Welcome to the Focus Course
Get Clear. Take Action.
✓ World-Class, On-Demand Courses for Apple Users
✓ Productivity courses for busy professionals
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Over 20,000 customers
Get Clear. Take Action.
✓ World-Class, On-Demand Courses for Apple Users
✓ Productivity courses for busy professionals
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Over 20,000 customers
Stop being managed by your task list.
All the Things is our most popular course that has helped thousands of our customers to reclaim time and get in control of their task list. It covers productivity and task management and features advanced training for calm productivity and easier task management.
Stop living overloaded, overwhelmed, and overtired.
Discover how to get back much needed breathing room in your time, schedule, finances, and relationships.
Undo Your To-Do list
A video course to take you step-by-step to accomplish your goals, do your best work, and grow in your personal life.
800+ page interlinking digital planner
Interactive, full-featured, digital planner, based on a proven system for clarity, margin, and focus.
Goal setting doesn't have to suck
A guided workbook to review and celebrate 2025 and plan for 2026
Premiere time management training
The class consists of 33 video lessons plus PDF worksheets you can use for getting clarity about your time and scheduling your day.
Want to use habits to your advantage?
With good habits in place, your life is just easier. But this course to build thoughtful habits.
Simplified task and time management for getting a few hours of your week back
In this course, we show you how to track your time and plan your day using “time blocks” so you can be more productive and make the most of the time that you have available to you.
Your Best Work Doesn’t Happen Inside of an Inbox
If email is so important… then why does it mostly feel like a distraction and a chore that pulls us away from spending time on things that actually are important?
Discover how to organize your email and get back hours of your life each week.
Capture your ideas, and organize your writing.
It sucks to have your ideas, notes, and writing all scattered about with things all over the map. Learn Ulysses will help you take your notes, ideas, and writing from scattered to structured.
The course includes easy video tutorials to help you quickly learn Ulysses, as well as additional training featuring advanced workflows, writing coaching videos, and example setups.
Manage and develop your ideas.
Go step by step through our tried-and-true system for making your ideas better and saving yourself a LOT of time on the creative process. You will also get a series of in-depth screencasts for how to use the best mind mapping app out there (for Mac, iPad, and iPhone): MindNode.
The master-course for Obsidian users (new and old alike).
Finally organize your notes and ideas to make creative output easy. After this course you will understand what is possible with Obsidian, how it can serve you best for your specific needs, and be set up and ready to use it.
You get unlimited, on-demand access to every single course in our library (for both The Focus Course & The Sweet Setup).
Moreover, if you're like me, then sometimes you just get stuck in your own way — you know the solution is easy, but it's foggy to you and you need someone to help you snap out of it. That's why we host regular office hours and coaching calls, so you can get hands on guidance from myself and the rest of the Focus Team.
You'll also get inside access to our private community for sharing ideas, getting feedback, finding book recommendations, and more.
If you're looking for coaching specifically for growing your business, you'll want to join Club Pro.
Your membership serves as your VIP ticket to our live event. Each spring we host an amazing, in-person conference in Kansas City and it's FREE for Club Members to attend.
The Focus Club gives you everything you need to:
Stay focused on what’s actually important
intentional and in control
restore work/life balance
Get rid of the wasteful busywork
Bring the many areas of your life together
Your Focus Guide
👋 Hello. My name is Shawn and I am honored to be your host and guide through our productivity courses.
I’m a productivity coach to entrepreneurs and leaders. I live in Kansas City with my wife and our three boys.
For over 20 years, I have been learning and teaching about focus and margin. I’ve spoken about these topics at conferences and workshops; I've taught them to private groups and one-on-one clients; and my online courses have helped tens of thousands of people since 2015.
♥️ Married for 20 years, and we have 3 boys. Send pizza! 🍕
I used to work 80 hours per week. And even with all those hours, I still felt behind with my never-ending issues at work! I kept thinking I would eventually get ahead but of course I never did. There was always more...
Eventually I quit that job to begin working for myself. Yet I still kept chasing my to-do list. I never felt satisfied at the end of my work day; there was always more to be done. Work was always on my mind.
When my first son was born, I realized that I needed do to better. I didn’t want my work life to dominate my time. But, at the same time, I still had a strong desire to do meaningful work.
These seemingly-opposing forces shouldn’t have to fight one another. I knew it was okay to have a thriving work life while also having an awesome personal life.
I have spent years figuring out solutions related to focus.
I’ve examined my own habits, studied many other solutions, and rigorously tested different approaches over and over again. And I have worked hard to create a lifestyle that is conducive to doing my best creative work without sacrificing my personal and family life.
What you will learn inside the Focus Course are the same methods, ideas, and frameworks that have allowed me to grow a thriving business, do meaningful work I’m proud of, and give time to myself and my family.
The systems and tools that I'll show you inside Focus Like a Boss are the same ones I have developed in order to:
✅ Eliminate nearly all busywork, urgency, and procrastination from my week.
✅ Help other business owners and leaders get more breathing room in their schedule (even when it felt impossible to them).
✅ Make more money thanks to a few simple and easy shifts in focus and operations.
✅ Take 9 weeks of vacation every year.
✅ Consistently plan out my year, my month, my week, and my day to do the things that I want to do. C
✅ Design my perfect day that has plenty of time for personal interests, relationships, and deep work.
"I have read my share of productivity books, blogs, and hacks, but nothing I have read comes close to your work in terms of helpfulness, depth, and significance."
Tracy B.
Attorney & Law School Professor
"The mix of inspiration, learning, and simple practicals throughout the material made it so enjoyable".
Elana Marlow
Focus Course Member
"Shawn’s course helps you figure out where you want to go and how to get there. If you’re feeling adrift or just want to help get yourself more focussed, check it out."
David Sparks
Business Attorney, podcaster, blogger, and author
"I’m a big fan of intentional and measured progress and Shawn's training delivers on that in spades."
Mark Vardy
Focus Course Member
"I can’t recommend Shawn enough. He has proven strategies that give clear direction and actually work."
Amy S.
Designer
"Shawn, and his Focus Course, helped me get back to center. Which can be quite a challenge to find in the massive jungle that is the mess of our modern lives. It helped me define what was important and why — and how to execute on those things."
Andrew Carrol
CPA & CFO