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visit us at c-sharpcorner.com. Good morning and welcome to another episode of Growth Mindset Show
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My name is Mahesh Chan, I'm founder of C Sharp Corner. If you are joining us first time, welcome to the show
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If you are our regular visitor, welcome back to the show. I'm here outside of Philadelphia
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I live outside of Philadelphia here and this show is every Friday noon
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We do this growth mindset and we pick different topics, mostly around growth mindset, getting better, getting better job, getting better in life in general, mostly around professional life
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And then today's very interesting topic. Today's topic is productivity, how to become productive
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And we'll talk more on that. There's some tips I have to share. I learned for you know so many years and but one thing I really wanted today
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is that I want to learn from you I want to know what are your tips to get you get your work done
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how you are become more productive how you get things done faster so yeah I want to see you
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actually telling us and sharing your productive tips here as well so get ready bring your tips
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I want to talk about those. Deepak, welcome to the show. Wenkat, welcome back to the show. I see
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you guys already coming back. Good to see you guys back here again
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So yeah, today we are going to learn how to increase productivity. We are going to understand
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that how we can get things done faster, right? That's our topic today
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Other news before I start talking about this today's topic. Let's talk about Azure Summit
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I'm sure many of you already know Azure Summit we are just growing Azure Summit doing fantastic
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Just on LinkedIn, I think we are close to reaching 40,000 registered users. Yes, 40,000 people are
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registered just on LinkedIn. So if you're not familiar with the LinkedIn events, LinkedIn now
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has events you can people can register that's where we have 40 000 plus you know users in thousand
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i think about 1000 people are registering every day on linkedin and with that speed we may end up
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just having 60 70 000 registration just on linkedin besides that we have c-sharp corner we have azure
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summit website itself so it's going to have a lot more registrations register users just for the
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that's just the register users now watch it's it's gonna be live broadcast on c sharp facebook
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twitter and different other channels so it's going to be big conference coming up it's 10 12 days in
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a row it's uh so yeah i'm excited about this it's coming next month september 13 to 23 so 10 days
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in a row every day there is going to be different new topics so if you have not checked out the
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the agenda of Azure Summit. Check it out. Simon and team has already started putting
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an agenda in it now. Also, let everybody know people you work with. People you work with
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and they want to learn cloud, they want to learn Azure. This is probably the best way
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and free way to learn. All the experts are going to talk on different topics. So, we have
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I think about 100, I think it's close to 150 sessions for like all for 10 days
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You know, some are 15 minutes, some are 25 minutes, some are an hour, but check it out
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That's going to be a lot of learning. So with that said, as you know, Azure is growing, cloud is growing
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So we may have some shows on Azure and cloud as well. And I believe that there's a new show coming on C Sharp
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C Sharp Corner shows, they just focused on Azure. And I'm sure Simon is going to announce that as well soon
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So those are a couple of announcements. As you may know that here in the U.S., summer is almost over
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You know, it's pretty sad here because, you know, summer is a good time
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It's nice. But eventually, you know, every good thing has to end
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So I think next one month or so, summer will be gone
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But slowly people are getting back to work means schools are opening up
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Except in some places school have already opened and started already. Some places they're going to start later
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But here next on 30th of August, you know, schools start here in our area
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So that means back to, you know, work, school, kids and so on and so forth
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So summer will be over soon. That time also, good thing is we are also going to announce and focus more on these
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shows and have a good detail agenda for different topics And I want to bring at least three things in the pipeline One is build better software So we are going to learn how to build better software which I started that show
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last you know earlier and then during summer we took break and then I want to bring some more
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about the startups and consulting. So those will be some of the topics and there is a
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one show I want to start on just blockchain. So those are a few things coming up
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One more announcement on blockchain. If you have been watching C Sharp Corner Social Media, we have partnered with the Stratus blockchain
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It's a UK based, London based blockchain company. Their product is all in C Sharp and .NET
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Right now they're running a student hackathon, but in I think in the next month or so, they're
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going to announce, I think during Azure Summit, they're going to announce a big hackathon
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for blockchain developers. And I believe there was a post that it says it's going to have
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$40,000 prize available during that winners. And this prize means it's not like a prize
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It's not like a software license. It's real money. So they're going to give away $40,000
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to a few, I think, winners. More details are coming up, but this is something
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if you are interested in learning blockchain, if you're already doing something about blockchain
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smart contract, NFTs, and all those, this is something to motivate you
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Like, it's a lot of money. Even you win like $5,000, even you win $10,000
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That's a lot of money. So that's something probably you want to start learning
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and getting ready for. So the way hackathons work is you can, you know
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submit your topic with your team. You can even have three, four guys work together in a team
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and submit your topic for the hackathon. So watch out for that on social media
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I'm excited about that. It's going to be a very big hackathon. Just focus around blockchain
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and Stratus. So with that said, let's get started. Today, our focus, Bhaskar, welcome to the show
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Deepak, thank you. Everybody else, come say hi to us. When you join, start watching. Please say hi
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so I know your name. I know who's joining us. Ask your questions, any questions you have
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And again, as I say every time in every show, I say that this show is for you. This show is not for
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me. This show is for you. So my goal in this show is that I share my experience, what I learn over
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time I do research I read and I write so all those combined I try to share my what I learn in
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my knowledge with everybody so hopefully it helps some of you guys if it does help please let us
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know why how it helped I just is it like is this show doing anything good to you is it helping you
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are you getting better or you need some more topics to be covered just let us know everything
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And if you have any kind of questions, just ask those questions
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Questions are great because more questions means more engagement, means more motivated
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I get to bring new topics. Today, I am going to talk about my productivity tips
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But I want also I want to hear your productivity tips, like what you do to get your things done
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so let's go through my list first because I'm the host so then but I want to hear also I want
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to hear from you that do you agree with my tips or not does it work for you or not if it doesn't
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I want to hear that if it does you agree disagree I want to hear that because that also gives me
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feedback and I can improve myself remember we are not nobody's perfect so I want to continue to
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improving myself as well. So you have some other tips which you think is they work for you. Please
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share here. Hey Kaleem, nice to see you here. Thanks for joining us. Looks like you're joining
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first from YouTube. Welcome to the show. If you are here first time, welcome to the show. And here
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we just talk about even though I'm focusing on productivity tips today, but if you have any kind
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of question, just feel free to ask. All right, so let's get started. So look at the top 10
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you know productivity tips today um let's go to next screen uh simon hit it there you go
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all right so before we look at the tips let's think about what productivity is right what is
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productivity when you think of you know hey are you productive uh are you guys getting done so
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let's think about what productivity is technical terms right so productivity is output per unit of
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input. So output per unit of input means how much output you get from each unit of input
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That's pretty much it means so in your old computer guys you understand input you understand
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output and there's a processing. So if I get certain things I do something I get output
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That's productivity. Right now productivity is measured in terms of efficiency. Right
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What's the goal of this? Goal is to increase our efficiency. And what is efficiency
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Let's look at another definition here. Efficiency is the performance that uses the lowest amount of
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input and gives us maximum output. Okay. Lowest amount of input, maximum output
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now what does that mean that sounds great in physics terms and in science terms that sounds
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good that definition sounds good what does has to do with us as people as developers software
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developers as you know even non-software developers that means really in simple terms
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when we do certain things right we do any task we have a time we have some resources and we need to
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get something done it literally in our case in the case of people not machine in case of us
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productivity is getting things done faster it's that simple means if i can do things in less time
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and how much i can do more in less time in getting better at that's pretty much the productivity
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hopefully that's clear to everybody right if uh do you think uh the definition or meaning of
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productivity and efficiency is clear to you now if yes you can say yes it's clear if no then you
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can say no I'm still not clear because I want to make sure that you understand what productivity is
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right Ramakrishnan welcome to the show definitely we are here my goal is really with these shows is
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to bring some motivation to people's lives you know bring some excitement and bring some learning
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right end of the day learning is very important for all of us um so yes keep those questions
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coming keep the comments coming make sure you have give me all your feedback what makes you
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more productive what gets your offensive even increase your efficiency i know i want to know
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that because then also i can learn from you so you learn from me i learned from you this is how it
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works okay. All right so are we agreeing here that you now know what productivity is when somebody
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says are you being productive does that really you do you know exactly what it means also do you know what efficiency is Right So that kind of goal All right let move to the next screen So
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uh one more. I think this slide is messed up Simon. Uh one more time. Can you hit it? I think
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though. Yeah, there you go. The heading is missing because I did not go through. Here's the thing
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No, stay there. Don't go too hard. Just stay there as long as the heading is loaded
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So when you look at my productivity and efficiency is that I just made this slide literally an hour ago
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Even though my show was announced yesterday, but I made this an hour ago and I did it fast
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I knew already what I do every day for my productivity. So I just had to put this in a slide presentation
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That's why I didn't even go through the animations and all. But I'm going to share today
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I'm going to share some of my tips here. I said top 10 tips, but here's the secret
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I'm not going to share top 10 tips. I'm only going to share nine tips with you
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Why? Because I want one tip from you. everybody who's watching you're going to give me one tip so then i can learn from you as well so
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think about what is your tip which is not here in my list uh and if you can share me at the end of
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the show um simon maybe one of the tips one of the top tips which everybody likes maybe we can give
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a prize we can give it some c-sharp corner goodies let's pick that let's do that for fun maybe you can
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and run your random number generator, what app you do uses for that
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All right. So it looks like Bhaskar already said that my first task of the day is to make my to-do list
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That's great. Awesome. Yeah, share your things when you start your day
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What do you do? What's your productivity? You know, the people use different ways. And again, here's the thing
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I'm just sharing what works for me. It doesn't matter. Same thing may work for you
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So you have to try those things. So let's start with number one. So number one is prioritize your tasks
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Sure, definitely you have to make a to-do list. That's very important. Now, you may say that, oh, I already know my to-do list
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It's in my head. Well, that's great. But don't even think about it
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You have to make your to-do list. Make sure it's written. I mean, to-do list is more important than anything else you should have
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Like today, my goal is this. and don't over don't go overboard right do only be honest do only put only things there
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that you can do easily okay don't overwhelm yourself it's okay if you're done early you
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can get more topics in there the good thing is if you have too much in there and you don't get it
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done then you are going to probably get discouraged but if you have you have smaller you have like
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number less number of items in there and you get it done quickly you are now more motivated like you
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will feel good that oh look wow I did my to-do list already now I'm you know if you feel like
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working more then you get more things and good thing is that most of you guys if you're working
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for a company on a project you already have the to-do list you're probably already using
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one of the Jira or Asana or one of the task boards so good thing is you already have that
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so that's from your work side you may also have some of your personal lists right personal list
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means today I want to learn Azure or I want to learn you know database or I want to write an
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article or I want to do something else that you can also have that separate list as well. So you
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got your work list you get your personal list and personal list really depends on how much time you
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have left from your work. So that's so that's one thing first start with that thing. You agree
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if you agree yes please share say yes with this is agreeing or no not agreeing. You may say oh I
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need a list i already know what to do. Then second most important part is prioritize that don't just
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add lists you have to prioritize that if there are 10 items in my list these six are the most
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important things i need to get that and priority should not be best based on fashion it should be
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based on goals and you'll say what does that mean well this is very important and this i share because
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first from my personal experience that most of the time we want to do things which we are
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passionate about, okay? Not the things that matters to our, you know, company or productivity
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and other goals, right? So we try to just jump on the things that we are passionate about, right
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So that should not be the case here because your goal is really get the things done faster, right
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So if you have a task, they need to be done, their goals to be achieved this week or today
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That should be your highest priority, not the passion. Passion can always come later
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And here's the best part. If you're passionate about something, you can do that anytime because you don't need any motivation for that
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And now let me break it down from what I mean is that there is some, for my case, when I work, there's some client projects
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There's some client work. There is some customers work. There's some startups work
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And there's been my personal passion, like writing articles and doing research and all that
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Sometimes what happens during the important time, I mean, you know, let me write articles
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But that's not what I should be doing. I should be more focusing on first, you know, my client or projects
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They are important because that's my goals for the days and weeks and the whole year
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So that's how it should be. Does it make sense? now third thing is very important that you got to use the digital tools very important and i'm
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still better sometimes you know so there's some things i always write on my you know pen and paper
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that's fine but you gotta switch to the digital tools which is important there are apps there
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calendars there are passwords there are so many out there uh company i know most companies already
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do that but the reason you want to do that is is uh there is reminders in there and you can always
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see them they're always there if you have a task in your digital tool it's always there you cannot
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miss it if you use copy and paper and pen and you keep going next page next page next page
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there may be a task missing on page fifth five days ago so try to and it's hard sometimes if
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if you've been working on pen paper for a long time but goal is to move away from that
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and make sure definitely set times and reminders what does that mean is when you have a task you
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need to allocate a time to that how much time it is going to take don't just write the task
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try to try to be fair that okay this is going should take me two hours this is very important
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if you want to become productive the setting time on each task is very important you know i can have
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a task called write an article okay I can have a task write an article but that task is hanging
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around for two weeks that's bad for me so I need to set a say I'm going to take four hours in this
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writing new article it has to be done today it's all I can do by the weekend so I'll put two hours
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you know today two hours tomorrow that what you gonna that important for the productivity It not important for your task list and how you getting done It important for the productivity
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If you don't have the time, you cannot measure it. Hopefully, I made sense so far
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And I think Venkat and Bhaskar and Kaleem agrees. Thank you for your responses
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Next, let's go to next. So we got the task. We got the priorities
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measure productivity. So as I said in my previous screen to be productive you have to measure it
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You cannot say oh I had 10 tasks and I did in my day but what you got to do is you got to write
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down the task and their time is spent then you have to evaluate how much time is I spend on these tasks
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and now give an example I have say I'm writing an article sometimes this article how many of you
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guys really try to write articles or make some slide or something that's not from work that's
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nobody's asking you about it's your job or you start a project like fixing or painting your room
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or fixing your door or cleaning your room or desk whatever and then it takes forever it's going and
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going and going because you have not set a time for that and that's very important for productivity
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that each task has to have a time allocated to that. I have to finish by this
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And your goal really is try to meet those deadlines. That's important, right
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I mean, in work, that's fine. Work, you already get. Somebody's already looking, probably asking you
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So that's what it is, right? So it's important. Imagine, you know, how many of you really work at night
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How many of you work when watching TV, watching a movie in the background and working and thinking like you're working
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and you feel like oh I work five hours I work three hours you have to also see what how much
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work you got done in those three hours right that's important otherwise it's not productive
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and goal here is not to get the work done but remember how fast you get it done how less time
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you take to get the work done that's the part so if because of tv you're watching tv you're working
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at night you're watching movie in the background and you're working if it's taking you a long time
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maybe you gotta work in the daytime, you gotta stop watching TV. So that's how you
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have to think. So you have to measure productivity that's very important if
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you you want to become productive, get more things done in less time. Alright so
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now this is another important people don't pay attention to this. This is a
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this number three point is you got to allocate time wisely right so and I'll give you an example
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you know I wake up first thing you wake up get your coffee tea or whatever you drink and
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breakfast whatever you do and you start going through your emails you start getting things
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done fast or the simple things like okay let me reply all the emails but key here is that you have
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to look at your day you have to look at your time you have to look at your how your body functions
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how your brain functions and when are you the most productive when are you the most focused when are
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you most productive we are not productive same during the all day okay that maybe in the morning
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we are more productive in the evening it gets a little bit sloppy that's how it is our different
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we work in different ways some people are more productive and you know when whatever it is you
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have to think that and when you think you are best time when you are most productive means when you
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are focused you move fast you think fast you're good that's when you want to do your hardest work
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not the hardest task not the you know simplest task for example if you are really again there's
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some priorities always depends on what your job is if you are dealing with clients then maybe
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replying clients is the most important task and that probably you need to do first thing in the
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morning that's fine but I'm talking about when you have options to pick and choose what task to do
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when and say in the morning when you are really focused and you can get more work done that's
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probably you want to hit your hardest task the one that going to require you thinking that's going
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to require you focus all that so that's probably you want to start with what I like to do is if I
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have a choice what I like to do is in the afternoon when you get slow a little bit especially
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you know you're getting older i'm not talking about the young guys when you're older uh what
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happens is in the afternoons and later in the evening you get slow you know your processing
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slows down your body slows down so that's when i try to do things like phone calls things like
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meetings things like emails because emails i can even reply while even i have to say i'm watching
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tv in the evenings i can reply emails that too if i'm not really you know so that's how you have
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to think that there may be some tasks where you cannot make a mistake that's what you want to do
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when you're really focused not when you're watching tv because a lot of people you know
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remember if you're watching tv doing other things movies and working then chances are you may not
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remember everything you're doing and this is what I do sometimes I write articles at night and I'm
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watching tv and movie and writing articles and then I leave it and then I forget about the I wrote
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article. It happens with me all the time. So I'm just sharing my experience with that
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All right. Yeah, definitely. So keep those questions and comments coming. I like this idea. Deepak said, after completing typical task, I reward myself. It makes me more
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productive. Sometimes I buy chocolate for myself to celebrate. That's fantastic. That's great
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Because, yeah, you've got to celebrate those little wins. That's important. That motivates you
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that's gets you going for a long time do you guys agree with Deepak do you any of you do the same
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thing uh just share your yeah share your post here i mean share you what what you do there to get more
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productive all right so we will take one more uh tip here and then what we're gonna do is we're
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gonna take a two minute break as we do in every show during half time and then we'll come back
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but when we come back i want to actually i'm hoping i get more feedback from you
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uh what works for you everybody's different what do you do differently
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and then we want to talk about those and then maybe simon is going to pick a one of the winners
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that's what we're going to do make some fun all right so let's look at the fourth tip fourth tip
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is important. You know we all have phones. You know I have phones sitting here, we have
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emails open, we have social media open. Right? If you ask me and these three things are the
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most distracted these days, they distract you so much. Your phone, your social media
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your emails. That's just they're always there's non-stop. So obviously some of us work in
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environment, for example, if there's a client email comes, I have to reply that right away
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Faster I reply, faster it is. If client calls, I have to take the phone call. But some of us, we don't have those
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those priorities we don't have to worry about getting calls or emails right away
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replying right away means so that's how you have to look at that that if you can
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turn off notification if you are okay with that for you if it's you know
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notifications are not important that even though notifications supposed to be better for you but they can also be very distraction okay so goal really is when
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you are working when you're focused less is more okay because again I can go back to how brain
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works and our mind is the way brain function is that we are not multi-processer we are a single
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processor that's how it is we just design we are all systems let's just say that God is not
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designing multi-processors yet I don't know why so less is more so turn on notifications if you a
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lot of emails don't reply each email right away unless it's important. Remember I said some people
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emails are most important. For some people phone calls are important. If you are in marketing and
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social media is your job then social media is most important for you right. If you are in meetings
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you have to be meetings are most important for you but if you have a choice if you have a choice
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you just group these tasks that every you know a couple of hours I'm going to check emails and
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reply then every you know I'm going to schedule my three phone calls between this time to this time
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for example in my case I'll give an example afternoons are not productive for me you know
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you do lunch and after lunch is not very productive I walk around and maybe that's when I
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schedule my three phone calls and that takes me say an hour out of sudden my phone calls are done
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I didn't lose any work and I also I use my time when I wasn't really more productive so you have
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to think this way. Yeah, so this is a great, so Kaleem has posted a, he said that he used
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Clockify. That's great. I mean, there you go. So Clockify is a tool you can use. I have
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not used Clockify. It can measure your time. It can prioritize your task and also that's
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great. So I'm going to check it out, see how this works. So same thing again, you have to
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think about that because once you go to your list and you see, oh, social media, I checked
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five times guess what those posts are not going anywhere those notifications are not going anywhere
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they're always there so you can always group say you know what every hour every two hour I'm going
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to take 10 minutes break and that's when I'll check my social media that's how you have to do it
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so everybody's different everything works you know everything is different for everybody so you have
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to look at what works for you all right so Simon we're going to take a two-minute break and then
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after the break, we're going to come back again. Hey guys! Can't believe
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we haven't seen each other since graduation in May. What's going on
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Not much. With the pandemic, I can't really do anything right now. Me too. I mostly just stay at home
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hang out with my dog, and watch the news. I feel you. Have you
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guys been able to get jobs yet? Funny that you ask. Gary and I actually have been working on something together
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Yeah, we came up with an idea for a startup that's an app that will help us stay active
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since we both have been sitting around so much during this quarantine. That's genius. I could definitely use something like that
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When are you guys launching it? Well, that's the issue. We don't really know how to build it, so we're kind of stuck
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I know of this company that does startup advising if you guys are interested
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Oh, really? Yeah, they're called Mindcracker, and they'll help you validate your idea and connect you with angel investors
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Wow, that's awesome. Do you know how we can get in touch with them? Yeah, you can just visit their website, mindcracker.us
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That's awesome, Mae. Thanks. I'm excited to get started on this. Of course. Good luck, guys, and let's talk soon
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All right. Welcome back. We are here. welcome back to the growth mindset show this is second half hope you guys having fun uh we just
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All right. So let's get back to our tips. I think we are on tip number six or tip number five
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Four, we already done with this. So number five, you've got to stop multitasking
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So this is important. I do that. We all do that. We jump around from things
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And I'll tell you how many times I write articles. I leave halfway there and then I forget about it. I try to come back. So then I jump between this and
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social media. I mean we all do that but less is more again. So goal really is the fastest way to
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reach a destination is don't stop right. We know that if you want to reach from A to point A to B
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How can you do fastest way? Don't stop. Don't take breaks, right? Same thing. If you're sitting
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you start something. If you can finish that in one sitting, that's the fastest way. That's the
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most productive way. That's when you need less time. So try to break your tasks into the parts
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so you can finish that in one sitting. So like if you are sitting two hours and taking 15 minutes
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break try to make those tasks enough that okay two hours my goal is really try to finish this
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and see if you can do that um all right so that's a simple task hopefully you agree with that
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let's let's move to the next one uh set your own deadlines and that's important right sometimes you
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know your work will give you some tasks say hey and today we have to do finish this or this week
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we have to finish this module. That's great. But then you need to break down those into your own
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personal tasks. Like, okay, in this today, eight hours, I'm working eight hours a day
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in the first two hours, I'm going to tackle this, I'm going to tackle this, I'm going to tackle this
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And then you have to be realistic. Don't try to do too much. It should be where you can do
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easily those tasks. And then when you eventually, you look at the time, you measure it, then you say
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say you know what I want to do this faster I think I can save some time here and that's what
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really efficiency is all about getting better at what you do and I'm not saying you don't get
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better every time but there are some tasks where you can do faster by by thinking more yzing
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them and especially I know I can I can do certain things faster especially writing articles
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because sometimes takes me so long. I don't know about you guys
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but I work faster when I have deadlines. Okay. I get more things done focused
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and I'm more focused and I get much faster things done when I set deadline
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or somebody gives me deadline or some client says, we got to get this done
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or I set my own deadline. No matter what, I'm going to finish this
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So yeah, let's take a couple of comments here. Kaleem says, the productivity tip use focus mode of your mobile device and allow only phone calls app to active
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okay there you go that's great i didn't even know there's a focus mode on the device i did not know
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that interesting uh that's good i'm learning something today i learned about the app now
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i'll learn about the focus mode and then venkat say that fifth is critical what was the fifth one
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initially I thought we get the work done if we do multitasking but while practices it is not doing tasks yes it not and i tell you why multitasking is not not good because if you start a task and you don
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finish that and you jump on other things every time your mind has to reset and think about where
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you were okay so it's like you're basically it's like thinking in computer terms you're allocating
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the same process into multiple applications and then every time it has to remember what we were
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doing especially some tasks like me if i'm writing a code and then you have to remember that oh where
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were you and then you start writing articles then you have to remember and go back again so yes
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if you're already there it's like you're in the shop okay you go for a grocery shopping you say
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okay let me buy two things from here then you go to gas station let me get a gas and then you go
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back to grocery shopping to get rest of the things better to do everything shopping once and be done
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with yes like is that's how it is very simple right they agree so thank you thank you for
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comments both of you that's good it gets us like even discuss a little more on those topics
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now let's look at take breaks this is very important okay especially people are working
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from home i remember when you work from office a little bit different when you work in office
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you're working then you're talking to people there's meetings you're walking you're going for
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you know getting your coffee your tea you're getting lunch breaks that's a little bit different
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but when you're working from home now these days which most of us are it's very important to take
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breaks oh let me take a break right now because we're talking about breaks so it's important to take breaks because um that that that's like it it's like computer right you're
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to shut it down for a little bit doing the same task so you're gonna give mental and physical
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break has to be both not just physical break right you cannot just take a break um and then
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say you know what i'm taking move moving away from my laptop and let me go watch a movie
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that's not really break because your brain is still doing some work so it doesn't feel that
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like break means break break means you don't have to think too much can be walking right it can be
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you know relaxing taking closing your eyes or doing little bit you know all those things
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that's how you have to think it has to be both mental and physical break
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I think yeah and then this continuation of that is that in the breaks you can add
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physical activities that's more important because sitting around especially for us we
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are writing code and working on software we are sitting and sometimes our lower back hurts
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sometimes this hurt that hurt so stretching in long run these things are very important it can
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be a two minute stretching it can be a five minute stretching it can be 10 minutes walk
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it can be you know wash your face go whatever you do the the point is that you're going to do some
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exercise and if you have guys already done that if you do that already share with us i want to know
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what you do and what works for you um that's kind of the important part i want to know what you do
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you said ah this didn't work for me but this one works for me what motivates you things like that
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all right so i think one thing works for me really is when i'm not focused and all that i
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go and wash my face with the cold water uh we all know many of them know that uh
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and it kind of resets everything and then i was reading more about the brains and cells and
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you know neurons and all that so what happens is the cold water uh makes you especially in your head
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make sure your neurons run around they get shocked they get into the shockwave they're like lazy
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they're relaxing they're warm and you know brain is like yes sure i'm doing blah blah but once you
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throw cold water on your face in your head neurons they get shocked they're like well what's going on
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here right what's going on so they start running around means in generate more energy and brain and
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then you just start thinking more that's how really that's the science works behind this
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all right so let's go to our last in tip number nine because i don't have 10 tips i lied to you
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i said i'll have 10 tips but no uh all right so this is very important that you gotta stay motivated
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and the way you know there are different ways to stay motivated and two of the simplest thing you
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can do is when you have a break you are on the phone or you are whenever you need to have a call
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and talk try to people who are positive try to people who are motivated try to talk to people
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who are energetic because it very it we are all connected and this is how it effect works is we talk to depend on the people you talk to you hang out with that what you end up becoming okay as research says somebody said
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research said that you are the reflection of all your best closest five friends or people you hang
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out with that's what you become so that's and try to ignore people who are negative and low energy
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energy because that's not good for you. This is very important tip. Doesn't matter who
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it is, if it's your family, unless you cannot really avoid them. But that's the goal. If
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you want to become productive, you have to ignore people who are negative, who have low
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energy because that's going to basically demotivate you through things. That's how it is. That's
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how our brain works. It's that simple. Alright, so these are my nine tips and next one, go to next screen
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Simon, this is 10 and this one is for you actually. So what is your tip
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I know a few of you have already shared your tips. Thank you for those. But do you have any other tips you want to share with me on how to become productive
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And let's take a couple of these feedback, comments, questions here. Venkat says, we already covered that
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Yes, so Venkat says post 10 minutes nap gives good effect for me
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Gifts freshness. Yes. So, yeah, this can't be like a two hour or three hour nap
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But there's a proven fact. Scientists say that if you take a couple of, you know, little short naps, power naps, whatever, after lunch, they actually you become more productive
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And Europe is actually big in this. Europe has this practice there, even in the offices where if you want, you can go take a quick nap
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yeah this definitely is good it's not it doesn't work for me nap is not good for
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me personally if I take a nap it just messes me up but everybody's different
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so you have to find your what works for you with that said if you have any more
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comments questions let them coming now because we are done early which is a good
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thing because I'm more productive and efficient now because I finished my my
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one hour show in 47 minutes see this is how i you know this is how it works so um uh here's one more
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comment uh yep so follow 320s rules first is every 20 minutes second is every 20 feet away from screen
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and third is at least 20 seconds okay that's great so every 20 minutes you gotta move away for 20 feet
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and at least for 20 seconds okay i do not follow this rule this is important so i'm gonna
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definitely think about that every 20 minutes i have to stand up i do every hour hour i mean i
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would say every 90 minutes every 90 minutes or yeah i take a break but i take like a 15 minute
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break well because i have to make my tea then walk around and stretching so that's kind of 15
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minute routine I have but this is a good one this is a good one for if you can do in the office
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that's great so with that said guys looks like we don't have any more comments now we don't have any
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questions which is a great thing I should be more projective and think like I did a great job because
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you don't have questions and congratulations Venkat, Kaleem and Deepak for winning C-Shot Corner Swap
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if you don't know how to get these swabs talk to simon he will help reach out to simon he'll make
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sure you get the things done right with that said guys i have 12 minutes left that's great because
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i'm going to take these 12 minutes and do something else with it i'm going to probably make a phone
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call i'm going to walk around today check out my flowers it's nice beautiful it rained this morning
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so now it's nice. I like to see my flowers after it rains. It's different green and they're colorful
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Gives me a happiness. So I'm going to do that while you go enjoy your day
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and I will see you next Friday same time right here on Growth Wandsets
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