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Upcoming Course: Time Management for Joyful Productivity

One of the essentials for business success is effective time management.

When you've mastered it, you feel calm and joyfully on purpose everyday. You can clearly see how your daily actions are connected to your bigger goals. You have a system (that you feel confident about) for achieving your dreams.

I’m excited to be teaching a course on time management that will help business owners be more joyfully productive. There are 3 areas I’ll be teaching: Effective Planning, Joyful Action, an…

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An alternative to 1-1 business mentoring or coaching

Update, August 2026: MasterHeart has since wound down, and I do work one-on-one again — you can book a private session, on your own or with a small group, at georgekao.com/coaching. The 2019 announcement below is kept for the record.
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When you engage with a 1-1 business coach or mentor:
  • You meet with them 2-4 times per month.
  • You can email them questions.
  • They might have additional learning materials for you.
 
Essentially you’re spending a lot of…

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Online Course: How To Get More Clients with Authentic Marketing

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I’m excited to be launching an updated course about Authentic Client Enrollment.
 
Why is it that so many solopreneurs struggle to get enough clients? Some of the reasons, which this course helps to solve, are: (1) Not having a clear plan for client attraction and enrollment, or (2) Not feeling alignment with a plan you’ve learned elsewhere, and therefore (3) Not being consistent in working an effective plan.
 
Yes, it helps to have a clear message (I have a course for that: Message Bu…

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About the Course: How I Organize my Digital Life and Business Files

I’ll be teaching an online course about how I organize my digital life with Google tools (google drive, docs, spreadsheets, chrome, calendar). 

Sign up here. 


Here are some background thoughts in preparation.

The way I think about organizing my information is a hierarchy:
Framework > Courses/Books > Content > Research

The Framework is my overall philosophy about my work. (I've also taught an online course about How To Create Frameworks.)

Underneath the Framework is my series of courses/b…

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Time to reveal my side project...

Over the past 12 months, I’ve been working 1-2 hours per week on a side project.

I’ll reveal it in this blog post, finally!

First of all, here are my biggest lessons learned… 
Clarity comes from Content Creation

When I started the project, I had no idea what my framework would be. I didn’t know how clients would work with me, or even what issues I would work with them on! 

There was no training or certification that I’ve gone through. Nor have I intensively learned from any one coach/expe…

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