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All right, so in this video, I'm going to walk you through some productivity tools that you can use

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to help increase your focus to make sure that you're not getting distracted going on, you know, YouTube,

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browsing the web and not doing what you don't need to do and really just focusing in on what you're

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supposed to be doing, which is getting work done.

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Right.

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And so what this allows you to do is select different type of focus music that you can listen to that

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will help you increase your focus, your productivity and minimize your distraction.

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So let me show you here how this looks inside.

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I mean, I use this every day, extremely powerful.

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So you have here different time blocks.

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You have 30 minute block, one hour block to hour block.

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Right.

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And if you listen to one of these play and you don't like how it sounds, you can go ahead and skip

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that, OK?

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Or you can go up here and you can go to more music.

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So you can go with lo fi focus, classical focus, you can go to relaxation, sleep.

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Obviously, you don't want, you know, these two here unless you're wanting to relax.

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However, this tool is going to be mostly for focus, OK?

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And so really what I would do is when you're trying to get something done, put on some focused music

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here, I would say for two hour block and you don't get working.

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And this is scientifically proven to actually help you increase your focus.

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So it's not just, you know, people saying, hey, just listen to this music and you're going to be

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10 times more productive.

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It gets you in the state of mind where you're in flow and you're completely relaxed.

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You're focused on what you need to do and there's no distractions.

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And so I highly recommend this tool so that you can increase your focus.

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Right.

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Increase your productivity and have specific time blocks of, let's say, two hours, or if maybe you

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want to go hard in the paint and you want to put this on a limited well, you can go to work for, you

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know, four or five, six hours.

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I wouldn't recommend that.

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However, this tool here is extremely important.

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So I highly recommend that you pick this up.

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I think it's about five to ten dollars a month.

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However, like I said, I mean, it'll be totally worth it with your increase in productivity and your

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increase of focus.

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OK, and so the next thing that I want to share with you here is the Ivy League method, OK?

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And this is more of a daily routine.

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And what this is here is it gives you a set of steps to do every single night.

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So basically at the end of each workday, you want to write down the six most important things that

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you need to accomplish tomorrow, right?

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The next day.

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Now, it's important here that you do not write down more than six because you can get quite overwhelming.

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And so then you want to prioritize those six items in order to their true importance.

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So what is it that you need to get done first and then, you know, number those one six and then when

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you get up in the morning or when you start your day.

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Right.

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You want to focus on that first task and work on it until it's actually completely finished before you

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move on to the next one.

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Right.

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And so you want to approach the rest of your day in that manner right where you are, you know, doing

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your first task, you know, doing whatever you need to do to finish that and then you're moving on

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to the next.

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So this is huge here.

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So every night when you go to bed or before you go to bed, right down the six things that you need

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to do the next day and then prioritize them.

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And, you know, as far as the most important to the least important.

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Right.

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And do this every day so that you'll know what you need to do the next day.

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Right.

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Plan for tomorrow.

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Today.

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OK, very, very powerful.

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And then the next thing that I recommend that you do is you install the news feed eradicators for your

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Facebook profile, OK, because this is going to limit your distractions.

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So if you see here on mine, I have this installed here, which means I can't see any ads.

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And so it limits me from going on to Facebook on my computer.

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Yeah.

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So have it on my phone.

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However, another thing that I do with my phone is I hate it, which is another thing that I recommend.

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If you are working and you're trying to get things done, you're listening to, you know, bring FM,

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get your phone and hide it somewhere or put it in some kind of cupboard and some kind of drawer, some

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kind of a desk so that it's away from you.

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It's not easily accessible.

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Right.

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All you got to do is get it on the chrome extension here, install that up here.

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And so it allows you to block your entire news feed.

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Very, very powerful.

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And then the other thing that I want to share with you here is the concept of batching, OK?

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And this is where you are essentially blocking out a day or a certain set of hours where you're dedicated

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to just.

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Working on what you need to get done, and so, for example, here for myself, I create YouTube videos

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and I try to post them, you know, three or four or five times a week.

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Now, I don't create my videos on the day of right.

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I actually batch record my videos all on one day.

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So on Saturday, what I'll do is I'll block out the entire day to just record YouTube videos and I'll

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record five or six videos all at once.

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So then throughout the week I can drip them out.

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Right.

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And so what allows me to do is instead of having the, you know, work, you know, refocussed work,

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refocussed work.

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Right.

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Refocussed work, instead of going through that whole entire process, I can now just block out a day,

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get everything knocked at once, and then be able to have free time to do whatever I want.

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So think about how you can use this to your advantage, how you can block out time or even days where

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you just focus on one thing and you're able to knock that out and execute on other tasks.

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So that's going to be here for the productivity tools.

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And we'll see you on the next one.