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7 Time Management Tips (That Actually Work) · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  Hey, welcome to the podcast in this episode, it's a take taken
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  from video. I did about seven time
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  management tips are actually work and I find this is going to
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  be very, very useful for everybody.
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  And so just ignore the part where I say links in description
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  below because obviously, they're not, but if you want any of the
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  links, you can go to my YouTube channel.
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  And then the links with out on a video, I did was also, but I
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  guess some people want to digest my content while Walking rather
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  than watching a video. So this is for you guys, so I
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  hope you enjoy this. One's like a little bonus kind
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  of podcast episode this week. So forget setting your clocks
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  early. This is time management tips
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  that actually work buckle up. Time is a really funny thing.
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  It's like we live in a world where it is actually abundant,
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  but none of us actually use it appropriately or very few of us.
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  Use it appropriately, and effectively, having Asperger's
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  Syndrome myself. I used to fall short of all the
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  pitfalls of bad time management. Like having bad time management,
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  not being able to appropriate my time, effectively not been able
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  to be as productive as I need to be and just really like just
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  making a mess of things, not being able to get to places on
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  time and not being able to do the things that I need to do
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  efficiently with the amount of Well, I wouldn't be like, oh my
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  goodness, not like all the time is gone.
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  Now I'm going to share with you my tips from my personal
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  experiences of how I've overcome that and I think that you guys
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  will definitely benefit from that.
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  So before we go any further, if you haven't hit that subscribe
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  You need to subscribe and I swear, you won't regret it.
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  If you want to help anybody out on the comment section and add
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  in some of your own tips for helping time management.
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  Please do so, it's super awesome.
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  I read every single Comment and I like and how every single one
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  and reply to every single one as well.
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  So do that and let's start our conversation.
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  So I'm guessing you got on Google and typed in like, how to
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  time manage appropriately or best tips for time management.
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  And well, you've come to the right place because I feel like
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  these tips I'm going to share with you now are so effective
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  that you will definitely use every single one of them and
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  your time will be more productive.
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  So to me, time management has always been a big issue.
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  Like, you know, if someone said to me like, hey, who's bad with
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  time management, please raise your hand.
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  I'll be like the guy in the room would be Come straight at first
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  but be so embarrassed about it because I'm thinking to myself,
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  dang, you know, I really want to be the best of time because I'm,
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  you know, have a million ideas going on.
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  I want to be the most productive person.
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  I want to be the guy who's able to actually smash his goals and
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  do all the things I want to do in life, but at the end of the
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  day, time is running away from me.
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  And I find myself procrastinating a lot during the
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  day. So there's really got to me.
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  So I decided that I would ask my girlfriend for help and so she
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  helped me with my time management because people with
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  Asperger's syndrome and autism have an issue with time
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  management accordingly and and it becomes a real pain in the
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  butt. So I have prepared seven of the
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  hacks or the tips of the skills that I've developed and learn to
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  use to hack a time management. And hopefully, you guys can take
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  something away from this and I definitely think it will do.
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  Okay. So number one is list Now list
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  are, you know, I was a little kid right list but let's can be
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  so, so effective. I have quite a few different
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  lists going on and I use some app sometimes to do list, but I
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  also have a list on paper and in books and the a You have list is
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  that you write a list of all the tasks that you need to do and
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  then you appropriately put the most important ones first, so
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  they get done first. Now prioritizing items on a list
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  is very effective because you can also put a Time duration for
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  what you expect that task to take.
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  So if you want to know that, you've got 10 things to do today
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  and you need to get them all done before at 3:00 in the
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  afternoon. So, you know, if you start at
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  9:00 how much time you need to do one of those tasks before you
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  run out of time. To go on to the next task.
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  All, you'll know you'll be behind now, this works very very
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  well for me. I write out the task and then I
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  actually say, how long is it going to take me?
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  And I can estimate how long it's going to take.
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  Because, you know, we all know how long typically a task is
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  going to take if we've done it before, or if we're expecting it
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  to take a certain amount of time, so do that and put a time
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  stamp on it. So, you know, you're setting
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  yourself to that limit of that time, then you can do way more
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  effectively because, you know, you're aiming towards because
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  it's like not having a goal or an endpoint to aim towards you
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  won't be your fall short of that Mark every Time.
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  Okay, so here's a pro tip for any tasks that are bit more
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  heavy and bigger than the others, leave a little bit more
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  extra time. So it gives you that leeway
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  because the only bad thing could come of it, is that you finish
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  the task in early and you've got a little bit of extra time for
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  the other tasks. I'm finishing early, it's super
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  awesome piece. Number two, is quite an obvious
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  one and it's planning. Now, you know, planning, sounds
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  super easy, but loads of people don't do it.
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  I mean, like a lot of people don't do it, other people do
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  plan, and if I'm really well, they actually plan really well.
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  They even plan out there. Their food, slowly prep it all
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  on a Sunday. So this is the tip on a Sunday,
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  sit down and prep your entire week for the things that you
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  need to do now. When you're planning out your
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  week you need to just remember all the tasks that you need to
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  do and any appointment and stuff that you need to go to.
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  So what we do is we sit down and then we get a calendar.
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  We've got a calendar in the kitchen slash living room
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  upstairs and I also then sync it with my I calendar on my iPhone.
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  So I guess into my MacBook and my iPad and we go through
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  anything that we need to do. We put the time That happens on.
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  So then what we also do then is put an alert on those things so
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  that if it's on my iPhone that will alert me that there is a
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  task that's coming out of tasks that spending by doing this.
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  You get like an overview of your entire week.
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  So you know where you're going, kind of like you hit the ground
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  running, you don't just sit around not knowing what you're
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  going to do. Go.
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  Okay, well that's my first task. That's my second task.
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  And then again you've got your list so you can write out your
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  list and put your timestamp next to those.
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  It's an amazing hack and I highly recommend doing it having
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  a visual calendar on the wall is a A really big win, a lot of
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  people kind of now or super digital and it got on their
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  Tech, which is amazing. Yes, because we got on our iPads
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  and iPhones and stuff like that, but if they die or you lose them
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  or something happens, or a glitch or something, then you
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  lose all that data. So it's always good to have a
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  hard copy data, backed up on something, like a physical
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  calendar, or a sheet, or a book or a list in your desk, or
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  somewhere like that. Number three is setting
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  reminders. Now, this one seems a bit weird.
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  Like, you know, how do you manage time with saying
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  reminders? And it's basically that when you
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  set a reminder up, it reminds you at a time to do something.
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  That's like the principal offsetting reminder, but the
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  beauty of setting reminders is you can actually set up a little
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  bit early to give yourself a little bit of extra time.
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  Now, by, by doing this, you do two things, you you're
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  remembering to put something in in putting something, but then
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  you're also being able to allow yourself buffer time to allow
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  yourself time for me, You're getting ready or doing something
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  or whatever. Now, I have really bad
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  short-term memory. This is due to the Asperger
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  syndrome. I actually did a video on
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  Asperger's and short-term memory and leaving the card above here,
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  if you want to check that out specifically.
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  But because of that, I realized that I can never remember
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  things. So someone's like, hey, Dan, can
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  you remember to do that thing later at that time.
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  And I'm like, yeah, ok, cool, no worries.
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  And then they come in and they're like, hey Dom, did you
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  do that thing? And I'm like, Oh, So to avoid
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  that. That ever happening again.
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  Every single time I get a new task or a new thing or a
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  calendar input or a day or appointment, or something that I
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  need to attend our specific time.
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  I always input it into my calendar.
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  Now, I've synced up my Google Calendar to my iPhone, my iPad,
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  my Alexa, and also my MacBook by doing that.
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  I can ask any single one of those devices to input a day for
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  me, you know, it's even just speaking to the same like, you
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  know, hey Siri add this in or hey Alexa do this and When you
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  do that, they can put those into go straight to Google Calendar.
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  So definitely check that out as a way of like really upping your
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  productivity using calendars but the idea that I do I always
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  allow buffer time. So say I'm driving somewhere, it
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  takes 40 minutes. I always leave an hour buffer
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  time so it alerts me 10 minutes before the time I need to leave.
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  I'm not time we need to leave. It's actually 10 and more than I
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  need to because you never know about traffic and things like
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  that. So, always bear that in mind
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  because I used to be always cutting it short.
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  So it's It just get that of the either at the time or later when
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  it never works. And of course, a lot of people
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  to say, I run on done time, which is basically running late,
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  never on time, reminders are amazing, and they're super good
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  for that. Okay, so number four is taking a
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  break now, there is this thing in the Working World of
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  professional Industries, where people want to just work, work
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  work all the time. And they think if they work
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  through lunch break, then do an awesome because some people feel
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  like if they work a little lunch break, then their boss will be
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  cool because we don't see you working hard or they'll be
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  working hard and I'll get more done.
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  And if you're working for yourself, you'll feel that, you
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  know, you're smashing goals because you're not taking a
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  break and you just, you know, hardcore grinding, but it's kind
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  of on the contrary, there's a study that Oh, I found through
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  HR morning.com that showed that ninety percent of people who
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  actually take at least 30 minutes for lunch breaks are
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  actually way more productive. Now the reason this is is
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  because when you're engaged in something you're doing a project
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  are you doing a task or you're doing something?
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  Your mind is actually actively engaged in something.
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  You're thinking about that one thing.
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  So, your brain is constantly, think about that task.
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  Now, your brain kind of gets tired and needs a little bit of
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  relaxation time. So, when you give it, that 30
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  minutes to eat your lunch, I'll go for a walk or have a coffee
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  or Thing that really chills you out just for 30 minutes, at
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  least, if you set your mind, get your brain more engaged to then
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  go and attack the task. Again, it's kind of like, you
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  know, if you've been running all day and you don't go to bed and
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  sleep at night, how on Earth you grunts, get up and run in the
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  morning. So, you know, you can't just
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  keep running continuously, you'll just burn out.
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  So this is what actually happens, people get tired and
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  when you get tired, you get less productive and then you lose it
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  and you losing time when you're thinking.
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  I'm working to my lunch and I'm still not getting time.
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  So remember always take a break and schedule breaks into
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  anything you do. You know, if you're working by
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  yourself, remember to schedule breaks because it makes you way
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  more productive and you'll get more time management out of it.
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  It's so efficient. Okay.
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  So number five is do it now. And what this is is a lot of
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  people procrastinate and they don't even know it or sit down
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  and they'll say okay, you know, tomorrow I want to start this
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  new project if it's making a film.
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  Like, for me, it's making movies, or if it's making music
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  or taking photos or doing something productive or making a
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  blog post or website, something they always sit down and go,
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  okay, I'm going to do that. I'm going to do, I'll sit down
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  and plan it out. Then you have actually executed,
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  they procrastinate all this time, not actually doing the
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  task. So if you want to Do something
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  go, then actually do it. Say, Okay.
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  I want to make this small film, all the small video, so go out
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  there and actually start filming, it plan.
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  As you go, just make sure you're doing it and moving forward
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  because when you start to do something your snowball into a
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  productivity snowball and it'll just be awesome.
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  The too many people will sit down and procrastinate and think
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  about the task without actually ever doing the task.
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  And I call it the tattoo syndrome because I know loads of
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  people who will be like, Oh, I'm gonna, I'm gonna get this
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  tattoo, and they spent hours designing.
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  During this tattoo and that will draw it all out.
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  And then they'll say, this is my tattoo and then the never get
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  it. But with me, I was every time I
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  wanted a tattoo which got, right?
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  I want to tattoo you again up. We'll go out and get it.
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  And that's how I am with everything.
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  So you have to just get out there and do it and you'll be
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  funny. So, now watching this video,
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  you'll see somebody who's like drawn, how many tattoos they
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  want, where they want to place my body and this person hasn't
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  got a single tattoo, and it may have been years since I've been
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  planning on. So yeah.
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  Don't fall into the tattoo syndrome.
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  Pick some number six is apps. Now I love apps.
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  I use an iPad, my iPhone, and my MacBook, and my Apple watch, and
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  I love every single one of these pieces of tech in the reason is
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  because it gives me so much more time management and productivity
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  that it's just outrageous, it's sick.
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  And if you're not using these apps, and you definitely to get
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  on it and get on using these apps.
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  Now, the first one we'll talk about is Wunderlist and when the
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  list is basically an app where you can actually add different
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  people in so they can, you can all share the list and I work
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  together if you're working in a project or a team, but you can
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  put In a stuffy need to do tasks.
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  You need to do, you can attach little pieces of information in
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  it as a note section, you can put a time, restriction on.
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  You can have a big winner needs to be in by an alert so alert
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  you amazing. So definitely check out
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  Wunderlist Evernote is a similar type of app.
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  Evernote is a that will do almost the same type of thing to
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  wonder list. But what you can do with
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  Evernote is if you find something like in an e-mail or
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  tasks that you need to do, you can then just click up and send
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  that to Evernote on your phone or your iPad or whatever and it
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  will set it will. Create like a minor set a
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  reminder in Evernote for that task, you need to do you found
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  an email or a website or whatever if you're in a meeting,
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  can just open the app and just type that straight in and I'll
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  do the same thing, but it's really good at organizing stuff
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  and it gives you like alerts and unlike timings to do stuff.
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  So, ever know, is very, very cool.
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  Awesome. And in the after mentioning
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  right now will be linked in the description below so definitely
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  check that out. So the next up we'll talk about
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  is remember the milk and it's always the first one I ever used
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  and it's really, really cool. It's a very cool app.
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  It allows you to time management.
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  Tasks. You know, I was talking about
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  earlier, where you have the tasks where you typed on what it
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  is and then you see the amount of time, it's going to take,
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  well, you can do this in a room with the milk, very, very
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  easily, and it's so awesome. It's a very cool app, because I
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  guess a lot of people don't make maybe want to use Wunderlist and
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  they want to use like, remember the milk, what?
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  I'm giving you all the best one so you can definitely check them
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  out, just so you can use them. Okay?
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  Super, super easy. The two built-in apps on an
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  iPhone or an Android phone reminders.
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  And calendar, you have to use these reminders are amazing.
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  Because again, you can set timings you can set an alert and
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  these things come up as a notification on your phone on
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  vibrate. These are amazing.
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  You can cross platforms for come up on your computer and your
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  tablet as well. And with the calendar, the
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  calendar is amazing because you can share an invite with other
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  people. So you know, who's in there?
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  You know how long he's going to be in there?
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  You can add notes, you can add links, you can even upload PDFs
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  and images to calendar. So, people have everything you
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  need in a so, calendar is such an appropriate app and and it's
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  only used if you're not using it to its full potential rethink it
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  go check it out. Play Calendar and just like
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  calendars, man. Yeah.
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  Okay, so last but not least is number 7, right?
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  So this one is distractions. I talked a bit earlier about
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  procrastination but distractions are almost as bad now.
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  Distractions are see you working in your home office and maybe
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  like your kids are coming in or maybe like your partner is going
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  to come in and talk to you or that you working in an office
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  and like you meet next you want to goof about and I'll talk to
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  you or you're trying to get a task done and like your mom and
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  dad a community room and talking like hey can you do this or do
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  that? There's nothing worse.
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  Now they are the two Analog versions with now, in the
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  digital age, we had everybody and their mother just texting or
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  tweeting you saying like, hey, check out this funny meme of
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  this dog, falling over or whatever and you thinking like,
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  dang, I really wanna get this report done.
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  And, and I want to watch this video.
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  This dog doing something funny. All these things are
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  distractions, and they're wasting your time.
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  So what you need to do is get your device.
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  What you need to do is grab the device and put, the Do Not
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  Disturb function on now, if you don't have a do not disturb
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  function on your device, you can also turn into airplane mode and
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  it'll do something almost similar.
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  So, the difference is, when it's on airplane mode, you won't able
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  to get any phone calls through. But with Do Not Disturb mode,
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  you can actually make a VIP list of somebody's like sick in
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  hospital or your mom will see it.
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  Touch you undertake important, they can get through, but nobody
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  else can. This is an amazing function and
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  I highly recommend checking out if you've never used it before
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  because it set apart everything. So you say, okay from this time
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  to this time I'm going to be doing this thing and I don't
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  need to be disturbed. Now, if you're running an iPhone
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  or iOS device you can actually sync up the Do Not Disturb to
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  your calendar entries. So that was soon as a calendar
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  entry starts of my appointment hit.
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  It'll turn your Do not step mode and then you're okay for the
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  rest of the day. All you have to do is check your
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  phone. Click, the don't disturb thing
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  and you're done. Now, do not disturb is
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  incredible people distracting. You are dragging you down, and
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  dragging your time management down.
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  So remember, put yourself in an isolated situation.
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  Tell people to leave you alone in Another Log situation.
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  In a digital age, do not disturb is a must.
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  I'll see you next time guys. Peace.