An important goal needsmore than intention.
Work on a meaningful goal for 12 weeks and turn it into direction, actions, routines, and evidence of progress.
12 weeks · Live sessions · Small group · Harada Method
12 weeks
Live sessions
Small group
Harada Method
You may know what you want. The challenge is turning it into progress.
You can have a good intention, write down objectives, and start with a lot of energy.
And still find yourself, a few weeks later, saying:
What is usually missing between the two is a system.
- “I have too many important things.”
- “I know what I want, but I can't quite ground it.”
- “I start well and then lose consistency.”
- “I have an objective, but not a system.”
- “I'm busy, but I don't know whether I'm really moving forward.”
- “When something changes, I lose direction.”
What could you work on for 12 weeks?
You will work on a meaningful goal from your own life. The program can apply to challenges like these:
01 · Career transition
Define your next step and turn it into concrete decisions.
Examples: Role change · industry change · your own professional project
02 · Project or business
Move from an important idea to priorities, actions, and follow-through.
Examples: Launch · new project · an initiative you've been postponing
03 · Performance goal
Build habits and discipline around a demanding objective.
Examples: Certification · learning · athletic challenge · professional development
04 · Too many priorities
Choose what truly deserves your attention and build a system around it.
Examples: Fewer open fronts · greater clarity · more consistent execution
You don't need to arrive with a perfectly defined goal. Part of the process is precisely choosing it and building the system to move forward.
By the end, you won't only have a goal.
You will have a system built around it.
Direction
Your own definition of success and a clear main goal.
Purpose
A deeper understanding of why that goal matters.
Analysis
Clarity about strengths, patterns, obstacles, and support.
Action map
A broad map of actions and possibilities to move toward your goal.
Priorities
Tasks, dates, and concrete next actions.
Routines
Behaviors that sustain your execution.
Evidence
A system to compare what you planned with what happened.
Continuity
A next 90-day cycle to keep moving forward.
12 weeks. One goal. One system.
- Know myself
- Choose
- Understand
- Design
- Implement
- Continue
01 · Know myself
Observe how you are currently directing yourself and recognize strengths, values, beliefs, and patterns.
02 · Choose
Build your own definition of success and choose a meaningful goal.
03 · Understand
Connect the goal with its purpose and recognize strengths, obstacles, countermeasures, and support.
04 · Design
Turn the goal into possibilities, priorities, actions, and concrete decisions.
05 · Implement
Build routines and integrate priorities, schedule, behavior, and follow-up.
06 · Continue
Review evidence, learn from what happened, and build your next 90-day cycle.
12 weeks · 1 live session per week · work between sessions
A methodology to turn direction into action.
The Harada Method is the main methodology of the Self-Direction Program.
01 · Goal
Define what you are aiming to achieve.
02 · Purpose
Understand why it matters.
03 · Analysis
Recognize strengths, conditions, and obstacles.
04 · Action
Turn direction into concrete decisions.
05 · Implementation
Sustain progress through routines, evidence, and continuous improvement.
Focus Academy integrates the Harada Method with work on strengths, values, beliefs, blind spots, and continuity cycles.
This program is not a certification as a Harada Method coach or practitioner.
Learn more about the Harada Method →This is not another productivity course.
The objective is not to fill your life with tasks.
We are not here to
- Give you a perfect routine.
- Tell you what your goal should be.
- Chase you so you complete tasks.
- Turn every minute into productivity.
- Promise you will never lose your way again.
We are here so that
You develop a greater capacity to direct yourself.
- Choose
- Act
- Observe
- Learn
- Adjust
This program requires that you be willing to work for 12 weeks, apply between sessions, and take responsibility for your decisions. It is not designed as therapy, quick motivation, or a solution where someone tells you exactly what to do.
A guided process to work on a real goal.
12 weeks
The complete process.
1 live session per week
One guided session every week.
Small group
Conversation, reflection, and exchange with close follow-up.
Work between sessions
Immediate application in real situations.
One meaningful goal
The process is built around a goal from your own life.
Follow-up through evidence
Compare what you planned with what actually happens.
Program tools
- Workbook
- 33 self-direction questions
- Long-term goal format
- OW64
- Routine tracking sheet
- Self-direction schedule and journal
- Next 90-day cycle
Each week you will apply your work directly to a meaningful goal from your own life.
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Who will guide you
Carlos Barclay
Founder of Focus Academy · Certified Harada Method Coach
Carlos combines more than two decades of professional experience in operations, procurement, supply chain, and leadership with his work in human development and self-direction through the Harada Method.
The facilitator's role is not to choose the goal for you. It is to help you build a process clear enough to think better, decide, execute, observe, and adjust.
Methodological backing
Focus Academy has the guidance and methodological advisory of George Trachilis.
First, we want to understand what you are looking to build.
The program requires a real commitment for 12 weeks. Before enrollment we want to briefly understand what you are looking to build and confirm that the program may be appropriate for you.
You will then receive information about dates, format, availability, investment, and next steps.
Frequently asked questions
No. It is enough to arrive with a situation, aspiration, or change that genuinely matters. During the first weeks you will build greater clarity and choose the goal that will guide the process.
Tell me what you are looking to build.
Complete this form so we can briefly understand your situation and send you information about the Self-Direction Program.
A goal can change.Your capacity to direct yourself can stay with you far longer.
For 12 weeks you will work on a real goal.
But the most important result is not only what you achieve during that period.
It is developing a greater capacity to ask again:
- Where am I going?
- Why does it matter?
- What do I need to do?
- What do I need to repeat?
- What evidence do I have?
- What do I need to adjust?