Goals don’t fail for lack of ambition; they stall when a full calendar meets fuzzy priorities. We sat down with productivity expert Demir Bentley, co-founder of Life Hack Method and author of Winning the Week, to unpack a simple practice that changes everything: a consistent weekly planning ritual. Demir’s premise is refreshingly real—planning is boring, but freedom lives on the other side. When you trade a short burst of discomfort on Friday for a clear, calendarized plan, you get a calmer weekend and a Monday that runs on rails.
DCWe explore what elite success really looks like through Demir’s Rubik’s Cube lens—solving multiple sides of life well enough to be proud across business, health, family, and finances. From there, we move into the core sequence that turns intention into execution: review your wins and losses, extract a lesson, scan the calendar to defuse landmines, set a few big rocks using the Eisenhower matrix, pick one gold star action, then open your task list and schedule the work. We dig into why most people avoid planning despite believing in it, how discipline creates freedom, and why Friday afternoon or early Saturday morning is the best window to plan and actually rest.
Demir also shares how top-down clarity changes the game. Build a simple life map for the year so your weekly choices align with leveraged outcomes, not just urgent demands. We talk about using AI to sort tasks when it understands your priorities, choosing needs before wants, and pulling the levers that compound—systems, assets, and decisions that make future work easier or unnecessary. In tough markets, push where the ball will move: operations, profitability, retention, or even your health.
If you’re ready to replace overwhelm with clarity and turn goals into real results, this conversation gives you the playbook. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs less stress and more leverage, and leave a review telling us your gold star action for next week.
In this podcast you will learn about:
• Defining elite success across all sides of life
• Accepting time limits and designing the week with purpose
• Discipline creates freedom through a weekly ritual
• Why most people know planning helps but still avoid it
• When to plan and how to protect weekend rest
• A step-by-step process for wins, lessons, priorities, tasks
• Building a life map for top-down clarity
• Choosing leverage, needs before wants, and systems
• Playing the long game through operations and retention
• Habits for couples to sync logistics and reduce stress
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Goal Setting Success
If you’re ready to set goals you’ll actually achieve, the Goal Setting Success course will help you do it. This self-paced experience walks you through the same framework I’ve used for years with leaders and advisors to create meaningful goals and a plan that drives real results.
Inside the course, you’ll learn how to:
Clarify your vision for success
Reflect on what worked and what didn’t
Brainstorm strategies with focus and intention
Create a clear, actionable plan for the year ahead
Start the new year with clarity, confidence, and structure.
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