John Voorhees
John lives in Hinsdale, Illinois with his wife and three sons. John is an attorney with a law firm in Chicago. He also runs Squibner, an indie iOS development company, with his son Owen. John is the creator of Blink, an iTunes affiliate linking utility for iOS.
Here’s what John wrote in to say about The Focus Course:
I have a full time job at a law firm in Chicago. Over the past couple of years I realized a long-time personal goal of learning Objective-C and creating an iOS app. I am also a dad with a wife, two teenage sons in high school and a third son entering middle school.
When I added iOS development to my list of projects, things got a little nuts. To get to where I could launch my app, I slowly let its development encroach and crowd out other important aspects of my life. I got the app out, but I was spent.
I found a way to add iOS development to an already busy schedule, buy the way I got there was unsustainable. I was on a path to burnout. I needed to find a better balance, be smarter about picking the times when I could be most productive on projects and transition more effectively among them.
Just as I realized that I needed to rebalance things, I got the opportunity to take The Focus Course. It couldn't have come at a better time, and I couldn't be happier with the results it produced in my life.
For me, the most important aspect of The Focus Course was developing a personal framework for approaching each aspect of my life with intentionality and then converting those intentions into habits that I don't need to think about. By breaking the course down into a series of short daily readings, videos and activities, Shawn has made doing just that easy, regardless of how busy you are.
Whereas big projects once were a series of brutal sprints punctuated by procrastination, The Focus Course has helped me find a sustainable pace where I can enjoy the journey as much as the goal without shortchanging other important parts of life. Of course I'm still a work in progress, but who isn't? And that is another strength of The Focus Course — it's not a series of quick fixes and hacks, but a framework and approach that is easy to dip back into for periodic inspiration and motivation.
I highly recommend The Focus Course. Thank you, Shawn!
