Hi there Good friend 👋
That is the third difficulty within the four-part LifeOS w/ Ali Abdaal publication sequence. I speak about my expertise with the course.
When you missed a earlier difficulty, you’ll find it right here:
The final two weeks had been loopy! That’s why I didn’t write to you final week.
- I began my 12-week course on constructing a customized productiveness system. Seventeen superior college students are prepared to rework their productiveness.
- I received a fair higher partner-program with Shortform, my favourite guide abstract app. (which I paid month-to-month earlier than I partnered with them)
- Many new individuals joined the Neurohackingly publication. Welcome, if that is one among your first newsletters! 👋
🤖 I run a 12-week productiveness workshop on Circle.so. I additionally added a enjoyable gamification factor from Ship30for30.
Contributors can full duties to earn badges. These badges present all members that they’re taking motion within the productiveness course. This week, they earned the “🎭 Neighborhood Champion” badge.
My Badges @ship30for30 (left) and the badges members can earn @my productiveness course “Die Produktivitäts-Werkstatt” (proper)
They did this by introducing themselves within the “Introduce Your self” house.
This automation with Zapier triggers a zap and tags the member who created the put up. The tag hyperlinks to an emoji that represents power and motion. It’s spectacular once you collect a number of of them.
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When you converse German and wish weekly updates on attaining your targets, join my German publication. Every Thursday, I’ll share insights on how I run my 12-week productiveness course on to your inbox. 💌
I carried out a workshop for greater than 230 contributors. I launched focus methods I’ve studied just lately. Take a look at the upcoming newsletters.
You’ll discover evidence-based ideas that can assist you focus higher.
💚 At present’s Replace: LifeOS w/ Ali Abdaal, Half 3
This week, they launched the whole, well-produced LifeOS course. It consists of 7 modules with many quick movies from three dwell classes Ali hosted.
What I appreciated about Ali Abdaal’s course, LifeOS:
- Playful PowerPoint slides with clear branding.
- A full Life OS Notion template to trace every little thing out of your life imaginative and prescient to your focus hours.
- The manufacturing high quality of Ali’s movies is great, as all the time.
- Ali up to date components of the life productiveness system. He primarily based these modifications on scholar suggestions and his experiments.
For individuals who don’t know, Productiveness Lab launched in January 2024 because the Circle neighborhood’s flagship 12-week program.
It was formidable—masking every little thing from the basics of sleep and vitamin to superior subjects like burnout prevention, mindset optimization, and workspace design.
Trying again, Ali himself acknowledged that the course stretched past his core experience in sure areas. This trustworthy reflection led to the creation of LifeOS—a extra targeted, seven-module program that retains what labored greatest (the system, motion, and imaginative and prescient elements) whereas streamlining the remainder. Notably, total sections just like the regeneration module had been thoughtfully eliminated to create a tighter, extra cohesive expertise.
The evolution to LifeOS introduced one other welcome change: Ali now teaches each module himself.
Whereas Kaylen Apple did glorious work instructing parts of Productiveness Lab, there’s one thing particular about studying instantly from the course creator all through the complete journey.
One factor I significantly liked in regards to the unique format was the weekly implementation workshops.
These weren’t simply passive webinars—they had been dwell Zoom classes led by productiveness coaches the place we actively mirrored as a gaggle and put ideas into apply collectively. The vitality of working alongside others in real-time made the educational stick in ways in which solo research by no means may.
In week 3, the final week of the LifeOS cohort, we mentioned quarterly quests and balanced weeks. I beforehand wrote about my balanced week in a previous publication.
📅 Balanced Weeks: Your Weekly Reset
3 Issues I Preferred & Discovered About Balanced Weeks:
Factor #1: It’s not about having an ideal week. It’s about making a balanced week. This provides you readability and construction. It helps you deal with what issues most. Bear in mind, “balanced week” doesn’t imply a super-productive week. What works one week could result in burnout later.
Factor #2: These half-hour—and even 5—every week are invaluable. I deal with reviewing my 90-day targets. I mirror on final week’s wins and challenges. Then, I set three priorities for the approaching week.
Replace: I created an app to assist with my weekly planning ritual. I can open it on my iPhone through Safari utilizing a widget. The info is saved in Supabase. My progress is proven on my analytics dashboard.
It even has calendar integration, so I can enter my most vital appointments instantly into the app. Then, the app pushes them to my calendar.
Factor #3: That’s it… see Factor #2 and Factor #1.
🎮 Quarterly Quests: Your 90-Day Milestones
I’ve set my very own quarterly quests for the previous 12 months and loved specializing in these longer-term targets. 90 days is lengthy sufficient for a big purpose, however not so lengthy that you simply keep away from taking motion, like with yearly targets.
To be trustworthy, I put aside time to put in writing this article, and I’ll focus on quarterly quests subsequent week.
My motto for subsequent week: persist with the calendar; it offers a exact reflection of the way you spend your time.
Have a balanced week!
Lukas 📆
P.S. Setting quarterly quests? Right here’s my productiveness breakthrough…
Bear in mind once I talked about doing Ali’s LifeOS course? His “quarterly quests” idea utterly modified my planning method – however I’ll be trustworthy, I hit an enormous roadblock.
The issue: Evaluation paralysis.
I stored second-guessing myself: “Is that this the RIGHT quarterly purpose? What if there’s one other purpose with larger ROI?” My thoughts was consistently leaping between choices, unable to deal with even easy every day duties. It was exhausting.
I attempted every little thing:
- Google? Simply Search engine optimisation-optimized fluff that sounds good however doesn’t really assist
- Reddit? Fast fixes that labored for others however fell flat for me
Then I found one thing game-changing.
I typed “targets” into Shortform’s search, and inside seconds discovered insights that might’ve taken hours to uncover elsewhere. Right here’s simply ONE tip that instantly clicked:
📌 The “Imperfect Plan Paradox” (from Brian Tracy’s analysis): Don’t goal for the proper plan from the beginning. As a substitute, BEGIN with what you have got and refine as you go. This feels incorrect as a result of we predict we want every little thing found out first – however that pondering is precisely what retains us caught.
This single perception broke my evaluation paralysis. As a substitute of endlessly evaluating potential targets, I picked one and began. The readability got here by means of motion, not overthinking.
Why Shortform hits completely different:
- Curated insights from 1000+ books, immediately searchable
- No Search engine optimisation nonsense – simply actionable knowledge
- Connects ideas throughout a number of books (think about discovering how ‘Atomic Habits’ pertains to your quarterly planning)
Since partnering with them as an affiliate, I can give you: 5 days free + 20% off the annual plan → shortform.com/neurohackingly
That’s 2.5 months free to rework the way you method your quarterly quests. 🎯
