Tech later welcome back to coffee time
now today I wanted to give you some of
my top 7 productivity hacks to make you
more effective in both your personal and
professional life and this is coming
from somebody myself I'm an ex-googler
Khalid and I've been very effective in
my professional life my personal life
it's up for debate but I'm just really
into min/max in optimizing my daily life
and have some tips to share with you not
my first realization and you may have
already know this is that I'm currently
at my parents place and I used to get a
lot of my work done over at my apartment
and when I moved over here I realized
that I was far more effective over there
and then my productivity coming here
took a huge hit and so I tried to
analyze why was there such a huge dip in
my productivity and I came to the
realization that there are two primary
factors at play here I spend 99% of my
time at the desk and I realized that
having a really good nice big monitor
actually makes me way more productive
I'm just able to see more you know when
you're playing those video games and
then somebody has some big monitor their
field of view is wider
they have strategic advantage well a
bigger monitor is kind of like that and
so here what I have and Bank you was
nice enough to send me one is the bank
uew 32 ad use so this is one of those
brand new monitors of 4k it's actually
higher resolution than the other one I
have at my apartment and for me
especially with the amount of
multitasking and that I do and the
things I have on my screen all at once
having an external larger monitor like
this I found has just made me way more
productive now you may be wondering
about the specific monitor which is one
of the newest monitors from thank you it
is a 32 inch 4k Ultra HD display
reasonably priced actually about a
hundred bucks with the large 32 inch
real estate it's made me more productive
so I have some links for you if you want
to check them out now the other
realization I had was that internet
speed really matters here it's talk slow
like 25 megabits per second whereas over
at my apartment I was getting speeds of
100 or higher and that really matters
when you're doing a research online
learning new code checking up
documentation family.they new frameworks
researching articles and so that's one
recommendation I have for you to look
into as well as if you have internet
consider upgrading it kind of like a
bigger monitor it's a performance boost
on everything that you do now the second
tip I have here is to live with your
parents I know what you're thinking this
must be crazy and everybody's going to
laugh at you but
if you want to be productive then you
need to get rid of any of the tedious
and menial tasks that are invading your
lifestyle if you think about it rich and
successful people you take a look at
Bill Gates Elon Musk do you think that
they are doing their own laundry cooking
cleaning the bathroom scrubbing the
tiles do you think they're going to the
post office to mail packages pick up
stamps fix a leaking faucet repair a car
a lot of these tasks are things that
your parents may do for you think about
that when you were a kid you had nothing
to do except just worry about studying
and having fun and you didn't have to
take care of anything else well when
you're too eager to grow up and become
an adult you start taking on all these
tasks and burdens that really just waste
your time you may go through an entire
day and all of your productivity will be
sapped by random miscellaneous tasks
that normally another person like your
parent would be taking care of for you
but now since you've decided to become
all independent and live by yourself you
have to be the one paying the internet
utility bills taking out the garbage
taking your car in for an oil and change
clicking washing dishes a lot of these
things your parents would do and this is
where your unfair advantage comes in
because your parents are essentially
like a virtual assistant or better than
that they're your personal physical
assistant which has a lot of value I
mean these are luxuries that normally
most people aren't able to get until
they're very rich so if you have these
resources at your disposal personal
assistance which are one of the top
productivity tools that you can get but
are extremely expensive but if your
parents are willing to help you out on
that then you might want to consider
dropping the ego and getting yourself
ahead all right moving on the third tip
this one's a little bit more practical
and it has to do with using voice
commands one of the favorite things I
like to do if I'm using an iPhone is I
will use the remind feature so I can say
remind me to buy some milk and Siri will
recognize that and then it just adds
that on to my to-do list so I go
throughout the day and I just use this I
remind myself to do all sorts of things
there's also voice commands for Android
phones or you can use Amazon Alexa or
Google home Mini for me though I have
this to-do list and anything that goes
on here gets done which makes the voice
command feature a very powerful feature
throughout my day
okay so let's switch things up a bit
productivity number four is more of a
mindset pack and this has to do with
minimalizing your lifestyle search now
imagine if you were to wake up and you
just have nothing
to take care of you don't have a car you
need to repair you don't have clothes
that you have to pick out and choose you
don't have friends that you have to
worry about entertaining if you
minimalize your lifestyle and just get
rid of all these random things and
hobbies and interests and people and
concerns then you may find that one day
you'll be able to wake up like me and
there's just nothing in your life except
to just focus on the work at hand and
that just makes you incredibly
productive because you just get rid of
all the other useless random stuff in
your life these are just complete waste
of time so my recommendation is each day
you take a look at one of the things
that are wasting your time
maybe it's an interest a hobby a website
that you're visiting some app that
you're using and just cut that out
and try to remove all the random stuff
that is not adding value to your life I
absolutely love this quote that the
things you own end up owning you but I
think that also applies to hobbies
interests anything else that uses up
your time that you put your attention
into that ends up stealing your
attention as well so when you think
about it when you wake up on a Sunday
morning you don't have work well why is
it that the whole day is not devoted to
some side hustle you may be going to a
three-hour breakfast get-together with
people that don't really add much to
your life you could be going rock
climbing or bow during these activities
take half an afternoon and then you
spend the rest of the afternoon watching
TV thinking that this is how you relax
from all the exhaustion that you had and
you just end up losing the whole day so
the key here is to minimize not just
your stuff not just those material items
but the people around you your interest
your hobbies all the other things that
are sapping your attention and time and
personally for me I have found that
having an overabundance of time really
helps so why is this important well
usually maybe you have your normal day
job and then you may have a little bit
of extra time but that time in the sense
is already pre allocated towards like
say resting gaming having your coffee
time going to the gym reading a book or
watching your dog maybe going to the
beach and so you need to still budget
time to have all of these other
relaxation time and entertainment and
then on top of that that is where your
actual site hustle begins so that is why
I think it is so difficult for people to
actually work on site hustles because
you need like a 2x margin on the amount
of additional time that you have because
if you only have one X buffer you're
at the additional buffer of time that
you have created but what you want is on
top of that after you've done all of
that you still have some additional time
left over that is where you will have
the time to start those new projects and
side hustles and ideas that have been
brewing in your head now my fifth tip
here has to do with social media because
let's face it we live in an age where we
are checking our phones throughout the
day multiple times hundreds of times
even we are visiting websites and
revisiting them over and over and all of
this is just taking up so much time you
know this time could be spent reading a
book for example or maybe thinking about
your next business idea but instead
you're doing this all the time
and so what I do is I organize my
bookmarks and apps on my phone into this
category like check once a day in the
morning and that's the only time I check
it and then throughout the rest of the
day I just won't check all these new
sites over and over again one day 10 or
20 years from now future generations
will look back on those and recognize
that we had this disease known as social
media addiction kind of like how people
look back on the opium crisis and
realized that people were just on the
opium and drugs throughout their lives
oftentimes actually what I would do is
I'll just wake up and then I'm going to
get to work and I'm going to work for
like two three hours and then at the end
of that once I know I've gotten my work
and then then maybe I'll spend some time
checking my social media but with that
type of routine I know I would have
locked in at least a good two to three
hours of solid work now my sixth act is
for you programmers out there but also
for people who don't know programming
you might want to look into regular
expressions so regular expressions is
this powerful syntactical language in
which you can do search and replace
based on patterns and this turns out to
be extremely useful for processing data
in my opinion knowing had to use regular
expressions we just make you so much
more effective when you're dealing with
data websites looking for stuff so for
example if you have a website with a
bunch of information like banking
records you want to format a certain way
such that it looks nicer for some
presentation some report where regular
expressions can do that for you you can
also do a search and replace as well you
can format code you can format as for
email addresses separate other user
lists based on first name and last name
identify which is which I just use these
all the time and in my opinion they're
one of the secret weapons I use that
make me more effective so if you're
wondering specifically how to get
started here you can use a text editor
like sublime text visual studio code and
with an
like that you can also do sorting which
just gives you a lot of power in terms
of processing information and data that
you come across
usually on a day to day basis really and
then my seventh productivity hack is
given that tasks just get started on it
you don't have to complete it you don't
have to finish it maybe just begin with
a little bit of initial research and
tell yourself that all you're doing is
taking that one first little step you're
just gonna take a look and you may find
that as soon as you start a task you
kind of break down these barriers and
you just get more into it over time I
might just start with a Google search or
send out an email or two for more
information maybe make a phone call or
an appointment for that and then that
just really gets the ball rolling and
pretty soon over time I find oh yeah
this whole thing it may be quite easy to
do
now one more bonus performance tip I
have for you which I learned over at
Google was that they like to measure
everything and then do these Sprint's so
instead of setting some vague ambiguous
go for like a whole year and there's
nothing to measure like generally try to
lose some weight well what you would do
is you would say set a go for three
months and then make a sprint for that
and you would make the go very specific
like lose ten pounds in three months
and that made this so you could check
your progress against that you know as
they say you only improve what you can
measure alright so there you have it but
let me know what your top productivity
hacks are I'd love to hear those and if
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