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The Hidden Cost of a Physical Planner

A new coaching client of mine, a real estate investor, came to me with a problem.
He had an amazing physical planner. A well-structured system to set and track his goals.

But there was one major flaw.
It was physical.
He couldn’t move tasks with a click, he had to rewrite them.
He spent 2 hours per week filling it out, but it wasn’t in one sitting.
It was 10 minutes here, 15 minutes there, leading to constant context switching.
Here’s what most people don’t realize:
Every time you switch tasks, it takes at least 10 minutes to re-focus.
So what seemed like “just a few minutes” of planning was actually stealing his deep work time without him noticing.
We’re taking that physical planner and rebuilding it inside Notion, not only saving him time, but also adapting it to his unique needs as an investor.
And in the process, he’s gaining a deeper understanding of what he actually needed.
Because most people think they need a system that looks a certain way.
But until you break it down into first principles, the actual building blocks of what you're trying to create, your system is just a scattered collection of ideas.
That’s what I help my clients do.
Help them think in terms of first principles and define the systems they need by building it from the ground up.
The system we build is a byproduct of defining your process. Because if you can’t define what you’re doing as a part of a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.
Which is most people, and what I help them with.
We first do the invisible work which is thinking and defining what your process is and how your system should look and feel.
Then it’s the technical work of building the system.
If you’ve been wasting time with a system that isn’t actually working for you, I can help you build one that does.
Reply “Notion”, and I’ll send you details on how we can build your Notion system together.
No fluff. Just systems.
Chris “The Systemizer” Punt