FocusCatalyst Resources
Free FocusCatalyst Teleconference
To find out more about FocusCatalyst techniques you can use to make your work more easy, creative...and fun, to ask questions and share experiences with the techniques, go to Sign Up to be notified about the next free FocusCatalyst Teleconference.
Free Monthly FocusCatalyst Brainstorming Salon
You can join us at the Salons themselves in San Francisco the first Thursday evening of every month. You can also participate in the FocusCatalyst Brainstorming Salons via email if you live outside the San Francisco Bay Area. Go here for more information. Go to Sign Up to receive the invitations.
Free Monthly "Out of the Blue" FocusCatalyst Emails
As described in FOCUS. The Catalyst for Creativity, a "BLUE" is a happy surprise. The more you notice them, the more they show up in your life.
I send out a randomly timed "Request for BLUES" email about once a month to everyone who signs up for this free email service. Go to the Sign Up to receive them.
Monthly & Quarterly FocusCatalyst FocusTours
Held monthly from San Francisco to Sausalito via ferry and quarterly from San Francisco to Yosemite via Amtrak train, FocusTours are also periodically conducted in other parts of the United States and in Europe.
On all FocusTours I teach how to use a variety of FocusCatalyst techniques. They're lively, fun and you'll come away from them with ideas, insights and solutions to your own particular personal or professional questions and challenges.
Monthly FocusTours are held the second Saturday of every month at the San Francisco Ferry Building from 10AM to 1PM and include a round trip ferry ride to Sausalito. Got to Sign Up to have more information about them emailed to you.
For information about the next quarterly San Francisco to Yosemite FocusTour, go to Sign Up.to receive more information about them.
WIN a free FocusCatalyst CustomCatalyst.
Helpful Products
Links coming soon!
Hand-Held Paper Shredders for the Burn Baby Burn FocusCatalyst
Digital Timers with flashing light, vibrating, and/or ringer alerts for the Two Minute FocusCatalyst and the Park ’n Ride FocusCatalyst
FocusCatalyst Preprinted Index Cards for the Forced Association FocusCatalyst
FocusCatalyst Playing Cards for the Two Minute FocusCatalyst
Car Power Adapter for Laptops for the Park ’n Ride FocusCatalyst
Helpful Books
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting. The Astonishing Power of Emotions by Lynn Grabhorn
How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life by Alan Lakein
Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by Step by Edward DeBono
Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow by Chip Conley
The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg
The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life by Robert Fritz
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want by Barbara Sher
Sign up for information about FocusCatalyst FocusTours to Yosemite (above) or Sausalito (below).
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“Betsy’s book is...powerful and packed with ingenious, enjoyable, human (and humane) ways to break free of those dreaded dead spots that hold us all back when we ache to get into action.” --Barbara Sher, best-selling author of I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was and Wishcraft
