I'm checking in from Lothlorian with some wisdom you can apply in your own life.
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So anyway, what I want to talk about, I want to give some advice on how to be more productive.
If you are some sort of entrepreneur or even if you are a student or you just have a regular job, if you want to do more work with the time you're given, then this can be good advice.
Now before I begin to talk about the actual advice, I would just like to respond to the question how I can be so productive, how I can have so many projects going, etc.
And I would like to say that I'm not alone in this.
I do have my lovely and loving wife who, well, we basically do everything together and she's also a photographer which means that we can be super effective when it comes to taking pictures and taking pictures.
If you have companies etc, it's a huge part of everything.
So we can be quite effective in that regard.
Means I don't have to book any photographers to go to etc.
We can just do it on the go a lot of times.
Then also of course she cooks for me and takes great care of me and our daughter so it allows me to be super productive and you know focus on the work at hand.
So that is a good reason.
Then also I'm not bound to anything other than an internet connection so I can be productive basically wherever I am.
It's fun if I meditate upon all the times I've just responded to important emails on the go at various places.
It's quite fun and also, of course, since I don't need to get to an office, I don't need to commute an hour each way, I can just do it wherever and have all my stuff saves a lot of time.
But anyway, those were just two aspects that might be unique for me.
I have a lot of benefits when it comes to being productive, but what I would like to, the advice I would like to give to you, which you can probably take to heart, no matter your individual situation, is that and this might sound a bit counterintuitive, but it's to actually work less, or study less, or even train less, so we can take a gym, for example.
A lot of guys ask how much time do I spend in the gym, and it's usually 45 minutes, something like that might not sound like a lot, but you know, you go in with your plan, you get the things done, you hit your heavy compound exercises, hopefully, you progress.
You don't need to do anything more than that, you don't need to feel that you need to spend more time in the gym just for the sake of it.
You have your plan, go in, smash the weights, and get out.
45 minutes is not a lot of time, so I don't spend a whole lot of time in the gym either.
I don't even train every day.
I do try to train every day, but certain days I, for whatever reason, might be away or something.
Okay, then I can't train.
It's fine.
I have accumulated enough training sessions via a consistent plan for long enough that it's fine.
So, that being said, in order for you to have a good session, a good 45-minute session, you need to take care of your sleep and your diet.
You need to take an example: if you are about to progress in your squats or deadlifts, you need to have your sleep on point, you need to have your diet on point, otherwise, you can't, physiologically speaking, you can't get to wait up.
And if you view it like that, your other work, if you are an entrepreneur or if you are working with some sort of creative stuff, if you work less, but if you take more time to optimize the time you're actually working, if you sleep more, you can be more effective when you are actually working.
So, I will take an example from my own.
Well, it was about two years ago.
So, we were, my wife and I were putting on stickers on Utoname Nutritions.
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Some good extra content in the video.
A very cute squirrel appeared to bless this video.
Bless you all with productivity.
So, anyway, in the beginning, now of course we have fully printed bags, looks better, saves time, higher startup cost, of course, but in the long run, it's we actually save money by doing it.
But in the beginning, we put on stickers directly onto the bags, you know, for you to name amino acids strawberry flavor.
And I'd made a little mistake when I ordered the stickers because I had forgotten to put on the fact that each bag weighed 400 grams.
So, So, I'm interjecting in my own video here to just show exactly what I mean.
So, you can see on the bag to the right there, you have the nice design of the strawberry amino acids, and then you have a 400-gram sticker in red.
So, you know, I took this example because it's not a big deal, it didn't set us back in any meaningful way, but it was just a lesson for me to be a bit more careful when I do these sort of things.
And speaking of which, because I utilized this example in a very good conversation I had with my man Solbra on Solcast the other day, so I thought you'd aware of the fact that I was on that podcast as well.
And I yeah, I took this example in our conversation because I thought it was a good mundane, not overly dramatic, but a good example to explain what I mean.
So, anyway, back to the video.
And you know, by law, it has to be stated on the bag the weight of the content.
So, I had to order smaller stickers, just saying 400 grams, and we had to put those on the bags also.
Now, in retrospect, if I had maybe slept half an hour more, if I had maybe taken it a bit more easy before finishing the first batch of stickers, I perhaps wouldn't have made that mistake.
And then I wouldn't have had to order more smaller stickers to complement with, and we wouldn't have to spend any time putting on the smaller stickers.
So, if I had taken more care about my recovery, etc. I would have saved time and money in the long run.
So, that is just one example.
If you have if you view the creative time or work time more in the sense that you have to be as sharp as possible when you do it, it starts to make sense.
Now, of course, a lot of entrepreneurs like to almost brag about how much they work.
And, of course, yeah, there's been days where I have spent a lot of time just doing certain stuff, but certain things you can't get away from doing, you just have to do it.
But otherwise, there is no real virtue in working long hours for the sake of it.
No one cares ultimately.
What people care about is the result: the results of your work, the results of your design, or your product, or your writing, or your video for that matter.
That is what people care about.
If I make a video on YouTube and I've spent an hour on it, or I can make a video spending 10 hours, it doesn't really matter.
The thing that matters is the end result.
Same thing with a supplement label or whatever it is.
The important thing is the end result.
And can you do it in an hour?
It's better to do it in an hour than it is to do it in 10 hours.
Why?
Yes, because it's less chance or less risk, should I say, that you make mistakes.
If you work on something with 10 hours, you will probably make some sort of mistake that will cost you.
And this is also something to keep in mind: if you are your own man, if you are an entrepreneur, you have a company, there might be a lot of money on the line, and you can't afford to not be as clear as possible in your mind.
So for me, if I have slept poorly for whatever reason, you know, our daughter is quite nice, she sleeps well, but for whatever reason, if she does not, I've had a bad sleep, I'm not going to take any important decisions.
I'm not going to create anything of importance.
Because if I need to make something as good as possible, I need to have optimized my sleep and my diet exactly the same thing as in the gym.
Your deadlift set, it might be over in 10 minutes, but the previous 24 hours you need to have everything in order for you to be able to perform.
Same thing if you are creating something and it needs to be perfect.
Okay, then you don't have the opportunity, you don't have the luxury to be tired when you're doing it because then you will have to there might be the case that you have to redo it or it might cost you a lot because you made a mistake.
So sleeping more will probably save you both time and money.
So, you know, if you hear someone talk about, oh team, no sleep, etc.
Sheer madness, absolute madness, then of course there are certain things that are more, you know doesn't really require you to think all too much, that you can do when you are a bit more tired, but for the important work, I would never do it if I'm tired.
I save that for the days when I'm, you know, feeling good in my mind, which is the absolute majority of days, because I also take care of my, you know diet training sleep, etc.
So I'm always ready to be productive.
So, talking about sleep again, if you say I have so much to do, therefore I need to sleep less, you can also try to sleep more but do more things during your work time and that will also have, you know, a better impact on your long-term health, so you can be productive for longer, because you know everything is basically a marathon, it's not a sprint.
Then, of course, certain situations, you might, for whatever you might, for whatever reason, need to sleep less.
But in the most cases, most scenarios, try to sleep as much as possible, try to minimize the work time, but try to be as productive as humanly possible during the.
The hours you are productive, then also do not feel bad or guilty for not being, you know, doing work all the time.
View your downtime, view your rest time as active recovery.
You're recharging your batteries, and if you don't, if you don't recharge your batteries, then you can't keep going as productively as possible.
So view it.
View your work as a gym session.
View it, as you know, a set of max deadlifts.
You have to optimize everything in advance to do the most you can in a short period of time.
So if you want to be as productive as possible again recapping here take care of your sleep, take care of your diet, take care of your training and take care of you know yourself.
You also need to do other things so you can approach your work again with renewed vigor If you need it.
So, anyway, I hope that was somewhat useful for you at least.
