Not just time management.
It’s life management.
An online self-paced program with live coaching, built to help you center your time and energy around what's actually important to you.
You’ve always wanted to have a more balanced life, but you’re beginning to think it’s not possible.
7:48 AM: You arrive at work, coffee in hand and ready to tackle the day. The first thing you see is a deluge of emails and messages. “Where do I even start?”
8:26 AM: After bushwhacking your way through the emails, voice mails and notifications, you realize you need to get started on your to do list. You start to tackle the first task, but you feel distracted by the other things on your list. How will you fit these in along with the meetings and appointments on your agenda?
3:52 PM: The panic sets in as you realize the day is winding down and you still have so much to do. Your family is counting on you to come home and give them attention. Better skip the gym…again.
9:19 PM: After dinner and evening chores everyone begins to get ready for bed. You find your attention wandering to what remains unfinished on your to do list. Frustrated, you pull out your phone or the remote and stay up later than you intended.
11:16 PM: You drag yourself off to bed, feeling like you have zero energy left. Tomorrow’s another day…
Rinse and repeat.
Here’s what you’ve probably already tried.
The planner. The app with the color-coded flags. The productivity book everyone recommended. Maybe all three at once.
And here's the thing: none of it was a bad idea. These solutions just weren’t built for your life. Here's why:
1. Most systems are too rigid. They assume your day goes according to plan. Yours doesn't. One sick kid, one urgent email, one bad night's sleep, and the whole beautifully color-coded system falls apart, along with your motivation to keep using it.
2. Most systems are too linear. They're built by and for linear thinkers, walking you step by step through a process that assumes your brain works one particular way. If it doesn't, you're left feeling like the system failed you, when in reality it was never built with you in mind.
3. Most systems are isolated. They help you manage your own list, but they don't say a word about the fact that your priorities live inside a family, a team, a marriage. No one taught you how to actually say what you need with confidence so the people around you can support it, so you just absorb it all instead, without saying anything.
4. Most systems are about capture, not clarity. They're designed to help you avoid forgetting things by collecting it all, then cramming as much of it as possible into your day. That's productivity. It's not the same as feeling like your life is manageable. In fact, more capture usually means more decision fatigue and running on fumes.
There’s a different way. I call it Prior 10.
It's built around two quick check-ins a day. That's it. Ten minutes before your day starts, to set your priorities. A shorter one to close the loop. No fancy app. No planner you have to buy separately or learn a whole new language for.
The goal of the check-ins is simple: first, you prioritize. Then, you close the loop so prioritizing becomes instinctive, not draining.
Prior 10 is different because it’s built around four key pillars:
Flexibility. Real life interrupts, guaranteed. Prior 10 is built to adapt with you instead of falling apart the first time your day doesn't go to plan.
Cognitive style. This isn't a one-size-fits-all script. It's designed for how your mind actually works.
Assertive communication. You'll learn to name your priorities and limits out loud, clearly and without guilt, so the people around you can actually support you instead of guessing.
Reducing decision fatigue. This isn't about collecting more. It's about carrying less. Prior 10 gives you a daily game plan instead of staring at everything at once, unsure where to start.
I'm Dr. Alise Murray, and I know exactly what it's like to be on that hamster wheel.
In college, I balanced school, a busy social life, a boyfriend, and a weekend waitressing job, and still graduated with honors feeling on top of my game.
Then real life started. I got married, bought a house, and started my career, all within about five years. I was doing all the "right" things, and my time was still incredibly compressed. I was scrambling, staying up too late, running on venti cups of coffee, glued to my computer, and feeling like total crap. No matter what I did, I felt like I was constantly dropping the ball and breaking promises — because I was so. freaking. busy.
Then I became a mom. I knew something had to change, so I built the Prior 10 Life Management System. And I finally — finally — started to feel that ease I'd been missing.
I'm a licensed clinical psychologist and certified life coach with 20+ years of clinical experience. I've spent my career helping people manage their time and energy so they can build lives that actually feel like theirs. I can't wait to help you do the same.
What It’s Like to Work With Me
"Dr. Alise helped me address challenges I have been having with maintaining boundaries around my work schedule, so that I am able to enjoy more time for leisure and other activities. We discussed the role my ADHD diagnosis plays in the dynamics of my work-life balance and ways to manage ADHD more effectively, particularly in terms of my energy levels. We discussed ways to ensure that my time is aligned with my values so that I can prioritize my other goals, such as health and fitness."
— Sarah D.
"Dr. Alise was so helpful to me at a time I really needed to think about what was getting in the way of focusing on some time sensitive projects. She was able to kindly redirect me back to some tangible, concrete suggestions for focusing on the task at hand."
— Johanna M.
This isn't a list of productivity hacks. It's a system built to reduce the decision fatigue and overwhelm that hacks never touch, and to teach you what almost no program does: how to set limits and get support so your priorities actually survive a real week.
Here’s What Actually Happens Each Week.
Week 0: Get Oriented
Choose your tools, get clear on your non-negotiables, and build a starting picture of your real priorities.
Week 1: Your Most Important Tool
Set up your calendar to hold your whole life, not just your meetings. You'll learn to avoid the common traps: cramming it too full, taking breaks that don't actually restore you, and getting blindsided by things that only come around once or twice a year, like birthdays or back-to-school season. Decision fatigue starts to drop here.
Week 2: Your Action Items
Get everything out of your head, then learn what actually makes it usable: task buckets and themes that reduce decision fatigue, instead of just staring down one overwhelming list. You'll also learn to turn goals into steps that keep moving forward, even in your busiest weeks, so momentum builds instead of stalling out every time life gets loud.
Week 3: The Daily WIN
A daily journaling practice, ten minutes or less, that starts surfacing patterns in your energy and focus, something you'll keep using well past this week.
Week 4: Momentum Week
No new material. Just space to catch up and let it settle in.
Week 5: The Prior 10
You know the feeling: you make a to-do list for the day, barely make a dent in it, and wake up the next morning to do it all again. Weekly planning is the fix. Here, it takes about half an hour and focuses on what actually matters to get done this week, using your buckets from Week 2 so you're never starting from scratch. That half hour is what makes your daily decisions quick.
Week 6: Stop Saying "Fine"
Set real limits, with yourself and others. Learn to confidently say no, negotiate, and delegate, so your priorities stop getting bumped by everyone else's.
Week 7: Finish Strong
Name what tends to derail you, choose your go-to strategies for staying focused and resisting procrastination, and close things out with a WIN snapshot to guide your own life management.
What you’ll walk away with
What actually gets you moving when starting, or finishing, feels impossible
The words to communicate your priorities and limits with clarity
Routines that help you start and finish your day with ease
The five D's for shrinking an overwhelming task list
The WIN method, to build effectiveness week over week
Tools to work with your energy and cognitive style instead of against them
A way to center your time around what matters, without dropping your other obligations
The ability to adapt seamlessly when your plans (inevitably) get disrupted
Support Built For Follow-Through
Books and courses give you information. What makes Prior 10 produce lasting results is the support woven thoughtfully into every week of the program.
Live weekly calls
Optional, but if you want to do the weekly activities live instead of alone, this is where it clicks fastest.
A weekly check-in
A short form each week keeps you on track and gives you a place to flag what's working and what's not.
Two 1:1 coaching sessions with me
One midway through the program to apply Prior 10 to your specific life, and one after it ends to make sure it sticks.
Your life is not like anyone else’s. Seats are limited so that every person gets individualized support.
Bonus: Private Coworking Sessions
For the tasks you keep meaning to get to but never quite do: a weekly, members-only virtual coworking session, just for people in Prior 10. Completely optional. Start by naming what you want to get done, work heads-down for the hour, then check back in on how it went. Simple structure, real accountability, no meeting required.
Ready to create a life that actually works?
Pay in Full
1 payment of $475
(Best value)
Payment Plan
4 payments of $125
100% Money Back Guarantee
100% Money Back Guarantee
II'm passionate about helping busy adults like you, and I've poured my years of training and experience into Prior 10. I want you to feel completely confident taking this journey. Try Prior 10 for yourself. If you don't agree it's well worth the investment, email hello@dr-alise.com by September 14th and I’ll remove your access and refund you in full. No hassle, no sweat.
Are you ready to go from being burned out to fired up?
Here’s how to know if Prior 10 is right for you.
You're tired of rushing and struggling just to get things done, and you're craving more breathing room in your life.
You're ready to look honestly at what's important to you and trim away some of what's draining your energy.
You want a life built around keeping your promises to yourself and others, not just another time management hack.
You're willing to set aside 10 minutes twice a day, plus 30 minutes once a week for planning and reflection.
FAQ’s
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Fair question, and an important one. Each week's lesson goes live on Sunday. Some weeks cover one topic, some cover more than one, so total time runs about 30 minutes to 2 hours a week, lesson plus exercise. There's a built-in Momentum Week midway through with no new material, just space to catch up. If life gets in the way, skip a lesson and come back to it the following week. Nothing falls apart if you're a few days behind.
There's also an optional live session each week, Wednesdays at 9am Pacific / noon Eastern, where we go through that week's material together. It's recorded, so if you can't make it live, you can watch on your own time for the length of the program. I'd still encourage you to join live when you can. It's where the real-time support and coaching happen, and it's genuinely more useful than the replay.
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Upon enrollment, you'll get access to your online course page, where you can watch each lesson, or listen via a private podcast feed on your favorite podcast app. Lessons are designed to fit into small pockets of time, so you can listen while folding laundry or watch while you're waiting to pick up your kids.
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Not at all. If you're happy with what you're already using, stick with it. A lot of my clients haven't found something they'll actually use consistently. If that's you, I'll help you find one that's a good fit, whether that's digital, a preprinted planner, or bullet journaling.
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This is actually where Prior 10 does some of its best work. I specialize in working with adults with ADHD, TBI, and similar conditions and preferences that affect executive function, and I built this system with that in mind from the start, not as an afterthought.
That shows up in the details: you choose the planning format that actually works for your brain, digital, preprinted, or bullet journal. Lessons come in audio or video, whichever you process better. Everything is broken into small, low-decision steps (buckets, themes, a simple daily planning method) instead of asking you to hold a huge system in your head. And if you fall behind or a week goes sideways, there's room to catch up without losing your place or starting over.
There's also the weekly virtual coworking bonus, which can be a real help if body doubling or dedicated focus time makes it easier for you to actually start something instead of circling it.
Flexible enough to bend around how your brain actually works, not the other way around.
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You'll have access for the lifetime of the program, so it's there whenever you want a refresher on any of the topics.
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You'll get a Zoom link by email. Click it to join from your phone, tablet, or computer, whatever's easiest. You can ask questions or just listen in, camera on or off. Joining the live sessions is optional.
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Try the course for yourself. If it's not a good fit, email me at hello@dr-alise.com by September 14th, and I’ll refund you in full and remove your access. No hassle, no sweat.
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Sure, just drop me an email at hello@dr-alise.com.
