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so when i wake up in the morning for me it's super important than the first one hour of the day
is really productive because if i have a really productive first hour then it's likely that the
rest of my day will continue like that however if i have a very unproductive day and i get out
of bed late or i hit the snooze button on my alarm clock it's likely that the rest of my day will not
be productive either so i make sure that i leave the house within one hour of getting up and i
make sure i'm at the gym within one hour fifteen minutes of getting up and if i'm feeling tired in
the morning let's say i only got three or four or five hours sleep that night then going to the gym
often puts an end to that because the endorphins in my body that are released wake me up and then
i'm feeling a lot better after that i've got a relatively busy day today a few meetings a couple
of calls a lot of admin stuff to do so i'm gonna head off to the office and i'll see you over there
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so sometimes i go to an office to work and sometimes i come to a coffee shop to work
today i'm working at the office i feel like a coffee shop is better for
more creative tasks like writing scripts or brainstorming ideas and then i come to the
office here for more tasks that take more concentration testing and more intensive
i know it's really hot out here it's about 30 degrees and i can barely see because it's so
sunny i'll probably go for a swim later there's a really nice swimming pool downstairs to cool
off but we'll see how busy i am i've got quite a lot to do today we'll see anyway back to work
foreign so i have tried the nine to five corporate job as soon as i graduated from university
i moved to amsterdam and i worked in finance for a year and it was okay i mean the pay was decent
there was stability it was nice to work in a team with my colleagues but there was just something
missing i wasn't passionate about the job and i found myself just staring at the clock at 2 pm 3
p.m and 4 p.m just waiting for it to hit 5 pm so that i could go home because just typing numbers
into a spreadsheet it wasn't fulfilling it didn't make me happy but now the work that i'm doing
is for myself it's so fulfilling the impact that i'm having with the businesses that i'm running
it's just so rewarding it's difficult to explain the the difference in terms of motivation
and back then i could work eight hours and by the end of the eight hours like i was done but now i
can work 14 hours even 15 hours because i get as much enjoyment from working as i do from say
socializing or doing things that i genuinely love i get the same level of enjoyment from working
and when i was working in amsterdam the nine-to-five job i found myself
working for the weekends i found myself looking for the weekends on monday monday would be the
worst day of the week because i knew that i had to start work and i had five more days of work
until i could take a break and then friday evening particularly was the best day of the week because
i was looking forward to the weekend if you genuinely celebrate friday you need to rethink
your entire [ __ ] game to live your life where you love friday night saturday and sunday and
despise monday through thursday or friday morning is devastating to me because you're wasting too
much of your life i knew at that moment that i needed to do something i needed to change my life
because i just wasn't happy so would i go back to the nine to five corporate job no never i'm just
so happy working for myself i'm living life how i want to live it if i want to work at
a coffee shop today i will work at a coffee shop today if i want to have a day off today
i will have a day off today i don't need to ask anyone for permission anyway it's coming up to
one o'clock quarter to one so i'm getting hungry so i'm gonna go get something to eat
so i've just finished putting together a social media strategy for project helon on instagram
on facebook and on tick tock i'll be posting a lot more frequently in the next few months
and i have been very lazy on instagram and facebook in the last few months the last few
years i haven't been posting anywhere near as much as i should be but today
that is all changing as you can see on my social media i'm starting to post a lot more frequently
so for instagram posts and also for stories i feel like i can be adding so much more value than i am
right now i put a lot of effort into youtube but i don't really put that much effort into
instagram and facebook like i say from today that is all going to change but i'm going to ask you
guys to hold me accountable for this i shall be posting every single day on instagram and facebook
and if at the time that this video is posted and i'm not doing that then i'm gonna look pretty
silly let me know in the comments if i'm not doing it let me know in the comments if i am doing it
and like i say i'll do my absolute best to provide as much value as i can not only on youtube but on
instagram and facebook and do consider following me on those platforms if you aren't already
it's almost 6 30 i'm going to boxing now i started boxing about a year ago and honestly
it's one of the best things i've ever done it's so fun although i'm only boxing about one hour a
day it has had such a massive impact on the rest of my life in terms of it's made me healthier
i eat healthier it gives me purpose when i go to the gym when i go running
i'm actually running because i want to last longer inspiring
without getting tired when i lift weight to the gym it's to have more power when it comes
to sparring i'm not just going to the gym to be healthier but it's now much more than that
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i've just arrived home it's been a really long day but super productive
i did say earlier that i would never have a nine-to-five corporate job again and i do stand
by that i've tried it it wasn't for me there are a lot of benefits to having a nine-to-five job i
mean especially as you're getting older and you have more responsibilities like
kids or a mortgage there are a lot of benefits the nine-to-five job that working for yourself doesn't
have stability you know when your next paycheck is going to come you know how much you're going
to get paid you get days off that you get paid even when you're not working you get weekends off
you get evenings off these are all things that you don't get when you're working for yourself
and for me personally running my own business is the only way where i'm actually happy working
working for someone else is for me just not an option and early on in the video i was boxing
and if you are interested in boxing or if you're on the fence in terms of deciding whether you want
to start or not i made a video on seven reasons why you should start and how boxing actually
transformed my life because it really did it was one of the best things that i've ever done
you can click on the video on the screen and i'll see you over there
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