Dan Martell - 12 Hacks to Be 99.9% More Productive That Cost Nothing

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 1.00

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. 0.99

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.

Dan Martell - September 17, 2024

12 Hacks to Be 99.9% More Productive That Cost Nothing

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