Build a complete productivity system that gives you control of your time, work and digital life.
Two live, two-hour sessions over two weeks
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Sundays 11th and 18th October 2026
United States EST - 8:30 am
United Kingdom - 1:30 pm
Paris, Berlin - 2:30 pm
India - 6:00 pm
Hong Kong, Singapore - 8:30 pm
Sydney - 10:30 pm
You do not need another productivity app.
You need a way to bring everything together.
Your calendar, task manager, email and planning system should help you feel clear and in control. Yet for many people, these tools have become separate collections of unfinished work, overdue tasks and unanswered messages.
You begin the day with good intentions, but new requests quickly take over.
Important work gets pushed aside by urgent work. Your task list grows faster than you can complete it. Email and messages keep pulling you away from what matters. Eventually, you either work harder to catch up or disengage because the whole thing feels overwhelming.
Neither response solves the underlying problem.
The difficulty is rarely a lack of effort or discipline. It is that the different parts of your productivity system are not working together.
That is what we will change in this workshop.
From scattered and reactive to calm and organised.
The Ultimate Productivity Workshop will take you through the process of building a complete, connected productivity system.
We will begin with the foundation: your time.
From there, we will organise your tasks, create a practical way to manage email and communications, and bring everything together through simple daily and weekly planning.
By the end of the workshop, you will have a system that shows you:
What needs your attention today
When you have time to do your important work
Where new tasks and requests belong
How to prevent email and messages from taking over
What to review each day and week
How to keep your system working when life becomes busy
This is not about squeezing more work into every available minute; that does not work and is likely the underlying cause. It is about creating enough structure to make good decisions, protect your time and finish the work that matters—without feeling permanently behind.
Your journey through the workshop
Stage One: Reclaim control of your time
Most productivity systems begin with a task list. That is, surprisingly, the wrong place to begin.
A task list can show you everything you could do, but it cannot tell you whether you have enough time to do it. When you repeatedly plan more work than your available time allows, overwhelm is inevitable.
We will begin by building the time-based foundations of your system.
You will learn how to:
Design a “perfect” week framework around your real responsibilities
Use time blocking without making your calendar rigid
Protect time for focused and important work
Build balance and recovery into your week
Distinguish between what must be done and what could be done
Make realistic decisions about your capacity
The objective is not to account for every minute. It is to see your time clearly enough to make better choices.
Stage Two: Organise your work
Once the foundations are in place, we will turn to your tasks and projects.
You will learn how to organise your work so that your task manager gives you useful information instead of presenting you with one enormous, intimidating list.
We will work through:
The COD (Collect, Organise and Do) framework
Organising tasks by when you intend to act
Separating task management from project management
Using a holding pen for work that is not yet actionable
Reducing recurring backlogs
Identifying what genuinely matters today
The result will be a task system you can trust, and that helps you make decisions, rather than repeatedly reminding you how much remains unfinished.
Stage Three: Bring your communications under control
Email and messages are among the largest sources of disruption in modern work.
The solution is not to respond faster. It is to create a dependable process for deciding what requires action, what can wait and what no longer deserves your attention.
You will learn:
The Inbox Zero 2.0 approach
How to process new messages without constantly monitoring your inbox
How to separate communication from actionable work
How to manage messages that require a later response
How to prevent email from becoming another task manager
How to process incoming work efficiently and consistently
You will leave with a communications process that keeps you responsive without requiring you to remain constantly available.
Stage Four: Make the system work every day
A productivity system is only useful if you can maintain it.
Complicated systems often work for a few days, then collapse as soon as work gets busy. The answer is a simpler and more forgiving process.
In the final part of the workshop, we will connect your calendar, tasks and communications through practical daily and weekly planning.
You will learn how to:
Complete the Daily Planning Sequence
Decide what deserves your attention each day
Conduct a useful weekly planning session
Adjust when unexpected work disrupts your plans
Keep your system clean without spending hours maintaining it
Return to the system quickly after a difficult week
This is where the individual parts become one complete system.
What you will leave with.
By the end of the two sessions, you will have a framework for a personal productivity system built around your work, responsibilities, and available time.
You will know:
How to plan a realistic week
How to protect time for important work
How to organise tasks and projects clearly
How to process email and messages consistently
How to prevent backlogs from repeatedly returning
How to complete effective daily and weekly planning
How to adapt your system as your work and life change
You will not be given a rigid system and told to follow it perfectly.
You will understand the principles behind each part, enabling you to build something that works for you and remains useful long after the workshop.
Two live and practical sessions
Each session lasts two hours.
The first part of each session will teach the principles and processes you need. The second part will be devoted to questions, discussion and real-world examples.
You will be able to ask questions throughout the workshop. This means we can examine the situations that usually cause productivity systems to break down: changing priorities, demanding workloads, overflowing inboxes and unpredictable days.
The purpose is to help you build a system you can begin using immediately.
If you cannot attend live, you will receive the complete recording, including the questions and discussions, shortly after each session.
Choose the level of support you need.
Workshop Package — $149
For anyone who wants the complete workshop and the resources needed to implement the system independently.
You will receive:
Access to both live workshop sessions
Comprehensive workbooks for each session
The complete Time Blocking, Areas of Focus, Planning and Email Mastery mini-course bundle
Downloadable video and audio recordings to keep
Access to the complete workshop discussions and questions
Workshop + Personal Support — $349
For anyone who wants additional training and personal help adapting the system to their work and circumstances.
You will receive everything in the Workshop Package, plus:
Access to the complete Time and Life Mastery course
Two private, fifty-minute coaching sessions with Carl
Personal help identifying and resolving the weaknesses in your current system
Guidance adapting the workshop principles to your particular responsibilities and working style
Availability is limited because the coaching sessions are delivered personally.
You cannot control everything coming towards you.
New tasks will continue to appear. Priorities will change. Other people will make requests. Unexpected problems will disrupt your carefully made plans. A useful productivity system does not pretend these things will stop.
Instead, it gives you a dependable way to decide what matters, protect the time you need and reorganise quickly when circumstances change.
That is what we will build together during the Ultimate Productivity Workshop: Two sessions. Four hours. One connected system for managing your time, work and digital life.
You do not need to become more disciplined. You need a system you can trust.