Organize Your Life with a Productivity System You Can Trust

Does this sound like you?

• You feel overwhelmed and chronically behind on things.
• You struggle to make time for your top priorities.
• Your lack of organization is holding you back.
• You’ve tried all sorts of methods to stay organized… but nothing has stuck.

You are not alone!

I was perpetually stressed and overwhelmed until I did this…

I studied economics at a top liberal arts college.

After I graduated, I took a job in litigation consulting. I ran complex analyses for Fortune 500 companies getting sued for millions, if not billions of dollars.

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

Sound familiar? A lot of people I talk to struggle with the exact same thing.

I faced so many projects and meetings and deadlines and emails. My to-do list was endless.

I tried to fix it by pushing myself and working harder, sometimes staying at the office past midnight…

Before I knew it, I was sitting on the couch at home, burned out. Just cleaning my apartment was stressful.

I never returned to my 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 stay organized.

I clarified my priorities, tracked my to-dos, and sorted out my notes. With my new system, I was able to handle anything.

Soon, people noticed I was now always on top of stuff. They asked me to teach them my system. So I did.

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.

And now you can learn my system, too.

You don’t have to spend 1.5 years burned out and unable to work. You don’t have to struggle and work harder in an attempt to stop feeling so overwhelmed, like I did.

You just need a simple system that’s easy to stick with.

I’ll teach you.

— Peter Akkies

How to avoid another “false start” in getting on top of things

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

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

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

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 productivity and staying organized.

I know this because for over 7 years, I’ve been helping people build productivity systems they can actually stick with.

I’ve worked with everyone from small business owners to a Harvard Business School professor to a billionaire with a family office with 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.

You don’t need more generic information.

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 weekly review that takes 30 minutes and keeps your entire system running for years?

And dozens of challenges just like that.

Don’t reinvent the wheel.

Let me take these problems off your shoulders and save you time.

In the Organize Your Life program, you’ll install a battle-tested productivity system that has worked for thousands of people.

Step by step, we’ll set up a system that will help you stay on top of things and that lasts a lifetime. 

You’ll avoid wasting time on the inevitable dead ends you’ll run into when you try to figure it all out yourself.

And when you get stuck while you’re setting up your system, I’ll be right there to get you unstuck.

You’ll get six weeks of hands-on calls and access to the members-only support space, to learn the system, implement it, and troubleshoot until your system is stress-tested and fully locked in.

It’s the difference between another false start and a system that will still be helping 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.

Why this works when your previous systems didn’t

The Organize Your Life program is a 6-week guided group program.

In the program, we’ll set up a reliable, trusted productivity system for you. 

That includes the exact apps, habits, workflows, and routines you need to be your best self.

Because it’s a guided program, you won’t waste any more time on trial and error, false starts, or trying to figure it out alone.

How the program works 

In short:

1. You’ll fill out a detailed intake form.
2. You’ll join twice-weekly calls for implementation and for troubleshooting.
3. In between calls, you’ll get support and we’ll continue to troubleshoot in the members-only support space.
4. Optionally, you can join a smaller, peer-to-peer accountability group for extra motivation and inspiration… and accountability, of course!

In the intake form, you’ll reflect on your role, your tools, your biggest bottlenecks, what your days look like, and where things break down.

This helps you get extra clarity on what to do and it helps me to understand your situation, so I can support you better.

Then, over the span of six weeks, we’ll install your productivity system to get and stay organized.

That means setting up the right apps, the right workflows, and the right habits.

Each week, we’ll cover one of the essential building blocks of your system.

Here’s the weekly rhythm:

• Each Tuesday, we’ll have a live Theory + Action session where I’ll teach one component of the system and you’ll start implementing right away.
• After the Tuesday call, you’ll continue to implement that week’s building block by following along with bite-sized action steps.
• Each Thursday, we’ll have office hours. This is Q&A, hot-seat style coaching, and troubleshooting. Bring what you’re stuck on and I’ll help you get unstuck in real time.

The Tuesday calls are 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. US Eastern. The Thursday calls are 1 – 2 p.m. US Eastern.

Of course you’ll have lifetime access to the curriculum and to the live session recordings.

In between calls, you’ll have access to the members-only support space.

This is where we’ll do more troubleshooting and where you can get my personal support. It’s also where you can share motivation and inspiration with the other program participants.

Because it’s not just information that will change your life — it’s practical strategies with energy behind them. And that comes from doing it together with others.

Get real-time support from Peter during weekly office hours.

The course curriculum and the productivity system we’ll install for you

You’ll follow easy, step-by-step instructions, and get my direct support whenever you get stuck.

You won’t be doing it alone.

And we’ll follow a structured process.

Here’s the week-by-week breakdown of what we’ll tackle:

Week 1: Stop Carrying Your Life in Your Head

We’ll start by getting the chaos out where you can see it. Not someday, not after you’ve watched 14 tutorials, not after you’ve found the perfect app — right away.

You’ll discover the simple structure behind every trusted productivity system: where tasks go, where projects live, what belongs on your calendar, where notes and reference material belong, and how to stop letting important commitments hide in your head, your inbox, your messages, and random scraps of paper.

By the end of the week, you’ll have a minimum viable productivity system you can actually use — not a beautiful productivity fantasy that collapses the first time your week gets busy.

Week 2: Turn Your To-Do List Into a Command Center

Most people don’t have a task system. They have a guilt list: a long, stale, slightly accusing pile of things they might do, should do, forgot to do, or no longer even understand.

This week, we’ll fix that.

You’ll get your projects, areas, deadlines, planned dates, someday items, and active commitments into a clean structure that shows you what’s real and what matters next.

The result is simple but powerful: you’ll be able to open your task manager without that awful feeling of dread.

Week 3: Plan a Week That Can Survive Contact With Reality

A lot of productivity advice quietly assumes you have eight uninterrupted hours, unlimited energy, and no one asking you for anything. Disaster.

This week, we’ll take your real calendar, your real obligations, your real energy, and your real responsibilities — and turn them into a daily and weekly planning rhythm that actually fits your life.

You’ll get a practical way to choose what belongs on today’s list, protect real “doing time”, and stop beginning every morning by reacting to whoever shouted loudest most recently.

Week 4: Stop Letting Inbound Run Your Life

Email, meetings, Slack, Teams, texts, notes, client requests, random ideas — this is where commitments go to disappear. And when they disappear, they don’t become less important. They become anxiety.

This week, we’ll create simple workflows for the places where your work actually enters your life, so you know exactly what to do with an email that requires action, a meeting that creates follow-up, an idea you don’t want to lose, or a delegated item you need to track.

You’ll also refine your personal weekly review checklist, so your system stays trustworthy instead of slowly rotting in the background.

Week 5: Make the Important Stuff Unignorable

The cruel trick of modern work is that you can spend years being extremely responsible and still not move toward the life you actually want.

You answer the emails, attend the meetings, keep the clients happy, handle the admin, clear the urgent stuff — and somehow your bigger goals keep waiting politely in the corner.

This week, we’ll bring those priorities back into the room.

You’ll clarify what matters in your current season of life, turn long-term goals into visible projects and next actions, create a practical quarterly plan, and make a “don’t-do list”, so your calendar finally has room for the work and life you really want.

Week 6: Create the System You’ll Come Back To

The goal is not to become the kind of person who never falls behind. That person does not exist.

The goal is to have a system you can return to when travel, deadlines, family, clients, sickness, stress, or plain old life knock you off rhythm.

In the final week, you’ll audit your system, spot your personal failure modes, simplify what has become too complicated, and create a reset protocol for the moments when everything feels stale or overwhelming.

You’ll leave with your personal productivity system operating manual — and a clear 30-day commitment so the system keeps working after the program ends.

And this isn’t just a passive program!

Every week, you’ll have direct access to me.

• “Which to-do app should I use?” I’ll tell you, based on your specific needs. Whether it’s Things, Todoist, OmniFocus, or some other app — we’ll make sure you set it up correctly, rather than simply downloading an app and leaving everything on default.
• “I set up my system but it’s already getting messy.” I’ll diagnose why and fix it with you.
• “I can’t stick to my weekly review.” I’ll figure out what’s getting in the way and give you a version that actually works for your schedule.

This is the part where, in every previous attempt, you would have gotten stuck, gotten frustrated, and quietly abandoned the whole thing.

Plus: a secret weapon, if you choose to use it…

In addition to joining the main group on the calls and connecting with others in the members-only space, you can optionally join a smaller accountability group.

This is a group of about 4 people. You’ll choose a weekly time together to meet. You’ll use these calls to check in on how the program is going for each of you — and to do your weekly reviews together.

Many people who’ve done the course in the past say that the accountability group was one of their favorite parts of the course.

Some even continued to do weekly reviews with their accountability group for years after they finished the program!

With a weekly review checklist tailored to you, we’ll make sure nothing slips through the cracks and that you’ll finally make this crucial habit stick.

Bonus: instant and lifetime access to comprehensive video courses

The main program runs for six weeks and starts on May 19.

But as a complimentary bonus, when you enroll you’ll get immediate and lifetime access to a variety of comprehensive video courses.

For example, the “Big-Picture Productivity” course is a deep-dive on building and maintaining your productivity system, achieving your long-term goals, and managing your tasks and projects.

You’ll also get access to “Productivity 101”, in which you’ll build a “minimum viable productivity system” for when things are getting a little too complicated.

And you’ll get access to my deep-dive task management courses on the best to-do apps around: OmniFocus, Things, and Todoist.

You can take these video courses before the program starts, alongside the program, or after the program finishes as a deeper dive or as a refresher.

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

This is, of course, all in addition to the comprehensive six-week program itself!

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: how we’ll make sure your system sticks for the long term…

The main Organize Your Life program lasts six weeks.

During those six weeks, we’ll install the tools, workflows, and habits you need to get organized and stay organized.

But over time, you’ll probably run into challenges. 

Your system will need refinement.

To deal with that, and as a bonus for enrolling in the program, you’ll get access to 4 quarterly Accountability Sessions. 

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

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

Previous program participants have loved the quarterly accountability sessions, because they helped them stay on track for the long term.

What your life will look like 6 weeks from now:

Evenings and weekends become yours again. Not “yours but I’ll just do this one thing”. Actually yours. Because work got handled during work hours, by someone who has a system for handling it.

The “what did I even accomplish today?” feeling is gone. You’ll have actual clarity on your priorities. With an intentional to-do list for every day. Daily focus items, chosen deliberately. You’ll prioritize strategic work that moves the needle — not just whatever’s screaming loudest.

You stop spending every ounce of energy just keeping your head above water. So you’ll finally have bandwidth for that long-postponed project. The side hustle you want to grow. The career move you’ve been longing for. You have capacity 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’ll have a conscious, deliberate “not now” list — so instead of vaguely feeling like you should be doing more, you’ll know exactly what you’ve chosen to set aside, and why, and when you’ll revisit it.

You develop the single habit that determines whether your system lasts 2 weeks or 20 years. You’ll have a custom “weekly review” checklist built for your specific role and responsibilities. Every week, in less than 30 minutes, you’ll process your inboxes, reset your system, surface your priorities, and start Monday with total clarity.

You discover productivity tools that feel like cheat codes. AI-powered meeting notes that write themselves while you talk. A to-do app that turns rambling voice notes into neatly structured tasks. A desktop assistant that organizes your files in the background. These tools exist right now — and most professionals have no idea. I curate productivity tools full-time so you don’t have to. You’ll get the ones that will make your work easier, and I’ll tell you exactly how to set them up. 

Take a shortcut to setting up the best modern productivity apps that make it easy to stay organized and manage your time.

And imagine this:

You stop waking up at 2 a.m. worried about what you’ve forgotten. Because everything — every task, every commitment, every follow-up, every half-formed idea — lives in a system you trust completely. Your brain can finally stop its frantic overnight inventory checks. You sleep like someone who’s in control. Because you are!

Your inbox stops dictating what you focus on. You’ll have a rock-solid email triaging process. Messages won’t pile up. Nothing will get lost. And the low-grade anxiety of having 847 unread messages will be a distant memory.

That project you’ve been meaning to get around to “soon” actually gets on your calendar. The strategic project. The business plan. The creative work. The thinking that separates good from great in your career. It stops getting pushed to “next week” because your system protects time for it.

You never google “best to-do app” at midnight again. You’ll have a professional-grade app — e.g. Things, Todoist, OmniFocus, or whichever fits your workflow best — set up properly. Configured for how you work, with a structure that stays clean even when the week gets chaotic.  No more starting over with a new app every six months.

Your boss, your clients, your partner — they won’t know what changed. They’ll just see you operating at a different level. They’ll see you being more prepared, more present, and more organized than anyone else in the room. That’s how reputations are built. 

You trust your system — and it sticks. Because it wasn’t cobbled together from random tips on a Saturday afternoon. It was installed with expert guidance and stress-tested over 6 weeks until it became second nature.

By the end of the 6-week program, you will be able to say:

• “I know where to capture new tasks.”
• “I know where to find my commitments.”
• “I have a current list of active projects.”
• “I can make a realistic plan for today.”
• “I can process email/meeting notes into actions.”
• “I have a weekly review I actually do.”
• “I know how to recover when I fall behind.”
• “I have a clearer connection between my daily actions and my bigger priorities.”

Discover and set up the best productivity apps to save lots of time, for example by letting an AI assistant add to-dos to your task manager automatically based on your meeting notes.

Case study: Rob the wealth advisor

Rob is a wealth advisor who manages investment portfolios for high-net-worth families.

When he came to me, he was spending his entire day glued to his Outlook, to his email inbox — terrified he’d miss something important from a client.

You see, if he missed something, a client might not feel seen. They might jump ship to a competitor!

Rob’s company had even built him a dashboard that would automatically flag portfolio changes worth discussing. So he could proactively reach out to his clients and look — and be — really on top of things.

But Rob could never find time to set the dashboard up.

He was too busy reacting to all of those incoming emails.

So step #1 on Rob’s personal productivity roadmap was a simple change:

A one-hour focus block at the start of every weekday. No email until 10 a.m. That’s it.

Before we even got to anything else, like reorganizing his task manager or mapping out his high-level priorities, we got Rob to focus on a strategic project for just an hour a day.

And it made a massive difference.

Within weeks, he was proactively reaching out to clients, using a simple spreadsheet (no need for that complicated dashboard, in the end).

Clients were thanking him for being so on top of things.

Rob was feeling ahead, instead of behind.

Same job. Same clients. Same hours. Completely different experience.

But it took an outside expert for Rob to recognize that he needed to stop tweaking his task manager (OmniFocus) and instead needed a small tweak to his schedule, which changed everything.