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Today I want to give you some of my top seven productivity hex to make you more effective in both your personal and professional life.

And this is coming from somebody myself.

I'm an ex Google attack lead, and I've been very effective in my professional life.

My personal life.

It's up for debate, but I'm just really into men, Maxine, optimizing my daily life and have some tips to share with you.

Not my first realization, and you may already know this is that I'm currently at my parent's place and then using a lot of my work done over at my apartment.

And when I moved over here, I realized that I was far more effective over there, and then my productivity coming here took a huge hit.

And so I tried to analyze why was there such a huge step in my productivity?

And I came to the realization that their two primary factors at play here I spent 99% of my time at the desk, and I realized that having a really good, nice big monitor actually makes me way more productive.

I'm just able to see more.

You know when you're playing those video games and that somebody has some big monitor, their few.

The view is whiter.

They have strategic advantage.

Well, a bigger monitor is kind of like that.

And so here what I have and Banky was nice enough to send me one is the thank you E w 32 80 you.

So this is one of those brand new monitors for Kay.

It's actually higher resolution than the other one I have at my apartment.

And for me, especially with the amount of multitasking and that I do and the things that have on my screen all at once.

Having an external larger monitor like this, I found, has just made me way more productive.

Now you may be wondering about the specific monitor, which is one of the newest monitors from Thank You.

It is a 32 inch, four K ultra HD display, reasonably press, actually, about 100 bucks with the large 32 into real estate.

It's made me more protective, so I have some links for you if you want to check him out.

Not the other realization.

The head was that Internet speed really matters.

Here it's Doc slow like 25 megabits per second, whereas over at my apartment I was getting speeds of 100 or higher.

And that really matters when you're doing a research online learning new coat, checking up documentation that only the new frameworks researching articles.

And so that's when recommendation I have Frito look into as well as if you have Internet, consider upgrading kind of like a bigger monitor.

It's a performance boots on everything that you do now.

The second tip I have here is to live with your parents.

I know what you're thinking.

This must be crazy, and everybody is going to laugh at you.

But if you want to be productive, then you need to get rid of any of the tedious and menial tasks that are invading your lifestyle.

If you think about it, rich and successful people, you take a look at Bill Gates, Elon Musk.

Do you think that they're doing their laundry cooking, cleaning the bathroom, scrubbing the tiles?

Do you think they're going to the post office to mail packages?

Pickup stamps?

Fix the leaking faucet, repair a car?

Ah, lot of these tasks are things that your parents may do for you.

Think about that when you're a kid, you had nothing to do except just worry about studying and having fun.

And you didn't have to take care of anything else.

Well, when you're too eager to grow up and become in adults, you start taking on all these tasks and burdens that really just waste your time.

You may go through an entire day, and all of your productivity will be cept by random miscellaneous tasks that normally another person like your parent would be taken care of for you.

But now, since you've decided to become all independent and live by yourself, you have to be the one pain that Internet utility bills taking out the garbage, taking your car in for an oil change, clicking washing dishes.

A lot of these danger parents would do, and this is where you're unfair.

Advantage comes in because your parents are essentially like a virtual assistant, or better than that.

They're your personal physical assistant, which has a lot of value.

I mean, these are luxuries that normally most people aren't able to get until they're very rich.

So if you have these resources at your disposal.

Personal assistance, which are one of the top productivity tools that you can get by, are extremely expensive.

But if your parents are willing to help you on that, then you might want to consider dropping the ego and getting yourself ahead.

All right, moving on the third tip.

This one's a little bit more practical, and that has to do with using voice commands.

Whether the favorite things I like to do if I'm using an iPhone is I will use theory remind features.

I can say Remind me to buy some milk and cereal will recognize that and it just as that onto my to do list.

So I go throughout the day and I just used us.

I remind myself to do all sorts of things.

There's also voice commands for android phones, or use Amazon, Alexa or Google home.

Many for me, though.

I have this to do list and anything that goes on here gets done, which makes the voice command feature a very powerful feature throughout my day.

Okay, so let's switch things up a bit.

Product of the number four is more of a mindset pack, and this has to do with minimal izing Your lifestyle searched out.

Imagine if you were to wake up and you just have nothing to take care of.

You don't have a car you need to repair.

You don't have clothes that you have to pick out and choose.

You don't have friends that you have to worry about entertaining.

If you minimalize your lifestyle and just get rid of all these random things and hobbies and interests and people and concerns, then you may find that one day you'll be able to wake up like me.

And there's just nothing in your life except to just focus on the work at HINT, and that just makes you incredibly productive because you just get rid of all the other useless random stuff in your life.

Things are just complete waste of time, so my recommendation is each day you take a look at one of the things that are wasting your time.

Maybe it's an interest, a hobby, a website that you're visiting, some app that you're using and just cut that out and try to remove all the random stuff that is not adding value to your life.

I absolutely love this quote that the things you own end up on the U.

But I think that also applies to hobbies, interests.

Anything else that uses up your time that you put your attention into that ends up stealing your attention as well.

So when you think about that, when you wake up on the Sunday morning, you don't have work.

Well, why is it that the whole day is not devoted to some side hustle?

You may be going to a three hour breakfast.

Get together with people that don't really add much to your life.

You could be going rock climbing or bow during these activities.

Take half an afternoon and then you spend the rest of the afternoon watching TV, thinking that this is how you relax from all the exhaustion that you had and you just end up losing the whole day.

So the key here is to minimize not just your stuff, not just those material items, but the people around you, your interests, your hobbies are the other things that are sapping your attention in time and personally for me.

I have found that having an over abundance of time really helps, So why is this important?

Well usually maybe you have your normal day job, and then you may have a little bit of extra time.

But that time in the senses or deep re allocated towards, like, say, resting gaming, have your coffee time going to the gym reading a book or a whitener dog, maybe going to the beach.

And so you need to still budget time to have all of these other relaxation time entertainment.

And then on top of that, that is where your actual side hustle begins.

So that is why I think it is so difficult for people to actually work on side hustles because you need like a to X margin on the amount of additional time that you have.

Because if you only have one next buffer, you're always using up the additional buffer of tent that you have created.

But what you want is on top of that.

After you've done all of that, you still have some additional time left over.

That is where you will have the time to start those new projects and side households and ideas that have been brewing in your head.

Now my fifth trip here has to do with social media because, let's face it, we live in an age where we are checking our phones throughout the day.

Multiple times, hundreds of times even were visiting websites and revisiting them over and over.

And all of this is just taking up so much time.

You know, this time could be spent reading a book, for example, or maybe thinking about your next business idea.

But instead you're doing this all the time.

And so what I do is organized my bookmarks and maps on my phone into this category like check once a day in the morning, and that's the only time I check it.

And then throughout the rest of the day, I just won't check all these news eyes over and over again.

One day, 10 or 20 years from now, future generations will look back on this and recognize that we had this disease known as social media addiction.

I kind of like how people look back on the opium crisis and realized that people were just on the opium and drugs throughout their lives.

Oftentimes, actually, what I would do is I'll just wake up and then I'm going to get to work and I'm going to work for, like, 23 hours, and then at the end of that, once I know I've got my work and then that maybe I'll spend some time checking my social media.

But with that type of routine, I know I would have locked in at least a good 2 to 3 hours of solid work.

Now my six tech is for you programmers out there.

But also for people who don't know programming, you might want to look into regular expressions.

So regular expressions is this powerful syntactical language in which you could do search and replace based on patterns.

And this turns out to be extremely useful for processing data, in my opinion, then we had the use.

Regular expressions would just make you so much more effective when you're dealing with data websites looking for stuff.

So, for example, if you have a website with a bunch of information like banking records, you want to form a certain way.

Such that looks nicer for some presentations from report where regular expressions can do that for you.

You can also do a search and replace as well.

You conform at code.

You conform and sort email addresses separate our user list based on first name and last name identify, which is which.

I just use these all the time.

And in my opinion, they're one of the secret weapons I use that make me more effective.

So if you're wondering specifically how to get started here, you can use a text editor like sublime text visual studio code.

And with an editor like that, you can also distorting, which just gives you a lot of power in terms of processing information and data that you come across usually on the day to day basis.

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And then my seventh productivity hack is given the task.

Just get started on it.

You don't have to complete that.

You don't have to finish.

It may be just beginning with a little bit of initial research and tell yourself that all you're doing is taking that one first little step.

Just gonna take a look.

And you may find that as soon as you start a task, you kind of break down these barriers and you just get more into it.

Over time, I might just start with a Google search or send out an email or two for more information, Maybe make a phone call or an appointment for that.

And then that just really gets the ball rolling.

And pretty soon overtime I find Oh, yeah, this whole thing.

It may be quite easy to do, not one more bone.

This performance that I have for you, which I learned over at Google, was that they like to measure everything and then through the sprints.

So instead of sitting in some vague, ambiguous go for, like, a whole year and there's nothing to measure, like, generally try to lose some weight.

Well, what you would do is you would say, set a go for three months and then make a sprint for that, You would make the go very specific, like, lose £10 in three months.

And that made this so you could check your progress against that.

You know, as they say, you only improve what you can measure.

All right, so there haven't but let me know where you're top product of the hacks are.

I'd love to hear those.

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