Real Girls Radio - EP 8: How to stop procrastinating and reach your full potential

Episode Date: May 2, 2022

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Love this podcast? Support this show through the Acast Supporter feature. It's up to you how much you give and there's no regular commitment. Just hit the link in the show description to support now. Hello and welcome to Braille Girls Radio. I'm Millie. And I'm Emma. And we are both very normal bro girls just like you. Here to talk about all things health, fitness and navigating your way through this crazy life.

We're your new besties. We want you to feel part of our weekly chats. And we're excited to invite you in to our exclusive girl gang. Grab some snacks and chillax whilst we chat. Woo! Yeah. Okay, I think we've got it. Happy Monday, everyone.

Happy Monday. My favourite day of the week. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I feel like we've not seen each other for ages. I know. Obviously, I had my Norway trip.

You went to Norway. Are you feeling better in terms of, like, illness? Oh, yeah. Although I do have a cold, so just a heads up, everyone. If I sound a little bit sniffly it's because I've got a little bit of a cold

oh honey but other than that you're feeling fine other than that I'm better the kidney stones is gone thank god for that

Christ I thought you were going to die I haven't had to wrap myself in bubble wrap yet but yeah I'm good

I'm good guys I've just come back from a hair appointment I've got extension and her hair looks insane I feel like an Emma You know how

Because you always touch your hair Yeah So now I'm like Always doing it now as well Like a habit And you know how I said In the other podcast I don't brush my hair

Well obviously that's gonna change Oh god yeah That will change I'm gonna have to brush it Like all the time You are gonna be brushing Your hair all the time So I need to get into the habit

Of like bringing a brush with me When you hairbrush Oh that looks nice Of course it's pink Of course You need to take that tag So I need to get into the habit of bringing a brush with me. What would you put on your hairbrush? Oh, that looks nice. Of course it's pink. Of course. You need to take that tag off. I can't get it off. Get some scissors.

But yeah, I'm feeling like a new woman. You look amazing. Summer gloves coming. Yeah, no, seriously, it really suits you. Thank you, darling. Right, well, anyway, today is actually going to be... Okay, ignore my question. No, no, no, I'm just going to introduce what today's episode is going to be about before we get into...

Yes, let's get into... Because we love a blab, but we're not going to try and blab no we'll do our flop and fly but we'll keep it short and sweet anyway today's episode is going to be all about productivity how to be more focused how to get shit done how to get shit done i'm i feel like we all you know procrastinate a lot yeah give me your fly let me uh get my phone out oh my god so i've got two i guess your hair flies i've got three flies then okay so i've got my hair amazing i saw channing tatum i know i'm so sorry i would scream right now but i'm gonna brush eardrums oh my god i still can't go over it like i've i've

actually annoyed people because i like talk about it all the time online i just can't go over it like he is just such a beautiful man how old is he now he's 42 yeah so after i saw him i was on like a massive hunt after like researching everything about him when the magic mike film's coming out because basically they're filming magic mike outside my gym so they're gonna be there for quite a few months because they're seeing him like every day oh my god that is some gym motivation right there isn't it yeah literally every morning i'm like i just want to go because i want to see him two sessions sessions a day. I'll be there. Little fangirl.

I'll slam a banner. But no, that's definitely a win. And then another win is I did pole dancing yesterday. Did you see? Yeah, how did that go? You actually looked like a pro. You look good in it. Do you think?

Yeah. I was loving it. It's so hard. Never underestimate the strength that pole dancers have because I was shocked. But it's so fun. I would highly recommend doing it. I was worried about putting those stories up because I thought people would think like people think it's a little bit sexual yeah but honestly like it's such a good exercise and honestly it makes me feel like good as well and it's gonna make anyone feel good and it's just fun like it's a fun different way to

exercise do you think you're gonna start doing it more I really want to get good at it so in the clubs I can like you know get on a pole and then probably go for it I'm joking they won't be doing that you probably will they probably will anyway what's yours oh no my flop what's your flop

oh yeah so as I'm sure everyone saw on my Instagram I was very ill yeah I had neurovirus I'm feeling absolutely fine now it was shit I can't even tell you

it was so bad you weren't even eating were you no and that's when I know like that's definitely you know not well yeah it was neurovirus for my family because i saw them on the weekend and then yeah they transferred it over to me which is shit but i'm fine now and i was really really really

anxious on saturday as well which was a bummer i don't know i was just really anxious and i had puppy yoga and i still like didn't want to go it shows how you know anxiety can really just take over do you think it was a knock-on effect from you being unwell? Yeah, maybe. And being out of routine? Yeah. Because I know for me, when I get anxious, a lot of the time it can be triggered by, like, being out of routine or, like, not having a good structure or, like, yeah. Yeah, maybe.

And I just didn't feel good in myself. Yeah, I think everything was getting to me. Well, you've got the new hair now. I've got the new hair. You've done some dancing on a pole. You're feeling better. Yeah, literally. What more can I do? Probably update my tan, actually. 180 right there. I'm going to do my tan done some dancing on a pole you're feeling better yeah literally what more can I do

probably update my town actually 180 right there I'm gonna do my town tonight anyway what about you well my flight is I went to Norway oh my god yes

for my shoot with fit jeans I was actually really a little bit apprehensive nervous about because one flying on my own and two

doing a campaign photo shoot is a bit scary yeah it was so much fun and everyone was really lovely. Norway is so pretty. And everyone there is just like really friendly. And I actually met up with one of my clients

who loves the podcast. So a little shout out to Ingeborg. Hi. Love that name. That's so cool. Yeah, she's lovely. So she gave me a little tour. So she's from Norway?

Yeah. Wow. Amazing. So yeah, that was so much fun. A very quick trip. Yeah. When are the pictures out? I think we're getting them sent over to us like in the next few days.

And then I'm not sure when they're going to be posting. Would you be able to post them? Yeah, yeah. Can we see them? Oh my God, that'd be so cool. But I love fit jeans. Yeah, you do. You wear them like all the time, don't you?

Have you ever? No. I'm not a fan of skinny jeans on me. They don't just do skinny jeans really no they do like flares and mom jeans boyfriend jeans interesting yeah I'll bring you they did contact me but I was like I'm sorry I don't wear your jeans they're really nice you should try but yeah that's my fly and my flop okay I did have another one but another flop overtook that one this morning oh so me and wally were on the train to london and i really needed a wee you know me and my bladder i literally need a wee like every half an hour guys it's an actual issue so i got up and walked down the train

to find the toilet and all the cubicles were taken so i had to walk to like the other end of the train and then as i was walking back the train was so jumpy and so fast right I quite literally fell on a man like my body fell onto the man oh my god I could just I just had to look I was like I'm so sorry and it was a really quiet carriage everyone was staring that is awkward. Yeah, that is embarrassing. God. What did the guy say? He was like, no, no, it's fine. I'm going to get married.

I honestly wanted the ground to swallow me up. Yeah, one of those moments where you literally just like don't want anyone to see you ever again. Oh, bless you. Man, that was a little bit of a flop. Quite literally a flop over on a man. A flopped onto a man. Oh, dear. Anyway, should we get into the episode? Let's get straight into it. Wow, I think we did well there without theo a man. Oh dear. Anyway, let's get into the episode.

Let's get straight into it. Wow, I think we did well though without the blabber. We did. Proud of us. So obviously in our last episode, I think it was the last one, we said we were going to do

a podcast episode all about this. That's where the the last one we said we were gonna do a podcast episode all about this that's where the idea came from we were about to do a little blabber about yeah we were nope stop stop we can make this an actual episode yeah so productivity hacks tips how to be more productive how to get stuff done how to stop procrastinating this is honestly such a big passion of mine because I used to be like the world's biggest procrastinator and I honestly feel so passionate about like how to boost productivity because it honestly is a life changer and it's so possible to do that as well it's so easy you just need to apply like really simple yeah easy tangible tips into your day-to-day routine and you will

notice you can get so much more time back from applying just a few things and change like tweaking some of your things in your day wow I've actually got so much to talk about yeah I do so I feel like we should start with some statistics yeah I agree I've got a few awesome that I have found so should we take it in turns right so the average employee is productive for only two hours and 53 minutes a day which is actually only 31 of an eight hour working day what oh my god and at least 41 of workers say that stress leads them to be less productive this is quite interesting workers have been found to be 13 more productive when working

from home obviously after the pandemic interesting more productive yeah which i can actually understand because i've had previous jobs where i've worked in the office and you can so easily get distracted within like office chat or like you know people coming over to your desk to distract you i feel like i would be i mean i haven't worked in an office but i'm more productive working in like a coffee shop than if i was working at home yeah no i am too also really interesting employees spend up to 32 percent of their work time on instagram and facebook which costs employers 28 billion each year wow wow oh my god those numbers don't like i can't even comprehend those numbers in my head and also this is leading on from what you mentioned before about how much time it takes you to refocus after getting distracted so if you didn't listen to that podcast we said that say if

you're in the flow of doing like an essay or something just by looking at like a notification on your phone for like a second it takes you 20 minutes to get back into that flow. 23 minutes and 15 seconds to be precise. How crazy is that? Right, let's just say if you're doing, I don't know, your emails and then you look at your phone, you get distracted because something popped up on Instagram.

Yeah, you're not even picking your phone up. You literally look at it at the notification. It can take you 23 minutes and 15 seconds to properly refocus and get back into that deep focus work mood and i can fully relate to that like there are so many times where i'm just like looking at my phone oh okay yep i've lost my you know your train of thought and that is that is therefore why it explains that workers are only productive for two hours and 53 minutes a day and then also that reflects

on the other statistic where they spend so much so much time on instagram and facebook well i did a whole module in psychology on like self-regulation setting goals how you can like transfer your intentions into actually doing the action and there's so many studies that i learn but also what i did learn is called ego depletion basically the whole thing is is that we have like limited resources of our self-control so if we're doing okay so say this is an example someone's on a diet and they're also doing a uni assignment so those two things require self-control and so anything else around that that requires self-control is going to be depleting it because you have a limited resource of self-control so they did so many studies on like you know what what's the best way to go

around it like how can you get can you train your self-control and what i found was that exerting so this is a study by denson et al if anyone cares et al it's always a towel um exerting self-control could temporarily reduce performance because it depletes resources but in the long term repeatedly exerting self-control should increase resources because it's improving performance that makes any sense because you're working on doing all these self-control tasks that you're actually like practicing it so in the long run it's good but in the short term it's really bad so like being on a diet whilst trying to meet all these junior assignments is like not the best way to go around it yeah also

just to like i guess give another example this is also why a lot of people can be super on it with like ticking all the boxes if for example they're on a fat loss phase on a diet they're ticking all the boxes they stick to their meal plan they stick to their calories it gets to the end of the day and that is where most people kind of go a little bit rogue yeah you know start snacking and kind of throwing their goals out the window and not caring so much it's because they've had a whole day of trying to be perfect trying to be perfect and then you know on top of dieting and sticking to their fat loss goals they've also had like work things or family things or things for friends that have been a little bit stressful and then that has you know accumulated into such a big sort of den in their okay yeah perseverance motivation to their fat loss goals that it has been completely depleted it's crazy it is crazy

so obviously like yeah that comes in line with being productive because you're obviously not going to want to do certain tasks if your resources are already depleted yeah in the first place so you're going to be you know procrastinating yeah a lot yeah so I was actually listening to a podcast on procrastination yesterday and procrastination is a problem with getting started so obviously you know if you're like I don't know procrastinating on going to the gym it's usually because there's something that's stopping you right so it could be like some sort of friction so let's use an example of yeah doing a uni assignment okay so the external friction would be having your laptop stored away like it's not there it's not visible so out of

sight out of mind an internal friction example could be you don't feel confident enough to write the essay anyway so you just try and avoid it because it's just that psychological discomfort that you have with actually starting to write the essay so you just procrastinate and do so many other things that you know that you can do so we're gonna try and unravel how you can stop doing that yeah definitely and also i feel like a lot of the time when people are procrastinating it's because the thing they need to do is the most important thing that day and they put it off and they put it off because a lot of the time the most important thing you need to do is the thing that is kind of like the most daunting or the most like anxiety riddling or whatever and one thing

that I apply is something called eat the frog okay what's that and it's to do with the concept of doing the thing you don't want to do most at the beginning of your day yeah yeah because then you get it out the way and everything else is like more you know you look forward yeah that's so true and also if you don't do that i always find that the thing that i've been putting off is always in the back of my head and it kind of makes me like anxious or like yeah oh like i'm just really stressed it makes me more stressed but if you just approach it first thing in the morning you've got the rest of the day to you know be not be anxious and it's not it's not playing on your mind yeah but then obviously there's certain things that are stopping people from doing that so one thing

that i find is if you do the hardest task first thing in the morning do the two minute rule so the two minute rule have you heard of this yeah yeah so you just say right i'm just gonna do it for two minutes yeah and that's it and then once you do it for two minutes you're actually already sat down or you're whatever it is that you're doing you've already started it so then you kind of build that momentum and you just you you're like well I may as well finish doing it now. Essentially the same as habit stacking. Habit stacking is where you say you have a goal like you want to go to the gym and that is your overall goal you want to get to the gym because you've got fitness goals you want to work on. Habit stacking to get you to that goal would be putting out your

workout clothes in your bedroom the night before okay yeah yeah and then the next habit from that is putting them on in the morning and then you know the next thing after that could be making sure that you've got your workout trainers set out ready to go and you've got your playlist on your phone and you have the clothes out and that is the first habit in the evening before you go to bed and then you make it much easier for you to stack on top of that to actually get yourself to going to the gym you're doing it in steps yes it's same with like starting a business the idea of starting a business is so daunting i feel like i mean if it was me i would just automatically think oh i need to do so many things at once

if you just do it in steps like okay let's think of a name first let's research some names let's then contact some people or let's like watch a youtube video on how to start business like there's little steps you can do which make the whole process so much easier yeah it's like that quote you don't need to look to the end of the staircase you just need to take the first step oh yeah i like that quote but anyway i have written down a load of things that i do myself which have absolutely changed the game for me of my productivity so the first one which I do every single day time blocking so this is where you block out a set amount of time to do a certain task and you don't let anything distract you within that time frame so one thing that I do to actually help me stick to this is utilizing google calendar you can use

any calendar you use calendar on your phone but i like google calendar because you can color code it and you can send invitations to other people and i like doing that as well you can also like add like a taskbar so i love google calendar yeah i've got that i've never seen that before i love it and then basically in that chunk of time and that block of time you don't do anything else and this also leads on to my next point which is batching tasks right I don't know if you do this but it's where you focus on like one theme and one task and get it done kind of sometimes how we do like sometimes we will record two episodes right right after each other like for example when I do my emails I don't go in and out of it all day long

I will give you know one segment of time in one day to my emails and chunk all my emails in that one time same of like if I need to do some content I will maybe have just one day where I do that batch of content yeah it's like time sensitive yeah so time block your time and also chunk your tasks i personally find that has changed the game for me i don't do that i should yeah the thing is like okay in my head i'm like right i've got so many things to do i've got that too i love to love to and like obviously they're all different things they're like life admin they're social media they're getting back to my manager they're like so many different things right so that stresses me out so what helps me is literally just putting it all on paper and like you know some people can be

really organized and you know like make tables and make it all color coordinate and whatever but for me like it's just writing every single thing that I need to do whether it's wash my hair or whether it's sign a contract whatever it is everything on the paper so that way at least you can visualize it and see it on paper as opposed to just having it all muddied up in your head i think that really changes the infamy okay i've got something you can add to that okay to absolutely change oh my god so first of all do that on a sunday evening do a brain dump so get yourself a notebook with two open pages and on the left side of the notebook do a brain dump so anything you can think of which is on your mind on your to-do list write it all down on the left hand side on the right hand side

is something that I do not every day I'm not gonna lie I do it every day but if I'm feeling really overwhelmed and I have so much to do and I don't know where to start I will always use this on the second page you want to do something called the urgent important matrix. Now, you want to... Oh, I've heard of this, actually. Yeah. It's so good. So, you want to separate the page into, like, quadrants.

Uh-huh. And then top left-hand corner, urgent. Right top corner, important. So, urgent, important at the top. And then not urgent in the bottom left corner. Not important in the bottom left corner not important in the bottom right okay so then everything on the left page that you've written down that you need to do you then want to segregate all of those tasks into whether they're important urgent not important

not urgent so then once you've done that and every single thing you need to do has been allotted one of those segments you then start with urgent and you just work your way through what's urgent on your to-do list once you've ticked all of that off you then move on to important and then once you've done all of that normally for me once i've ticked through all my urgent and important tasks it's probably the end of the day it's probably the end of the day and i might not have the time to do the not important and not urgent tasks but the good thing is that they weren't important and they weren't urgent so they can carry on to the next day guys if you were to do that every single day you will never have a

day where you don't get what you need to do done like most people fill their days up with being busy not being productive they are just doing things to occupy their time that's so true so if they have like a long list of shit they got to get done yeah they're procrastinating put it off but they'll make themselves feel like they're busy by you know replying to emails that don't need to really get responded to or doing their laundry or like cleaning their kitchen or going through their phone and you know doing stuff that is filling up their time and making them feel stressed out and busy but it's actually not moving the needle it's not getting them anywhere that's so true i feel like when

someone's like oh you know how's your day been we say oh so busy so busy like yeah but then i think and i oh what have you done and i think i'm like wait what have i done today why is it being so busy what have i done and you know i probably have just done like, what, two hours of full on proper work that I need to get done. But the rest of that time, I don't know. Yeah. I'm like, shit, okay, so I need to actually work on this because clearly I'm doing something wrong here. I always say there's not enough time in the day when actually you can seriously make so much time in the day if you're just productive. And obviously, we'll note, we're not always going to be productive every single day of our lives you know it's good to relax and sit back a bit but

I think you can also do that by being productive yeah you can do that more yeah you can actually feel less guilty for doing that and feel more relaxed when you do have time to yourself if you know within your work day and in your productivity time, you have absolutely smashed that. You know, I was listening to this other podcast and they said, say like you're in an office, you're replying to emails all day, but you get really good at that. Like you're being really productive by doing that. You would assume that like you're getting your work all done and then you can like relax. But the more emails that you'd reply to, the more emails you'd get because people are going to reply to you back as well. So it's like you're constantly working like the more productive you are the more work you have to do which is

crazy if i could give you guys listening one tip do not check your emails throughout the day don't do it it's literally killing your brain cells dedicate one chunk of time within your day to do your emails i promise you the world isn't going to end if you take 24 hours yeah email you know you can have first thing in the morning you do your emails and then before you switch off your computer before you go to bed or when you finish work check your emails again half an hour segments that's all you need to do if you're checking it constantly throughout the day you're just going to be sucked into that yeah like black hole it's like never-ending work exactly i found it so fascinating yeah I do that as well with like my clients first thing in the morning I reply to client messages once I've done that for a couple of hours I'll

move on to client check-ins but I never go back and forth between the two it's kind of like chunking again right yeah so I'll do I'll do one task move on to the next task, then move on to another task. I never flitter between. So this is related to what we were saying where I said that I multitask all the time. And obviously by multitasking, I'm thinking I'm getting so much done. Like I'm being so productive. I'm doing so many things at once. But actually it's so bad, isn't it?

It's actually so awful. So I need to take my own advice and your advice and just time block things otherwise I'm just gonna constantly feel busy and constantly feel like I'm not getting anything done the thing with multitasking is that one you're gonna get less quality work you're going to feel more brain frazzled and more stressed you're gonna have more anxiety if you're trying to think about a million things at once and exactly that you're actually going to end up having so much more to do because you are being so distracted i even do it in the gym like i'm trying to work get back to my manager oh my god replies dms while i'm in the gym and it's like i can't just have time for

myself okay right so i actually do this as well i put my phone on airplane mode in the gym i know i need to do that i actually get annoyed you know this is how passionate i feel i get annoyed when i look at people and see them just like texting on the phone you'd hate me in the gym you'd absolutely hate get your workout yeah like sometimes my workouts will take me like 35 minutes for a whole workout and it's because i go in put my music on i've already got the playlist good to go so what do you do in your rest periods? Because I just get restless. I just sort of sit there and then go again. Okay. Yeah.

I'm going to really try that. Yeah. Because I think it's really affecting me. I normally just skip on to the next song or like change the song. Okay. But I would never reply to a WhatsApp or look on Instagram when I'm in the gym. Okay. It would never happen unless i'm doing

like cardio yeah okay it's so funny like i'd you know be replying to my manager and talking about jobs and i'm like yeah no do this and i'm like i'm not in the zone and i'm just really distracted and then it's like obviously it takes me time to get back into the zone and like get ready to hip thrust another 140 kg yeah yeah so that might explain why sometimes if you feel like you've been busy all day but then you're like oh what have i done explain why sometimes if you feel like you've been busy all day, but then you're like, oh, what have I done? It's probably because you spent like way longer than you needed to in the gym. Yeah, no, that's definitely a factor.

Yeah. Absolutely. It's probably three hours out of my day. Yeah. I feel like we could do a whole episode on how to be more productive in the gym. Maybe, you know, step by step. Next is another one kind of like linking on from that is turn off your notifications oh yeah god's sake turn them off i have personally disabled all notifications on my phone my friends

my family hate me for it yeah yeah but i i'm sorry i'm protecting myself i literally have no regrets because that has changed the game for me i don't get a notification pop up if i have a whatsapp message notifications popping up right now i don't get a notification if i get an email or an instagram so i am not having that whole distraction thing where it takes me 20 minutes to get back into the zone because if i don't open the apps i'm not gonna know what's going on well exactly do you not get a bit of fomo no i feel the world isn't gonna end i'll check it when i finish my deep work but i forget so i forget to check my whatsapp obviously on my family and friend like you know replying to dms emails like it's not a chore but

it is you know your job having to reply on whatsapp as well it's like oh god i don't know if i could do this so the notifications push me to do that if i turn my notifications off i'm just gonna avoid it so okay what you can do is to get around that. And this might sound stupid, but literally schedule in to your Google Calendar. Yeah, no, I know. It is so true. Reply to WhatsApp. Yeah. If I was to show my Google Calendar or, like, my notes to someone else, they'd probably be like,

why the hell have you scheduled in eat? Or, like, why have you scheduled in, like, reply to your WhatsApp messages? But it's because if I don't schedule it in, it won't get done. Or I'll be trying to do it amongst all my other work and then get, you know, stressed out. Do you feel like you have to try and fit in so much in your day? Yeah, so much. Do you make sure that you fit in just time for yourself? That's a no.

Emma! I mean, I guess like going to the gym is time for myself. No, it is, but that's not what I'm on about no you know just sitting down maybe watching a movie no I don't but then again I'm that personality type where like I actually don't think I could sit and just watch tv or film like be so restless yeah yeah yeah I would it's true actually I'm the same like I think I have ADD so it's attention deficit order but without the hyperactiveness so when I'm watching tv i have to do something and i always end up scrolling on my phone doing whatever but obviously i'm not actually watching the tv so it annoys me and

annoys my friends as well so i'm like okay well what can i do like and then i actually got a coloring book and i color in as i'm like watching tv it's quite funny even that it's still not stimulating my brain enough yeah so it's like i need i just need something to to do with my either my hands or just something i can't just sit there and watch a screen like in the cinema and i love it but also like i get so restless yeah no i'm completely but that explains my multitasking yeah it does yeah because you're finding it hard to focus on just that one task absolutely like okay absolutely. Okay, so another thing, another tip that I can give you. If you are finding it hard to just get into the zone, you know when you've got your bit of time to do some work

and you've got a couple of hours to get your head down and crack on with it, but you're really struggling to just get focus and get your head in the right headspace? I use headspace, but I don't use it for the meditation i use it for the focus music and there is a particular song on there which guys it honestly sends me into like a hypnotizing state where whenever i hear this one song it's like my brain just goes into hyper focus mode and all i can do is just work work work work work it honestly you shut everything off outside of you and you're just like in the zone i love it so it is the laid back

beat laid back beat laid back beats on headspace so it's like lo-fi music ah it's the same song i listened to i've probably listened to that song about 600 times but it just how does it go can you sing it so it has no words i like this it's just calming music it's very like youtube vlogging like a montage it kind of goes like in and out of different beats i put my airpods in that's another hack if you find that you're getting distracted easily especially by other people put your airpods in listen to some focus music chunk that time to get whatever you need to get done done and game changer yeah air pods actually really helps and helps you get into your zone you're like in a little world yeah you're in your own like little bubble yeah i agree i'm actually really bad no you're not you're working on it i think you know what it is i'm

actually really good when i vlog and then i edit on it I think you know what it is I'm actually really good when I vlog and then I edit because I enjoy it yeah so I don't procrastinate on that yeah

but it's stuff I don't enjoy doing okay so what don't you enjoy doing let's say writing oh can I say this what I can't say this

because I haven't said it to anyone that I'm haven't even announced it to anyone but yeah woo so yeah

I need to talk to my manager if I can actually say that but um that's what I'm procrastinating on anything else right'm gonna need to talk to my manager if i can actually say that but um that's what i'm procrastinating on anything else right so we need to wrap up soon yeah okay so one thing that i think really helps me at the end of the day and almost sets me up good to be super productive the following day is by making a wins list i literally used to do this all the time where like i would have a to-do list and then I procrastinate from the to-do list and do something else and then add it to the end of my

to-do list and tick that off so it makes me feel like I've been productive but I actually haven't that's just the definition of procrastination but at the end of the day if you have absolutely smashed it you've been productive get your journal and write down what you've completed that day and what you're proud of and what you have actually accomplished and then you can look back at that and be like oh yeah like i've done great i'm gonna do that again i'm gonna replicate that and it can push you and motivate you to have another productive day so did you know that there's two types of people well this is based on research there's promotion focused which is what you were just explaining so you focus on the win what you can gain from that and there's also prevention focused which is people who will do something to prevent a loss let's use an example of okay yeah doing a uni assignment i need to do

this because i don't want to fail whereas i do this because i want to get an a star yeah there's two different types of people that's so interesting so i actually think i'm prevention focused there's obviously loads of different research some research that says that promotion focused of people that's so interesting so i actually think i'm prevention focused there's obviously loads of different research some research that says that promotion focused attains goals more regularly yeah yeah so that's good that you're promotion focused it seems like you're smashing your goals too so maybe they probably have pros and cons yeah yeah yeah yeah absolutely another hack and this is probably like up there. Top two, maybe top three. Get better sleep.

Yes. You need to have a bedtime routine. You need to be getting good quality and quantity sleep. It's honestly my number one hack just to being more productive. Get better sleep. If I have not had a good night's sleep, I cannot focus. Aim to get like 7.5, 8 hours sleep. Have a good bedtime routine, morning routine.

That will change the game. Also, just to touch on that. Again, it depends on who you are. But lots of people do just thrive off 6 hours or like, you know, less sleep. It's so different. So just try and find how long of a sleep that you need. Because I think I thrive off like, yeah, 7. Yeah, would you say 7?

Yeah, I think I'd say 7. I would say for me, 8. Yeah. I thrive of like yes seven yeah would you say seven yeah I think I'd say seven I would say for me eight yeah and I think one thing that I've learned about myself over the last few months is that I think the reason I keep getting ill is because I've been trying to survive on less but for me I think I need 7.5 hours I've actually listened to so many sleep podcasts and there's another thing that basically says that the worst thing you can do is actually go to sleep earlier or go to sleep when you're not actually tired. Because I don't know the science behind it. I'm not gonna lie. But there was a sleep expert.

She was explaining this and she was saying that you can't force yourself to sleep when your body doesn't want to sleep. So the best thing to do is, you know, try to keep busy and get your body to get more tired and fatigued. So you can sleep whenever it naturally wants to sleep. And it's the same when you wake up try your hardest to wake up when you're in a state that isn't in your deep sleep you get several different stages in your sleep don't you it's trying to work out when that is obviously that depends on when you go to sleep so setting alarms she said is actually the worst thing you can do this is why the lumilite is so good because it wakes you up gradually yeah but one thing i will say on the other hand to that is the reason why most people aren't tired to go to sleep is because they're being so stimulated

by technology on their phones i promise you if you are struggling to fall asleep at night if you were to have a bedtime routine turn off your phone turn off electronics wind down read a book or something like that you would fall asleep yeah and genuinely sometimes i have to force myself to read because that is what makes me sleepy again i procrastinate on that and i scroll through my phone instead yeah you have to put your phone outside of your bedroom yeah you do i know right let's just do a summary to round up yes the app so time blocking one batch your tasks two number two urgent important matrix i like that i'm gonna use that you should know thing is with me i hate when like my writing on my notes are just messy so i could probably spend 10 minutes to make the matrix grid look pretty

no just do it quick i'm so bad at that yeah Yeah, I need to do that. Eat the frog. Eat the frog. Eat the frog. Two minute rule. Two minute rule. Plan out your week on a Sunday. Google calendar. Yeah. Turn off your notifications. Disable them.

Yeah. Millie, do that now. Deep work. Get better sleep. Making a wins list. And yeah. Love that. That's it from me.

I think that's very insightful. That's it from me. Chill. No, I think that was really insightful. See you later. I'm just here sitting like saying, yeah, yeah, yeah. Love that. That's it from me. I think that's very insightful. That's it from me. Ciao. No, I think that was really insightful. See you later. I'm just here sitting like saying, yeah, yeah, yeah. Millie's making notes. I am making notes.

I think that was a good episode. I hope you guys enjoyed that. Shall we finish up with a... Quote? Oh, what? Shall I bring my word of the week? Oh my God. Guys, you need to let me know if you want me to do the quotes or the word of the week.

Oh, I don't know. That's too tricky to decide. Okay. You go first. Give me a quote what a quote okay so this is a quote that's very relevant and i saw it the other day it was you will never change your life until you change something you do daily the secret of your success is found in your daily routine oh i love that so true very relevant to very relevant discussion very subtle hits the spot, doesn't it? You're like, fuck, that's so true. It's so simple.

It is. No, it's so true, though. If you guys apply this to your daily routine, your life will change. Yeah, quite literally. Okay, I'm going to give you guys a word of the week. Okay. Oh, my God. Sad.

I'm going to make a list of all these words. Okay, my word of the week is razzmatazz. Ooh, what does that mean? How do of the week is razzmatazz. What does that mean? How do you spell it? Razzmatazz. R-A-Z-Z. Okay. M-A-T-A-Z-Z.

I didn't even know that's a word. Razzmatazz. What does it mean? It means action meant to attract attention. So in context? So doing something on purpose attracts somebody else's attention right so so me doing pole dancing last night to attract a guy's attention well potentially well so i'd be razzmatazzing myself or that's a razzmatazz millie yeah you just razzmatazz you just razzmatazz

that guy okay i saw you i like that i like that a lot i'm gonna be using that word a lot millie is gonna go find this guy so she can razzmatazz him. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. No, I don't chase, I attract. Well, I love you guys lots. We hope you found this episode insightful, helpful. Make sure you review, leave your, you know, reviews and ratings.

Thank you so much to everyone who's sharing on your stories as well. I absolutely love. It makes my day isn't it funny how like we're just chit-chatting away and then there's actually people like we're in people's ears I know and headphones hi guys I find it interesting to like know where everyone listens to that podcast as well yeah I do too actually we should do like a little question box where do you listen to your podcast when I'm doing, like when I'm cooking or doing makeup or stuff like that or on a walk.

So I listen to my podcast when I do my makeup in the morning when I get ready and when I take off my makeup and have like a shower or a bath

or something. I also listen to it when I go to sleep, which is really bad. Do you? It helps me sleep, yeah. I can't sleep in silence. Wow.

Sorry guys, a little, what do you call it? God, we always ramble don't we right we're gonna go Christ

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