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Hey all, I'm currently building Lockn, an app that helps you do more and plan less. Rather than planning your whole week, you plan day by day with Lockn.

It incorporates over 10 different productivity methods and has some really cool features.

Its launching really really soon, I just wanted to get a rough sense if any of you would use it 😄

If there are any additional features you would like to see added do drop a comment below! or if there is anything you think you don't like feel free to let me know too!

thanks so much for reading!!

That's why I built Focushala!

Available on google playstore @ https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.focus.focushala

I built an app to track my habits after trying so many of them, the problem was how these apps manage my weekly and monthly streaks based on completed days rather than weeks or months met. There was something wrong in streaks counters. And it wasn't acceptable to me.The other issue was resetting my streaks, if I raise up my goals which I saw it as punishment rather than motivation.

Then I decided to solve these problems in my app

This was my prospective for a habit tracker app. Which I built a solution for it even if no one sees this prespective.

(Me) is the first customer.

Four weeks ago, I released Line Cal - an app that let's users put their calendars on a timeline, with notes and an integrated Kanban task board. I've gotten 40 sign-ups since I launched, am supporting 21 languages, and am continuing to iterate on a consistent basis.

I wanted to share a short demo video of adding an item from the backlog directly onto the timeline to showcase some of what this app can do. Users can use it with or without signing (it uses a local-first architecture, with cloud sync for authenticated users).

and waiting for the good times to pull through

For most of my career, I thought I was being a good leader as long as I won every negotiation. I used to think that if I didn't pressure my team for that extra overtime or beat the other department heads for the bigger budget, I'd would fail. According to me, there was one pie, and if I wasn't taking the largest slice, I was losing. On paper it seemed fine, all the stats were higher actually. But my top talents were leaving one after another to different departments and roles, simply to get out from under the pressure. So I finally had to face that my 'toughness' wasn't really strength at all, but slow and expensive damage.

Recently I listened to an in-depth discussion on 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People' from Dialogue: Podcasts on Books. Hearing the key insights broken down in relation to everyday life made me realize that most of what I thought was strong leadership was just scarcity dressed up in confidence. Here is what i learned:

-Win-Win thinking is a position of strength.
Most people assume negotiations are zero-sum games. Covey calls this the scarcity mindset, which silently harms every room it enters. To be clear, win-win does not mean being a nice guy or a pushover. It means working from a foundation of abundance, a mindset that there is enough for everyone, and that a deal only counts if both sides actually benefit from it.

-Win-Win or No Deal. 
If both sides cannot reach an agreement that benefits each one, you have no deal.  We agree to disagree, and we preserve the relationship for the future.This attitude is actually the harder, a more disciplined position. Not a sign of weakness. Forcing a win today only to lose your most effective people tomorrow does not add up.

-Change the script in the room. 
I started saying, aloud in meetings: "I want to find a solution that works for both of us. I cannot accept an agreement that is unfair for me and I do not expect the same of you." Immediately you could feel the shoulders relax and the room’s mood is lighter. Anyone who says that this is "pushover behavior" has simply not understood the corporate dynamic. You didn’t cave in but have simply set a boundary that demands mutual gain, and this has turned out to be one of the most useful things to bring into the meeting. 

What can actually change when you adopt this:
You stop measuring success by what extra margin you got over the other person. You start building relationships that survive the deal. Your best people stop leaving. And the wins you do actually secure are because the other side wanted them for you too.

All of this sounds very simple advice now, but for me, this was truly troubling in the beginning because it meant letting go of a version of strength that I had worked so hard to build my identity around. But Covey's point is clear, abundance is not naive optimism. It's the only approach that actually compounds over time.