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425. How to write the most effective to do list EVER so you can feel great after (and other focus tips) · Do You F*cking Mind?

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  Speaker 1: Hello, beautiful people, and welcome to the.
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  Speaker 2: Podcast episode of Today. So this podcast episode is really
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  Speaker 2: me trying to light the fire under your anus. We
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  Speaker 2: are really getting into the best to do list ever. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: because I've got a problem with to do list. It's
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  Speaker 2: my I have a love hate relationship with to do lists.
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  Speaker 2: Primarily love because I do them all the time, but
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  Speaker 2: hate in the sense that if not done properly, there
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  Speaker 2: can sometimes be more cause for feeling like you haven't
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  Speaker 2: done enough, or anxiety or just getting annoyed at yourself
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  Speaker 2: instead of what it is meant to be. And that
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  Speaker 2: is something that's actually going to propel you forward and
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  Speaker 2: feel like you're being more productive and you're getting your
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  Speaker 2: fucking shit together in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So this episode is.
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  Speaker 2: About how to write the most effective to do list,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm also going to throw in some other focus
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  Speaker 2: tips in there as well. So I hope that while
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  Speaker 2: listening to this, you have a pen and paper or
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  Speaker 2: you're typing it out and you are really jotting down
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  Speaker 2: what it is that I have to say, because because
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  Speaker 2: it is, I think it's going to help you. Okay, Now,
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  Speaker 2: little life update. What is my life update? Oh guys,
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  Speaker 2: I made bucklava yesterday. Now, for those of you playing
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  Speaker 2: along at home that follow my cousin Josel and I
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  Speaker 2: on all our weird adventures. Yes, Jiselle and I are
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  Speaker 2: doing the Puzzle Championships. We are entering that together. We
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  Speaker 2: are also we've been doing this for like about a
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  Speaker 2: year and a half now. We get together every Tuesday,
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  Speaker 2: within reason, whenever possible, and we alternate whose house we
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  Speaker 2: go to, and we cook a new meal that we've
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  Speaker 2: never cooked, or if we have cooked a meal and
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  Speaker 2: was really shit, we have to re attempt it and
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  Speaker 2: nail it. Okay, we get our partners, so Tyrone and
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  Speaker 2: Frankie they judge it.
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  Speaker 1: They give us a score out.
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  Speaker 2: Of ten, and that's kind of how we go along.
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  Speaker 2: So last night we did like a butter lemony like
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  Speaker 2: lebonese chicken.
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  Speaker 1: It was very good, although Tyrone gave.
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  Speaker 2: It like a fucking six and a half out of
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  Speaker 2: ten because he said the skin wasn't crispy enough, but
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  Speaker 2: the flavor was amazing. We did it for tush salad,
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  Speaker 2: which was unreal, and then we made baklava. Now I
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  Speaker 2: can't have walnuts. This recipe called for walnuts. We also
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  Speaker 2: didn't have cashews, which I love, so we did it
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  Speaker 2: and roasted almond backlovar and it was actually insane and
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  Speaker 2: it was so good, can't believe it. So you've probably
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  Speaker 2: seen photos of it on my story if you follow
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  Speaker 2: me on Instagram. Anyway, that is my life update. I'm
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  Speaker 2: getting slightly better at cooking. I'm learning how to.
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  Speaker 1: Do puzzles a lot faster.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing all these weird personal goals. I've also gotten
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  Speaker 2: rid of my long nails. If you're watching the video
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  Speaker 2: of this podcast, you'll see that I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Have my claus love my long nails so much.
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  Speaker 2: But if you're going to be entering New South Wales
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  Speaker 2: Jigsaw state competitions, you just you can't fuck around. You
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  Speaker 2: have to be focused and part of that focus equals
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice and I'm sacrificing my long clause for this competition.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone was like, oh my god, you got your nails
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  Speaker 2: off because the babies are coming. No, can't know this
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  Speaker 2: is because of the Puzzle Championship. Anyway, Let's get straight
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  Speaker 2: into the to do list part of this episode now,
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  Speaker 2: before even before we talk about the crux off the
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  Speaker 2: to do list and how you're going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to decide when is an appropriate time
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  Speaker 2: for you to write this list, okay, because I find
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  Speaker 2: and again not always life happens, things come up. But
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  Speaker 2: I really like to write this list the night before okay,
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  Speaker 2: that or the afternoon beforehand, because it kind of already pray,
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of primed for what my day is going
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  Speaker 2: to look like the following day. However, if that's not
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  Speaker 2: really your vibe, you are more than welcome to just
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  Speaker 2: do it at the start of the day. You wake
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  Speaker 2: up nice and fresh, you do your little morning routine,
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  Speaker 2: you can sit down pen and paper and you write
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  Speaker 2: your list down. But I think it's really nice to
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  Speaker 2: have an idea of when is it the best time
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  Speaker 2: for me to actually write this list. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: want you to have it rushed punching it out on
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  Speaker 2: your phone really quickly. Ideally write it down so that
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  Speaker 2: way you can kind of you know, you'll see why.
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  Speaker 2: But we need to like have little things on the
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  Speaker 2: side that we're writing down next to the tasks. All right,
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  Speaker 2: So when you write your list. The main problem with
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  Speaker 2: our list writing that you do that I do, that
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  Speaker 2: all of us do for the most part, is that
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  Speaker 2: we will throw everything down on this list big tasks,
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  Speaker 2: small tasks, focus, heavy tasks, you know, tasks that you
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  Speaker 2: could do with your eyes closed, and we write them
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  Speaker 2: all down as if they way eat equally.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So, for example, you know, writing this essay, the final
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  Speaker 2: draft of an essay versus unloading the dishwasher.
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  Speaker 1: That's all in the same fucking list.
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  Speaker 2: Right, And we have them all jotted down, and then
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  Speaker 2: you look at this really long, really daunting list, and
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  Speaker 2: so you think, I want to feel the sense of accomplishment.
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  Speaker 2: So what am I going to do? What makes me
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  Speaker 2: feel accomplished? It is ticking things, or if you're like me,
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  Speaker 2: crossing things off the list. So therefore I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: try and cross off as many things of this list
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  Speaker 2: so I can feel good.
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  Speaker 1: But then what do we do.
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  Speaker 2: We cross off all the mundane shit that probably has
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  Speaker 2: to be done anyway, that probably didn't even need to
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  Speaker 2: be written.
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  Speaker 1: Down, like wash my face, unload.
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  Speaker 2: The dishwasher, go to work, which you're gonna do anyway
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  Speaker 2: if you want to maintain your employment. And it's like,
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  Speaker 2: I got fucklled done today out of the things that
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to get done.
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  Speaker 1: So this is what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to write everything down, but omit the things
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  Speaker 2: that don't need to be written down. I know it
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  Speaker 2: feels nice to write something you've already done.
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  Speaker 1: Just so you can cross it out. Ha ha ha
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  Speaker 1: ha ha. But we're getting real here. So write down
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  Speaker 1: the list.
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  Speaker 2: And don't put things in that you're going to do
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  Speaker 2: anyway because you are a normal human being.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, write it down.
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  Speaker 2: It could be personal work, finances, whatever it is, things
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  Speaker 2: that you actually need done.
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  Speaker 1: Write them all down.
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  Speaker 2: Then we have three categories that we need to put
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  Speaker 2: all of these things into.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing I'm going to talk about is soft
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  Speaker 2: action versus hard action. We need to identify out of
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  Speaker 2: all these tasks, which one is a soft action and
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  Speaker 2: which one is a hard action. There's no good or bad,
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  Speaker 2: but soft action you're way more likely to want to do.
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  Speaker 1: You're way more likely to want to do when you're tired.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that doesn't require putting yourself on the line.
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  Speaker 2: It rarely, if ever, requires vulnerability or discomfort or putting
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  Speaker 2: yourself in a position where you're a novice.
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  Speaker 1: You're trying really hard, and it's like earned effort.
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  Speaker 2: Soft action is quite easy. It feels nice I could
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  Speaker 2: do it. When I'm watching TV. I kind of look
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  Speaker 2: forward to doing it. This is the pinterest boards, the
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  Speaker 2: vision boards, the brainstorming, the exciting.
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  Speaker 1: This is the fun. It's also very good.
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  Speaker 2: You should have soft action in your life, absolutely because
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of the precursor. It's what gets you excited
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  Speaker 2: to actually then follow through with the hard action.
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  Speaker 1: But that's soft action. Okay, then we've got hard action.
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  Speaker 2: The hard action is the doing of the thing, the
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  Speaker 2: fleshing out of the task, the physically going to the interview.
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  Speaker 2: It is the you know, submitting that thing, the finalizing
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  Speaker 2: the essay, the working on that work project, paying the bill.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, hard action it's something that.
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  Speaker 2: We don't think, Oh, I could just easily do this
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  Speaker 2: with my ars closed it that's not hard action. If
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  Speaker 2: you can do it with the ius closed, it's soft action.
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  Speaker 2: So take my podcast for example. Soft action would be
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  Speaker 2: sitting down and just throwing down ideas for episode titles.
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  Speaker 2: I could sit down and come up with forty episode
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  Speaker 2: titles in a ten minute session, just like a brain dup.
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  Speaker 1: That's soft action.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty easy, okay, Because one thought leads to another,
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  Speaker 2: which leads to another, and before you know what, I've
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  Speaker 2: got a million ideas. The heart action, there's two kinds
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  Speaker 2: of heart action for me for the podcast. The heart
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  Speaker 2: action would be, now I've got to flesh out an episode.
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  Speaker 2: It's all well and good to come up with titles,
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  Speaker 2: but then to flesh out an episode around that title.
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  Speaker 1: Is there enough? You know? Sometimes I look at the
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  Speaker 1: title and be like, I love it, but I can't.
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  Speaker 2: Come up with a whole episode for that. So now
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  Speaker 2: I've got to dismiss that next title? Can I come
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  Speaker 2: up with?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I can do.
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  Speaker 2: I need research? Is it more stuff that I already
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  Speaker 2: know about? Is this stuff I've got to look into?
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  Speaker 2: Now I've got to flesh it out, got to come
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  Speaker 2: up with key points, flesh out the episode, put all
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  Speaker 2: the dot points down. Does it feel like a cohesive episode?
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  Speaker 2: That's heard action. The other heart action is recording the
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  Speaker 2: damn thing, me actually sitting down, setting up the lights,
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  Speaker 2: setting up the camera, you know, putting a semblance of
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  Speaker 2: fucking makeup on my face, getting in the zone, having
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  Speaker 2: the energy sitting down and recording. Okay, so that's the difference.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoy them all, but one's really easy and the
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  Speaker 2: other two not so much. So soft action versus hard action.
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  Speaker 2: I will you to go through that entire list and
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  Speaker 2: put either an S or an H next to every
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  Speaker 2: single one of those things, and be very clear if
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  Speaker 2: you're not sure if something's soft or hard to say,
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  Speaker 2: is this something that I'm inclined to do because it's easy,
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  Speaker 2: then it's soft action. Is it something that I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it still brings me joy, but maybe I'll leave it
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  Speaker 2: to later because it requires a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of effort. That's hard action.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, soft versus hard Now the next thing we're going
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  Speaker 2: to do, so that's one category put aside, so you've
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  Speaker 2: got one letter next to every single thing. The next
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  Speaker 2: thing you're going to do is ask yourself, is this
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  Speaker 2: heavy focused task or is this a light focused task?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Now, what I mean by.
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  Speaker 2: That is, you know, as opposed to soft action versus
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  Speaker 2: hard action, where it's more about things towards your goals,
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  Speaker 2: heavy focus versus light focused. To like, this is where
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  Speaker 2: a lot of us slip up. We offer and when
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  Speaker 2: we do our to do list, we'll do all the short, quick, sharp,
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  Speaker 2: easy tasks first.
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  Speaker 1: So we can be ticking off a lot bang mag
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  Speaker 1: bang mag mag.
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  Speaker 2: We look at our list and we're like, I've ticked
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  Speaker 2: off seventy percent of my list, but in reality, that
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  Speaker 2: seventy percent probably weighs not even nowhere close to the
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  Speaker 2: ten percent of the heavy focused tasks that you wanted
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  Speaker 2: to get done. So the heavy focus tasks are things
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  Speaker 2: that are going to be that really require mental grit
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  Speaker 2: and effort.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So unlike a soft action where.
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  Speaker 2: It's enjoyable, this is not necessarily enjoyable, but like it
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  Speaker 2: has to get done. For example, paying a bill. As
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  Speaker 2: much as it's not enjoyable and you might put it off,
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  Speaker 2: that's not a heavy focused task. That does not require
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  Speaker 2: heavy cognitive effort to pay a bill. It's just something
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  Speaker 2: that you put off because it's not remotely enjoyable and
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  Speaker 2: it's whatever. So it's more so what requires cognitive effort.
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  Speaker 2: If you're starting a business and you're working a full
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  Speaker 2: time job, you need cognitive reserve. You need some fucking
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  Speaker 2: energy in your mind that you need to set aside,
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  Speaker 2: high quality focus that you want to set aside towards
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  Speaker 2: your business. You don't want the dregs of your attention
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  Speaker 2: to be dedicated to this business that you want to
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  Speaker 2: start or a podcast that you want to start, or
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  Speaker 2: a book that you want to read at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, where it's just like, here's the scraps.
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  Speaker 2: Can't that's all you're worth, because then it's going to
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  Speaker 2: reflect that. Then you're going to do that, and you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be like, oh, I don't like the caliber of
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  Speaker 2: the work I'm putting out.
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  Speaker 1: It's not good. So we need to know what requires
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  Speaker 1: heavy focus and what.
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  Speaker 2: Requires light focus. Cleaning all these things, it's all light focused.
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  Speaker 2: You might not want to do it, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: require cognitive effort. So we're going to go heavy focus
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  Speaker 2: HF or light focus LF on every single one of
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  Speaker 2: those things. Again, you go down in another column and
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  Speaker 2: next to each one in another column, heavy focus or
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  Speaker 2: light focus on all of them.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and then the last one.
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  Speaker 2: I've spoken about this before, I'm gonna speak about it
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  Speaker 2: again because you need I need to drill it into
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  Speaker 2: your cranium.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about urgent.
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  Speaker 2: Versus important, Okay, sense, Now the urgent. We put a
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  Speaker 2: lot of things on our urgent list, like I've got
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  Speaker 2: to reply to that email, I've got to submit this thing,
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  Speaker 2: I've got to get back to this person.
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  Speaker 1: I've got I've got i've got, i've gotta I've got,
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  Speaker 1: i've got, i've got it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, there's a lot of things we have to do,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but when it comes to the thing that
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  Speaker 2: really matters to us, and when I talk about matters
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  Speaker 2: to us, yes, it could be like I said, the book,
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  Speaker 2: you want to write, the podcast, the business, but separate
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  Speaker 2: to that things that you know, if I do this thing,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a better person. Like one of my best friends,
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  Speaker 2: Lucy Jackson, she says that for her, she's just a
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  Speaker 2: better human being if she gets up in the morning
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  Speaker 2: and either goes to the gym or goes for a
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  Speaker 2: walk out in the sunlight. And to the extent that NICKI,
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  Speaker 2: our other friend, they work together, Lucy and Nikki, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of you guys know them. She knows when Lucy's
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  Speaker 2: had that kind of morning or when she hasn't had
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  Speaker 2: that kind of morning, because Lucy is like, I just
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  Speaker 2: show up as a better person. My head is clear,
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  Speaker 2: I'm in a better mood, I'm ready to work. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just happier. So when we talk about urgent versus important,
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  Speaker 2: for Lucy, that's important. This is a non it should
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  Speaker 2: be a non negotiable, and she does make it that way,
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  Speaker 2: like she really prioritizes it, very proud of her.
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  Speaker 1: She's killing it. But this is an example of that.
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  Speaker 2: So when I talk about important, it's not just that
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  Speaker 2: business that you want to do. It's not just that
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  Speaker 2: sad hustle stone. It's things that you know make you
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  Speaker 2: a better or a happier person. Okay, so if you're thinking,
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  Speaker 2: I've got so much to do, I really shouldn't dedicate
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  Speaker 2: one hour to that morning walk, that's a problem because
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  Speaker 2: you take out that morning walk, right, so that way
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  Speaker 2: you can do your other stuff, but you're not as happy,
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  Speaker 2: you're not as focused, you feel a little bit flatter.
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  Speaker 2: By the end of the day, you're more likely to
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  Speaker 2: get on social media and doom scroll instead of thinking,
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  Speaker 2: I started the day really well, I've calmed my mind down,
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  Speaker 2: I got some sunlight.
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  Speaker 1: I feel really elevated. I was probably able to get
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  Speaker 1: through tasks faster.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually, you know, we think that we're saving time
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  Speaker 2: by cutting out that important task, but we are not
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  Speaker 2: saving time.
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  Speaker 1: We're wasting time.
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  Speaker 2: Because we put ourselves in this low mood, in a
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  Speaker 2: low focused state. We're just on the grind, on the grind,
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  Speaker 2: on the grind, the happiest people are the ones with balance.
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  Speaker 1: So what is important versus what is urgent?
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  Speaker 2: Get clear on what makes you a happier, better person,
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  Speaker 2: because when you're happy, things aligned, things fall into place,
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  Speaker 2: so that this is important. So your walk in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: that's fucking important. The sauna in the afternoon, if that's
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  Speaker 2: your thing, that is important. I have to have a
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  Speaker 2: third minute phone call with one of my best friends
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  Speaker 2: every single day for my soul. Okay, that's important, or
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  Speaker 2: it could be. If I really want to make this
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  Speaker 2: business happen, I need to spend at least thirty minutes
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  Speaker 2: a day of no destructions working on one aspect of
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  Speaker 2: this business. Okay, So you need to identify what is
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  Speaker 2: it that if I want my life to look different
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  Speaker 2: in six months time to what it looks like right now,
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  Speaker 2: what are the key things that would contribute to that,
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  Speaker 2: Because me just chipping away at the same shit that
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  Speaker 2: I do every fucking day, isn't it the things that
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  Speaker 2: I want to change in my life. It's always going
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  Speaker 2: to be the things that is extra. It's something different.
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  Speaker 2: It's the important things that matter to the mey of
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  Speaker 2: today and to the me of six months time or
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  Speaker 2: in one year time.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I want you to look at.
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  Speaker 2: What is quote unquote urgent versus important, because we put
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  Speaker 2: way too much in the urgent when it's not actually urgent,
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  Speaker 2: and we put not enough in the important. So now
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  Speaker 2: have categorized exactly the list that we want. We've got
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  Speaker 2: everything written down. I'm going to make you rewrite this list.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I hate to break it to you, but
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  Speaker 2: you're going to rewrite it. You've got everything written down,
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  Speaker 2: and then you've got these three columns on the side,
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  Speaker 2: and you've got the letters identifying what each one is.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: So we've got firstly soft action versus hard action.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Then we have heavy focus versus light focus, and then
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: we have urgent versus important, And you've written down for
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: each one. So every single to do things should fall
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: should be categorized as each of those three things.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Now, what you're going to do is you're going to
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: make sure that at.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: The start of the day, the heavy focused tasks are
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: going to be higher up in the day than the
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: light focus tasks. And the reason for this is that
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: we have a level of kind of we've got like
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: a decision making and a focus quota for the day.
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: Now you might be someone that's saying, yeah, but alexis
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: I actually have a wave of creating it later on
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: in the day. Okay, Yes, there's going to be people
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: that have a wave of creativity at five PM.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: That's true.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: There are people that have that wave. But two things
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: are true for those people. Number one, they're likely less
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: creative earlier on in the day, and number two, Normally,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: when you do have that wave, there's been some sort
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: of respite rest time in between working and doing that wave.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: And having that wave of creativity, it's very unlikely that
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: you're going to be smashing it out high focus, high focus,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: high focus, and then you get this huge wave of
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: even higher focus at five pm. Okay, so if you
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: are one of those people, then you can reserve your
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: five pm creative time slot for what I'm saying. But
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: for the general public, where that's not the case, what
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: you're going to do is you're going to have I
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: need to dedicate at minimum minimum one of these high.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Focused tasks to the start of the day.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: This is if I want change. If I don't want change,
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: forget about it, turn this episode off. If I want change.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: That's what I need to do.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: How can I do it so I can actually do
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: this high focus tasks within my lifestyle. How can I
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: fit this into my lifestyle. I need to prioritize it.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: If I don't prioritize it, it's not happening. You don't
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: find time, you make time.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: It's that whole concept.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: Okay, So that's that then why I want to say
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: this about finding time and making time. On Monday, I
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: was being interviewed by the two Broke Chicks love them
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: so much, fucking sal and Ol Queens, and they were
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: asking me, what do you think is like a typical
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: or a good amount of time to spend on social
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: media every day? And I was like, look, anything more
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: than ninety minutes unless it's your job, Like being on
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: social media is your job, and that's obviously accounting for
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: a big chunk of your day because that's a lot
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: of people. Ninety minutes should be the maximum, because if
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: you're on social media intentionally, you can actually get a
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: lot out of it. You can watch the things you
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: want to watch, engage with the people you want to watch.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: In an hour and a half every single day. Anything
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: more than that, you're spending nearly ten percent of your life.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: On social media.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: That means that in you know, ten years, one of
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: those years, a whole year has been spent on your
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: fucking phone, just on social media. So really an hour
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: and a half should be the limit.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: And they were like, what what fuck?
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: That's oh my god, Oh if I look at my phone,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Oh my god. You know I'm way more than that.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I'm way more than that. And I said, okay, yes,
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: but you've got a factor in that. Part of this
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: is your work.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: But in reality, there's a lot of people that hear
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: that and they're like, fuck, that's a lot.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: But then they're also the people that have this idea
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: and a passion that they want to start. So yes,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: there are going to be some people that are listening
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: to this that literally are strapped for time and they
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: are stretched thin, and there's no where they can carve
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: out time.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: There is, but for the most part, there's a lot
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: of us out there that could manage our time better.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: And you know who you are. I don't need to
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: point you out.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Okay, So where can I carve out that time for
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: that heavy focus task? And it has to be a priority.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: So I want you to look through that list everything
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: that fell onto heavy focus. What is the most important
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: heavy cognitive focus task, I have to bring one of
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: them to the top. Now I'm going to address in
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: a second what we do depending on how much time
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: you're going to dedicate to that task, but anyway, identify
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: the ones that are really heavy focused, and you're going
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: to bring it to the top.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Now, out of those heavy focused tasks.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: When we're doing important versus urgent, which one out of
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: heavy focus is the most important and that goes at
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: the top of your to do list after you've.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Done your morning routine. Okay, so important versus urgent.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: If we're talking about exercise and all of that, that
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: can go before your heavy focused tasks because.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: You're prepping in your morning routine.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: But as far as heavy focused, that's going to come
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: at the top of the day once your morning routine
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: is done.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Right, Now, let's look at important versus urgent.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: How much of the important things are going to link
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: to your happiness and your mental health.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: And whatever that is.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: You need to put at least one of them at
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: the top of your day. And this is where the
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: walk in your morning routine might slot in. Maybe this
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: is where your meditation or whatever, like, what is important
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: that makes you a better or a happier person. We
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: all have something that makes us a better or a
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: happier person or both. That's going to go at the
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: very top of the list, okay, and then you're going
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: to kind of like categorize the rest of them. And
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: then we've got soft action versus hard action. When it
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: comes to soft action versus hard action, you want to
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: make sure that at least at least two hard action
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: tasks are done a day. And I don't mean completed.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I mean you dedicate time to at least two of
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: the hard action tasks in that day. So that's kind
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: of how you're going to work your to do list.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: You've got to look at the categories and make sure
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: that in every single category, the important, the heavy focus.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And the hard gets prioritized.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Not all of them, but at least one to two
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: of them gets prioritized. That way, at the end of
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: the day, even if you didn't unload the dishwasher, you
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: work towards your mental health, you work towards that side
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: business business or the book that you're writing, or your
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: relationship with your best friend. You did the important things,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: the hard things, the effort things, and you started to
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: condition yourself to be able to get through tasks in
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: a much more effective way. Okay, so that's the beauty
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: of doing it to do list that way, because when
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: we flip it, and when we do the to do
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: list the way we think we know how to do them,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: this is where we fuck up because we're like, oh,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I did all these soft, easy, cognitive and what I
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: deemed to be urgent but weren't actually urgent tasks, but
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: I got nothing important done and I feel like shit
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: at the end of the day. That's how we're turning
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: it around. Now the key to not getting bogged down
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: on the hard tasks.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: So now we're moving on to the next topic. We're
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: talking about time frames.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: The key to not getting bogged down is you've heard
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: me say it before, but I go into it. I'm
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: gonna angle it in a slightly different way. Is yes,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: time blocking. But the importance of why we are time
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: blocking this thing. So let's say you're gonna work towards
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: and you know a lot of people who listen to
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: this podcast are at university and they're doing essays and shit.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: So let's use that as an example. You are working
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: on an essay. If I said to you if I
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: wrote down on that list, do my reference list, Like
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: I personally hated doing my reference list. I'm using that
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: as a as a very personal vendetta kind of example,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: do my reference list. If I put that on that
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: to do list, There's no fucking way I'm starting my
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: day wanting to do a reference list. I'm like, fuck
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: that that can go at the end of the list.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: The thought of that's going to take me hours.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I just can't.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, and I hate And then I just know that
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: so often I'll spend so long on a reference and
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: then realize it's just not it's not appropriate for what
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I need, and I just like read all this hectic,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: heavy scientific like fuh. And so then I'm like, no, no,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: no, no no, it's given me anxiety. I'm going to push
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: that until later, and then I end up having to
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: pull an all nighter before the fucking things do, and
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: then I lose marks on my reference list because it
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: wasn't done properly. Instead and I I only learned this
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: in my final year of my master's and it's so annoying,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: and it was it did wonders for me. You time block,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: So instead of saying I'm going to do my to
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: do my reference list. You say, thirty minutes towards my
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: reference list, whether I get one reference, whether I get
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: twenty references. It's thirty minutes and time blocked, so it's timer.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Phone is on silent, no distractions. I am not checking
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: my phone. My phone is physically away from within arm's reach,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: so I can't automatically addictively grab my phone and check.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I'd have to stand up. And the moment I stand up,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I realize what I'm doing, and I sit the fuck
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: back down, sit down, can't and get it done.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: It's thirty minutes. So then you do it, and.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: Then thirty minutes passes, and you're like, I didn't have
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: that anxiety. I didn't have the pressure of having to
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: have it finished.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I just said I'm going to dedicate thirty minutes of
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: high focus to this task.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: And then when I do that, I'm like, well, I
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: could do thirty minutes five days in a row towards referencing.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Thirty minutes is nothing in the scheme of things. Two
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: and a half hours within a week. My references are done, right,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: no point was it daunting. Ever, At no point was
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: it daunting. I also started doing that with my book.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: Instead of doing full days of writing where it'd be
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: quality work at the start of the day and shit
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: like just trash by the end of the day, I
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: would do pockets, pockets, pockets. Instead of thinking, I have
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: to finish this chapter, I'm going to do an hour
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: or two forty five minute blocks. And that's how I
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: started formulating it, and then I started feeling a lot
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: lighter about these tasks. So not only are you going
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: to time block, but you've got to change what your
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: goal is within that time block. So I'm all for,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: like you, you know, ninety minutes, forty five minutes with
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: a ten minute break. Whatever the time block is that
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: works for you. You've got to you've got to find
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: like tweak it, ideally no less than twenty twenty five minutes,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: because you want to get into a flow state too.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: You can't make it too short. For me. Forty five minutes,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: sweet spot.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Some people it's thirty minutes, no more than ninety though,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: no more than ninety You need a rest after ninety minutes.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Then that's when you say, I'm going to work on this,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: this this for no longer than this timeframe, and then
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: that's it. And then that's it. I change tasks, or
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: I have a break, have some Bucklova that I made
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: the night before, and then we continue onto our next block.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: However much time you are able to dedicate to that thing. Okay,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: now that's the time blocking that we're talking about. Examples
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: that I'm also going to give you because I gave
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: you the example of the fucking essays, but you could
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: do it for other things as well. You could do
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: it for tasks that aren't that daunting, but something that
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: you just procrastinate on all the time. So an example
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: of this would be instead of saying I'm going to
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: do my wardrobe today, you say I'm going to set
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: a twenty minute timer and just work through the shelves
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: that I can do in twenty minutes. I'm not pulling
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: all the shit out of my wardrobe and putting it
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: on the floor and picking things out and laughing my
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: head off, and then by the end of the day,
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: I've got all my shit on my phone, I've done nothing,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: and then I feel shit. No, I'm going to spend
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: twenty minutes time to twenty minutes, and whatever I get done,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: I get done. You're going to find that at the
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: end of the twenty minutes, you're like, oh, I'll do
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: another twenty minute time because I'm in.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: The zigne now being so productive, and then that's great.
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Another one will be Instead of saying I've got to
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: pay all my bills or I've got to reply to
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: all these emails, you say, I'm.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Going to dedicate thirty minutes to emails. That's it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: After the thirty minutes is done, that's it for the
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: time block. I'll revisit it next time block. Okay, same
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: as the bills, same as whatever. So the time block
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: is in your control, and so we're working with what
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: is within our control. That's when you reduce this kind
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: of anxiety for the unknown, the saying I have to
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: complete this is not within our control because we don't
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: really know exactly how long it's going to take us.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: And most tasks, if you're someone who's not leaving everything
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: to the last minute, you can do this for most
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: tasks in your life. Now, to wrap up this episode,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to brush over other things that will
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: help you stay focused on these tasks that you're working
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: on that are not exactly relevant to this to do list.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: But what we're going to do is number one one.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Make sure you're getting sunlight throughout the day, not just
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: in the morning, because that's crucial, but then throughout the day.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: If you're inside and you're like, oh, I'm starting to
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: like weigh off, I'm getting a bit more. Get outside,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: be in the sun. Maybe have a glass of water
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: or a mutcha whatever, in the sun. Take a five minute,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: ten minute break. Daylight, daylight, daylight, daylight. If you're in
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: the office, step the fuck outside. Okay, people get cigarette
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: breaks all the time. I'm having a sunlight break, thank
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: you very much. I'm going to excuse myself and get
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: into direct sunlight and then I'll come back into the office. Okay,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: that's what we're going to be doing. The other thing is,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: look at is it possible for you to change up
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: your location after every time block or every two time blocks.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying you got to like go to
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: a different place on the other side of the city.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: It could ever be within your home.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: If I'm sitting on the couch, I'm going to get
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: up and now sit at the dining table, or sit
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: at my home office, or sit.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Outside for a little bit.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Changing up your location is going to change your focus.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: You're going to be like, get that, get that wave,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: the new wave of focus again. If you're in a library,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I'm going to sit outside for a being, going to
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: come back inside.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Then I'm going to go into this room and I
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: change it up.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: If you're at work, I don't know what your work
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: settings like, but if you work in one of those
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: co working spaces, there's many different locations you could be
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: changing it up and do that.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Throughout the day. Do it often. It's really good for
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: your focus.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: So there's unless you want those people that has to
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: be in those fucked cubicles for eight hours all day long.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Even then, see if you can fucking tweak and play
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: around with it. But say to your boss, if you
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: want me to produce good work, Alexis Tommy, I need
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: to change my location. I'm going to sit in a
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: different like ah, in this office, and I will be
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: more focused.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, that is going to help you now.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Foods, hydration, Just hydrate your prune of a brain. Your
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: focus will go up. When you hydrate your brain. Electrolytes
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: have some fucking potassium, sodium, magnesium, right, those little dissolvable
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: things into the water.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Beautiful. You don't need a hectic sports drink. It doesn't
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: have to be that much. It's not like we're depleting
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: all our sodium levels, just a little whatever.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Electrolyte beautiful matcha phenomenal, phenomenal because it keeps us calm,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: but it increases our focus. Coffee great if you're doing
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: it before like midday. No later than two pm, because
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: we don't want to I feked out sleep. But coffee beautiful
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: mid morning, little spike and it's going to increase your
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: quartersole a little bit, keep you very focused on the tasks.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: So we love that.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Fruit great for cognitive performance. And apple very good for
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: your brain.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Very good.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Apples are underrated. Have a fucking apple at ten am.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: You'll be amazed. Okay, move your ass, get up, take
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: a perimeter of your home or your office or whatever.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Sit the fuck back down. Okay, get the blood flowing.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Stand up, ten squats, up and down, up and down,
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Sit back down, Stand up and stretch. Take big breadths affair.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: We're thinking blood flow equals oxygen to the brain. Oxygen
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: to the brain equals focus. So if you ever like
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I'm hunched over, my posture on my ribs, my thes,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: stand up and then breathe and sit back down. It's
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: very simple, but it changes your state, it changes you focus.
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  Speaker 2: These tiny things will actually change your life. If you
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  Speaker 2: were to do everything I just said in this episode today,
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  Speaker 2: and you were to do it four out of seven
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  Speaker 2: days for the next six months, you won't know yourself. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: But most people, because they look at something that seems
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  Speaker 2: too basic, they think that must be too basic.
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  Speaker 1: No, I want a magic fix. This is it. This
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  Speaker 1: is your fix.
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  Speaker 2: So it doesn't sound that impressive because all the little
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  Speaker 2: components separately aren't that impressive, but when combined, you will
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  Speaker 2: not know yourself. You'd be the most productive, happiest, most
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  Speaker 2: focused version of yourself, and you're gonna have so much
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  Speaker 2: shit done in six months.
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  Speaker 1: In a year, you'll be like, who am I? What
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: am I looking at? I'm amazed.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, that is the episode of today. So hopefully you're
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  Speaker 2: feeling energize, you're feeling.
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  Speaker 1: Excited for tomorrow. You're going to write that list.
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  Speaker 2: I like to do it the night before, write it down,
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  Speaker 2: get everything down, get excited, and then go forth and
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  Speaker 2: put it into action. And there's a little bit of
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: tweaking you might do. Want to be like, oh, there
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: was still too much on that list. Maybe I need
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: to like cut it back down, bring it back to
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  Speaker 2: the bare bones, bring it back to what's actually important,
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  Speaker 2: and then reattempt. The next day, reattempt, and you're going
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  Speaker 2: to get to really perfect that list. But you first
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  Speaker 2: jot everything down, it's like a storm brain dump. Then
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  Speaker 2: you categorize everything, and then you list it in order
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  Speaker 2: off sequence, based on the information that you know about
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  Speaker 2: soft versus hard, urgent versus important, and high cognitive versus easy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that is all.
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  Speaker 2: For the episode of today, guys. Thank you so much
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  Speaker 2: for tuning in and listening. Love you guys so much.
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  Speaker 2: As always, remember be kind to yourself, be kind to
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  Speaker 2: your brain, don't take shit from anyone, and especially don't
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: take shit from yourself.
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  Speaker 1: Dugger