In this lesson:

• The deeper purpose behind One Big Win

• One Big Win’s design philosophy

• The single instruction that will get you through the course

Why I made this course

My ultimate goal with One Big Win is to create a universal template for getting major things done, particularly for people who have struggled with productivity and goal achievement. I’m trying to offer a much-needed ladder to help a certain segment of the population: my fellow “productivity-challenged” members of society.

Getting important things done can be life-changing, and an unusual inability to get things done is personally devastating, as you may know firsthand. I’m the opposite of a “natural” when it comes to general productivity, especially when it comes to larger projects — an ADHD diagnosis at middle age explained a lot about why. Without quite realizing it, I’ve spent most of adult life developing strategies and workarounds for overcoming this challenge, and writing about them on raptitude.com.

Mainly, I’ve discovered that building simple, repeatable procedures around the "doing" itself can make a massive difference.

The Block Method, with its simple, repeatable steps, does this for small things. One Big Win is my attempt to create a second, outer layer of repeatable steps: a method for conceiving and achieving life-altering short-term goals.

If the Block Method gives you a magic hammer you can bring to bear on any task, One Big Win gives you a workshop and construction process you can bring to bear on any goal.

The lessons will SAVE you time

Most of your time in this course will be spent making Blocks on your chosen goal: writing your novel, decluttering your house, setting up your website. The lessons and tasks in OBW are meant to guide you along in this effort.

Doing lessons and tasks does take time, however, which means less time for the doing/making required by your goal. This tension is best resolved by thinking of this course as a part of the goal. The “admin work” of proceeding through the lessons as you make Blocks on your project is designed to save you time and move you towards the finish line of your big win (and not just for this one, but for your future goals as well.)

In any case, making OBW into a very heavy, time-intensive course probably isn’t best for most people’s goals. For this reason, I’ve designed the course to be lean and essentials-focused. It’s intended to provide just enough guidance to get you making Blocks in the right direction, all the way to the completion of your big win.

You can then repeat the process for future goals with minimal guidance from the course. A much-condensed version, a "blueprint" of the OBW method, is available for download in the Resource section to serve as a quick reference in your subsequent big wins.

Just Follow the Road

One Big Win might sound overwhelming, with all of its lessons, tasks, and stages.

It's a deceptively simple course: just follow the road. Simply do the lessons in order. Everything else follows from that.

When in doubt, follow the road!

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What’s next? Follow the road! Go on to Thinking About Your One Big Win.