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there's something off-putting about most
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productivity systems they are either too
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complex too difficult to set up or just
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too rigid to be useful get rid of all
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that noise and get back to basics in
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this video we'll talk about the most
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simple intuitive effortless productivity
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system ever made something you can use
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even if you were stuck on a desert
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island with nothing but some coconuts
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and you don't even need the Coconuts
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quite literally you need nothing but
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amazingly it will still somehow work in
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fact it's what I use to get into Harvard
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for undergrad Yale for medical school in
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Harvard again for residency and I'm
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going to share it with you so you too
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can get what you want here we go
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strategy number one the inverted pyramid
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method always start your day with the
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most important thing spending the
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majority of your time on this task you
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give yourself an a lotted amount of time
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let's say 3 hours and after you finish
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or 3 hours are up whatever comes first
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you funnel down spending proportionately
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less and less time on the tasks that are
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less and less important in a three-
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tiered system you'd spend 3 hours on
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your most important thing 2 hours on the
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second most important thing and 1 hour
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on the third most important thing that's
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pretty much it it's as simple as it gets
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no complicated calendar scheduling no
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insane planning in advance just settle
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in put on a timer for 3 hours Put on
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airplane mode and get to work the hours
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you spend in each slot of the inverted
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pyramid is arbitrary I personally like
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the 321 system because it is easy to
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remember and gives me enough time for
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solid work but decide what works for you
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the most important part of this whole
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thing is picking what goes in each of
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these three slots don't put stupid stuff
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here and waste your time think about
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what you are trying to accomplish what
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would your goal in its most finished
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ultimate State look like what is the
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most important thing you could achieve
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in the next 3 hours in service of this
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goal that if we're done would get you
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80% of the way there this is the Crux of
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strategy number two the Paro principle
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it states that for many outcomes 80% of
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results come from 20% of the causes this
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is the power of Leverage and if you
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consistently Focus your work on the 20%
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that matters not not only will you
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become more efficient you'll have more
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time to do whatever you want with like
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bake gingerbread cookies and save
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puppies from being punched don't strive
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to be perfect just make it a habit to
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figure out where this magical 20% is
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most people have heard about this but
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inherently don't utilize this
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consistently in their work and end up
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focusing on the wrong things making up
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for it by brute force and sheer hard
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work I've seen these people in my high
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school in college and even in medical
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school people copying their notes five
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times in a row with different colored
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pencils for example to try learn a
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subject I've been victim to this
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mentality as well in different shapes
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and forms under leveraging my efforts
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and wasting precious time the funny
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thing is we often don't even realize we
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are doing it because we feel like we're
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being productive and it's this feeling
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that reinforces our inefficiency this is
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what I call Feelgood work productivity
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done for the sake of productivity so to
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solve this stop basing your productivity
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system on feelings and emotions use your
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brain and step outside of yourself is
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there a better way to do this what is
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the most leverage next step if you're
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coaching yourself what would you tell
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yourself to do if you could only
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accomplish one thing today what would
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that one thing be when you have an
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answer that's what you then do the next
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most important thing and the inverted
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pyramid dictates that you do this most
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important thing first and the earlier
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you start it in the day the better
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ideally right after waking up you know
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brush your teeth take your dump wipe
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your butt and then just get started no
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fancy scheduling reminder system no
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meticulous planning just do it Nike get
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started and finish the task once it is
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done repeat the thought process figure
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out what the next most leverage step is
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and go do that your most important thing
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can be obviously different dayto day but
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that's the idea to focus on using your
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brain to think critically about your
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situation and adapt to the moment the
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efficiency gain will be enormous when
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you consistently leverage your efforts
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for example if I want to make it on
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YouTube I need to get better at
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storytelling editing filming part of me
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knows this is a heavy lift and
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inherently I want to avoid it it's much
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easier to do you know busy work browsing
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Amazon to find the perfect camera lens
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watching another video on YouTube to get
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inspiration finding more stock footage
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Clips like this one to intersperse
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between my talking head shot maybe hire
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another Editor to do special effects
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like this yeah probably not very high
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yield right now or worth my time right
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now the highest yield effort would be
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simply to get in front of the camera to
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turn it on try and give you something of
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value and hit upload everything else is
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secondary just because I didn't spend 3
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hours trying to find the cutest puppy in
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the world to be inserted right here
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won't realistically make or break this
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video strategy number three there are no
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rules to when you take breaks just how
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you take breaks listen to your brain and
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body if you cannot concentrate stop
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wasting your time trying to push through
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and just take a break if that means once
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an hour then great if that's twice every
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10 minutes that's fine my only ask of
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you is this when you take a break don't
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let it be a Mindless Endeavor where you
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jump to your phone and scroll like a
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scavenger hungrily looking for spikes of
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dopamine to distract yourself yourself
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with so what should you do on your break
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then high-intensity exercise exercise is
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good not only for your muscles and your
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heart but also for your brain exercise
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ramps up the production of bdnf brain
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derived neurotrophic factor a kind of
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Miracle Grow that supercharges your
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brain creating and maturing new brain
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cells in synaptic connections perfect
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for learning growing and thinking think
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of high intensity exercise as a way to
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literally upgrade your operating system
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and reset your mind for the next set of
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meaning productive work the fact that so
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little people do this despite the
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mountain of evidence growing in support
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of this is mindboggling no pun intended
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but don't worry if nobody else is doing
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this this is soon going to become your
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Competitive Edge a study in the Journal
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of physiology shows that even just 4
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minutes of high-intensity exercises can
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quintuple the production of bdnf that's
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five times the brain power the study
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used stationary cycling but
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realistically it doesn't matter do
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jumping jacks planks burpees push-ups
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bin on your head just do something that
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elevates your heart rate pushes you to
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sweat and leaves you winded and then
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take a few minutes to catch your breath
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meditate to calm down and get back to
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work the last strategy in the system is
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the most simple of them all I almost
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hesitate to put it here but for
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completion sake here it is simply focus
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when you decide to work work get rid of
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all distractions don't multitask don't
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answer text messages don't have Netflix
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on in the background I rarely study or
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work with music because I want 100% of
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my brain to be focused on producing my
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best work we only have so much bandwidth
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why would I sacrifice even 10% of this
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precious resource and have it be
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distracted by something I've handicapped
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myself with that's just stupid Focus
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your brain energy and fully utilize your
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time to get what you want and that's it
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folks the most effortless simple
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intuitive productivity system ever if
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this was helpful to you at all be sure
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to tell your friends your grandma and
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your pet hamster and then tell them to
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subscribe and follow for more strategies
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just like this one until next time smell
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