so you all like that last video we did a couple months ago how to get more done in one week than most people do in one year we're giving the people what they want we're doing how to get more done in one month than most people do in one year I want to go over five reasons why productivity advice is complete and utter BS and what you should do instead I do want to give credit before we jump in a lot of these ideas come from the book The one thing one of my favorites you can read it in like 2 hours doesn't take too much brain power which is probably why it's my favorite and it's got a lot of pictures big idea number one this is the myth that you need to be productive okay and I want to tell you a personal story I don't share much in videos I think I've shared it maybe once or twice about how productivity almost ruined my life when I was coming of age in my 20s it was a very interesting time for social media content there weren't a lot of videos on balancing your mental health recharging like good self-improvement advice it was grind set it was like entrepreneur bro you know someone's working while you're sleeping if you don't want it as bad as you want to breathe you're going to fail Gary ve is screaming at you you got to hustle for 16 hours a day I didn't know any better and I thought that sounded legit and that's exactly what I did from age 20 to probably 27 I mean no exaggeration I was working 16 hours a day I would fall asleep with my laptop looking at like a spreadsheet or metrics or analytics every single second of every day and worse I had this guilt if I wasn't doing that then I I I can't be relaxing right now cuz that means I don't want it I mean this is crazy I was at family vacations or Christmas and feeling guilty that I wasn't working and on my grind I would drink all the time to like wind down then I would do a lot of caffeine to led up it was a mess my health was terrible my sleep was terrible and one day it all came crashing down I woke up business as usual okay 16-hour workday Starts Now opened my laptop and immediately I feel beads of sweat coming down my face my face feels cold I feel numb my heart rate's racing I'm hyperventilating that's a very scary feeling I immediately went to oh my God I'm having a heart attack I'm only like 20 what is going on so I I call 911 and they come in the apartment take my Vital Signs yeah everything looks fine look dude this is a panic attack and I'll be honest my pride was like panic attack what are you talking about but when I was able to finally call myself down looking back on it they were 100% right I had never experienced that in my life that was from being overwhelmed overworked and overstressed and so I made the decision there that I got to get healthy and part of getting healthy is fixing this mindset that you always have to be productive at everything that that might be the thing that's holding me back I moved to Scott steel Arizona I said I'm not leaving this place until I fix that lifestyle and until I actually find a sustainable authentic way to grow my business and my career the crazy thing is that it worked I went from working probably 16-hour days down to a manageable 10 and I got way more done I went from feeling overwhelmed and stressed all the time to having a couple projects that I felt really good about that were way more successful than anything I'd ever done went from posting five videos a week down to one and it took off see this is the very first thing I want to drill into your mind the myth is be productive at everything the solution is be focused on the right things what is the right thing for you well I guarantee it's not 20 or 30 or 40 things it's one thing the biggest companies you know do this and that's why they're billion dooll companies KFC they're one thing chicken apple their one thing the i product iMac iPod I Suite Google they started out their one thing one website search uh Intel their one thing microprocessors we could go down the list and every single company started as one thing one Focus that they did very very very well what is the one thing that if you got done this month could wipe out everything else like everything else didn't matter this one thing does one week one day and keep asking yourself what is most important if you're like well I don't know what my one thing is we'll come back to this with more tactics but I want to keep this moving and go to number two so I want to talk about the myth of willpower where there's a will there's a way when you look at research willpower isn't infinite it's finite it's a renewable resource that replenishes but you don't have an unlimited amount of it and there's one study that I find so fascinating I wanted to share here it looked at Israeli parole systems and their breaks so they studied over a thousand parole hearings that determined if an inmate got off early for good behavior or if they had to you know complete their full sentence you you know what they found was the biggest determining factor of if it was a yes or a no it was lunchtime at the morning they had you know 60% chance and then it faded down to next to zero until they had their am break then it went back up and it faded down to zero until they had their PM break their afternoon and then by the end of the day it was Zero again imagine a lack of a tuna sandwich being the reason you had to serve an extra 5 years I wanted to let you off but you know I was really hungry man your brain is 1/50th of your body weight but it uses a fifth of your total energy thinking makes you tired decisions make you tired what also depletes willpower having a lot of fear H doing things you don't love that requires more energy so if you're going to a job every day and then at the end you want to like build your side hustle or your passion or create art and you're wondering man why don't I have the willpower it's because if you're doing something you don't love for 8 hours you know by the end of it who doesn't want to just curl up and sit on their couch it's going to take way more willpower from you practically you know this to be true like when do most people cheat on their diet it's not first thing in the morning you know you you grab a ice cream from the freezer it's at 11:00 p. m. at night right you can be good for like 23 and 1 half hours of the day but it's that last 30 minutes when you're tired and your willpower is depleted like the judges that it gets you and you cave so this is why productivity advice yeah it matters but time of day also matters and there's a saying I love which is manage your energy not your time so the solution here more practically finding your golden hours the times where you're best you have the most willpower you're freshest for me personally this is first thing in the morning you know the first two hours of my day I get in a flow State it's when I'm making this video I do the most important thing first thing in the morning but for some you know I know some musicians and authors who make their best work after 11: p.
m that's their golden hour that's their best time of day it'll vary for you but then also what I find is maybe more important finding your Siesta hours is what I call it you know where they have a siesta midday break so the times a day where you're not your best you know that you're a little sluggish or tired again this will be different for you for me personally it's normally after lunch so from like 11:00 p. m. to 2: or 300 p.
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