1. Faith without (meaningful) work is dead
Meaningful work in a culture of compulsive busyness

2. Story from Tulsa to illustrate what productivity is not

3. Vision Psychology Systems
I’m not going to give you a system or an app. Each of you are so varied that what works for one might not work for another. I’m going to give you principles in a framework so you can apply them to yourself.
Explain the three layers framework, using my story as a non-example.
Vision

4. What you’ll learn today
ASSBAT:
Define what productivity / meaningful work means for them
List psychological blocks that prevent meaningful work
Identify productivity problems they want to solve and evaluate various possible solutions
Make a plan for the above
Make a "make a plan" plan

5. Vision Our culture lacks vision for productivity
Compulsive busyness
Aimlessness
No concept of “meaningful work”
“What does meaningful work look like for you?”
Never missing a deadline
Not just doing the right things, but doing them well and making a difference
Being able to drop what he's doing to play with his grandkids
Take 3 minutes to write your definition of “meaningful work”

6. Psychology Fear/guilt/shame Lack of clarity Momentum/motivation
Boundaries
Lack of clarity
Tyranny of the urgent
What should I be doing right now?
Inability to pivot
Momentum/motivation
Planning fallacy
Decision fatigue
Analysis paralysis
I’ve organized this one into three blocks with a few examples of each, but it’s not exhaustive by any means.
Fear/guilt/shame: fear of a task or how it’ll make you feel (MPD, anyone?), “I’ll feel bad if I don’t do this, so I should do it”
Lack of clarity: unknown tasks get pushed aside
Momentum/motivation: long to-do lists don’t get done, initial excitement that wears off
Take 3 minutes to identify your most common ones

7. Checking in
ASSBAT:
Define what productivity / meaningful work means for them
List psychological blocks that prevent meaningful work
Identify productivity problems they want to solve and evaluate various possible solutions
Make a plan for the above
Make a "make a plan" plan
We’ve gone through the first two, but before we get to the final three, we’ll look at some case studies

8. Case studies!
Divide into 5 groups. You’ll each cover one, and tell the group what you came up with.
For each case study, answer these questions:
What psychological things do they face, and what impact does it have?
What are problems that could be solved?
What are potential solutions to those problems?
We’re not going to cover vision in the case studies since you’d have to just guess.
Points to highlight if they don’t come up: asking for help, pre-mortem, inversion analysis, pivot, waiting for list, Next Actions vs. Projects

9. Define the problem, evaluate solutions
Take the next 10 minutes to
Define what problems you want to solve
Pick one to work on first
List some potential solutions
Figure out what solutions you want to try
Make a plan
If you have time now (otherwise, do it later)
Make a “make a plan” plan
When to re-evaluate
What criteria to use
James Clear presented some research in a TED talk about people who made a life change regarding working out: the control group and the group who got an inspiration speech worked out about the same, 35-39%. The ones with a clear plan were at 91%.

10. Checking in
ASSBAT:
Define what productivity / meaningful work means for them
List psychological blocks that prevent meaningful work
Identify productivity problems they want to solve and evaluate various possible solutions
Make a plan for the above
Make a "make a plan" plan