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0:01Hey everyone, Sam Ovens here. And in
0:03today's video, I want to tell you why
0:05productivity is complete and
0:09why the secret is doing less instead.
0:14So, what I mean by that is, you know, a
0:16lot of people, they talk about
0:18productivity and what they do is they
0:21just try to cram as much stuff as
0:24possible into their to-do list and they
0:26try to do as many things as possible.
0:28And that's how they really define
0:30productivity and working hard and
0:33getting things done. And you know, this
0:35thing is spread like a rampant disease
0:38and it's spread across pretty much
0:40everyone. And I see people reading books
0:43on how to get things done. And you know,
0:47that's pretty much like a
0:47procrastination thing to do. You know,
0:49getting things done is about getting
0:50things done. And then I see people like
0:53signing up to like 10 different software
0:55tools to create a to-do list when a
0:58to-do list can just be done on a piece
1:00of paper. And I see people even
1:02attending seminars and webinars, reading
1:05books and articles and blogs and
1:07creating, you know, so much complexity
1:09for themselves just to try and be
1:12productive. And these people have got it
1:14completely backwards. And I know this
1:17because I used to be that person. You
1:19know, I used to try and cram as much
1:21things as I could possibly do into my
1:23calendar. And you know, I was
1:26I I was doing so many different things
1:28and really when I looked at it
1:30objectively, most of my time was spent
1:33trying to figure out how to do and
1:35trying to manage doing so many different
1:36things instead of actually doing the
1:38things, which is pretty crazy. But
1:40that's what happens when you try to do
1:42too many things. Most of your time gets
1:44wasted switching tasks and
1:48optimizing what tasks you should be
1:49working on and then actually, you know,
1:52figuring out when am I going to work on
1:54this, when am I going to work on that
1:55other instead of actually just doing
1:58something. So, it's a complete waste of
2:00time. And really what the secret is is
2:02it's to do less. It's to just get rid of
2:05it. You know, the more you want to try
2:07and just remove things from your life,
2:08remove things from your business. And
2:11you want to get as much things as many
2:13things off your plate as humanly
2:15possible. And in today's video, I'm
2:17going to show you specific examples that
2:20I've used and that you can use, too, to
2:23really clear your plate and focus.
2:26And why you want to do this
2:29is because I can explain it
2:32with a very simple diagram here. So,
2:38what I'm going to do here is I'm just
2:39going to talk to you about the only
2:41thing that you have in your life,
2:44which is energy.
2:48Right?
2:51And
2:53you know, with energy,
2:55it it works like this. We only have a
2:57finite amount of it. You know, we we all
2:59have 24 hours in a day and we all pretty
3:01much live for the same amount of time.
3:03And you know, all we really have to put
3:06into anything is energy, energy and
3:07time. And when you do lots of different
3:11things, this is where your energy goes.
3:17Goes into all of these different things.
3:20And you make progress
3:22outwards like that.
3:24So, you make a little bit of progress in
3:26lots of things and you expend that much
3:28energy. That's how it works.
3:30But then, here's what happens when you
3:32get rid of all of these things and focus
3:34on one thing instead. So, you add up all
3:36of these lines here. So, let's say each
3:38one of these lines is like an inch or
3:40something. And there's 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
3:44lines here. So, you know, it it's it's
3:46off the chart here. It's that much
3:49progress.
3:51And this isn't some sort of exaggeration
3:54or anything. You can It's mathematics. I
3:56mean, if you have 9 in of energy to give
3:59and you put it into nine different
4:00things, you're going to make 1 in of
4:02progress in each thing.
4:05But if you put 9 in of energy into one
4:07thing, you're going to make 9 in of
4:09progress. It is just as plain and as
4:11simple as that. So, people trying to do
4:14lots of different things, this is them
4:17going nowhere
4:19slowly.
4:20And the people who just rid themselves
4:23of most trivial things and focus on one
4:26specific thing,
4:28they're the ones that make massive
4:30progress. And these are the champions
4:32that you hear about. I will give you an
4:33example. One of them is Michael Phelps.
4:38So, Michael Phelps, his to-do list each
4:41day is wake up,
4:43get in pool.
4:45And that's all he does. He just wakes
4:47up, gets in the pool.
4:50Because all he is trying to do is be the
4:52world's best swimmer. And the only way
4:54he's going to buy he's going to do that
4:56is by practicing. And by removing all of
4:58this crap out of his life and just doing
5:00that each day,
5:02things happen. And really what Michael
5:04Phelps has done
5:06is he's put his energy
5:09into swimming
5:10instead of into Facebook and social
5:12media and into working a 9-to-5 job and
5:16and things like that. That's what he's
5:17done with his energy and you can see
5:19what happens.
5:20Now,
5:22let's talk about some specific things
5:23that you can do to really, you know,
5:25become more productive and really
5:27channel your energy in. Now, the biggest
5:30thing I see people waste time on is
5:33probably
5:35like just put their personal life. You
5:37know, it's not actually their business
5:38stuff. It's personal stuff that's going
5:40to be taking up most of their time. And
5:42typically what I see is it's little
5:44errands or it's it's things they have to
5:46do around the house.
5:48So for example, cleaning your house,
5:51then buying groceries, and then cooking,
5:55and then eating, and then doing dishes,
5:58and thinking about what you're going to
5:59eat, and then
6:01you know, doing your laundry, and if
6:03you've got a garden or lawns, mowing the
6:05lawns, doing the garden, checking the
6:07mail, opening the mail. Like all of
6:09those things, those things there pretty
6:12much the first things that you want to
6:13get rid of.
6:15And the way to get rid of those things
6:18is to really like hire a chef. You know,
6:22if you if you're making more than say
6:24$10,000 a month,
6:27then you you should have a chef. If you
6:30don't have a personal chef and you're
6:31making more than 10 grand a month, then
6:33that is you know, you're you're pretty
6:35much being stupid because you're
6:37spending your time
6:39cooking food and everything when you
6:41should be spending your time doing what
6:42you do best, which is probably running
6:43your business. So one of the best things
6:46I did was hire a personal chef, and her
6:49name's Alyssa, and she comes in here I
6:51think it's like four times a week for
6:53about three hours
6:55each time, and she completely cooks all
6:58of the meals, lunch and dinner for six
7:02days of the week. And then on Sunday, my
7:05wife and I we go out for brunch, and
7:07then we might go out for dinner. We we
7:08leave Sunday to be open, but six days a
7:11week the chef has prepared meals. So all
7:14I have to do,
7:15you know, in the past what I'd have to
7:17do is I'd be working over here at my
7:20desk,
7:22and then I'd be like, oh, it's
7:23lunchtime. I'm hungry. And so then what
7:25I'd do
7:26is I'd wander over to the fridge and the
7:28pantry and look in there, and then there
7:30was nothing really to eat. So I was
7:32like, okay.
7:33Well, now you know, I've got to order
7:36something, or I've got to go out and
7:37grab something. And now I'm like, well,
7:38what should I get? What's close? Where
7:40could I go? Then I usually talk to my
7:43wife and I'm like, "Oh, what do you
7:44want?" Before you know it, like 30
7:46minutes has gone into this exercise just
7:49trying to figure out what to eat. And
7:51then we actually order the thing, and
7:53then it takes like an hour to get
7:54delivered, and then we have to eat the
7:56thing. And you can see like there That's
7:58one meal. That's just lunch on one day a
8:00week. You know, you're probably spending
8:03huge amount of time on things like this,
8:05and it's being completely wasted. You
8:07know, you want to if you're making more
8:09than 10 grand a month, you want to have
8:10a chef. And if you're not making more
8:12than 10 grand a month,
8:14and you're just, you know, money is more
8:15scarce for you, well, there's still
8:17something you can do on the whole food
8:19in the whole food department. What you
8:21want to do is you should buy all of your
8:24groceries once a week on a Sunday, for
8:26example,
8:28and
8:29batch it. Buy everything on that one
8:31time so that you're not going out and
8:32doing like a thousand different things.
8:34Just do it all on one day, and then on
8:36Sunday I'd pretty much cook all of your
8:37meals for the whole week. Just cook
8:39them, put them into little containers,
8:42and then when it's time for lunch each
8:44day, when it's time for dinner each day,
8:46then just go and grab the container,
8:48heat it up, eat it. So, because my chef
8:50isn't here every single day, you know,
8:52you can see that there's stuff in
8:54containers over here.
8:57So that, you know, all we have to do for
8:59dinner tonight, for example, is pull
9:01that out, heat it, and we're good.
9:03So, you know, number one
9:06thing that the the number one thing I
9:07can tell you out of everything I've ever
9:09done that saved the most time is hiring
9:11a chef because, you know, as humans we
9:13have we need to eat quite a lot of
9:14stuff. We don't really think about
9:15objectively, but the a lot of time and a
9:18lot of thought and a lot of energy goes
9:20into food. And so when you can get that
9:22off your plate, it is it is so freeing.
9:25It's more freeing than any book you're
9:26ever going to read on productivity, and
9:29it's more freeing than
9:31anything you could possibly do in terms
9:33of productivity. You know, it's It's
9:35about working harder, it's not about
9:37being more productive, it's just simply
9:38about doing less, getting rid of it.
9:41And then, you know, focusing on what you
9:43do best.
9:44So, get rid of that. And if you can't,
9:46if you don't have the money to do it,
9:48well, batch it. Do all of your
9:50groceries, cook on a Sunday, then just
9:53pull out the containers and eat them.
9:55Now, I'll tell you another thing that I
9:56did
9:58uh to really get more productive.
10:01And that was
10:03hire a personal trainer that actually
10:05lives in my house, and we'll go see him
10:07right now.
10:09Hey, how you doing, mate?
10:10Pretty good.
10:12Good to hear.
10:13What's your name?
10:14Hey, how you doing? Rhett.
10:15So, yes, this is Rhett, and he's my uh
10:18live-in personal trainer. I don't even
10:20know if that's a job title, but
10:22We created it.
10:23if it is, I mean, well, it is now,
10:25because that's what he does. And
10:28really what Rhett does, I'm I may as
10:30well let you just describe like what's
10:32your main
10:34role here?
10:35Pretty much manage all your health. So,
10:37everything from your sleep, nutrition,
10:39fitness,
10:41um
10:42and then managing the chef as well to
10:44make sure all the meals are pretty
10:45specific to Sam.
10:47And that's pretty much it. And then also
10:48like extra
10:49uh health stats and uh sleep tracking
10:52and things like that.
10:53Yep. So, pretty much what I found is
10:56that when I was responsible for going to
10:57the gym myself, it didn't really happen
10:59that that often. But what I did find is
11:02that if I went to the gym, I felt better
11:04and I actually got more done. So, I was
11:05like, what can I do to to like game the
11:09system? What can I do to make myself
11:11actually go to the gym all the time? And
11:14instead of just trying to be more
11:15productive, the answer was just get rid
11:17of it. You know, make Because Rhett's in
11:20my house, every day he's going to be
11:21waiting by the door at 6:50 in the
11:24morning to go to the gym.
11:26And that means I have to do it. And then
11:28when I did that, I also don't have to
11:30remember like what am I training on this
11:32day or what am I doing here or any of
11:34that stuff. You know, Rhett completely
11:36has that covered and he looks after all
11:38of that. And more than that, he also uh
11:42we have a chef, but Rhett plans the
11:44meals. So, he'll look at different
11:46recipes for the week, for the month, and
11:48he'll plan what meals we're going to
11:50have when, and then he'll order the
11:52groceries online from Whole Foods.
11:54Groceries will get delivered, he gets
11:56them here, puts them in the fridge. Then
11:57when the chef comes here, he gives the
11:59recipes to the chef, and then the food
12:01is in the fridge, so the chef just gets
12:03the food and the recipe and then cooks
12:04the food. And so, all of that stuff's
12:07covered, and I don't have to do anything
12:09there. All I have to do is walk to the
12:11table, eat it, and then walk back to my
12:13desk. And everything from buying the
12:15groceries, preparing them, cooking it,
12:17thinking about what meals are going to
12:18go where, and even doing the dishes, I
12:22don't have to do any of it.
12:23And that makes
12:26Well, that makes me
12:28it gives me way more energy, or I've
12:31really got the same amount of energy,
12:32but instead of it going into those
12:33things, it can go into what I do best,
12:36and that helps a ton. Also, what I got
12:38Rhett to do is basically like observe
12:42me. So, you know, what I'm most afraid
12:45of really is
12:47is tripping up and forgetting, you know,
12:49what I'm supposed to do because that's
12:50what happens. And
12:53really, in the past where I've gotten to
12:55trouble and I've diverted from my goals,
12:58it's when I have like broken my routine.
13:02So, I might have started going to bed
13:03later, waking up later, and when that
13:05gets out of alignment, then everything
13:07else it's like an avalanche. You know,
13:09when you break one little thing,
13:10everything just just explodes. And so
13:13then what happens is I forget what my
13:15routine was, I stop going to the gym, I
13:16start eating bad again, and we're
13:18completely off the rails. So, Rhett's
13:21role also is to make is to kind of
13:23observe me, make sure that I'm going to
13:26bed at at right time, waking up at the
13:27right time, and also, you know, not
13:30eating bad food, taking the right
13:31supplements, and he also tracks my
13:34health stats using something called a an
13:36aura ring. That's o u r a and it's o u r
13:40a r i n g, you can Google it. And those
13:42things are awesome. That tracks your
13:43sleep and it really gives you data and
13:46metrics on how well you're sleeping. And
13:49I can tell you that, you know, one of
13:50the best things that you can do in terms
13:53of productivity is to get better sleep.
13:55And why that is is because
13:58Yeah, it's more important than diet,
13:59more important than exercise. Like we've
14:00tracked it. Like we have looked at what
14:03happens when, you know, you have
14:05uh
14:06good exercise, but you don't get diet
14:08right. And we've looked at what happens
14:10when you get diet right, but you don't
14:11exercise. And then we've looked at what
14:12happens when you get diet right,
14:14exercise right, but not sleep. And the
14:16most important factor out of all of
14:18those things is sleep. So, and it's the
14:21it's funny cuz that's the one thing
14:22people probably shortchange themselves
14:24on.
14:24Absolutely.
14:25And what really happens when you don't
14:27sleep properly is your conscious mind,
14:31it get it kind of shuts down a little
14:33bit. Because, you know, when you're
14:35asleep, your conscious mind's asleep and
14:37your subconscious mind is doing the
14:39breathing and everything for you.
14:41However, when you're awake, you're
14:42mostly, you know, with your conscious
14:43mind. And what happens is when you get
14:46really tired, your conscious starts to
14:48get weaker. And your conscious mind is
14:50really the police officer of what you
14:52should be doing and sticking to a
14:54routine and a schedule and all of that.
14:56So, as soon as you start shortchanging
14:58yourself on sleep, what you'll find is
15:00that you start shortchanging yourself on
15:03everything. You'll forget what you're
15:05even supposed to be doing and you'll be
15:07way more distractible. You know, that's
15:10why what that's why cults and uh the
15:12military, the army,
15:14the first thing they do when you go to a
15:16cult and when you go into the army is
15:18they'll deprive you of sleep. Because it
15:20makes you more brainwashable.
15:23You know, if you're tired, it's easy to
15:24convince you of something that you
15:26didn't really want, and it's easy to to
15:29brainwash you and turn you into
15:30something that is controlled by somebody
15:33else. And so, you know, it's it's an
15:35age-old tactic, and that just show that
15:38just goes to show that, you know, having
15:41not enough sleep, it's it's it's it can
15:44do huge harm. And that's why you want to
15:46make sure that you get at least 8 hours
15:48every single night.
15:50So, this is Rhett.
15:52And if you don't if you don't have
15:55enough money to hire a personal trainer
15:57and move them into your house and do all
15:59of that, which I'm well aware of for
16:01people that are watching, cuz not
16:03everyone can just hire a chef and and
16:05get a personal trainer into their house.
16:07But, what would you recommend, Rhett,
16:08for
16:09sleep, exercise, fitness, diet?
16:13Uh because you've been a personal
16:14trainer for a while. If you don't have
16:15the funds, like what what is the best
16:17thing you can do?
16:18So, if you don't have the funds to hire
16:19anyone, I would recommend firstly buying
16:22an Aura ring and just getting your sleep
16:23on track down pat. Then, I would
16:26honestly hire either a nutrition coach
16:30or a fitness coach to then guide you
16:32through, like an online coach,
16:34which is a lot cheaper than in person,
16:36obviously, to guide you through
16:38everything that you need to be doing to
16:39be able to hold yourself accountable.
16:41And then, finally,
16:43what I would do is just make sure you're
16:45exercising every day. And no matter what
16:48it is, just get your body moving, eat
16:50clean foods, cut out processed foods,
16:52and that'll take you 90% of the way
16:54there.
16:55It's good advice.
16:57Yeah, you absolutely
16:59it.
17:00Simplify it right down.
17:01Mhm.
17:02And have you found that when people have
17:04routines that they're more likely to
17:07complete the exercise and everything
17:08like that?
17:09Yeah, you've got to plan your day, 100%.
17:11And that's what I've found, too. Is I'm
17:13just going to go back to the office now,
17:15but thanks for that.
17:15Hey, guys.
17:16Um that's what I found too. When I
17:20you know, naturally really what I what I
17:22like to do and what I used to do, which
17:24was a big trap and it hurt me a lot, was
17:28just take every day as it comes and not
17:30create any routine or any schedule or
17:32any plan and just
17:34just have a bunch of freedom.
17:35And while that's kind of nice, it also
17:38sucks because you don't get to achieve
17:40your dreams and you don't get to do the
17:42big things that you really want to do.
17:45And so after trying to get things done
17:47having a completely open schedule and
17:49failing to get things done, I decided,
17:52you know, I really need to have a strict
17:54routine, like a protocol to follow. And
17:57when I implemented one of these, like
17:59everything changed for me, everything
18:01shifted.
18:02And what you really want to do
18:04is set like very strict rules for
18:08yourself each day.
18:10And what I mean by that is you what you
18:11need to have a wake up time that is the
18:13same every single day, Monday to Sunday.
18:16And if you don't when you start to have
18:18one of those, you you know your day
18:20starting at this time and you know
18:21you're going to be in bed at this time.
18:23So you know when you're going to be
18:24asleep and now you can plan what you're
18:26going to do with all the hours in
18:27between.
18:28But when you don't have one of those,
18:29you don't know how to plan, you don't
18:30know how to schedule things in and it
18:32just doesn't work.
18:33So you want to create a strict schedule
18:36and then you have to be extreme you have
18:39to have like monk-like discipline to
18:40stick to it. You'll you know, you'll
18:42you'll want to do every anything you can
18:44to break it, but you have to stick to
18:45it. The more disciplined you are, the
18:47more money you make. That's just how it
18:48works. You know, a lot of business and a
18:50lot of success is just ruthless
18:52discipline and how strict you can be on
18:55yourself.
18:56And
18:57what I do is, you know, I finish work
19:00every night in between 8:00 and 9:00
19:01p.m.
19:02and then I'm in bed by 10:00 and I have
19:04to be asleep by 11:00. That's the
19:06protocol for going to sleep. Then I wake
19:08up at 6:50 a.m. and then training starts
19:12at 7:00 a.m. with Rhett. We go down to
19:14the gym, we train for an hour, then I
19:16come back, and then I immediately have a
19:18shower, and that happens at roughly 8:00
19:21a.m.
19:22The shower, and then I get changed and
19:23dressed and all of that. We're at like
19:258:30 a.m.
19:27And then at 8:30 a.m. I have my morning
19:29smoothie and my supplements and
19:31everything, which Rhett's prepared. Have
19:33those, then I log my health stats from
19:34my Oura Ring into a Google Doc tracking
19:38sheet, so we can track all of that. And
19:40now we're at 9:00 a.m.
19:42And then at 9:00 a.m. I interview one of
19:44my customers for about 30 to 45 minutes.
19:48And then after that, it's about 10:00
19:50a.m. And that's when my day starts, but
19:52every single morning I do those things.
19:54I forgot one other thing, I meditate.
19:57So,
19:58after I have the breakfast and all my
20:01morning smoothie and my supplements, it
20:03would be 8:30, and then I go into my
20:06bedroom and I meditate for 20 minutes,
20:09and now we're at 8:50, and then when
20:119:00 comes, I'm doing the customer
20:12interview. And then my real work day
20:14starts at 10:00 a.m. And those are all
20:17the things I do before 10:00 a.m.
20:19And really what, you know, I can get
20:21more stuff done by 10:00 a.m. than most
20:22people do in like a week.
20:24And then I go in and and do my day's
20:27work, and typically I will work from
20:30home
20:32uh one day I'll work from home four days
20:34a week, and then I'll work from my
20:37office, the consulting.com headquarters
20:40in here in New York. I work from my
20:42office
20:43uh one day a week. And the reason why I
20:45do that is because one of the best
20:48strategies I have for getting things
20:50done and really being efficient and
20:52productive is to just completely isolate
20:54myself. You know, it's really my secret
20:57weapon is just to lock the windows,
20:58close the doors, turn everything off,
21:01turn off my phone, put it in another
21:03room,
21:04and then to not don't look at my email,
21:07Don't look at social media. Don't look
21:08at anything. Lock the windows, close the
21:10doors, isolate myself, and just do it.
21:14That really is, you know, my secret
21:16weapon. And the people I've taught it
21:18to, it's become their secret weapon,
21:20too.
21:21And so, if there's really, you know, a
21:24few main points you take from this
21:26video, the first one
21:28has got to be this.
21:30Energy.
21:32How many things are you doing? Where
21:34does it go?
21:36And if you do one thing, that's the
21:38progress you can make. If you do many,
21:40that's the progress you're going to
21:41make.
21:43And a lot of people, they're like
21:45Like, they think that I make quite a bit
21:46of money with my consulting business.
21:49Be And they wonder how I do it with only
21:51really one product and one funnel.
21:54And it's funny, you people even write
21:56posts about it, asking how it's possible
21:58and all of these things. But, it it
22:00comes back to this. You know, if lots of
22:02people have I see some people and they
22:05have multiple
22:07You know, as soon as I see someone with
22:08multiple businesses, I know that they're
22:10poor, pretty much. Because this is going
22:12on.
22:13And then, with when people have multiple
22:15websites
22:16Again, when people have too many
22:18products
22:20When people have too many funnels
22:22When people have too many anything, this
22:24happens.
22:26And when people really focus, this
22:28happens.
22:29So, in my life, I'm always trying to
22:31find out what's that one thing.
22:33So, me, I only have one business. It's
22:35consulting.com.
22:37And I only really in that business only
22:40really have one product. I'm about to
22:42really I'm about to roll out my second
22:44one now. But, in order to do that, I've
22:47had to be in this business for like 5, 6
22:50years. And now we have about 50
22:52employees before I can actually go from
22:54one thing to two. And you might think,
22:57"Oh, but how You won't be able to make
22:58that much money with only doing one
23:00thing." It's the exact opposite. My
23:02business makes significantly more than
23:04anybody else I know with multiple
23:06products. So,
23:08you know, don't fall for this massive
23:11fallacy that by doing more you're going
23:13to make more cuz what I see happen and
23:15what history shows us is that doing more
23:18often gets you less.
23:20And if we look at the people that focus,
23:23they're the people who achieve more. So,
23:25the answer is to do less, not more.
23:28And if you if you want to really get
23:30things like if you want to really get
23:32things done, you have to lock the
23:34windows, close the doors, shut
23:35everything off,
23:37isolate yourself,
23:38and then just do it.
23:40It is an extremely good strategy. You
23:42don't have to be connected to people all
23:44the time.
23:45You know, I see a lot of people they've
23:46got uh on their phone they've got like
23:4950 apps. On my phone I have four apps.
23:53And those apps, those four apps, they
23:55have notifications turned off. And then
23:57my iPhone is on airplane mode. And then
24:00it's in a drawer.
24:02So, it's totally off. But most other
24:04people I see they've got like 50 apps,
24:06all of them push notifications to them,
24:08phone's on loud, sitting right where
24:10they can see it, and then they're at
24:11their computer with like 50 tabs open.
24:14And every single tab is blue is blurping
24:17at them. And then every 10 seconds their
24:19damn phone is vibrating.
24:22And how the hell can you get anything
24:23done with that going on?
24:25So, I have really strict rules. My When
24:27I'm working at my computer, my phone is
24:29off and it's in my drawer.
24:31And then if I'm on my phone, I only want
24:33four apps and I I don't want to see all
24:35these notifications anywhere. I just go
24:37into the one I need to use, get it, use
24:39it, do what I need to do, and then get
24:40out, done, phone's back in the drawer
24:42and off.
24:43You know, you need to shut all of these
24:44things off and get rid of them.
24:46And I can give you one awesome
24:48productivity tip right now. Delete
24:50everything. Go on to your phone right
24:52now. Look at all the apps you've got and
24:54just get rid of them all. You only need
24:56about four or five. Just delete them
24:58all. You don't need them, and if you do,
25:00you can always download one.
25:01It's It's fine. You can download it
25:02later, but just get rid of them all.
25:04And then make sure none of them are
25:05pushing notifications to you. Turn all
25:07your notifications off.
25:09And I don't have Facebook on my phone. I
25:12don't use Snapchat at all. And
25:16uh you know, I don't have really any
25:17social media apps at all on my phone
25:19except for Instagram just because I post
25:22stories throughout uh throughout the day
25:25uh so that my customers and everything
25:26can can get updates. That's really all I
25:28use it for.
25:30And then another one is your phone. So,
25:32who has your phone number?
25:34And a lot of people, they give their
25:36phone number to like everybody. And
25:38their phone number, one way you can tell
25:40if somebody's poor
25:41is if their phone number, their mobile
25:43phone number is in their email
25:44signature.
25:46So, if someone's got their mobile phone
25:47in their email signature, they're poor.
25:49And if someone's got their mobile phone
25:51on a business card, they're poor.
25:53Because wealthy people would not be so
25:56stupid with their time.
25:59They wouldn't give people a way to
26:00distract them.
26:02I don't have a business card because I
26:04don't want to give one to anyone because
26:06now they know my email and my phone
26:07number and they'll be able to call me.
26:08So, I don't even have them.
26:10And then my email footer
26:12does not have anything in it. It just is
26:14Sam.
26:15And so, these are some other things you
26:16can do to really stop distractions
26:19coming in. And another thing you can do
26:21is just change your phone number.
26:23You know, every few months I just change
26:24my phone number so that people who have
26:27gathered it from from the past, they
26:29call it, it's just dead. So, really only
26:31about five people know my phone number,
26:33and even if they call me, my phone's off
26:34and it's in my drawer.
26:36And so, you want to start looking at all
26:38of these ways that people can get access
26:40to you and start cutting them all off.
26:43You want to get rid of it all. You know,
26:44make sure that your attention is is is
26:49really protected like the precious thing
26:50that it is. Don't give people ways to
26:53distract you. Get rid of them. Barricade
26:55yourself off.
26:57And so,
26:58that's, you know, that's really why I
27:01think productivity is complete
27:03and the answer is to do less instead.
27:06And I'll leave you with one final thing,
27:08and this is
27:09this is something that really plagues
27:12most people on Earth right now.
27:15I'd say social media is probably the
27:16number one cancer, actually. Social
27:18media is probably the worst thing in the
27:20world
27:21for getting things done right now.
27:23It's, you know, you want to get rid of
27:25it. Get rid of everything you can on
27:27social media. Delete it all, and just
27:30try and be disciplined and only use it
27:32for like 30 minutes a day just to post
27:33some stuff, reply to some stuff, out.
27:36That's the first thing that I can see is
27:38killing most people.
27:40The second thing is email.
27:42You know, with email, people have it
27:45pushing notifications to them, so their
27:47phone's constantly going zzz zzz zzz.
27:49And it's they're constantly checking
27:50these emails, and then on their computer
27:52it's going ding ding ding, and they're
27:54they're constantly checking these
27:55emails.
27:56Get rid of it.
27:57Turn the notifications off, and only
28:01check your email
28:02like once every 3 days.
28:04You know, me, I will check my email once
28:07pretty much every 3 days unless I need
28:09to go in there to find something. And
28:10then I'll reply to things once every 3
28:13days, and then I'll just leave it.
28:15Nothing's that urgent that people need
28:17to get in touch with me right now. And
28:18if it was that urgent, they'd find me
28:20another way.
28:22So, you know, email. Stop being reactive
28:25to things. You know, stop reacting to
28:27all of this noise that's trying to
28:29bombard you every day.
28:31Enforce your will, and enforce what you
28:35want upon, you know, other people.
28:39Because otherwise, you know, they're
28:41going to enforce their will upon you.
28:44And a famous, I don't think this is
28:46actually famous, but a really good quote
28:48that somebody told me once
28:51was Sam, if you don't have a plan
28:55you'll become a part of somebody else's.
28:58And so every time someone's trying to
29:00get your attention with a with social
29:02media, with email, a text, a call,
29:06anytime someone's trying to get your
29:07attention with anything
29:08they're trying to enforce their will and
29:11their plan on you.
29:13And so you have to get rid of that and
29:15you have to protect it and you have to
29:18make sure that you're following nobody's
29:20guidance other than your own.
29:23And that really is like
29:25probably the most powerful thing that
29:26you can do to achieve success in life
29:29and business
29:30is to be disciplined, block out the
29:32noise, work out what you want, focus on
29:35it obsessively
29:37and then it just work on it every single
29:39day to get it done.
29:42So that's pretty much it for this video.
29:45I wanted to tell you why I think doing
29:47too many things and trying to use 20
29:49softwares to do it is just
29:51It's a waste of time.
29:52And if you really want to achieve
29:53anything meaningful in life and business
29:56do less.
29:57Find out what that one thing is, obsess
30:00over it and just do that every single
30:02day and it will take you where you want
30:03to go.
30:04So that's it for this video. Thanks for
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