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Welcome. It's
11 p.m. on Sunday and
I've been working for 12. How long has it been?
13 hours.
So
slightly delirious, but we do a livestream every day over here.
So it's happening no matter what because a hundred percent is easier than ninety-nine percent, and it's so true.
I recommend if you want to do something.
Don't give yourself any leeway and just do it a hundred percent.
Then you don't have to make the decision as to whether or not you're gonna do it. You're just doing it. There's no discussion.
There's no mental chatter and there's no
debate happening.
So. Wow, yeah, I'm really tired. Sorry about this guys. Hi everyone who's hanging out today. I was like having a bad hair day. But
today, um.
We're just gonna do a quick
livestream.
I've been I'm at my friend's house because I haven't even had time to move into my new apartment yet. I
was supposed to move two days ago a maybe tomorrow. It hasn't been a priority yet
But anyway, my friend who is a digital nomad computer programmer,
he has lots of cool books around his house and I've been reading this book tools of titans every day and
if you've watched the 4-hour workweek or watched, read the 4-hour work week,
in 2007. But being back with Mr. Tim Cirrus reminds me of why he's so popular because he's just
got it going on. He just really knows how to
get points across I think he's a good writer and
he is just
like OCD in a good way. I mean the man made this book of all of this amazing advice.
Like he's just such an overachiever. Anyway, we'll talk about Tim Ferriss another day.
But what I wanted to bring up, because this book if you haven't read it yet its tools of titans
it's called The Tactics Routines and Habits of Billionaires, Icons and World-class Performers. And
you can just open this book to any page which I have marked with various
wework
postcards.
I have like five pages marked right now, but it's a collection of like one to four page
kind of mini
articles with top advice from top
performers and then sprinkled with in there are these little essays that Tim writes on all sorts of things like travel and freedom in
the real world MBA. And it's broken into three sections health, wealth and wisdom.
So I've heard about this book for a long time, but I never bought it.
But now that I've started reading it, I
might just buy it.
Nothing
like have it on an e-book or Kindle and just bring it with me because you can just open it to any page and
instead of scrolling Instagram for five minutes you can
just read three pages of this book and call it a day. So I wanted to highlight one of the,
one of the topics here that I put in the title on the
80,000 Working Hours. The 80,000 Hours that each of us spend working in our in our lives,
which is a lot of time and I want to talk about that because I did a livestream a week or so ago.
About how much time you can save by working remotely and not having to commute to a bullshit job.
And this guy Will McCaskill is a
badass.
He's
29 years old and
probably the youngest tenured professor of philosophy in the world.
I don't know if you guys have heard of him, but he's the guy who gives away all of his salary over
$36,000 a year.
Because
there's conflicting
research opinions I guess. But there's science that says over
I think seventy thousand dollars a year, eighty thousand dollars a year,
your utility of more money goes down. The more money you have, you don't get like
the same marginal benefit and
so I
guess in his case, he's decided or he has research showing that anything over
$36,000 a year doesn't enhance your quality of life or your happiness
much more than than it would if you had like three hundred thousand dollars a year or whatever.
So even though he makes a lot of money he gives all of his money away.
So I'm saying that because we should listen to his advice.
Because he's really a special person I think.
And there are a couple things in these two pages that I've really they really, really resonate with me.
One is follow. Your passion is terrible advice?
Which I agree with
because I believe Cal Newport talks about this a lot in his work and his books that just
being passionate about your job isn't enough.
Like it doesn't
necessarily matter like you can get more satisfaction over being good at something and making a living at it. And
I don't know if I'm butchering that but that's basically the essence of it. And what Will is saying here is that,
people misconstrue
satisfying careers and satisfying jobs. But the biggest predictor of job satisfaction is mentally engaging work
which is a parallel to what Cal Newport writes about as well. So whenever I'm help people with their digital Nomad jobs,
your skill set and your abilities are a factor, but they're more of a factor than your passion is because
well, you should not hate your job. Like there's a limit to like how much you should not dislike it. But
you shouldn't just
quit one job to follow your passion because that's not
necessarily going to work out the right way.
So, but anyway, that's an aside to what I really wanted to talk about, which was to emphasize
that you have 80,000 Working Hours in the course of your life. And then it's really important that you
know how to spend them even if you're not spending them. And
even if you're not in a job that you're in love with that you still are gonna be working
approximately that many hours and so basically what they are saying here is to
just be more intentional with how you're going to spend those hours. So they give the example of
like when you're,
when you are in
college for example and
you might be thinking about
how to do your homework well or how to do your coursework well.
But you're not really thinking about what are your optimal goals in life and how to
optimize them and we talk about that a lot on my channel like the goal studying and how you're spending your time.
And if you're being intentional with your life, and so the analogy that they use here is if you're going out to dinner,
it's gonna take you a couple hours to go out and eat dinner.
You're gonna spend a few minutes
deciding where you're gonna go eat dinner. Now maybe if you're in a relationship,
who ever spent more than five minutes deciding where to eat?
Anyway, but if he did that with your career,
you would spend four thousand hours or two working years out of 80 Thousand Hours
thinking about how you're going to spend that time at your job. And he says I think that's a pretty legitimate thing to do,
spending that length of time trying to work out how you should be spending the rest of your life. And I
thought this was appropriate for today for you guys to think about because sunday is a really good day,
to think, to reflect on your week and think about what you want to do the upcoming week. And
try to find
some like
intentionally, try to find some time where you're going to do something that you enjoy doing
or working on a side project or just
relaxing, you know, like maybe you want to schedule in a Netflix binge.
Or maybe you want to schedule in a workout or a massage or time with friends or
learning something or practicing a skill or whatever that is.
And I just did that and then I happen to open my book up because I always do that on Sunday.
I do like a reflection of the week and then I open this book to that page and I thought it's a sign.
It's a synchronicity. I should talk about it on the live stream today. So what I do and I'll show you guys this
journal that I've only been using for a month and I'm pretty addicted to it
It's called the full focus planner by some guy named Michael Hyatt.
And there is maybe it's a little much there's four pages,
weekly preview.
So every Sunday, you list your you guys can just do this. You don't have to buy the planner.
You can just do it on like a napkin if you want you list your three to five major
accomplishments from the past week. And then,
you refer to like each week,
you set three, like intentional three main things that have to get done that week. three main goals.
And then you review them on Sunday.
And you say like how far did you get was your goals and it's pretty funny because apparently the people who who
who bought this book and the feedback or this journal?
They were mad that it was only like did you complete your task? Yes, or no. So now it has
zero percent,
25 percent, 50 percent, 75 percent or a 100 percent because
people want to still check off that they did something even if they only got
25 percent to their goal. And I have to say I really like it because this week I checked off one thing, 100 percent.
One thing fifty percent, and one thing zero percent. So
you know shit happen sometimes so it also asks like,
what worked what didn't and what will you keep doing?
Stop doing, start doing or improve on based on what happened the last week and
then there has another spot where you can just do like a list sweep where you go through.
the stuff from the past week and you see all the stuff you didn't have time to do or you didn't feel like doing or
you procrastinating it on and then you can add it to the next thing and it's just a way you can tell.
Everything that keeps showing up that you're like avoiding, doing.
So it kind of relates to this like you can spend your time and
very related to this book. Where is it? I
think I circled it.
Where is it?
There's a quote on every single page, oh.
Here it is everybody.
Ends up somewhere in life, a few people end up somewhere on purpose.
So I just wanted to give you guys a little bit of
inspiration for the upcoming week, even if you're tired like me today, I didn't have a relaxing Sunday at all.
I had a really
exhausting Sunday actually. But we can still be
intentional with our time so that
even if we're spending 80 thousand hours of our lives working,
we are doing the right things at work to bring some type of satisfaction or fulfillment
to our lives or a sense of accomplishment to our lives and
we can be intentional with how we spend our free time as,
and just that's kind of been my motto this entire
first
five weeks of the year.
Of whatever. I'm doing to just be really focused on that one thing and not worry about everything else. So
does anyone in chat today? No one's in chat.
Okay, is this making sense. Oh.
Someone's calling me I think it's it's my sister.
So guys, um, I'm gonna go since it's past my bedtime.
But let me know in the comments. Does this resonate with you? Do you have any sort of Sunday routine?
Do you do any reflection on the week or plan upcoming week?
You know a lot of times we're thinking about what we're going to do.
But we don't look at how we did and what we did do during the week. So celebrating small wins and
being honest with ourselves about things that we can improve on. This is all.
You know, it's part of just being a human and trying a little bit more every single day.
So I hope you guys have a great Sunday.
And see you tomorrow. Hopefully I actually moved to my new apartment tomorrow, but time will tell.
Hey guys!