Carl Pullein
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Take Back Your Workday in 7 Days
Go from a chaotic, reactive workday to a calm, focused one with Carl Pullein: one system step per day, built on your real calendar and to-do list.
📅 7 days🎯 12 missions🎬 5 videos by Carl✨ Free
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Your workday shouldn't run you — you should run it. In 7 days you'll rebuild how you work, one concrete step at a time, guided by Carl Pullein's videos: audit your to-do list, align your calendar with your tasks, set up friction-free capture, and learn to handle interruptions without losing your focus. Every mission takes minutes and leaves something real behind: a cleaner list, a calendar you trust, a capture tool that's always within reach. By day 7, you run a full workday on your own system — calmly.
Your week at a glance
- Day 1🎬 Watch Carl's 3-step system for a calmer workday · ✍️ Audit your to-do list right now
- Day 2🎬 Watch how to align your calendar and tasks · ✅ Make tomorrow's calendar match reality
- Day 3🎬 Watch the 4 friction-free ways to capture every idea · ✅ Set up your one capture point
- Day 4🎬 Watch how to stay productive when you're constantly interrupted · 📓 Open your interruption log
- Day 5🎬 Watch the 5 simple tricks and steal one today · 🔁 Run your system all day
- Day 6✍️ Read your interruption log and write your workday rules
- Day 7🎯 Final challenge: run one full calm workday
Day by day, in detail
Day 1🎬 ✍️ Watch Carl's 3-step system for a calmer workday +1⌄
✍️ Audit your to-do list right now
✍️ Open your to-do list (or the sticky notes, apps and mental notes pretending to be one). Ten honest minutes: how many items are on it? How many are dead — things you'll never actually do? Delete or archive those now. Then write down: what's the number one thing making your workdays feel chaotic, and which idea from Carl's video are you going to apply first?
Day 2🎬 ✅ Watch how to align your calendar and tasks +1⌄
🎬 Watch how to align your calendar and tasks
✅ Make tomorrow's calendar match reality
- I picked the 2-3 tasks that genuinely must get done tomorrow
- I blocked time in my calendar for each of them, next to my real meetings
- I moved or dropped anything that clearly doesn't fit in the day
- Quick sanity check: tomorrow's calendar now shows what will actually happen, not wishful thinking
Day 3🎬 ✅ Watch the 4 friction-free ways to capture every idea +1⌄
🎬 Watch the 4 friction-free ways to capture every idea
✅ Set up your one capture point
- I chose ONE capture method from the video that fits how I actually work
- I made it reachable in under 5 seconds (widget, shortcut, notebook on the desk)
- I did 3 test captures: a task, an idea and a commitment I'd been holding in my head
- I set a 2-minute end-of-day slot to empty my captures into my to-do list
Day 4🎬 📓 Watch how to stay productive when you're constantly interrupted +1⌄
🎬 Watch how to stay productive when you're constantly interrupted
📓 Open your interruption log
📓 Today and for the rest of the challenge, log every interruption that breaks your focus — a ping, a colleague, your own wandering mind. Don't judge it, just record it. Most interruptions feel urgent in the moment; on paper, most of them turn out to be things that could easily have waited. Seeing that pattern is what lets you change it.
Day 5🎬 🔁 Watch the 5 simple tricks and steal one today +1⌄
🎬 Watch the 5 simple tricks and steal one today
🔁 Run your system all day
🔁 Today I worked from my calendar blocks, captured every idea in my capture point, logged my interruptions, and applied one trick from Carl's video
Day 6✍️ Read your interruption log and write your workday rules⌄
✍️ Read your interruption log and write your workday rules
✍️ Look back over your interruption log and the last five days. What interrupts you most, and how many of those could have waited? Which part of the system is already working — the aligned calendar, the capture point, your interruption responses? Now write 2-3 personal workday rules you'll keep after this challenge (e.g. "messages get answered at 12 and 4", "every idea goes into my capture point, never into my head").
Day 7🎯 Final challenge: run one full calm workday⌄
🎯 Final challenge: run one full calm workday
🎯 Run today entirely on your system: calendar and tasks aligned, everything captured, interruptions handled on your terms.
This is the day you've been building toward. Last night or first thing this morning, align your calendar with your 2-3 must-do tasks. Work from those blocks. When ideas pop up, they go straight into your capture point. When interruptions come, apply your rules: handle the truly urgent, defer the rest to a set time. At the end of the day, leave your proof: did your must-do tasks get done, how many interruptions did you deflect, and how does this workday feel compared to day 1? That difference is your system working — keep running it. 💪
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