Why Productivity Is Bullshit! The Secret Is To Do Less Not More

everyone sim ovens here and in today's video I want to tell you why productivity is complete and why the secret is doing less instead so what I mean by that is you know a lot of people they talk about productivity and what they do is they just try to cram as much stuff as possible into their to-do list and they try to do as many things as possible and that's how they really define productivity and working hard and getting things done and you know this thing is spread like a rampant disease and it's spread across pretty much everyone and I see people reading books on how to get things done and you know that's pretty much like a procrastination thing to do you know getting things done is about getting things done and then I see people like signing up to like 10 different software tools to create a to-do list when a know to do lists can just be done on a piece of paper and I see people even attending seminars and webinars reading books and articles and blogs and creating you know so much complexity for themselves just to try and be productive and these people have got it completely backwards and I know this because I used to be that person you know I used to try and cram as much things as I could possibly do into my calendar and you know I was i I was doing so many different things and really when I looked at it objectively most of my time was spent trying to figure out how to do and trying to manage doing so many different things instead of actually doing the things which is pretty crazy but that's what happens when you try to do too many things most of your time gets wasted switching tasks and optimizing what tasks you should be working on and then actually you know figuring out when am I going to work on this what am I going to work on that other instead of actually just doing something so it's a complete waste of time and really what the secret is is it's to do less it's to just get rid of it you know the more you want to try and just remove things from your life remove things from your business and you want to get as much things as many things off your plate as humanly possible and in today's video I'm going to show you specific examples that I've used and that you can use to to really clear your plate and focus and why you want to do this is because I can explain it with a very simple diagram here so what I'm going to do here is I'm just going to talk to you about the only thing that you have in your life which is energy alright and you know with energy it works like this we only have a finite amount of it you know we all have 24 hours in a day and we all pretty much live for the same amount of time and you know all we really have to put into anything is energy energy and time and when you do lots of different things this is where your energy goes goes into all of these different things and you make progress outwards like that so you make a little bit of progress in lots of things and you expend that much energy that's how it works but then here's what happens when you get rid of all of these things and focus on one thing instead so you add up all of these lines here so let's say each one of these lines is like an inch or something and there's one two three four five six seven eight nine lines here so you know it's it's off the charts here it's that much progress and this isn't some sort of exaggeration or anything that you can it's mathematics I mean if you have nine inches of energy to give and you put it into nine different things you're going to make one inch of progress in each thing but if you put nine inches of energy into one thing you're going to make nine inches of progress it is just as plain in as simple is that so people trying to do lots of different things this is them going nowhere slowly and the people who just rid themselves of most trivial things and focus on one specific thing they're the ones that make massive progress and these are the champions that you hear about I'll give you an example one of them is Michael Phelps so Michael Phelps his to-do list each day is wake up get in pull and that's all he does he just wakes up gets in the pool because all he is trying to do is be the world's best swimmer and the only way he's going to bite he's going to do that is by practicing and by removing all of this crap out of his life and just doing that each day things happen and really what Michael Phelps has done is he's put his energy into swimming instead of into Facebook and social media and into working a nine-to-five job and things like that that's what he's done with his energy and you can see what happens now let's talk about some specific things that you can do to really you know become more productive and really channel your energy in now the biggest thing I see people waste time on is probably like just hurt their personal life you know it's not actually their business stuff it's personal stuff that's going to be taking up most of their time and typically what I see is it's little errands or it's it's things they have to do around the house so for example cleaning your house then buying groceries and then cooking and then eating and then doing dishes and thinking about what you're going to eat and then you know doing your laundry and if you've got a garden or lawns mowing the lawns doing the garden checking the mail opening the mail like all of those things those things they're pretty much the first things that you want to get rid of and the way to get rid of those things is to really like hire a chef you know if you if you're making more than say ten thousand dollars a month then you should have a chef if you don't have a personal chef and you'll make more than 10 grand a month then that is you know your you're pretty much being stupid because you're spending your time cooking food and everything when you should be spending your time doing what you do best which is probably running your business so one of the best things I did was hire a personal chef and her name's Alyssa and she comes in here I think it's like four times a week for about three hours each time and she completely cooks all of the meals lunch and dinner for six days of the week and then on Sunday my wife and I we go out for brunch then we might go out for dinner we we leave Sunday to be open but six days a week the chef has prepared meals so all I have to do you know in the past what I'd have to do is I would be working over here at my desk and then I'd be like oh it's lunchtime I'm hungry and so then what I would do is I'd wander over to the fridge in the pantry and look in there and then there was nothing really to eat so so okay well now you know I've got to order something or I've got to go out and grab something and now I'm like what should I get what's close where could I go then I usually talk to my wife and I'm like well what do you want before you know it like thirty minutes has gone into this exercise just trying to figure out what to eat and then we actually order the thing and then it takes like an hour to get delivered and then we have to eat the thing and you can see like there that's one meal there's just lunch on one day a week you know you're probably spending a huge amount of time on things like this and it's being completely wasted you know you want to if you're making more than ten grand a month you want to have a ship and if you're not making more than ten grand a month and you're just you know money is more scarce for you well there's still something you can do on the whole food in the whole food department what you want to do is you should buy all of your groceries once a week on a Sunday for example and batch it buy everything on that one time so that you're not going out and doing like a thousand different things just do it all in one day and then on Sunday I'd pretty much cook all of your meals for the whole week just cook them put them into little containers and then when it's time for lunch each day when it's time for dinner each day then just go and grab the container heat it up eat it so because my chef isn't here every single day now you can see that this stuff in containers over here so that you know all we have to do for dinner tonight for example is pull that out heat it and we good so you know number one thing the the number one thing I can tell you out of everything I've ever done that saved the most time is hiring chef because you know as humans we need to eat quite a lot of stuff we don't really think about objectively but a lot of time and a lot of thought and a lot of energy goes into food and so when you can get that off your plate it is it is so freeing it's more freeing than any book you're ever going to read on productivity and it's more freeing than anything you could possibly do in terms of productivity you know it's not about working harder it's not about being more productive it's just simply about doing less getting rid of it and then you know focusing on what you do best so get rid of that and if you can't if you don't have the money to do it well batches do all of your groceries cook on a Sunday then just pull out the containers and eat them now I'll tell you another thing that I did to really get more productive and that was hire a personal trainer that actually lives in my house and will go Sam right now pretty good what's your name yes this is RIT and he's my live-in personal trainer I don't even know if there's a job title but if it is I mean well it is now because that's what he does and really what rate does I'm as well that you just described like what's your main role here pretty much manage all your health so everything from your sleep nutrition fitness and then managing the chef as well to make sure all the meals are pretty specific to Sam and that's pretty much it and then also like extra health and sleep tracking and things like that yep so pretty much what I found is that when I was responsible for going to the gym myself it didn't really happen that that often but what I did find is that if I went to the gym I felt better and I actually got more done so I was like what can I do to to like game the system what can I do to make myself actually go to the gym all the time and instead of just trying to be more productive the answer was just get rid of it you know make workers rets in my house every day he's going to be waiting by the door at 6:50 in the morning to go to the gym and that means I have to do it and then when I did that I also don't have to remember like what am i training on this day what am I doing here or any of that stuff you know RIT completely has that covered and he looks after all of that and more than that he also we have a shift but RIT plans the meals so he'll look at different recipes for the week for the month and he'll plan what meals were going to have when and then he'll order the groceries online from Whole Foods groceries will get delivered he gets them here put some in the fridge then when the shift comes here he gives the recipes to the chef and then the food is in the fridge so the chef just gets the food and the recipe and then cooks the food and so all of that stuff's covered and I don't have to do anything now all I have to do is walk to the table eat it and then walk back to my desk and everything from buying the groceries preparing them cooking it thinking about what meals are going to go where and even doing the dishes I don't have to do any of it and that makes well that makes me it gives me way more energy it will I've really got the same amount of energy but instead of it going into those things that can go into what I do best and that helps a ton also what I got Rhett to do is basically like observe me so you know what I'm most afraid of really is is tripping up in forgetting you know what I'm supposed to do because that's what happens and really in the past where I've got into trouble and I've diverted from my goals it's when I have like broken my routine so I might have started going to be at lay waking up later and when that gets out of alignment then everything else it's like an avalanche you know when you break one little thing everything just just explodes and so then what happens is I forget what my routine was I stopped going to the gym I start eating bad again and we're completely off the rails so RIT's role also is to make is to kind of observe me make sure that I'm going to be it at the right time waking up at the right time and also you know not eating bad food taking the right supplements and he also tracks my health stats using something called a an aura ring there's oh you are a and it's oh you are a RI ng you can google it and those things are awesome that tracks your sleep and it really gives you data and metrics on how well you're sleeping and I can tell you that you know one of the best things that you can do in terms of productivity is to get better sleep and why that is is because yeah it's more important than diet more important than exercise like we've tracked it like we have looked at what happens when you know you have good exercise but you don't get diet right and we've looked at what happens when you get diet right but you don't exercise and then we've looked at what happens when you get diet right exercise right but not sleep and the most important factor out of all of those things are sleep so and it's the it's funny because that's the one thing people probably shortchange themselves on and what really happens when you don't sleep properly is your conscious mind it get it kind of shuts down a little bit because you know when you're asleep your conscious Minds asleep and your subconscious mind is doing the breathing and everything for you however when you're awake you're mostly you know with your conscious mind and what happens is when you get really tired your conscious starts to get weaker and your conscious mind is really the police officer of what you should be doing and sticking to a routine and a schedule and all of that so as soon as you start shortchanging yourself on sleep what you'll find is that you start shortchanging yourself on everything you'll forget what you're even supposed to be doing and you'll be way more distractible you know that's why what that's why cults and the military the army the first thing they do when you go to a cult and when you go into the army is they'll deprive you of sleep because it makes you more brainwashable you know if you're tired it's easy to convince you of something that you didn't really want and it's easy to to brainwash you and turn you into something that is controlled by somebody else and so you know it's it's an age-old tactic and that just showed that just goes to show that you know having not enough sleep it's it's crew it's it can do huge harm and that's why you want to make sure that you get at least eight hours every single night so this is read and if you don't if you don't have enough money to hire a personal trainer and move them into your house and do all of that which I'm well aware of for people that are watching because not everyone can just hire a chef in and get a personal trainer into their house but what would you recommend read for sleep exercise fitness diet because you've been a personal trainer for a while if you don't have the funds like what what is the best thing you can do the funds to hire anyone I would recommend firstly buying an ordering and just getting your sleep on track down path then I would honestly hire either a nutrition coach or a fitness coach to then guide you through like an online coach which is a lot cheaper than in-person obviously to guide you through everything that you need to be doing to be able to hold yourself accountable and then finally what I would do is just make sure you're exercising every day and no matter what it is just keep your body moving eat clean foods cutting out processed foods and that'll take you 90% of the way there it's good advice you absolutely implement right down mm-hmm and have you found that when people have routines that they're more likely to complete the exercise and everything like that yeah you've got a plenty day and that's what I've found too is I'm just gonna go back to the office now but thanks Phyllis and that's what I found - when I you know naturally really what I what I like to do and what I used to do which was a big trap and it hurt me a lot was just take every day as it and not create any routine or any schedule or any plan and just just have a bunch of freedom and well that's kind of nice it also sucks because you don't get to achieve your dreams and you don't get to do the big things that you really want to do and so after trying to get things done having a completely open schedule and failing to get things done I decided you know I really need to have a strict routine like a protocol to follow and when I implemented one of these but everything changed for me everything shifted and what you really want to do is sit like very strict rules for yourself each day and what I mean by that is you what you need to have a wake-up time that is the same every single day Monday to Sunday and if you don't when you start to have one of those you you know your days starting at this time and you know you're gonna be in bed at this time so you know when you're going to be asleep and now you can plan what you're going to do with all the hours in between but when you don't have one of those you don't know how to plan you don't know how to schedule things in and it just doesn't work so you want to create a strict schedule and then you have to be extremely have to have like monk-like discipline to stick to it you'll you know you'll you'll want to do it for anything you can to break it but you have to stick to it the more disciplined you are the more money you make that's just how it works you know a lot of business and a lot of success is just ruthless discipline and how strict you can be on yourself and what I do is you know I finish work every night in between 8:00 and 9:00 p. m. and then I'm in beard by 10:00 and I have to be asleep by 11:00 that's the protocol for going to sleep then I wake up at 6:50 a.

m. and then training starts at 7:00 a. m.

with Rhett we go down to the gym we train for an hour then I come back and then I immediately have a shower and that happens at roughly 8:00 a. m. the shower and then I get changed and dressed and all of that we're at like 8:30 a.

m. and then at 8:30 a. m.

I have my morning smoothie and my supplements and everything which RIT's prepared have those then I log my health stats from my oaring into a Google Doc tracking sheet so we can track all of that and now we're at 9 a. m. and then at 9 a.

m. I interview one of my customers for about 30 to 45 minutes and then after that it's about 10 a. m.

and that's when my day starts but every single morning I do those things I forgot one other thing I meditate so after I have the breakfast and all my morning smoothie and my supplements it would be 8:30 and then I go into my bedroom and I meditate for 20 minutes and now we're at 8:50 and then when 9:00 comes I'm doing the customer interview and in my real workday starts at 10 a. m. and those are all the things I do before 10 a.

m. and really what you know I can get more stuff done by 10 a. m.