February Update:
​You are still welcome to join the program!  There will be additional Q&A calls scheduled where you can ask me anything related to marketing, business, or productivity.

“George Kao's TLC program has been very helpful to help me optimize my ideal schedule… and actually putting it into practice.”
– Per Angerstig, Professional Development Coach

Based on 12 years of coaching entrepreneurs and self-employed people, I've noticed that goals and plans are often ineffective due to lack of consistency.

Without a wise mastery of time, energy, and boundaries, all of the actions needed to grow a business will feel overwhelming.

You might be overscheduling, or have too big of a to-do list that's not effectively prioritized. 

What if instead there was clarity and ease with scheduling your time, a way to work with your priorities in a way that inspires you and gives you energy? What if scheduling and making a to-do list could be energizing, rather than overwhelming?

Enter "TLC" -- the Thoughtful Life Calendar coaching program, or as some participants have called it, implementing a tender loving care for your boundaries and energy, as related to your purpose and plans.

The program aims to help you become crystal clear and fully energized about your priorities each month, week, and day -- by showing you how to lovingly befriend and use your calendar and to-do list in a supportive and gently disciplined environment.

Your calendar and to-do list become your supportive assistants, rather than your boss. A calendar aligned with your values, style, and goals will provide an amazing structure, system, and discipline to grow your business to the level that your potential allows.
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Through the 2022 year, you'll get access to live group calls every week where I teach one small part of the Joyful Productivity methodology and engage with your questions.

You’ll also have the option of an accountability buddy (or alternatively, to join a Team of 4-6 people) where you can check in regularly about how your joyful productivity is going.

By completing the program you'll gain:

1. Greater daily awareness of where your time and energy are actually going.
   
   
2. Greater choice and strength in setting healthy boundaries with others and with yourself.
   
   
3. A renewed, more friendly & empowered relationship with your to-do list, and organization of information.
   
   
4. A more thoughtful life calendar that matches your energy and goals and sustainably supports your business plan. 
   
   
5. You’ll feel more confident and make faster progress because you’ll have changed how you work daily.

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What Skills Will We Learn & Practice?

Our year of guidance and practice together will include... 
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1. The practice of creating and optimizing your ideal schedule – to create proper focus on your priorities, along with a balance of rest and play
2. How to overcome resistance and have your own flow process – so that you can take consistent action to grow
3. How to use Zapier to automate various tasks 
4. Setting Process Goals (versus typically only Results Goals) 
5. Creating your “hat manuals” so you can work in a calm, clear way everyday
6. Capture, Categorize, Calendar – to deal skillfully with things you want to do
7. Working with (and through) Creative Discomfort so that you create consistently
8. Why and how to organize your information by “deliverables”
9. The process for clearing your Email Inbox regularly – an amazing feeling!
10. My recommended amount of time for various key business areas, which you'll be able to modify based on your goals
11. Dealing with Overwhelm – how to create a new instinct for relating skillfully to a deluge of ideas or things yet undone 
12. EADA (Eliminate, Automate, Delegate, Appreciate) – how to get more done by doing less, yet enjoying more of what you do
13. The DRY principle (“don’t repeat yourself”) and how to apply it for efficiency
14. Decluttering your computer and workspace
15. Working more lightly, so that you can sustain long-term growth – strict with showing up, lenient with the results, and gentle with refocusing
16. The Path of Mastery – deliberate practice and tracking of habits
17. Understanding your Big Rocks and therefore maintain better boundaries
18. The practice of Gentle Ambition: setting goals while working without attachment
19. Finding your optimal way to overcome procrastination on a daily basis
20. Your own start-of-work routine that supports each work hour
21. Your end-of-workday ritual that helps you feel complete daily
22. Efficiently clearing your to-do list each day
23. Understanding – and practicing – your ideal method for creating habits
24. Occasional time tracking practice – start of year (or quarter), boost your awareness to how you're spending your time 
25. Preventing burnout and developing your sustainable stamina
26. Every repeated task: each time get 1% better at it
27. Self-Talk for Joyful Productivity
28. A simple way to solve any problem with calm clarity
29. Creating your own “energy reboot” to use frequently to get unstuck
30. Your optimal rhythm of daily rest, including naps if helpful
31. The practice of optimizing your sleep – the single most important physical change to your overall energy at work​
32. Reminder rituals to practice more frequent mindfulness at work
33. The personal food choices & timing that support your joyful productivity
34. …plus additional topics as raised in the weekly Q&A call, which can include any topics about marketing or business.

Even if you implemented just one third of the program – or even one-tenth! – your use of time and energy will be more effective by year's end.
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​What You'll Receive:

• Weekly Lessons -- you can join the live 30-minute teaching call, or wait for the recording to be sent to you at the end of each week.  Scroll down for the dates and times.
  
  
• Weekly Group Coaching Calls -- just for TLC members. During this 30-minute weekly group call, you can bring your specific challenge in regards to prioritizing your business actions, optimizing your joyful productivity, or any other questions related to marketing your business.

• Supportive accountability throughout the year with your TLC buddy or team, to help you solidify great habits.
  
  
• Weekly Co-Working Sessions just for TLC members, where we start with a brief grounding exercise, intention setting, then quietly each work on our own purposeful projects, with the group's supportive energy present.
  
  
• Optional Private FB Group to connect with fellow participants for mutual support and growth.
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• Monthly Bonus Group Q&A Call (1 hour each) where you can ask any questions about marketing or business. You'll  also receive these recordings afterwards.
  
  
• Additional Q&A Calls will be scheduled to address questions outside the scope of TLC or productivity, including marketing, social media, business growth, etc, as long as there's interest from members! (For context, in the past month there have already been 8 additional Q&A calls, just for members. Plenty of support!)

For context: hiring a skilled coach costs $100+ USD per session.
This program is akin to a light touch with a skilled coach for 1 year, along with a dedicated community of fellow practitioners.

​$80 USD
per month through Dec 2022

​Or $735 One-Pay
(Save $145)

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When Are The Live Sessions?

Here are the times for the 30-minute weekly TLC calls.

Americas & Europe
Every Monday
8:30am Pac / 11:30am East / 4:30pm UK

Australia & Asia
(and Americas evening)
Every Wednesday
9:30am Singapore / 12:30pm Sydney
...which is Tuesdays 5:30pm Pacific / 8:30pm Eastern

The call for each time zone alternates between Teaching vs Q&A each week, so that each time zone can experience both formats.

There are additional Q&A calls scheduled at other times,
not listed above, which also accommodate both time zones.

Recordings are sent every week so you'll have a rich library of video lessons that you can keep reviewing for years to come. 

There is be an optional FB private group for progress sharing and Q&A, but even if you don’t join the group, you’ll be able to fully access the lessons and Q&A videos and engage in the discussion by commenting under the videos,
​which are privately hosted on Youtube.

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Frequently Asked Questions:

• “Can I join with a month-to-month commitment, and stop if it’s not right for me?”
  Yes of course -- we definitely want people to stay only if they're enjoying the program. However, it's designed as a 1-year experience, with progressive lessons, so please set that intention when joining. Your staying in the program will also be very helpful for your TLC accountability buddy.
  
  
• “Will this program be valuable if I’m only able to dedicate part-time hours to building a business?”
  Yes – out of everything else I offer, this is indeed a perfect program to learn and implement a more efficient and effective use of your time.
  
  
• “How large is the group size for the weekly half hour sessions?”
  There are 2 types of half-hour calls – lessons and Q&A.
  For the Lesson calls, having more people there makes it more interesting for everyone, given the live chat and contributions of everyone’s ideas.
  For the Q&A call, I guarantee that I will either answer your questions on the call, or if not, I’ll email you my response later. If there are more people than I can address, I create additional Q&A calls for this program.

The Bottom Line:
You'll receive excellent guidance
​for your business priorities
and joyful productivity
and plenty of support along the way.

“TLC has been a profound experience for me.

What if you could have an assistant whom you could fully trust to schedule your life in a way that felt aligned with your heart and soul’s purpose? An assistant who knew you as well as you know yourself and was willing to be flexible and adaptable to your changing life and demands and always wanted to make sure you were taking care of yourself first?

TLC helped me get in touch with this assistant inside me.”

Dr. Steve Chee, Integrative Medicine

Tomar Levine, Spiritual Mentor

“Having been structure-resistant for my entire life, I am starting to soften in my approach to my calendar. Although George is super-organized, he allows for all degrees of flexibility in adapting his principles. That's what makes it possible for me to experiment and play. I'm starting to block off periods of time for my top priorities, for what I am motivated to do anyway, and this starts a dialogue between me and my external world. Instead of being haphazard and impulse-driven, I am feeling more intentional and in harmony with my actions, while remaining relaxed and actually happier - and more productive." -- Tomar Levine

“I was very reluctant before joining George's TLC program. I thought that I had enough on my plate and I was already creating a weekly calendar.

Yet, I knew deep down that I wasn't spending my time in the way that served me and my business best. I was checking off the boxes, but those boxes weren't really supporting me.

​TLC gave me a gentle approach to make small changes and had room to play and experiment. I know I don't need to do it "right" and I can use my weekly process to try out habits and techniques so that I'm spending my time intentionally. TLC has been a game changer and I know I'm just getting started!”

Tara Whitney, Intuitive Eating Counselor

Tia Ma, Holistic Resilience Coach

​"Out of the 20 -plus courses I’ve taken from George so far, this one—the TLC program —has facilitated the most shift in my world.

It’s because it addresses time, and our relationship with agreements.... especially agreements to our self!

​As someone healing trauma in my brain and body, time has been a place of distortion, dissociation and disappointment in my past.
This program, with its Thoughtful Life Calendaring goals is helping me rewire navigating productivity, efficiency AND self care."

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​“George Kao’s TLC program is imbued with George’s signature gentleness and self-care as cornerstones to Joyful Productivity.

I’m finding the application of TLC has both up-levelled the quality of my self-care as well as my time blocking and wholehearted productivity.”

Gregory Vahanian, Life Coach

​​$80 USD
per month through Dec 2022

​​Or $735 One-Pay
(Save $145)