Organize Your Life in 6 Weeks

Imagine a different way of living:

Your inbox stops ruling your day. Instead, you start your day with a plan. You have a clear to-do list of your top priorities, balancing what’s urgent with what’s most important. You’re in full control, so you can focus on what truly matters.

You stop waking up at 2 a.m. worried about what you’ve forgotten. Tasks, commitments, follow-ups, and half-formed ideas live in a system you trust. Your mind has stopped its frantic overnight inventory checks. You sleep like someone who’s in control. Because you are!

Evenings and weekends are yours again. You no longer need evenings to tackle a project you didn’t have time for during the day or Sundays to catch up on the week’s emails. Work gets done during work hours.

No more asking yourself, “What did I even do today?” Your priorities are perfectly clear and you execute on them. You prioritize strategic work that moves the needle, not just whichever email or message screams for your attention the loudest.

Start each day with an intentional to-do list that matches your priorities. So your “important, but not urgent” work finally gets the attention it deserves.

And picture this:

You develop the single habit that determines whether your system lasts 2 weeks or 20 years. Every week, you’ll process your inboxes, reset your system, clarify your priorities, and prepare for a proactive Monday where you are in charge. 

You stop spending every ounce of energy just keeping your head above water. You finally have bandwidth for that long-postponed project. For the work that compounds. For the kind of work that gets you promoted, lands a big client, or grows your revenue. 

You stop feeling guilty about the things you’re not doing. You have a conscious, deliberate “not now” list. So instead of vaguely feeling like you should be doing more, you know exactly what you’ve chosen to set aside and why, and when you’ll revisit it.

Your boss, your clients, your partner — they don’t know what changed. But they see you operating at a higher level. They see you being more prepared, more present, and more organized than anyone else in the room. (And they love you for it.)

You’ll capture everything you need to do in a trusted system, so you can prioritize proactively.

You will never get on top of things by squeezing in “one more task” between meetings

When your inbox is overflowing, the natural tendency is to move a little faster.

Can you squeeze in one more task between meetings?

Can you work on Sunday to clear your backlog?

Can you force yourself to be more disciplined?

But this isn’t sustainable.

If you try to run harder forever, you will burn out. Or, if you do a short sprint, you’ll feel behind again as soon as it’s over.

How can you get out of “reactive mode” for good?

You need a time management system that sticks

To feel in control again, you need a system that helps you plan and prioritize. A system to help you make better decisions about what deserves your time, when.

Without such a system, you’ll never stop frantically playing inbox whack-a-mole during the day and trying to catch up on important work in the evenings.

Without such a system, “urgent” will always beat “important”.

Your system needs three key components:

• The right tools that you enjoy using
• The right workflows to process emails, messages, meetings, goals, ideas, priorities, and so on
• The right habits, so you consistently use your system and make it stick

That’s the key to going from reactive to strategic.

Organize Your Life is the 6-week live group program where we’ll install that system together.

Avoid another “false start” in getting on top of things

Ever watched a random YouTube video or read a LinkedIn post about managing your time and thought, “if I could just do this, I’d be all set”?

The information in that video or post might truly be excellent.

But trying to cobble together a time management system from random videos and posts is like trying to get in shape by watching fitness content on your couch.

The odds of success are… suboptimal.

Without a trainer to:

• Assess where you are right now
• Tell you which exercises give you the best bang for your buck (and which to avoid)
• Watch your form as you’re doing the reps
• And adjust when something isn’t working…

You’ll just keep starting and stopping forever!

It’s the same with your time management.

I know this because for over 7 years, I’ve been helping people build productivity systems that not only work but actually stick.

I’ve worked with everyone from small business owners to a professor at Harvard Business School to a billionaire whose family office employs hundreds of staff.

The pattern is always the same:

The people who get the best results are those who get personal help from an expert.

Think of it this way. How much time would you waste trying to figure out, once again, on your own:

• Why your best work keeps getting pushed to “next week” — and how to make it happen this week?
• How to stop saying “yes” to things that crowd out your real priorities?
• Which apps and tools actually fit your workflow — and how to set them up so they stay organized?
• Why your previous systems always fell apart after a few weeks — and what to do differently?
• How to run a manageable weekly review that keeps your entire system running for years?

Don’t reinvent the wheel. Let me take these problems off your shoulders.

It’s the difference between another false start — and a system that will still help you be your best self years from now.

We’ll lock in your weekly review routine, so you’ll always be on top of things and nothing will slip through the cracks.

The 6-week program curriculum 

Week 1: Stop carrying your life in your head

We’ll get your system moving, with a simple structure that tells you exactly what goes where. We’ll also immediately start building the right supporting habits.

See, every productivity system starts to decay the moment you build it. If you’re not careful, your lists will go stale, your projects will become a mess, and within a few weeks, you’ll be winging it again. One key habit prevents that: the weekly review.

It’s the single habit that determines whether your system lasts two weeks or twenty years. In week 1, we’ll build your personal review checklist and do our weekly reviews together — and we’ll continue to review together throughout the program, so it becomes an ingrained habit for you.

Week 2: Own your days

We’ll implement a simple daily planning ritual that balances what’s urgent with what’s important. That way, you’ll be proactive, rather than reactive. Your days will support your priorities, rather than other people’s.

We’ll also set up workflows for staying on top of emails, messages, and meetings, so that nothing slips through the cracks.

You’ll walk away with: a 5-minute daily review that means you’ll be in charge of the day, rather than the day being in charge of you.

Week 3: Decide what truly deserves your time

This week, we zoom out. We’ll clarify exactly what matters in your personal life and at work right now. What are your career goals? How can you advance them? What changes would you like to make to your health, and to your relationships? What needs fixing in terms of your work-life balance? 

We’ll identify your priorities and turn them into precise next action steps. Just as important, we’ll eliminate distractions by putting together your “not now” list.

You’ll walk away with: razor-sharp priorities for the coming months, so you can finally focus.

Week 4: Fix your schedule

Clarifying your priorities is one thing. But you also have to make room for them in your schedule. This week, we’ll dive deeply into your schedule and we’ll fix it.

We’ll “defragment” your calendar and figure out exactly when you should focus, when you should have your meetings, and when you should catch up on email and messages. Without constant (and exhausting) context-switching.

You’ll walk away with: protected time on your calendar for your most important work.

Week 5: Protect your focus

Meetings, notifications, “got a minute?”…

Even with the best-designed schedule in the world, you can get interrupted and distracted. For many people I work with, interruptions and distractions are the biggest impediment to getting stuff done. Of course you need to be available for others sometimes — perhaps even most of the time. But this week, we’ll find and implement the right balance between focus and being available.

In particular, we’ll identify which boundaries you need to set, and we’ll start enforcing them. Politely, but clearly. 

You’ll walk away with: the ability to actually get stuff done.

Week 6: Stay on track for the long term

By this point, we’ll have installed your time management system. You’ll be much more proactive and strategic with your days. Next, we’ll make sure your system will survive the inevitable setbacks you’ll encounter.

We’ll eliminate the biggest remaining sources of friction in your system. We’ll simplify anything that’s gotten too complicated. And we’ll create your recovery plan, so you can get back on track when a difficult week knocks you off course.

You’ll walk away with: a system that sticks!

With a weekly review checklist tailored to you, you’ll finally make this crucial habit stick.

Enroll today and get two complimentary bonuses…

Bonus #1: Instant and lifetime access to Peter’s full library of video courses

The main program runs for six weeks and starts on October 13.

But as soon as you enroll, you will also get instant and lifetime access to my full library of in-depth productivity courses.

Normally, purchasing my all-access course bundle costs $597, but you’ll get complimentary access when you join the Organize Your Life program.

What’s included:

• “Big-Picture Productivity”, a deep-dive course on achieving your long-term goals.
• “Productivity 101”, the perfect course for resetting your time management system if you’ve fallen off the wagon.
• Deep-dive courses on the best task management apps: OmniFocus, Things, and Todoist.

You can take any of these video courses whenever is convenient for you, as a deeper dive or as a refresher.

You’ll be able to come back to the material for years to come, to tweak and refine your system.

Get lifetime access to the full curriculum, including deep-dive courses on the best task management apps, full guides to doing weekly reviews and quarterly planning, and more.

Bonus #2: Long-term accountability and troubleshooting

The Organize Your Life program lasts six weeks.

During those six weeks, we’ll install the tools, workflows, and habits you need to take back control of your time.

But sooner or later, you’ll run into a snag. A situation that will challenge your system. And that will require resilience and flexibility.

That’s why, as a second complimentary bonus for enrolling in the program, you’ll get access to 4 quarterly Accountability Sessions.

These sessions happen 3, 6, 9, and 12 months after the program.

They are there to make sure your system sticks.

We’ll check in: how’s your system doing? Are you still following the program principles? But mainly, we’ll troubleshoot what’s still not working 100% for you. 

Previous program participants absolutely loved the quarterly Accountability Sessions, saying they were integral for staying on track long-term.

I normally charge a fee for access to such Accountability Sessions.

But I really want you to succeed, so I’m including them as a complimentary bonus with the program.

12 texts and 7 calls in one hour

Matt is a real estate agent and broker. When he joined the program, he was working six days a week, 12-hour days, often without lunch.

He got more than 100 emails a day, and his team and his assistant interrupted him about 30 times a day. His phone never stopped buzzing.

During our first live session, he got 12 text messages and 7 phone calls in under an hour. He had to switch his phone off just to follow along.

He realized this wasn’t sustainable. He was so busy putting out fires that he wasn’t keeping in touch with his clients the way he expects of himself. It wasn’t great for his health, either.

He’d tried to fix this before, with OmniFocus, Todoist, and Getting Things Done. Each worked for a while, then his system became bloated and unmanageable. So he started the program a little anxious that the same thing would happen again.

So we didn’t start with a new app. We started with two short routines. The first was a weekly review every Saturday, together with the group. The second was a short daily review before his 8 am conference call, before the phone starts ringing.

That’s when he saw the real problem. One day in week 4, he had 52 things on his to-do list. Nobody could do all that.

So every morning, he started to triage. Does this need me, or can my assistant handle it? Can the client take care of it? Does it need to happen today, or at all?

And he started saying no. “That’s something I didn’t do before”, he says. “It’s a fantastic feeling.”

In week 5, he came to office hours with news. For the first time he could remember, every task was done. Every email was answered, and every call and text returned. And it was 5 pm. On a normal day, he’d still be working at 7.

He looked around for something else to do, and there was nothing left.

Did the next day blow up? Of course. It’s real estate. But now he had a system to get back on top of it.

The biggest shift was in his mindset. For years, Matt had tried to get more efficient so he could squeeze in more work. Now he wants the exact opposite: do what it takes to be successful, and then be done for the day.

“As a great side benefit, I could spend more time with my wife and my daughter”, he says, “and that’s absolutely worth it to me.”

Same job. Same team. Same phone. But a completely different day.

I was perpetually overwhelmed too, until…

My first job out of college was in litigation consulting.

I ran complex analyses for Fortune 500 companies getting sued for millions of dollars.

As my career advanced, I started to feel overwhelmed. Clients were happy, but I felt miserable.

I faced so many projects and meetings and deadlines and emails. I struggled to stay on top of it all. 

I managed, by pushing myself and working harder. Sometimes I stayed at the office past midnight.

That worked for a while, but eventually it became too much and I found myself sitting on the couch at home, burned out. I never returned to that job.

After I recovered, I decided there had to be a better way to handle all of the responsibilities life throws at us.

So I developed a system to manage my time. I clarified my priorities, sorted out my to-dos, and protected my focus time.

Soon, people noticed I was always on top of stuff. They asked how I did it. So I taught them my system.

I started by sharing simple tutorials on YouTube, but these days my clients even include a billionaire who flies me in for in-person coaching.

Now you can learn my system, too.

The Organize Your Life program is everything I know about installing a time management system that works and actually sticks, with 6 weeks of guided, personal support. 

(For a fraction of the day rate I charge the billionaire!)

This program is what I wish existed when I was figuring this out for myself.

— Peter Akkies