How to Change Your Life

So this is a video about how to change your life.

And in the video I want to talk you through the think day method

where in about 4 hours you can drastically change the trajectory of your life.

You guys know Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft.

He had this practice

and he would call it a think week where once

or twice a year he would go off to a cabin in the woods

for a whole week.

He would clear his calendar.

He would get a private chef.

They would private chat would bring him food

and stuff and he would just use

that week to read

and to think.

And Bill Gates actually credits quite a lot of Microsoft's most like best innovations

and stuff to this think week practice where he's just sort of sitting in

this cabin and doing a lot of thinking

and making decisions.

Now, most of us probably don't have a whole week to take off to

go to a cabin in the woods to to make these sorts of decisions.

And so, there's a technique

that I came across in my friend Sahil's Bloom's book,

Five Types of Wealth, which is called a think day.

And the reason I want to do a think today for me today is

because there are a bunch of decisions

that I need to make about my business

and about my life.

And if I make the right kind of decision in this kind of moment,

then honestly, it could be worth millions to tens of millions of dollars

if we just think in terms of like monetary ROI.

That's what we're doing in this video.

I want to talk you through my personal approach to the Think a Day

method.

And instead of just sitting at my desk and telling you about it,

we thought we'd go to a place in Hong Kong

that I've never been before.

And I want to show you the actual journaling prompts

that I have gotten incredible value out out of over the years.

I would say that these journaling prompts

that I'm going to share with you are things

that I have used repeatedly to change my life in increasingly positive directions.

Because of certain decisions that I made earlier in life,

I was able to start my business

and get really rich

and become financially free

and like quit the job

and you know,

all of that kind of stuff.

Um, because of certain decisions I made,

I ended up meeting a woman who

then became my wife

and we now have a kid.

So, I basically swear by having the right kind of journaling

or reflection prompts and using those

as ideally in a in a fashion that's outside of your normal context to

help inform what decisions you want to make.

What does it mean for your life to actually change?

The way I would personally define it,

it's that like currently your life is going on a trajectory

that looks something like this.

Like if you change nothing else, time is still marching on.

You're still moving towards your inevitable demise

and we're all just like going with life.

Now, what it would mean to change your life is

if you make a decision

that causes you to take some actions,

which then changes the trajectory of your life.

It's sort of like you're going down the highway

and then instead of continuing to go straight,

which is the path that you're currently on, you decide to take a turn.

Now, if you decide to take that turn,

that means you end up in a different destination than you would have been

before.

And so, your life has changed.

Now, the way I think about this is

that it really comes down to the decision

that you make.

So, for example, you could decide right now

that tomorrow you're going to rob the local bank,

right?

You could just make

that decision and if you followed through on it

then uh your life would change

but the trajectory of your life would probably go in a negative direction i.e.

you'd probably regret having robbed

that bank and you probably wouldn't advise other people to try

and rob a bank cuz your life will change for the worst.

Similarly, you could decide to quit your job

or to drop out of university

or to break up your engagement

or your marriage or whatever.

Like you could make these drastic life-changing decisions

and now your life has changed

because of a decision

that you've made.

So what that really means is

that the quality of our decisions dictates the quality of our lives.

If you make a decision

that causes you to take actions

that move you in a positive direction,

then your life has changed for the better.

If you make a decision

that causes you to take actions

that end up in a negative situation,

your life has changed for the worst.

So all of that is context

as to why this video is titled how to change your life,

right?

Because otherwise it sounds like a clickbait title,

but really what changing your life comes down to is a decision

that you've made.

So, instead of doing a think week,

you just do a think day

or a think 4 hours where you basically take half a day

or a day,

uh maybe like 4 hours out of your normal day-to-day routine,

you go to a place where you haven't really been before to get you

outside of your normal context,

and you just use that time to think.

You use that time to do some journaling, to do some reading,

to do some thinking.

And as a result of that,

you hopefully make a decision

or two that changes the trajectory of your life in a positive way.

Now, the reason that I like to generally go outside of my comfort zone

when doing stuff like this is

because when you're in your home environment

or your office environment

or like your usual day-to-day situation,

there's all sorts of like subconscious patterns that we just find ourselves following.

Our brain is kind of like a prediction machine

that likes to conserve a lot of energy by just sort of defaulting to

decisions that we've made in the past.

So, when you're at work or at school or your office or at home,

you just naturally find yourself in the sorts of thinking patterns

that you've always been in in the past.

Whereas if you want to actually get context is it's sort of like zooming

out or like going like 30,000 feet

or whatever.

You just you can get more of a bird's eye view of your life

to approach decisions from a more sort of dispassionate more like zoomed out perspective.

Whereas when you're in it, when you're in the thick of it,

it's really hard to actually make life-changing decisions.

And so what we're going to do in this video is you're going to

come along with me

as we go to a new area in Hong Kong

and I'm going to talk you through the exact journaling problems

that I'm thinking about

and I'll be sharing all of those with you.

And so hopefully as a result of watching this video

and doing some of these journaling prompts

and maybe doing your own thing today,

that will result in the trajectory of your life being changed

as a result of watching this video

and putting it into practice.

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Okay, so this is a little pocket notebook, by the way,

that I like to bring along

when I'm when I'm doing these sort of journaling sessions.

It's like quite viby.

The whole idea is

that you draw a circle

and then you split your circle up into three sections

and then you split those three sections up into three more sections.

So you end up with nine bits of your circle.

Now the three big sections are we've got health

and then we have a big section for work,

relationships.

Within health we've got three further categories.

We've got physical health, mental health,

and spiritual health which you can define however you like.

Within work we've got mission, money, and growth.

And within relationships we've got family, friends, and romantic.

And so those are like our nine different categories.

And I like to add a 10th category off on the side labeled joy.

Now you've got these 10 different categories in your little wheel of life.

And the whole idea is

that you just ask yourself

if 10 out of 10 in a category was like,

man, like I cannot imagine my life being any better in this particular domain.

That's a 10.

And one out of 10 is like, man,

I cannot imagine my life being any worse in this domain.

What number would you rate your like satisfaction with your life in in each

of these 10 different domains?

You sort of fill out your little wheel of life

and you get like a little sort of pi radar chart type thing

which is kind of nice.

It's kind of nice

as a visual although

if you want you can just write it down in a notes file

and you you get the numbers.

But basically what this does is

that it gives you a feel for

if you were to do almost like a CT scan of like your life.

What are the areas

that are going well

and what are the areas where you know concerted effort would help improve things.

So in my case for example let's start with health.

So physical health I would say is at a six.

Uh mental health I would say is at a nine.

Spiritual health I would say is at a seven.

Um in the work domain mission is on a nine.

Money is on a 9.5 and growth is currently on eight.

And then in relationships,

romantic relationship I relationship with my wife I would say is on a nine.

Family um we now have we now have a kid um I would say

is on eight.

And friends I would say is on six.

And then joy, how much joy do I have in my life

or how satisfied am I with the joy in my life?

I would probably say about six.

So now based on those numbers,

I have a somewhat like intuitive sense of what are the areas

that need some work.

So based on that, we've identified that physical health needs some work.

When I'm doing the rest of my journaling,

I'll I now have that that in mind that like, okay, cool.

I should probably make some decisions

that can change my life in the domain of physical health.

We've identified that on the work front, h to be honest,

on the work front, I'm pretty good.

Um, on the relationships front,

friends could do with some work

because I haven't seen friends in a

while since having a baby

and stuff like we just have been quite antisocial.

We spent a month in London which was amazing,

but now we're back in Hong Kong.

We haven't just we haven't put in the effort to organize stuff with with

friends.

So friends could do with some work.

And then the joy category for me is also only a six out of

10.

Um, and so I could do with a bit more fun in my life

basically.

And so having identified that as like the three core categories that are,

you know, helpful to helpful to look at,

I now have more of a feel for, okay,

now when I'm doing the other journaling prompts,

let me just make sure I've at least got some stuff to ideally touch

on all these.

And I've written them down in my notebook cuz by the end of this

think day,

I want to have at least one

or two action points for each of these three kind of areas of weakness,

as it were.

So if you are following along with the video,

please feel free to pause the video now

and do your own wheel of life.

These are the 10 different categories on screen

and I would love for you to just have a think about what would

your score be out of 10 for each of these categories

and then feel free to write it down somewhere.

It's generally useful to write it down.

Feel free to share in a comment

if you would like

and feel free to share already

if any action points come to mind.

And so one thing we're also doing in our think day is

that and I generally like to do this on a separate piece of paper

is that we're keeping a sort of rolling tally of our action points

because as we do these exercises we're going to come up with action points

and at the end of it we're going to look at all of our

action points and we're going to be like okay

which of these do I actually want to take forward um to take really

seriously.

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Okay, so we are here in the cupping room

which is a cute little coffee shop here in West Cowoon.

Has good vibes.

So this is the single most powerful journaling prompt that I know of.

If you ask yourself this question

and sincerely engage with the answer in terms of like not just engaging intellectually

with it,

but also like how you feel like intuitively.

If you had to answer intuitively, the prompt would be as follows.

What would I do if I knew I couldn't fail?

This is a powerful, powerful prompt.

It's powerful because one of the biggest things,

possibly the single biggest thing

that holds us back from living the life

that we actually want is fear

and in particular the fear of failure.

We are wired to avoid failure at all costs.

The amygdala, the fear center of the brain,

the habenula is like all of this stuff.

There's all these there's like hundreds of thousands of years of evolution

that has trained us to avoid failure

because back in the day failure meant death.

Failure meant you weren't going to survive to reproduce

and like continue your genes

and all that crap.

And so we feel very very very fearful about making changes to our life.

It's just one of the massive biases that you see with literally everyone.

And so the point of this prompt is to cut past that and just,

you know, let's just pretend, you know,

let's just pretend that you knew you couldn't fail.

What would you actually do if you knew you couldn't fail?

Then you think about it and then you also answer intuitively.

Like intuitively, what's the first answer that comes to mind?

What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?

For me, when I think about this question,

I immediately come up with things that I would do differently in my business.

And it makes me realize

that actually there's quite a lot

as it relates to the business.

A lot of fear that's holding me back from doing the stuff

that I actually know I want to do.

And then, you know,

back when I still used to be a doctor

and people would ask me like,

why don't you just quit medicine?

Like, you seem to enjoy this business stuff more.

Ultimately, fear of failure was the thing that stopped me.

It was this fear that like, oh,

but what if I try going full-time on the business thing

and what if I fail?

What if it doesn't work?

And what I find find really helpful is Tim Ferrris has a fear setting

exercise where whenever I have identified something

that I'm doing because I'm afraid,

I just go on Google

and I type in Tim Ferris fear setting

and then I open up Tim Ferrris's blog post from May 2017,

the most valuable exercise I do every month.

and it's basically got a bunch of questions.

Also, it's a very good blog post.

I actually would recommend reading it.

Um, here we go.

Define your nightmare.

The absolute worst that could happen if you did what you're considering.

What doubts, fears, and whatifs pop up

as you consider the big changes you can

or need to make.

Envision them in painstaking detail.

Would it be the end of your life?

What would be the permanent impact, if any,

on a scale of 1 to 10?

Are these things really permanent?

How likely do you think it is that they would actually happen?

Number two, what steps could you take to repair the damage

or get things back on the upswing even

if temporarily?

Chances are it's easier than you imagine.

How could you get things back under control?

And I'll put the other questions in here

and al we'll also link to the blog post in the video description.

So if you are interested in reading the questions,

please feel free to pause the video right now.

So what the fear setting exercise does is like first you ask yourself the

question of like what would I do

if I knew I couldn't fail?

And then the follow-up question is like okay,

why am I not doing it?

And then the answer to that question is always fear.

Like I'm afraid to quit my job because I'm afraid.

I'm afraid to break up my relationship because I'm afraid.

I'm afraid to start that business because I'm afraid.

You know, I'm not starting posting on social media because I'm afraid.

I have fear around showing my face.

What if people laugh at me?

What if HR recognizes me one day like on my Instagram profile

and like h uh it's all fear.

And the thing with fear is

that fear looms really really really large in our minds

and in our hearts.

And so what the fear setting exercise does is it basically forces us to

write it down on paper.

Like let's say you do start that business.

What's the absolute worst case scenario?

Okay.

Well, the worst case scenario is I invest all my life savings into it

and I lose all my life savings.

Cool.

Would that be the end of your life?

Well, probably not, but like it would be really bad.

What would be the permanent impact

if any on a scale of 1 to 10?

Is it really permanent?

How likely do you think that it would actually happen?

How likely am I actually to invest all of my life savings into my

business?

Is it possible to start a business without requiring any invest any investments?

Well, yes, 100%.

There's loads of businesses that start without any investment.

They're called bootstrap businesses.

It's a whole category of business.

So, it's like by like taking the fear and writing it down,

you often realize that, oh, wait a minute.

Because when it's in your brain,

it's just like it's like a dark monster that's in your brain,

but when it's on paper, it becomes a problem to solve it.

Like, let's say you were designing a bridge.

Designing a bridge is a pretty complex thing.

Would you do it in your head?

No, you absolutely wouldn't do it in your head.

It would just be dumb to do it in your head.

You would write it down.

You would get out a whiteboard.

You would get out some software. get your GA on paper,

you'd write it down.

You work with a team to write down the design of the bridge before

you try to build the bridge.

And so similarly with complex issues in our life,

especially the things that we know we want to do intuitively,

but we are afraid, fear is holding us back.

This is actually a fairly complex thing.

It's not simple.

And so trying to solve

that in your head is just a recipe for staying stuck in

that pattern.

At least that's what I found

and that's what a lot of people I know in the situation have found.

So when you put it down on paper by asking yourself these kinds of

questions,

what would I do if I knew it couldn't fail?

And then, okay, well, if it's fear that's holding me back, uh,

what actually is the worst case scenario?

How might I go about it?

Like, if I had a gun to my head,

what might I do to mitigate against the worst case scenario?

You start writing the stuff down, and you realize, wait a minute, actually,

it's not too bad.

The worst case scenario usually isn't as bad as you think it is.

In your brain, you're like, I'm going to die.

And usually, you're not going to die.

In your brain, you're like, oh my god, I'm going to die forever.

And usually, it's not going to be forever.

Usually, it's not that permanent.

And in your brain, you're like, there's nothing I can do about it.

You realize that like the road to ruin is not like it's not binary.

Usually there's a series of things that you start doing that that you do.

Like yes, it would be dumb to just straight up invest all of your

business,

all of your life savings in starting your first business.

But could you invest $100 and see what happens, then another 300,

then another 500 just to see what happens

and get data along the path

and then iterate based on the data

and treat it as experiments?

Yeah, 100% you could do that.

But the brain doesn't come up with that solution.

The brain thinks, "Oh my god, we could lose everything.

We've been told starting a business is risky.

Oh my god, we're going to end up homeless

and broke and alone

and we're going to die.

And that's what the brain likes to say.

When you put it on paper, you realize that that's actually not true.

So that's why this is the key question.

What would I do if I knew I couldn't fail?

So if you'd like to follow along with the video,

please feel free to pause it right now and ask yourself,

what would I do if I knew I couldn't fail?

Yeah, I guarantee you've come up with something.

Come up with something.

It's probably something that your heart initially came up with.

You know what the thing is, but then the mind is like, "No, no,

no.

We couldn't do that because ABCD EFG."

And so feel free.

We'll put the fear setting exercise questions on screen again.

So feel free to pause the video.

And for that thing that you're afraid of doing,

feel free to ask yourself these questions.

Oh, and by the way,

in case you don't want to do this following along the video,

we will put a link to my think day guide

that has all of these prompts

and templates and like

that in like a Google doc

so that you can just like access it on your phone

if you're going if you're doing your own think day

or you can print it out

or whatever you want.

That'll be linked in the video description if you want to check it out.

Okay, so having said all that spiel,

I'm not going to do this exercise myself.

What would I do if I knew I could fail?

All right.

So, come up with my list of stuff.

A lot of it is like business things.

Like I feel like I'm on the verge of making a bunch of decisions

in the business and basically just fear that's holding me back from just like

not doing them.

But if I knew I couldn't fail,

I would just like make all the decisions in one go.

And so that is interesting.

That is interesting.

Feel free to skip to the next time stamp if you don't care.

But I'm just going to tell you about one of the one of the

key realizations I've just had is

that I I've been toying with the idea for the last like couple of

months of building this um thing lifestyle business academy where I really like the

idea of building like an online school for entrepreneurs with some offline elements

as well like in person stuff.

And I've what I've got in my head is

as like a tagline is like the world's best school for lifestyle entrepreneurs where

you know a traditional MBA teaches you how to run someone else's business like

some big corporate.

If you do like a startup accelerator it teaches you how to get like

a venture capitalist funded startup

and become a zillionaire

or whatever.

But there's not actually that many there's not that much stuff out there.

And certainly I don't know of any good online schools for people who want

to build lifestyle businesses where you know you're building a business

that does you know six figures in revenue maybe like low seven figures in

revenue like it's not

that sexy.

No one's going to write about you in a magazine.

You're never going to appear on the front cover of Time magazine

and stuff but you have a business

that gives you fun fulfillment

and freedom and you're making good money

and you have a small team.

Maybe it's just you.

Maybe it's a small team.

It would be really, really,

really cool to build like an online business school like that.

And if I knew I couldn't fail,

I would just totally go for it because that feels really exciting.

And what's holding me back from like going all in on it is sort

of this worry that like what

if it doesn't work?

What if people think I'm some sort of get-richqu scamming whatever?

Uh what if we try

and then we end up hiring like faculty

and like,

you know, the whole shebang.

And uh what if we don't get enough students to actually make money from

it?

What if it's unprofitable?

I also really want to have an in-person office um where we can like

hold workshops and stuff um for entrepreneurs

and we can get the team working in person.

The other thing you know the fear around

that is like ah

but offices are expensive especially in Hong Kong real estate is expensive what

if we don't make enough money to make it like ROI positive

and all that kind of stuff.

And so this is just my sort of specific situation with the business right

now which is basically like what

if we don't make enough money from these things

that I want to do

because these things will be expensive.

So what if we just don't make enough money for it to be profitable

but then if I think worst case scenario worst case scenario we just like

shut it down easy.

Yeah.

Um yeah in the mind it's very easy to think

that like it's a binary thing.

It's it either works or it doesn't work.

But actually there are all sorts of shades of gray in between.

What does it mean for something to work?

Well, we're getting enough students

and they're paying us enough money

and they're getting enough results.

Basically, those are the three variables.

If we know we're not getting enough students,

there's lots of stuff we could do to get more students.

If the unit economics are not profitable,

we just raise the prices so that they are profitable.

If they don't have a good enough experience, well,

we refund the people

that have a bad experience

and really work on nailing the student experience.

Like, there's all sorts of things we could do to make this really good.

But when the fear gets in the way, it's just like,

what if it doesn't work?

What if it loses money?

What if we end up broke?

And actually, if you double click on that and really write down like, okay,

what would have to happen for that to be the case?

And where are all of the points of intervention where I could I could

do something about it?

There's like a zillion different points of intervention

and a and like 100 different things

that have to happen in order for it to be broken,

unprofitable, and stuff.

And it's just very easy.

Like what I was I've realized from doing this exercise

that I was thinking in the past,

I was just sort of without really thinking too hard about it,

just allowing the general fear of like, oh,

what if it doesn't work to sort of hold me back from wanting to

do this thing that I really want to do.

So, that's good to know.

Cool.

All right, I think we're done for uh this little segment.

Let's move locations and

then we will do our next little our next little prompt.

All right, so so far we've done part one,

which was the wheel of life exercise to do a little bit of a

life audit and we wrote down our action points

that resulted from that.

Part two is that we really seriously took the question,

what would I do if I knew I wouldn't fail?

In part three, what I normally like to do is

that I just have these collections of journaling prompts

and I generally just like to scroll through them on my phone

and I decide like

which one feels like it's calling out to me

and then I'll just sort of like really think about the question

and generally try and write my answers down in a physical notebook

or like dictate my answers into voice pel

which is our like AI writing app thing.

So here are some of the journaling prompts.

What would you do if money were no object?

Was kind of interesting.

If you didn't care about making money,

how would you use your talents and skills to serve other people?

What would I like people to say at my funeral?

And to what extent am I currently living aligned with that future?

If I repeat this week's actions for the next 10 years,

where does it lead?

And is that where I want to be?

What activities in the last month have energized me?

And what activities in the last month have drained me?

How can I do more of what energizes me

and less of what has drained me?

When it comes to my work or my life,

what is the goal and what is the primary bottleneck?

This is a fun one for entrepreneurs.

Do I work for my business or does my business work for me?

If I knew I was going to die 2 years from now,

how would I spend my time?

I always like asking that one.

I I ask myself this question almost all the time.

The answer I almost always arrive on is

that I probably play more video games.

And then I have like a burst of playing video games for like a

week and then I sort of sort of get out of the habit

and then I'm like,

"Huh, you know, actually probably would play more video games."

Oh, this is another nice bottleneck one

that I got from my friend Dicky Bush.

What's the biggest bottleneck to achieving my next goal

and why aren't I working on it?

It's always always an interesting one.

How much do my current goals reflect my own desires versus someone else's?

What are some areas in

which I could invest more money to make life smoother

and easier for myself?

What could I do to make my life more meaningful?

What do I wish I could do more quickly

and what do I wish I could do more slowly?

And finally, what backpack am I carrying that no longer serves me?

This is a question from Keith Cunningham's book, The Road Less Stupid.

And by backpack, it's sort of like uh we all walk around um imagine

like walking around with like a heavy backpack on your back.

And it's sort of like we all have these things

that we're carrying around

that at one point served us like an identity

or a fear or a concern

or like a grudge

or whatever.

And by asking the question of like what backpack am I lugging around

that no longer serves me,

it's worth yeah just taking a little bit of a pause to really think

about the answer to

that question.

I always get some good insights whenever I do whenever I do it myself.

Um all of these questions are in our little think day guide.

And so what I'd recommend is you download the guide.

It's very open up on your phone next time you're doing a think day

and you just go through

and you don't have to do all of them.

It will take absolutely ages to do all of them.

Usually I just like, you know, I see how much time I've got left,

how much time I want to deote to the think day,

and then I pick like, I don't know,

three or four or five that really vibe with me.

And then I'll usually do some writing about them on the thing

or uh I'll,

you know, go on Voice Pal

and just sort of walk around

and speak out my answers to the thing.

And actually, all of these journaling prompts are also built into Voice Pal,

but you can't access them by default.

So, if you open up VoicePal

and you go on your profile settings

and then you hit offer codes,

if you enter the code think day,

then all of these journaling prompts will be added to the brainstorming frameworks part

of your app.

Um, so you can find all of those there

if you want to actually do this kind of just like voice journaling rather

than like actively sort of writing stuff out.

So then you can do

as many of these different journaling prompts

as you like.

And then we move on to the final part of think day where we

are going to weave everything together into some specific tangible action items.

Okay.

So final order of business for the day is basically to document decisions

and actions.

So my favorite way of documenting decisions is as follows.

So for each decision

that I want to make I basically write in my notebook before today I

was dot dot dot.

So I might say before today I was unsure about whether to get an

in-person office for my team

or something like that for example.

And then we say

but as of today I have decided

that dot dot dot

as of today I've decided

that I will in fact get an office for my team

or whatever your thing might be

and therefore my action items are 1 2

and or three.

And so we're documenting decisions and we are documenting action points.

So in my case with the office therefore my action items are delegate the

finding of the office to someone on the team. um look through all of

the offices that I've seen before,

blah blah blah, get some, you know,

all of that kind of stuff depending on what the thing is.

And then finally, I will review this in whatever time frame to check in

on myself.

And so this is usually when if I'm taking this seriously,

I will create a calendar event like a week from now to sort of

review action points from think day just to make sure

that I've got like a check-in point

because otherwise it's very easy to do this stuff,

document action points, and then not actually do the thing.

But if you have a documented meeting with yourself in your calendar a week

from now,

that generally gives enough time for the thing to like percolate

and for the action points to,

you know, at least make a start on them.

And then generally I'll get a feel for like, okay,

now that I've slept on this,

now that I've had a week to think about it,

do I still want to stand by the decision

and therefore continue on

that route with my particular action points?

So, if you are following along

and you've gotten to this point in the video,

I would love to see a comment down below.

What is one decision

and or action that you've maybe maybe considering taking

as a result of doing these different journaling promps

or these different like reflection exercises?

In my case, I have a handful.

Uh in terms of the business, we've got the office thing.

We've got this like lifestyle business academy thing that I want to build.

There is a one

or two hires that I want to make in the team

that I was a bit unsure about previously

that now having done this journaling

and stuff,

I've realized that I just should make those hires.

I've also decided that I'm going to experiment with going to the gym first

thing in the morning before starting work um

as a way of sort of just jacking up the physical health things.

One of the general hacks in life is

that if there's anything you want to do,

make sure it's the first thing of the day

and then it's going to get done.

Like if you're starting a side hustle or something,

it's generally a lot easier to work on it before you go to work

compared to after you go to work.

Cuz after you come home from work,

you're like dealing with low energy levels

and other things come up

and social stuff happens.

But like very rarely does social stuff happen early in the mornings.

It tends to happen more in the evenings.

Anyway, I haven't actually quite figured out what my action point is going to

be to get more joy in my life.

But to be honest,

I feel like I have enough joy in my personal life

and I will get more joy in my work life by having,

you know, more kind of inerson team vibes, which which always vibes with me.

And then finally on the social front,

because I realized that I haven't seen friends in a while,

I'm going to have a chat to my wife tonight

and we're going to sort of get a standing order social event like a

weekly brunch or a weekly dinner,

you know, that kind of thing in the calendar

because generally when action points get converted into calendar events,

that is when, at least for me and my wife,

that's when they actually happen.

And finally, if you enjoyed this video

and you haven't yet got a good system for time management in your life,

I have a video over here

that breaks down the triage method

that I learned in my time working

as a doctor that has really,

really helped with time management to help actually make these action points become a

reality.

So, thank you so much for watching.

Have a lovely day and we'll see you hopefully in the next video.

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