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I'm going to share with you the 12 hacks
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that keep me insanely productive 99% of
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every day these strategies will allow
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the top 1% to get more done in a day
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than most people get done in a week
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they're what I use despite having
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crippling ADHD to become a millionaire
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by age 27 sell three companies and build
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$100 million business Empire so without
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further explaining it these are the 12
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ways to be more productive that cost
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nothing the first hack is to increase
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your cycle time a couple of years ago I
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was hiring a bunch of copywriters and I
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noticed that one of them was 10 times
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more productive than the other two it
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was interesting cuz eventually I ended
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up meeting up with them for a work
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session and I saw one copywriter type
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with all 10 figures using hot keys while
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the others just type with two fingers
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like fifth graders it never occurred to
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me that a copywriter wouldn't know how
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to type the person who is 10 times more
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productive they also never touched their
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Mouse they were using hot Keys the whole
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time which made their output be that
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much faster the first rule of
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productivity is to just get faster at
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the thing you're doing increase the
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speed of your mouse if you go in there
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and just fast forward the speed of your
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mouse it might feel weird at first but
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you'll eventually get used to it
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listening to playbacks on any type of
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audio put it at 1.5 2x just gets faster
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learning how to type taking typing
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classes typing.com learning the hotkeys
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for your email tool your productivity
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tool to make sure that everything is
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just one keyboard click away from
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getting done an advanced version would
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be automation with AI think zapier or
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other tools like it where you can plug
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into workflows and use the AI to
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understand what your manual ually doing
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for it to process it and automate the
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whole thing so you never have to touch
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that work again it could be everything
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from processing comments on your social
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media to connecting your inbox so that
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once a day maybe twice a day you get a
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summary of all your emails using AI to
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figure out which ones are high priority
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which one are low with even recommended
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text to reply to those emails learning
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how to automate and increase workflow
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and be productive cost you nothing but
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improves the cycle time which brings us
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to number two which is to make a stop
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doing list when I'm speaking at a
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Recovery Center or at a group home for
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troubled youth I always allow the kids
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to sit in my McLaren and often times
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they ask so what do you actually do and
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I usually respond with it's not what I
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do it's what I don't do most of us are
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doing things that take up our time and
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we don't understand this core principle
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called the 9010 principle it's 10% of
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your work drives 90% of your results so
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the key thing is to figure out what are
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your strengths what are you great at
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Double Down on those stop trying to
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become great at something you hate do
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enough so that it's not a deficit but
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definitely don't spend all your time
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trying to take something you hate doing
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to try to make it something great when
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you're good at something and go be world
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class at it also look at all your vices
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when I say it's what I don't do I don't
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drink I don't hang out with my friends
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and talk about other people I don't
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gamble I don't Vape there's all the
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stuff I don't do to create the space for
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me to be more productive I'm also a big
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fan of finding people that are good at
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the things I'm bad at and love to do the
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things I hate there's people out there
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that literally play at things that I
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consider work my bookkeeper she would
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rather sit there and stare at a
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spreadsheet and reconcile bank accounts
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than anything else I would hate to do
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that I'd rather be on the phone talking
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to people I'd rather be at an event
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presenting so just understanding there's
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other people out there that could buy
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back your time that could help you out
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you can trade you can ask for favors
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another idea is to actually make a list
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of all the things that drain your energy
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things that you did in the last 6 months
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that you wish you wouldn't have done
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make that list be clear and then ask
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yourself in the future when those
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opportunities come up I'm going to make
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sure I immediately say no and it's as
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simple as a no reviewing the last 6
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months and deciding what things you did
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that you would never want to do and put
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that on the stop doing list is a good
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strategy which brings us to number three
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which is to create urgency I don't know
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if you can relate but I'm the kind of
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guy back in the day where I would wait
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till the last minute to work on a big
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project either homework for school or
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big presentation at my work so that I
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created a sense of urgency to get it
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done I used to tell myself some weird
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line about like oh that's when I'm most
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creative when I have pressure on myself
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but it turned out it made it really bad
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for everybody else in my life it meant I
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didn't prepare and it just created a lot
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of emotional shrapnel that didn't need
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to exist this is exactly how I do it
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today first off is I set an earlier
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deadline for completion I know I'm
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making this up in my head that's fine
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whatever is the due date I make the date
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sometimes 2 weeks before why because I
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just want that urgency to focus my
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creativity that allows me to come
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prepared to all these big events in my
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life if it's prepping for a podcast I'm
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going on or working on my book deadlines
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or whatever it is is I'd rather have the
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date way sooner that it's needed so that
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I also have the breathing room to be
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more creative and more inspired another
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strategy I love to use is to block time
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in my calendar usually about 90 minutes
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per project and what I'll do is I'll set
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a timer I like to use a Pomodoro Timer
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which is 25 minutes of focused work and
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then 5 minutes off to refresh to use the
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bathroom to get some water and then it
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goes off and I'm back at it again
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whatever project I'm working on if I put
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that block time those 90 minutes in my
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calendar and I do three sessions of that
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Pomodoro it helps me overcome my ADHD it
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focuses is me and because the timer is
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counting down it's like every 5 minutes
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I'm like how much did I get done how
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much did I get done it's almost up it's
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almost up and it just focus me to get
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the most work and makes me more creative
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and more resourceful and doesn't waste
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my time which brings us to number four
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which is to commit to others this one
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very few people use and it's one that I
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use almost on a daily basis I remember
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when I was writing my book I tried three
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times the first time I sat down and said
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oh I'm going to commit to writing every
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morning and for 3 weeks I sat there and
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I wrote and I wrote and I had no process
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and no purpose and honestly I didn't
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even know what the book was going to be
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about then I tried again and I figured
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you know what maybe I should do this
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different and I had a friend help me out
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with the outline but the problem was I
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was still doing it on my own by the time
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I gave it my third shot I realized I
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need somebody else to be committed to so
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first thing is I hired a person that
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became my book CEO this person managed
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me as the talent to be accountable to
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them second is I hired another writing
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partner that way I had somebody that was
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waiting for me on my writing and then I
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also had somebody that was an editor
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where we would schedule time together to
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review the work as a team and on that
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call we would do the work of writing the
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book without that I probably wouldn't
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have created the type of work I did
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because having somebody else that is a
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co-creator a collaborator somebody to
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bring different creative ideas it
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actually made the whole process fun and
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I now use that strategy in all the
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different areas of my life from doing
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paperwork I don't want to do to creative
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ideation with some new content ideas
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with my team to strategic planning
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instead of doing it solo I always invite
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one or two other people to collaborate
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with even when I had no money I would
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just call a friend and ask them if they
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wanted to do like joint working sessions
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sometimes we'd meet up at a coffee shop
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other times we would just connect over
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Zoom they have accountability to me
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because I'm sharing my screen and then
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we' just set a timer we check in with
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each other and we just make sure that
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hey whatever project we said we would
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move forward we committed to that person
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cuz it turns out you will do more for
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other people than you'll ever do for
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yourself just think about your dog I
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mean if your dog's sick you're like the
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world stops and we get that dog healed
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up and all the medication we give 100%
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completion of whatever pills the doctor
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says whereas for you you will go long
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periods of time sometimes not feeling
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good without ever taking care yourself
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let alone if you get medication maybe
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you'll finish 60 70% of it so understand
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committing to other people is actually a
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very powerful tool to keep us focused
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and be really accountable which brings
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us to number five which is the schedule
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time to recharge I'm not proud of this
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but I used to be the person that would
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work a 100 hour weeks I would just get
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up crank ignore everything else ignore
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my health ignore my friends ignore my
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relation relationships because I was
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just doing whatever I could to try to be
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successful and it did create momentum
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the challenge is it also created bad
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momentum because I didn't take the time
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to recharge to reset and the energy was
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frantic which means there was no space
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for what I call step functions of growth
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ideas so now I have a completely
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different approach and here's how I
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think about it just like I have blocked
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time for work I also have blocked time
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for rest see the magic that I've
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discovered is in the reset we are one
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creative idea away from having our whole
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life change think about it could be that
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book idea it could be that idea to call
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a friend could be a conversation with
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somebody that you didn't even plan and
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what I've discovered is the world works
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this way there's two different systems
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no matter who you are think about the
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ying and yang there's a sympathetic
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system which is fight ORF flight and
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then there's the parasympathetic system
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which is to relax and to chill out
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there's the anabolic system which takes
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protein to build muscle and then there's
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a catabolic system that eats the protein
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there's UST stress and then there's
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distress UST stress is when you decide
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to do something hard and you push on the
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World to Change and distress is when you
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feel like the world is pushing on you
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and it makes it hard understanding that
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if you want to be the most productive
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the most creative the most expansive
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that you have to have some push and also
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some time to pull some drive and also
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some reset I now have cut off time for
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when I finish my work because I know my
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brain's not going to work well after
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that no good decisions going to be made
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and I also understand how my body and my
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energy flows so for example I'll go sit
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in the hot tub and just sit there on my
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phone and outline new video ideas or
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reach out to friends I haven't seen in a
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while or think about creative ideas of
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things I might want to do over the next
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6 months it's understanding that you
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can't always be going charge charge
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charge because it's actually in the
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reset where you create the space that
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makes the creativity and the big needle
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moving decisions come to life I've
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learned over the years that vacations
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make me a better person for my team for
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my family so when I go away and I go
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mountain biking with my friends or I
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take my family and we go to somewhere is
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when I come back I just feel energized I
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feel that I've got more life to give
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other people and it turns out that if
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you're building businesses with other
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people you have Partners you have
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customers you have vendors those
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conversations are going to be a lot more
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fun when you've reset yourself you've
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new energy you're recharged to attack
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your work I think most people feel
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guilty taking time off they think
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anytime I'm not working or I'm not
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showing up for my team that I'm just one
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second away where something massive is
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going to implode on my life and it makes
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it really hard for them to unplug where
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the opposite is actually true it's kind
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of like a pressure cooker if you work
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100 hours a week and you don't take any
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time off eventually that pressure cooker
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is going to overflow and you may think
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that you're good but your body will
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start going into adrenal fatigue you'll
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have anxiety attacks I've seen people
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break out into shingles they've got
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these little sore spots that start
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breaking out on their skin and that's
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literally their body telling them they
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have not reset they've not created any
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self-care in their life you can't
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Redline your body Non-Stop and it not be
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upset with you productivity is being
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able to stay consistent for long periods
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of time without having to reset because
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you went too far which brings us to
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number six which is to wake up early
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this one is going to be controversial
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but early risers make more money period
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full stop if you look at any person
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that's ever succeeded from Church Hill
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to you know Steve Jobs they get up
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earlier than most people now I'm not
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saying you have to join the 500 a.m.
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Club but I'm not saying you shouldn't if
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you're getting up at 8:30 9:00 you might
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want to consider changing your whole day
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to start earlier because when you can
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get up before everybody else does you
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will be connected to an energy that very
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few people ever experien there's
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actually a spiritual concept around the
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4:00 a.m. time frame now you don't have
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to get up that early but you should at
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some point try it out and really attack
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the work do creative things I get 4
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hours every day from 4:00 a.m. to 8:00
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a.m. where I get some very deep work
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some creative projects to really move my
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dreams and goals forward because I'm up
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that early does that mean I go to bed
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early yep I do I'd rather wake up early
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connected to my Creator and really plug
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in to the availability of the world
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because everybody else is sleeping it's
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like a different brain wave that's going
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on it's quiet nobody's interrupting me
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no distractions then not have that
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massive boost in productivity and it
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carries it on for the rest of the day
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getting up early is productivity 101 so
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just start with 15 minutes every week
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just a little bit earlier a little bit
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earlier you'll reset the clock and one
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day you'll realize man this isn't even
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hard anymore just who you are in those
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morning hours you will come up with
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ideas that will transform your whole
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life which brings us to number seven
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which is to eat that frog now there's a
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whole book on this by Brian Tracy so
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it's not a New Concept but most people
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tend to mess this up all the time
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essentially before you do anything do
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the most important thing I always think
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about the leading Domino what's the most
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important project typically the thing I
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least want to do but I know if I do that
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first that it's going to set me up for
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the rest of the day essentially it's the
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project that is is going to guarantee me
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success Marketing sales focused Revenue
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driven opportunities for you to get in
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front of new people so anything that
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kind of gives you angst but it's a
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meaningful project I want you to start
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with that first it might be working out
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cuz that's hard for you it could be
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reading a book it could be reaching out
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to people it could be learning a new
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language whatever you need to do to
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really upgrade your life you want to
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start with that in the morning so that
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you build that momentum for the rest of
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the day for some people they'll just
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make a list of all their big task for
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the day and as soon as they're done it
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they'll just call their day complete and
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I like that idea too so just make a list
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and as fast as you can get through
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everything eventually your day is done
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and then you can do whatever you want
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with the rest of it but eat that frog
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first it might be to get 1 hour of
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studying for that big test send out
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emails to people you've been meaning to
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connect with those cold calls obviously
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time zones matter but you just want to
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get the hardest thing the biggest rock
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the Frog eaten first do it first thing
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in the morning most people like put off
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the thing because they want to get ready
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to start it's like I'm not ready I need
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my coffee I need my energy I need this I
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need my crystals I need my Tim yeah you
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need some stuff but just start the work
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there's no better answer than just doing
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the thing which brings us to number
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eight which is to follow your energy
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flow I used to be the person that would
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take meetings all the time if somebody
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can only meet at 8:00 a.m. okay let's
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talk then or if I had to create some
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content it's like when can I fit it into
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my schedule and it's like all right end
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of the day 4:30 I guess that's all I got
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30 minutes the challenge is it turns out
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that the energy that I have throughout
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my day shifts and changes and the type
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of energy I need for certain types of
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work is different and if I mix them up
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then those tasks those projects are not
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going to get the best version of me I
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look at how my energy is going to flow
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from the early morning to the late
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morning to the lunch to the early
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afternoon to the late afternoon and I
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map the activities or the projects to
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that so for example for me I start my
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day with creative tasks things that
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require kind of uh unique perspectives
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ideation outlining stuff writing
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creating designing that is my morning
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I'm super blessed to be able to do all
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of that before I ever have a meeting
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usually not till 11:00 a.m. throughout
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the day so I put me first my big
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projects first and then I put all of my
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conversations Etc in the afternoon if I
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got to create content I like to do it
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right after I work out why there's
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something about getting a workout in and
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then going to shoot content where I feel
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really good about how I'm feeling and
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how it comes across on the camera
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everybody's different I'm more of a
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morning person other people people might
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be a night person I had little kids that
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became human alarm clocks so I had to
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restructure my whole day but knowing
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your energy how it flows for you in
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batching those projects that require
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that energy together will change your
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productivity overnight which brings us
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to number nine which is a create
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something to run away from whether you
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believe this or not most people do more
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to avoid pain than to gain pleasure so
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this is just how we're wired as humans
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we're always trying to look for the
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danger out in the world and try to avoid
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it so if you make up some kind of thing
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to avoid it will Propel you forward
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because you're trying not to experience
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that so for example when I wanted to
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lose 30 lb in 90 days I created some
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Stakes I created the downside if I
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didn't achieve that goal and for me I
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chose to enter in a fitness competition
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as I would look no shaving chest No Tan
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no super lean I just wherever that
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competition was if I didn't hit my goal
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immediately entry immediately on stage
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all my friends watching recorded for
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life that was the Stak so do you think
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that I didn't hit that goal or I
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absolutely crushed it I mean the stakes
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were so high I had something to avoid to
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run away from using this idea for
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yourself strategically is the most
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productive thing you could do maybe
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there's a political campaign you would
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hate to donate to and if you don't hit
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your timeline you don't hit your goal
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you have to donate $500 ,000 to that
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political campaign and like really honor
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it and follow through with it I mean
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some people if they were trying to get
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healthy just the commitment to
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themselves that they will publish a
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photo of themselves in their underwear
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on their social media is enough fear of
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embarrassment to run away from to go get
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that result so just think about it for
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yourself I think that if I want to be
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productive I need a downside thing to
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avoid to drive away from to get my
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result which brings us to number 10
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which is to get a carrot on the stick
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this is essentially the opposite of my
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previous point this way you'll double
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your motivation think about it if
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there's a stake or something at risk if
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I don't hit it what's my reward if I do
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hit it implementing rewards for your
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goals is a game Cher when it comes to
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being productive when I was training for
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my Iron Man I had a family vacation on
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the line if I didn't finish the Iron Man
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so I told my wife when we were out
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eating at a restaurant do you think she
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asked me if I wanted dessert no she's
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like you have to train tomorrow when I
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told her I had to get up early with a
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bunch of friends did she give me a hard
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time no because she knew what was on the
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line even enrolling other people to that
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reward will help them create positive
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peer pressure on you to achieve that
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outcome in those situations I like to
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create it where it's not just a reward
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for me but it's a reward for my family
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for my team members for my friends so
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that they get behind supporting me on my
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goal and it always comes back that
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you'll always do more for other people
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than you'll ever do for yourself so
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create the reward that helps them as
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well so that everybody wins which brings
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us to number 11 which is to honor your
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schedule I can directly correlate
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someone's net worth to the increment of
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time they schedule into their their
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calendar it's bananas to me most people
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do not plan do not put things in their
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calendar every day is an opportunity for
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I don't know whatever I feel like or
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every week is I don't know whatever
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happens and it's crazy because it's the
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difference between a Life by Design
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versus a Life by default if you can just
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understand that putting the big rocks
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the Pebbles the sand into your calendar
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first before the rest of the water and
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the other demands on your time come in
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will allow you to be more productive
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than anybody else you know the key
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though is is to honor the calendar not
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contact switch not dismiss the
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notification not pretend like it's not
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there first thing in the morning for you
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to attack but sometimes you're working
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on something you didn't finish it so if
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you didn't just move it to the next time
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block maybe to the next day or maybe to
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the afternoon one of my favorite
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Concepts is this thing called
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Parkinson's law I was just sharing it
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with a friend the other day CU she asked
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somebody to get something done and the
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person said while get it done at the end
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of the week I said why didn't you ask
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for it to get done tomorrow they said
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well I don't know I go well that's the
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difference between 4 days in one day and
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she's like I didn't want to be that
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person I said well you could at least
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asked Parkinson's law states the work
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will expand to the time you allocate to
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it and that's true for your calendar
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it's true for other people momentum is
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about stacking small wins so if you
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start doing what you say when you're
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going to do it is going to build that
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confidence because you're keeping the
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commitments you made to yourself in
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private so build that discipline which
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brings us to number 12 which is to turn
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off all notifications on your phone some
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of you guys are like no way Dan I'm not
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not doing this and I'm going to tell you
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there are professional PhD doctorate
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employees working at all these tech
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companies building all this software
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that their only job is to distract you
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and when I think of the most
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unproductive thing you could possibly do
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is allow the notifications the apps to
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interrupt you when you are doing
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something that you decided was important
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to you just because somebody else
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somewhere in the world sent you a
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message your focus is worth more than
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somebody else's notification remember
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one time I was messaging with one of my
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new employees and he would always reply
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always reply always reply and I sat down
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with them when our 101 and I shared with
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them I said hey I love that you want to
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be on top of things and respond to me
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right away but that also tells me that
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you're easily interrupted if you're
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doing it with me you're probably doing
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with other people which means I'm not
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getting your best work because I'm not
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getting your focus work your head's down
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deep in the zone work so I'm going to
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need you to batch those activities into
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one block time so that if you need to
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reply to me just sit down and look at
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your all text messages and reply and
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then get back to your next project most
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people will never do this because they
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are addicted to the dopamine hits of
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those notifications but to do your best
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work you have to get into Flow State and
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to do that you need to get lost in your
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work not distracted by those
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notifications most people are on their
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phone all day not working because it's
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an illusion of productivity responding
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to people's messages feels like you're
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doing something but you're not getting
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anything done you're staying busy but
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you're not creating you're not producing
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you're not pushing a project forward
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you're just moving a bunch of
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information it's not that it doesn't
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have to get responded to but stacking
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that and doing it on your own time
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instead of allowing an app to bug you is
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going to be a game changer for
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productivity if you want to learn the 44
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cheat codes I know at 44 that I wish I
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knew at 24 click the link and I'll see
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on the other side
