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0:00Morning
0:04[Music]
0:13all. So, wanted to go over how I focus
0:16my brain this week. I have undiagnosed I
0:20self diagnose myself with having ADHD. I
0:24don't know if I do or not, but I find it
0:26incredibly hard to focus hard to focus
0:28on tasks. And that's really ever
0:30actually since I became a founder of a
0:32company. Back when I was just kind of
0:35more frontline sales management and
0:37leadership, it was a lot easier to
0:38focus. Now I think because I wear so
0:41many different hats, it really has my
0:43brain like just bouncing between ideas,
0:45bouncing between things. So this week I
0:48thought I would go over some of the
0:50tools, tips, and tricks that I'm doing
0:54to help me get over this.
1:02[Music]
1:05most likely guessed, but the main thing
1:07that keeps me really on track and
1:10focused is routine. Every time I'm
1:13speaking to you, I'm probably in the car
1:15on the way to do, you know, some form of
1:17fitness in the morning, which is what
1:19I'm doing now. Um, and that really just
1:22helps me, I guess, start the day well.
1:25And if I kind of I know there's the
1:27cliche if you win the morning, but
1:29really for me, if I win the morning, my
1:31focus for the rest of the day is
1:33massively improved. And I did a post
1:36last week about how I focus on like
1:39routine, but also just like working out
1:40and things like that. And that really
1:41helps me. If I don't work out and if I
1:43don't look after myself, I also find
1:45that my kind of selfdagnosed ADHD kind
1:49of flares up. So today we have a swim
1:52and then I'm actually going for a
1:53chiropractor session afterwards just to
1:56keep the body uh in check. Sitting down
1:58at the desk all day really screws with
2:01me.
2:03[Music]
2:15Okay. So what is up next? Well, when
2:17we're thinking about how to keep our
2:19mind focused, here's the other tactics
2:21that I'm deploying. I'm using Linear.
2:24And if you haven't uh or if you don't
2:25know what the tool is, Google it.
2:27Linear. And it's a tool that basically
2:29allows you to add tickets. It's
2:30typically used for a lot of like product
2:32based stuff. So, if you were to create
2:34tickets for like your product team to
2:36work on and focus on things like that.
2:38However, I'm using it as like an
2:39organization tool. So, let me show you
2:41exactly how I'm doing this. Okay. So,
2:44I'm using linear to help me organize all
2:47of my thoughts and all of my to-dos,
2:50right? I'm one of these people that
2:52bounces between ideas at a million miles
2:55an hour and I have that kind of self
2:58undiagnosed ADHD. Um, but what I find to
3:02be really really uh handy and helpful,
3:05and this is something that I've started
3:07doing recently, is creating um to-do
3:10lists. Now, historically, I've been
3:12pretty old school and I've used, you
3:14know, just your your typical kind of
3:16workbook and just listed out all my
3:17to-dos, but I've actually started to go
3:20more digital recently, which is sad cuz
3:22I do like writing things. But the reason
3:23that I've done it is I have Linear
3:27hooked up to an MCP agent. And what that
3:31then basically allows me to do is I can
3:33actually chat with this kind of camb
3:35board that we're looking at here to help
3:38me organize and focus my priorities for
3:41the day with what I should be doing and
3:43the agent can actually help block out
3:44some times. The other thing that's
3:46really cool is if we look here at my
3:49kind of agents that I've created, I have
3:51a I think it's actually in this one
3:54here. I got two versions of NAM, the
3:55cloud and the normal one. Um, I have a
3:58two personal assistant.
4:00Maybe it is in this one. Two personal
4:02assistant uh agents basically that uh
4:05can help. No, it's not that. I think it
4:07maybe it's just called PA.
4:09Let's go here. PA. There we go. What
4:13this is doing is this is like it's quite
4:15beefy here. But this is going to also
4:17look through the linear tasks that I
4:19have, but also look through like emails,
4:21Slack notifications, um calls that I
4:24have, right? So the the demos that I've
4:26done and things like that to understand
4:28does it need to add any additional to-do
4:30tasks into here. If it does, then it
4:34will go and create it. If it doesn't, it
4:36won't. But it will also send me a
4:38notification every day saying, "Hey,
4:40like here is the current to-dos that you
4:42have. This is them stack ranked in
4:44priority. These are the people that
4:45you've not replied to that you need to
4:46be replying to. And I've also blocked
4:49out some time in your diary to be able
4:50to do this." So essentially I've created
4:52an agent that uses linear as its like
4:55database that organizes me and I kind of
4:57need that organization because otherwise
5:00I flicker between idea to idea and I'm
5:04one of these people that sometimes even
5:05start a task and then I'm like ooh idea
5:07like I need to go and quickly execute on
5:09that. So a lot of the time now because I
5:11have this here so like easily accessible
5:14is when I have an idea coming into my
5:16head as I'm doing something else I'll
5:17quickly go and add it as a to-do and
5:19I'll just drop my thoughts down. I have
5:21the same for like a content calendar for
5:22my social media as well. I use notion
5:24for that. If I have an idea again,
5:26quickly just go add it and then I can
5:28come back to those thoughts at a later
5:30date. And this is really helped me kind
5:32of tune my way of thinking, so to speak,
5:36as well. So, it's a combination of using
5:38linear combined with using NA10 and
5:41using certain different agents to help
5:43organize me while using this as a kind
5:47of bedrock and focus point. Okay, so the
5:49last thing that I do to help keep me
5:50focused on everything that I need to be
5:52doing is stopping the distractions on
5:55the phone, right? And so it's pretty
5:58simple, but I am pretty particular about
6:00the different um modes that you have
6:02with the iPhone. So you've got like a
6:04work mode, a focus mode, things like
6:06that. So I do actually have those
6:08automatically applied to reduce
6:10notifications coming through. The other
6:12thing is is like I am I can like
6:14occasionally find myself doom scrolling
6:16on like LinkedIn and Instagram. So I
6:19actually have applied like I don't know
6:20if you can see it but it's like app
6:22limits and what I notic is I do like
6:24more so LinkedIn than Instagram to be
6:26honest. I'm just like I flick over it
6:28and over it the whole time and I apply
6:31like an hour limit to both those apps a
6:33day. I don't really hit the Instagram
6:35one but I do hit the LinkedIn one pretty
6:36regularly seeing as I spend a lot of
6:38time there. So, I have that which keeps
6:40me kind of disciplined. It just makes me
6:42a little bit focused. That doesn't apply
6:43to it if you're on a desktop, but I just
6:45don't open up the tab there. As well,
6:47the only other thing that I do with my
6:48phone to help kind of keep the brain
6:49just like locked in is I have like a
6:52sleep mode activated. So, from 8:00 p.m.
6:55through till 7:00 a.m. the next day,
6:57it's sleep. So, like no notifications
6:59whatsoever come through. And I used to
7:01be really, really bad. Like the first
7:03thing that I would do cuz I typically
7:05wake up about half 5 was go on and just
7:08check all my messages, check all um the
7:10notifications. And that is such a bad
7:12way to start the day. Um because it just
7:15you get like mental fatigue a lot faster
7:18that way. And so what I've done is I've
7:19really tried to stay disciplined at
7:21actually not looking or checking the
7:23phone until that sleep mode comes off,
7:25which is at 7. And then I can go in and
7:27look at things. And that just again I'm
7:29trying to bring the number of decision
7:33processes or the number of touch points
7:34that I have with some shape or form with
7:37work to a minimum and only like keep it
7:39at its like essentials. Now, that
7:40doesn't mean that I'm not thinking 24/7
7:42about trigger fire and all this, but it
7:45more means like I don't just want to be
7:47glued to the screen and when I have like
7:49my typical like I'll work typically 8
7:51till 6. Sometimes I do longer, sometimes
7:53I do like calls until 8 9:00 p.m. which
7:56is uh not always but occasionally that's
7:58fine, right? and not and I work on the
8:00weekends and sometimes I don't like it
8:03doesn't really matter like I'm not one
8:04of those ones that have a strict
8:05structure around that but I just want to
8:07make sure that I'm not like overexposing
8:08myself to just sitting and gluing on
8:10that phone and like having that constant
8:13kind of buzzing in your face you need
8:15that downtime and I think for me
8:17personally anyway I realized that the
8:20more I have that the better I actually
8:21work um going forward as well by the way
8:25side note if you enjoy these drone shots
8:27this is from the holiday that I've just
8:29had, which is um was pretty cool to get
8:32a week off. We went a place just an hour
8:35down the road from where I live. Pretty
8:36scenic, pretty cool shots. I hope you
8:39enjoy.