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How to optimize focus, sleep and stress for good

Are you an executive, entrepreneur or CEO who wants to build lasting habits for sustainable peak productivity?
Are you struggling to focus on the important work while drowning in urgent tasks?
Do you feel tired throughout the day, even after 7–8 hours of sleep?
Are you having trouble switching off stress at work and truly unwinding at home?
If so, I’ve got bad news and good news for you.
The bad news: You can’t go on like this.
Building a great career or company doesn't take weeks or months. It takes years or decades. It’s not a sprint. It’s a marathon of sprints. To win this marathon (and avoid burning out halfway), you need to set yourself up for the long run.
The good news: I’m here to help.
I have three openings in my Becoming Ultraproductive 1:1 coaching program. This is my most exclusive offer, limited to 10 clients at a time. Over 12 weeks, I will personally help you build the habits to master focus, sleep, and stress for good.
Spots are first come, first served. Book a free discovery call here now, or read on to learn more.
The magic of 90 minutes
The program revolves around a simple, science-based insight. For sustainable peak productivity, 90 is the magic number.
1) By focusing deeply for 90 minutes a day, you'll double your overall productivity, according to research by McKinsey & Company.
Even Elon Musk spends most of his time doing tasks that require deep focus. In the program, you’ll transition from spending your entire day on urgent shallow work to using your most productive hours focusing on the critical deep work – without working a minute longer.
2) By getting 90 minutes of deep sleep each night, you’ll multiply your productivity by up to a factor of 2.5, according to a study out of Japan.
Great sleep is not only the foundation of our performance in all domains, but also of our mental and physical health, says Stanford professor Andrew Huberman. In the program, you’ll go from spending almost all of your night in shallow sleep to getting plenty of deep sleep, the most restorative sleep stage – without sleeping a minute longer.
3) By turning off the stress response at least every 90 minutes, you’ll learn to harness the performance-enhancing effects of acute stress. According to research out of Germany, this leads to another doubling of productivity.
While acute stress is the good sort of stress, chronic stress is the bad sort. In the program, you'll learn to avoid chronic stress by putting your inner brakes on it. These brakes are your “parasympathetic nervous system”, or calmness system.
Why knowledge is not enough
Chances are, you already know a lot of this. Yet, like most executives I work with, your biggest challenge isn’t knowing what to do—it’s actually doing these things and building habits that last.
Entrepreneur Derek Sivers said it best: "If more information was the answer, then we'd all be billionaires with perfect abs.”
Although forming new habits may sound simple, getting them to stick is what’s hard. According to research from Harvard, less than 8% of people manage to keep their New Year's resolutions. That’s why my 1:1 coaching is all about developing habits for sustainable peak productivity.
Drawing from my PhD on stress and performance as well as research from Stanford University, McKinsey and others, I’ll help you develop rock-solid habits for focusing intensely, sleeping deeply, and dealing with stress like a pro.
For each of these topics, we’ll create habit systems tailored to your professional and private life. I’ll become your personal sparring partner who holds you accountable and helps you overcome obstacles along the way.
Let’s win together
Since 2023, I’ve personally helped 80+ executives, entrepreneurs and CEOs through the Becoming Ultraproductive coaching program. It includes:
6 individualized one-on-one coaching sessions with me over 12 weeks
A top-notch device for tracking your sleep, stress and energy levels
(OURA ring or WHOOP wristband)A guaranteed 100% increase in productivity (not kidding)
This isn’t a course. It’s a fully personalized coaching experience designed to transform how you work and live.
If you’re interested in one of the three open seats, book a free discovery call here before they’re gone.
Let’s set you up for the marathon ahead and win together!
Until next week,
Christian
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