How To Focus For 12+ Hours a Day Like a Millionaire

hey everyone it's Charlie Morgan here and in today's video I'm going to teach you how to actually Focus how to sit down and work for 10 to 12 to 14 hours on end every single day without getting burned out or confused or lost or distracted or otherwise sidetracked this is a deadly skill to develop and the reason it's such a deadly skill to develop and the reason it's going to add so much value to your life and your progress is because no one knows how to do it the best places to get advantages in business and life and in competition is where everyone else is weak if that makes sense um so you know we can understand this from sunu The Art of War fight the enemy on unfamiliar territory right and what that basically means is if we're competing with a group of people which you are if you know you're a man or a woman in the 21st century the the first principle of business is competition right um you're competing with people and what that means is you need to understand your competition and understand how to gain a huge asymmetric point of Leverage over them which is basically an advantage in the form of focus because no one knows how to do it it no one knows how to just sit down and work these days I mean look at yourself man woman you know you've probably already scrolled down to the comments of this video and you're fighting the urge to scroll down again you've already checked out the sidebar of this video to see what you're going to click on next your phone's within Arms Reach with notifications on buzzing at you you've got music playing or you know people like your life is just nuts you know it's not normal it's insane you probably can't even go to the toilet without taking your phone with you you probably can't drive for 5 minutes without listening to music you probably can't even work out without being on your phone or texting someone you probably can't even sit down and read a book you try try and sit down right now and read a page of a book for crying out loud like we have lost the ability to concentrate and maintain a singular point of focal attention using our five senses on one thing and if you can regain the skill and learn how to do that then you can end up making a lot of money and making huge levels of progress in your life and in your business so you can have the life that you want and ultimately Achieve Financial Freedom Financial Freedom is near enough impossible to achieve without focus and so today I'm actually going to walk you through five things that you can do that no one's probably told you to do before right that are new and that you can actually use it's not about the Pomodoro Technique or it's not about like chunking it's not about like all these productivity hacks and the things that you find in these books it's not about habits there's five things that I've learned to do and those five things have made me a multi-millionaire by the age of 25 and I can tell you that all of the other successful people that I know do these five things and if you follow them and learn them you're going to make a lot of money um to contextualize this and to actually give you some idea as to the fact that I know what I'm talking about um this is how much money I made yesterday this is one of my phones um I don't know if you can can see that there but every day if you have stripe on your phone it will send you a notification of how much you made yesterday so you can see in my notification center um that's there I think yesterday we made about 25 23 24,000 so like I don't know $28,000 or something um that's a pretty regular occurrence you know so that's what's possible when you learn how to actually pay attention and concentrate um so let's get into it so I've got some points on this phone um that I'm going to ironically use to run you through this video um but if you learn to do this you will just completely destroy everyone so let's actually start by understanding what Focus actually is like what are we dealing with here right I'm just going to bring this whiteboard here and I'll bring this there we go okay right so what is this thing you know what actually is focus well focus is basically it might seem intuitive and it might seem easy to understand but if You observe it focus is simply not being distracted right so if you're trying to learn how to focus instead of trying to learn how to just concentrate or put all of your attention and cognitive conscious awareness onto one thing just try to not be distracted because often the easiest way to achieve something is through its opposite right and that's called inversion it's a pretty handy mental model that a lot of billionaires and successful people that I know use um so we can achieve Focus through a lack of distraction but we'll get there in a second right for now I want to stay focused ironically and walk you through something so focus is basically a force multiplier for your work right um and a force multiplier is simply like an exponent and of course my whiteboard Pen's going to give up now right so focus is essentially a force multiplier and what this means is it basically acts as an exponent or a multiplier to a variable right and so if you say for example if you do um 1 hour of work right and this is you over here doing an hour of work right and if I do one hour of work right we are going to have varying levels of productivity so let's say for example that in 1 hour you know we both get set the same task and it might be the case that I complete it 10 times over in one hour and you only complete it once or let's say we get given a book to read right it might be the case that in 1 hour you can only read 20 pages and I might be able to read 100 pages right the the thing is the thing that people don't understand here about work is everyone thinks it's about how many hours you put in like everyone's all about 10,000 hours and I work 12 hours a day I work seven days a week you know it doesn't really matter because what we can observe here is different results this person if I give you the example of person one here if this is person one person two if if you're both given a book to read right and this person reads 20 pages in 1 hour and this person reads 40 pages in 1 hour well this person's done two times as much work right well how can this be because they've both had the same amount of time allocated and allotted to this activity so how can this person have done twice the work as this person and it can G even more extreme than this because we could have this person over here person three and they could read like a 100 Pages which is a 5x multiplier and you know what's the difference they've all got the same amount of time well the difference this whiteboard I'm going to have to buy a new one because this is an absolute nightmare to use I'm afraid um but the difference is the level of focus they have right so the point I'm trying to make here is you have 24 hours in the day right you know eight of those hours you're going to be sleeping and four of those hours you're going to be attending what I'm just going to call biological imperatives right you know you're eating you're socializing you're doing things that basically keep you sane in fact we could even extend this to probably 6 hours because you know I'd count a biological imperative As relaxing or socializing or talking to people or you know doing whatever you need to do to just make sure that your brain doesn't go Haywire right so really what this means is if we have eight and six um you know well that's not 12 that's that's definitely not 12 but if we take these 14 hours these are 14 hours that we cannot really do anything in right to to stay to sleep well and be a healthy human we probably need to spend about 14 hours day doing that right so what this means is we are left after our biological imperatives we're left with 10 hours really and and how you use those 10 hours determines the quality of your life and this is 10 hours to essentially work on a business right to make money and life basically is all about how much you get out of these 10 hours and if you want to learn how to get the most out of the small amount of time that you've been given on this planet well you need to learn how to focus right it's so important because we all have the same amount of time in the day right we all have the same like clock we all get 24 hours we all probably get about 10 hours to do what we really want to do with working and stuff like that so how is it that some people are dead broke and can't even read a page of a book without you know getting distracted and having to go to a dirty website but there's some people who are like billionaires and can read a whole book in one sitting without without even thinking or blinking right well it's all about Focus so the point I'm trying to make here is focus is a force multipli so if we think about this like a graph right so here we have unit of productivity like this here we have focus and here we have hour so let's just say let's just put this as time right so we have a unit of focus we have a unit of time and we have a unit of of production or you know a unit of productivity which is you're actually getting stuff done so let's say we've got this person here person one person two and person three 3 2 1 right and we want to measure how productive they're actually being like how many units of productivity they're producing right so let's say we're all giving them the same amount of time you know they all get um let's just say I don't know to keep it simple they all get you know 10 of time right this is the 10 hours essentially right but the thing is is they need to learn to focus so if person number one only has two units of focus and person number two only has four units of focus but person number three has nine units of Focus right well what's going to happen because most people when they're thinking about success and work and building a business they just think about how much time they've got to do it but they forget about the force multiplier which is the thing that really matters because what starts to happen here is like if if you take someone here who has um 10 units of time and two units of focus then they're going to have 20 units of productivity right but you can become really efficient with this because another way to achieve 20 units of productivity is if you had half the time five right if you have half the time if you only have five units of time but you have double the Focus right we go from 2 to four then you achieve the same result so this is the point right you can spend less time making more progress or the same level of progress if you just have more Focus so focus is like the most important thing to time people don't understand time people don't really get how it works and that's okay but focus is the the main thing so going back to my example here right 10 units of time two units of focus this person is going to have 20 units of productivity right and this person here 10 units of time four units of focus well they're going to have 40 units of productivity right person three has 10 units of time and nine units of focus well they're going to have 90 units of productivity right this person here is five times more likely to make progress than this person up here so who do you think is going to win and who do you think is going to lose right they're all working 10 hours but their work isn't equal not all people work equally right and what I mean by that is some people are able to get way more out of the hours they're given than other people and that's purely dependent on their ability to concentrate and just do one thing Focus if we Define it is simply the act of doing one thing at a time it's being able to hold you know however many billions of neurons you have in your brain and dedicate every single one of them to one thing and when you do that you do it really well for example this video could be an hour long right and for me to make this video it's going to take me an hour because I'm focused I haven't got any notifications on I'm not getting distracted and it's just that but for a lot of people to sit down and make a 1 hour video they're going to procrastinate and take ages to sort of set it all up and procrastinate then they've got to write a script and they've got to like you know edit it and do all this stuff I'm just going to focus and just focus on the thing which is just producing content that you like right so this is why Focus is so important because you are up against other people you are competing with people and you cannot really compete on time it's possible to get more time you can optimize your time so for example instead of going to the gym you just go for a run because then you don't have to drive to the gym and you might save half an hour a day which is like you know 800 hours a year or something crazy like that right so you you can slightly get more time but not really you can't really compete on time the advantage and the leverage and a asymmetry of competition you know of beating your competition that you can get in this category is not that significant but this one here is huge because if you're up against someone one and they have one unit of focus and you have two now you are twice as likely to beat them right so let's actually start getting into some practical advice on how to achieve this and how you can actually Focus to make more money and more progress and basically just destroy everyone in your wake okay so we're going to start with a real simple um a real simple Point um and that first one is actually your diet right now I'm going to give you five pieces of information here um I'm going to do them in no order um I'm not going to tell you that I'm going to save the most important one to the end just to keep you around on this video I'd like to think that if you're learning about Focus you actually have the ability to just sit and sit and just watch a video for crying out loud without having to click off so I don't really feel the need for YouTube retention strategies here so we're going to go through diet and then we're going to go through a bunch of other pieces of like advice that you can find so diet is a simple one right um and it really all revolves around carbs carbohydrates um in fact like one thing that really helped with my focus right is I I do intermittent fasting so I usually don't eat until about 1: p.m. 2 p.m. I don't eat breakfast I haven't done for like 7 years now and what I would find a couple of years ago is what was happening is I'd get to lunchtime I'd eat lunch and then the afternoon would sort of be a write off and my my unit of focus could go from like an 8 in the morning and it would be cut down like a 2 or 3 in the afternoon after lunch it would just completely go to to to the to the bottom basically and so this was basically happening was because I was ingesting a ton of carbs at lunchtime right so what you want to try to avoid doing is ingesting any form of carbohydrate or sugar um during your working day so in those 10 hours that you are working you want to avoid carbohydrates right um the reason you want to do this is because they take so much energy for your body to digest and so the way the way it works is like if um if this is like if this is your desk well let's just do this if this is your desk here right I don't know if you can see this I'll draw a bit bigger this is your desk right your laptop's at your desk and your sat at your desk here you know like working you know in your chair or whatever right um this laptop you know for you to focus and work on this laptop is going to require energy right Focus requires a lot of energy but if you've just eaten a huge meal and you've just tried to digest a bunch of carbohydrates and a bunch of sugar and stuff like what's going to happen is all of the energy that should be going into your work and into your focused work is going to be going to your gut to deal with the actual meal you've just eaten right so one of the biggest and simplest hacks that I found to improving Focus throughout the workday is just do not eat carbohydrates at lunch don't do it don't eat bread at lunch don't eat pastor at lunch don't eat rice at lunch don't eat sweet potato potato any sugar any fruit any any milk any anything really just don't eat anything don't eat anything sweet no sweetener none of that if you want to actually see what I had for lunch today I took a picture of it earlier in anticipation of making this video um or maybe it's not on my iCloud um unfortunately it's not there but literally like all I ate today was just um I'll see if I can put a picture on the screen if I if I remember but all I ate for lunch today was just a ribeye steak and three eggs and then I had some hot sauce as well right now that might sound kind of insane and it might sound like I've got some sort of learning difficulties because that's a weird meal to eat right but the point is is I'm not digesting any carbs I'm not I'm not eating anything that's going to spike my insulin Spike my energy levels and then sacrifice like my internal ability to you know catalyze this energy it's kind of insane because if you eat carbs and if you eat like fat like loads of sugar and carbs and stuff like that fat and protein is fine but if you eat tons of carbs like what basically happens at least to me is like my body spends more energy burning the carbs than it gains from the carbs and the energy that it gets it get it it spits out in like 6 hours Time by that point I'm trying to relax right so I don't eat any carbohydrates until my second meal of the day and so if you're wondering what my diet and schedule looks like and I know this this I know this sounds so simple and so rudimentary like Oh I thought I thought he was going to give me some crazy wooah technique like he's just telling me to not eat carbs what an idiot but I just try it you know I I get up at like 7:00 and then I eat my first meal at like 1:00 p.m. which is literally just like typically um usually like 1,200 calories but this is literally just 350 G of ribey and usually three to four eggs right and then I I continue my work until about 7 not 7:00 p.m. till about 8:00 p.m. and then at 8:00 p.m. I eat my second meal where I'll usually eat like you know typically 1 1,800 calories um and I basically have exactly what I had here but I I have a load of sweet potato fries as well like just sweet potato and an air fryer right and so I'm I'm eating a ton of carbs like typically 600 to 700 to 800 gram of sweet potato in the evening but I'm doing it after I finish work so the digestion of that inter does not interfere with my work you you kind of have to think of it like this during your workday you can either work or you can digest right um that's kind of how I see it and this is the first of five things that I have used to obtain incredible insane levels of focus like focus on a level that you you probably can't even comprehend yet you know like imagine being able to um sit down and where's an example of this can I give you yes I'll take you over here look right so right now I'm reading this book here right um let me show you let's just come back through here so where am I here I am okay so right now I'm reading this book right about Caesar right Julius Caesar who took over the sort of revolutionized Rome and I have read nearly half the book and I've done this all in a couple of sittings right so imagine being able to um sit down and open a book and read uninterrupted unencumbered by Distraction and like just with complete Focus for like six hours that's kind of what you can accomplish and Achieve and I've still got a long way to go with my focus I know people that can just sit down and read for like 14 hours a day right there's there's levels to this stuff and I am by no means you know the be all and end all of of focus here but like how do you think your life would change if you can actually just sit down and work and just do what you know you need to do for like 12 hours a day well You' probably like success isn't difficult it's about figuring out what to do and just doing it for for a fair few months and then usually you you get something right but in this instance it's um it's really as simple as just like figuring out how to focus right so what's next on the list um let me check Okay so we've gone through the diet one um it's very simple just avoid sugar at all costs in any way shape or form like you can eat like complex carbs in the evening but don't be eating sugar because it will just completely ruin your ability to focus um your brain on sugar is just kind of insane I also um don't drink C C I hardly I do smoke cigarettes very very rarely right do I smoke cigarettes so I'm not like a smoker so I don't drink caffeine I don't smoke I don't take any drugs I don't eat any sugar there's no real dietary or um consumed stimulants right that are going to increase my brain's inability to focus a lot of people say that caffeine and um nicotine AIDS focus and helps you focus I just think that's cope and they're just using that as an excuse to hide behind their addiction personally right so the next thing um is what you do in the morning right so um I'm going to put this so we've done diet can you see this up here uh I'll just put it down here so we've done diet so the second thing is your morning and I'm talking about before work right so what you need to understand is your brain works on a wavelength or a frequency right and I don't mean this in some sort of woo hippie dippy like you know oh you want to level you you know you're on a right the certain Vibe or something like that what I'm referring to is your brain basically has like a wavelength and depending on the wavelength that it's sitting in will depend on like how your thoughts manifest how your behavior manifests for example if you're sitting meditating and focusing on one thing for like 20 minutes your brain will be in a certain wavelength but if you're playing a a video game that's you know really intense you're listening to really loud music and you're stimulated it will will have a different level of wavelength and it's very difficult to go from one wavelength to the other right so for example if you if you are in a calm tranquil focused State you will feel resistance towards going to a stimulated chaotic State same thing if you're in a stimulated chaotic State you will feel resistance to enter a calm tranquil State it's very difficult if if this is you know if this wavelength here right represents focus and this now if this represents Focus right down here and this represents chaos right which is basically just you clicking through YouTube and listening to music and then then then you're talking to someone then you've got another notification here and an email here and now you're working on this and this you've got this open it's just chaos right all these distractions if this is chaos it's very difficult to switch between these two states right so to go from a nice steady calm focused wavelength to a chaotic one is is difficult you won't want to do that and the same thing here your brain needs to have a lot of time before it can reach a different sort of level of wavelength right so the point I'm making here is the thing that you do or what you do before your work has a huge impact on how you approach your work right so for example if you wake up in the morning and the first thing you do is check your phone reply to a bunch of messages scroll on Instagram go on a filthy website and you know um get some dopamine through you know jacking off whatever and then if you're brushing your teeth and listening to music it then you go and eat a load of sugary cereal or Jam or toast or gluten or whatever carbs right and then on top of that like you're also on the phone to someone and then you drive to the gym but you're listening to really loud music and then like what's happening is you're stimulating your brain and you're essentially introducing lots and lots of Novel stimuli which is basically the word novel denotes new right so when when you're in an environment like this and you know what's going to happen is lots of stimulus is going to fly at you right so this stimuli can either be environmental or personal so an environmental stimuli for example could be if I was making this video right now and a bird flew into the window I would look you would look when a novel stimuli enters the environment or the human perception of awareness we have no choice but to look this is an evolutionary response to novelty because if we don't look it could be a tiger looking to kill us in the bushes right back in the day from the old from the old evolutionary standpoint so evolutionary Simi is kind of uncommon and rare you know because for example if I'm in my house on my own if there's not a bird flying into the window there's not really the environment is not throwing anything at me if someone knocks on the door that's a novel stimuli but your brain is built to deal with novel stimuli you know intermittent stimuli but if you wake up in the morning and you're stimulating your brain and you're stimulating your dopaminergic system and your serotonin systems and your nervous systems in so many different ways it it puts you into that chaotic wavelength right if we want to be you know nice steady wavelength but if you wake up and you check your phone and you go on Snapchat and you go on stories and you check your emails and you reply to someone here and you're listening to music here and then you're also masturbating here and then you're also eating sugar here and then you're talking to someone else here you know you can probably think of all these behaviors that you do in the morning right you're putting your brain into a state that is not conducive to focus and so if you do this for the first 45 minutes of the day or even the first 10 minutes of the day before you get into work it is so so so difficult to achieve and accomplish the wavelength of that your brain needs to properly Focus because you're so simulated it's kind of like you know if we look at it like this on a graph so we've got here we've got um well how would we want to draw this so here you've got Focus right and then here we've got stimulation stimulation um let's just put calmness so this is the opposite of stimulation right so the more calm we are the better our Focus will be and the less calm we are the less we'll be and it will go like this right and so this is going to be like if you're waking up and stimulating your brain and that's you just it's just chaos like how can you expect your brain to go from 10 different personally novel stimuli that are very stimulating and rewarding instantly to sitting down and single-minded focus on one thing Focus is the art of just putting all your attention and concentration and neurons into one activity so if you're going to ask your brain to do that it helps if that's the first thing in the morning because if you wake up in the morning and the first thing you ask your brain to do is try and focus on 10 different things at once when you come to try and just focus on one your brain's not in the right place to do that it's not in the right state right it's not warmed up so to speak it's warmed down of anything right it would be like trying to exercise when you literally the first thing when you when you get out of bed your body's not ready right so this is a really important thing to note if you combine this with the diet it's really good so I let me give you an example of what I do in the morning right um and this this is exactly this is basically my routine at the moment and this allows me to focus pretty well um so let me just get some water so I wake up at typically anywhere between 7:00 and 9:00 a.m. I haven't had an alarm for quite a while now um but I wake up and what I do is I go and run 5 km either on the beach or just up and down the street um and then I get in the sea and then I do a brief calisthenics workout right um and then I get back in the sea and then I meditate no so and don't go back in the sea after the workout so I run I work out and then I get in the sea cuz I'm all sweaty and I don't want to be all sweaty get in the sea quickly swim get out the sea and then I sit on the beach um You probably won't be able to see it from here but I sit on the beach in the sun in a chair for 20 minutes and I meditate and we'll talk about that in a second um and then after I've meditated I get back in the sea cuz usually I'm more hot and sweat sweaty again from the from the Sun and then I dry myself off um I go and change my clothes upstairs I walk down to my desk and I start work right when I'm running I'm not listening to music I haven't at this point replied to anyone on my phone I haven't even checked my phone at this point um and I haven't really talked to anyone or done anything or anything all I do is I wake up I go to the bathroom I brush my teeth right I come downstairs I put my running shoes on I run I come back I do anics for about 20 minutes get get in the sea meditate get back in the sea get out the sea go and get changed and then I walk to work that whole routine might take me like maybe like an hour to complete runs about 30 minutes no it's about an hour and a half right but the point is is I'm doing these activities but there's not like there's not an abnormal or an healthy amount of Novel stimuli right like when I'm running like I might be thinking about something and when I'm working out I'm just working out out and when I'm meditating I'm just meditating I'm not introducing chaos and my brain is being able to achieve this nice steady wavelength right it's it's not like going all all over the place and all up and down so what you want to do is do an audit on your morning and also you want to do an audit on your lunch break right because the same thing applies on your lunch break if you finish working at like 12:00 p.m. or 1 p.m. and you go to have lunch and then when you're cooking you're listening to music and then you're also like you've got half a podcast in and then like you're talking to someone like you're messaging someone on Whatsapp but then also like you're checking Instagram whilst also watching YouTube like it's insane you're going to do that for like an hour and then expect your brain to be able to go back to a focused like wavelength it's just it's just not going to happen you're not it's it's just stupid right so that's the second thing is like the novel stimuli that you introduce voluntarily into your immediate perceptual awareness um before work and during your lunch break after work go balls to the wall with it like sometimes after work like it like 8:00 p.m. we'll roll around and I'll finish dinner and I'll be like carved out of my mind and like I'll go and walk on the beach listening to like really loud music and I'm texting like four different people at once like that's fine but just not during the work day right save all of that desire for stimuli and that craving for chaos essentially for when you finish your work okay so that's the second thing now the third thing um is actually awareness right and then there's two more after this um one of which will really help you the other one will just help you a little bit but one of them is really cool um so I can't even spell awareness right so awareness so in order for us to like I said at the beginning in order for us to become focused we have to learn to stop being distracted and there's nothing really more distracting than your thoughts right so what you want to try and learn to do is become aware of your thoughts and I know this sounds simple and obvious and like trite you know which is something I really want to avoid in this channel but is imperative to your success that you actually become aware of what's going on in your life and in your you know in your brain in your behavior because if I ask if I ask you like hey what were you thinking like 2 minutes ago you probably can't remember right and not that you should not that a sane person can remember what they've been thinking all the time but it helps for you to develop a level of awareness around your distractions because really there's only two things in life that can distract you right um an internal an internal stimuli and an external stimuli so an external stimuli is a distraction that comes from your environment right your immediate either digital or physical environment um for example if I'm recording this right now and someone knocks on the door um I am cognitively obliged to pay attention to that right or if I'm recording this video right now and on this phone um like a notification crops up then my attention is going to go to it I can give you a literal example of what just happened I was on my on this Notes app here and I accidentally shook it and it said do you want to undo the typing you know that like undo typing thing you get on notes and then my phone sort of shook a little bit and then now I just looked at it and paid attention and then I came straight back to this video right so that that's an example of a distraction right that is an external stimuli something that your environment has produced that has taken your um attention and awareness or well really it's just your attention away from the one thing that you're doing the internal stimuli is basically a thought right this is something that happens in your head when you're trying to do something and then you start thinking about something and then before you before you know it like you're off and away like if I'm trying to make this not if I'm trying to make this video but let's say for example that I'm trying to read a book and then I get like five lines deep and then I start thinking about the carrot cake I have in the fridge and then I'm like oh I really want that carrot cake oh I wonder like I actually wonder if there's actually any carrot in that cake like also why are carrots orange I thought they used to be purple like and then you just start thinking and then then you're you're not even you're not even doing the thing you wanted to do anymore and most people are very very bad at managing their internal stimuli because they're simply not aware of it um and so what I'm going to talk about in a second here is meditation and how to actually meditate for Focus um and it's a simple practice that I've been doing for years now that you can do every day to just drill your focus and become aware of it um but you need to become painfully and cognizant aware of your thoughts um you need to learn to basically like understand them analyze them not analyze them too much but I'm going to give you a simple activity for this in just a second um one thing that I like to do I don't do it so much anymore cuz I don't need to um but what I have what what I used to have by my desk was a simple notepad and a pen this is this just this resembles a pen all right for argument sake simple pen right what I used to do is have a notepad and a pen by my desk and when I was working what I would do every time I got distracted I would write down what distracted me and what I was looking to essentially do is I did this for about 30 days and over 30 days I put all of the distractions in a sheet and I bucketed my distractions and what this allowed me to do was become aware of what was distracting me so I started to write it down like it could be a slack message or it could be an email or it could be a thought or it could be a craving for food or something or this that or the other um and what I started to do is I just started to note my distractions and if you do this enough and if you become aware enough of your distractions you'll start to like interfere with their ability to actually like get you off of track and and stop you from focusing so this is just a simple little exercise that you can do um is basically just like get a notepad start trying to work on something and then you will get distracted right and when you do remember to note it down because what will happen if you do this for long enough is when you're working what's going to start to happen is a distraction is going to start to form and you'll notice it and become aware of it before it can fully form and then you'll be able to sort of bat it away so this leads me on to um another point of awareness which is meditation right now another thing that I wanted to add before we move on to meditation here is that the Pomodoro Technique is complete BS and if you believe that the human brain is only capable of focusing for 25 minutes you are quite frankly a silly person right now I'm not going to call you an idiot for believing information that is widely believed because that's just a human condition but like if it wasn't like I don't understand how people can think that the human mind can only focus for 25 minutes at a time before it needs a break that's it's just that's insane that's if you think about that for a second like that's just stupid because you know if you think about us from an evolutionary standpoint and how our Focus has been you know um developed through time through history through Evolution like the human brain we had to sit there like if if let's say you're hunting an animal right sometimes we'd have to sit there and stare at like some trees for like 6 hours before something happened and we'd have to sit there and focus on the trees because if a deer ran past and we missed it our family wouldn't eat that night the human brain is capable of focusing for hours and hours and like a whole day sometimes like it's entirely possible right so don't be telling me because of some productivity Guru that you have to take a break every 25 minutes because that is pathetic and quite frankly stupid so it's unnecessary I don't agree with it and I'm hoping that with that evolutionary Point I've kind of made that quite clear another example this video is now 36 minutes long I haven't taken a 5 minute break I'm still going my train of thought is still clear and clean and I'm not getting distracted so it's it's just a load of rubbish it's for people that are trying to cope because theyve spent so much time like obsessively on the short form videos which we'll get to in a second but they can't even focus so meditation is is a simple practice I'm not saying that you want to sit there and you know just sit there with your hands like this and go um like is that's not what we're trying to do we're not trying to meditate for mental health Improvement we're not trying to meditate for Spiritual Enlightenment all of my medit practices are focused around Focus right I don't really worry about the rest of the stuff because I don't have much of a problem with the rest of the stuff the meditation might bring um I literally just meditate just to improve my focus because what we're trying to do by meditating every day is we are able to train the muscle in our mind because it is kind of like a muscle in the sense that you can train it we're trying to train um the skill cycle or part of our mind or part of our brain that is dedicated to focus so what I will do is I will sit down and I will show you this here um it's going to bring you outside this is exciting isn't it right so I don't know if you see this chair down on the beach see that there that's where I meditate right so I turn it to face the Sun and I literally just sit and I focus on my breath for 20 minutes now I'm going to walk you through how to meditate it's very simple and you should be able to do it without much problem the problem that people have with meditating is they doing it and they are really bad at it and so they say that they can't right well of course you can't because you've just spent the last 5 years like not like with insane levels of Novel stimulation and the main form of stimulation that your brain has had is a 20 second video on Instagram so of course your retention span is destroyed and of course as soon as you meditate within 20 seconds your retention span is going to be completely destroyed right so how do we meditate well what we're looking to do is we're looking to do 20 minutes a day right and all you do right is you buy some noise cancelling headphones if you have like a noisy environment because out on the beach um there might be people working or walking past or there's birds chirping and like fish jumping up and down and like I just prefer to meditate in silence you get some noise counseling headphones or you sit in a quiet environment you sit in a relaxed position not relaxed to the point where you can fall asleep but you're sort of upright you know chest forward shoulders back or you're leaning back and you're calm and then you shut your eyes and you focus Fus on your breath and what I mean by that is you focus on the sensation of the air passing between your nostrils right so if I shut my eyes right so just I'm going to invite you to do this right now right and you might think this is weird in the middle of a Youtube video um there was a novel stimuli I know if you saw it bird just flew past and it caught my eye caught my attention distracted me ever so slightly than I brought my attention back to this video right so anyway um so shut your eyes right now this is weird but I'm going to just do like a I'm not doing a guided meditation thing but Just Close Your Eyes okay and you're going to have now you right now you have got internal stimuli you've got thoughts like this is stupid let me skip the video there's no point in doing this but just shut your eyes right and what I want you to do is I want you to draw a deep breath in through your nose right so now like and then I want you to release it through your mouth so you know intent breathing and once again this time in through the nose but I want you to focus on the sensation of your nostr and when you release out through the mouth I want to focus on the the sensation of the air leaving your mouth and now what I want you to do is not focus on your breath and just allow your breathing to return to a natural form so just you're just breathing naturally you're not forcing it you're not breathing deep or breathing shallow and I want you to just feel the air moving between your nostrils now you might feel the air at the front of your nostrils you might feel it right at the back of your nose you might I don't know where you're going to feel it right but you should notice the sensation of breathing right and congratulations you've just meditated right all meditation is and all meditation needs to be for you to learn how to focus is sitting with your eyes shut and other stimuli you know close out your mind and you're just basically breathing in through your nose and out through your nose so you're literally just sitting there and breathing but what you're doing is you're becoming aware and you're paying attention to the sensation of the breath pathing through your nose and what's going to happen guaranteed without any question is within a few seconds your mind's going to come up with a thought right your mind you can open your eyes by the way if your eyes are still closed you weirdo right your your mind's going to come up with a thought or you're going to have an emotion or there's going to be a sensation like your body might there might be a fly that lands on your leg or something or maybe there's a sound and the sound has distracted you but what's going to happen either internally or externally a stimulant is going to come along or a stimuli is going to come along and distra ract you away from this focal point of attention on your breath your job when you're meditating is simple you notice the thought or you notice the external stimuli and you acknowledge it you don't get angry at yourself for having the thought and for distracting yourself you simply acknowledge it and you say to yourself oh I'm thinking and then what you do once you've acknowledged it is you let it go and you re return back to where you were focusing before it's really simple and what's going to happen for the first month when you're meditating is you're going to have to do this every 5 Seconds right it will give you an indication into your attention span and it's actually quite terrifying just how bad your attention span is right so let's let's do an example here close your eyes and start breathing just not intensely just focus on the breath going in and out and just sit there and I'm going to come back and say something to you in a second okay so you've noticed how you're probably already distracted now maybe you sat through that and you didn't have any problem but what you probably heard was me slamming my bottle on the floor that's an external stimuli that's a distraction right and so what's happened is your brain has gone to that external stimuli and now you're out of meditation right so meditation is basically just focusing on the breath something happens you have a you have a thought or something and then essentially you just bring it back to the breath it's as simple as that right and the reason that we're doing this we do it over 20 minutes a day we're not listening to music we're not doing anything else but just sitting there and the reason that we do this is because when you're working you're going to start to implement this and introduce this so it might seem stupid but every single time right it's like a loop so you know you have the breath let me just draw this so you have the breath like this and all of your attention is on the breath and then what starts to happen is a thought starts to form right and then your attention starts going towards your thought all we're trying to do is basically I'm going to draw an I here to resemble Focus right all we're trying to do is correct our focus and our attention and we're recognizing and seeing the thought and feeling it and we're not judging ourselves we're getting angry for feeling it because this is a big mistake and then we're bringing it back to the breath and what we're doing what we're looking to do with our with our meditation practice is repeat this loop as much as possible the more that this happens the better because every single time you correct this Loop you are rewiring your brain to become aware of distractions and cut them off and what will happen is the more you do this you will achieve um speed right and what I mean by that is the rate at which you can focus and you know what I talked about earlier with units of focus you can have a one unit of focus or a 10 unit of Focus right the amount of units of focus you have depend on the speed at which you can um recognize distractions and recorrect your focus back to the thing that you're doing and so meditation truly is the secret to achieving Focus right because if you're um if you're really quick at this Loop of recognizing distractions and going back to your focus then you're more focused focus is not a binary Spectrum it's not the case that you're either focused or you're not focused right although technically it is in the sense that if you are just working on one thing you're focused on that thing but if we're talking about whether or not someone's focused it's how focused are they and how many units are focused that they have in their life at this present moment in time and that depends on their ability to recognize distractions and bring themselves back as soon as as soon as possible right that really is the core to focus because I I can tell you now I've been meditating for years I've been doing this since I was 18 right inconsistently admittedly I haven't done it every day for seven years um but what I can tell you is the meditation that I have done massively transfers through into my work and it also transfers into my emotional control and everything else right but even now having done this for a long time I meditate and I can sit there and I can focus on my breath now for a good maybe four five minutes at once before a thought comes through but it still gets me right there's people I know who can meditate for an hour without distraction right and that's where I want to get because those people are so focused that you wouldn't you wouldn't even believe but my point here is it's practice and it takes time when you're meditating it's probably going to take you like 10 seconds to get distracted and have to bring it back for me it might be a couple of minutes but it's so like if you do this for a couple of weeks you'll start to notice that in your work like you'll be working on something and then your brain will be like oh let's go and get a sandwich and you'll just be like no and then you'll be back to work it's it's it's weird how it works and it doesn't seem like a big thing but it's huge you know it's like you can be working and then maybe you start having a thought about messaging someone on Whatsapp because you have an idea and then you're like oh probably shouldn't go and do that because you're trying to catch your brain as the thought forms before your body has a chance to react to it because if the thought you have and the distraction you have I should probably go and message my friend then you're going to get up and you're going to start moving you're going to walk over to your phone then you're going to be on your phone texting someone then you then before you know you're in your phone and you're completely gone and you're no longer working but if you notice the thought and think uh if that's important I'll probably think about it later back to work and the speed at which you can do that and the regularity and the consistency of which you can do that depends on how focused you are it is the single most important thing I have found to enhancing and improving focus and I suggest you do it every single day okay now meditation um it's like um you know someone told me once that meditation is the art of doing nothing so you don't add something to it um if you're wondering what I use I'll see if I can find it on my phone here um the app I use to meditate is called insight timer and it looks something like this okay I use the free version and once you once you're on the app all you do is you go to timer and then you go 20 minutes and you just press start and at the end of the 20 minutes um it will basically ring a little bell and then you know you're done um I wouldn't suggest using your iPhone alarm because we all know the iPhone alarms are very jarring and if you're in a nice calm State and then you suddenly get like you know the marima tone or something you're going to have some aneurysm so don't do that I I learn this the hard way because my ringtone is that alien sci-fi sound and and I was meditating and then it would be sci-fi and it was horrible right so don't do that but that's the point right so Insight time is the app I use you don't need music you don't need anything really just sit in a chair and do it for 20 minutes a day and it will suck and you'll judge yourself and you'll get angry at yourself but it's going to make you a millionaire if you do it for a long long time okay so those are really three things to begin with right so diet don't do anything before work and during lunch that is nov stimulating don't stimulate yourself and expect your brain to be able to get into a state of focus and become more aware of the distractions that you're experiencing so the the the two other ones that I'm going to walk you through are well we'll start with this one okay um and that is basically all or nothing so this is number four so you have to understand that your brain is a is what what would we call it I actually wrote this down earlier yeah so your brain is a universal behavioral filter or Focus as a as a sort of method of behavior is a universal behavioral filter what does that mean well what it means is that how you do one thing is how you do everything so if you're trying to achieve focus with your work in one area of your life but in another area of your life you're not focusing at all then you're not going to become focused in your work it needs to become a way of life needs to become a routine everywhere for example um if I'm listening to a song on Spotify I won't skip the song I have to finish the song I cannot watch part of a movie I can't finish part of a book before starting a new one right in your life you have to start becoming obsessed with finishing things and focusing on things um for example if I go to dinner um with a friend or with a group of people I will never check my phone if I'm walking on the beach listening to music I Won't Be messaging someone else I I it's it's almost boardline like autistic and I don't mean that in like an offensive way I mean like you need to become obsessive with this thing right so you know if you're like if you think you can get away with this where like I know I said earlier like sometimes I'll be messaging like four people at once but that's obviously like human behavior on WhatsApp right but my point is that like actually to be fair if I'm on the beach listen to music I'll text people it's not that extreme but I'm trying to make a point here right where if you're just doing one thing you want to just do one thing and you want to train your brain to not multitask because if you're multitasking in other areas of your life it's going to come up in your work because your brain is a universal behavioral filter and what that means is if in let's say your work accounts for 70% of your behavior and then 30% of your behavior is whatever else if in that 30% you're multitasking like your brain can't tell the difference between work and other behavior and so I promise you if you do it elsewhere it will come up and show up in your work it needs to be an all on nothing thing where you try to seek Focus everywhere because you can train yourself to be focused when you're watching Netflix it's just just watch Netflix right like look at do an order of your environment right now like do you have multiple tabs open like is is your life chaotic and ridiculous because if it is you know you're going to be in some trouble right so if I'm watching I'm watching I'm rewatching peeky blinders at the moment right um and I've just finished season one and when I'm watching pey blinders I'm not messaging someone else on my phone I don't have another tab open I don't like it's literally just me in the screen right I'm not doing anything else I'm not trying to stimulate myself in any other way and that method of behavior will translate into my work because when I'm your brain can't really tell the difference between watching a show and working right it can in the terms that it'll feel work is more painful but it's going to treat both activities the same way and so if when you work you're super focused but when you watch Netflix you're not well your brain's going to it's going to get confused because it can't do both it has to be one or the other and this is why right now in your life everything you do is distracted and chaotic so you need you need to change it where everything you do is focused because that will then transform into your work and make it way easier when you do try and sit down to work and focus okay so I don't care if it's playing chess or talking to people or you know replying to your emails or whatever like when I'm working I only ever have one window open at a time with one or two tabs two tabs max if I'm trying to work on something that requires two tabs if I'm on a meeting I don't have slack open if I'm um if I'm like to be fair if I'm driving or something or listen to music you know because that's fine but for the most part like if I'm I'm not going to try and drive and use my phone at the same time right or I'm not going to try and be listening to a podcast but texting someone at the same time train your brain to single task everywhere because single tasking is just focus and if you try a multitask everywhere your brain is not going to have it it's going to it's going to be super difficult so that's all or nothing now the fifth thing is really important right and that is basically your environment so what we're looking to try and do here is we're trying to craft and create a physical and digital surrounding that gives a scent to and makes Focus easy right we want our environment to be conducive to the behaviors that we want to perform and so you know for example if you're if if you on your desk right now have your phone then it's going to be harder for you to focus so it's it's a pretty interesting thing to do because right now you're watching this video right but I'd invite you to just look around and look at how many distractions you've laid out in front of yourselves so first of all you've got the YouTube comments below then you've got the YouTube sidebar or you know if you tilt your phone like vertically whatever horizontally whatever um there's going to be loads of other videos for you to watch on top of that you've got your notifications on you might have your email open maybe you've got music playing in the background but you've definitely got your phone on your desk somewhere you've probably also got a messaging app open you've probably also got another YouTube video that you're halfway through and two more tabs open on the videos you're going to watch next like dude it's chaotic how the hell can you expect to be focused when you put so many distractions in front of yourself like you want to configure your environment and create your space and your surroundings so that nothing can distract you it's it's so obvious and simple like one example is I have noise cancelling headphones so if my business cuz I live with my business partner right um and sometimes he'll like walk around the house and sing not in like a weird way like I do it as well you know when you just sort of like hum into yourself or sing into yourself Maybe not maybe I'm just bloody weird but you know when you're just walking around you're sort of you know making some noise or talking to yourself or singing like I have noise canceling headphones on because if my business partner is walking through the house singing then I might get distracted by that and so it's just like that's one thing in my environment that can just is a stimuli or a novel stimuli that can take me away from the thing I'm trying to do it's even more important you do this if the distractions in your immediate environment a tied to dopam energic reward right so primary example I have my phone here right now because I'm making this video but the bad boy is on airplane mode well actually it doesn't even matter if it's on AirPlay mode or not because I literally have like nothing on there there's no like I don't have Facebook on there I don't have Snapchat I don't have Instagram I don't have Twitter I don't have Reddit I don't have Gmail on there like I don't have Discord on there I don't even have any of those things anyway I don't even have accounts let alone the app right if you have Instagram on your phone snap on your phone Facebook on your phone Twitter on your phone Gmail on your phone Discord on your phone um I don't know threads whatever else people use these days right if you have those apps on your phone you're going to be poorer than if you don't it is simple because your ability to make money and create wealth in your life depends on your ability to work on things and stay focused on a a specific set of tasks for a long period of time uninterrupted and build value through a company if you have a phone in your pocket or on your desk that has all of these distractions on it that are rewarding to use in terms of your dopamine system and not only that you have notifications pushing to them you're literally making yourself poor I can't put it any other way you are literally you have something in your pocket at all times that is keeping you poor I do not know why people are so bloody attached to those things I do I get it cuz it's like addictive and stuff like that but dude I deleted everything it was the best decision I ever made cuz now there's nothing to distract me you know like maybe you've got dating apps on your phone and then you've got like all these messages now it's tied to dopaminergic systems but also some deep psychological drives and desires like you know if you get a message on Tinder and that comes through and you're trying to you know play a long-term game by just building like a system for your business you've given your brain two options here what do you think it's going to go for you silly silly boy right it's going to go for the girl so remove everything in your environment that can cause a distraction you know even to the point where like you just want to try and be as minimalistic as possible so what I'm actually going to do now to round off this video is hop into my laptop and I'm going to walk you through what my digital environment looks like because you have your physical environment which is the immediate thing primary example of how to optimize your physical environment is don't buy any bad food because if you're if one of your focuses you know ironically you can't really have focuses it just defeats the point right but if you're trying to not eat bad food and that's a focus in your life and your focus is on being healthy if you buy bad food and have bad food in your environment you're going to eat the bad food your environment is way more powerful than your willpower if your if your willpower you know if your willpower and your environment if these things go Toe to Toe your willpower might win for like a very short period of time for like a couple of days your willpower Will trump the environment but this thing's going to get depleted and your discipline is going to get depleted real quick and the environment will always always win the environment always wins so if you if you have a terrible environment conducive to doing things you don't want to do you can't expect willpower and discipline to defend you if you're trying to quit smoking and you have cigarettes in the house you're going to smoke them not for the first couple of days but it will get you so oh I don't want to vape anymore I but I don't want to throw my vape out because it cost the money I'm not going to smoke it three days later what do you think you're doing you're vaping idiot right so I'm going to get into my laptop now and walk you through um what my laptop looks like how I configure my desktop my browsers my social things so that when I do use them I'm not getting distracted or my brain's not going in all these different directions so that's everything for the Whiteboard let's get into the computer okay so we're here inside my laptop I wanted to show you what I see when I'm working cuz this is I spend you know 10 12 14 hours a day sometimes in front of this screen so I've optimized it um in many ways to allow myself to work efficiently and effectively and you know I'm going to walk you through some tools that you can install onto your laptop or workspace to become more efficient so the first thing that you'll see when I open my laptop is basically nothing um I don't have anything thing except from Google Chrome down here um I don't have anything in my desktop because your desktop is kind of like your mind if it's if it's crowded like your brain's going to be thinking about it right so every time I come to work I just see a nice clean slate now if I'm working on something um there will usually be documents relevant to that thing over here you know so for example the focus video that I just made that was here with the audio file and then once it's completed it just either gets deleted or uploaded to a Google drive to the you know corresponding or correct folder if that makes sense so there's like I only only do one thing at a time and my desktop is specifically dedicated to the thing that I'm working on and once that thing is done it gets deleted or filed or moved it doesn't just sit here so this is this space here that you can see is basically where what I'm currently working on will be and as soon as it's done it's over right so other than that I have this folder up here for just a couple of things that I need like to keep handy like you know pictures of my passport and some other bits and pieces just like stuff that you need randomly but every time you need to go and get it it annoys you so that's efficient and then I also have this one called vids which is where I upload like whenever I finish a YouTube video it gets uploaded here as well as to Google Drive because then that way if Google Drive fails or it gets deleted I've still got it here as a backup and then these videos get deleted as soon as they're uploaded if that makes sense so once again I just pause to pull this up once again to show you like I have nothing in the downloads tab if it gets downloaded it's gets done and then it gets deleted it's like download done delete right DDD the 3DS download done delete it's as simple as that you don't want stuff hanging around and when you finish something you just want to finish it by deleting it or removing it right I'm a big firm believer in finishing things and getting stuff done and just removing it so what you can see if I need to access slack I can access slack the only three things that I really use um inside of my desktop here are Spotify slack and Google Chrome right um slack is just as simple as looking for it there and so Spotify so you know I don't really I don't really use it so where most of the magic happens is going to be inside of slack and inside of chrome so we'll go through Chrome um Google Chrome is probably the like the most important tool to my work with the exception of slack and the communications and stuff because like everything to do with my work is going to be on the internet right because it's an online business so you want to understand if you're running an online business and you're going to be spending a lot of time in a browser first of all use Chrome do not use Safari do not use Firefox do not use Internet Explorer do not use bang just use Chrome it is the best fastest and most efficient thing also use Windows do not use Windows use a Mac it's more efficient it's faster I prefer it maybe you don't so the first thing you'll notice when I open my Google Chrome here is it's not taking me through to any recommended sites a lot of people um you yourself included probably when you go on Google Chrome Google Chrome is going to try and distract you right it's going to try and take your focus away it's going to it's going to give you external stimuli like YouTube or frequently visited websites that you can click on and it's just going to get you right so what you want to do is you want to install something called momentum right so it's a Google Chrome extension you can go here um like this and you can literally just you can literally just download it and install it and what that's going to allow you to do is basically have this like nature thing like there's no more bookmark there's no sort of like recommended sites or recently visited it's just you know Focus you just come in here it says good morning Charlie good afternoon Charlie or whatever and then you can then it's just you're just searching up here if that makes sense once you've got this sorted out that's the first sort of layer of protection that you're going to need against um against distraction the second thing you want to do is you want to organize everything that you need that is to be basically immediately accessible right so there's a few tools that I use every day or softwares that I use every day for for work and for um to to to drive the business for Google Drive Google Calendar Google um Gmail wise Trello now stripe obviously school and then Myro right so I use these things very frequently very often so if I need to get to my Google Drive I'm just one click away same with my calendar I'm one click away all of these things are accessible and what I don't have to do is go anywhere else other than this page to get to them right because it's just simple same with my w map my health tracking sheet whatever a big project I'm working on at the moment and then I've got these folders here that basically um all contain like different things that I can click on immediately right so this is like the Hub and this is like my navigation Tab and 80% of the time if I need to go somewhere I can find it within one or two clicks right and that's really helpful so the next thing I want to show you um is let's just go to Facebook right and let's hop in here so the first thing you'll notice about this right I go to Instagram um you can see this if I go to LinkedIn you be see I'm not logged in if I go to Twitter uh like this can also see I'm not logged in even if I go to school my community you you'll see I'm not logged in right so you don't want to log into stuff and what I mean by this is I see these platforms first of all I haven't been on Facebook Instagram LinkedIn or Twitter for like six months we have I have business accounts on there but I don't manage them so I don't have to go on them which I'm every day I count my blessings for right thank you to Ken if you're watching this our creative director who manages all the content um but let's say I had to go on Facebook to do something right Facebook let's say I had to go on there to I don't know message a prospect back right um Facebook is a dangerous place to go because it's full of distractions it's politically charged and it's going to take you down some sort of rabbit hole and before you know it you're going to be buying someone's $47 ebook that you're never going to use and then it's just it's chaos right so the way that I treat these social platforms is I treat them um even even my community I treat it in a way that I'm getting it done and then I'm getting out right so for example if I went into easy grow here um and just logged in and then I went to the community and then you know maybe I was looking at the win post and I was like okay let's just you know see what's going on make sure we got winds coming through or maybe I need to look at the classroom and then I need to make an amendment to this and then I'm like in here like okay yeah let me let me change this video once I've done that and once I've got it done I come up here and I log out because logging out of stuff tells your mind that that platform is now completed and it's done and I believe that if you're logged into a platform you know if you're if you're logged into something um what's basically happening is like part of your brain is dedicated to that platform right so let's just show you my Facebook right so if I log into Facebook here God forbid I have have ever have to go on this godforsaken platform um so what you're going to see here is like first of all it's just chaos right how the hell are you supposed to deal with this you know you've probably got all these groups down here here then you've got this feed you'll see there's no stories but one thing that you want to start using oh this doesn't even work anymore oh that's just sad damn okay well this is news to me cuz I haven't loed into Facebook in ages so there's a tool that you can get on Chrome called undistracted and what this tool does is it should hide certain elements of you know of the thing that you're using for example like if I want to hide Facebook Stories like I can just hide it you know look at this cuz if I if I come on Facebook right to do something and if I've got three like attractive women up here and then I've also got like this news feed of people like disagreeing with things like I'm it's very unlikely that I'm just going to do what I need to do I'm going to end up clicking on a story or like let's just scroll for a second here like if you if you actually scroll on these platforms and take a minute to ask yourself what the hell am I doing like you need to do that sometimes cuz I used to do this with Instagram where like I would just scroll and scroll and scroll this is a long time ago scroll and scroll and scroll and then um and then like I just sometimes catch myself like watching some stupid video and being like what the hell am I doing what this this what what on Earth am I doing you have to become aware of it you know it's like all you're going to find is is politically charged content people trying to sell you stuff like myself included right and it's just like this is all just rubbish none of this content here is in any way shape or form going to help me achieve my goal it might make you laugh it might stimulate your dopaminergic systems but honestly it's a complete waste of time so I used to use um undistracted to hide my Facebook feed but for some reason it seems as though that's not going to work so um so yeah unfortunately you might have to use one called Newsfeed Eradicator instead okay so that's the first thing just you know if I got it done I'd log out I wouldn't see any of that wouldn't see any of my newsfeed usually because the tools usually blocking it um same with Instagram I don't log into this I'm not logged in same thing with LinkedIn if I do sign into LinkedIn here right let me log in like this right and I go I go to the homepage there's no Newsfeed the chat popup doesn't happen there's nothing to distract me right there's obviously all of these notifications and all this basically but if I come on here to do something it's far less likely I get distracted but the big one the big one that's really going to help you me just log out this I don't want to be inside of this God forsaken place um the big one that's really going to help you is YouTube right if I go on to YouTube right and I do this um what happens is YouTube will usually Force redirect to my subscriptions but I'm not subscribed to anyone um because I don't really use this as much as I used to but if I just go to the YouTube homepage there's no like there's no videos nothing nothing comes up there's no recommended right so I can if I'm using YouTube um I only use YouTube with intent let's say I'm searching for a video right so I go on this with intent and I type in um like smma how to deliver a pay per appointment offer and I'm coming on here with intention right then I'll be like okay I'll click on this video that's all we really want if they don't pick up tool that's called undistracted which is completely free right is it's going to show me the video and nothing else so it's not going to show me the comments I can't SC in case you can't notice I literally cannot scroll down here to see the comments there's also no sidebar and there's also no up next door recommended right so all I all I can do is just watch the video which is what I want to do because YouTube is a great tool to gather information and to solve problems and to learn how to you know it's like it's a good tool but if you know if I remove all of this stuff here you know if I if I put all of this here look you know now I've got like all of these distractions here I've got more distractions down here and then if I get to the end of the video it's going to show me even more stuff like it's just it's chaos right it's just it's just silly so you know just remove it and hide it and then this this app will just completely like remove everything right so if I refresh now there won't be anything there so that's called undistracted it's really cool now another thing that you can do another thing that's a little bit more unknown is you can actually use ad block right um the Chrome extension to hide things on pages so let's say for example that I want to take this to an absolute extreme and I don't want to see YouTube descriptions right so let's say that I'm I just want to watch YouTube videos I don't want any call to actions I just want to watch the description right I don't want to I don't want a description I just want to watch the video what I could do is I could go into AB block here and click hide something on this page and then you can literally just click the thing and press looks good and then it will hide it right obviously I didn't confirm it let me just do it again um let's just do this looks good confirm and so now like I actually can't see the description the text in the description is gone so I do this all the time with other websites where like certain places that I go quite often that annoy me where there's like you know certain things I have to like look at I just block them on ad block like it's really cool because now whenever I go to a YouTube video um adlock is going to like basically block it but I'm going to unblock it now cuz I want to see it so you know I don't let's let's let's give let's try an example here actually let's go to Facebook and let's say that you want to actually stop seeing your Facebook notifications I've never tried to do this before cuz I don't go on this thing but let's go to AB block hide something on this page will it let me do it oh it will you're joking so you that's a life hack right there so you can literally hide your ability to see your Facebook notifications because I know for well that if I log into Facebook I'm keeping that on because I know for well that if I log into Facebook to do something for my business there is not a single notification inside of this platform that will contribute value towards my business maybe there will be but it's very unlikely like I haven't been on Facebook now for like a year so I I've missed every single notification I've had for a year or be I have an appointment setter on here now now right he might have reached out to some of you um but like there's nothing that I've missed right so I can just do that and and be like okay let's see what else I can get rid of because this this I haven't tried to do this before let's see can I hide the contacts I can oh sorry I had to let someone in so yeah you can see this is a pretty cool thing you can just hide everything you can just get maybe even you can use you can even use this but like the first the first Port of Call is don't go there because it's a distraction but the second thing is you can just basically use these tools to just remove things that would distract you um I don't know if you can use this to actually hide like the entire news feed maybe you can you actually can see look at that so now when I come on Facebook I could even probably hide the mess messages as well but now when I go on Facebook like if I if I log out here and if I log um back in yeah now there's nothing which is way better because now I can go and do what I need to do without getting distracted by the news feed or my notifications and then once I'm done with it I can just log out oh and see look at this look let's just look at this like you know I accidentally clicked up here so apparently I clicked on notifications I don't know how cuz it's not even there oh we can't even access the notifications it doesn't matter but you get the point there's nothing in there that's valuable nothing in there that's useful just log out and get it done so that's basically how I structure my work set up for focus and how I remove all of these distractions my mental Sam um calls it Snakes and Ladders where like you know it focuses like a game of snakes and ladders where you want to put as many ladders in place which are things in your environment that are conducive towards focus and remove the snakes and like a snake for example is the YouTube recommended page or your Facebook Newsfeed or you know having a bunch of stuff down here and like when you're working you only want to have like one or two tabs open at any given time you don't want to have multiple windows nothing no notifications it's just chaos just learn to do one thing at a time keep it clean keep it minimalized keep it organized and you'll make more progress if you are a agency owner or a coach or consultant um you can click the first link in the description full transparency it's a video me trying to sell you something um we might be able to help you get more clients we might not I don't know but either way I don't really care if you click it or not I just hope you found this video useful um have a good day

Channel: Charlie Morgan

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Length: 77min 33sec (4653 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 15 2024