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Speaker 1: Jay Shetty Ja shetty Zy Sheet, Hey, everyone, welcome back
Speaker 1: to On Purpose. Thank you so much for coming back
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Speaker 1: I want you to know how much I value the
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Speaker 1: the love you share with me and this episode. Today,
Speaker 1: I've been noticing how you all want twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: to be your year and if you right now are
Speaker 1: thinking Jay January was good, or maybe it wasn't even good,
Speaker 1: but I want February, March, and April to be epic
Speaker 1: and incredible and amazing. This episode is for you. If
Speaker 1: you're thinking you want to be more productive, you want
Speaker 1: to be more laser focused, you want to have the power,
Speaker 1: the strength, and the organization to get more done this
Speaker 1: year than this is the episode for you. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be sharing with you all of my personal and
Speaker 1: the most researched productivity tips and hacks that are going
Speaker 1: to help you build a schedule and craft a calendar
Speaker 1: that's going to make sure that you will achieve your
Speaker 1: targets and goals. I think what we often don't realize
Speaker 1: is we start to think that there's some weakness in us.
Speaker 1: We start to feel like maybe I'm not good enough,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm not fast enough, maybe I'm not organized enough.
Speaker 1: And the truth is, no one ever taught us this right.
Speaker 1: No one ever broke down at school how you could
Speaker 1: be more productive. No one ever taught you at home
Speaker 1: how you could get more done. So often we waste
Speaker 1: so much time self criticizing, self judging, when actually, if
Speaker 1: we use that same energy to just implement these skills.
Speaker 1: What I'm going to share with you today, you can
Speaker 1: implement starting right now. It's not something you need to learn,
Speaker 1: it's not something you need to develop. You just need
Speaker 1: to start it. All you're going to need is a
Speaker 1: timer that's going to be really useful for some of
Speaker 1: these and I highly recommend if you want to get
Speaker 1: a small, little hour glass or a big one, whatever
Speaker 1: it is that you need, or if you do want
Speaker 1: to use a timer, maybe you're going to use a stopwatch.
Speaker 1: I want you to find a way to use a
Speaker 1: timer that's not on your phone, ideally because that way
Speaker 1: you don't get distracted. But hey, if you can put
Speaker 1: it on airplane mode and then use the timer, that
Speaker 1: could be the easiest and simplest way. I know that
Speaker 1: when I'm building these habits sometimes I need to switch
Speaker 1: away to a new timing device in order for me
Speaker 1: to build the habit so that I can go back
Speaker 1: to my phone. That's often the way I like to
Speaker 1: play it through at least. But like I said, if
Speaker 1: you put your phone on airplane mode, you can use
Speaker 1: it as a timer, which is going to be so
Speaker 1: useful to so many of the tips I'm about to
Speaker 1: give you. Now, I want to dive into the first
Speaker 1: productivity tip. Now, the most productive workers engage in job
Speaker 1: related tasks for fifty two minutes, then take a seventeen
Speaker 1: minute break, and studies show that that fifteen to tw
Speaker 1: one ten minute break window is productivity. Is golden hour
Speaker 1: or quarter hour, as the case may be. It's long
Speaker 1: enough for your brain to disengage and leave you feeling refreshed,
Speaker 1: but not so long that you lose focus and derail
Speaker 1: momentum on what you were doing. This research is so
Speaker 1: powerful because I find that a lot of us think, well,
Speaker 1: if I'm doing deep work, I need to work for
Speaker 1: three hours in a row, four hours in a row.
Speaker 1: And often you get into that first hour and now
Speaker 1: you're actually feeling drained. How many times have you over
Speaker 1: pushed yourself and you said to yourself, I'll take a
Speaker 1: break tomorrow because I've been taking too many breaks, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you're drained, you're tired, you're challenged,
Speaker 1: you're just feeling like, gosh, I feel like I've been
Speaker 1: working this whole time. And what's really interesting is when
Speaker 1: you factor in your break, when you know that in
Speaker 1: fifty two minutes you're going to take a seven teen
Speaker 1: minute break all of a sudden, your mind, let's go
Speaker 1: off that pressure. If you're going to push yourself to work,
Speaker 1: there's a bit of pressure. Oh my gosh, I have
Speaker 1: to stay focused. I have to stay organized otherwise this
Speaker 1: isn't going to get done now. What happens is when
Speaker 1: you talk to your mind in that way, your mind
Speaker 1: can be somewhat like a child, and the child goes, well,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that right now. I don't
Speaker 1: want to focus right now. You've probably had that conversation before.
Speaker 1: Right You're telling your mind, hey, we got to focus now.
Speaker 1: We've got some serious work to get done, and your
Speaker 1: mind goes, uhh, I'm out, like I don't want to
Speaker 1: do this right now. Guess what. You turn on the
Speaker 1: next episode of your favorite reality show, and there you go. Right.
Speaker 1: And what's really interesting about this is actually, when you
Speaker 1: say to a child, you say, hey, I want you
Speaker 1: to work for this much a time of time, but
Speaker 1: then you're going to get this break all of a sudden.
Speaker 1: There's a bit of give and take there, and so
Speaker 1: the same works for your mind. We have to train
Speaker 1: our mind to commit knowing that there's reward at the
Speaker 1: end of it. That incentive also relieves that stress. It
Speaker 1: relieves that pressure. That's my goal for you. The tips
Speaker 1: I'm sharing today are tips that will help you be
Speaker 1: more productive but also reduce the stress. I don't want
Speaker 1: you to get more done and be more stressed. I
Speaker 1: want you to get more done and be less stressed.
Speaker 1: That's the goal. So remember fifty two minutes and a
Speaker 1: seventeen minute break. And here's the thing you have to
Speaker 1: promise yourself. You put on a timer for both of those,
Speaker 1: and you go back to it knowing that you're going
Speaker 1: to have another seventeen minute break after the next fifty
Speaker 1: two minutes. So this is a rolling cycle, right. This
Speaker 1: is a rolling cycle that you can repeat three times
Speaker 1: over in order to get fifty two times three, right,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty six minutes worth of work completed
Speaker 1: in that time. Now, the Pomodoro technique is a slight
Speaker 1: adjustment to this one. This is a time management method
Speaker 1: based on twenty five minutes stretches of focused work broken
Speaker 1: by five minute breaks. Now, I'll tell you the difference
Speaker 1: in when I use these, when I'm doing fifty two
Speaker 1: minutes at a stretch and then a seventeen minute break.
Speaker 1: It's usually deeper creative work. It's work that requires me
Speaker 1: to bend my mind. It's work that requires writing and
Speaker 1: lots of thought. It's work that requires innovation and when
Speaker 1: I'm challenging myself. But if I'm trying to do more
Speaker 1: logical tasks, if I'm trying to get emails done, if
Speaker 1: I'm trying to get functional things scheduling my task list,
Speaker 1: if I'm trying to check off what parts of the
Speaker 1: project are being completed, if I'm doing any sort of
Speaker 1: that organizational work, I find the Pomodoro technique to be great.
Speaker 1: So again, the Pomodoro technique is a time management method
Speaker 1: based on twenty five minute stretches of focused work broken
Speaker 1: by five minute breaks. Now they say that longer breaks,
Speaker 1: typically fifteen to thirty minutes, are taken after four consecutive
Speaker 1: work intervals. So once you've done four rounds of twenty
Speaker 1: five minutes on, five minutes off, twenty five minutes on,
Speaker 1: five minutes off, et cetera. Once you've done that four times,
Speaker 1: you can now extend your break periods to fifteen to
Speaker 1: thirty minutes. Now I really really like this method, Like
Speaker 1: I said for really functional tasks like emails, I find
Speaker 1: that if you're sitting there on your emails for hours
Speaker 1: and hours and hours, it's obvious that you're going to
Speaker 1: switch to YouTube, You're going to switch to another page,
Speaker 1: you're going to get lost on a rabbit hole, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you go from answering your emails
Speaker 1: to following a link to someone's video that they sent
Speaker 1: you to ending up watching videos about cats and babies
Speaker 1: or whatever. EL maybe right, like it's so easy how
Speaker 1: we lose thought. Whereas when we say to ourselves, I'm
Speaker 1: going to work for twenty five minutes and then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have a five minute break, and guess when that
Speaker 1: five minute break, I'm going to allow myself to do
Speaker 1: whatever it is now. I do have some recommendations because
Speaker 1: our natural tendency is to scroll on TikTok or scroll
Speaker 1: on Instagram, and we know that that can outlast five minutes.
Speaker 1: But one of my favorite things to do is to
Speaker 1: really use that five minutes to walk around to get
Speaker 1: some blood pumping, to get some energy pumping. It's to
Speaker 1: get some water to get hydrated. Right, allowing yourself to
Speaker 1: walk to get some water, finding a window. If you
Speaker 1: can open it to get some fresh air, fantastic if
Speaker 1: you can't. The ability to look out into the distance.
Speaker 1: So much of our life has become consumed by what's
Speaker 1: close to us. We're so used to looking at our
Speaker 1: phones up close, our kindle's up close, all of our
Speaker 1: device is up close. So when you look off into
Speaker 1: the distance and you find a bird, a tree, you
Speaker 1: look at a cloud, you look into the sky right,
Speaker 1: just allow your eyes to gain some relaxation, to gain
Speaker 1: some rest, to gain a bit of a break. It
Speaker 1: can be really really powerful. The three ws, walking, water,
Speaker 1: and window are my go to in that five minute
Speaker 1: break so that I can come back refreshed. If you
Speaker 1: go from your screen of your laptop to the screen
Speaker 1: of your phone and your whole life becomes screen time,
Speaker 1: it can be really tiring, really really exhausting. So those
Speaker 1: are two really core techniques that I use when I'm
Speaker 1: actually breaking down my work. For deep work, I'm using
Speaker 1: fifty two minutes seventeen minute break. For functional email type work,
Speaker 1: I'm using twenty five minute stretches of focused work broken
Speaker 1: by five minute breaks. And the way you do this
Speaker 1: is you identify the task or task you need to complete.
Speaker 1: You set your timer for the twenty five minutes, then
Speaker 1: you work on the task and you put everything aside.
Speaker 1: That's why I said airplane mode. And then finally, when
Speaker 1: the alarm goes off, you allow yourself to take that break.
Speaker 1: Then you can repeat that process four times in total,
Speaker 1: and then you can extend your breaks to fifteen to
Speaker 1: thirty minutes. So that's how I work effectively with tasks.
Speaker 1: And I want to give you one more before I
Speaker 1: talk to you about my week schedule. So I don't
Speaker 1: look at planning and organizations just as tasks and to
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Speaker 1: lot of you've been asking me, Jay, what about the
Speaker 1: to do list? Right? Do you recommend to do list?
Speaker 1: You not? Here's how I like to break it down.
Speaker 1: I like to break down what I need to do
Speaker 1: by something I call TTC Task Time Calendar. So first
Speaker 1: what are the tasks you need to complete? A task
Speaker 1: could be write a summary chapter for my book. A
Speaker 1: task could be write my next episode of my solo podcast.
Speaker 1: A task could be research a guest. Right, these are
Speaker 1: all tasks. Now, what you really want to do for
Speaker 1: repetitive tasks is to know how long they take. And
Speaker 1: that's the time. So remember TTC Task Time Calendar. Once
Speaker 1: you've got the task, how much time is that going
Speaker 1: to take? This is where I see most of us
Speaker 1: making the biggest mistakes. We often overestimate how much time
Speaker 1: we need. By that we end up wasting time, or
Speaker 1: we underestimate the time, and by that we end up
Speaker 1: feeling like we failed. Right, when was the last time
Speaker 1: that you had a task You know you needed to
Speaker 1: get it done, but you gave yourself too much time.
Speaker 1: Maybe it gave yourself two weeks and actually you lost
Speaker 1: momentum and you lost enthusiasm for it, and two weeks
Speaker 1: later it kind of didn't feel as good. Or you've
Speaker 1: had the other option or other situation where you gave
Speaker 1: yourself two hours and really you needed like five or six.
Speaker 1: And now when you don't complete in two hours, you
Speaker 1: feel frustrated. So one of the key things that we
Speaker 1: need to understand when it comes to being productive is
Speaker 1: we need to start getting better and knowing how long
Speaker 1: something takes us. So, for example, when I used to
Speaker 1: first script my solo episodes, they used to take eight
Speaker 1: hours worth of work. Today they take two hours worth
Speaker 1: of work because of the time invested over the last
Speaker 1: five years. And so I know that in two hours
Speaker 1: I can research and record my solo episodes, and so
Speaker 1: that's what's scheduled in my calendar, task time calendar. The
Speaker 1: task is recording a solo episode, researching and recording. The
Speaker 1: time is two hours, and it's in my calendar every
Speaker 1: week on a day when then I can send it
Speaker 1: to the team for editing. So again it's calendared in.
Speaker 1: I find that to do lists end up being a
Speaker 1: long list without the time and without the calendar, and
Speaker 1: without the time and the calendar, all you have is
Speaker 1: a task list or a to do list, and that
Speaker 1: can kind of stretch over too many days or too
Speaker 1: little days. It can keep adding up. Whereas if something
Speaker 1: goes straight from tasking time into your calendar, you know
Speaker 1: when it's going to be completed. So if I opened
Speaker 1: up my calendar right now, Every single task I have
Speaker 1: to do this week is in my calendar, scheduled during
Speaker 1: my work hours, and so there is no room for
Speaker 1: me to miss anything. The only mistake I can make
Speaker 1: is not correctly allocating the right amount of time. Now,
Speaker 1: if you're someone who has lots of new tasks, tasks
Speaker 1: that you don't often do and are not repetitive, that
Speaker 1: can be challenging. But what you want to do is
Speaker 1: get a better estimate, maybe from the person giving you
Speaker 1: the task. You can always say, hey, how long do
Speaker 1: you think this should take? Hey, how long or when
Speaker 1: would you like this back? And what level would it
Speaker 1: be at? What quality would you like I think asking
Speaker 1: those two questions is huge. How much time do you
Speaker 1: think this will take me? And secondly, what quality do
Speaker 1: you expect in that time? And then after doing that
Speaker 1: a couple of times, you get a sense of how
Speaker 1: that works for you. So these are my core ways
Speaker 1: of breaking down task time and calendar. And what I
Speaker 1: like about this is it stops me from being indecisive. Right.
Speaker 1: I don't have to wake up and go, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what am I doing today? Or oh I don't like
Speaker 1: doing that one, Maybe I'll do this other one. Maybe
Speaker 1: oh which, Oh no, I got started on this one.
Speaker 1: Let me carry on. You actually set your whole week
Speaker 1: up and you have it all in the calendar, so
Speaker 1: it really takes away that indecisiveness. The other thing is
Speaker 1: it gives you the opportunity to schedule for work life balance.
Speaker 1: You get the opportunity to say, okay, well i'm doing
Speaker 1: that many hours that day. Let me take a bit
Speaker 1: of time off here as well, and it helps you
Speaker 1: stay on track. Now, one thing I will add is
Speaker 1: when you start calendaring out your days, you have two options,
Speaker 1: something called eat the frog right or the frog first
Speaker 1: thing in the morning. And this is the idea of
Speaker 1: doing the hardest thing first. The idea is if you
Speaker 1: can do the hardest thing first, everything else becomes easier.
Speaker 1: The other one that I like is eat the fly,
Speaker 1: which is do the simplest thing the easiest thing. Now,
Speaker 1: I don't want to eat frogs or flies, so I
Speaker 1: don't like those terms, but you get the point. Eat
Speaker 1: the fly. Let's start with the fly. Let's start with
Speaker 1: the smallest, easiest thing first so I can build my confidence.
Speaker 1: This is really based on your psychology, and it's based
Speaker 1: on your personality type. So maybe you're someone who gains
Speaker 1: confidence from doing big things first and hard things, or
Speaker 1: maybe you're someone who gains confidence from doing more things
Speaker 1: and doing them well, and now you want to do
Speaker 1: big things. This is where the idea of make your
Speaker 1: bed first thing in the morning came from. It was
Speaker 1: the psychology of making your bed is really easy. When
Speaker 1: you get that done, you feel a sense of accomplishment.
Speaker 1: So this comes back to a point of self awareness.
Speaker 1: Are you someone who likes to start with a hard
Speaker 1: thing or start with an easy thing. I'm definitely someone
Speaker 1: who's oscillated between the two. I've definitely done both of
Speaker 1: these things. And I find that if I keep putting
Speaker 1: something off because it's hard, that's when I'm going to
Speaker 1: start on that thing. If I've noticed that too many
Speaker 1: weeks have gone by, I keep putting off the hard thing,
Speaker 1: I keep pushing back on it, it keeps becoming something
Speaker 1: that's frustrating me. I'm overthinking it. That's the thing that
Speaker 1: I'm going to start with. So so far, we've covered
Speaker 1: some brilliant techniques of how to actually break down each
Speaker 1: hour of your day. We've also talked about how to
Speaker 1: break down your tasks overall, and now I want to
Speaker 1: get into how I look and map a week of
Speaker 1: my time. So the first thing I have which has
Speaker 1: changed my life is something called creative versus logical days.
Speaker 1: I have creative days and I have logical days. Let
Speaker 1: me explain what I mean by that. Logical days are
Speaker 1: when I'm processing data, numbers, analytics, functional project management. And
Speaker 1: then I have creative days when I'm doing things like innovation, creativity,
Speaker 1: coming up with new ideas, brainstorming, trying to challenge myself
Speaker 1: out of my comfort zone, learning, being curious. Right, And
Speaker 1: I've found and I will tell this to you, and
Speaker 1: I really want you to implement this. If you try
Speaker 1: and do both in the same day, It's like trying
Speaker 1: to drive from one side of town to the other
Speaker 1: in the middle of rush hour. Right. It's a longer journey.
Speaker 1: You can do it, it's just more stressful. Imagine you're on
Speaker 1: one side town and this happens a lot in LA
Speaker 1: You're in Santa Monica, and then your next meetings in
Speaker 1: West Hollywood, and all of a sudden, you've got to
Speaker 1: drive in the middle of the day. You're going to
Speaker 1: get stuck in traffic, You're going to get stressed and
Speaker 1: you're going to be late for the meeting when you
Speaker 1: try and rush from being logical to being creative. So
Speaker 1: let's say you just had a numbers meeting, and then
Speaker 1: the next meeting you've got to come up with a
Speaker 1: new creative idea. It's going to be really hard. You
Speaker 1: might be able to do it for a while, but
Speaker 1: eventually you'll get exhausted or you've had a creative day
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you've got to be organized
Speaker 1: and numbers focused. So what I like to do is
Speaker 1: I like to break down my days and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: Monday is going to be a creative day, Tuesday's a
Speaker 1: logical day, Wednesday's a creative day, Thursday's a logical day. Right,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be, whatever may work out. I often
Speaker 1: do this when I'm interviewing for the podcast. So if
Speaker 1: I'm interviewing for the podcast, I'm trying to do two
Speaker 1: episodes a day for three to five days a week
Speaker 1: because I know I can go really deep into interviewer mode.
Speaker 1: I know that I'm going to be able to ask
Speaker 1: the right question. I know that I'm going to be
Speaker 1: in flow state. That's how we access flow state. But
Speaker 1: if I said to myself. I'm going to do two
Speaker 1: podcasts today, and I'm going to look at analytics, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to look at my finances. That becomes challenging. Now,
Speaker 1: if you don't have the luxury of planning each day,
Speaker 1: you can plan the morning and afternoon, before and after lunch.
Speaker 1: Is a great way of thinking about this. Before lunch,
Speaker 1: I'm being creative. After lunch, I'm doing the logical tasks.
Speaker 1: This is a great way of creating separation for your
Speaker 1: mind and creating that space for yourself. Now, at the
Speaker 1: same time, when I look at my logical or creative days,
Speaker 1: I can go even further into whether I want them
Speaker 1: to be effective or efficient days. Now, effective days are
Speaker 1: where you do one thing and you achieve one thing,
Speaker 1: but you feel really accomplished. Efficient days are when you
Speaker 1: do lots of things. You check loads of things off
Speaker 1: your to do list, your laundry, your groceries, you're you know,
Speaker 1: you're your taxes, whatever else it may be. Now, what's
Speaker 1: really interesting about this is often we do so many
Speaker 1: things in a day, but mentally we still feel dissatisfied.
Speaker 1: How many times have you ever checked everything off your
Speaker 1: to do list and still felt like you hadn't done
Speaker 1: the most important thing, or how many times have you
Speaker 1: had it the other way where you actually only did
Speaker 1: one thing, but you felt like you had lots left
Speaker 1: to do. This is because we haven't mentally made a
Speaker 1: choice as to whether it's an efficient day or an
Speaker 1: effective day. So efficient days or days when I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, this day, I'm going to get lots of
Speaker 1: logical tasks done. Effective days where I'm like, Okay, I
Speaker 1: just need to get this one big thing done and
Speaker 1: I'm going to feel really accomplished. All of this takes
Speaker 1: a bit of planning on a Sunday night or a
Speaker 1: Monday morning, and that's what I recommend if you like
Speaker 1: doing on a Sunday night because you like to be
Speaker 1: set for the week. I like to wake up on
Speaker 1: Monday and not have to think about what I have
Speaker 1: to do. But if you're someone who wants to plan
Speaker 1: your week and your work week when you're at work,
Speaker 1: Monday morning is a great time. If you set aside
Speaker 1: time to do this every week, it will save you hours, weeks,
Speaker 1: even months of time. I promise you it's a game changer.
Speaker 1: Getting on with work doesn't get more work done. Planning
Speaker 1: out your work gets more work done. So that's the key, right.
Speaker 1: I think so many of us are thinking, oh God,
Speaker 1: I just got to get on with it. If I
Speaker 1: get on with it, I'll get more done. It doesn't
Speaker 1: work that way. Now. There's one thing I really wanted
Speaker 1: to add because I think it's often not spoken about,
Speaker 1: and it's this idea of energy versus time. And what
Speaker 1: I mean by that is often sometimes we feel we
Speaker 1: have the time for something, but when it gets to it,
Speaker 1: you realize you don't have the energy for it. So
Speaker 1: me and Bradley were talking about this. We love seeing
Speaker 1: our friends, but we realize that on weeknights we really
Speaker 1: struggle because we like to go to sleep early, and
Speaker 1: we've realized that our cutoff point on a weeknight is
Speaker 1: nine pm. We want to be in bed by nine pm.
Speaker 1: And so recently I started sharing with my friends who
Speaker 1: I'd still wanted to see on weeknights, and I said, well,
Speaker 1: I just need to be in bed by nine pm.
Speaker 1: I had to set that boundary for myself because what
Speaker 1: I realized was friends would come over, I would then
Speaker 1: push myself to stay up till ten or eleven on
Speaker 1: a weeknight. I'd feel really upset. That I wasn't good
Speaker 1: company after nine pm because I'm yawning and tired and
Speaker 1: not as present, And then I'm feeling like I also
Speaker 1: am missing out on sleep and some thinking to myself, well,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, what is it that I actually need?
Speaker 1: I want to show up as my best self for others.
Speaker 1: I want people to have a good time with me,
Speaker 1: and I want to have a good time with them,
Speaker 1: and for that, it's not about whether I have the time,
Speaker 1: It's about whether I have energy. So I want you
Speaker 1: to also think about your schedule in terms of energy.
Speaker 1: If you have a meeting, are you setting it at
Speaker 1: a time when you know your energy is going to
Speaker 1: be amazing? Think about your most important meetings this week.
Speaker 1: Are they said at times that you feel you're going
Speaker 1: to be energetic, enthusiastic and engaged, or are they said
Speaker 1: at times when you usually switch off get a little
Speaker 1: bit tired. I also want you to think about what
Speaker 1: are some of the healthy habits that help with your energy.
Speaker 1: Do you need to be eating at a particular time?
Speaker 1: Are there certain foods that actually don't help you focus
Speaker 1: because you had them at lunch time? You may love
Speaker 1: them and enjoy them, but have you noticed that you
Speaker 1: feel that afternoon slump. I know for me that you know,
Speaker 1: getting a little pick me up in the middle of
Speaker 1: the day with my June is a great way of
Speaker 1: getting that little boost. For me of fruit bowl with
Speaker 1: some almond butter can be a really, really great boost.
Speaker 1: But what is that thing that's holding you back with
Speaker 1: your energy? And also when you're mapping out your schedule,
Speaker 1: are you taking into account energy? If you've got a
Speaker 1: big pitch, making a big sales meeting, you want to
Speaker 1: have your best energy. Now, it doesn't always work that way,
Speaker 1: and you have to also be adaptive, but if you
Speaker 1: can plan it out, it makes a huge difference. I
Speaker 1: guess what I'm saying overall is that so many of
Speaker 1: us are trying to get a lot done. But having
Speaker 1: a smart plan and a smart focused, organized timer and
Speaker 1: everything else, can I actually set you up for greater
Speaker 1: success in the long term. Yes, it takes away from
Speaker 1: the amount of time you have, but you make more
Speaker 1: of the time you have. Right. That's what's so powerful
Speaker 1: about operating with all the things I mentioned today is
Speaker 1: that you may think, oh, well, that's going to take
Speaker 1: up two three hours of my Monday Jay. That may
Speaker 1: take up four hours of mon Monday. But I promise
Speaker 1: you you're going to get so much more time than that
Speaker 1: back when you follow through on that process. Now, for
Speaker 1: those of you are saying, Jay, I just get distracted
Speaker 1: all the time, I've found that having my phone away
Speaker 1: when I'm at work, when I'm in meetings is actually
Speaker 1: really useful. I found my phone to be a distraction
Speaker 1: unless there's an emergency. Of course, having a special tone
Speaker 1: for an emergency is the best way to go about it.
Speaker 1: And allowing yourself to disconnect. Separating your work email and
Speaker 1: your personal email if you haven't done that already, makes
Speaker 1: a huge difference or devices that you see both those
Speaker 1: things on. And the biggest thing I want to remind
Speaker 1: you all is that we all are going to get distracted.
Speaker 1: There's no one in the world who doesn't get distracted.
Speaker 1: I get distracted too, and I found that what's worse
Speaker 1: is when I start making myself feel bad for getting distracted,
Speaker 1: as opposed to use that energy to just get refocused.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what helps me more than anything,
Speaker 1: is saying, look, I'm going to give myself grace. I'm
Speaker 1: going to get back to it, and I don't need
Speaker 1: to overcomplicate it. Another thing that's been huge for me
Speaker 1: is keeping my desk clean. Right. You may have to
Speaker 1: spend a couple of hours just cleaning up your desk,
Speaker 1: cleaning up your space, but that's going to give you
Speaker 1: mental clarity. Your external space has a huge impact on
Speaker 1: your internal mindset. And that's why I tell people, don't
Speaker 1: eat at your desk, eat somewhere else, like, don't bring
Speaker 1: that energy to your desk. Right. A lot of us
Speaker 1: eat where we're meant to sleep. We sleep where we're
Speaker 1: meant to work, and we work where we're meant to eat.
Speaker 1: Leave your bedroom just for sleeping, leave your desk just
Speaker 1: for working, and leave your kitchen counter just for cooking
Speaker 1: and eating. Right, break it up and create that energy
Speaker 1: in that space. Thank you so much. I hope this
Speaker 1: makes you more productive in twenty twenty four. I hope
Speaker 1: you get more done this year. I hope you win
Speaker 1: this year. Thank you so much for listening to on Purpose.
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Speaker 1: can help each other. Thanks so much, everyone, Susan. If
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Speaker 1: am I sitting with this because it just doesn't feel
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