Design Your Reality Instead of Reacting to It
Design Your Reality: Strategic Systems for Intentional Living is a practical, workshop-style course for experienced practitioners who want durable frameworks…
Instructor: T.I. Team
Level: everybody
Duration: 8 weeks
Price: $39
Course Curriculum
Module 1 — Direction: From Reactivity to Deliberate Aims
- L1. Intentional Living as an Executive Discipline (Drucker’s Effectiveness Frame)
- L2. SMART Objectives Done Precisely (Doran) — Turning Wants into Commitments
- L3. Values → Principles → Boundaries: The Non-Negotiables That Reduce Reactivity
- L4. Vision with Constraints: Building a 12-Month Intent Map That Can Survive Reality
- L5. Decomposition I: From Objective to Milestones, Projects, and Next Actions
- L6. Prioritization and Trade-Off Math: What You Fund vs. What You Starve
- L7. Commitments as Contracts: Calendar Integrity and Renegotiation
- L8. Module 1 Synthesis: Your Intent Stack (Values + Objectives + Priority Architecture)
Module 2 — Execution Systems: Cadence, Feedback, and Consistency
- L1. High-Output Thinking (Grove): Managing Output, Not Effort
- L2. OKRs Without Theater (Doerr): Objectives, Key Results, and Integrity
- L3. Cadence Design: Daily Minimums, Weekly Planning, and Protected Deep Work
- L4. Feedback Loops: Leading Indicators, Lagging Outcomes, and Course Correction
- L5. Consistency Mechanisms: Scorecards, Accountability, and Evidence of Work
- L6. Relapse Recovery Protocols: Returning to Cadence After Disruption
- L7. Stakeholder Mapping: Managing Dependencies and Protecting Priorities
- L8. Module 2 Synthesis: Your Operating System (Cadence + OKRs + Reviews)
Module 3 — Anti-Reactivity: Awareness, Environment, and Choice Architecture
- L1. Reactive Pattern Detection: Triggers, Loops, and Attention Leakage
- L2. Impulse Control as System Design: Pre-Commitments and Default Rules
- L3. Nudge for Self-Mastery (Thaler & Sunstein): Choice Architecture at Home and Work
- L4. Friction Engineering: Make Good Actions Easy, Bad Actions Expensive
- L5. Decision-Making Under Uncertainty (Annie Duke): Probabilistic Commitments
- L6. Second-Order Effects: Avoiding the ‘Fix That Breaks Everything’ Pattern
- L7. Pre-Mortems and Constraints Review: Preventing Failure Before It Starts
- L8. Module 3 Synthesis: Your Anti-Reactivity Blueprint (Triggers + Environment + Decisions)
Module 4 — Integration: Mastery, Communication, and Long-Term Execution
- L1. The Quarterly Review: Strategy Refresh Without Thrash
- L2. Monthly and Weekly Reviews: The Control Loop That Keeps You Intentional
- L3. Commitment Management at a Higher Level: Agreements, Renegotiation, and Boundaries
- L4. Strategic Saying No: Opportunity Cost, Capacity Planning, and Trade-Off Scripts
- L5. Portfolio Thinking: Balancing Projects, Domains, and Maintenance Work
- L6. Evidence-Based Iteration: When to Persist, Pivot, or Stop
- L7. Scaling Intentional Living: Delegation, Automation-by-Design, and System Hardening
- L8. Capstone: The Intentional Living Playbook (One System, Multiple Seasons)