okay does anyone else feel like they just kind of float through the day sometimes unable to
stay focused you're on track and all of a sudden it's 5 p.m and you're like literally where did the
day go we often think the root of the problem is lack of motivation but the truth is we just aren't
gonna feel motivated all the time instead we can use game-changing strategies and easy tools to
increase our productivity and ultimately rewire our brains so that we can stay productive
all day every day and thank you so much to techsplace for sponsoring today's video when
i found out about this partnership i genuinely got so excited because this product is actually
amazing and saved my life and i have already told so many of my friends about it let's get into it
hack number one is to plan tomorrow today raise your hand if you've heard me say that before yes
all of you why do this there are several benefits to planning the next day out the night before
an object in motion stays in motion and usually it's not actually the doing of tasks that's the
hard part it's thinking about them remembering them and then actually starting them that's the
stressful part by deciding what needs to get done tomorrow and actually setting that intention by
writing it down you've already taken care of the hardest part about doing things writing everything
down that you didn't finish from today and hope to get done tomorrow while it's still fresh in
your head takes a lot of time and brain power off your plate first thing in the morning and actually
can help you get better quality sleep instead of scrambling in the morning to get your bearings and
figure out what you're doing today you can wake up peacefully and actually prioritize your morning
routine and prioritizing your morning routine will get you in the right headspace to conquer the day
now yes sometimes i am super tired at the end of the night and i don't want to get my planner out
to the last thing i want to do but forcing myself to do this consistently for the last few years
single-handedly increased my productivity tenfold there's a reason i say this all the time my next
hack is one that i discovered fairly recently and literally cannot believe i've gone this long
without knowing about it okay so it's a chrome extension called textblaze the amount of literal
hours i have saved using this tool it allows you to create custom typing shortcuts that when typed
anywhere on the web will trigger your custom template or snippet as they call it to replace
what you had just typed i kid you not you guys for the last six years i've been copying and pasting
text replies or email templates from my notes app or word docs just to make my life that much
easier but even that was a pain and i honestly forgot half the time that i even made a template
so i would just end up retyping things anyway and now there's a literal extension for it i highly
recommend using textblaze if you guys write a lot of emails this tool has been by far what has saved
me the most time and my favorite part is it does more than just plain text you can also include
dynamic dates which is sweet and they have a gmail integration which allows you to do things such as
automatically include the recipient's name into an email oh my god textblaze is super easy to use the
interface is really intuitive thank goodness but i will say that the pro version which is only 2.99
a month has even more cool features that you can unlock so that could definitely be worth getting
so i highly highly recommend tex plays if you want to make your life easier save that time
become more productive i'm starting out with only like four or five snippets because again i don't
want to forget that i created these and i don't want to forget what the actual shortcut is so i'm
trying to get in the habit of using him and oh my gosh it is already such a game changer click the
link in my description to download the extension and to get one free month of textblaze pro and
if you want to refer others you guys you can get another free month for each user that you refer
hack number three is called habit pairing often we aren't productive because we simply don't like the
task at hand and we're not motivated or excited about doing it but it still needs to get done so
here's a life-changing brain hack pair whatever task you don't like with something that you do
like and do them together every time let's pretend you need to read for school but you just don't
want to read you don't like reading but you love coffee if you make yourself drink coffee every
time you read your brain will literally start associating the positive emotion that you have
with coffee with reading but yes this applies to everything over time your brain will start
to rewire so you're almost tricking your brain into liking things that you once didn't like and
soon enough you will legitimately feel joy out of doing the thing that you once hated doing it seems
too good to be true but the science is there you really are capable of rewiring your thoughts and
i have done this now numerous times every time it blows my mind that it's possible but it is
possible hack number four is habit batching did you know that it can take your brain up to 15
minutes to refocus after a simple distraction like responding to a text message yeah it's whack when
it comes to your day's order of operations try to group similar tasks together in batches or chunks
rather than flipping back and forth throughout your day if you're anything like me it is hard
to stay focused on one task for too long i kind of need variety sometimes and i get that
but if you can try to batch together tasks in three to five hour increments it'll be a major
game changer when it comes to your productivity it'll allow you to get into a state that's called
deep work where our brains become the most engaged and we are the most efficient and effective and
not to mention sometimes we have the best ideas let's say i have to film three videos a week
well by batching those together and shooting them all on one day i am eliminating the time it takes
to set up the camera get ready and get myself in the right headspace to film i only have to do that
one time instead of three times throughout the week you see what i'm saying so if you can imagine
with all your tasks that you have in a given week the amount of time that you're probably wasting or
spending repeating these processes when you could just lump them together
can be a major time waster i actually have an entire video on this strategy so i will link
it down below if you guys want to check that out hack number five and maybe the most important one
is simply to remember that productivity does not mean getting more things done it means getting
the right things done reflect on your daily task list and the things that you want to accomplish
and ask yourself can anything on that list be automated delegated or better yet eliminated
are you doing the right things that will get you to your goals get you to where you want to go or
are you just kind of aimlessly staying busy and having inefficient meetings and not really making
the best use of your time view every minute of your time as precious not because you need to cram
more things in but because you can cram the right things in and actually feel more relaxed and do
less work and achieve more things quite literally the definition of being more productive so this
will be a major game changer when it comes to your productivity as well as the other tips i hope you
guys found this video insightful and interesting leave me a comment down below and let me know what
strategy works the best for you thank you so much to techsblaze for sponsoring today's video and i
hope you guys check them out that's it for today's video i'll see you guys later love you so much bye