Dan Martell - September 17, 2024


12 Hacks to Be 99.9% More Productive That Cost Nothing


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00:00:00.000 I'm going to share with you the 12 hacks that keep me insanely productive 99% of every day.
00:00:04.640 These strategies are what allow the top 1% to get more done in a day than most people get done in a
00:00:09.120 week. They're what I use, despite having crippling ADHD, to become a millionaire by age 27, sell
00:00:14.500 three companies, and build a $100 million business empire. So without further explaining it, these are
00:00:19.480 the 12 ways to be more productive that cost nothing. The first hack is to increase your cycle
00:00:23.920 time. A couple of years ago, I was hiring a bunch of copywriters, and I noticed that one of them was
00:00:28.440 10 times more productive than the other two. It was interesting because eventually I ended up
00:00:32.520 meeting up with them for a work session and I saw one copywriter type with all 10 figures
00:00:37.260 using hotkeys while the others just type with two fingers like fifth graders. It never occurred to
00:00:42.620 me that a copywriter wouldn't know how to type. The person who is 10 times more productive,
00:00:47.260 they also never touched their mouse. They were using hotkeys the whole time which made their
00:00:51.780 output be that much faster. The first rule of productivity is to just get faster at the thing
00:00:56.920 you're doing. Increase the speed of your mouse. If you go in there and just fast forward the speed
00:01:00.980 of your mouse, it might feel weird at first, but you'll eventually get used to it. Listening to
00:01:05.100 playbacks on any type of audio, put it at 1.5. 2x just gets faster. Learning how to type, taking
00:01:11.900 typing classes, typing.com. Learning the hotkeys for your email tool, your productivity tool to
00:01:17.180 make sure that everything is just one keyboard click away from getting done. An advanced version
00:01:21.740 would be automation with AI.
00:01:23.660 Think Zapier or other tools like it
00:01:25.560 where you can plug into workflows
00:01:27.240 and use the AI to understand what you're manually doing
00:01:30.540 for it to process it and automate the whole thing
00:01:32.740 so you never have to touch that work again.
00:01:34.840 It could be everything from processing comments
00:01:36.620 on your social media to connecting your inbox
00:01:39.220 so that once a day, maybe twice a day,
00:01:40.760 you get a summary of all your emails using AI
00:01:43.080 to figure out which ones are high priority,
00:01:44.720 which ones are low,
00:01:45.340 with even recommended texts to reply to those emails.
00:01:48.640 Learning how to automate and increase workflow
00:01:51.160 and be productive costs you nothing but improves the cycle time. Which brings us to number two,
00:01:55.700 which is to make a stop doing list. When I'm speaking at a recovery center or at a group home
00:02:00.580 for troubled youth, I always allow the kids to sit in my McLaren. And oftentimes they ask,
00:02:04.400 so what do you actually do? And I usually respond with, it's not what I do, it's what I don't do.
00:02:09.900 Most of us are doing things that take up our time. And we don't understand this core principle
00:02:14.600 called the 90-10 principle. It's 10% of your work drives 90% of your results. So the key
00:02:20.980 thing is to figure out what are your strengths? What are you great at? Double down on those. Stop
00:02:25.780 trying to become great at something you hate. Do enough so that it's not a deficit, but definitely
00:02:30.440 don't spend all your time trying to take something you hate doing to try to make it something great
00:02:33.700 when you're good at something and go be world-class at it. Also look at all your vices. When I say it's
00:02:38.560 what I don't do, I don't drink. I don't hang out with my friends and talk about other people. I
00:02:42.720 don't gamble. I don't vape. There's all the stuff I don't do to create the space for me to be more
00:02:47.940 productive. I'm also a big fan of finding people that are good at the things I'm bad at and love
00:02:52.800 to do the things I hate. There's people out there that literally play at things that I consider
00:02:58.400 work. My bookkeeper, she would rather sit there and stare at a spreadsheet and reconcile bank
00:03:03.480 accounts than anything else. I would hate to do that. I'd rather be on the phone talking to people.
00:03:08.440 I'd rather be at an event presenting. So just understanding there's other people out there
00:03:12.120 that could buy back your time, that could help you out. You can trade, you can ask for favors.
00:03:16.260 Another idea is to actually make a list of all the things that drain your energy,
00:03:19.980 things that you did in the last six months that you wish you wouldn't have done.
00:03:23.460 Make that list, be clear, and then ask yourself in the future when those opportunities come up,
00:03:28.220 I'm going to make sure I immediately say no.
00:03:30.160 And it's as simple as a no.
00:03:31.700 Reviewing the last six months and deciding what things you did that you would never want to do
00:03:35.440 and put that on the stop doing list is a good strategy.
00:03:38.420 Which brings us to number three, which is to create urgency.
00:03:41.180 I don't know if you can relate, but I'm the kind of guy back in the day
00:03:43.740 where I would wait till the last minute
00:03:45.540 to work on a big project, either homework for school
00:03:48.080 or a big presentation at my work
00:03:49.860 so that I created a sense of urgency to get it done.
00:03:52.820 I used to tell myself some weird line about like,
00:03:55.120 oh, that's when I'm most creative,
00:03:56.300 when I have pressure on myself.
00:03:57.580 But it turned out it made it really bad
00:03:59.480 for everybody else in my life.
00:04:00.660 It meant I didn't prepare
00:04:02.000 and it just created a lot of emotional shrapnel
00:04:04.480 that didn't need to exist.
00:04:05.780 This is exactly how I do it today.
00:04:07.540 First off is I set an earlier deadline for completion.
00:04:10.620 I know, I'm making this up in my head, that's fine.
00:04:12.620 Whatever is the due date, I make the date sometimes two weeks before.
00:04:16.300 Why?
00:04:16.620 Because I just want that urgency to focus my creativity that allows me to come prepared
00:04:20.540 to all these big events in my life.
00:04:22.500 If it's prepping for a podcast I'm going on or working on my book deadlines or whatever
00:04:26.640 it is, I'd rather have the date way sooner that it's needed so that I also have the breathing
00:04:30.660 room to be more creative and more inspired.
00:04:33.100 Another strategy I love to use is to block time in my calendar, usually about 90 minutes
00:04:37.440 per project.
00:04:38.380 And what I'll do is I'll set a timer.
00:04:39.780 I like to use a Pomodoro timer, which is 25 minutes of focused work and then five minutes
00:04:45.000 off to refresh to use the bathroom to get some water. And then it goes off and I'm back at it
00:04:49.500 again. Whatever project I'm working on, if I put that block time, those 90 minutes in my calendar,
00:04:54.180 and I do three sessions of that Pomodoro, it helps me overcome my ADHD. It focuses me. And
00:05:00.320 because the timer is counting down, it's like every five minutes, I'm like, how much did I get
00:05:04.500 done? How much did I get done? It's almost up. It's almost up. And it just focused me to get
00:05:08.260 the most work and makes me more creative and more resourceful and doesn't waste my time.
00:05:12.620 Which brings us to number four, which is to commit to others. This one, very few people use. And it's
00:05:18.020 one that I use almost on a daily basis. I remember when I was writing my book, I tried three times.
00:05:23.000 The first time I sat down and said, oh, I'm going to commit to writing every morning. And for three
00:05:26.580 weeks, I sat there and I wrote and I wrote and I had no process and no purpose. And honestly,
00:05:30.900 I didn't even know what the book was going to be about. And I tried again and I figured, you know
00:05:34.200 what, maybe I should do this different. And I had a friend help me out with the outline. But the
00:05:37.500 problem was I was still doing it on my own. By the time I gave it my third shot, I realized I
00:05:42.460 need somebody else to be committed to. So first thing is I hired a person that became my book
00:05:47.400 CEO. This person managed me as the talent to be accountable to them. Second is I hired another
00:05:53.560 writing partner. That way I had somebody that was waiting for me on my writing. And then I also had
00:05:58.920 somebody that was an editor where we would schedule time together to review the work as a team. And on
00:06:04.160 that call, we would do the work of writing the book. Without that, I probably wouldn't have
00:06:08.660 created the type of work I did because having somebody else that is a co-creator, a collaborator,
00:06:14.460 somebody to bring different creative ideas, it actually made the whole process fun. And I now
00:06:18.600 use that strategy in all the different areas of my life from doing paperwork I don't want to do
00:06:23.380 to creative ideation with some new content ideas with my team to strategic planning. Instead of
00:06:29.260 doing it solo, I always invite one or two other people to collaborate with. Even when I had no
00:06:33.320 money I would just call a friend and ask them if they wanted to do like joint working sessions
00:06:37.140 sometimes we'd meet up at a coffee shop other times we would just connect over zoom they have
00:06:41.120 accountability to me because I'm sharing my screen and then we just set a timer we check in with each
00:06:45.580 other we just make sure that hey whatever project we said we would move forward we committed to that
00:06:49.620 person because it turns out you will do more for other people than you'll ever do for yourself
00:06:53.800 just think about your dog I mean if your dog's sick you're like the world stops and we get that
00:06:58.600 dog healed up and all the medication we give 100 completion of whatever pills the doctor says
00:07:03.260 Whereas for you, you will go long periods of time sometimes not feeling good without ever taking care of yourself, let alone if you get medication, maybe you'll finish 60, 70 percent of it.
00:07:11.960 So understand committing to other people is actually a very powerful tool to keep us focused and be really accountable, which brings us to number five, which is to schedule time to recharge.
00:07:20.740 I'm not proud of this, but I used to be the person that would work 100 hour weeks.
00:07:24.340 I would just get up, crank, ignore everything else, ignore my health, ignore my friends, ignore my relationships because I was just doing whatever I could to try to be successful.
00:07:33.040 and it did create momentum.
00:07:34.860 The challenge is it also created bad momentum
00:07:37.100 because I didn't take the time to recharge, to reset.
00:07:40.320 And the energy was frantic,
00:07:42.140 which means there was no space
00:07:43.480 for what I call step functions of growth ideas.
00:07:46.460 So now I have a completely different approach
00:07:48.760 and here's how I think about it.
00:07:49.860 Just like I have block time for work,
00:07:51.500 I also have block time for rest.
00:07:53.640 See, the magic that I've discovered is in the reset.
00:07:57.220 We are one creative idea away
00:07:59.740 from having our whole life change.
00:08:01.620 Think about it.
00:08:02.160 could be that book idea. It could be that idea to call a friend. It could be a conversation with
00:08:06.380 somebody that you didn't even plan. And what I've discovered is the world works this way. There's
00:08:11.040 two different systems, no matter who you are. Think about the yin and yang. There's a sympathetic
00:08:15.260 system, which is fight or flight. And then there's the parasympathetic system, which is to relax and
00:08:20.440 to chill out. There's the anabolic system, which takes protein to build muscle. And then there's
00:08:24.140 a catabolic system that eats the protein. There's eustress. And then there's distress. Eustress is
00:08:29.320 when you decide to do something hard and you push on the world to change and distress is when you
00:08:33.920 feel like the world is pushing on you and it makes it hard. Understanding that if you want to be the
00:08:38.400 most productive, the most creative, the most expansive, that you have to have some push
00:08:43.520 and also some time to pull, some drive and also some reset. I now have cut off time for when I
00:08:49.760 finish my work because I know my brain's not going to work well after that. No good decisions
00:08:53.660 are going to be made. And I also understand how my body and my energy flows. So for example,
00:08:58.180 I'll go sit in the hot tub and just sit there on my phone and outline new video ideas or reach out
00:09:03.280 to friends I haven't seen in a while or think about creative ideas of things I might want to
00:09:06.940 do over the next six months. It's understanding that you can't always be going charge, charge,
00:09:11.740 charge because it's actually in the reset where you create the space that makes the creativity
00:09:16.300 and the big needle moving decisions come to life. I've learned over the years that vacations make
00:09:21.400 me a better person for my team, for my family. So when I go away and I go mountain biking with
00:09:26.400 my friends or I take my family and we go to Europe somewhere is when I come back, I just feel
00:09:31.700 energized. I feel that I've got more life to give other people. And it turns out that if you're
00:09:35.840 building businesses with other people, you have partners, you have customers, you have vendors.
00:09:39.220 Those conversations are going to be a lot more fun when you've reset yourself, you've new energy,
00:09:44.480 you're recharged to attack your work. I think most people feel guilty taking time off. They
00:09:48.940 think anytime I'm not working or I'm not showing up for my team, that I'm just one second away
00:09:53.500 where something massive is gonna implode on my life
00:09:55.660 and it makes it really hard for them to unplug
00:09:57.700 where the opposite is actually true.
00:09:59.420 It's kind of like a pressure cooker.
00:10:01.160 If you work 100 hours a week
00:10:02.860 and you don't take any time off,
00:10:04.380 eventually that pressure cooker is gonna overflow.
00:10:06.760 And you may think that you're good,
00:10:08.400 but your body will start going into adrenal fatigue.
00:10:11.080 You'll have anxiety attacks.
00:10:12.440 I've seen people break out into shingles.
00:10:14.420 They've got these little sore spots
00:10:15.880 that start breaking out on their skin
00:10:17.520 and that's literally their body telling them
00:10:19.880 they have not reset,
00:10:21.040 they've not created any self-care in their life.
00:10:23.020 you can't redline your body nonstop and it not be upset with you. Productivity is being able to
00:10:28.940 stay consistent for long periods of time without having to reset because you went too far. Which
00:10:34.080 brings us to number six, which is to wake up early. This one is going to be controversial,
00:10:38.580 but early risers make more money. Period. Full stop. If you look at any person that's ever
00:10:43.900 succeeded from Churchill to, you know, Steve Jobs, they get up earlier than most people.
00:10:49.080 Now, I'm not saying you have to join the 5am club, but I'm not saying you shouldn't.
00:10:52.440 If you're getting up at 8.30, 9 o'clock,
00:10:54.880 you might wanna consider changing your whole day
00:10:56.920 to start earlier because when you can get up
00:10:59.840 before everybody else does,
00:11:01.260 you will be connected to an energy
00:11:03.060 that very few people ever experience.
00:11:05.660 There's actually a spiritual concept
00:11:07.500 around the 4 a.m. timeframe.
00:11:09.520 Now, you don't have to get up that early,
00:11:11.000 but you should at some point try it out
00:11:12.840 and really attack the work, do creative things.
00:11:15.600 I get four hours every day from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m.
00:11:18.700 where I get some very deep work,
00:11:20.520 some creative projects to really move my dreams and goals forward because I'm up that early.
00:11:25.620 Does that mean I go to bed early? Yep, I do. I'd rather wake up early, connected to my creator
00:11:30.580 and really plug into the availability of the world because everybody else is sleeping. It's
00:11:36.500 like a different brainwave that's going on. It's quiet. Nobody's interrupting me. No distractions
00:11:41.140 than not have that massive boost in productivity. And it carries on for the rest of the day.
00:11:47.060 getting up early is productivity 101.
00:11:50.120 So just start with 15 minutes every week,
00:11:52.600 just a little bit earlier, a little bit earlier,
00:11:54.960 you'll reset the clock.
00:11:56.340 And one day you'll realize,
00:11:57.580 man, this isn't even hard anymore.
00:11:59.280 It's just who you are.
00:12:00.260 In those morning hours,
00:12:01.500 you will come up with ideas
00:12:02.680 that will transform your whole life.
00:12:04.400 Which brings us to number seven,
00:12:05.820 which is to eat that frog.
00:12:07.140 Now there's a whole book on this by Brian Tracy.
00:12:09.900 So it's not a new concept,
00:12:11.420 but most people tend to mess this up all the time.
00:12:14.060 Essentially, before you do anything,
00:12:15.520 do the most important thing. I always think about the leading domino. What's the most important
00:12:20.380 project? Typically the thing I least want to do. But I know if I do that first, that's going to
00:12:25.540 set me up for the rest of the day. Essentially, it's the project that is going to guarantee me
00:12:30.440 success. Marketing, sales focus, revenue driven opportunities for you to get in front of new
00:12:36.100 people. So anything that kind of gives you angst, but it's a meaningful project, I want you to start
00:12:40.920 with that first. It might be working out because that's hard for you. It could be reading a book.
00:12:44.740 It could be reaching out to people.
00:12:46.160 It could be learning a new language.
00:12:47.880 Whatever you need to do to really upgrade your life,
00:12:51.340 you want to start with that in the morning
00:12:53.100 so that you build that momentum for the rest of the day.
00:12:56.500 For some people, they'll just make a list
00:12:57.980 of all their big tasks for the day.
00:12:59.760 And as soon as they're done it,
00:13:01.140 they'll just call their day complete.
00:13:02.600 And I like that idea too.
00:13:03.740 So just make a list
00:13:04.680 and as fast as you can get through everything,
00:13:06.580 eventually your day's done.
00:13:07.760 And then you can do whatever you want with the rest of it.
00:13:09.480 But eat that frog first.
00:13:10.980 It might be to get one hour studying for that big test.
00:13:13.520 send out emails to people you've been meaning to connect with those cold calls obviously time zones
00:13:18.000 matter but you just want to get the hardest thing the biggest rock the frog eaten first do it first
00:13:23.140 thing in the morning most people like put off the thing because they want to get ready to start
00:13:27.640 it's like i'm not ready i need my coffee i need my energy i need this i need my crystals i need
00:13:33.120 my timer yeah you need some stuff but just start the work there's no better answer than just doing
00:13:39.020 the thing. Which brings us to number eight, which is to follow your energy flow. I used to be the
00:13:44.140 person that would take meetings all the time. If somebody could only meet at 8am, okay, let's talk
00:13:48.900 then. Or if I had to create some content, it's like, when can I fit it into my schedule? And
00:13:52.820 it's like, all right, end of the day, 4.30, I guess that's all I got, 30 minutes. The challenge
00:13:57.060 is it turns out that the energy that I have throughout my day shifts and changes and the
00:14:02.080 type of energy I need for certain types of work is different. And if I mix them up, then those
00:14:07.840 tasks, those projects are not going to get the best version of me. I look at how my energy is
00:14:12.760 going to flow from the early morning to the late morning, to the lunch, to the early afternoon,
00:14:17.120 to the late afternoon. And I mapped the activities or the projects to that. So for example, for me,
00:14:22.400 I start my day with creative tasks, things that require kind of a unique perspectives, ideation,
00:14:28.580 outlining stuff, writing, creating, designing. That is my morning. I'm super blessed to be able
00:14:33.960 to do all of that before I ever have a meeting,
00:14:36.280 usually not till 11 a.m. throughout the day.
00:14:38.740 So I put me first, my big projects first,
00:14:40.880 and then I put all of my conversations, et cetera,
00:14:43.640 in the afternoon.
00:14:44.680 If I gotta create content,
00:14:45.800 I like to do it right after I work out.
00:14:48.000 Why?
00:14:48.360 There's something about getting a workout in
00:14:50.540 and then going to shoot content
00:14:51.960 where I feel really good about how I'm feeling
00:14:54.220 and how it comes across on the camera.
00:14:56.100 Everybody's different.
00:14:56.960 I'm more of a morning person.
00:14:58.600 Other people might be a night person.
00:15:00.100 I had little kids that became human alarm clocks,
00:15:02.880 so I had to restructure my whole day.
00:15:05.040 But knowing your energy, how it flows for you
00:15:07.980 and batching those projects that require that energy together
00:15:11.520 will change your productivity overnight.
00:15:14.000 Which brings us to number nine,
00:15:15.320 which is to create something to run away from.
00:15:17.840 Whether you believe this or not,
00:15:19.620 most people will do more to avoid pain than to gain pleasure.
00:15:23.820 So this is just how we're wired as humans.
00:15:25.880 We're always trying to look for the danger out in the world
00:15:30.040 and try to avoid it.
00:15:31.260 So if you make up some kind of thing to avoid,
00:15:34.540 it will propel you forward
00:15:36.000 because you're trying not to experience that.
00:15:38.060 So for example, when I wanted to lose 30 pounds in 90 days,
00:15:41.480 I created some stakes.
00:15:43.320 I created the downside if I didn't achieve that goal.
00:15:46.120 And for me, I chose to enter in a fitness competition
00:15:48.720 as I would look.
00:15:50.080 No shaving chest, no tan, no super lean.
00:15:53.220 I was just wherever that competition was.
00:15:55.000 If I didn't hit my goal,
00:15:56.080 immediately entry, immediately on stage,
00:15:58.420 all my friends watching, recorded for life,
00:16:00.660 that was the stakes. So do you think that I didn't hit that goal or I absolutely crushed it? I mean,
00:16:06.220 the stakes were so high. I had something to avoid, to run away from. Using this idea for yourself
00:16:11.580 strategically is the most productive thing you could do. Maybe there's a political campaign you
00:16:17.060 would hate to donate to. And if you don't hit your timeline, you don't hit your goal, you have
00:16:21.340 to donate $500, $1,000 to that political campaign and like really honor it and follow through with
00:16:27.360 it i mean some people if they're trying to get healthy just the commitment to themselves that
00:16:31.520 they will publish a photo of themselves in their underwear on their social media is enough fear of
00:16:37.380 embarrassment to run away from to go get that result so just think about it for yourself i think
00:16:42.260 that if i want to be productive i need a downside thing to avoid to drive away from to get my result
00:16:48.260 which brings us to number 10 which is to get a carrot on the stick this is essentially the
00:16:52.800 opposite of my previous point. This way you'll double your motivation. Think about it. If there's
00:16:58.260 a stake or something at risk, if I don't hit it, what's my reward if I do hit it? Implementing
00:17:04.100 rewards for your goals is a game changer when it comes to being productive. When I was training for
00:17:08.500 my Ironman, I had a family vacation on the line if I didn't finish the Ironman. So I told my wife
00:17:14.740 when we were out eating at a restaurant, do you think she asked me if I wanted dessert? No. She's
00:17:20.080 you have to train tomorrow. When I told her I had to get up early with a bunch of friends,
00:17:23.580 did she give me a hard time? No, because she knew what was on the line. Even enrolling other people
00:17:27.700 to that reward will help them create positive peer pressure on you to achieve that outcome.
00:17:33.400 In those situations, I like to create it where it's not just a reward for me, but it's a reward
00:17:37.360 for my family, for my team members, for my friends, so that they get behind supporting me on my goal.
00:17:42.820 And it always comes back that you'll always do more for other people than you'll ever do for
00:17:46.640 yourself. So create the reward that helps them as well so that everybody wins. Which brings us
00:17:51.360 to number 11, which is to honor your schedule. I can directly correlate someone's net worth to
00:17:56.900 the increment of time they schedule into their calendar. It's bananas to me. Most people do not
00:18:01.940 plan, do not put things in their calendar. Every day is an opportunity for, I don't know, whatever
00:18:07.240 I feel like, or every week is, I don't know, whatever happens. And it's crazy because it's
00:18:12.180 difference between a life by design versus a life by default if you can just understand that putting
00:18:17.700 the big rocks the pebbles the sand into your calendar first before the rest of the water and
00:18:23.620 the other demands on your time come in will allow you to be more productive than anybody else you
00:18:28.820 know the key though is is to honor the calendar not context switch not dismiss the notification
00:18:34.900 not pretend like it's not there first thing in the morning for you to attack but sometimes you're
00:18:38.900 you're working on something you didn't finish it so if you didn't just move it to the next time
00:18:42.600 block maybe to the next day or maybe to the afternoon one of my favorite concepts is this
00:18:47.220 thing called parkinson's law i was just sharing it with a friend the other day because she asked
00:18:50.740 somebody to get something done and the person said well i'll get it done at the end of the week
00:18:54.140 i said why didn't you ask for it to get done tomorrow they said well i don't know i go well
00:18:57.820 that's the difference between four days and one day and she's like i didn't want to be that person
00:19:01.640 i said well you could at least asked parkinson's law states the work will expand to the time you
00:19:06.480 allocate to it. And that's true for your calendar. It's true for other people. Momentum is about
00:19:11.760 stacking small wins. So if you start doing what you say, when you're going to do it is going to
00:19:16.540 build that confidence because you're keeping the commitments you made to yourself in private. So
00:19:20.760 build that discipline, which brings us to number 12, which is to turn off all notifications on
00:19:25.460 your phone. Some of you guys are like, no way, Dan, I'm not doing this. And I'm going to tell
00:19:30.220 you there are professional PhD doctorate employees working at all these tech companies, building all
00:19:36.100 this software that their only job is to distract you. And when I think of the most unproductive
00:19:41.120 thing you could possibly do is allow the notifications, the apps to interrupt you when
00:19:46.580 you are doing something that you decided was important to you, just because somebody else
00:19:50.960 somewhere in the world sent you a message, your focus is worth more than somebody else's
00:19:55.880 notification. Remember one time I was messaging with one of my new employees and he would always
00:20:00.400 reply, always reply, always reply. And I sat down with them when I went on one and I shared with
00:20:05.140 them. I said, Hey, I love that you want to be on top of things and respond to me right away. But
00:20:09.300 that also tells me that you're easily interrupted. If you're doing it with me, you're probably doing
00:20:13.400 with other people, which means I'm not getting your best work because I'm not getting your focus
00:20:17.200 work, your heads down deep in the zone work. So I'm going to need you to batch those activities
00:20:22.300 into one block time so that if you need to reply to me, just sit down and look at your old text
00:20:26.540 messages and reply and then get back to your next project. Most people will never do this because
00:20:30.620 they are addicted to the dopamine hits of those notifications. But to do your best work, you have
00:20:35.680 to get into flow state. And to do that, you need to get lost in your work, not distracted by those
00:20:40.500 notifications. Most people are on their phone all day not working because it's an illusion of
00:20:45.100 productivity. Responding to people's messages feels like you're doing something, but you're not
00:20:49.820 getting anything done. You're staying busy, but you're not creating, you're not producing, you're
00:20:55.000 not pushing a project forward. You're just moving a bunch of information. It's not that it doesn't
00:20:59.740 have to get responded to, but stacking that and doing it on your own time instead of allowing an
00:21:04.460 app to bug you is going to be a game changer for productivity. If you want to learn the 44 cheat
00:21:08.880 codes I know at 44 that I wish I knew at 24, click the link and I'll see you on the other side.