a university it wasn't until i implemented a system of powerful daily and weekly habits
into my daily routine that my studying started to become a lot easier to the point where i didn't
even have to think about studying i just did it similar to how i brush my teeth in the morning
i don't have to think about it or i don't have to decide whether or not i will brush my teeth i just
do it and so by implementing habits around the things that you maybe don't necessarily want to
do but you know you have to do can significantly increase your productivity and just improve
your life in general because now you're doing these difficult tasks that you don't want to do
without even thinking about it so here are seven performance habits that i implement into my life
at least once a week and i think everyone should at least consider implementing these into your
lives too plan the week so this is something that i started doing only a few months ago but in terms
of how long it takes me to plan my week like 15 minutes a week it's maybe the most efficient 15
minutes i spend each week and as benjamin franklin once said if you fail to plan you are planning
to fail so planning the week helps me massively with prioritization so i make sure that the most
important tasks are prioritized first so those tasks are things like this video for example
one of my most important tasks of the week is to film at least two videos exactly like this one but
it also helps me prioritize my free time too if i don't plan my week then i end up just working
and working and not being able to fit other things such as networking socializing health going to the
gym that kind of thing there are four pillars to living a good life at least in my opinion
these are wealth health love and happiness so if you take care of health and wealth and love
then happiness will take care of itself and so planning my week ensures that i spend enough time
allocated for each pillar take yourself on a date so this is slightly cheesy but i really
feel strongly about it whether you're single in a relationship married you need to spend time for
yourself because one of the best ways of looking after yourself especially if you're stressed from
your studying or from your work is to plan a date night alone and there are multiple reasons why
i'm recommending this so firstly it's important that you learn how to spend time with yourself
and get to know yourself better as some of you who have seen some of my previous videos you know that
i spent a lot of 2013 to 2015 backpacking around southeast asia and i traveled alone most of the
time but it made me so much more independent and comfortable with just spending time with myself
and not having to rely on other people i could go to restaurants alone and not feel self-conscious
going to the cinema alone i'd do a lot of things alone and i learned how to not rely on other
people to make myself happy i could be happy just being by myself i could solve problems by myself
i could support myself financially emotionally physically i didn't need to lean on anyone else
and i was maybe for the first time in my life finally comfortable in my own skin review your
week's productivity this is really important and maybe the most important weekly habit that i have
so it's relatively easy to stay productive over a short period say one week two weeks a month maybe
but it's much harder to keep a high level of productivity over a period of months
or even years and that's why it's important to keep track of your progress so if you do start
to slip up or you do start to become slightly less motivated then you can catch it straight
away and start working on fixing it before it becomes a bigger problem and this happens to all
of us it's completely normal for our productivity to increase and decrease over a period of a year
but we're going to have productive weeks and unproductive weeks so for example
last week was a relatively unproductive week for me in comparison to how productive i normally am
and the reason for that was because in vietnam there has been another surge of covered cases and
so last week the government closed all the gyms to try to contain the spread of the virus and that
messed up my routine a bit because i'm so used to waking up in the morning and going straight to the
gym exercising keeps me productive and without going to the gym my productivity took a hit but
because i review my productivity at the end of every week i caught my productivity dropping
early on and so i took actionable steps to stop it from getting too bad and so now instead of
going to the gym in the morning i do a bodyweight workout at home just to get some exercise into my
daily routine and that's one example from my life where reviewing my productivity each week
has helped me stay on track social media detox so about three weeks ago i took my first ever social
media detox i've had so many people recommend me to come off social media for a week or so and i've
seen so many youtube videos recommending it and i've listened to so many podcasts explaining the
benefits of a detox but i've never actually done one before until about three weeks ago and the
main reason why i'd never done one was because for the businesses that i have i kind of need
to be on social media i contact my team on social media that's how we communicate a lot of the time
but anyway a few weeks ago i took four days completely off social media and honestly it was
place it was just so nice to feel reconnected with the real world again and not having to respond to
messages dozens of times a day on my phone it's kind of difficult to explain but i just felt like
i was living in the present and i was more aware and present with the people physically around me
so it's something that i'm going to keep practicing a lot more in the future at least
a couple of times a month improve something in your life so as you might have probably guessed
from just the general videos i make on this channel i'm a massive advocate of improving
every day and just generally striving to become a better person in all areas of my life and if we do
if we do actively implement a growth mindset we'll be happier we'll be healthier we'll be better sons
better daughters better parents better siblings better employees and will just make the world
just that tiny bit better and there are a few things that i'm actively working on to improve
myself one of them being to learn vietnamese i've been in vietnam now since january 2020
but i've been traveling back and forth since 2013 but i still can't speak conversational vietnamese
so that's something that i'm working on every day but obviously it's different for everyone
so for you it might be to make sure you're getting eight hours of sleep a night maybe you need to
increase the number of hours you're studying or maybe you need to decrease the number of
hours you're studying maybe you're studying too much and neglecting other areas of your life
it doesn't have to be about making massive changes every day instead it's about working
on something that means a lot to you that will have a big impact on your life and just making
incremental improvements consistently every single day meditate for 30 minutes
i started meditating back in 2018 when i was living in amsterdam but it's something that i
wish i knew about while i was at university it has helped me to keep calming stressful situations and
empowered me into realizing that i can control my mind similar to weightlifting at the gym the more
you bring your mind to focus with meditation the stronger your mind becomes it's like realizing you
have a super powerful mind and it just needs to be trained and guided to utilize its full potential
so i started with 10 minutes every morning and slowly worked up to 30 minutes every morning
because there are so many benefits to our mind and body like stress and anxiety management
emotional well-being improved focus and it can also help you sleep better clarify your purpose
why are you working so hard at what you do what is your intention behind it i think these are really
important questions to ask on a weekly basis so my purpose is to help as many of you guys as possible
in terms of pulling you out of depression becoming significantly more productive living a healthier
and more purposeful life because i know what it's like to live an incredibly unfulfilling life and
just generally being very unhappy i talk about it in depth in the video i made a couple of months
ago called how i turned a 1.3 gpa into a 4.0 gpa you can click on the pop-up banner to watch it
but i know how it feels to be super depressed depression is a really dark illness and so
that's why i'm working so hard to impact as many of you as possible but at the same time
i'm a firm believer of looking after myself first so in order to serve you guys in order to impact
as many of you as possible i need to make sure that my own physical health is in check that my
own mental health is in check that my own social life is in check that my own happiness is in check
because then i can serve you far better if i'm depressed myself then the message that
i'm communicating on this youtube channel and the other platforms just won't be as effective
and my productivity would also take a hit and as i mentioned earlier there are four pillars to living
a good life health wealth love and happiness and sometimes it's really easy to become too focused
on just one pillar and neglect the others and for me i love what i do i love working maybe
i love working a bit too much so it's quite easy for me to spend too much time working
and neglect things like socializing and networking in my fitness so a weekly routine helps me clarify
my purpose and make sure that i'm on the right track and spending my 24 hours that i have each
day as efficiently and as effective as possible and if you are struggling to stay on track with
sticking to your habits and monitoring them there are various apps that you can use that
make it a whole lot easier i made a video on the five best productivity apps that i use in 2021
that helped keep me on track and help keep me productive and i also made a video on seven
daily habits of high performance students it's one of the most successful videos on
this channel you can click on the video on the screen to watch those and i'll see you over there