One Big Win is an online program for helping you to achieve personal goals, and to achieve them now -- without waiting for a "better time" that will never come.
In One Big Win, you'll achieve a major personal victory in eight weeks, by following a simple template made of small, easy steps.
You slip these little steps into your existing lifestyle, wherever they fit.
You choose a goal. We show you the route through the woods.
People have used the One Big Win program to:
Start, or finish, their novel, album, or other creative work
Declutter their household
Get their financial stuff in order once and for all
Learn a musical instrument, language, or software application
Finish renovations
Read great works like Shakespeare or Tolstoy
Set up their website, small business, or YouTube channel
You could probably think of a hundred things you'd do if busyness wasn't holding you back.
You can achieve big wins like these in a relatively short time, without disrupting your life, by doing them in small, easy steps we call Blocks.
~Shazade J.
I designed One Big Win for people like me: someone with big ideas who has trouble following them through to the end. I'm a serious procrastinator with ADHD, which makes it really hard to make big things happen without structure.
I wanted a system that could take basically any goal, and make it so that:
The next step is always clear
The next step is always small enough that you know you can do it
That's how OBW works. If your goal felt like a wish or a hope before, now it's a staircase.
One Big Win is suitable for you if:
You set goals but rarely finish them, or maybe you've stopped setting them altogether
You've got a backlog of projects you never seem to have time for
You have ADHD or procrastination issues
You know you're getting older, and you're tired of waiting to do all the cool stuff
Basically, One Big Win is for the person who knows they have great things locked up in them, and wants to make them real.
A complete, step-by-step program for achieving life-changing goals.
Get a major personal win under your belt in a matter of weeks. Repeat as desired.
Big projects are overwhelming to think about. The One Big Win system is designed to eliminate confusion about what to do next.
Your only job is to take the next step, and the next step is always clear.
We make big, rewarding projects into small, predicable steps using the Block Method.
Here's how it works:
A Block is a small, uniform chunk of focused work.
Even a single Block represents a lot of power. If you can make a Block, you can do almost anything.
We'll teach you to make Blocks on Day One.
A single Block -- 25 minutes of focused effort -- is easy to make once you've done it a few times.
Just one is enough to knock off any small task, or move a major task one big step forward.
Blocks are building materials for your best life. Virtually anything can be built from some number of Blocks: skills, achievements, creative works, even degrees, businesses, and fortunes.
Eight or ten Blocks on an important project can knock it out of the park.
A hundred Blocks can begin a new chapter in your life.
A typical One Big Win project (we like to call them "quests") takes between 25 and 100 Blocks.
That's 3 to 12 Blocks per week.
One Block takes less than a half hour to make. So you could do a nice 25-Block project in short weekly sessions each Sunday morning.
Or you could do a huge 100+ Block project by doing two Blocks a day.
You decide what your Block budget is, and choose an appropriate quest for that budget.
This is why the Block Method is so powerful. It's a simple and flexible way to achieve goals of any size.
One Big Win student
Here's where it gets crazy powerful.
If you can make a Block, you can pull off a big win in eight weeks.
And if you can pull off one big win, you can do another, and another.
By crushing big wins like this, you could build a company, master a skill, build an audience, make great creative works -- anything you want to build into your life.
Whatever it is you want to do, OBW turns it into a manageable step-by-step process.
The next eight weeks will go by anyway. You can have something amazing to show for it, and learn a formula for achieving wins like that for the rest of your life.
Get a major personal win under your belt in a matter of weeks. Repeat as desired.
Registration is currently OPEN. Spaces are limited.
Sandra, Dallas TX
Your Big Win (aka "quest") can be anything you like, as long as it is personally rewarding, and depends on your own efforts (rather than luck or external factors).
Past OBW students have finished their memoirs, decluttered their homes, learned Photoshop, sold all the stuff in their attic, finalized their retirement plans, read stacks of books, learned programming languages, and much more.
After completing your first Big Win, you can take on another quest and use the same process. You can keep knocking off goals like this for the rest of your life.
You do not need to have a goal in mind before beginning One Big Win. Selecting a suitable project you'd enjoy is part of the course.
You can begin any time you choose.
There's a Summer 2026 group cohort registering now. You don't have to start on any particular day, but most of this group will choose a start date in June.
The course consists of a sequence of lessons, each only a few minutes long. Simply begin at the first lesson and "follow the road" to conceive, plan, and execute your big win.
To achieve another goal, you only need to repeat the process.
There's also a discussion forum, where you can share your plans and progress, get help, and make friends.
Exactly! None of us have "spare" time. We're already using all 24 hours.
That's why we need a way to work on important, life-changing goals now, while we're still living our normal, busy lives.
One Big Win is a system designed specifically for achieving the stuff that matters without waiting for that mythical "better time" to arrive.
If you can do even three to four Blocks a week -- easily done in half a Sunday morning, or over a few lunch hours -- you can achieve a major personal win in eight weeks.
Yes, you can can start after the rest of the summer cohort starts.
However, you probably don't need to. One Big Win is all about using the Block Method to get big things done even with a "full" schedule. You probably don't need to wait for a better time.
We also offer simple ways to accommodate vacations and holiday obligations so that you can step away for a week or two if you need to.
No.
One Big Win was originally made for readers of the How to Do Things ebook, which explains the Block Method and how to use it.
However, a copy of How to Do Things is included, and it's so short and concise that you can read it in one sitting and be ready to go right away.
"The biggest take away for me was learning what can be done in 8 weeks. The short time frame and the concept of 'always be closing' has done wonders for my self esteem. Following the course step by step, block by block can help kill the overwhelm and dread about a big workload ahead. It is so simple, yet without this course to follow, I could never have arrived at this roadmap myself."
Frankfurt, GER
"Just try it. Trust the process. You’re already considering it because everything else you’ve tried hasn’t worked. And this could very well be the one that does. It has been for me."
Toronto, ON
"I’ve gotten more done in the past 8 weeks than I probably would have done in the next 4-6 months, and of much higher quality because it wasn’t thrown together last minute. My students have seen and commented on the difference in my classes, and that’s all the confirmation I need to know this is how I will continue working."
Halifax, NS
"This course was so eye-opening! I discovered a fun, new effective way to get things done. And it helped me better see what my priorities really are. Excellent learning experience!"
"I don’t feel stressed looking at my list of projects now. It is all possible. I can see a start, a middle, and an end. I’ve read so many books on willpower, how to overcome procrastination, how to be organised… nothing worked until this program. That feeling of hope and positivity and confidence and clarity is priceless. I’m starting my second OBW today. Thank you David."
Paris, FRA
"This course helped me achieve a truly life-changing goal (applying to a university graduate program) which I likely would not have done without this structure and motivation. And it was done far ahead of schedule, which is unheard of for me."
Belleville, CAN
At any given time, you’re only about 25 to 100 Blocks away from a huge variety of life-changing achievements.
That's only 3 to 12 Blocks per week.
The possibilities are truly endless. Here are some ideas:
Finish your university thesis, or a big piece of it
Declutter the entire household
Begin your novel and get the first two chapters done
Finish your renovations
Start an online business and make your first sale
Organize all your photos
Educate yourself on [Topic X] so that you’re able to discuss it confidently
Learn the basics of mobile app design, audio engineering, CSS, or any other technical skillset
Launch your podcast, or YouTube channel
Record your album
Deal with your storage locker: clean it out, quit paying every month, and sell everything you don’t want
Write the screenplay you’ve had in your mind for years
Read a great work: The Lord of the Rings, War and Peace, or the Bible
List everything broken in your home and fix it, replace it, or get rid of it
Build a deck
Of course, you may already have something in mind.
You don't need to know how to achieve your goal eight weeks. That's all part of the program.
For now, just imagine the possibilities. What would your life be like if you could just pull off this One Big Win? In less than two months, it can be real.