1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:04,240 Speaker 1: Mental health is now talked about more than ever, which 2 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: is awesome. I mean, I don't have to tell you 3 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:09,080 Speaker 1: that it's a primary focus of on Purpose, but on 4 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: a day to day basis, many people don't know where 5 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: to turn or which tools can help. Over the past 6 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,280 Speaker 1: couple of years, I've been working with Calm to make 7 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: mental wellness accessible and enjoyable, or as I like to say, 8 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 1: fun and easy. Calm has all sorts of content to 9 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:28,240 Speaker 1: help you reduce anxiety and stress, build mindful habits, improve sleep, 10 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: and generally feel better in your daily life. 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And sometimes your problem is you're focusing 21 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 1: on people when Actually it's a system issue. So ask yourself, 22 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 1: should I solve the system or do I need to 23 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:19,319 Speaker 1: solve a relationship? The number one health and wellness podcast 24 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:28,280 Speaker 1: send Jay shed Y. Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose. 25 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 1: I'm so excited to welcome you to a new episode. 26 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,559 Speaker 1: It is great to have you here. If you're focused 27 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:41,759 Speaker 1: on developing yourself, building your mindset, strengthening your habits, you're 28 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,040 Speaker 1: in exactly the right place. I just want to thank 29 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: so many of you that I've bumped into recently as 30 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,880 Speaker 1: I've been out and about. It means the world to 31 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: me when you come up to me and tell me 32 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,760 Speaker 1: your stories and share your experiences of listening to the podcast, 33 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 1: it really makes my day. And I love giving you 34 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 1: a big hurt ug saying hello, fist bumping wherever we are. 35 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 1: And I want to thank you for your reviews. I 36 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:07,320 Speaker 1: want to thank you for your stories. I want to 37 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,359 Speaker 1: thank you for the clips you make on TikTok. Keep 38 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,720 Speaker 1: the energy spreading. Remember when you share an episode of 39 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:17,399 Speaker 1: On Purpose, you could be helping someone else go through 40 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: a breakup. You could be helping someone find their passion. 41 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: You could be helping someone build a habit that might 42 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: change their life, and I'm so grateful that you're a 43 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: part of this mission and a part of this movement. Now, 44 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 1: today's episode is a theme that I think we all 45 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,640 Speaker 1: struggle with. If you want to be more productive and 46 00:02:38,800 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: less burnt out, this episode is for you. If you 47 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,600 Speaker 1: want to achieve more, if you want to build more, 48 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 1: if you want to create more, if you want to 49 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 1: use your time more wisely, this episode is for you. 50 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 1: If you've been wasting time, if you've been feeling like 51 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,480 Speaker 1: your priorities keep going to the bottom of the list, 52 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,919 Speaker 1: if you feel like, even at this point in the year, 53 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: you're so far away from your goals, this episode is 54 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:10,160 Speaker 1: for you. Now, I'm going to share with you some 55 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: tips and tricks that have helped me along the way 56 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: to have better time management, have better energy management, and 57 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:21,720 Speaker 1: have better stress management in order to be productive but 58 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: also be effective. I think for a long time we 59 00:03:24,919 --> 00:03:29,600 Speaker 1: went down this toxic productivity route where everyone was stressed, 60 00:03:29,680 --> 00:03:33,400 Speaker 1: burnt out, over worked, overwhelmed. And when you end up 61 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: in that space, it's really hard to pivot, it's really 62 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,640 Speaker 1: hard to figure out how to get out of it, 63 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:41,760 Speaker 1: and you almost feel like what was the point of 64 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,800 Speaker 1: being that productive and at the same time, all of 65 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,400 Speaker 1: us want to create, we want to build. We're meant 66 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 1: to grow as humans, and if we're not growing, we 67 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: feel like things are falling abart. So I want to 68 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: share with you some really practical steps that you can 69 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: apply starting today that are going to try transform the 70 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 1: way you work, live and love. Now, I want to 71 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:08,920 Speaker 1: start off with probably my favorite principle of all that 72 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: has transformed my stress levels, my mindset, and it is 73 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:21,480 Speaker 1: the art of solo tasking or monotasking, doing one thing 74 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: at a time. I found that when we do one 75 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,960 Speaker 1: thing at a time, whether it's eating, whether it's brushing 76 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 1: our teeth, whether it's talking to someone, whether it's browsing 77 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 1: the internet, whether it's watching a video, when you do 78 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: one thing at a time, your stress level drops. When 79 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:44,760 Speaker 1: you do one thing at a time and you're absorbed 80 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 1: and immersed your quality of effectiveness increases. When you do 81 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 1: one thing at a time, you feel a sense of 82 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:58,919 Speaker 1: accomplishment and completion. This is a really interesting thing in 83 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: today's day and age. We live in a world where 84 00:05:01,920 --> 00:05:06,360 Speaker 1: our lives are constantly incomplete. We have books that we've 85 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: read a page of, a couple of and they're incomplete. 86 00:05:09,279 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: We have a show that we started that we even 87 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: forgot about, and then when you go back onto it, 88 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 1: you're like, oh, my gosh, I actually started the show. 89 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:18,039 Speaker 1: I was on episode two halfway through, but I forgot 90 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,799 Speaker 1: I started it. We live in a world of incompleteness. 91 00:05:21,839 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 1: So much of what we start never ends. Now I'm 92 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,159 Speaker 1: not saying that we have to finish everything we start, 93 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:29,880 Speaker 1: but if we focus on one thing at a time, 94 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: chances are our completion rate is going to go up. 95 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 1: Now what does that do? The completion rate going up 96 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: makes you feel more successful and accomplished. It makes you 97 00:05:41,279 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: feel you got to the end of something. It makes 98 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 1: you feel like you've got some where you went on 99 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: a journey, otherwise an incomplete journeys. Imagine you're like, you 100 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,600 Speaker 1: know what, today, I think I'm gonna fly to New York. 101 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:55,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna actually, you know, halfway on the fly, I'm 102 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 1: gonna decide I actually want to go to Atlanta. Okay, 103 00:05:57,279 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 1: when I'm on the way to Atlanta, right, So that 104 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: income completeness is what creates inconsistency instability in our lives, 105 00:06:07,800 --> 00:06:10,840 Speaker 1: and we often don't make that connection of just how 106 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: incomplete things have become How many of you have a 107 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,360 Speaker 1: task that's been incomplete for three days and you completely 108 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:18,799 Speaker 1: forgot about it, Or how many of you had notes 109 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: on your phone and you were writing some notes about 110 00:06:21,400 --> 00:06:24,039 Speaker 1: something you got distracted from a message. Then someone sent 111 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 1: you a TikTok link, and then after that someone sent 112 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: you a YouTube video, and then after that someone sent 113 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:32,919 Speaker 1: you a link on Amazon, and now you've forgot that note. 114 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 1: So our incompleteness and this idea of doing one thing 115 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: at a time allows us to feel more accomplished. It 116 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,720 Speaker 1: allows us to close the loop in our minds. It 117 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:49,680 Speaker 1: allows us to not have this constant state of distraction. Now, 118 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:54,560 Speaker 1: research shows that when one switches from TASKA to task B, 119 00:06:55,360 --> 00:07:00,479 Speaker 1: their one hundred percent attention does not automatically go to 120 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 1: the new task. Some people remain stuck at the original assignment. 121 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 1: This is from the research now. It says that this 122 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: is attention residue, and it's strongest if task A was 123 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: unbounded or low intensity in nature before a person made 124 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,760 Speaker 1: the switch. Even if you complete task A before switching, 125 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:27,120 Speaker 1: part of your attention will remain temporarily on task A. 126 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,120 Speaker 1: So what we're saying is that if you don't complete 127 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,760 Speaker 1: task A. If you don't finish task A and you 128 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: move to task B, you could find that forty percent 129 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: of your energy is still trying to solve task A, 130 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: and now sixty percent of your energy is going to 131 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:45,280 Speaker 1: task B. Now, let's say you go to task C. 132 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:49,480 Speaker 1: You've left forty percent behind. Now that sixty gets split 133 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: up again. You've got forty percent in task A, you've 134 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 1: got thirty percent in task B, and you've got thirty 135 00:07:55,880 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: percent in task C. So you're only giving your left overs. 136 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 1: You're giving the residue to the next task. So your 137 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: attention is getting more split and fragmented. Whereas what we 138 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,280 Speaker 1: think happens is, oh, I was giving one hundred percent 139 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 1: of my attention to that, Now I'm just going to 140 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 1: move it over. It doesn't work like that. So when 141 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 1: you have lots of tabs open, when you have your email, 142 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: your text, your WhatsApp all open on your laptop screen, 143 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:27,320 Speaker 1: and you're able to switch between all of them, it 144 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: actually creates this challenge. This research I found from the 145 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: great book called Deep Work by cal Newport, and in 146 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: the book it says the principle of attention residue works 147 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 1: like this. Every time you switch from task A to 148 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: task B. Some of your attention remains in task A. 149 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: Concentrating on the new task is harder, so you lose 150 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 1: some productivity. When switching tasks one task at a time, 151 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:57,280 Speaker 1: complete the task, I promise you you will feel like 152 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,400 Speaker 1: you have so much more confidence, so much more lawrance, 153 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 1: And when it comes to the end of the day, 154 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:06,520 Speaker 1: you're not looking at your list going that's still incomplete, 155 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:10,520 Speaker 1: that's still incomplete, that's still incomplete. Because the mind always 156 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:13,439 Speaker 1: over amplifies how far you have to go, not how 157 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:17,080 Speaker 1: far you've come, right generally, so we have to switch 158 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: our perspective. When you're halfway up a mountain, you could 159 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: either look down and think, Wow, I've come a really 160 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:25,240 Speaker 1: long way, or you could look up and go, oh 161 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 1: my gosh, I've got so long to go. And what 162 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 1: we need in this mindset is actually, I may have 163 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,160 Speaker 1: a lot more left to do, but I completed a 164 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 1: lot today. I hope that idea of completion really resonates 165 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: and sticks with you, because I see the incompleteness in 166 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:46,199 Speaker 1: our minds causing so much stress and anxiety. And that's 167 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: what happens, right, if something's left incomplete, if something's left undone. 168 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 1: That's what causes you stress, That's what causes you anxiety. 169 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: So the reason why doing one thing at a time 170 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: is important is because you can complete it. Now, I'm 171 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 1: not saying this to mean you complete every book if 172 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: you're bored by it, or you complete a TV show 173 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 1: if you're bored by it. It's just interesting how much 174 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:11,720 Speaker 1: of our life has become perplexed by incompleteness. Principal number 175 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 1: two cleaning your external space and what does that mean. 176 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:20,880 Speaker 1: I don't mean that everything has to be perfectly tidy. 177 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: What I mean is that when you come to your 178 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: work desk, you have what you need there. You're not 179 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 1: constantly getting back up and down going Oh I forgot 180 00:10:28,120 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: the posting notes. Oh I forgot the highlighters. Oh I 181 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:33,480 Speaker 1: forgot to download this app. Oh I didn't really have 182 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 1: the latest version of chat jupt. Whatever it is, right, 183 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 1: whether it's analog or digital, it's there. Where's your water bottle? 184 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,720 Speaker 1: Is it there? Where's your little snack? Where's your nuts 185 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:44,720 Speaker 1: that you need to nibble on? Now, of course you 186 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: can get up and go and get those things, and 187 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:49,320 Speaker 1: it's good to move around during the day, but overall, 188 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: is your space set up for success or is the 189 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 1: first thought when you come to your desk, Oh, oh 190 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: hate working here, hate being here? The first thing when 191 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 1: you get in your bedroom, oh, it's just too hot 192 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: in here. Like set it up for success, right, So 193 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: cleaning your external space can have massive impact on your productivity. 194 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 1: One of the things I think we underestimate is scent, 195 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,640 Speaker 1: site and sound. When you walk into a space, what 196 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 1: scent makes you feel that way? So when I walk 197 00:11:23,240 --> 00:11:26,119 Speaker 1: into my workspace, I want a candle or a diffuser 198 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 1: that has an energizing scent because I know I need 199 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: to bring focus. We don't use the sense of smell 200 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 1: enough in order to motivate our mind. Use that. Figure out, diffuser, 201 00:11:38,679 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 1: figure out a scent that when you smell it, you're like, Okay, 202 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: it's time to work. It's time to focus. Now a site, 203 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: what's something you want to see? I have this. I 204 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:52,400 Speaker 1: have some art pieces in my office that have phrases, reminders. 205 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 1: I have quotes on my table. I have little quote 206 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:57,320 Speaker 1: books that can just flick through to get motivation. I'm 207 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: surrounded by the energy and it's right there so that 208 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 1: I can get do it. I know that if I'm 209 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,560 Speaker 1: feeling a certain way, one day, I can pick up 210 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:05,840 Speaker 1: one of my books, I can pick up one of 211 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: my affirmation cards. I can read it out to myself 212 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,760 Speaker 1: and then sound are use someone who likes to work 213 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 1: in silence, chatter, or music. A lot of us don't 214 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,600 Speaker 1: even know that. We don't have the self awareness to 215 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:22,920 Speaker 1: recognize it. I'm a silence worker, or I'm an instrumental 216 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 1: music worker. I like lots of instrumental beats. I'm happy 217 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 1: to have them on the background. It gets me to 218 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: lock in. Or I like silence. I really don't like 219 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: working when there's chatter or background conversation and background noise. 220 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:41,640 Speaker 1: It doesn't work for me. So figure out yours. Number three. 221 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 1: Don't have a to do list, but have a to 222 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,400 Speaker 1: start list. And what I mean by that is a 223 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,360 Speaker 1: to do list is a list of everything that you 224 00:12:52,440 --> 00:12:55,400 Speaker 1: need to do. A start list is like, well, where's 225 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: the most important place to start? Right? So when we 226 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:02,000 Speaker 1: have to do list, Like, for example, I could have 227 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 1: on my to do list write a chapter of my book. 228 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: Now that's quite a big thing on my to do list, 229 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:10,959 Speaker 1: But how what's my to start list? Okay, to start 230 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: write out what I think the chapter breakdown is going 231 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,480 Speaker 1: to be, right, let's say on your to do list 232 00:13:16,559 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 1: it says to complete a presentation. Okay, but to start, 233 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:21,760 Speaker 1: what do you need to read? So your start list 234 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: almost makes it so easy for you that you just 235 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,320 Speaker 1: lock in rather than you look at the item on 236 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:29,920 Speaker 1: your to do list. Now, this takes an extra step 237 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:32,520 Speaker 1: when you're planning. When you're planning, you may have to 238 00:13:32,559 --> 00:13:36,080 Speaker 1: sit down and think to yourself, Okay, I have this 239 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:38,720 Speaker 1: to do list, Okay, what do I need to start? 240 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 1: So it's an extra step in advance. But then when 241 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,040 Speaker 1: you wake up and you look at your to start list, 242 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: you know exactly what to get locked into. I think 243 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,000 Speaker 1: this has been a game changer for me because so 244 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: often you look at your to do list and maybe 245 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 1: a to do list is work on that you know, 246 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,880 Speaker 1: got to finish off that project for work, or maybe 247 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 1: the to do list is obviously simple things like laundry 248 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 1: or whatever. That's different. I'm talking about things that you've 249 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 1: kind of been putting off for a while, things that 250 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: get stuck on that to do list for too long, 251 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:12,600 Speaker 1: things that are always there. Almost it feels like have 252 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:18,079 Speaker 1: a to start list, not a to do list. This 253 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: next one applies to that as well. How many of 254 00:14:21,200 --> 00:14:24,400 Speaker 1: you on your to do list cross things off. How 255 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: many of you will put a cross next to it 256 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: or put a line through it? Now, this is really simple, 257 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 1: and you may be like, Jay, that's not gonna work. 258 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,240 Speaker 1: I believe it all works, and I'll tell you why. 259 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 1: It's because you're constantly in communication with yourself and our 260 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: body and mind picks up on subtile cues very strongly. 261 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: There are subtle things in society that have been so hardwired. 262 00:14:52,760 --> 00:14:56,160 Speaker 1: For example, if you see a cross next to something, 263 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 1: you generally think it's wrong. From school, if you see 264 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: a C to something, it generally means don't enter, do 265 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:06,640 Speaker 1: not go here, caution. Right. That is a symbol, it's 266 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: an emblem for something. Now you may not process that logically. 267 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 1: You can differentiate between a cross on your to do 268 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: list and a cross at a you know, at a 269 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 1: at a traffic signal or a sign or you know 270 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 1: when they have those train crossings. You can tell the 271 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: difference logically, but subtly, when you're not processing it that intentionally, 272 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: you're getting a negative impact. So what I want you 273 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,280 Speaker 1: to do is swap your crosses for ticks. Put a 274 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,560 Speaker 1: big tick, put a color tick, put a green tick. 275 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: Seeing color, seeing a certain symbol, color gives us a 276 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:44,240 Speaker 1: certain emotion, and we devalue how much these things work. 277 00:15:44,800 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: We undervalue how powerful these things can be. Right, we 278 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,320 Speaker 1: just think, oh, yeah, it's just you know, this is 279 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: just pseudo stuff. It's like, yeah, sure, maybe there isn't 280 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: something massively scientific about it. But the idea that you'll 281 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: learn to give yourself positive affirmation, a positive validation of completion, 282 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: a positive sense of self, I think it will make 283 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 1: a big difference. One of the most well known tools, 284 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: which I only recently realized I was lucky to learn 285 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: when I was very young, and just how many people 286 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: never actually got exposed to it when they were young, 287 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: and I wanted to share it with you. And if 288 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 1: you know it, that's great. If you don't know it, 289 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: then I really hope that this changes the way you work. 290 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 1: It's called the Eisenhower matrix or the Eisenhower box, and 291 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: Eisenhower's strategy for taking action was organizing the inbound of 292 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 1: a task, so on your to do list or a 293 00:16:44,400 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: task that comes through there are four ways of defining them. 294 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:55,160 Speaker 1: According to Eisenhower, the four ways are either urgent and important. 295 00:16:55,800 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: These are things that you will do immediately. There's important 296 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:03,400 Speaker 1: but not urgent. This is stuff that you'll have to 297 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:07,439 Speaker 1: schedule to do it at another time. Then there's urgent 298 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: but not important. This is ideally something that someone else 299 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,520 Speaker 1: can do. It may require you to do it, but 300 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: not with the same amount of intentionality and focus. And fourth, 301 00:17:20,240 --> 00:17:23,320 Speaker 1: neither urgent nor important. And these are tasks that you 302 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: actually want to get rid of. Now. When you start 303 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:27,639 Speaker 1: doing this, you and I want you to do this. 304 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:30,439 Speaker 1: And again it's it's almost like you'll think, well, why 305 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: do I do that? Why don't I just get on 306 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: with the task, because you might find when you do 307 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,920 Speaker 1: this for the first time, a lot of the tasks 308 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:43,680 Speaker 1: that you're spending time on maybe neither urgent nor important. 309 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 1: I analyze every one of my meetings at work this way. 310 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:49,840 Speaker 1: We often go around the team meeting and my team 311 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:51,960 Speaker 1: will be filling me in on things, and I'm asking 312 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,440 Speaker 1: myself how much of this was urgent, and how much 313 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: of this was important, and how much of it required me? 314 00:17:58,359 --> 00:18:01,400 Speaker 1: And so ask yourself, is what's this urgent and important? 315 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:03,840 Speaker 1: Let me do it immediately, because often what we do 316 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:08,320 Speaker 1: is we trade what is important for what is urgent. 317 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:12,479 Speaker 1: And I think that's one of the biggest misses in 318 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:16,479 Speaker 1: productivity and time management. We get a request that's urgent 319 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 1: for someone else. That's another thing. Not only is it 320 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 1: not important for you, it's not urgent for you, it's 321 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: urgent for someone else, and we drop what we're doing 322 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,359 Speaker 1: and being able to say, Hey, I'm going to get 323 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:31,800 Speaker 1: back to you in five minutes. I've just got to 324 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:35,400 Speaker 1: finish something off. Hey, I've been working on that. What 325 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,919 Speaker 1: time do you need it by? Right? When do you 326 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: need it by? And in what condition are you looking 327 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:43,320 Speaker 1: for We're looking for it to be like are you 328 00:18:43,359 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: looking for it to be complete? I think these qualifying 329 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:50,119 Speaker 1: questions help you to plan it out, help you to 330 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 1: factor it out. One of the big ones of this 331 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,280 Speaker 1: this is the next principle, But this applies to the 332 00:18:55,280 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 1: next principle very strongly. No email until ten am. A 333 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:01,840 Speaker 1: lot of us we get to work and the first 334 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:03,239 Speaker 1: thing we do, and I remember I used to do 335 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 1: this as well. Was I used to open my email. 336 00:19:05,520 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: You're starting your day off with a few things. First 337 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:11,080 Speaker 1: of all, it's reactive. You haven't started proactively on what 338 00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 1: you need to focus on. You start reactively with what 339 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 1: everyone else wants to focus on. Therefore it's urgent to 340 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:22,160 Speaker 1: someone else even if it's not urgent and important to you. 341 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 1: And thirdly, you get distracted down a rabbit hole and 342 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,440 Speaker 1: you focus on things that you don't even know are 343 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: of value to what you're trying to do. Set a time, 344 00:19:31,480 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 1: no email for the first thirty minutes of the day, 345 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 1: no email for the first hour. When I get into work, 346 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: I'm going to focus on my projects. So I'm going 347 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: to focus on what I need to deliver. I'm going 348 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,920 Speaker 1: to focus on what I need to build. That's how 349 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: you want to plan your day out right, That's how 350 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 1: you want to focus. One of the next productivity tips 351 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 1: that's made a big difference in my life is something 352 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,040 Speaker 1: I called goal of the day and goal of the week. 353 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:56,679 Speaker 1: I knew the goal of my day to day was 354 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: to script, research and record to credible solo episodes. This 355 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:04,119 Speaker 1: is one of them, right, That was my goal of 356 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: the day. Because I'm traveling for the rest of the 357 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: day today, I'm flying to London, and so my goal 358 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: of the day is to get to London safely and 359 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 1: do that, and that's it. I have a lunch in 360 00:20:11,480 --> 00:20:15,280 Speaker 1: between for work, and but that's my goal. My goal 361 00:20:15,359 --> 00:20:17,880 Speaker 1: is simple. It's the podcast, it's the solos, it's being 362 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: present with all of you. That's the goal of the day. 363 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: No matter what happens, I have won if this goes well. 364 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 1: I think what we often do is we have ten 365 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 1: goals of the day. We have ten goals of each day, 366 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:34,400 Speaker 1: and it's almost impossible. Now, this doesn't mean you don't 367 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: do more tasks. I've done more tasks today. I haven't 368 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 1: had the luxury of only doing two episodes. I've got 369 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: a lot of other tasks to do today. But I'm 370 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,600 Speaker 1: very clearly in my mind saying to myself, this is 371 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,680 Speaker 1: the win, because what happens is that every day will 372 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: feel like a loss when you look at it and 373 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 1: you look, I didn't get six out of ten things done, 374 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: but maybe you've got two of the most important things 375 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: done in those four things you got done. We don't 376 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: properly weigh things for what their value truly is. We 377 00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 1: overvalue something and we undervalue something else, or we give 378 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,919 Speaker 1: everything the same value, and no tasks like to me 379 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 1: recording my solos today and doing a bit of housekeeping, 380 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,840 Speaker 1: they're not of the same value to my work, They're 381 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 1: not of the same value to my life. They are 382 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,160 Speaker 1: of different value, and so the goal of the day 383 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: has to be based around what you value. Today. Some days, 384 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:31,199 Speaker 1: the goal of the day will be to get the 385 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:33,800 Speaker 1: dishes done. Tonight some day the goal of the day 386 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,159 Speaker 1: will be to get the laundry done, and that's totally fine. 387 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 1: But know your value. Set a goal of the day, 388 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 1: and set a goal of the week, and pursue that. 389 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: Don't pursue this endless feeling of I just want to 390 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,160 Speaker 1: check everything off my list. I just need to get 391 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 1: everything done, because you could get everything done and ten 392 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 1: more things are going to appear. But if you've done 393 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: the big things, if you've done the big goals, goal 394 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:00,640 Speaker 1: of the day, the goal of the week, you're going 395 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 1: to feel a sense of accomplishment. The next principle is 396 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 1: know your best time to be productive and put the 397 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,160 Speaker 1: most important activity at that time. This is another self 398 00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 1: awareness tip. If you know when you're most powerful, lean 399 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,480 Speaker 1: into that. I know that I might my best energy 400 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:23,160 Speaker 1: in the morning, I'm far better all the way up 401 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 1: into one or two pm. That is my golden time, 402 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 1: that is my most impactful time. So I'm going to 403 00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,560 Speaker 1: place one of my most important activities in that nine 404 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,040 Speaker 1: am to one to two pm slot, then other things 405 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,359 Speaker 1: I'm going to add later on in the day. What 406 00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,040 Speaker 1: I find is a lot of us will find our 407 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:44,040 Speaker 1: best stuff. We're doing it at the hardest times. So 408 00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:46,119 Speaker 1: many of us are trying to do our best work 409 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 1: at the worst time during the day for us. So 410 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:53,440 Speaker 1: get a sense of it. Observe yourself, Audit yourself over 411 00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: the next week, and ask yourself, what time of day 412 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,159 Speaker 1: was I most productive? What tasks do I find easiest 413 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: to my confidence? Am I better when I start with 414 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,159 Speaker 1: the hardest thing of the beginning of the day or 415 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:06,679 Speaker 1: the easiest thing at the start of the day, Know 416 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:11,240 Speaker 1: your best time and schedule accordingly. And this applies to 417 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:14,919 Speaker 1: the next rule, which is lean into beast mode. You 418 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: have to follow momentum. Sometimes I'm on a streak where 419 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: I'm just writing it. It's really flowing, and I've realized 420 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 1: to myself, that's the wind of the day. I'm going 421 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: to switch some of my tasks and focus on that. 422 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,120 Speaker 1: Sometimes I'm in a recording mode and I can tell 423 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:29,800 Speaker 1: I've really locked in, and I'm like, all right, let 424 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,320 Speaker 1: me just lean into this right. And I think a 425 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,399 Speaker 1: lot of us don't follow our momentum we don't follow 426 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:39,000 Speaker 1: that desire and energy when it's flowing, it's flowing, go 427 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:42,360 Speaker 1: with it and lean into it. Now, if you work 428 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 1: in a workplace with other people, the biggest block out 429 00:23:45,119 --> 00:23:47,879 Speaker 1: of productivity people think is chatter or noise, and that 430 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: is there. There's some truth in that, because one of 431 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,919 Speaker 1: the principles that I'll talk about later actually refers to that. 432 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,520 Speaker 1: But the one I want to talk about right now 433 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 1: is actually one of the big causes of inefficiency at 434 00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: work is a lack of trust. When people have a 435 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,440 Speaker 1: lack of trust, you have to ask them three times 436 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 1: for that document. When people have a lack of trust, 437 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: you have to navigate a meeting so carefully that you're 438 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: de energized after the meeting. When people have a lack 439 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:23,680 Speaker 1: of trust and chemistry, there's likelihood of being more conflict 440 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:28,679 Speaker 1: or competitiveness. We have to try in our workplaces to 441 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: create a space of workplace trust. And what that is 442 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,479 Speaker 1: is to make sure people don't feel intimidated and you 443 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,879 Speaker 1: don't feel intimidated. And I know this is so hard 444 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:44,560 Speaker 1: because sadly you're around people who have their ego up, 445 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: their barrier up, their boundary up. You've kind of got 446 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 1: into the same place now, So what do you do? 447 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:50,920 Speaker 1: And I've been there before as well. I remember being 448 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 1: in workplaces where I really felt that it was backs 449 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 1: up against the wall and I really didn't feel like 450 00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:01,680 Speaker 1: people were right, not just to me, to each other. 451 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: Sometimes people are warm to me and not to other people, 452 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:06,640 Speaker 1: and that made me uncomfortable. So what do you do? 453 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:12,400 Speaker 1: I can honestly say that leading with integrity, leading with respect, 454 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,280 Speaker 1: leading with your best self, communicating effectively, always going higher, 455 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: no matter how hard it is, will ultimately win the 456 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:25,639 Speaker 1: trust of the right people. It's always better. Don't get 457 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 1: stuck in office politics, don't get brought down by it, 458 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 1: don't get trapped by it, don't get ruined by it. 459 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,920 Speaker 1: And the way you do that is by constantly engaging 460 00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:39,000 Speaker 1: with on purpose. You know, reading books that inspire you, 461 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 1: being around people maybe outside of work or people at work. 462 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,160 Speaker 1: You do move you and motivate you. But recognize that 463 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 1: sometimes you're trying to solve tasks and everything else, but 464 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: it's a people issue. Know what's a people issue and 465 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: know what's a task issue. This is a huge rule 466 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:59,840 Speaker 1: for productivity. Sometimes your productivity is hampered because you're not 467 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,199 Speaker 1: solving a people issue, and you're trying to solve a 468 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,359 Speaker 1: task issue, and sometimes your problem is you're focusing on 469 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,159 Speaker 1: people when actually it's a system issue. So ask yourself, 470 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:11,679 Speaker 1: should I solve the system or do I need to 471 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: solve a relationship and figure that out, and that will 472 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:19,119 Speaker 1: save you so much time, money, and energy. I've only 473 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 1: got a couple more that I want to share with you. 474 00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 1: This next one is called the Pareto principle, and it's 475 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:31,160 Speaker 1: a concept that's based on this idea that eighty percent 476 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:35,960 Speaker 1: of your business success is actually based on twenty percent 477 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 1: of business. Right, So it's almost like saying that eighty 478 00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:43,840 Speaker 1: percent of your revenue is based on twenty percent of 479 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:47,959 Speaker 1: your clients. Eighty percent of your success is based on 480 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 1: the twenty percent of people you actually know at work, 481 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: not the other way around. What we often do is 482 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: we often get lost focusing on the eighty percent as 483 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,760 Speaker 1: opposed to the twenty percent. In essence, we don't focus 484 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:03,200 Speaker 1: on the root of our success and failure. We get distracted, 485 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:08,240 Speaker 1: and so it's a reminder that figure out what is 486 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:12,159 Speaker 1: really causing success or failure and focus on that. So 487 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:14,840 Speaker 1: ask yourself, what is your twenty percent? Here are four 488 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,359 Speaker 1: questions I want you to reflect on number one, what 489 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,440 Speaker 1: is your twenty percent? What is the thing that actually 490 00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 1: drives the eighty percent? Then what's your eighty percent? What 491 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,320 Speaker 1: are you focused on eighty percent of the time and 492 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 1: is it really leading to anything? Third question, where are 493 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 1: you spending your time? In fourth? How can you reprioritize? 494 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,359 Speaker 1: How can you recognize that you want to focus on 495 00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,200 Speaker 1: the twenty percent that is life changing, that is building, 496 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:42,600 Speaker 1: and not get lost in the eighty percent. Now, the 497 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:46,199 Speaker 1: last method I want to share with you is monk mode. 498 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: I remember so much of our meditation training during my 499 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: time as a monk was about finding that silence and 500 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: that stillness and going inward and in the workspace. This 501 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,959 Speaker 1: monk mode is this idea that how can you find 502 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,000 Speaker 1: that feeling of being locked in? How can you find 503 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: that feeling of being so focused that you're not distracted 504 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: by everything else around you? And research shows that in 505 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: person conversations ranked as the top source of distraction at 506 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:21,600 Speaker 1: work forty seven percent, followed by phone calls twenty percent 507 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,199 Speaker 1: and chat platforms fifteen percent. One of my team members 508 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,360 Speaker 1: does this, and I see it work wonders for her 509 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: when we're all chatting away. She wears headphones, right, she 510 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,560 Speaker 1: wears headphones and they're noise canceling, and she's locked in 511 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 1: doing her work. And I see the amount of focus 512 00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,040 Speaker 1: she has and how productive she is because of that. 513 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,360 Speaker 1: And I see a couple of my team members actually 514 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: doing this, and so I recommend it. If you're struggling 515 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 1: to disconnect, it's great to have them on. It's not rude, 516 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,719 Speaker 1: it's not antisocial. You can always join into conversations, and 517 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 1: people actually admire it because people can see how locked 518 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: in you are. So I want to know which principles 519 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:00,000 Speaker 1: you're going to test, which ones you're going to try. 520 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 1: I hope that this helps you be more productive and 521 00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:06,080 Speaker 1: effective and also lowers your stress levels. And I'm sending 522 00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:09,560 Speaker 1: you so much love and positive energy. Remember I'm always 523 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,560 Speaker 1: in your corner and I'm forever rooting for you. Thanks 524 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,239 Speaker 1: for listening on purpose. I'll see you soon. Thank you 525 00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: so much for listening to this conversation. If you enjoyed it, 526 00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:23,240 Speaker 1: you'll love my chat with Adam Grant on why discomfort 527 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,600 Speaker 1: is the key to growth and the strategies for unlocking 528 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:29,720 Speaker 1: your hidden potential. If you know you want to be 529 00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,600 Speaker 1: more and achieve more, this year. Go check it out 530 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,480 Speaker 1: right now. You set a goal today, you achieve it 531 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,040 Speaker 1: in six months, and then by the time it happens, 532 00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:41,240 Speaker 1: it's almost a relief. There's no sense of meaning and purpose. 533 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 1: You sort of expected it, and you would have been 534 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 1: disappointed if it didn't happen.