Minimalism and minimalist living. Simplicity. The key to getting things done is by keeping things as simple and minimal / minimalist as
possible two keys that I try to live by in my life is less is more and reduce
stress David Jaffee with BestStockStrategy.com in this video I'm going to
teach you how to be more productive now this is not going to be some type of
magic potion that you can just watch and then instantly you're going to be able
to click your fingers and be able to be more productive instead I'm going to
plant the seeds and then you are going have to implement what you learn here in
order to facilitate and grow positive habits I can tell you that under no
uncertain terms the key to being more productive is to say no to more things
and to keep things as simple as possible I remember last week I was thinking
whether or not I should start webinars and create a webinar and drive traffic
to it either through organic or paid traffic and I was just thinking that
even if I can make an extra few hundred thousand dollars a year I just don't
want to deal with the hassle I just don't want to deal with the stress I
don't want to deal with the extra emails that I receive I just don't want to do
it I wasn't passionate about it and I'm completely okay with foregoing that
incremental revenue and realizing that my health and the reduction of stress is
more important to me than the incremental revenue now you might not be
thinking that way you might think that I'm crazy for forgoing the incremental
few hundred thousand dollars in order to save my sanity but I can tell you that
from my experience when I worked as an investment banker in my early 20s that
sacrificing and trading your mental health for money is something that over
the long term is always going to be a losing proposition because whereas you
might be able to make money you will never be able to buy back that time and
you will also never be able to buy back the extra health or you'll never be able
to undo the spiking cortisol levels in the extra
stress that you incurred in order to make that extra money as a result I am
in a position where I will always try to reduce stress and at the same time
believe that less is more as a result I'm going to try to do (minimalism) the minimum
amount that is going to yield the most effective results in everything that I
do I can tell you that the biggest hurdle to my productivity is actually my
family so I work from home and my wife works from home as well and sometimes my
wife will message me or she'll stop into the room and sure ask me a simple
request but what she doesn't understand is that this simple request is going to
throw off my ability to engage in deep thought and get things done for the next
15 or 20 minutes so if she asks me to find her charger and bring it to her if
I'm working on something then I have to stop and interrupt what I'm doing bring
her the charger and then I have to go back to what I'm doing and try to regain
that focus if my son comes in and wants to play with me then he will also
interrupt me and inhibit me from actually getting things done this is why
the lighting on this video is a little bit messed up because I was unable to
record earlier today and as a result I'm recording right now at 11 p.m. I'm
actually wearing a blazer in order to look good but at the same time I'm
wearing sweat pants underneath which you can see only because I want to give a
positive appearance but I also recognize that it's 11 p.m. and I want to go to
bed soon but remember in fitting with everything that I'm saying wear less is
more and reduce stress I can wear this blazer and not put on the pants and at
the same time reduce my stress by getting things done before going to bed
now how can this practically help you be more productive you will have to say no
to more people I receive multiple emails every single week from people who say
hey do you want to meet up no I don't me up with you I don't know you and I
have no desire to meet up with you and to engage in some and to turn this
online relationship into an offline relationship it's just not something
that is appealing to me in any way why because it is inherently one-sided I'm
going to meet with you you are going to pepper me with questions about options
trading and you are taking from their relationship but you are not being of
service I receive a lot of emails from people saying oh your thumbnail suck or
your videos can be can they can be edited better okay that's great but why
don't you actually be up service and send me a sample of something that you
can do better and that way I can have something to review and then I will send
you feedback on it so again in order to be more productive you have to say no to
people who are time wasters additionally you have to spend less time on social
media and you have to be more productive and more tight in the information that
you consume I try to create more information than I actually consume I
don't read articles and I also spend very little time on social media I don't
go shopping I don't spend money I don't really do that many things that a lot of
people would I believe our time wasting activities like I don't like I said I
don't go shopping I don't buy things online
I don't grow grocery shopping yeah I do spend a lot of time with my family but
at the same time even though this does inhibit my response my productivity I
feel that this is kind of paying things forward where I'm investing something
I'm investing time with my son and with my wife now in order to live a better
life in the future but remember the biggest takeaway from this video is that
less is more and you should try to reduce your stress you don't always have
to push yourself to the enth degree to try to milk every single cent that you
can to generate the maximum amount of money possible remember your health is
probably one of the most important things that you have in your life and
try to minimize the amount of stress that you endure and also try to
do more with less so if you travel take less things with you pack less things
instead of potentially going to the gym five days a week try to go three days a
week just try to free yourself of responsibilities if you have a
newsletter that you subscribe to and you try to read every single day but it's
not really being a value to you then try to instead of reading it every single
day read it three times a week and then one time a week and then stop reading it
at all so David Jaffee with BestStockStrategy.com I hope that these tips are
going to help you bring about and precipitate some change where you're
going to be a little bit more selective in the things that you say yes to and as
a result you'll be more productive in your daily activities if you have any
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