Ali works with his CEO coach Eric Partaker (2022)
project history · status: running · last event: milestone (2023-12-22) · owner: Ali
About: Eric Partaker, The 3 Alarms, Lisbon, identity-based habits
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-04 | milestone | Behind the three alarms method of his coach Eric Partaker, author of The 3 Alarms, is the idea that action follows identity: thinking of himself as a healthy person makes Ali go to the gym more often. | How To Build A Life You Love 00:19:30 |
| 2022-12-13 | milestone | Following Eric Partaker's The 3 Alarms, Ali has three alarms on his phone, at 9:00, 5:00 and 6:30, that remind him which identity he wants to hold at those times. | 15 Incredible Books to Read in 2026 00:04:56 |
| 2023-03-22 | milestone | Ali's team tracks its happiness with anonymous surveys every few months and held a session with coach Eric Partaker on what would make the business the best place to work. | Why I Have 12 Full-Time Employees (as a YouTuber) 00:23:47 |
| 2023-04-24 | milestone | The second part of the Trident method is defining the ideal week, the ideal allocation of the 112 hours; Ali has used it for about eight months, since he started working with his CEO coach Eric Partaker. | How I Manage My Time - The Trident Calendar System 00:03:55 |
| 2023-06-28 (happened 2022-10) | launched | Since about October 2022 Ali has had weekly one-hour coaching sessions with Eric Partaker, dozens of hours over about seven or eight months. | I spent $50,000 on a business coach so you don’t have to 00:00:58 |
| 2023-06-28 | milestone | A few months earlier Eric Partaker, who lives in Lisbon, came in person to Ali and his whole team in Portugal and taught them the identity-based goal-setting method of his book The 3 Alarms. | I spent $50,000 on a business coach so you don’t have to 00:16:29 |
| 2023-07-31 | milestone | Ali sets yearly goals to create a direction and reviews them every quarter with his CEO coach, or you can with a friend, deciding whether each is still wanted and what to do in the next three months. | 8 Simple Habits That Save Me 20+ Hours a Week 00:16:08 |
| 2023-08-02 | milestone | Ali used to be anti-numbers, but working with his CEO coach Eric Partaker he has realised the value of putting numbers to things: with a team of 14, targets give the team clarity, since people want to know they are doing a good job. | 12 Tools I Use to Run My $4m Business 00:18:29 |
| 2023-12-22 | milestone | Ali keeps his goals for each area of life in a Google Doc with his CEO coach, Eric; every quarter they decide what tangible progress to make in the next 90 days. | How to Make Next Year The Best Year of Your Life 00:10:54 |
What is said about it
10 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2022-11-04 · How To Build A Life You Love — Ali has three daily alarms on his phone naming the identities he wants: "humble and inspiring teacher", "Gymshark athlete" and "relationship sustainer". — 00:20:18
- 2022-11-04 · How To Build A Life You Love — Ali has had his three identity alarms for several weeks and has genuinely found them helpful. — 00:21:05
- 2022-12-13 · 15 Incredible Books to Read in 2026 — recommendation: Ali: Since reading The 3 Alarms a few months ago, Ali keeps an ideal week in his calendar, a picture of what he wants his week to look like, which he finds super helpful for being intentional. — 00:04:56
- 2022-12-13 · 15 Incredible Books to Read in 2026 — Ali: Some weeks Ali reviews his week, using the method Eric Partaker describes in The 3 Alarms. — 00:05:44
- 2023-04-24 · How I Manage My Time - The Trident Calendar System — Ali says Eric Partaker has coached a couple of hundred CEOs of high-growth companies and asks all his clients to define an ideal week. — 00:03:55
- 2023-06-28 · I spent $50,000 on a business coach so you don’t have to — Ali says having a business coach for the last several years has been the most ROI-positive thing he has ever done in his business or his life. — 00:00:00
- 2023-06-28 · I spent $50,000 on a business coach so you don’t have to — Ali's coach Eric Partaker was on Skype's early team before its billion-dollar sale to eBay, then ran a UK restaurant chain that grew over about 12 years; now retired in Portugal, he coaches CEOs on the side. — 00:00:29
- 2023-06-28 · I spent $50,000 on a business coach so you don’t have to — Ali: Eric Partaker was a former student of Ali's Part-Time YouTuber Academy and interviewed Ali about content creation on his podcast, where Ali saw how much he knows about business. — 00:00:29
- 2023-06-28 · I spent $50,000 on a business coach so you don’t have to — Ali: Eric Partaker's own identities are the world fitness champion at 6.30 a.m., the world's best coach at 9 a.m. and the world's best husband and father at 6.30 p.m. — 00:17:21
- 2023-07-31 · 8 Simple Habits That Save Me 20+ Hours a Week — Ali keeps his quarterly goals in a single Google Doc bookmarked in Chrome and looks at it during his weekly review. — 00:16:38