Updated July 11th, 2019 If you're wanting to listen to binaural beats to increase your productivity and get sh*t done, you need good headphones to rock out on. These are not the cheapest headphones. When it comes to my gear, I'm willing to pay for quality and comfort. I use them everyday, so I want it to work, last and I want to be happy with them. If you're looking for the cheapest headphones, you're in the wrong place. But if you've already ...
Inside StrikeThru – The Analog System Tripling My Productivity
For the past few weeks, I've been more creative than ever. I've written more blog posts, more emails and made forward progress on more things in the last 6 weeks than I have in the last 6 months. Part of that has been due to the lack of legal fiascos I've had to deal with (more on that later), as well as some traveling I've been doing, but most of it is due to a new habit I've picked up for helping me control my thought processes and get stuff ...
How To Cure Insomnia: 5 Experiments for Better Sleep
I have an ongoing battle with sleep. For a long time, I simply hated it. Lying unconscious for 8 hours at at time seemed unproductive and boring. I would lay there, staring at the ceiling for an hour before getting bored and getting up to work on a project or something else that seemed like it was more productive to society. The aftereffects of this were that I would stay up to strange hours, crash out late, wake up late and feel groggy for the ...
My Current Productivity Stack
One of the questions I get asked most often is: How do you get into your most productive modes? Over the past 5 years or so, I've experimented with a lot of things and have arrived at a "stack" that I use when I need to be at my most productive, so I thought I'd share. While you need to find a "stack" that works for you, this is how I get into my most productive modes: http://instagram.com/p/9IHTvTzFss Freedom App First things first - get rid of the ...
How To Run A Faster Final 5k Using The Hit List Method
I just ran the Swiss Alpine marathon. It was one of the most beautiful races I've ever done. Hands down. It also took me way longer than any other marathon I've ever done - almost two hours longer. I'll have a full race report this thursday, but it was intense brutal - just take a look at my face here. About 21km of the race took place in high alpine territory and we climbed two major summits (Keschhuttes at 2632m & and Sertigpass at 2739m ...
The Atlantic Challenge
Every now and then I like to make up games. While they're similar to Dan's "parlour games", these games are life and business games. Instead of thought exercises, they're doing exercises. Want to be more productive? Try Workstation Popcorn. Want to get uncomfortable? Try Cold Shower Therapy. Want more adventure? Try Adventure Roulette. As well as being fun, games make life more interesting, and serve as challenges with which to test ...
Batch Tasking: How To Create Incredible Amounts of Content Like Clockwork
The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint / The greats were great cause they paint a lot - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, 10,000 hours I like to think that I get a lot done. I'm working on getting a lot more done. I believe that the more you do and the faster that you execute, the faster you'll improve. In other words, I believe that if you're prolific, you produce quality work much faster than if you try to be perfect. Why? The ...
How To Get Over The Perfectionist’s Dilemma
Personal note: this is something I've been massively struggling with the last few days and I needed to write a post as a kind of therapy. Hang in there with me. Perfectionism is a funny thing. It's supposed to be regaled and with words like "craft", "art" and "perfection." It also causes more people to not do s**t than any other thing I can think of. Refining and editing your work has value, but perfectionism is a cancer and it will kill your work if ...
What Are You Willing To Give Up?
What are you willing to give up? The world talks about what they want They talk about following your passion. Living the dream and a bunch of other cliches. But nobody every talks about what they're willing to give up. Ask someone what they want (if they can actually answer that question) and you'll get a myriad of answers: A good career Freedom to travel The ability to be your own boss. Lots of money Time with loved oneso People ...
The Pomodoro Technique
Whether you're big into business, fitness, or gritness, you've probably come up against one of the main roadblocks in achieving the impossible: procrastination. Procrastination crops up everywhere: If you're getting into running, often the hardest thing is getting your shoes on and getting out the door. If you work from home, you drown in email before you get down to the work that matters. If you want to switch careers, you convince yourself you ...
