You don’t have a productivity problem.You have a calendar problem.
The 64-page deep-dive into the Simplify phase of R.E.S.E.T. The full meeting audit, the 2-Hour CEO Calendar, the decision-fatigue protocol, energy-based scheduling, and a 30-day rebuild plan. Print it. Fill it in. Hold it for 30 days. Get your week back.
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By 6pm, you’re snapping at the people you love.Your calendar got every good hour first.
I’ll be straight with you. Most senior leaders I work with don’t have a productivity problem. They have a permission problem.
They’re running calendar Tetris from 8am to 7pm. Three meetings stacked back-to-back. A “quick sync” that becomes 45 minutes. A status update that has lived on the calendar for 18 months without anyone asking why. Real work pushed into evenings, weekends, and the gaps that never come.
By Friday afternoon, the head’s fried. By Sunday night, the dread spiral starts. And every Monday morning, the calendar is exactly the same shape. Nothing actually changed.
The reason it didn’t change is that you’ve been treating this as a productivity problem. It isn’t. It’s a permission problem with a calendar attached to it.
One client — a director at a FTSE 100 — went through this. He had 62 meetings on his calendar in a normal week. After the audit?Six were genuinely needed.
Five modules. Sixty-four pages.Designed to be done, not read.
This is the deep-dive into the Simplify phase of the R.E.S.E.T. Framework. The other phases tell you why your week is the way it is. This one shows you, page by page, how to take it apart and put it back together.
Print it. Fill it in by hand. There’s a reason that’s rule one. Hand-written work installs differently in the brain than typed work. Trust the process.
The Meeting Audit
Find the 8–14 hours a week your calendar is silently eating.
The 4-category meeting taxonomy, the 1-question kill test, the calendar archaeology worksheet, and a 30-day cuts-and-replacements plan. Most readers find ten hours back in the first pass.
The 2-Hour CEO Calendar
Install a daily protected block for the work only you can do.
The 4 CEO quadrants — Build, Lead, Decide, Recover. The protected-block ritual. The walking-it-back ladder for when 2 hours is too much. A worksheet that walks you out with a real, dated, locked-in slot.
Decision-Fatigue Elimination
Stop bleeding decision-energy on rubbish that doesn’t deserve it.
The 3 decision types (Trivial / Tactical / Trajectory). The pre-decide list. The 1-Decision-Per-Hour rule. The Saturday Reset routine. The 5 warning signals that say “stop deciding for the day.”
Energy-Based Scheduling
Match the work to the fuel you actually have, hour by hour.
A 7-day energy log. Your personal curve. The 4 energy states (Peak / Coasting / Low / Crash). The match-tasks-to-energy framework. Three levers nobody talks about: workout placement, food timing, light exposure.
The 30-Day Calendar Rebuild
Four phases. Thirty days. The plan that actually moves your week.
Days 1–7: The Burn Down. Days 8–14: The Foundation. Days 15–21: The Build-Up. Days 22–30: The Lock-In. Day-by-day prompts, weekly logs, and the locked-in calendar template you stick on the wall.
Each module ends with a reflection page. Don’t skip them. The reflections are the part that turns a workbook you bought into a calendar you actually live with.
Built to be done.Not just bought.
Print it, or use a tablet with a stylus. Both work — hand-written reflection rewires the brain in a way typing doesn’t.
Premium navy aesthetic. Designed to be opened on a real desk, with a real pen. Not stuffed in a drawer.
A 64-page printable workbook (PDF)
Designed to be printed and filled in by hand. Five modules, 17 worksheets, three reflection sections. Built for one specific job: rebuilding your week.
The full meeting audit framework
The 4-category taxonomy and the 1-question kill test. Most readers find 8–14 hours per week of meeting waste in the first audit. The plan to cut without burning relationships is in there too.
The 2-Hour CEO Calendar method
A step-by-step way to install a daily protected block, defend it from interruption, and produce real output inside it. Works for full-time leaders, parents, and people running on borrowed sleep.
A decision-fatigue elimination protocol
The 3 decision types, the pre-decide list, and the rule that ends the 6pm snap. Pick five trivial decisions, take them off the daily stream, get back two extra hours of sharp brain a day.
Energy-based scheduling templates
A 7-day log to map your real energy curve, plus a worksheet that aligns your week against it. Most people are working their hardest in their worst window. The cost is roughly 3:1.
A 30-day calendar rebuild plan
Four phases, day-by-day. Every day has a small specific action. By Day 30 the new calendar feels like the default, not like a thing you’re forcing.
17 print-and-fill-in worksheets
Calendar archaeology, meeting cuts, the “shoulds” purge, decision loops, energy log, before-vs-after, the locked-in calendar, and more. Print only the pages you need.
30-day, no-questions refund
If the work doesn’t shift your week, email within 30 days for a full $67 refund. No forms. No hoops. No “what went wrong” interrogation.
17 worksheets. Print only the ones you need. The whole workbook is built for handwritten work — because the calendar problem doesn’t live in a digital tool, it lives in your head.
The deep-dive into one specific phase of the work.
Stand-alone, or alongside the Blueprint.
Get The Calendar Detox Workbook — $67Three things you’re probably thinkingbefore you click buy.
“I’ve already tried calendar audits. They never stick.”
Most calendar audits ask you to cut things. Then panic sets in by week two and the calendar quietly fills back up. This workbook is different in two ways. One: every cut has a worksheet around it that names what goes back in the gap (the 2-Hour CEO block). Two: the 30-day rebuild plan handles the relapse window deliberately — days 22–30 are designed to make the new calendar feel like the default. Most readers don’t need a third try.
“My role is meeting-driven. Two hours of deep work a day is fantasy.”
Page 24 of the workbook handles this directly. There’s a “walking-it-back ladder” that gives you four versions of the protocol — from full (10 hrs/week of deep work) all the way down to compressed (4 hrs/week) and storm-mode (1.5 hrs/week). Most senior leaders in genuinely meeting-driven roles end up on the compressed tier. It still changes the work entirely. The point is to pick the rung you can hold for 30 days, not the heroic one.
“What if I do the work and it doesn’t shift my week?”
Email us within 30 days, no explanation, full $67 refund. No forms, no hoops. We’d genuinely rather refund a reader who didn’t connect with the work than have a workbook sitting in a downloads folder doing nothing. That’s the deal.
Built from rebuilding.Not from theory.
From the same toolbox
Every framework in this workbook came from the playbook James uses with private clients. Refined across years of 1-on-1 work with senior leaders — not pulled from a productivity textbook.
Designed for time-poor
Three hours of reading. About 90 minutes of weekly review. The whole architecture is built to survive a hard week, not a perfect one. There’s a walking-it-back ladder for storm-mode weeks.
Why now
You’ve already read enough productivity books. The next 30 days are about doing the audit, installing the block, and holding it. $67 buys you the structure that makes that actually happen.
What it’s done so far.
The Workbook is brand-new at this price point. We’re showing what private clients of the same frameworks have actually said — not invented numbers.
“The meeting audit alone gave me 11 hours back. I was running 38 hours of meetings a week. The 1-question kill test made it embarrassingly clear what to cut.”
“The energy log was a kicker. I’d been doing my hardest work between 2 and 4pm — my worst window. Moving it to 9–11am was the single biggest shift in my entire year.”
Quotes are real. Identifying details softened to protect client privacy. We don’t publish star-counts or aggregate ratings on a brand-new product because we’d be inventing them.
The 30-Day, No-Questions Guarantee
Use the workbook. Run the audit. Install the block. If the work doesn’t shift the pattern for you, email us within 30 days and we’ll refund the full $67. No forms, no hoops, no “what went wrong” interrogation.
We’d genuinely rather refund a reader than have someone sitting on a workbook that didn’t fit. That’s the deal.
— James Franklin
Still on the fence? Read these.
The six questions that usually kill the sale — answered straight.
Thirty days from now,your week is either yours or theirs.
You’ll either still be running calendar Tetris on a Sunday night, or you’ll have done the audit, installed the block, held it for 30 days, and have the locked-in calendar on your wall.
$67. The complete 64-page workbook. Instant access. Yours to keep, with a 30-day no-questions refund if it doesn’t land.
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