Your 7-Day Escape from the Cult of 'Busy'

Our journey begins with a daily system. This book is the essential starting point because it provides a simple, powerful 4-step framework for choosing a daily 'Highlight' and designing your day around it. It's the core tactic of intentional living.

After learning the tactic of a daily 'Highlight' yesterday, this book gives you the life philosophy behind it. Essentialism is the art of figuring out what truly matters so you can make better choices about your Highlight. It’s the strategy for your daily tactics.

With your essential priorities now clear, you need to protect the time to work on them. This book is the crucial guide to scheduling and executing the kind of focused, high-value work that a designed life requires. It’s how you make space for what matters.

Now that you're trying to do Deep Work, this book explains why it's so hard. It's a validating look at the powerful external forces that are shattering our attention. Understanding this enemy is key to designing a life that successfully resists it.

Fighting the forces of distraction requires more than willpower; it requires automatic routines. Building on your new awareness, this book gives you the blueprint for designing the daily habits that make an intentional life effortless.

With your new habits in place, let's make sure they are motivating. This book explores the deep human needs for autonomy, mastery, and purpose. It’s a guide to ensuring the life you're designing is one you'll actually be excited to live.

For our finale, we learn to design our time with others. After a week of focusing on your personal design, this book is a masterclass in how to be just as intentional with our social lives. It's the capstone for designing a life rich in meaningful connection.