The 5AM Club book review

hey guys welcome back today i wanted to make a book review walkthrough and going through my um notes on a particular video so i've been doing a lot of reading recently i've been reading for about two hours per day both in the morning during the day during my breaks from my 90-minute focus sessions i bought a Kindle Oasis i'm i've always been a massive fan of paper books and as much as like i'm a technology person and quite nerdy i just i always love paperback books and i have a collection next door but i've really fallen in love with the kindle i've finally been converted

just the sheer convenience of being able to highlight to take notes and it automatically syncs over to notion for anyone who's interested i there's a plugin called Readwise that you just connect your amazon account to and it will automatically sync your notes over into notion it actually shows up like this so it puts a nice little image of the of the of the book itself of the cover and it gives you all the this interesting information the number of highlights that you have so just by simply like touching your finger over you over a specific area of text it will automatically be pulled into my

notion system and from there i actually turn this into notes and i will categorize these based on if it's about productivity mindset whatever it may be i have centralized databases on each specific subject that i'm interested in so from each of my books i read which are the data sources i will categorize it into areas so each different subject has all of my the best research that i have on each particular subject and it's accessible to me at any time and that way if i work on a particular task i can just with one click add in all of the knowledge that i've ever collected

on a particular subject and it's very easily accessible to me so in here you will find all of the notes and highlights that i made in this particular book and then only the the ones that i really really will actually make it through into my final knowledge vault which is basically a category that has all of all of my best thinking in each in each particular area just before we go through the review of the 5AM Club sorry before we go through my notes of the 5AM Club i'll just give my very quick thoughts and opinions i recommend reading it i've been following the protocol

myself for about a week and a half now and i'm i'm feeling really really good not just from that there's a few other changes that i've made in my life which i try to make one change at a time so i can actually track where the improvement is coming from i've gone over 30 days now no masturbation and i think that is having i generally always feel good whenever i cut masturbation out of my life and just pornography in general i think it makes sex less enjoyable if it for me anyway so to cut it out completely is a good move i'm feeling really really

good i think that has part of an aspect is part of the improvement number two i've really like cleaned up my diet and also performed a load of blood tests and also i'm doing quite a lot of exercise um at the moment so i'm losing weight and generally i feel i have much more energy and i'm feeling good but both positively and physically i'm getting sorry both mentally and physically i'm feeling much much much stronger i'm also losing fat at the same time and in mindset wise and i'm yeah i'm feeling really good and that is also to do with this 5AM protocol by waking

up and setting aside a few hours sort of uninterrupted time in the morning for me to get a head start on the day it really does make it makes you feel good i don't follow protocols like this all year round mainly because the only negative i find is that it has a negative impact on your social life i will say no to most social events because i want to be in bed by nine o'clock i will read for half an hour 45 minutes and and then it's lights off and i'm i'm asleep so i will utilize this throughout the year probably for six to nine

months i i will generally try to structure my life and then i'll give myself a bit more leeway usually in the summer or if i'm abroad somewhere so anyway the negative about this book though the positive is that it contains a lot of it does contain good information the idea there is is really quite good and i agree with the principles i've implemented them in my own life and i'm seeing positive improvements so the information there is good the negative of it is the book waffles on for ages sort of like what i'm doing now but i felt like i didn't know 75 of the

book could literally just be wiped out there there's a whole storyline going on and i was sort of reading along thinking okay maybe there's some hidden message in the story that you sort of have to follow along with in order to understand something and if i don't read the storyline am i going to miss something the answer is no you you're not you can you can sort of skim through the whole the whole storyline and it's just sort of filled up with a lot of i don't know unnecessary information and at the very end of the book there's this gold section of just real information

and notes just being given over a couple of page period and that was the the most informative part of the book otherwise i really did feel you're sort of fishing for the nuggets of information like you're really searching for a load of quite a lot of unnecessary text to really get the important information fortunately for you i've already invested the time in reading everything and i've i've taken all the notes out already which i will i will share with you and for anyone there's a sort of storyline basically there's an entrepreneur and there's an artist and i thought that i'm i'm still not sure actually

if this was some type of symbolism where the entrepreneur symbolizes the rational part of the mind and the artist in the story symbolizes the more creative more spontaneous side of the mind and that it could even have been like a like symbolism that that they were showing that both sides of your mind no matter what type of person you are can benefit from this type of protocol that may have been the reason for it but regardless i still felt that there was a lot of information there that could the whole storyline could have just been removed completely generally i like books quite to the point

and this that's also the same problem i have with the lean startup actually for a book that is meant to be about lean development and lean startups right having lean businesses it's not a lean book at all it's really quite quite bloated actually regardless enough enough moaning for me let's just go through my my notes and these these are points that sort of taken out so this video is also as much for me as it is for you i often find like when i'm absorbing information i generally read quite quickly and i'm just flooding my my brain with like information so i actually to go

through it about a week after i finished reading something just to go over my the key notes and just sort of remind myself of um of some of the information that so yeah these are the points that i've taken out that i felt felt the most interesting like i said this is all synced over automatically anytime i highlight something the plugin that i use is called Readwise and it will sync over directly to notion i believe they have a few other integrations as well with with evernote i i think it was that you can play around with as well so first point world class begins

where your comfort zone ends this would almost be a sort of motivational thing like as much as i feel i push myself out of my comfort zone there are often situations for example when i sold my company recently it was a decision that i should have made much sooner and now i can sort of reflect back on it and think actually it was because i didn't because it would have it would have taken me out of my comfort zone i was in quite a comfortable situation there you know i had spent ages working on this company i had an income from it everything was like

stable but on the inside i wasn't feeling so satisfied let's say and i was having no personal growth at all from this business so i i was too comfortable so even as an entrepreneur i know most people when they think of their comfort zone i i from what i feel anyway it's they're scared to make the leap from the the nine-to-five job into entrepreneurship but even as an entrepreneur it's really quite important to keep pushing yourself out of your comfort zone you know for me success is in progression and growth as an individual if you're constantly improving yourself and you're able to deliver more value

to people the money comes anyway like you you it sort of takes care of itself right as long as you're making sure that you are able to deliver a lot of value to businesses to people people will pay you based on the amount of value that you can deliver to them or you can create businesses based on the amount of value and knowledge that you have so as long as you're constantly developing and improving as a person for me anyway i i truly believe that the financial aspect takes care of itself then another quote that i really liked warren buffett said the rich invest in

time the poor invest in money i i really like quotes like this i'm so focused on time optimization and it's why i'm so focused on productivity as well in these focus sessions because it's a way of me being able to buy back my life and often when i'm talking about sort of investing in the things that you use every day to improve your life quality or things that make you work more productively or enjoy your your work more time is the only thing that we're not able to buy back right is the most precious thing that we have and we don't look at we you

know very rarely do we really think about death or the fact that we have a really limited amount of time people i just generally don't talk about it maybe they look at it as a negative subject but i i don't know i find it quite motivating to think that i want to make the most of the time that i have available no matter how rich you get okay like now people are starting to look into reversing the process process of aging but we're not able to buy back like time of whilst we were at like a younger age so for me these are some of

the prime years of of my life you know you're never as young as you are right now so of course this is like the best time for me to be alive and it makes sense for me to have as much free time time independence as possible the things that i've realized that really matter to me are financial independence financial freedom location freedom and time freedom all of my life goals and aspirations generally fall within those three categories financial freedom location freedom to be able to be where i want financial freedom to be able to buy what i want and go wherever i want to do

whatever i want and time freedom to be able to choose what i invest my time in like i spent a lot of time thinking about this as part of my yearly review and that's basically why what i settled on again another quote here if he fails he fails elegantly those who do not like attempt new things they do not know victory nor defeat they're just stuck in sort of limbo which i you know you sort of see so often and i often think of people who are sort of stuck in in a nine to five job you know still stuck inside the matrix if if

we will you're you know you sh a lot of people in my opinion are going through life and they're not playing to win they're just playing not to lose as long as they're not in last place as long as they're doing better than some people in life they're happy i'm i just i can't live like that i'm i want to be in position number number one and even if i i don't make it there even if i fail at least i failed daring greatly you know pursuing a dream there's like a poem someone was reading to me this is turning into such a weird video

actually this poem someone was reading to me the other day and um or someone sent to me the other day sorry uh it was a dutch poem i can't remember the full name of it perhaps someone will know but there was a line in it and it was about a man who grew old looking at his life sitting down on a park bench and it was just a particular phrase in it that the only thing he achieved of all his childhood dreams is growing old and you know like i i that that to me is like such a scary thing right fortunately i've actually achieved

some things in my life already that i'm quite happy with but you know i i would rather like fail miserably but knowing that i did it pursuing a goal something that i really wanted rather than going through life in such a timid fashion not pursuing any anything not winning anything but also not failing at anything you're just literally stuck in in the middle really not not doing anything and there are people who go through life again talking about being around like the highest quality people again something i completely agree with i try surround myself with high quality people who are going places i've said before

on this channel you become a mixture of the five people that you spend the most time with be very ruthless about who you let in your circle who you spend spend time with and i'm also very focused on like investing in in like the best tools and the best things around me to allow me to do the best work for like a mattress something that i use every day i have like the best mattress that i could find so i get the best night's sleep i possibly can every night with food i will always like invest money in health and education the two things i

will give myself an unlimited budget on because like food you're literally you're putting inside you you are becoming what you put inside your body your body is using the nutrients from the food that you eat to fuel your system and of course i want my body to be running on the best possible fuel that i can give it and the same for education what i'm feeding my mind i want to be giving my mind the best possible information that i can with like the tools i will always go for like a maxed out top spec laptop anything that i spend a lot of time doing

i will put money into it and i will see return on investment from it these are you don't always have to look at return on investment as seeing a financial return on investment like again what we were talking about just now buying back time by having a fully spectacular laptop it means i don't spend any time waiting around and these micro seconds they completely add up same with a router again this is a little tip i've mentioned before but buy the best router that you can that you can find you know if you're sitting around these micro seconds you spend waiting for websites to load

every day if you put them into a a time calculator and you calculate over 10 years 25 years how long you're going to spend waiting for web pages to load whatever it is you're wasting a huge portion of your life and it's quite scary actually if you put it in into those calculated calculators so and here again another quote victory is made in the early morning when no one's watching and everyone else is sleeping and i i really like would push that for that quote forward as well like when no one else is watching what are you doing that is when like you're that's the

type of person that you are when no one else is watching there's no one to put on a show for what are you doing like how do you actually spend your time and i think that's a very big reflection of who you are as a person you know like if i'm up early doing doing like a workout working in like a focused state of mind like yeah when no one is watching what are you spending your your time doing and also yeah that you achieve victory whilst everyone else is sleeping and it is it's almost a bit of a smug feeling to be honest to

know that you've got a lot of stuff done whilst people are still in bed you do feel that you have a a real head start on the day another interesting quote if everything seems under control you're not going fast enough i think it was the founder of linkedin who actually said this if they release a web page and it has it doesn't have any spelling mistakes it means they didn't release this fast enough and i think that's more of like a sort of a startup state of mind to you know build quickly and break things move quickly and break things you know fix later just

keep momentum going keep pushing stuff out especially in early stages of a startup and then another thing about the book is there's also quite a lot of elements that i felt were taken from atomic habits i'm not actually sure which book was published first but i'm a massive fan of atomic habits actually it's one of my favorite books and i will often actually go back to it and reread it each year but there's a lot of points about the sort of compounding effects of of daily improvements which are completely true i won't go go into any detail if you are interested in exploring it and

you haven't read atomic habits i would recommend that is like the this little go-to book on compound effect of of making like tiny improvements throughout your day really really good book and then another interesting quote rest and recovery isn't a luxury for anyone committed to mastery it's a necessity really really i i just couldn't agree more of this i've burnt myself out so many times and now i've completely adjusted my schedule actually taking inspiration from this book so i will do a 90-minute sprint a 90-minute like not sprint sorry focus session is what i've come to call them so like AirPods Max go on i

made a different video on like my productivity tools and my workflow i'll put on Brain.fm i block out everything i have a set task in mind and 90 minutes is just focused on nothing aside from completing that task and i'll get i'll get it done no matter what it is once i have my mind on it i will get the get the job done then i will go and take a break for 60 minutes come back to the next task take another break completely refresh my mind often go out and get some fresh air drink a coffee whatever it is and you really do feel

a sort of a reset and i will during that 60 minute period i will also have in my mind what the next task is that i'm coming to complete so you're almost giving yourself a sort of priming if i'm building it whatever it is whatever i'm my next task is i will start tackling in my mind how i'm how i'm going to approach and how i'm going to solve the particular problem what the best way to approach the solution is so when i sit down at the desk headphones on music is on i'm i'm straight in the zone and i've already got an idea of

how to how to actually go about solving the problem another great quote victims have big tvs leaders own large libraries yeah i i like that one quite a lot so and then another one to stop managing your time and start managing your focus this i actually spoke about this quite recently recently but i i used to just sit in front of a thinking that that was a productive way of working and it just it just isn't i like you you feel that you are working hard because you're you're tired and like you've been sitting there all day you think that this must be productive but

it really really isn't number one it just doesn't your mind is not able to concentrate on intense tasks for that long you will also your mind just has a limited amount of um cpu of brain power that you can assign to tasks per day which is why i will try to structure my day as i currently am is that i will take care of my like highest goal highest goals which currently are like fitness and like education like expanding my mind even further so the first thing i do in the morning 20 minute workout second thing i do is reading for for 20 minutes and

it means that i've got that out the way then i'll actually go and do another workout in the gym for like an hour with the first workout is more of like a yoga session but i will get i would start sweating so it is a workout and then the first task that i do of the day will be like the most important one and i'm only working four hours per day 19 minutes 90 minutes 60 minutes and the last 60 minutes is like a um cooldown period i'm winding down my tasks for the day i'm going through anything that sort of needs my attention i

can finish off very quickly but i find that i am just i'm feeling so productive i'm pushing out exactly what i need to and prioritizing on the things that i need to because i'm limiting my time and i don't have any feeling of um of burnout whatsoever whereas before every day i would be sitting in front of this laptop in front of the screen until i was at the point where i felt i have to go to sleep i would then wake up in the morning have a shower sit down and do it all over again and there's no way of living the whole of

last year i spent i wrote down my yearly review of the things that i was most happy with that i did last year one of them was spending a month in portugal with my friend his girlfriend and her friend and i had a great time out there with my best friend that i hadn't seen in two years and then i also went back to london and spent a few weeks with my family that was another thing that i really appreciated doing i did like a few trips away in other places like in in georgia selling my company was another massive like high for me and

then there were like a few other like little bits and pieces but actually all of those things i could have completed within within two or three months so for the other nine months i realized all i did was sit in front of this computer just mindlessly working and there's nothing wrong with that because of course you need to earn some like you need an income and i enjoy working on things but sitting 18 hours per day in front of a computer working on stuff isn't it there's no balance and there's no satisfaction there like i can promise you like it's the early stages if it's

needed to be done to get a startup up and running it's fine but over the long term it just i've caused myself health problems previously i used to suffer from such bad cluster headaches when the whole side of my head would just be like it's like a migraine like all the side of my head going down to my neck and it's something it was something to do with just being a computer for too long spending too much time there and as soon as i reduced my hours i started to feel like much much much better and of course like you don't want to feel that

for like the best years of your life they were just wasted in front of like sitting at a computer because what happens with me as well is even now i forget which day of the week it is i have no absolutely no idea except i've just checked now it's monday because i'm like i work every single day i work seven days per week the weekend or a different day of the week has no bearing it has no impact on my life at all so i just i i've just literally stopped tracking it not not out of intention it's just something that's happened and i always

realize um that i've got no idea what day what day of the week it is days just sort of blend in to one another when you're in the same environment the whole time and there's no real change it's very easy to fall into habits and it can be negative habits right of you cannot remember if you spend all your time in the same room sitting at a laptop working on tasks i can't remember a vast chunk of my life several months of like last year because that's all i did i couldn't tell you what i worked on other than that i was in here working

on on something and it is not a good way to to live so that's like something that i'm actively like fighting against now and making sure that i don't do i don't want to spend another prime year of my life spending 18 hours in front of a a laptop each day so that was quite a off topic but anyway yeah and this is another look like there are some really good like knowledge points in here but i've had to really like dig these out to to actually get them so work on one high value activity at a time instead of relentlessly multitasking personally i think

that is some of the best advice that you can give anyone for me multitasking does not exist maybe like you disagree with me however i would just encourage you i used to think that i was multitasking and i would have like 100 different tabs open thinking that i was so i don't know like someone out of like one of these movie scenes like these very fake hacking scenes where you're working through 100 different tabs at the same time it just doesn't exist now i limit myself to a maximum of four active tabs at any time i shared a chrome plugin that allows you to achieve

that and i work on one task and one task only anything that comes in that needs my that needs my attention at any point i'll hit command j create a task which brings up my Slapdash integration and i'll note it down and that way i will free up my brains cpu my processing power in my brain to be able to focus on the task that is at hand which is why Slapdash is is just such a great tool it allows me to note down anything another little tip for you the brain can only hold seven pieces of information in short-term memory and even then it's

questionable so whenever something comes in your mind sort of like freeing up ram on a computer that's what i mean when i'm talking about freeing up your brain's cpu your brain's processing power write it down so and that's why again the notion system is so good i am constantly relieving my brain of information to free up space for me to think rather than needing to remember all these little micro things that i need to do things i have to remember little tasks things that i would like to achieve i just write it all down and i will i know that it's in my notion system

and i can go through it whenever whenever i want so yeah work on i highly encourage you even if you think that you're a great multitasker just please try out this method of working focus on have a focus session on one task and just get it done and then move on to the next one you just need to take small consistent steps on completing the most important tasks for you rather than sitting there working on loads of different things at once and you sort of end up getting nothing done have very very intense sessions of getting tasks done and but now i only aim to

get five tasks done per day even if i do three per day i consider it a productive day now if I get three important tasks high value tasks done it has been a good day for me and before i think that i'm knocking out like 15 to 20 tasks per day i'm not my brain it just it can't do it like as much as my i would like i'm motivated enough to do it i just cannot concentrate deeply enough for such a long period of time on actually getting things done and i will just go into a sort of state of not being able to

focus maybe some people are different maybe some people are able to do it but in my experience this has been like such a positive improvement for me so another interesting point as well personal discipline is a muscle the more you stretch it the stronger it grows and this is something that i like completely believe in as well i will go through let's call them stages where i am eve i'm a very black or white person i am even 100 i'm all in and i'm obsessed or i'm zero it's just this is the way i am the way my my personality is so i will go

through states of life of being so so disciplined towards things and then other states of life where it just doesn't exist at all so and i completely agree that like discipline is like a muscle that you absolutely grow and if you don't keep working on it same as like physical muscles the muscle will deplete but then the same way that you have a sort of muscle memory in your physical muscles i find that once i'm back in the stage of it and exercising my discipline i will get back into the previous stage that i was really quite quickly so this is something i've actually been

noticing a lot personally as well so with this 5am protocol it's hard to get up at 5am particularly starting off and the the little trick is set your alarm for 5AM and the second it goes off i put my phone in the other room i'm straight up and i'm turning it off i don't even lie in bed enough to give myself time to think about oh i can lie in bed from for an extra five minutes the alarm goes off at 5 00 am i am up at five and i'm dressed by 501 and that works so so well and then the first thing that

you do after waking up is you do a 20 minute workout and you make yourself sweat this is part of the protocol in this book and yes okay it is uncomfortable at first it is really uncomfortable but you're just exercising like your discipline you just get on with it start off with 10 push-ups is what i do it what i do to start off the workout and it's horrendous to start with it's really not fun i don't make myself a coffee before literally straight into it but once you've done the first 10 it just gets easier and easier and after it you feel great and

once that's like the hardest part of the day generally getting up at 5am and just going straight into the workout whilst your body is like still asleep everything else is easy after that like it really is this is like i i feel like i've got the hardest part of the the day done within the first 20 minutes and like and also you feel great straight after it you really do so another really interesting point is the messy a messy environment lowers your self-control as well as steals your cognitive bandwidth and that's why so many so-called geniuses wear the same clothes every day they want to

keep structure in their lives i'm sure people know the zuckerberg example of the the gray t-shirt and i believe it was steve jobs as well as well so rather than wasting your brain power on sort of decisions that really don't matter you can sort of outsource them to keep your your mental cpu your mental bandwidth completely clear and i try to do this as much as possible as well in the process of getting a cleaner who can maid let's say who comes every single day she'll pack my gym bag for me she will unpack the gym bag she'll take care of everything around the house

so that it's always a completely clean environment and i just don't even need to think about anything at all like she literally will handle everything for me that's house related and things like this that can be automated just so i'm making sure that any brain power that i use because you have a limited amount of brain power every day that i'm putting it towards problems that are like they're valuable problems right you don't want to waste waste your mental energy on anything anything that isn't isn't important so and now we're actually getting into where like some of the information on actually waking up at 5am

starts to come in and bearing in mind just to add in to what i was talking about we're it's in location 3857. i think that means line 3857. that's is like you noticed before mainly i was listing off quotes to you that i noticed now we're actually getting into what the actual protocol is and what you need to do so this is what i meant when it's filled up with quite a lot of fluff so it talks about first off turning off all notifications deleting apps of constant announcements i actually do that already so now it's talking about the implementation and implementation of the protocol

for 90 days you schedule yourself to set the first 90 minutes working on one activity that when completed it will put you in like a world-class position in your field that 90 minutes must be completely free of any noise or interruptions focus sessions i was talking about so it says to implement that protocol do 90 minutes for 90 days and then after that you use a timer and you do another 60 minutes for a tight bubble of focus and they're saying that that will give you the best possible results i've been following a protocol like this i've made slight adjustments to it but it's good

it it does feel good about making yourself like your yourself being world class in a particular field i'm not following that directly because i work on multiple different projects and things change i'm sort of prioritizing what is the highest value task for me at a particular time and then one of the great ways is to focus on making consistent 1% wins and micro achievements again this is explored massively in another favorite book of mine which is atomic habits and then they talk about something called the victory hour which i discussed very quickly but it means in the first hour of waking up you do a

20-minute workout you make yourself sweat um after the first 20 minutes you then spend 20 minutes on mindset and i guess sort of preparing yourself for the day so that is when i would actually sit down at my computer bearing in mind i don't check my phone or anything like this i'll do a 20 minute workout this morning i actually did a yoga flow and it felt really good to stretch my body because i'm often sitting down at least for four hours per day at the moment once i do the first 20 minute workout i'll make a coffee and i will come in here and

i will complete my notion morning routine as well as my mindset habits and all of the habits that i can do that are related to preparing myself for the days that's what you spend the next 20 minutes doing you i also fill out a little journal again about freeing up your mental bandwidth just to note down anything that um anything that i'm thinking about is literally this is usually a load of load of rubbish i i don't actually go back to it at all but i would just let myself just freely type out whatever thoughts are on my mind just to just yeah to clear

up my clear up my my mental space you can also do a little bit of meditation as well i i'll be completely honest i'm not a huge meditator but i do breathing exercises there was one that i shared before which is where you can do the double inhale to increase the amount of oxygen in your system so for each exhale you actually and i will do that for about 10 minutes um 10 minutes each each morning and then for the final 20 minutes you spend it reading so that's why i've been doing so much reading recently i will sit inside in my living room i'll

sit on the sofa and just drink my coffee and read i will also go way over 20 minutes as well generally i really get into a book so i will read for about 45 minutes to an hour and then i'll go off to the gym and do my morning workout and then i'll go off to a sauna and steam room then by the time i come back i'll have breakfast i'll have another coffee and then it's straight into the first 90 minute focus session yeah and then they also recommend following five targets that you wish to accomplish each day i actually write that down in

my morning template i can share the notion morning template as well if people are interested then it talks about eating whole foods proper sleep quality and intermittent fasting intermittent fasting i generally actually follow anyway whenever i'm waking up early i'm in bed by 9 p.m and i'm waking up at 5 and i don't eat anything until about 12 o'clock so generally i just naturally implement intermittent fasting without actually meaning to and of course like for whole foods eating good quality foods is very important and proper sleep as well these are really it's very basic recommendations right who isn't going to recommend good quality sleep and

then at the end of the day they recommend doing a one-hour nature walk which is something i've also been implementing fortunately i have a park i live literally just opposite a park so i can go and walk there in the evenings then some basics about delegating tasks which of course is also important they also mention about getting massages twice per week i actually used to do massages twice per week as well and i will also get back into it so not a relaxing massage as well it will be a sports massage they recommend to study for at least 60 minutes per day which i also

do and i definitely recommend that as a habit as well and then they also talk a lot about having balance in your life so every quarter take time off and after you've taken that time off it may seem unproductive because in our mind we're sort of trained that or at least i always felt this way that if i'm not working if i'm not doing something that it's not productive i forget what the saying is but a good lumberjack spends time sharpening his tools right it's far more productive to sharpen your axe before you go about cutting a tree rather than just cutting down with a

blunt axe so take time off reset spend some time reading studying things that you're interested in spend some time away from the laptop digital world and then when you come back you're going to feel far more inspired and like ready to take on the challenge one of the best things i ever did actually was a road trip around europe for a few weeks and i spent the whole time reading and when i actually came back to go and do some work i felt amazing i had i had loads of new ideas and it's completely true story and i i was just ready to like attack

the project so as much as it may seem unproductive to book time off like it's actually such a big benefit and tim ferriss i think actually spoke about this in one of his books that before he would launch a book and go and do meetings and pr and things like this in new york with various different publishers he would go and book a week holiday because you don't want to be operating on 50 batteries or 70 batteries you want to be fully recharged operating a hundred percent and then you go and attack the project like 100 you don't even want to be the slightest bit

burnt out before you start taking on your next period of projects or or work and the final one to lead is to remove any form of mediocrity infiltrating quarters of your life and i completely stand by this that i try to keep my life very clean both uh physically and also about who i who i spent spend my time with i'm really quite ruthless actually and it's really quite hard to become a friend of mine to become close with me and i i keep it that way on purpose i want i want complete control of my my environment and i will be ruthless with removing

people if they are sort of around me not i i would just just will reduce the amount of time that i spend with people if i don't feel that they're heading in a good direction because i know that i will become a mixture of the five people i spend the most time with i am very very ruthless about who i let into my circle and i i strongly suggest other people to to really be the same way look at the people it doesn't have to be about success it can be that your friends have other traits that you like but just realize that you are

going to become a version of the people that you spend the most time with so you should you should really be quite um thorough about making sure that you're spending time around around the right people so first ever video we've done at this time of this type i hope that you like enjoyed the the notes then my sort of take on things like i said you i do suggest reading the book it has a lot of great information but just a lot of fluff in it so you can sort of skim through and pull out the best information don't feel that you have to follow

the whole storyline going on behind it like you really don't some of the best thinking actually came in in the last quarter of the book i think is where i actually took down the most the most notes but i do encourage people if you're feeling like you are um not in control of your life if you wake up at 5AM you feel like you're taking charge of your life i feel much more control because i feel in those first few hours of the day i'm getting ahead of my tasks whilst everyone is still asleep and it's a good feeling yes it requires a bit of

discipline but it's a worthwhile investment i like i said earlier i don't follow this protocol year round but when it's necessary in terms of getting work done getting ahead of your projects and feeling productive i strongly recommend it and then also take some time like for yourself to enjoy and to have some balance in your life if you did like this video just let me know and i'm literally reading i'm reading so much at the moment so i can keep these coming like all the time just going through the notes i took down on particular books if you have any book recommendations i've got about

500 books i'm reading for at the moment but i'm interest always interested to hear what books people enjoyed reading to look at look at them myself anything from psychology to quantum mechanics to marketing of course to like autobiographies like i love reading reading everything i really do so yeah send over some recommendations thank you so much for watching if you did make it to this point of me me rambling on um yeah let me know if you'd like to see