I like to experiment with different routines and tricks to try to improve my productivity.

And this exploration has led to a few discoveries that has really helped increase my productivity.

My dad says something about me that I think it's pretty funny, but it's also true, and that is that he's never seen anyone work as hard as me to not have to work.

And to be honest, I think that is the reason why productivity is such a big focus of mine.

I'm constantly trying to be more productive so that I'd have more free time, except as soon as I have free time.

I tend to like, come up with a new project that I can kind of squeeze in anyway.

Here are my best tips for increasing productivity.

The 1st 1 is to create a place somewhere where you can put all your thoughts and ideas and to do so as soon as they pop into your head and preferably this would be done in a note or some other app on your phone Currently, I'm using Google's APP tasks for now, at least.

I'm also working on my own at for this.

So what I do is I have this app on the home screen of my phone, and any time an idea or thought pops into my head, I write it down.

This is something that I've been doing for years now, and the reasoning is simply that if I don't do that, then I'll forget.

But I also recently heard of a guy named David Allen who has his own productivity system called getting Things Done.

And he says that one of the main benefits of using a system like this is that you will clear your head because otherwise you'd be trying to remember all of this stuff and trying to keep it all in your head.

And after a few ideas pop up, it gets pretty messy up there, and that will then in turn lead to you feeling more stressed than feeling less focused on what needs to get done, which I can definitely agree with.

So write everything down in one place and then make sure that you review that place or that list every week, so that you can and remove all the things that you got done and then also remove the things that are no longer important.

The second tip is don't try to do it all in one day.

This is pretty difficult, and I think that we all tend to be pretty optimistic.

A when we tried to estimate how much time something will take.

And I definitely used to do this where I would write down all my produce in a single giant to do list, and then I'll try to get it all done in one day.

This rarely works out well, and I ended up feeling like I was pretty much unable to get anything done.

So after that, I experimented with a lot of different tactics.

I tried going with what I could remember that day or what I felt inspired to do that day.

And this works okay until we have, like, a lot of different things with multiple deadlines, then experimented with limiting the amount of tasks that I'm allowed to do for one day, and this is really where I found my rhythm.

So that is 2 to 3 tasks per day, no more than that as soon as I write down four to deuce for one day, I end up feeling lethargic and just unable to focus.

Now I may end up getting more than three things done in one day, but I never planned for more than three and ideally, I try to plan for only two.

The way that I do it is I go through the list of all of my tasks and then I look through them and rang, order them by importance and urgency, the most important and urgent tasks.

Those are the ones that I then pick and choose from.

And then I decide which ones are the most important.

And then I pick 2 to 3 of those.

If I end up with five must do's, then my first line of action is to try to reschedule.

However, if it's something that I can't reschedule, then what I'll try to do is I'll try to make sure that the next day afterwards that I either have just really simple tasks for that day or that that day is completely free because then I can push myself today and get all these things done and if I end up tomorrow feeling completely exhausted, then at least nothing important has to suffer next one.

The third tip is the Post it note.

I'll be using this for the past six months now, and I really like it.

What it is is really nothing special.

At my desk, I have a stack of Post it notes were right down the 32 DUIs.

The reason I've been liking it so much is, firstly, that you can't fit that much all night boats that note.

So it's kind of force constraint in terms of how many tasks you can actually fit on here.

For instance, if the tax for on my phone that I would have to go into the abyss of distraction, that it's my phone and would be very easy to just quickly check like Instagram or mail or something else, and the same thing goes for if they were on the computer.

So therefore, the posted note Stone Age as it may be, it's still a very potent tool for productivity.

The fourth tip is to break things down, specifically by repeatedly asking yourself the question.

In fact, it's the most common question I asked myself and that ISS.

What do I need to do to get this done?

This 1 may seem a little bit strange or even obvious.

But what this question does for me is that forces me to break each task down even further so that I don't just end up with a giant to do, like, make a video because that doesn't really help me get started.

What I need to know is, what do I need to do to get this done?

And this type of questioning is for the day off.

So the day that you're actually sitting there and need to make a video, the first thing to do is always to break the task down even further into smaller steps so that it feels more manageable and less overwhelming.

So what do I need to do to make a video?

Well, I need Thio write a script and I need to film the video and what I need to do to write a script.

Well, I need to research a topic.

I need thio right about that topic and so on.

And this thing gives me clear steps to take to actually achieve the ultimate goal of making that video, and the fifth tip is to plan ahead.

What I like to do is I like to sit down the night before and write down 2 to 3 to dues for the next day, and I do this on my post it note.

I'd like to do this right before bed.

So the idea being that these things are fresh in my mind as I go to sleep and then potentially I'll be working through them as I sleep and then wake up with new ideas and better ideas on how to do these things.

Something that I also like to do is I'd like to sit down every Sunday evening and write down my weeks to do list.

So again, I look through all of my to do this and then I'll rang, order them based on importance and urgency, and then I'll pick the ones that I want to get done that week.

This is something that I can really recommend because they will allow you to not have to constantly see all of your two deus.

So instead of getting overwhelmed, constantly looking at all the things you have to d'oh, you can just look at the things that you have to do this week, and that kind of feel like that takes some of the stress out of my life.

I mostly just look at the three to deuce for the day, and maybe I'll look at the ones for the week.

But I really try to avoid looking at the entire list unless something really important comes off.

I did a post on INSTAGRAM the other day where I ended it with a quote that I think describes the importance of planning ahead really well.

And that quote ISS appropriately planned today to save time tomorrow.

Sixth advice is another question, and that is How would I do this if I only have one hour knowing that the quality might suffer?

I do suggest that you try this so basically set a ridiculous deadline for yourself and then try to figure out how you would do this within the time limit and accept.

It would be that if you have to write an eight page paper than to get that done in one hour, what you could do if you could write maybe four pages and they could copy paste for other pages from different articles.

Now, this will give you an eight page paper in one hour.

The quality might not be that great, but you will have the paper nonetheless.

Now, you could redo the procedure once again and ask yourself, How could I rewrite this paper to get decent quality in one hour?

And then you do that and all the sudden two hours in you have an eight page paper that would probably get your pass.

Now, the point of this is not to start doing copyright infringements.

The point is that by asking yourself this question, you'll uncover unconventional ways of doing things more efficiently.

And usually rewriting an existing paper feels easier than staring at a blank word, Doc, knowing that you somehow have to come up with eight pages and this is really my main trick for getting a lot of things done really fast.

And we actually or my friends actually used to joke about this.

When I was in school, he used to joke about the fact that they would be sitting there for hours and hours trying to work on a paper, and then I'd come in and like in 10 minutes, get a paper done.

Now, this is, of course, a joke.

I didn't get paper down in 10 minutes, but the point was essentially that they would be sitting there for ages and then I come in and get it done super quickly.

And I also just want to mention that I didn't just come in for 20 minutes and then get top grades or anything like that.

A lot of my classmates actually got better grades than me.

I got pretty decent grades, but the point is MME.

Or the fact that it was I was fast enough for it's actually become funny how fast I was compared to them.

And this was essentially done by asking myself, What do we need to do to get this done?

And how would I do this if I only had one hour last piece of advice?

Don't leave you with that is eat regularly.

Don't forget to eat ideally every three hours for me personally, that it's the longest amount of time I should go without food.

Maybe this sounds like good advice, but the reason is that if you don't eat, your brain will slow down.

Problems will get harder to solve and you just have less energy.

If you eat when you're hungry than you're eating too late, you'd almost think of the feeling of hunger as your stomach screaming Thio.

I can't take it anymore.

So if you feel hunger, then you're too late eating and sleeping or things that we often leave to our body to decide.

But we really should leave, too, like a clock or something that should tell us every three hours to eat and also to go to bed at the same time.

I believe this is stupidly simple advice.

Eat every three hours and go to bed at the same time every day.

And it's so powerful.

But it's also really hard to do.

I'll leave you with this quote from Jim Rohn, and that is the things that are easy to do are also easy not to.

I hope you enjoyed this video and that you got some tips and tricks out of it, and I hope I'll see you in the next one.