what's up guys thanks for joining me for
a new video in this one i want to share
my personal plan to increase my
productivity in 2021 and beyond
i pride myself as being a pretty
productive person and i think there's a
strong tie between
how productive we are and how efficient
we are like i don't want to be the most
productive person because
i spent the most time working i want to
spend the least amount of time working
ideally
work as smart as possible and be very
productive
in as little time as possible because i
don't think life is about
sitting at a computer all day or doing
whatever it is you do all day
just to generate income i know that
there's a lot more to life
and i think that generating income and
having money
is just a vehicle to free yourself to do
what it is you actually want to do when
you want to do it so
i've broken my plan down into three
major parts and at the end i've got a
challenge that i want to extend to you
so if you're ready let's get started
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talk about productivity tip number one
this is probably the most important one
out of all of them and i think it has
the most data behind
uh why it's something we should all be
striving to do and that is
simply put we need to sleep more now i
am not bad about my sleep i'm good about
sleeping i don't know what it is but
i just need the sleep i don't know if
it's that i'm in tune with my body more
than than other people are because i
know a lot of my friends don't think
they need eight hours of sleep a night
um i don't need to be told by somebody
that i need eight hours though i know i
need it like i i feel it physically and
mentally if i don't get eight hours and
i know eight might seem excessive but
you know i was listening to before i did
this video i listened to
you know i've probably listened to
matthew walker he's like the sleep
doctor
he's been on joe rogan he's been on a
ted talk
very well received i mean you can
already see on youtube alone so just
youtube
over 10 million views and probably
there's a lot of people like me that
have re-listened to his stuff
uh multiple times so this time i went
through and i took notes
and here are just a couple i mean again
i'll put a link in the description to
his interview on joe rogan which is the
most extensive he talks for like two
hours
and this was years ago so i'm sure the
science has only gotten better but
there's some interesting stuff about
what happens when we don't get enough
sleep
and uh like i said i didn't know maybe
all of these data points but i know that
i need my sleep that's one of the things
that i can't sacrifice
but that being said um you know i'm
definitely guilty of maybe getting seven
and a half hours sometimes
and i would like to get all eight hours
but also with a caveat there with an
asterisk i want to get eight hours of
sleep
and i want to wake up a little bit
earlier because i definitely am way more
productive in the morning as i'm sure
pretty much everybody is i think i heard
that like jeff bezos doesn't take
meetings before
lunchtime or something like that just
because he wants to maybe
it was something like that where he
wants to get the most out of his
mornings
so i can definitely relate to that like
i i
my brain's ability to process
information
and um while i'm not doing too much web
development like i was working on that
this morning and yesterday and it's like
one of those things where if i attack it
early in the day
i feel like i can get to the solutions
when i'm working on creative things much
faster so
here's some interesting notes from
matthew walker's ted talk
and his appearance on joe rogan
so sleep reduction will result in lower
productivity and efficiency
and that's just like a way of me saying
it at a high level but if you listen to
him talk he actually gives you the um
actual things that change in your brain
when you don't get enough sleep
it lowers your testosterone it results
in
poor cardiovascular health and i put a
note right here at the bottom that says
in spring daylight savings time where we
lose an hour of sleep the day after
there's a 20 spike in heart attacks
in fall where we get an extra hour of
you could say sleep or time it does
happen in the middle of the night so
it pretty much is sleep in the fall when
we get the extra hour there's a 21
reduction in heart attacks so i mean it
kind of speaks for itself there as far
as cardiovascular health goes
and he cites a bunch of studies like
that too he was citing studies where
a school started their uh their day an
extra like hour and 15 minutes later in
the day
and there was a 70 reduction in car
accidents
and there was a um on average like a
couple
hundred points higher sat scores if the
students had gotten extra sleep i don't
think that was related to like the
school start time but they tested uh
groups of students and the ones that got
an extra hour of sleep or a couple hours
of sleep
had like a hundred point higher sat
scores on average so
uh what else immune system your immune
system suffers so now
we have the health crisis uh you should
be really paying attention to your sleep
right if your immune system's gonna
suffer there are these things called
nk cells i forget what it stands for
it's something like something killer
um like whatever something negative
killer cells i think it might be
something like that
essentially the things that attack the
things that cause cancer
the cells that help fight them you have
a reduction in them
i think he said that if you get like
four hours of sleep and they tested
there was like a 70 reduction in them so
you definitely want those cells in your
body to fight off the
cancer-causing cells i cited increased
food consumption if i remember to stack
correctly it was something like
if you get i don't remember if it was
like four to six hours of sleep but it
was something like
yeah i think it was like six hours of
sleep if you get six hours of sleep you
eat
on average an additional 200 to 300
calories a day and
over the span of a year it and it ended
up summing up to like 70 000 calories
and it tends to be lower quality food or
at least like higher carbohydrates
which is then going to turn into most
likely stick with you and turn into fat
uh and he said 20 hours of being awake
is equivalent to being drunk
so if you stay awake for 20 hours you're
basically drunk you know and it
it manifests physically as well as
mentally so essentially what we're
saying
is we need to get more sleep and of
course there's some tips on the other
end of it you want to aim for
minimum eight hours of sleep he said
okay seven minimum but
eight hours of sleep is really the gold
standard uh normalize your sleep
schedule
turn off the lights earlier so that's
something that i'm good about
i usually turn my lights off at like 10
p.m honestly just to get that
get my body ready to be asleep that way
it's not that hard to convince it to
sleep
you know and i also exercise a lot and i
work myself a lot mentally
when i'm working all day so for me
falling asleep is pretty easy
plus like i get excited about waking up
the next day and you know getting
started so for me i don't know i'm
pretty fortunate in that regard that
like it's easy for me to fall asleep and
it's easy for me to wake up just because
i'm often looking forward to the next
day uh and keep the temperature cool
so he said that um a cooler temperature
at night when you're gonna fall asleep
tends to help you
sleep better and again there's way more
to it guys i'll put a link in the
description if you want to watch it's a
really good watch
all right productivity tip number two
this one i really believe in you need to
level up your technology
level up your computer don't let a slow
computer
slow you down it should be the opposite
you should be slowing the computer down
right if the computer's slowing you down
it it just doesn't make sense to me in
that we're going to be in 20 years going
to be 2021.
the year to have a fast computer to me
was like probably 10 years ago
to invest in a fast computer and uh in
2021 it's like if your computer's
slowing your down slowing you down
and this is this is not my setup by the
way but this is basically very similar
to mine
as far as how i um have my computer
going i mean for me i use smaller
monitors on the side and have a tv above
definitely bigger but anyways like a
fast computer or at least a computer
that
is equal to you as far as your usage
because i know not everybody's a
computer wiz
is something to me that's like a
no-brainer investment if you can afford
it
if you're serious about running an
online business which
i mean come on like even prior to what
happened in 2020
it's like you could see the trend of
online businesses coming
and e-commerce continuing to grow like
that's not anything crazy to say
in 2020 and now it's like okay whether
you were resisting
adoption of e-commerce or not you've
pretty much had to participate
and start buying things online this year
so you know if you're
going to be on the other side of that
which is not just a consumer but also a
seller
and business owner you know don't don't
let your computer
get in the way of of you scaling up your
business and being successful
and in addition to that guys i don't
have the exact statistics on
how much your productivity is increased
when you add a monitor
but when you go from one to two monitors
it's like
a massive game changer at least
everybody that i've ever talked to
including my own experience
and then when you go from two to three
to me at least
it's another massive game changer so and
then i usually use my fourth one above
for like entertainment but if i ever
need to use it um it's there so
i really believe in multiple monitors
and if you haven't tried by the way if
you haven't tried
a i didn't i should have put a slide in
for this
when you use your primary monitor like
the one right in front of you
try out not a 4k monitor
but i believe the resolution is 2560 by
1440. let me google it over here
and try to give you the name of this
resolution so
it's called wqhd and it's called
1440p all right like i promise you
you're gonna like it i can pretty much
guarantee it so it's if you use a 4k
monitor things just get too small and
then when you zoom
it's just i don't i've done 4k i'm not a
fan
um i ended up returning it and the the
wqhd 1440p monitor for me
for my primary monitor has been a game
changer and i've been using it for years
so i
i definitely would recommend it it just
gives you more pixels
more real estate you know more screen
real estate without having to strain
your eyes
productivity tip number three now this
is one that i don't really struggle with
like i'm not that into social media and
i don't have some
burning desire to constantly be like
reading some
news feed about what's going on in other
people's lives so that being said i know
that
especially for younger people there is
kind of a feeling like you have to be
present on social media so i don't
fault you for being on social media but
like try to limit your exposure you know
if your end goal is to start a business
or scale a business or
ultimately if it's just to make money
when you're doing something that's not
getting you closer to that end goal
at least try to be conscious try to be
present and uh
just think about it while you're looking
at instagram looking at facebook or
looking at twitter
think like am i getting any closer to
what's really important to me while i do
this and if not
cut back your usage you know what i mean
i it's not that these are all bad
you know you can learn a lot of
interesting things on these social media
networks but to me i'm saying cut back
your usage
and try to use your time on things
where you can can make quantifiable
progress
so if you're trying to start a business
what's standing between you
and where you want to be and then chip
away at that goal and
you know get get some time back by using
social media less also just wanted to
throw out a quick recommendation i do
use this software
called push bullet i think it costs like
40 a year
and there's no affiliate program or
anything like that but like this
software to me is invaluable because it
lets me manage my phone from
my computer so i never have to actually
be on my phone using my thumbs because
i'm
way quicker with a mouse and a keyboard
than i am with my thumbs
so push bullet is extremely useful for
me
because it also lets me like keep my
finger on the pulse
of what's going on like if i want to
follow sports you know i put on the
bleacher report app on my phone
and i see some notifications or if i
want to follow news and news apps
i can do that with no issues but i don't
have to actually look at my phone so i
really like push bullet for
for that now before i wrap this video i
have a challenge for you
my challenge for you in 2021 is to learn
something new
every single day which is a low bar you
know but what i really mean by that
is to learn something new with intent
what i'm not challenging you to do
is to turn on your tv
and be told what to think about
how to feel about that thing and when to
be thinking about it
you know if you take a step back and
think about when we're a product of our
environment
it can be very easy to just turn on the
tv because it's there
oh cable news and what should i think
about and how should i feel about it's
like
i want you to like have intent and go
find something that's interesting to you
and seek out that knowledge on demand
whether it is on youtube you know i put
a youtube logo up here because
i'm on youtube all the time because i
can go and get information
on demand instantly and there's like
some of the smartest people in the world
out here
just sharing their knowledge for free so
learn something new every day and
hopefully it will become as addictive
as it is to me to you um because i
really think it's you know it's one of
the greatest things about being alive
today is that we have all this like
instantaneous information available to
us on demand
all right and that's pretty much it for
this video guys just a quick reminder i
do
have some courses that have have
essentially outlined
my journey as a e-commerce seller
through various methods over the past
four years if you'd like to check any of
them out
i'll put a link in the description and
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