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No one ever taught me how to be productive.

There was no “Productivity 101” in school or college.

That’s why I struggled — even as I looked successful on the outside.

From childhood, I was the “picture perfect” Asian kid of immigrants from Vietnam. I did all my homework, I got straight As, I aced spelling tests.

Then I went to college and the wheels came off the bus.

My to-do list was never-ending. I was a chronic procrastinator, starting projects at the last second and barely getting them in on time. My calendar and email were a mess because I used them both as to-do lists…until my inbox got so out of control I just never looked at it (too scary!) and missed important emails.

I was constantly stressed, constantly thinking, “There’s something I need to be doing…but I don’t know what it is.”

Eventually, I dropped out of college and landed a high-paying job.

Then things REALLY got high stakes. I felt like I was in over my head.

I was taking too long to reply to client emails…

Showing up to team meetings late…

Missing deadlines…

I was getting to be known as a guy you couldn’t rely on, and I HATED it. My parents raised me that your reputation is everything. Your word is your bond, and you always keep it. But I was letting people down and embarrassing myself.

All my problems got bigger. Don’t know how to write a tricky email to your boss? Wait until it’s too late…and trust me, the problem gets worse!

Anxious about pulling off a big project? Wait till the last minute…and then it’ll definitely suck!

On the outside, I looked like I had it all together: high-paying job, nice apartment in a nice city.

But inside, I felt like I was on a hamster wheel and about to fall flat on my face.

I never had time for friends, family, my health, or personal development. It was all work, work, work…and not even pulling that off 100%.

I knew SOMETHING had to change. I didn’t leave my home in the Netherlands and go to America so I could spend the rest of my life stressed out, working all the time, and never taking time off and just enjoying life.

So I dove head first into the productivity world. I read all the books, tried all the challenges, experimented with all the techniques.

I found a community of other productivity nerds like me, and we encouraged each other, held each other accountable, and shared our learnings with each other.

After a lot of experimenting, I created productivity systems that let me meet the demands of my high-paying job AND start Asian Efficiency.

I met all my deadlines and over-delivered for my Asian Efficiency clients.

I started taking 3-4 vacations a year, with lots of weekend trips thrown in between.

I took up hobbies and skills I’d always wanted to learn, like throwing fancy dinner parties, taking hip-hop dancing, and delivering keynote speeches around the world.

What’s really interesting is that beyond a certain point, it wasn’t more INFORMATION that got me there. It was a COMMUNITY that helped me implement what I learned. But before I get into that, I want to ask…
Does Any of This Sound Like You?

You don’t know how to productively work from home and you’re under a lot of stress to be productive
You feel like you’re letting people down — the people who depend on you, including your coworkers, friends, and family.
You worry that people are starting to see you as unreliable. You constantly get “check ins” asking where that work is. Your spouse or roommates seem more irritated around you, as they ask you for the nth time where that thing is you said you’d do.
You look back at the last year and see another year full of unticked New Year’s resolutions…and feel like this next year will be exactly the same or even worse with this crisis. You feel heavy and defeated just thinking about it.
You feel like if you got a handle on your procrastination, 80% of your problems would instantly disappear.
You’re constantly sacrificing your health and your sleep…going to bed late, oversleeping so you’re rushing to work, hardly ever going to the gym, eating unhealthy meals and snacks all the time. You just physically feel like crap all the time.
You have a constant sense of FOMO. That you’re missing out on the things that are REALLY important to you, like time with your friends and family, pursuing your dreams like writing a book or starting a business, or unplugging and getting out into nature.

If any of that sounds like you, then I’m guessing one of these is true:

You just started working from home and find it hard to get things done.
You have way too much productivity information. GTD, Eat Your Frog, Pomodoros, etc. The huge amount of productivity info you have is actually paralyzing. Where do you even start?
You don’t have time to make more time, i.e., you hear stuff like “work smarter, not harder,” but you feel like you literally don’t have time to set up a system that will save you time. It’s a vicious cycle.
You’re an overachiever, so it kills you to not be able to fix this.

There’s a reason you’re stuck, and it’s not your fault.

The entire productivity world says what you need is MORE information.

More books…

More podcasts…

More blog posts…

Don’t get me wrong. Those things have a place, and that’s why we produce so much high-quality productivity content at Asian Efficiency. That information is essential if you’re going to live a more productive life.

But information is only about 20% of what you need.
What You Really Need Is Execution. You Need to Do The Damn Thing.

At Asian Efficiency, we call execution “Doing The Damn Thing.”

I know this sounds almost too simple, but the reason you’re not getting stuff done is that you’re not getting stuff done.

You’re reading about getting stuff done.

You’re hearing about getting stuff done.

You’re daydreaming about getting stuff done.

But you’re not actually Doing The Damn Thing!

This isn’t the part where I start yelling at you, “Just. Do. It!” or shaking my fist or showing you inspirational videos.

Because (and I’m not just saying this) it’s not your fault. Human beings aren’t lone wolves. For 99% of us, you can’t just give us info, put us in a vacuum, and expect us to implement it.
But that’s what the world is like. The world around us is a productivity vacuum. Here’s what I mean:

The world is full of people who don’t get your obsession with productivity and think it’s weird.
The world is designed to distract — every little ping and buzz on your phone is designed to maintain the steady drip of dopamine that keeps you addicted to your apps.
The world is going at a faster and faster pace in a million different places. 15 years ago we didn’t even have smartphones. Now we have smartphones with 10 different messaging apps where we’re messaging 10 different people just to figure out where we’re going to happy hour tonight.

The effect of this productivity vacuum is that there’s no space to just Do. The. Damn. Thing.
Imagine Being on Top of Everything and Conquering Every Day

Imagine waking up every day and jumping out of bed the instant your alarm goes off.

Diving straight into your morning routine (no wasting time scrolling on your phone first)…

Heading to work and getting straight to it without checking the news or Facebook for an hour first…

Blazing through your work like a machine, with total focus…

Getting EVERYTHING done you say you will, so everyone sees you as a rock-solid, reliable person they can always count on…

Finish work earlier every day, so you can have dinner with your family and invest your evenings in personal development instead of “catching up” on work…

Going to bed 100% satisfied that you conquered the day, made good use of your time, and were in control and on top of your life…
Introducing the Dojo 2.0:
Live Monthly Do The
Damn Thing Calls

The Asian Efficiency team and I created the Dojo 5 years ago.

At that time, what the productivity community needed was solid, tested productivity systems. And that’s still what the community needs, but as the productivity industry has grown, you guys need something more as well: implementation.

Without implementation, information is just more information. It sits there on your digital bookshelf collecting dust and making you feel guilty for not implementing it.

We want the Dojo to be an online community where you get things done. So we’re rolling out the Dojo 2.0.

Every month, we’ll hop on a Zoom call and present a slide deck on a topic. For example, we might have Calendar Management as a topic. We’ll teach you the best practices for a calendar, recommended apps, etc.

And then we’ll have action items for you to complete LIVE on the call. We’ll sit there with you while you implement what you just learned.

End result: every month you’ll Get The Damn Thing Done.

No more unused info…

No more unused systems…

No more unused productivity apps cluttering up your phone…

You’ll actually IMPLEMENT productivity systems, so you become an efficient, reliable person who gets things done. Who has a reputation for being dependable. Who gets all your work done, goes home early, spends quality time with your family, and improves yourself every day.

Who takes vacations and ENJOYS them…because you got all your stuff done beforehand.

Who CONQUERS every day…because you’re in control of your life.

Who’s HAPPIER…because you’re confident, productive, sleep more, have more time to take care of your health, can take time off for things you want to do, and don’t have to work late nights or on the weekends.

Doing The Damn Thing sounds pretty damn good, doesn’t it?
Everything You’ll Get To Finally
Do The Damn Thing!
Here’s everything you’ll get inside the Dojo 2.0:
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Live, monthly trainings on a new topic, so you’re regularly getting new info to become more productive every single month.
Live, monthly implementation immediately after the training, so you immediately put to use what you learned and see success quickly.
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Recordings if you can’t make it live (though we HIGHLY recommend you attend live so you implement).
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Free prizes for people who attend the live training and implementation calls. For example, we’ll do the live training on a Tuesday and then have a deadline on Sunday to submit proof of your implementation. We’ll randomly draw a winner to win prizes like a free month of the Dojo, AirPods, etc. — a different prize every month!
Continued access to the existing courses inside the Dojo to access as reference materials.
4 new courses a year, so you can always dive deeper, learn more, and constantly become a more productive and capable person.
Continued access to the forum and Slack, so you can interact with all the other Dojo members and help each other become more productive every day (we’d never give up the community you guys have built!).
Participate in Live Podcast Recordings, so you can hear The Productivity Show before anyone else, ask questions, and shape each podcast episode.
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By investing just 1 hour a month into our live training and implementation calls, you will get back 4 hours a week in saved time.
WARNING: The Dojo 2.0 is for people who want to Do. The. Damn. Thing. Don’t join if you just want more information and analysis paralysis!

Bottom line: the #1 biggest thing you get in the Dojo 2.0 is LIVE IMPLEMENTATION with me and the Asian Efficiency team. Everything else is a bonus. What the Dojo 2.0 is really about is doing the damn thing.

On these live implementation calls, the team and I will be available to answer questions if you hit any snags and ensure you put new systems into place on the spot.
My Name is Thanh Pham, and We’ve Helped 13,000 Customers Around the World Since I Founded Asian Efficiency in 2011

We’ve helped 13,000 people become more productive, dependable, and successful human beings. We started out with 1-1 coaching — and when we retired that program, we were charging $250 per hour for our coaching.

My writing on productivity has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Yahoo!, The Globe and Mail, and The Guardian. I give keynote speeches at conferences around the world on productivity.
Here’s My Promise to You

The Dojo 2.0 is NOT an info dump. This is a productivity community laser-focused on Doing The Damn Thing.

My promise to you is that in the Dojo 2.0, you’ll get:

Live training every month to help you become more productive (recordings are available, but I recommend you attend live to implement on the spot).

Free prizes to keep you motivated to implement!

Proven systems, not theory. We’ve done the testing for you, so you won’t waste any time on stuff that doesn’t work.

Real-world systems — everything taught is something we use ourselves.

Actionable material: you can implement it right away — and you will on our live calls!

Material that’s designed for the modern world, with all its distractions.

Systems that are designed for real people. None of us is perfect, so we design our productivity systems to work for real people in the real world.

Accountability to push you get things done (even when you don’t want to). that are designed for real people. None of us is perfect, so we design our productivity systems to work for real people in the real world.

Self Help – Self Help online course

More information about Self Help:

Self-help or self-improvement is a self-guided improvement—economically, intellectually, or emotionally—often with a substantial psychological basis.
Many different self-help group programs exist, each with its own focus, techniques, associated beliefs, proponents and in some cases, leaders.
Concepts and terms originating in self-help culture and Twelve-Step culture, such as recovery, dysfunctional families, and codependency have become firmly integrated in mainstream language.

Self-help often utilizes publicly available information or support groups, on the Internet as well as in person, where people in similar situations join together.
From early examples in self-driven legal practice and home-spun advice, the connotations of the word have spread and often apply particularly to education, business,
psychology and psychotherapy, commonly distributed through the popular genre of self-help books.
According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, potential benefits of self-help groups that professionals may not be able to provide include friendship,
emotional support, experiential knowledge, identity, meaningful roles, and a sense of belonging.