Mastering Time Mindfest – Free Workshop with Paul Scheele
A well-organized calendar can tell you what is supposed to happen next, but it cannot guarantee that your attention, energy, and sense of time will cooperate.
You may finish a long list and still spend the day mentally carrying what remains unfinished. On other days, focused work comes naturally, hours seem to disappear, and meaningful progress feels almost effortless.
Mastering Time Mindfest explores that difference. Dr. Paul Scheele moves beyond conventional time-management techniques to examine mental clutter, priorities, natural energy cycles, deep work, flow, adaptive planning, and the ways your nonconscious mind can support focused action.
Across eight sessions, you can explore a practical approach to using time more intentionally while also changing how you experience the time you are living.
Why Attend Mastering Time Mindfest
Traditional time management can help you organize appointments, priorities, and tasks. It does not automatically resolve the mental clutter that comes from carrying unfinished commitments in your head or trying to force demanding work during periods when your energy is low.
Mastering Time Mindfest takes a broader approach by connecting practical planning with attention, natural energy cycles, deep focus, flexibility, and your subjective experience of time. The sessions are designed to help you think differently about when and how you work instead of treating every available hour as interchangeable.
Dr. Paul Scheele also explores how nonconscious mental processes can support focus, rehearsal, and flow. Rather than simply asking how to fit more into a day, the program gives you a framework for deciding what matters, directing attention more deliberately, and adapting when plans change.
Who Should Attend Mastering Time Mindfest
This event is for people who already know that better organization alone does not always lead to better use of time. It may be especially relevant if you want to reduce mental overload, focus more deeply, make clearer decisions about priorities, or work more intelligently with your energy.
The eight sessions also offer useful ideas for people interested in flow, adaptive planning, focused work, mental rehearsal, and the difference between clock time and lived experience. You can follow the entire sequence or concentrate on the sessions that address your most immediate challenges.
- People who feel mentally crowded by unfinished tasks and commitments
- Anyone who wants to prioritize beyond a simple to-do list
- People who want to plan demanding work around natural energy patterns
- Professionals and creatives seeking longer periods of focused work
- Anyone interested in understanding and entering flow states more readily
- People who want a more flexible planning system when circumstances change
- Anyone curious about the difference between clock time and experienced time
- People interested in using mental rehearsal and nonconscious processing more intentionally
What You’ll Learn During Mastering Time Mindfest
You’ll begin by looking at time from two perspectives: measurable clock time and the lived experience of time. That distinction creates a foundation for thinking more clearly about attention, priorities, focus, and the quality of the hours you are actually living.
From there, the program becomes highly practical. You’ll explore methods for capturing tasks outside your head, sorting priorities, matching important work to your energy, protecting deep-focus periods, and adjusting plans without losing your direction.
The later sessions expand the framework into flow, mental rehearsal, nonconscious processing, flexible wayfinding, and presencing. Together, the eight sessions connect everyday planning with a broader understanding of how attention and experience shape your relationship with time.
- The difference between Chronos clock time and Kairos experienced time
- How capturing tasks and ideas externally can reduce mental clutter
- How to distinguish urgent work from important work
- How the 80/20 principle can help identify higher-impact priorities
- How your chronotype can inform when you schedule demanding work
- Ways to structure your environment for deeper focus and fewer distractions
- Pre-sleep directives, morning priming, and mental rehearsal techniques
- How an adaptive planning system can help you adjust when plans change
- How flow and presencing relate to the subjective experience of time
- Ways to combine planning, attention, energy, and flexibility into one approach
Chronos, Kairos, and the Mastery Mindset
One of the central ideas in Mastering Time comes from the ancient Greek distinction between Chronos and Kairos. Chronos is measurable clock time: seconds, minutes, and hours. Kairos is experienced time: the quality and felt sense of the time you are actually living.
That distinction helps explain why one hour can feel brief when you are absorbed in meaningful work while another can feel unusually long. The clock measures both hours in the same way, but your experience of attention, effort, interest, and engagement can be very different.
Dr. Paul Scheele connects this concept with practical methods throughout the program. Externalizing tasks, choosing higher-impact priorities, aligning work with natural energy, entering deep focus, adapting plans, and using mental rehearsal all become parts of a broader mastery mindset rather than isolated productivity techniques.
- Use clock time as a planning tool without treating every hour as identical
- Recognize how attention and engagement affect your experience of time
- Reduce the cognitive load of remembering unfinished tasks
- Match demanding work to periods when focused attention is easier
- Stay flexible enough to adjust course when the day changes
- Use flow and present-moment awareness as part of a more complete approach to time
Mastering Time Mindfest Eight-Session Schedule
The free event presents the complete eight-session Mastering Time program across eight consecutive days. Each session develops a different part of the overall framework, moving from foundational concepts about time into practical planning, deep work, nonconscious processing, adaptability, and time expansion.
Session 1 – September 14
Redefining Time: Shifting to a Mastery Mindset
Explore the distinction between Chronos and Kairos, reconsider the idea that time is simply fixed and scarce, and clarify what matters most.
Session 2 – September 15
The Power of Capture: Mastering Externalization
Learn to capture tasks, ideas, and commitments in a trusted external system so your mind has less to hold and more capacity for focused attention.
Session 3 – September 16
Prioritization Beyond To-Do Lists
Use the urgent-versus-important distinction of the Eisenhower Matrix and the 80/20 principle to identify higher-impact work.
Session 4 – September 17
Time Blocks and Energy Alignment
Explore your chronotype and learn to match important work with your natural energy patterns instead of treating all hours as equally productive.
Session 5 – September 18
Deep Work and Flow States
Examine how environment, distraction, shallow work, and sustained attention affect your ability to enter deep focus and flow.
Session 6 – September 19
Leveraging the Nonconscious for Effortless Productivity
Explore pre-sleep directives, morning priming, and mental rehearsal as ways to engage nonconscious mental resources in support of your priorities.
Session 7 – September 20
Adaptive Planning: The Art of Flexibility
Learn an 80/20 flex method and a wayfinding approach that emphasizes checking in, adjusting, and continuing rather than following a rigid plan.
Session 8 – September 21
Time Expansion: Mastering Time as a Creative Force
Bring the program together through flow and presencing, including full sensory awareness of the present moment and a broader exploration of how time is experienced.
Dates, Access, Replays and Where to Watch
Mastering Time Mindfest runs online for eight consecutive days, from Monday, September 14 through Monday, September 21. Registered participants receive free online access to the video and audio sessions.
Each day’s session is available for 48 hours. Session 1 becomes available at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Monday, September 14 and remains available until 7:30 a.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, September 16. Session 2 follows the same pattern beginning Tuesday, September 15, and that daily release pattern continues through the eight sessions.
Check your email after registration for viewing links and access details. Because each session remains available across a 48-hour window, you can choose when to watch or listen during its availability period rather than attending at one fixed moment.
- Eight consecutive days of online programming
- Eight complete Mastering Time sessions
- Video and audio access included
- Each daily session available for 48 hours
- Daily sessions begin opening at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time
- Access details provided after registration
How to Register for Mastering Time Mindfest
Click any Register Here For Free button on this page, enter your contact information, and check your email for access details.
How to Get the Most From Mastering Time Mindfest
The event itself gives you a useful opportunity to practice the ideas it teaches. Instead of trying to consume every session as quickly as possible, use the 48-hour viewing windows to create a pace that supports attention and reflection.
A simple participation plan can help you notice which ideas actually change the way you work with time.
Capture What Stands Out
Keep one trusted place for notes, questions, and actions so you are not trying to remember every useful point from the sessions.
Watch for Your Natural Energy Patterns
Notice when focused viewing, note-taking, or reflection feels easiest during the day. That observation can give you a practical example of the energy-alignment ideas discussed in the program.
Choose One Experiment at a Time
- Try externalizing unfinished tasks into one trusted system
- Identify one high-impact priority using the 80/20 principle
- Protect one period for uninterrupted deep work
- Experiment with a brief pre-sleep directive or morning intention
- Review your plan and adjust rather than abandoning it when circumstances change
Notice Your Experience of Time
Pay attention to the difference between hours that feel fragmented and hours that feel absorbed or spacious. That contrast can make the Chronos and Kairos distinction more concrete in everyday life.
About Dr. Paul Scheele
Paul R. Scheele is co-founder of Learning Strategies and has spent decades teaching learning and personal-development methods focused on attention, mental processing, and human potential.
His academic background includes degrees in Biology and Learning and Human Development. His broader training and professional work include neuro-linguistic programming, accelerated learning, preconscious processing, and approaches that explore how conscious and nonconscious mental resources can work together.
In Mastering Time, he applies that background to a familiar challenge: how people plan, prioritize, focus, respond to changing circumstances, and experience the passage of time. The program combines established productivity concepts such as external capture, the Eisenhower Matrix, the 80/20 principle, time blocking, and deep work with his emphasis on mental rehearsal and nonconscious processing.
Learning Strategies presents Mastering Time Mindfest as the free online opportunity to experience all eight sessions of the program across the event period.
Reviews and Testimonials
“Exquisite presentation. Really. It deepens my understanding of time itself more than anything I have heard or read before. One of my favorite courses instantly. The benefit I’ve received that I value the most is understanding the difference between Chronos and Kairos, and how to view them and use them in everyday life. Suddenly it makes my daily planning and prioritizing much easier and more flowing.”
“Dr. Paul Scheele’s programs are a gift for humanity. They help us to remember who we are and activates our possibilities. I am very grateful to Learning Strategies for helping me to open the door to a new life where I have found my true self.”
“I appreciate Paul’s ability to make his expertise accessible in a way that produces real results in our lives.”
“I always recommend that my students take Paul’s course (and there were three of them in this one).”
“Both the information and the meditations presented by Paul in his matter-of-fact, friendly, and calm style have proved to be invaluable.”
“Paul really is an amazing expert, and he’s always able to teach us in a way so we really get it. I’ve attended many of his events, and I will be back.”
“Paul Scheele’s seminar actually gave me the awareness of the possibilities of a whole mind approach to life and living in general.”
“I am very grateful for the opportunity to know Paul in person and be able to learn. Very much looking forward to my upcoming event. With much love.”
“Highly focused time to work on yourself in the circle of like-minded people. There is no better investment in yourself to bring out your inner resources!”
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Register for Mastering Time Mindfest to receive online access to Dr. Paul Scheele’s complete eight-session program from September 14 through September 21.
- Sep 14 - 22 2026
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- 8:00 am - 7:30 am
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- Date: Sep 14 - 22 2026
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