How to Focus Better and Get More Done in Less Time (Free Training)
A free recorded workshop for professional service business owners who are working long hours but still not getting to the work that actually matters.
Why are you exhausted at the end of the day, but your most important work still isn't done?
You've been at your desk for hours. You've answered emails, sat in meetings, put out fires. And yet the thing you actually needed to focus on today- the piece of work that would genuinely move your business forward -is still sitting untouched. You go home tired, but not satisfied, because being busy and being productive turned out to be two very different things.
The real cost isn't the wasted hours. It's what they're stopping you from becoming
Every time you're interrupted- a notification, an unplanned phone call, a Teams message popping up mid-task- it doesn't just cost you that moment. It takes real time to get back to the level of focus you had before. String enough of those interruptions together across a day, a week, a year, and you're not just less productive. You're never getting the sustained, deliberate practice that would make you genuinely excellent at the one or two things that matter most in your business. Meanwhile, the business stays exactly as dependent on you as it always has been, because you're the bottleneck holding it together, one distracted hour at a time.
What if you could get a week's worth of important work done in a few focused days?
In this free recorded workshop, Charlie Reading shares the Time Freedom Mastery framework he's used to build businesses delivering 50% year-on-year growth, while taking three months off every year for over a decade. This isn't about working harder or finding more hours in the day. It's about protecting the hours you already have, so the time you spend at work is spent on the things only you can do.
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The Productivity Focuser
What you'll learn in this free training
Why multitasking doesn't exist- the simple timed exercise that shows switching between tasks makes you roughly 50% less effective, even when you don't notice it happening.
How to build a team that protects your focus- the "one person's rubbish is another person's treasure" principle, and how delegating the tasks that drain you frees you up for the ones that energise you.
How to reach 10,000 hours of real expertise faster- the surprising story of a world-class table tennis player whose advantage came from deliberate, difficult practice, not natural talent.
How to structure your week around focus, not just meetings- time blocking, and the concept of seasons, sprints and Sabbaths for building deliberate rhythms into your year.
The 80/20 principle applied to your working day- how to identify the roughly 20% of your time that's actually generating the bulk of your results.
How to make pacts with your future self- the Ulysses Pact principle, and practical ways to commit in advance to protecting your focus time.
Why eliminating small decisions protects your best ones- the psychology behind Steve Jobs's identical outfits, and how removing unnecessary daily decisions preserves your willpower for what matters.
How to eliminate the distractions actually costing you the most- from notifications and pop-ups to giving out your mobile number, plus how tools like fixer.ai can cut hours of email admin down to minutes.
A practical Productivity Focuser tool- a structured exercise to identify your biggest sources of distraction, generate ideas to eliminate them, and commit to your first step.
Who this training is for
Consultants, financial advisers and other professional service business owners.
Anyone who feels busy all day but isn't getting to the work that actually grows their business.
Business owners who are regularly interrupted by notifications, calls or messages during focused work.
Anyone ready to get more done in less time, rather than simply working longer hours.
Your Host: Charlie Reading
Charlie Reading built and sold Efficient Portfolio, a financial planning practice named among the UK's top firms, while personally moving from working every evening and weekend to taking three months off every year- a shift he's sustained for over a decade.
He now runs The Trusted Team, helping professional service business owners build scalable businesses that grow without depending on the founder, and is host of the Business of Endurance podcast. He applies the same disciplined focus to writing books and building businesses that he uses to complete multiple Ironman triathlons.
What You'll Come Away With
By the end of this training, you'll have:
A clear picture of what's actually distracting you during your working day.
A structure for blocking out focused time and protecting it from interruption.
Ideas for delegating the tasks that drain you, so you can spend more time on the ones that don't.
Practical tools for managing email and notifications without them managing you.
A completed Productivity Focuser exercise, with your first step already identified.
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