Hey, Dan here, your resident ENFP and I'm here with a friend of mine Matt
Astifan who's staying with me in Prague for the last few weeks actually heading back
to Canada tomorrow and that is an ENTP and as some of you know that means we
share the same primary function of extraverted intuition and so sometimes
have the same say troubles of getting distracted of being drawn to novelty
this sort of thing and so I asked Matt to do this video with me because he is a
very productive guy a bit of a productivity junkie like myself and so
he's going to share some productivity tips from an ENTP for fellow ENTPs
and us ENFPs take it away men all right so the first thing and I know Dan
thought this was weird as we were saying together but one of the biggest things
that keeps me productive is what I eat and I discovered a long time ago that
when you go to a grocery store there's really only maybe like 5% of the stuff
in a grocery store that's actually good for you to eat specifically while
working if while you're working if you start having greasy food KFC fries a
really heavy meal you're going to feel tired after so what I try to do is keep
my meals between 300 and maybe 400 calories or so so the easiest way for me
to figure this out was to eat the same thing every day
and there's sometimes slight variations on this but for the most part I eat the
same thing throughout the day while I am working my dinners tend to often be a
little bit more different but for breakfast I have eggs with some pre
cooked ground beef every single day okay
so there's a vacant ground chicken whatever it's always crappy if I want to
reduce my meat I'll use yams and then put yams with some eggs and I eat that
with that with pita bread or what do you call that turkey tortilla wrap or
whatever so I'm not going crazy and the carbs that's often breakfast but
actually to back up I actually recently just changed it so now I actually have a
shake in the morning you don't know this I have a Vitamix so I was shake in the
morning then I have coffee and then I have my breakfast my
ground beef closer like two or three o'clock so that's my actual whatever
works for you like that's it's besides the point the point is that every single
day I have the same diet while I'm working once it comes to dinnertime I'm
done working I mean I don't give a fuck I'll to see whatever like you know I'm
in trying to start or try to stay healthy you eat healthy you should be
healthy but whatever and on the weekends as well if I'm not working that's when
I'll just like you know like today we just ate some deer or something like
that you know I don't usually eat that but I don't mind so eating the same
thing every day will help you increase your productivity but you got to find
out what foods keep your mental energy to once you figure that out just eat for
productivity and focus don't worry about the taste don't worry about variety just
eats that way you can get a lot of shit done
I would I would agree within reason some of you guys know I do the keto diet with
more or less cheating depending at the time of year and my travels and stuff
but I found that the diet keeps things a little simpler I don't know who we
haven't talked about this on this trip but I talked about in videos quite a bit
about decision-making basically burning your brain out over things right where
do I eat today I can I can make a decision on where I want to travel
easier than where I'm gonna eat lunch a guy wastes so much mental energy on
this stuff so yeah it's very good about and and both of us is well down a whole
bunch of supplements I have no idea what you were taking yeah I you know there's
a lot of pills in the morning it's not that happy sometimes yeah see but
usually saw I have my vitamin D my b12 fish oils ginseng I don't even know what
the other stuff is actually it's a lot of the same idea yeah yeah so just go to
find like just like the standard supplements I don't mean I actually have
a video on this no one watches it because I'm not a supplement channel but
I will link to my video environment yeah or or ask people who are like more
experts on health than us because this might not be both healthiest advice is a
video on productivity and not health so you've caught the other videos I've been
doing with Matt you may have noticed that I've had a green
shirt on for some and now this shirt but mat same shirt the whole time and that
leads us to productivity tip number two wear the same thing every day
so working days and actually now my wardrobe is like literally all like polo
black shirts all my clothes are dry fit and I found these jeans at this like
Japanese clothing store that are actually sweatpants
they look like jeans with their sweatpants and I have this really
comfortable dress shoes and I wear the same outfit I mean they're different
clothes so I don't wear the I was fine I fell yeah the clothes are actually Fred
but they all look the same and then people often comment I'm like why do you
always wear the same thing I'm like no so I do have other clothes like I have
suits if I'm like going like I'm dressed up and speaking I gotta have suits on
the weekends sometimes I'll wear a hoodie and a t-shirt or whatever but
what I'm working Monday to Friday I've always got the same thing I don't even
think about it I just all my clothes are just black collar dry fit shirts I have
my sweat pants and my nice comfortable dress shoes and that's it note many
billionaires I'm sure you've heard did the same Steve Jobs did the turtleneck
thing Mark Zuck does the the hoodie thing kind of an awkward guy though well
give it whatever billionaires and Bill Gates was known to this as well although
I have noticed that in interviews he's often changing his clothes he stays but
Trump was always wearing the same thing as well right suit like a suit with a
tie my audience 100% Trump fans for sure yeah yeah yeah we concern all presidents
all presidents are always wearing the same thing it's a suit and the tie
obviously there's something to it as we film this in a few days I'll be leaving
on a three-week trip scouting locations in Europe for future kind of spring
wintertime event so I'm looking for basically places that are hot I'm going
to we don't have to give him details but eight different cities in about 20 days
so for this trip I've actually ordered like eight black t-shirts oh yeah oh
yeah that's there you go I have a bit more variety but I'm like I'm gonna be
traveling so much I don't think about what's clean what isn't I
want eight black t-shirts same thing every day makes packing way easier the
next tip Matt wants to share I cannot claim I do well my wonderful girlfriend
Gabby who edits these videos and makes the thumbnails is probably very upset
hearing me even talk about clutter has she seen my apartment but it is
nonetheless a very good bit of advice for us ENFPs and for ENTP I will
confirm that Dan does not remove clutter ioho
there's a just notice your pants on the floor just now instead of dealing with
clutter I just got a really big apartment there's room for more clutter
that's for sure so when I am getting into work mode I clean my desk if
there's a whole bunch of papers and stuff you know sometimes it does gather
up over a week or two and I realize man there's a lot of stuff going on here I
clean it up there was no junk there's no dirty cops or dishes or anything like
that and one thing that I notice is I used to be lazy about cleaning my own
apartment and I noticed that whenever I had guests coming over and all of a
sudden you know like five minutes away I'm like my place is dirty and then like
I clean the whole place in like four minutes right so I realized that it
really doesn't take a long time to actually just clean I mean if you're
working from home clean your place can you an office if you're going to an
office or wherever you're working just make sure it's it's tidy it's going to
also help you kind of remove clutter from your mind at the same time there's
some magics you're just cleaning your desk and maybe this hint set the fifth
point we won't reveal the fifth point yeah but I found things like let's say
the night before cleaning the frying pan so that I know when I wake up and I want
to make a healthy breakfast there's nothing there or I'm like oh no I have
to clean the frying pan who air stuff having things set up for success
basically to make it as easy as possible so if you are like for me now I have
this home studio as you guys know cuz the background always the same there's
other places in my apartment I can film but when I film in different places
every day there's this friction of getting that set up and that would slow
me down on these little bits actually make a big difference number four is to
remove distractions now I know that you do this very well because I've noticed
answer you are when I interrupt you in distracting with something but I'll give
you a few examples here one is that my phone does when I flip it on silent I
have an iPhone when I flip the little thing on the side on silent it doesn't
make any sounds it doesn't vibrate isn't do anything so what I'm gonna work mode
I flip it on silent it's done I have very limited notifications on my phone
even when somebody text messages me it does not show up on my lock screen I
have to actually unlock my phone to see it there's no notifications on my
computer at all like I'm working nothing is if you have any notifications turned
on on your computer turn them off be very selective about what notifications
you allow on your phone I know you're more hardcore about this than I I mean
yeah I go airplane mode for two that's even more I fully agree I'll do a video
on this at some point in the future on how to turn all these off no matter what
when I got here he's sending me House Rules I'm part of the house whorls was
there would be no dinging sounds yeah
asshole has his phone on and it vibrates every 10 minutes of the message yeah
well everyone is trained including myself that vibrate could be your phone
so then it distracts everyone yeah and so yeah you'll be staying with me for a
few weeks if your phone is ringing every 6 minutes I'm gonna go crazy
so I said some people have an anxiety of like not knowing like their fear of
missing out or whatever's I used to get this anxiety wanna check my email every
day and then one time I just try to not check my email for a week it like
nothing I was five like nothing happened I got through all the emails in that one
day it was cool so just try it out if you want to experiment it for a day no
notifications I mean you want to go crazy try just having no phone for a day
and seeing how that feels very it's fine to do that I I mean I can't claim to
have done that in the last little while but I used to do that on like a Sunday
just leave my phone at home yeah as a way to stop that kind of addictive
feeling right like I need my phone where is it lots of benefits to that I'll talk
about that it may be another video about even things like a sense of direction
that you if you rely on Google Maps and all that
kind of stuff another time what's the fifth tip so number five and this is
probably the most important thing is to this kind of deep but it's to remove
friction from your life and what that means is that often times that we carry
this baggage around and I recently had a realization that I was carrying all this
baggage around me that I I really wasn't serving me at all so it could be like
you got into a fight with your brother or your sister your mom your dad or your
best friend you know I I remember one time we're like I was like making some
yo mama joke so one of my best friends and we were like not talking for weeks
and I realized I was like I wanted to call him I was like oh he's mad at me
cuz the yo mama jokes and then you know I realized I was carrying this baggage
around I was always thinking about this and so I just called him one day and I
just hey I wanted to say I'm sorry for making your mom jokes and he was like oh
that's fine like you know it was like he was cool out there right another time
you know I broke up with an ex-girlfriend we didn't have closure we
were kind of like it was a weird breakup and it bothered me for months actually
it was quite ridiculous and pathetic and you know I finally reached out to her I
sent her an email and I said hey I just wanted you to know I'm not mad at you
anymore whatever I came over I said something really bad and I was probably
a loser and we just like cleared the air and it lifted so much weight off of my
shoulder so what I've learned is that to just forgive whoever you're you're
holding a grudge against if you have resentment or you want revenge or
whatever it is just forgive people you don't have to apologize you don't have
to ask people to apologize to you you don't need to tell anybody you're doing
it for yourself it's an inner thing you just forgive you don't have to forget
you just forgive and let it go you either deal with it or you let it go and
I cannot say how powerful it is to remove all the friction in your life but
you could really do an 8020 on this write down everywhere you are friction
in your life right now look at the 20% of the things that are causing 80% of
the friction and deal with them or let them go
and you'll see how much freer that makes you to have your mind focus on the more
important things actually you in your life that's very awesome I
realize I misinterpreted so with Matt had a couple notes and it says point
number five remove friction I know what you've had and I was thinking in another
way which is basically to make things easy to do for yourself
right watch the frying pan in advance set up filming and all that I really
like that example though I like to think at this point in my life I have very
little friction and that served with a lot of my productivity right where
you're not always thinking because very easy with the ENFP brain to start
worrying about things you know that relationship that went sour or this
thing or what if that and it eats up so much mental energy it's disastrous
I'll tell you guys I just went through a period of my life for a long time where
I had a lot of friction building up and although I learned this lesson ten years
ago somehow I forgot and then as soon as I realized it and I cleared the air it
was like I was back for myself again I was like feeling so happy again so I I
cannot recommend it enough I know this is a hard one to do you know forgiveness
it's hard to do but once you just start forgiving everybody and I mean everybody
it'll make you feel so much better you won't have resentment anymore you won't
want revenge you won't having the anger you're gonna feel great and you're gonna
get so much done so I hope you enjoyed those five tips from my ENTP friend Matt
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