The OOPS Method
Everything in your head. One next move.
People ask me how one person runs video, photography, an agency, AI builds and a family without falling apart. The honest answer is a system I teach called the OOPS Method. One. Organize. Plan. Start. It turns the pile in your head into one clear next move, and it sits on five folders I use for literally everything I own.
306files in the wrong place. All of them home.
11files that pointed at them, fixed. Nothing broke.
One cleanup on my own folders, September 2026. Every move logged, every move undoable.
The loop
It’s not you. It’s the system.
Start something. Get overwhelmed. Quit. Feel bad about it. Start something else. If that loop sounds familiar, welcome. Most owners I know run on it.
Here’s what’s actually going on. To your brain, the letter from the IRS and picking your mom up at the airport look exactly the same. Both feel like an emergency, all day, every day. Give your brain a blueprint and the loop breaks. Really, it’s that easy.
O · O · P · S
Four steps. In order.
O
One
Shrink the overwhelm to a single next move. Not the whole plan. One brick. Relief shows up fast.
O
Organize
Sort everything in your life into five folders, the LEGOS. Every idea, file and task gets a home, so your head doesn’t have to hold it anymore.
P
Plan
Give every active project a finish line, a deadline and its next three moves. Projects stop stalling because they always know what’s next.
S
Start
Move before you feel ready. Version one is allowed to be messy. Momentum is what builds the confidence, not the other way around.
And when something breaks, and it will: OOPS. Adjust. Continue.
The LEGOS folders
The five folders behind everything I do.
Every file I own lives in one of five folders. Client shoots, the agency, the AI builds, my family’s stuff, this website. All of it sits on top of these five.
Launch
Projects with an end date. If it ends, it’s Launch.
Elevate
Who you’re becoming. Being a better dad, a better husband, the habit you’re finally kicking.
Guard
The things that never end and have to be protected. Your clients, your routines, the daily heartbeat of your business. Guard what matters or it decays.
Orbit
Ideas you’re not ready to commit to yet. Parked, not abandoned. Moving something to Orbit just means not yet.
Storage
Finished work and archives. Done, saved, and out of your head.
Here’s my favorite part: things move up. An idea in Orbit becomes a Launch project, and when it becomes part of daily life, it graduates into Guard. My Bible study started as an Orbit idea and now lives in Guard. Even AI started in my Orbit folder. Now it helps run my Guard, every day.
Don’t tell me, show me
Here’s my real folder system.
No staged demo. This is the system I opened this morning, the same one that holds every client shoot and every build. Every couple of weeks I run a cleanup that checks nothing is sitting in the wrong folder, and every move it makes can be undone.
Before: 306 files sitting in the wrong place across my business folders, old versions, loose scripts, clutter at the top. After one cleanup in September 2026: every one of them home, every move logged and undoable, and the 11 files that pointed at them fixed so nothing broke.
- 1 – Launch
- 2 – Elevate
- 3 – Guard
- 4 – Orbit
- 5 – Storage
Why it’s called OOPS
Mistakes are in the name on purpose.
I fail, I forgive, and I choose peace. I know I make mistakes, and that’s the blessing. What a privilege to learn. I’m honored to teach. So the method has the word right in its name. Babies fall. Babies get up. Nobody calls that failure.
OOPS isn’t a productivity app and it isn’t hustle. It works in Google Drive, in Notion, on paper or on a hard drive. It’s a way of thinking about your stuff so you can stop carrying it in your head and get home to the people who matter.
Is this you?
Built for people with more ideas than hours.
Entrepreneurs who start things. Owners who run two businesses and a family. The person with fifteen tabs open, three notebooks and a phone full of voice memos to themselves. If your brain never really clocks out, this was built for you. If you’re looking for another app to download, it wasn’t.
The free first step
Start free. Two minutes.
The Overwhelm Test is ten honest questions. No signup until the end. You get a score and a plain read on where your overwhelm is actually coming from. Then, if you want the whole method, it’s all on the OOPS Method site. Just take the test. That’s the first brick.
or see the whole method at the OOPS Method