Is Your Life Just “Good”—or Is It Extraordinary?
Turn your ordinary life into an extraordinary one with a system that keeps you focused, energized, and fulfilled for the rest of your life.
What’s Missing From Your Life?
You’ve checked boxes. You’ve worked hard. You’re successful.
But something feels off. You’re drifting, unsure what’s next, but knowing there’s more you could be doing.
- You’ve hit a transition point. Maybe you’re changing jobs, selling your startup, or your kids just left for school. Whatever it is, the future feels fuzzy, and you’re not sure where you’re headed.
- You’re busy, but not energized. You’re working hard but losing sight of what truly matters.
- Time’s passing, but you feel like you’re stuck. You know if you keep coasting, you’ll look back and wonder: Did I really live the life I wanted?
Don’t let “I’ll figure it out later” be the reason you waste the next decade.
Don’t let your 100-year-old self think, “I wish I could go back and get more of what I wanted out of life and give more of myself to the world, too.”
Stuck In the Unfulfilling Flow?
You busily spend your days on… you don’t always remember exactly what.
You do what you have to do, rarely what you want—too many things you don’t enjoy.
You exhaust yourself, then crash into bed wistfully wondering what life could be like if you took charge.
Then you wake up to do it again.
You Can’t Afford to Wait
We all think we have more time than we actually do. And we all underestimate what we can do with the time we have.
But the longer you wait to take control, the deeper you drift into a life that’s fine but unfulfilling.
Systematic Brilliance is for those who want to avoid that wistful regret—the moment when excruciating clarity hits and you realize you’ve spent your life chasing the wrong things.
Or waiting.
Or, worst of all, you realize you can hardly remember what you spent your life on.
Unlock Systematic Brilliance
You actively fill your days with progress on rewarding, memorable projects.
You do what you want to do, rarely what you’re forced to—too many things to enjoy.
You fulfill yourself, then climb into bed feeling well spent, proud of your proactivity.
Then you wake up to do it again.
What Does Your Extraordinary Life Look Like?
Imagine life with a NASA-esque ‘command center’ that oversees your brave exploration of the universe of your life’s potential:
- You wake up every day with clarity, knowing exactly what to focus on and why.
- Your energy is directed toward things that truly excite and fulfill you—not the busywork that drains you.
- Time slows down, and you’re fully present, making the most of each day.
- When you’re 100 years old looking back on your life, you’ll know that THIS was the turning point—the system that guided you to a life of purpose.
That’s the life Systematic Brilliance helps you build.
How Systematic Brilliance Works
Systematic Brilliance isn’t a quick-fix coaching program. It’s a lifetime system—one that adapts and grows with you, guiding every stage of your life.
- Log What Matters: Record the actions and experiences that truly count. No fluff.
- Review & Learn: Track what’s working, what’s not, and refine your approach.
- Plan for Progress: Make better, informed decisions about your future.
- Repeat: Build momentum and direction that keeps improving your life.
This isn’t about crossing things off a to-do list. This isn’t about over-optimizing. This is about creating a system that works for you, long after other programs have faded.
Don’t Try This At Home
Here’s a dull walkthrough of my beautiful beast of a system:
Choose Your Path to Extraordinary
DIY
$0
For self-starters. If I can do it, so can you.
- Here are the basic steps.
- Follow a similar evolution to mine.
- Email me your questions. Happy to help.
- Subscribe for more ideas and inspiration every 10-ish days:
VIP
$1,997
VIP = Very intensely personalized.
What You Get:
- 4+ hours of one-on-one coaching with Chris.
- Weekly accountability check-ins.
- Unlimited WhatsApp support for 90 days.
- Access to exclusive templates and guides.
- Ongoing follow-through for a year to guarantee system success.
- Limited to 3 spots a month.
Express your interest:
No payment necessary yet. Chris will contact you to discuss.
Super VIP
$14,997
The immersive, hands-on experience.
What You Get:
- Everything in VIP.
- In-person intensive with Chris at your location.
- 6 months of follow-up coaching and personal check-ins.
- Whatever else you need to get your system humming.
- Limited to 5 spots per year.
Express your interest:
No payment necessary yet. Chris will contact you to discuss.
Money Back Guarantee
If after 30 days you don’t see a transformation in how you approach your life, we’ll give you a full refund—no questions asked.
If after 3,000 days you don’t feel your own system is a priceless tool for directing your life in a more energizing, fulfilling, and clear direction, we’ll give you a full refund plus interest.
What’s a “System”?
The disciplined practice of engineering your life on an increasingly zoomed-out level.
It’s a combo of:
Your GPS for way-finding through life.
Your walkie-talkie between your present self and all your future and past selves.
Your engine to perpetually tinker with for increased energy and efficiency.
Simple Steps, Big Impact
- Do stuff.
- Record. What did you do? Succinct and objective. No storytelling.
- Review. What went well? What could be improved?
- Plan. What progress do you want to make?
- Repeat. Do → Record → Review → Plan.
For a more detailed step-by-step, click here.
It’s nothing exciting. But the output is extraordinary.
My System Success Story
I’m Chris.
When I “pretired” from my Corporate Finance career in 2013, I had no idea what to do next. I floundered for years.
Then I started implementing a system.
Since then, I’ve gotten married, fathered two kids, kept my six-pack, managed to enjoy perpetual summers between Vancouver and Cape Town, tripled my net worth, and found fulfilling work. Even though I’m externally “unsuccessful“, my well-being is off the charts:
I love my life, am proud of what I’ve accomplished, and am more optimistic than ever about my future.
The biggest contributor to my internal success? Dumb luck. But I also credit my system, which has has evolved into an energy-generating, anti-regret-pumping, perspective-broadening, superpower-unleashing, Suck-fighting, focus-honing command center for exploring the universe of my potential. I still sometimes think my system’s boring to work on, but you couldn’t pay me to abandon it.
Don’t Try This At Home
Here’s a dull walkthrough of my beautiful beast of a system:
Real Results:
David K’s Story
David was of six people to join my first-ever trial cohort in May 2024.
What made you join?
I joined, because I had a nagging sense for a while that my cell phone was using me more than I was using it. It was time to snap out of it, and start making more meaningful memories with my days. Most importantly, I joined because I got a friendly nudge out of my comfort zone in my inbox from The Zag, and I’m happy I did.
Any progress or unexpected wins?
The Systematic Brilliance program helped me identify the parts of my day that were ripe for revision, and helped me to plan out and be intentional about what I wanted to do instead. My morning routine no longer involves opening my eyes, reaching for the phone, checking the news, the email, battling wordlebot, and wondering where the last hour (or more) of my day went. If that alone was the output of this session, I’d be more than pleased, but that was just the start.
Most helpful part?
Taking the time up front to be intentional about how I wanted to spend my time was the most impactful part of the session for me. If you don’t have a plan for how you want to spend your time, there are countless other people willing to do that for you. Most of those people, sadly, are on the other end of an algorithm looking for you to spin their ad flywheel. I took back my time, and I’m much happier for it. The surprise for me was how important it was to have a plan, and how easy it was to implement the plan once I had it.
How do you feel about it now?
Over the past month, I’ve already spent more intentional time with my wife and kids, reconnected with friends I hadn’t seen in way too long, and started up a new workout routine. I have no doubt I will remember and cherish the conversations, laughs and long-term health benefits for years to come. I can’t recall 9 of the 10 surprising facts about kitten whiskers that I’m sure I read about the month before. Having this positive reinforcement makes keeping up the good habits easier every day.
Thanks Chris!
- Do stuff.
- Record what you do. Succinct and objective. Reporting, not storytelling.
- Review. What went well? What could be improved?
- Plan. What progress do I want to make?
- Repeat. Do → Record → Review → Plan.
That’s it in a nutshell. Nothing fancy.
Why’s this system worth so much to me?
My system:
- Broadens my view of time.
- Slows down the feeling that time’s flying by.
- Provides objective reports, rather than subjective stories.
- Stores memorable moments.
- Gives me a plan that lets me concentrate on the present and worry less about the future.
- Holds me accountable to my future selves.
- Increases awareness of what generates and leaks my energy.
- Hones me in on doing more of what’s important.
- Steers me down my own path in life, rather than following the flow.
- Fills me with a sense of progress and well-being in spite of my lack of conventional “success.”
You’re Only One Month Away
What you get when you sign up:
Minimum 3 Hours of Coaching Calls
- Introduction and launch call.
- End-of-month offboarding.
- Mid-month check-ins.
- Introduction and launch call.
- End-of-month offboarding.
- Mid-month check-ins.
Value: $500
Ongoing WhatsApp Interaction
- Weekly accountability check-in.
- Thought-provoking ideas and inspiration.
- Constant access for Q&A.
- Weekly accountability check-in.
- Thought-provoking ideas and inspiration.
- Constant access for Q&A.
Value: $200
Proven Framework
- Step-by-step guidance to apply a life-directing framework I’ve been evolving for a decade.
- This will help you build a system that took me years to build in only months.
- Step-by-step guidance to apply a life-directing framework I’ve been evolving for a decade.
- This will help you build a system that took me years to build in only months.
Value: $400
Continued Follow-Up
- Check-ins after the month to ensure your system is working.
- Opportunity for additional input as needed.
- Check-ins after the month to ensure your system is working.
- Opportunity for additional input as needed.
Value: $200
But Here’s What You’re Really Getting
Clearer life vision. No more head in the sand or fuzzy memories.
Accomplish more of what matters. Less time wasted on meaningless tasks.
Feel time slow down. Days stop blurring together.
Trust your choices more. Less second-guessing yourself.
More energy. Fewer days feeling drained and unmotivated.
Value: Intangible Billions
Only $499
If you’re interested, drop me your email and I’ll get in touch:
Read Results:
David M’s Story
Another of the six people (and two Davids) to join my first-ever trial cohort in May 2024.
“Sounds Cool, But…”
“I don’t have time right now.”
“People waste years of their lives not being willing to waste hours of their lives.”
Michael Lewis
How much of the time you spend is on things that don’t matter? That suck your energy? That aren’t helping you make progress?
Systematic Brilliance will help you cut down on those “leaks” to free up time for “pumps.”
“It’s too expensive.”
What’s more expensive:
- Investing in a system that guides you along a fulfilling life?
- Continuing along your current path wondering what life would be like if you took control, then looking back with regret?
“I’m not sure this will work for me.”
Maybe.
You need to have some discipline. Systematic Brilliance doesn’t catch on for people who count on me to hold their hand every step of the way. This is why I only work with people who have succeeded already but now want more energizing fulfillment.
The system we help you implement isn’t one-size-fits-all. We customize it for you, with ongoing support to ensure it adapts to your life’s changes. Plus, the money-back guarantee means there’s zero risk.
“I want fast results.”
Good luck! I mean it. Maybe sometimes quick fixes can stick, but usually you yo-yo back to needing your next fix.
Systematic Brilliance is about ‘radical moderation,’ diligently stacking up lasting results that build on each other.
“I don’t need help.”
You could be right. I implemented my system on my own. Took a while. And I’m still fine-tuning it. But it’s worked wonders for me.
Try the DIY option. Here on The Zag you’ll find all the information I can think of to help you implement your own system much faster than I did. If you can’t find an answer, please let me know so I can add it to the site.
“I think my life’s good enough.”
As long as you’re super confident your 100-year-old self will agree with you on that.
My Objective for You
⌛️ A month later: I want you to feel In Charge was a fantastic investment.
⌛️⌛️ A year later: I want you to be so dialed in with your system that you feel In Charge was maybe the best thing you did in the past twelve months.
⌛️⌛️⌛️ A decade later: I want you to feel the same as me: that you wouldn’t give up your system for a million dollars.
What’s in it for me?
- It feels good to help people live more extraordinary lives.
- If you get amazing results, others will come wanting the same, and I can charge enough to earn a good living.
FAQ
This program will help you make better use of your time, so I’d argue you gain time by signing up. Being “too busy” is a sure sign you need a better system to get you focusing on what matters.
But if you aren’t ready to accept that argument, here’s how much time you’ll need:
- 1 hour for initial call with me.
- 1 hour for beginning of the month exercises.
- 5-to-10 minutes a day for recording what you’re up to.
- 1 hour a week for reviewing and planning.
- 1.5 hours at the end of the month for review and planning.
- 1-to-2 more hours of calls with me during the month.
First and foremost, with the VIP packages you have get to work closely with me.
Also:
More focus on objectively recording what you do. Like an athlete or a musician, the more accurately you can review your past performance, the better you can find what is and isn’t working and tinker to improve.
No obligation use a specific system and software. We’ll start with a fundamental framework and go from there to evolve your own system.
This isn’t about getting more things done faster, but making sustainable progress toward an overall productive life of your own design.
We prioritize making life feel exciting and even fun.
It’s cheaper. (For now.)
We’ll coordinate a custom schedule that fits within your calendar.
Preferably, we will:
- Have our intro call toward the end of a month, e.g. May 28.
- Work together throughout the next month, e.g., June 1-30, with regular WhatsApp check-ins and at least one mid-month call.
- Wrap up the month and plan next steps with a call at the beginning of the following month, e.g. July 2.
- Keep in touch on increasingly sporadic basis as your system starts humming, taking a life of its own, and needing less of my input.
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Ready for Systematic Brilliance?
Go DIY it. Or if you’re more interested in one of the VIP programs, please leave me your email and I’ll get in touch to see if we’re a fit.