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The Complete "Calling BS on Busy" Toolkit

Every bonus resource from the book. One page. No fluff. Download what you need.

Book cover

Free Chapter — "Calling BS on Busy"

Read the opening chapter of the book that's helped 500,000+ people reclaim their homes and their sanity. The foundational principles, in Andrew's own words.

The CBOB Time Management Quiz

Score your current relationship with time. 27 honest prompts plus multiple-choice. Takes about 15 minutes and gives you a baseline you can actually act on.

TIME QUIZ

Core Values

Core Values Exercises

Two guided exercises—one for individuals, one for professional teams. Set a 25-minute timer, work through the prompts, and walk away with the values that should be filtering every yes and no on your calendar.

Andrew's Calendar & Time Buckets

A screenshot of a real week from Andrew's calendar plus the 18 categories (Time Buckets) he uses to label every event. Copy the structure, adapt the labels.

Calendar Screenshot
HVA Template Sample

High-Value Activity (HVA) Templates

Morning and afternoon work-block templates with columns for task, time estimate, and quantity — plus two real, fully filled-out client samples so you can see what 'good' looks like before you start your own.

The Real Cost of Interruptions

23 min 15 sec to recover focus. 759 hours per year lost. 2.8 seconds of distraction doubles your error rate. The research brief plus a worksheet to spot—and shut down—your own daily interruptions.

INTERRUPTIONS

Case Study

Planning in Action—Sylvia's Before & After

A real before/after decluttering case study with photos.

Andrew's Email Filters + EOM / NRN

The exact filter rules Andrew uses to keep his inbox at zero, plus the EOM (End Of Message) and NRN (No Reply Needed) conventions that cut reply volume on his team in half.

Email Filters

Calling BS on Busy

A practical system for reclaiming your calendar, attention, and energy by Andrew Mellen.

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