what's up friends Doug Cunnington here we're talking about getting more done in
less time now want to make sure everyone can hear me but I'm gonna go over a
couple quick exercises that you could do that will hopefully help you get more
stuff done in less time I'm going to mention a couple of announcements as
well I know it takes a couple minutes for people to hop on notifications come
out or do not come out but we're gonna roll with it a see success rollercoaster
is on good to have you on so couple things to mention now there are a few
links in the description so check them out one announcement I have today is the
Productivity masterclass is indeed out that's one of the reasons I've been
talking about productivity and it's one of the reasons I'm talking about
productivity today now I'm not just gonna try and push the course or
anything like that because it's a beta version and I actually need to limit the
number of people in there so I could work with them individually so this is
going to be helpful like most of my videos a couple big things that people
do to sort of I guess sabotage themselves when they're trying to get a
difficult because here is the reality for most people let me know in the chat
by the way if you're around we got fur hand on welcome one of the kind
moderators and one of the new students thank you for hopping on good to have
you on here you'll notice a book of productivity a stack of productivity
books behind me and I'll talk about those in a second but the thing is a lot
of us are busy right so full-time job you have a family maybe if you have a
full-time job you have to commute and maybe you have other obligations maybe
you have children right so that takes time just to spend time with them as
well and probably one of the most important things you can do right so
it's not that you have to spend time with them it's just it
you know it's reality that's the time that you want to spend
additionally they may have like activities maybe volunteer maybe you're
like a coach for a team or something like that
very very common if you have more than one child you probably want to do that
for multiple of the kids that's a lot of time and I could appreciate like how a
person would have to balance and then put on top of that you may have to be
driving back and forth depending on where you live
driving back and forth to practices or that sort of thing
could take just hours all alone so the fact is we're all super super busy and
it's very difficult to you know get things done or if you just have a hobby
maybe you don't have kids maybe you're trying to take you know a pottery class
after work and you know spend time learning how to do you know pottery
maybe you wanna learn a foreign language so you can take a trip there's all these
different constraints we have to deal with the problem comes up when we try to
do like way too many things and we see other people right that are getting a
whole lot of stuff done and we don't see behind the scenes that's just part of
what this productivity course is going to be about by the way is you'll be able
to see behind the scenes on what I'm doing and how I'm doing it because it
looks like externally that I am super well organized and getting a crazy
amount done I'm pretty organized in certain areas but I still have the days
where it's difficult to like figure out where to focus so there's a couple
exercises that you can do that's what I'll get to pretty quickly here and let
me know what's going on here in the chat I'm going to come back to and I'm just
gonna say hello to Charles JK Danish hi hi Anthony and Duke as well so I'm gonna
come back up to the chat so feel free to ask questions productivity related if
you can keep it productive related will be way more relevant than
if you asked about affiliate marketing so don't ask about affiliate marketing
if you can help it you could help yourself if you do have a question about
affiliate marketing Friday in the live session is the time to do it okay so a
couple quick things that I could point out to you and it's really about
understanding like the things that you need to get done and you probably have
them all on your head and that's kind of helpful however I could tell you when
you have a bunch of stuff going on in your head and you're storing all your
ideas in your head and your to-do list and the things you have to do when
you're thinking about keywords perhaps and you keep thinking about taking your
kids to practice and you're thinking about you know your boss who's who's
been on your case trying to get you to do other stuff and then your other your
other boss you're probably one of four or five bosses is trying to help you get
promoted and there's just so much stuff going on it's simply overwhelming so one
of the simplest things you could do is just a brain dump exercise I didn't make
it up it's pretty common in in different areas you can do it in the form of like
bullets where you just jot down like different areas that you have tasks to
do right so it could be like home tasks and then you divide it up to like your
own hobbies like housework long-term projects and like you know projects for
your children or something like that you have work-related tasks and maybe that
is you know a big project that you're working on and maybe it's trying to get
promoted and then helping other people that work for you get promoted right so
there could be various areas to work in and you just you know get it out of your
brain write it down now you can do in the form of a mind map if you appreciate
that sort of structure you could just get post-it notes and do it that way you
can get a huge piece of paper and write it down if you have a whiteboard you can
do that it really doesn't matter what format and again in in the productivity
masterclass course it's tool agnostic right so whatever you prefer maybe you
like to stand up and work on a whiteboard that's on the wall and
just have that space and you want to use different color markers maybe that
inspires you that's cool I actually have different color pens you
know that that is something for whatever reason I enjoy different color pens even
though I don't I don't have like a structure or method to the madness
because it doesn't matter it's just a little fun for me to do so if you could
just get these ideas out of your head you will feel better trust me in a lot
of times it only takes like 10 minutes or so if you drink a lot of drink a lot
of coffee that is one of the secrets to my madness is I consume a lot of
caffeine you know and then other times I just don't I'll stop drinking it for a
week or two just to you know reset and not be so amped up on the caffeine but
the point is you could quickly get these ideas out of your head
if you just stop ignore everything else I can just write these things down max
it'll take you 30 minutes probably now it doesn't mean that's everything right
but if you just sit down get rid of the distractions write them down you'll feel
much better most of the time it's really quick and then you may think of other
things later go back and add to it right you can go back and add to it but
usually you can't think of those secondary or tertiary things until you
end up you know writing that out the the main things that are bogging you down so
if you just do that you'll be way better off you want beaze overwhelmed and
stressed out and in fact they could tell you you know over the last few years
especially when I was just getting started online I was like actually the
situation that I described except for the kids is a hundred percent accurate
so I was trying to get promoted at my job I had a team of like ten people
working for me I was learning stuff online
I had a few sites going and I was trying to write a blog a niche site project and
I was really big in the brewing beer judging and I was actually grading
exam so these are like you know multi-page essays that I had to grade
and I would get like a stack of anywhere from actually it was about 12 to 14
typically and it would take about two to three hours to grade each one so I was
doing this all at the same time and we were also traveling a little bit okay so
I was doing all this stuff and I was just every now and then I'd get
overwhelmed maybe I didn't get enough sleep maybe I was a little hungry and my
wife would say you know what just write everything down and after I resisted a
little while I knew she was right I would do the exercise myself anyway but
you know if someone else suggests sit sometimes you're resistant and that is a
symptom of being overwhelmed as well so I wrote this stuff out and then I was
able to prioritize properly and that's that's the thing that you get out of it
don't focus on the prioritization so you get these ideas out of your head then
you can figure out where they go and in your master plan right but the key is to
get these ideas out of your head now I'm gonna hop back over to the chat
for a moment here this is the main idea I'm trying to get out here just get
these ideas out of your head you could do it in the form of journaling that's
another nice way to do it depending on if you're a journaling type person or if
you're more of a bullet point type person I go back and forth it's nice to
have a narrative too to just get things out of your head stream-of-consciousness
you don't have to filter it you can come back and get the Nuggets later now we'll
talk about some of those books back there but let me hop to the chat Anthony
asks how many kids do I have I don't have any kids but I have a dog named
Georgie she's resting next to me in Anthony asks how much sleep do I get per
day that depends ideally I would love to get
eight hours per day but depending on the season and what I have going on I can
get anywhere from you know six to seven and a half or eight so I would actually
like to get more and I I know that probably over the last month or so
publishing all these YouTube videos and doing other things
I think I've only been getting about six and a half hours or so but I definitely
would prefer to get a little bit more but a lot of times I'll just wake up
early I don't set an alarm right so I just wake up naturally and I go to sleep
fairly early but I'll just wake up naturally usually a little on the early
side usually before 6:00 a.m. and then a lot of times I'll get started you know
stretch out make some coffee do a little reading walk the dog in the morning and
then I'll get down to work
okay now Amir what's up good to have you on cool stuff says how can you build
self-discipline become more productive sometimes I have a lot of ideas during
the day but you end up watching a show on Netflix you struggle with
establishing self-discipline okay I'm going to talk about each of these books
but because you asked such a great question
the power of habit is a fantastic book this one is by Charles Duhigg I really
enjoy his writing he's very very good he puts a narrative around the I guess the
research in facts and it's like super easy to consume he wrote another book
it's on the bottom of the stack they're called smarter faster better and each of
these books have like a shorter about 15 page appendix that tells you how to
implement the stuff in the book the way to build more self-discipline is to find
the keystone habit so this is early in the book and he talks about like someone
who quit smoking I'm gonna forget the details I don't read this in a little
bit specifically this anecdote that I'm
about to tell you about but basically like people were someone was gonna stop
smoking and what happened when they stopped smoking is they ended up doing a
lot of other healthy things as well so they ended up like
exercising more and eating better and so on now hi again I can't remember this
specific story and it'll be a very boring thing to watch me look it up but
I believe you know one of the other examples in here and it may be related
to the smoking example early on is the the the exercise habit so exercise is a
huge thing and I go to the gym like probably four to seven times a week so
it varies sometimes I I don't make the time sometimes I do something outside
instead but I always feel much better the reason why I'm mentioning it is if
you could just like go to the gym even if it's if you could just get yourself
to go to the gym right and there's other techniques to do that even if it's a
poor workout you're building a habit right you're building the habit and
exercise is one of those magic habits that tends to have a cascading effect on
other things so if you can exercise a little bit even if you start super small
cool stuff right so even if you start super small you go outside you walk for
five minutes perhaps instead of watching the show on Netflix right there's a lot
of components you have going on in here but if you can get yourself to exercise
just a little bit a lot of times you'll exercise a little bit more than you
intended and you're building the habit again to build the self-discipline it
may be as simple as finding the Keystone habit which a lot of times for a lot of
people is around exercise and you feel better right you feel better like after
you exercise and it'll cascade to other areas so maybe you eat a little bit
better which also makes you feel good and then maybe you know maybe you're
making smarter financial decisions like if that is you know a lot of people are
like I'd be good if I like did something a little cheaper
instead of blah so you can make better financial decisions and again it's a
keystone habit so if you could find like a keystone habit a lot of times many
things get way better and for me I do think exercise is one of
those deals where like if I'm in a bad mood
go exercise right there's almost zero times when I go out for a jog and feel
worse afterwards right unless I get injured you always feel better after a
jog so and that is you know just one of those things okay next
and in France says you love paying for the gym you can't seem to get to it yeah
so when and like I said if you could just if you could just get to the gym
for a few minutes and I'd probably you know I said I go to the gym for seven
times a week and maybe one to two of those workouts are just me like barely
getting my blood flowing right so I did this a couple days ago I just I sort of
ran out of time and I just ran out of a little ran out of time and I was like
you know what I can go to the gym or not and I got myself to go to the gym I only
worked out for like 15 minutes and it was just like you know it wasn't a run
it was like you know there's elliptical machines I barely sweated just went in
there got the blood flowing a little bit yeah and I felt way better I mean it
wasn't a good workout but I still went and I think that's that's the big thing
okay the other thing I want to show you real quick I'm gonna go ahead and share
my screen here and if you are interested in the productivity course there is a
link in the description and there's a few details there to get you sort of
started but it is a beta so it's a little rough around the edges but that
also means that you get to work with me a little bit more closely and it also
means that you help shape the material so there was a pilot and I'll just
mention this there was a pilot that I did in December practically the worst
time to try and launch a Productivity course January is a much better time to
do it but I thought hey I'm just gonna go for it right there's no reason to
wait let's do it right now I don't want to I don't want to wait on
this it's now's the time right there's no reason to wait they help shape the
material for what's been added into this beta version so that that's pretty cool
you know going through the material I'm have to make certain assumptions about
what people want to learn and then once I'm able to you know show them that it
turns out they wanted some other stuff as well
so we've added that and I'm gonna be able to put in more case studies so
that's pretty I don't know that's a pretty good advantage I think alright I
will share my screen real quick and I do see a couple questions popping in and
then after I hit the questions I'm gonna talk about some of these books or right
behind me so let's see how this screen sharing stuff is gonna work for me
reasonably well alright so first off this is just sort of like the
information about the course so when you hop over here a lot of it is actually in
the description but this outlines what is included in the course so there is
there are a few units a four units total I'm potentially going to add more there
will definitely be more lessons in the form of case studies so those are those
are a thing that people really like to see and I understand I mean it's great
to see taking theory into practice and how to actually apply it now quick note
is this is not in any form a niche site course right I don't cover affiliate
marketing there may be an example or two where I've implemented project
management and a Productivity technique on on an affiliate site but there's no
affiliate material in here so keep that in mind I talked about the beta course
and what that means a quick note there's no money-back
guarantee on this so I want people who are in write and I understand the issues
with that this is beta and I make it very clear here I'm happy to
you know if there's some emergency or something like that I'm a reasonable
person I think if you're if you're watching this you you probably know that
so anyway but it's not this standard guarantee because I want you committed I
want people who are going to be able to go through the course and do the work
and you know this sort of helps select the right people for this you get access
right away so I typically don't do that and the thing is you get access right
away there are exercises throughout right so there are exercises starting in
lesson one and you need to do the exercises I point that out you know
through through everything but basically you're able to get your hands on
everything check out the case studies consume it but you got to do the work
you got to do the work at the end of the day and just give you a quick look on
the inside so it's a little welcome here inside the course and you there's a link
to get over to the two live sessions there are two live sessions just for the
students there and as a beta member you get access to the future improvement so
that's one cool thing the pilot folks sent him an email yesterday let them
know that they have access to the new material and you know they're invited to
the other live sessions so this stuff is I don't know I think that's pretty
valuable just overall so part one is around working to focus right so so
we're a mindset urgent importance focusing and then there's a live
recorded session part twos around results in goals I talked about
efficiency and effectiveness goals in general and absorbing data and giving
yourself time to think then we have actionable techniques right so this is
Pomodoro stacking some other productivity techniques additionally you
know better to-do lists doing the important work right so these are
exercises on how to actually implement the ideas from Part one and Part two and
last applying project management so that is you know some of this stuff that
people really asked for is project management so I go over some of the
basics while avoiding a lot of the for lack of a better term just jargon
and corporate speak because that's not really helpful for individuals or small
teams and if you just try to learn project management you'll you know
potentially end up in a bunch of just deep vocabulary that you know need to
know I talked about prioritizing tasks and then of course we'll look at the
case study of you to publishing sprints so I published over sixty videos in like
28 or 30 days I need to go back and look I actually did a little bit more than I
initially intended to but I published a lot of content the results were good the
the viewership went up quite a bit oh I'm excited to share that soon now the
thing is I totally lost my my train of thought so anyway that's a look inside
the course if you have any questions let me know and coming back to the chat and
then I'll talk about the books sound good and if you have any questions on
the productivity stuff that I mentioned let me know all right Lorraine says hats
off to this guy your six-month site does 100 per month just listen to his advice
yep and if you go back to live streams from like I don't know six or eight
months ago you'll see Lorraine in there so that's awesome really glad to hear it
Congrats um Anthony is allergic to the gym your body tends to sweat and induces
heavy breathing nice that means you're doing a right man
alright pretty good pretty good jokes in here Duke says you had the urge to
exercise once you rolled over and went back to sleep until it went away I think
that's good for your core though you know that rolling back and forth that's
a really good workout d cards on brain says you appreciate the access to the
new material when released you don't feel like the other model of having to
subscribe again for most of the same content when it's released
yeah I'm appreciate you saying that and I think that's that's a key thing you
know it's a discounted price in the beta and you know people were taking a chance
working with me on you know material that has gone through some testing but
not a full amount of testing so it's a pretty good amount of testing though so
don't worry it's not the worst part is when I recorded some of the videos I had
a cold people may remember when I had a cold so my voice sounds terrible I'm
gonna have to reshoot it at some point but um you know you can't hear with him
so alright and all the other question I see Anthony says do you give yourself a
slack day off or do to do anything or nothing breaking away from your normal
routine yes that is super important to take breaks
I am very guilty like many other entrepreneur types especially in the
online area we go like too long and don't give ourselves enough breaks I've
seen in my mastermind group hum I've seen it with my my friends and of course
with myself even when I know even when I tell them you know hey you should take a
couple days off clear your mind and stuff but I just you know part of it is
like I enjoy it and then the other part of it is there's always a little bit
more to do right there's always a little bit more to do but for example a couple
weeks ago I turned off my laptop on Saturday in the middle of the day and I
didn't turn it up back on until Monday and I think I largely didn't check my
phone on that Sunday so it was a day off my wife and I went hiking with her dog
and sort of check things out right and just I don't remember what else we did
but basically you're able to clear your mind and I think for me may actually
take you know a few days I think it's pretty common though to take a couple
days to like detail and I'm looking for I'm actually
planning a short trip actually it's a long ish trip take that back it's the
longest trip coming up in like the summer time right so my wife and I had
traveled a lot for a few years and then we kind of buckled down for the last
probably two years or so and were you know excited to take a trip coming up
here before too long all right next we got oh Anthony you're right I didn't
miss miss your question about napping during the day does it improve
productivity it depends on like you know what it does for me in general like if I
can get some sleep however I usually don't take a nap I'll usually go to the
gym instead so occasionally it like if I'm pretty tired or if I have a bit of a
cold I will opt for a nap instead of going to
the gym but for me going to the gym gives me a lot of gives me a lot of
energy and in fact one of the books that I snagged actually it's the one that's
right next to me this one's called a Productivity project by Chris Bailey
pretty good book actually really good book the exercise pill the takeaway in
the exercise pill is the amount of energy and focus that exercise provides
you with in return for your time is incredible and easily worth the
challenge of integrating and exercise routine into your life after you feel
how much of an impact exercise has in your brain I think you'll want to
continue with a routine if only to make the feeling lasts and I yeah like I
mentioned before really enjoy exercising and just you know one just getting out
of the house and I think for me it's been a habit for quite a while okay and
cool hi hi about your site good to hear daniel says you have a regular 8 to 5
job three young kids and you're working on a niche site is the productivity
course something that would benefit me considering you have so many things
needing your attention every day I think well I think so if you want to
you know let me know more specifically shoot me an email Daniel at Doug initial
side project comm and we could talk through a more more detail but in
general you know one of the ideas and I hope I think I mention it in like the
some of the sales material but the reality is you're going to have to
prioritize certain things and shift things around right you know you know
sometimes you may have to you know D prioritize you know sleep right because
you're obviously a busy person you have a lot of stuff going on so you may need
to shift things around and once you shift it around I hope you'll be able to
potentially like take the activities for the niche site for example right take
the activities and then narrow it down to the very specific things that you
have to do and not you know not get distracted so it would be obviously you
know your children and family would be one of the highest priorities so you
know you may shift things around there and then when you only have a limited
amount of time to work on your site then for example you could be able to
prioritize that subset of activities so is the productivity course something
that would benefit you it depends on how well you have that stuff like managed on
your own right so if you feel like you can improve on productivity then you
probably can if you think you have a masker then maybe the course you know
won't be the exact right thing for you but you feel free to shoot me an email
and I could you know let you know specifically all right Anthony says do I
ever get a sense of anxiety when winding them from all the distractions since you
service people and have businesses to run with a lot of moving parts yes
I do and a lot of it is related to like email and comments right the community
part because it becomes difficult sometimes right because I want to I mean
I have a pretty small following compared to bigger people which is a dumb
statement when it once I say it out loud so I have a fairly small following
however for me it's the biggest I've ever had right and it's been growing so
I get more questions than I ever have before and I have been and I still do I
answer basically every email I get unless someone is just you know slightly
brewed and asked for something but even people that ask for stuff if they're not
rude I'll typically reply back and this is deaf difficult to manage now it may
not be timely in fact I know it's not timely because I like I said before to
Daniel like I have to prioritize stuff so I have to make sure that you know I'm
servicing the community being you know I'm I think I'm fairly polite in general
so I you know that that is me right I'm on camera enough like I think people
know my personality if you've watched a few of these so it'd be exhausting if I
was acting in any fashion and you probably also see me right so anything
you've been in a few of these you've probably seen me get frustrated too that
is also real I wish I could suppress that a little bit more but sometimes I
can so the point is do I get anxiety yeah I wouldn't call it like because I
know some people actually suffer from like anxiety where it really gets them
down me I just get a little annoyed maybe a little frustrated or something
like that but I usually am okay with it so is it is a real anxiety like
debilitating no it's more like alright I need to take a break I'm gonna go on
that run I'm gonna go take the dog for a walk and throw the ball or whatever
right so I'll definitely you know see that I'm getting to that point but
typically it around just trying to like be a nice guy
at scale right and that means like trying to reply back to all in the
comments try to reply back to all the emails and when you're getting like so
many per day it's difficult and then the other you know I'll shut up about this
but the other part is sometimes someone will say hey they'll explain their
situation and they'll say hey can you please just take a look at my site and
let me know what you think and that's really I simply don't have the time
right like I said I I'm trying to be a nice guy but I don't have the time and
if I did that every time someone asks that's kind of all I would be doing
right and I have you know literally customers students who are working with
me and those folks get the priority they
have the bat-phone type email address so they can get to me
in the productivity course there's Skype right like we have a skype group so that
is a thing I'm testing you know over Facebook and I mention it in the
material Facebook can be a huge distraction productivity is about
avoiding distraction in half ways so we're trying Skype Skype can be a
distraction too but for me it's like the intention of Skype is not to distract
you and Facebook is literally like they have engineers and behavior engineers
like trying to figure out how to keep you on there longer they're really good
at it you know they know what you're looking at so anyway
Anthony yes sometimes all right okay I see cup
other questions in there so I'm gonna hit Anthony other Anthony's question
Anthony says how often do I check my email way too often if I'm doing it
right I'm checking it like four times a day but I typically can't help myself so
I end up checking my email like 40 times a day or something like that I'll check
out my phone and I should probably I should probably limit it a little bit
more but it is one of the things so even like when I'm at the gym there's like
really good Wi-Fi I'm on YouTube watching videos and stuff and I will
check my email so if something pops through I'll check my email so way too
often and I have been adding a VA component to help me manage email so I
have an assistant for you know certain types of emails and it's really just
about sorting ahead of time and then for the emails that are sort of like common
questions and this is for like course material so you know it takes a long
time to teach someone the material of the course so I you know I've been
working with someone for four months and yeah it's definitely helped in in
certain areas with the email management and Lucas says what were my working
hours on my part-time business when I worked full-time you're knackered when
you come home from a stressful job cool totally understand Lucas the the
answer to your real question there is you can potentially trying to wake up
earlier to work on your stuff right to work on your own project right so if
you're working on your own project in the morning then you'll be a little more
tired at work and then you know at least you're spending your time on your stuff
right that's what I did how many hours was that working on the part-time
business when I worked on the full-time anywhere from like one to ten
hours a day right so it depended on what I had going on and you know if it was a
weekend especially when I was getting started I would maybe wake up early work
for several hours hang out with my wife do normal stuff on the weekend and then
in the evening I would work on it some more so I mean you probably know how it
is you're so pumped and like excited about certain things and you can just
work on it longer when it's your own project right when it's your boss
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