Most days disappear the same way: not to one disaster, but to a hundred small reasonable things, none of which you would have chosen as the point of the day. The to-do list is no help, because a list optimizes for getting many things done, not for getting the one thing done that the day was actually for. This course teaches a single daily practice, drawn from Make Time, Four Thousand Weeks, and Essentialism, for deciding what a day is for before the inbox decides for you. Across seven short lessons you'll learn to choose one Highlight, give it a real time and place, defend it against the day's pull, and learn from each attempt — then assemble all of it into the Fayne Daily Highlight Canvas, a one-page sheet you fill in three minutes before your first email. You're not planning every hour. You're defending one, which is the move that survives even an unpredictable day.
You finish a packed day and still can't name the one thing that mattered. The calendar filled, the work that counts kept slipping to tomorrow.
Productivity systems usually pile on more tasks, so the important work competes with everything else and loses. This course narrows the day to a single highlight: one priority you choose on purpose, give a real block of time, and defend against the pull of email, meetings, and other people's urgency.
You will practice picking today's highlight, scheduling it before the day fills, holding the block when interruptions arrive, and running a short evening reflection that tunes the next day's choice. A Daily Highlight Canvas turns the method into a repeatable routine you can run every morning in a few minutes.
Founders and operators: end most days reacting and want one meaningful block to actually happen.
Knowledge workers: have the calendar full of meetings and need a way to protect deep work before it disappears.
Anyone rebuilding focus: wants a light daily habit instead of another heavy system to maintain.
7 lessons to get you from zero to confident. Start at your own pace.
