrace a six hour workday.
Explore how decentralized, fast-moving teams outperformed centralized command in a historical stand-off, illustrating how work style shapes outcomes more than sheer size.
Trace the shift from industrial, algorithmic work to cognitive, collaborative knowledge work across autonomy, task scope, cognitive complexity, and interactive dimensions, and learn how deep work and flow boost productivity.
Discover the flow state, a neuro cognitive state at the intersection of alpha and theater brain waves, that boosts productivity up to five times and advocates a four-hour daily limit.
Discover how Tyas: task switching, residual work, taking the path of least effort, and shallow work undermine productivity and flow amid distractions, notifications, and smartphone use.
Guard your time by saying no to requests that don’t align with your goals, freeing up high-value work. Embrace deliberate serendipity when appropriate.
Recognize residual work and the point of diminishing returns, stop at that moment, and promptly move to the next task to boost productivity.
Overcome the path of least resistance by taking the smallest step toward a high-value task, creating momentum. Build focus into a flow state for consistent, productive work.
Learn how distractions from meetings, email, and instant messaging fuel shallow work, and protect deep work by using asynchronous communication and targeted notification settings to enter flow state.
Explore how organizational dynamics—committee culture, centralized approvals, and consensus seeking with hyper responsiveness and processing paralysis—erode autonomy, kill flow, and convert many type two decisions into costly type one bets.
Discover the Pips framework—purpose, incentives, passion, and strengths alignment—to boost productivity, with emphasis on fundamentals like exercise, nutrition, and sleep.
Master flow triggers to spend more time in flow by eliminating external and internal distractions, working at your peak time, and focusing on one task at a time.
Use email, Slack, and meetings strategically to protect deep work time by turning off notifications, setting status, using must-read plugins, and running shorter, invitation-only meetings.
Time blocking organizes your day around high-value tasks, boosting focus and momentum. Set predefined meeting times and short calendar slots to protect deep work and balance social commitments.
Turn off self-view on camera to reduce fatigue and appearance pressure. Prefer audio-only or walking meetings; keep Zoom calls with an agenda and action items, use email if it suffices.
Learn to prioritize using the 80/20 Pareto principle, focusing on high-value tasks by scoring value against effort, reducing friction, and using time boxing to build momentum.
Use a four-quadrant review (do more, do less, start doing, stop doing) to prune legacy tasks and focus on high-value activities that move the needle, adding only after removing something.
Automate recurring, process-oriented tasks to save time and reduce risk before outsourcing. Leverage affordable automation tools to generate proposals and automate content distribution across apps.
outsource low-risk, process-oriented tasks to qualified freelancers to save time and money, using clear instructions and ratings, then reuse the documented steps to scale high-value work.
Parkinson's law shows we finish faster with shorter deadlines; set tight 13-week goals to trigger a finishing kick in the final weeks, while staying realistic and avoiding excessive pressure.
Test assumptions to prevent wasting time by scoring impact versus certainty, then use minimum viable product tests to validate ideas before full-scale execution.
Batch tasks across your work value chain—from research to posting and analytics—to reduce switching, and use time-blocking and Pomodoro rhythms to stay in flow and boost productivity.
Discover how the new economy's business model lowers transaction costs with on demand talent, automation, and empowered decision making to boost execution, productivity, and profit.
Delegate to avoid bottlenecks, empower learning, and raise organizational speed and adaptability. Focus on guiding the business, not doing every technical task.
Identify type two decisions and empower quick, accountable action to accelerate progress. Use a minimum viable bureaucracy and asynchronous tools—Asana, Trello, Basecamp, Slack—to reduce meetings, boost flow, and fast feedback.
Prioritize sleep as the foundation of body and mind to boost emotional regulation, creativity, and problem solving, aiming for eight hours nightly and limiting screens, caffeine, and alcohol before bed.
Eat slow-release carbs, lean proteins, and good fats to sustain energy; experiment with 12–16 hour fasts, gut health routines, and focused movement to boost deep work and focus.
Move regularly to trigger BDNF, boost focus, and support deep work with quick walks or bodyweight moves. Morning sunlight and brief cold showers reset physiology and energy.
Explore how to optimize remote work through the five levels of distributed teams, embracing asynchronous communication, clear boundaries, and practical tactics to boost productivity and focus.
Align your work with purpose, incentives, passion, and strengths. Use five hacks: task bundling, site blocking with Blogsite and Freedom, batching tasks, and one window at a time.
Define what is enough and live in alignment with your values, avoiding other people's games of growth and revenue. Happiness comes from living according to what truly matters to you.
When you ask someone how they're doing, they typically say "busy...crazy busy".
This might sound like a badge of honor, but when people say they're busy what it means is that they're out of control.
And when they say they're time poor, what it typically means is that they're decision poor.
The Time Rich productivity course has been designed to help you become decision rich when it comes to how you manage your time and attention so that you can get closer to your goals faster, sans 12-hour-days, and free up more time for your family, your friends, your health, and your personal interests.
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If you value your time at over $50 an hour, then this course will repay itself many times over in your very first week, just by applying some of what you learn.
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Don't settle for cut-rate instruction from boring and unqualified teachers when it comes to managing your most precious asset...your time.
This course has been developed and is instructed by Steve Glaveski - an established productivity thought leader who brings his unique energy and personality to this course.
Steve is the author of the 2020 Wiley book, Time Rich: Do Your Best Work, Live Your Best Life, and Harvard Business Review contributor on all things productivity, including the viral article, The Case for the 6-Hour Workday.
His work and wisdom have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, CNBC, European CEO, Australian Financial Review, Tech in Asia, The Irish Times, Entrepreneur, and countless other high-profile outlets, and he has inspired audiences to approach work differently on stages all over the world, including SXSW, Startup Grind Conference, Innov8rs, CPA Congress, as well as for corporate audiences at IBM, PayPal, Australia Post, Li & Fung, Ayala, and Charter Hall.
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Praise for this course's companion book, Time Rich
"Steve Glaveski understands something that few leaders have figured out: it's possible to do less and get more done. This book offers a blueprint for working smarter."
- ADAM GRANT, New York Times best-selling author of Originals and Give and Take, and host of the chart-topping TED podcast WorkLife
“In his book, Steve Glaveski offers countless ways to get more out of each day by being Time Rich.”
- NIR EYAL, bestselling author of Hooked and Indistractable
“Time Rich is a fascinating look into why we’re all so ‘busy’ - and how to gain back our most precious resource. Whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned productivity geek, this book will change your life.”
- JONATHAN LEVI, Author, Podcaster, and Founder of Superhuman Academy
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Praise for Steve's productivity workshops and webinars
"Steve presented to the executives in the Alphawave Group portfolio on how to ‘Elevate your personal productivity and effectiveness’. The talk definitely got everyone thinking about how they can change their behaviours to focus on the work that matters. I’m convinced the session will have a positive impact on our business."
- FRANS MEYER, CEO of Alphawave Group
“Steve delivers insights in a naturally engaging style, ensuring you are thinking differently and challenging your biases throughout the workshop. The productivity session I undertook with our Retail team, unlocked new ways to approach work effort and measure value delivered roles. The full day course received 100% satisfaction with all participants stating that it was time well spent.”
- JESSICA PAGANO, National Marketing Manager at Charter Hall
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About this course
In this course, you will learn how to get much more done, in much less time - whether operating as an individual, as part of a small team, or as a member of a large organization - to not only get closer to your goals faster but liberate your time to live your best life.
You'll have fun along the way, as Steve meshes humor, stories, research, and high energy, to keep you both engaged and retaining what you learn for longer.
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This is more than just theory.
Steve Glaveski practices everything he preaches in this course, and it has empowered him to achieve all of the following in the past five years alone.
Built a seven-figure consulting business that counts the likes of Microsoft, MetLife, Lufthansa, BNP Paribas, Village Roadshow, and two of the five magic circle law firms, as clients.
Wrote five books, including two for Wiley, and a children's picture book
Wrote several hundred articles for various publications, including contributions to Harvard Business Review
Published over 500 podcast episodes, winning a People's Choice award in 2017 for the Future Squared podcast
Started a media and podcast network during the COVID-19 pandemic
Spun-off a successful children's entrepreneurship program called Lemonade Stand
Spoke on stages all over the world
Built this course.
...and did it all whilst working, on average, six hours a day...freeing up precious time for more important things such as personal relationships, health, bombing at open-mic standup comedy nights, and surfing poorly.
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A brief snapshot of what's covered:
The history of work
The psychology of the flow state and deep work
The many ways individuals and teams sabotage their time without knowing it
How to get into and stay in the flow state longer
How to use email, meetings, and instant messaging apps effectively
How to effectively prioritize, automate, delegate, and outsource your tasks
How to batch tasks
How to build a high-performance team
How to remote work effectively
How to get the best out of your body and mind
and much much more...
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If you've not really thought about the question of personal productivity before, then you are likely to learn how to increase your productivity by up to an order of magnitude (I kid you not!) by taking this course and applying what you learn.
So if you're ready to transform your work and your life...then let's get started.