Tripp Kramer here from www.trippadvice.com.
I'm very excited about today's video.
We're talking about the 5 habits that are going to guarantee you're going to have a
more productive life.
Some of the things that we're talking about is going to be geared towards things you're
going to be doing in your daily life.
Certain habits that you're going to start picking up on that are going to help you.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, whether you work for another company.
Whatever it is that you're doing, all this is going to help you.
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Now let's get into 5 killer habits that help with productivity.
Here's the first one.
The first one and this is huge.
I just started using this in the past year.
I really wish this is something that I did a long time ago and it was something that
I really pushed off.
It was something that I said no to for a while and finally I just gave into it.
It's the idea of batching tasks.
Batching tasks.
It's very different for people.
This is not necessarily going to be easy for you if you are working for another company
because sometimes you need to do things for other companies that you need to do.
But it definitely works in my life as an entrepreneur and it can still work in your life, even if
you're not an entrepreneur because maybe you can batch tasks with other things beyond just
work.
Batching tasks means that you're going to do the same tasks and you're going to do that
for the whole day.
I'll give you an example.
Today is video day.
That's right.
So today I'm working on everything Tripp Advice videos.
I film multiple videos, I edit videos, I do a live today (even though this is coming on
the whole different day) but I do all my video work on one day.
Another day I do all my podcast work.
I interview different people.
I do my own podcasts where I just talk and give advice.
I have another other day that is focused on errands, so all running errands.
It's just going to be working on all the personal stuff in my life.
So any appointments that I have to make or a haircut that I want to go to or dropping
off dry cleaning or going grocery shopping.
That's all batched in one day too and so on and so forth.
I think you get the idea of batching tasks.
And maybe you can do that at work if you're not an entrepreneur.
Maybe there's things that you do at work that you can do and get done in one day.
I can't tell you how much stress it has taken away from my life.
It really has made it simple where you can throw away to-do lists.
To-do lists, I've also heard and now I totally understand, are one of the worst things that
you could do.
In fact, that's actually one of the biggest productivity tips that you'll see but it's
actually the worst.
The to-do list is the opposite.
It's multitasking in the sense where you have all these different things to do.
Every day you're like what do I do?
What do I do?
Where now in my life at least.
I know what I'm doing every single day because every day has a theme to it so I know exactly
what's going on.
I'm like oh what do I have to do today?
Well I know.
Anything I might have to do that comes up I'm like a video thing came up, a podcasting
thing came up, a writing thing came up, an errand came up.
When should I do it?
I know when I'm going to do it because I already have the schedule of batching so it just goes
in there and it leaves me more productive and less stressed.
There's much more I can say about that but I think you get the idea.
Batching tasks is huge.
See what you can do with your life.
Just write down on a list everything that is your life and try to batch it.
Of course there's a few things you don't batch.
You're not going to batch working out.
You're not going to batch eating healthy necessarily.
Maybe you have a cheat day where you're like ok, and that's kind of batching in a sense.
But there's a few exceptions because you want to work out most days of the week.
You want to be eating healthy all the time.
Maybe you want to be doing dishes all the time.
You're not going to be, but you can do mini batching.
You can make sure that you do all your workouts at a certain time and all your dishwashing
at a certain time so you're doing it within the batching itself or within the day I should
say itself.
Alright, let's move on to the next one.
Keep your phone away.
This is really a habit that is so huge right now.
We live in a world of distractions.
The job is to what?
To try to get rid of the distraction because distraction is the antithesis to productivity,
meaning it murders productivity.
You do not want your phone around you all the time and I'm gonna give you some specific
habits to do here.
If you can help it and this is one of the hardest things and I'm guilty.
I don't always do this.
This is something I'm still working on but I know when I do it, it's awesome because
I don't look at my phone right in the morning.
I don't have my phone right in the morning.
Sometimes I have to because I have coaching clients and I want to respond to them and
I want to talk to them and help them but I make sure if any other text messages are there
I just ignore it, like personal ones and leave it later.
But try your best not to look at your phone in the morning if you can help it.
A lot of people will go and start writing emails and checking things and looking at
social notifications and it doesn't get yourself in a good mindset for the rest of the day
and can kill productivity because now you're in all these different mindsets and you're
looking at your phone and thinking about different things and you can't get back into your routine
and schedule.
It completely kills the routine and kills your schedule or at least is a high chance
of doing it.
Do your best not to look at your phone right in the morning and save it for a time.
Give yourself one hour, two hours everything can wait.
The world isn't going to die, you can wait a couple hours to look at your phone.
You can just wake up and be mentally fresh, so to speak.
Along with this habit and this is something that I absolutely do.
I fail sometimes but I do it as much as much as I can.
I keep my phone away from me when I'm doing work.
Okay when I'm doing work.
I make sure that if I'm doing any kind of focused work (kind of like right now, my phone's
not here, obviously I won't check it) but it's away from me and I keep it away when
I'm doing tasks so I can keep focused.
When your phone's there, even if it's on silent, you're going to check it and it's going to
get you into another headspace.
This happens to me all the time where I will be doing some focused work and I'll check
my phone and all of a sudden I'm looking at an email and it gets me into this whole path
where I'm doing all these things and all of a sudden it's been 20-30 minutes and I've
completely disregarded the previous task that I needed to do, hence killing productivity.
So keep your phone away as much as you can when you're doing focused work.
Here's another habit that is similar to what I said earlier, when we were talking about
not looking at your phone in the morning, is the idea of having a relaxed morning.
Some people are really creative in the morning and their creative juices are flowing.
That's great.
I still think you should give yourself at the very minimum (even if you're a creative
person and do creative work in the morning) give yourself an hour.
Give yourself even the worst 30 minutes to just relax.
I give myself big mornings.
I don't start coaching calls.
I don't start creative work.
I don't start any meetings or any interviews until later on in the day.
I like my mornings to be relaxed.
I like to just wake up and I'll do another video about morning routines.
I like to wake up and relax.
What you can do, this is not what I do but I know people do it a lot.
They wake up, they do a stretch, they do yoga, they do meditation.
What I like to do is just wake up, get a glass of water.
I just breathe a little bit.
I think a little bit about what I have to do that day.
I also read so I like to read a little bit, get my brain going and just read.
I don't mean reading like emails but read a book and sit down.
I like personally I like actual books.
I don't have a Kindle.
I just like holding a book and reading it.
I like to have a nice quiet morning.
My morning stretches for about two hours, sometimes two and a half.
Also in there eating breakfast.
I recommend you do this too.
It just gets you ready for the day instead of jumping in and making everything crazy.
Just calm, relaxed.
You know if you're batching tasks or you have a good routine or a good schedule that everything
can wait and everything's going to get done.
It's just nice.
It's nice to go to bed relax and wake up relaxed and not have to deal with anything.
Unless it's an emergency, which is rare.
Next let's talk about focused work.
Remember what I said earlier about phone away during focused work?
Well there's something called the Pomodoro method.
I wonder if you've heard of it.
It's been around for a while and basically it's about focused work.
It's about putting yourself in an enclosed room like this in my studio.
This is where I do a lot of my work.
And make sure that there's no distractions and you have a timer going.
I like to use my computer because my phones away and I work on my computer quite a bit.
I'll have my computer open.
I'll go to Google.
I'll type in timer, 25 minutes or timer 30 minutes.
You can do anywhere from 20 to 30 to 45 minutes.
I don't remember exactly.
I think it's recommended that maybe you don't go past 45 minutes so you can take a little
bit of a break.
Because the idea is you're doing hardcore focused work for 20 to 45 minutes with a timer.
No distractions, no phone, no nothing.
And by the way, this is going to be hard at first but it's a muscle that you that you
build up over time and get used to as you create the habit of whatever work you're doing.
Whether it's at home, whether it's at your office, whatever it is.
Focusing on that work and only focusing on that until that timer goes off.
When the timer goes off, get up, stretch.
That's the time when maybe I will look at my phone because I've already done some work.
I can look at my phone, see what's going on.
Text some clients, things like that.
Get some water, get a little bit of food.
It's like you earned that break.
Take a nice break, take a break of up to 20 minutes which is a nice long time.
Do whatever you want, just mess around, hang out, whatever.
Because you accomplished that 45 minute amount of work or 20 minute amount of work where
you'd be surprised how much you can get done with focused work.
It's insane.
It's crazy.
You should really try this out.
So again Pomodoro method, focused work for an amount of time with no distractions and
just focused on that.
Build that habit up and you'll be good.
I know this is tough because notifications are coming in.
Do everything you can with your computer, with your phone to stop notifications so it
doesn't interrupt your time.
Lastly, and this is something I remember hearing this a few years ago at this point and this
is huge too.
It's not going to be crucial if you're doing batch tasks, but it still helps.
I'll tell you what it is.
Basically it's about planning your day the night before.
When you're all done with your work, like right when you're done before you're gonna
go and make dinner and chill for the night and relax and hang out, whatever.
You got to have a little bit of a time to figure out what it is going on the next day.
Just to have an idea so when you wake up, you're not like what's going on.
If you're doing batch tasks and you have a routine, you don't need this as much because
you know like tomorrow I'm doing this and tomorrow I'm doing that.
You already know what you're doing but it doesn't hurt and especially to start before
doing batch tasks.
It's like a stepping stone to it.
It's like make a little to do list and just figure out what is going on tomorrow.
What do you have to do tomorrow?
What's the most important things that have to get done tomorrow?
That way you can go in the rest of the night and just relax and have the next morning being
relaxed and knowing exactly what you have to do.
I highly recommend that you do the batch tasks so this is not as crucial but I still think
it's good to do so you're just aware of what's happening the next day and nothing surprises
you.
And basically everything I'm saying, including this tip right now is to help you be more
productive by taking away overwhelm.
One of the reasons why people are not as productive is because they feel like they have so much
to do and they get overwhelmed and there's so much distraction that they can't get much
done or they get the very bare minimum done and can't be more productive and get more
things done in their life.
I'm trying to take the overwhelm away from you.
I recommend that you try one of these this week and then move to the next one.
Don't overwhelm yourself.
There's a lot here.
All you need to do is pick one and work on the habit and see if you can start building
it up.
If I had to say one (I'm looking at my list right here) I would say the first one to work
on would be batching tasks because it's going to right away increase your productivity.
And I'm going to tie that with quiet relaxed mornings because that one is easy to do.
It's easier to implement right away.
If you want to go the harder one that has the most effect, I would try that batch tasks.
If you're not ready to jump in right there right away at least do quiet mornings to help
you be more productive during the day because you can start off really relaxed.
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Hope this helps.
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Let me know which one you're going to start doing and I'll see you on the next video.