Hello everyone, welcome back to the Keep productive YouTube channel it is
francesco here and in today's feature
We're gonna be focusing in on five
Productivity courses to try out now as you can imagine there are tons of courses out there
I've distilled my favorite five that are out there so that you can guys can go away
Maybe take advantage of some of the time that you currently have now
These will range from time management to better use of
Your note takers all the way over to habit tracking. So without further ado folks. Let's dive into today's video
Okey-dokey, so as you can imagine they are all very different courses. So although I will do them in order
There's no particular order. I want to just take that because they're all very different in their own way now
The first one is one called
Focus course and it's produced by Sean Blanc who is one of the creators at sweet setup
now I actually first discovered this course probably about six months ago now and
As you can imagine, I think it was in a period of time when I was trying to get a bit more clarity
and focus
Naturally with the baby coming up and also with a new chapter in key productive and what I decided to do
It's harder to get the course and start rolling into it now
What I would say is the course demands a little bit of focus in itself. It is a 40 day course
So for example, you can go in every single day and do one of the exercises or lessons
And what's nice is you get a workbook with each of the lessons and the lessons themselves
Aren't necessarily easy
They do demand you to sit down and have a thorough think about different aspects
so I've done about
60% of the course so far and
I'm actually going to be going and trailing back to just before the second section
The main reason behind that is because I want to reduce some of my answers, especially with the environment changing recently
but the concept is really to help you reset on what your goals and focuses should be and
Helping you to almost like draw out what is important in your life?
So so far, I would probably give this course about a 4 out of 5 rating
I'm enjoying the lessons and I'm actually taking in a lot of the learnings that they share and also they share some great
Resources inside the lessons one of the things that I was worried about when getting it was the pricing was quite high
I think I paid the outright fee which was about three hundred ninety seven dollars
But you can break it down into monthly pricing as well
So the fee is quite high, but in all fairness there are well over forty lessons
which is quite good and if you delay this for example day by day and
Utilize a journal then. I think you will have a better outcome
I actually started doing this the majority of the exercises in my barren fig notebook and as you can imagine over time
It became quite full
So I'm when I redo some of the sections from section two, I will be doing the with the remarkable tablet
So the focus course by Sean Blanc is a cracking one and that is number one to kick us off
So the second course is one that I did a fair while ago
Probably one of the first ever courses then I took it was originally on Skillshare
I believe and it's called getting stuff done like a boss now aside from the cheesy title
It is developed and produced by tiago forte. Who's one of the leading
Productivity experts out there as you can imagine he's done the second brain concept itself and obviously speaks
Routinely about how to take effective notes and also manage your systems
Using really rigid processes. He developed something called the parametric
Intend inside of this call what I really liked about getting stuff done in 21 days is it?
Condenses the GTD and workflow processes into one course, that isn't necessarily too
Overwhelming it can probably be taken over say three or four days from my memory. That's what I did. I remember sitting on my
Mum, and dad's bed and just like taking the course and and really enjoying it and what it actually set me up with before
University and this is obviously a different scenario, but actually set me up with
strong folders and of course
I just finished reading GTD
so it actually enhanced my learning of GTD and and almost like you ties in the GTD work but sort of like
pushed me into
Utilizing it further, which helped to strengthen?
Say my own productivity today
now the other things I liked about the course is that it helps you set up those folders in your note taking application and
I remember there's some good exercise in it where for example, you don't just do it with your note-taking system the power method
But you also do it
with your Google Drive
Now I will talk about the second brain course later because that's one of these but it doesn't necessarily go into that much detail
But it does introduce the concepts to you to get the ball rolling
Now the course right now I believe is $99. It's definitely worth it. One of the best courses I had taken in the past
I think in the day I probably spent about
$30 which seemed like 99 pound when I was back in universe before University
so number three folks is Thomas Frank's real productivity course on Skillshare now in this course he
Touches on habits and how to create effective goals that are more tangible and more real
And in performing habits as a layer over the top to then achieve
Those goals know if you don't know Thomas Frank is a youtuber
He is someone that talks a lot about productivity the concepts and how to take advantage of your time
And I think this is not just perfect for students
But those who are looking to reset the way they think about goals and habits themselves. He talks a lot about
external triggers and also how to develop better internal habits
So that you can track them and improve on them as time goes on this one's available on Skillshare
I'll make sure to include a two month free premium link if you're new to Skillshare, but you'll find that below
Okay. So number four is Tiago Forte's second brain course now
This is a much bigger course it is
Probably that getting things done like a boss course
Sort of times five because not just price but the value of the course. It's
Teaching you a way to actually build an entire second brain inside an application like Evernote like Google Drive
Whatever notetaking application it is he'll teach you how to go about doing that
Now the course as I said is quite highly priced
It's nine hundred ninety nine dollars, but you can play pay a monthly installments
But it is a really cracking course and they also put together live
cohorts as well to really help push your learning
that's basically mini workshops to help you grow and learn and I believe that might be available in there as
Package above the standard pricing now
I think the second brain concept is one that I got to learn fairly early on
I haven't taken this course, but I've heard some fantastic things about it
It always becomes one of the most recommended
courses and a lot of you guys have taken this course as well and found some huge value and I think what Thiago teaches
And apparently this eight
modules or eight modules of the curriculum to follow and as well as additional interviews and cohorts
But what he teaches is something that will help grow in time
I think things like the para methods and also making sure you utilize GTD like Tiago can really stand the test of time and
Like I guess I'm proof in to some extent because I learnt it before University and now still apply
Concepts like this. It's a very long-term benefit and finally to wrap things up
This is the final course recommendation and it's Mike Vardy s course on Skillshare
That was in partnership with todoist
Now what I like about Mike's course is it's it's really well produced
but also I like that it focuses on the sort of daily theming concepts and time batching so
Obviously if you're completely new to that concept it's about basically
Organizing your days in these sort of batches. So for example instead of say me filming like on
Monday Tuesday
Wednesday and a Friday you would get all over filming done on one day and then for example
do all of your editing on the next day and
say all of your uploading on the Wednesday so that you're
You're batching a whole concept so that I don't have to set up the camera on a routine basis
I can just do it once a week instead of doing it four times a week because that is
Batching it and it will save you time in the long term
He talks about these sort of day theming concepts and how to actually go about applying them how to plan your week
Which is nice and say how to use tools to actually apply that
Believe he talks through a lot of how you can do that inside of to do s so folks
That was some course recommendations for you guys
Let me know if you've taken a Productivity course that you thoroughly enjoyed
but as you can imagine a great place to start sharing some recommendations below so of course
There's gonna be a little bit more time for us and I think courses can not only teach us
Fundamental aspects of the way that we can improve our lives
But they're great because they can be done on your own time
That's why I like courses more than say live sessions in my opinion
Like I like just digging into a course one lesson or two lessons per day at the moment
I'm taking a lot of master class classes. I don't wanna include them because they're not necessarily creator led but they are really valuable
So I also include a couple of other courses that I've taken in the past that I think might be useful below
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