PMYL Blog Takeover!
As you may already know, I’m launching TWO new books on May 1:
- Project Manage Your Life: a step-by-step blueprint for taking control of your life using proven project management principles.
- Project Manage Your Life Workbook: a companion workbook packed with guided exercises, planning tools, and tracking pages to help you apply the PMYL system in real time.
Together, these two books (along with my coaching) represent the Project Manage Your Life (PMYL) system that I’ve used to help clients (and myself!) achieve big, bold goals. Now I’m packaging it up and making it available to YOU.
As we rapidly approach launch, I’m dedicating my weekly blog to topics related to Project Manage Your Life.
📢 Welcome to the Project Manage Your Life blog takeover!
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Consider this a lighthearted amuse-bouche for your brain before we get serious. Sure, it might be groan-worthy—but hey, at least you’re getting your money’s worth, right? 😆
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Inside the Project Manage Your Life Workbook
As you probably know by now, the launch of Project Manage Your Life includes not just one, but two books. The second is the Project Manage Your Life Workbook—a hands-on companion built to help you apply the full PMYL system in your own life. In today’s post, I’m giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what’s inside the workbook… and why I created it in the first place.
Coaching, Evolved
After completing a massive personal transformation and sharing my story in Operation Melt: How I Used Life-Changing Project Management to Lose Over 100 Pounds in Under a Year, I felt a new calling:
👉 To help others make sure their goals didn’t die of loneliness.
So, I became a life coach.
In 2020, while the world was sheltering in place, I earned my first coaching certification and started working with clients. From health goals to career moves to major life changes, I was helping people make real progress… and loving every minute of it.
But early on, I noticed something… The approach I had learned during my training worked, but it didn’t quite feel like me. It didn’t reflect the structured, left-brained, goal-driven mindset I had used in my own transformation.
With every client, every session, and every challenge, my approach began to evolve. I shaped a new method designed for project managers, high-achievers, and others like me who thrive on structure, logic, and progress. Fast-forward to today, and my coaching process feels fully aligned with my purpose… and fully “Coach Tony.”
Time for a System Reset
After a few years of refining and customizing my tools with clients, I hit pause. It was time to step back, take inventory, and refresh the entire coaching system, top to bottom. I wanted everything to align with the Project Manage Your Life framework and reflect the same level of clarity, cohesion, and project management mindset I coach with every day.
As I shared in last week’s post (see Why I Wrote Project Manage Your Life), I created the six-step PMYL method to help anyone achieve any goal. Then I wrote the book to share that method with the world.
But the book was just the beginning.
I created the Project Manage Your Life Workbook for my clients. This workbook includes the full, client-tested coaching system: every worksheet, reflection prompt, planning tool, and strategy I use in real-life sessions. It’s the ultimate home base for the journey we take together.
Every coaching client gets a copy of the interactive PDF version, and we use it as the foundation for our work—tracking progress, adapting plans, and celebrating milestones along the way.
Not Everyone Can Have a Coach (But Every Goal Deserves a Fighting Chance)
Here’s the thing: not everyone is ready for coaching. Some people face financial constraints, time challenges, or simply prefer a DIY approach. I get it. Coaching isn’t always the first step.
But you know what is for everyone?
Having a system. A structure. A repeatable process that works.
So I made a big decision: I’m making the Project Manage Your Life Workbook available for sale… no coaching required.
This workbook is like having Coach Tony in your corner… without actually having Coach Tony in your inbox. You get the structure, the tools, and the method I use with clients every day, but without the personalized support, real-time cheering, and occasional dad jokes (your loss 😉).
The Workbook: What’s Inside?
Now that I’ve shared why the Project Manage Your Life Workbook exists, let’s open it up and take a quick peek at what’s inside. This overview has two parts:
- A high-level look at the structure
- A deeper dive into one of the tools you’ll actually use
Let’s start with the big picture.
The Project Manage Your Life Workbook is built around the four-stage PMYL framework I use with all of my coaching clients. Here’s what it looks like in action:
Each of these four stages walks you through a key phase of your goal journey:
1. Initiate
Commit to your personalized Goal Project Charter, solidifying your vision and setting the foundation for success.
2. Roadmap
Design your journey by identifying the key steps, milestones, and your personal “wills” and “won’ts”—the commitments and boundaries that will keep you focused and aligned.
3. Sprinting to Success
Execute your plan in focused two-week sprints. Do the work, track your progress, complete a retrospective, celebrate wins, troubleshoot challenges, and plan your next sprint for continued momentum.
4. Closure
Wrap up your journey with a powerful reflection process. Capture your progress, celebrate your results, and create a strategy to sustain your success moving forward.
Each stage includes a blend of worksheets, exercises, and real-life examples designed to guide you through building a clear, personalized plan—and actually sticking with it. These are the exact tools I use with coaching clients every week, and they’re flexible enough to support any goal you’re chasing.
Up next, I’ll walk you through one of the most popular tools in the workbook and show you how it works.
Tool Spotlight: Sprint Retrospective
One of the most powerful tools inside the Project Manage Your Life Workbook is the Sprint Retrospective… a reflection process that helps you stay motivated, accountable, and continuously improving throughout your journey.
In the PMYL system, your goal isn’t a one-and-done event… it’s a project. And like any good project, it moves forward in cycles. That’s where Sprinting to Success come in. These short, two-week focused periods give you just enough time to make meaningful progress without feeling overwhelmed.
At the end of each sprint, you’ll complete a Sprint Retrospective… a simple but high-impact reflection that asks:
- ✅ What progress did I make?
- 🧠 What challenges got in the way?
- 🎯 What’s my next big milestone?
- 🎉 What small win can I celebrate right now?
It’s not just about checking boxes. It’s about pausing to recognize what’s working, what’s not, and what adjustments will keep your momentum alive.
Even more importantly? It gives you permission to celebrate your wins. Because in the Project Manage Your Life philosophy, progress matters more than perfection… and every step forward deserves recognition. That’s how we enjoy the journey!
💬 If you’re working with me as your coach, the Sprint Retrospective becomes the structure for each of our coaching sessions. It’s both our agenda and our recap… tracking your momentum, identifying blockers, and designing your next sprint together.
Whether you’re using the workbook on your own or working with me 1-on-1, this tool becomes a powerful rhythm-builder. It keeps your goal from getting stale, keeps your eyes on the prize, and makes sure you never lose track of your “why.”
Who’s It For?
The Project Manage Your Life Workbook was built for one specific purpose:
👉 To help more people turn their goals into real results… one project at a time.
This workbook is especially useful if you’re someone who:
- ✅ Thrives on structure, planning, and progress
- ✅ Loves the satisfaction of a completed checklist
- ✅ Has a big goal but isn’t sure how to break it down
- ✅ Starts strong but struggles to maintain momentum
- ✅ Wants the benefits of a coaching process without the full coaching commitment (yet 😉)
Whether you’re launching a business, improving your health, navigating a career move, or simply trying to gain control over a chaotic season of life, this workbook is your blueprint to get there.
Ready to Take the Next Step?
The Project Manage Your Life Workbook officially launches on May 1… and you can be one of the first to know when it drops.
📬 Join my email list and I’ll send you a personal update when the workbook goes live (and yes, you’ll get goal success tips and stories every week too).
🙋♂️ Want personal support? Let’s talk about PMYL Coaching… I’ll walk through the workbook with you as your guide, cheerleader, and accountability partner
Your goals deserve more than wishful thinking. They deserve a system. They deserve momentum.
They deserve a fighting chance.
Let’s go make it happen.
✨ I believe in you; let me help YOU believe in you! ✨
Meet Coach Tony
I’m Coach Tony – coach, author, and project manager on a mission to build a world where no goal dies of loneliness.
For 40 years, I nearly let one of my biggest dreams slip away—not because I failed, but because I never even tried. Then, I took a leap, applied a simple, structured process, and not only achieved my goal but surpassed it.
That experience transformed my life, and I believe you can do the same.
Through Operation Melt, I provide engaging content and hands-on coaching designed to inspire, motivate, and equip project managers and other left-brained high-achievers to pursue and accomplish their biggest goals.
Let’s make sure your goals don’t die of loneliness. Let me help you start your transformation today!
