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I always secretly wanted to be a machine
I felt like if i was a machine
I'd never let things fall through the cracks
I wouldn't forget things
And i do everything i needed to do on time
Every time i knew there were people out there that we're like
And i wanted to know what makes them tick so a few years ago
I started a news that our calley progragnizers where i profile fifty of the top performers in a variety fields
I've talked to managers who track everything they do in a day in fifteen and increments
I've talked to investors who keep spspad sheets of every single person they've ver ver ve talked to see ceo s who keep their calendars
Basily empty and rarely ever do metings like ever i've also to experiment to with a lot of hacks myself to try to get me closer to my ideal
I've take my mouth shot on sleeping
I've to to
To suunmp to increase my energy levels
I visualized my compassion itself
And tried all sorts of supplements to hack my body chemistry
Sometimes the of sheet work and sometimes they don't
Sometimes are just kind of ridiculous
But i want to share with you the best trick
I've learned in all of my exploring the ideal of being a machine is actually attrack
And gets in the way of our productitiity
Ity it makes us blind to the roots of our actual problems
We are in not machines
Where are emotional beings sometimes anning sskillfully recognize ed work with our
Our motions tions the only way to actually be productive date to day
I've tame fear so often at the basase
What's going on presin ways that we barely understand what's underneath our cctivity problems isn't just a need for a new tool or system
But something going on in our emotional lives and being aware of and observing how our emotions can affect
Us can open up a lot of flexibility in freedom to make progress one we otherwise be stuck
I found that the most productive people in the world
You know the ones who are most machine like actually recognize this
And they often do three things to work with it
They're aware
When they have a problem
They observe what's going on without judgment
So that they can understand it
And they keep experimenting with systems or teens mindsets and tools
Until it changes that this might unsimple
And it is
But it's actually very hard to do
Because at each stage we get blocked and twisted it by the shame and build fear and doubt the things that get in the way of seeing things clearly to do this well requires the level of emotional mastery that is very difficult to practice
So let me walk through it
And show you how i can work
Awareness is the first step
That means being aware problems in your productivity
But that's harder than it seems no matter what the issue is it's much easier to ignore it and hope that it goes away than to admit that thing's wrong
We feel like we should be able to do better
If you like
Like well that's the job i should just suck it up
Whatever the problems that you're encountering in your productivity
You might not think about that often because it's pretty painful
But there's magic in becoming aware of the problems that we're orarly not aware of the most productive people have regular practices
That they used to maintain awareness
Sometimes it's journally
Sometimes it's mindfulness
Ness
Sometimes it's just a walk sometimes it's erapy
But everyone has something here's an example for my own life
But have a ton of trouble stying on top of my inbox
I'm the ceo of start up
And so this is really hard for me to admit
First it seemed like an indictment of me in my ability to be successful with my inbox was a mss
But last year after a lot of reflectioness
I realized
I had to face effect ct the backlog g causing sing problems around my company
Once i was aware of the problem
I could start the next step observation
When i moved into the observation stage
I wanted to see
But as little judgment as possible
What usually leads s my my box x in crodit
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Observing without judgment was really difficult for me
I since of doubt and fear came up
I thought
Should i really need to do this
I really felt like i just be able to get through my inbox without any problems
But once i got to beneath that i began to notisomething really surprising
There were actually many periods
Where i was on top of my inbox
It's just said every couple weeks there would be a shift
Or i just turned into a giant mess
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And it had a very specific trigger
Either a single email that i really didn't want to deal with or a really busy period in my life
Where i couldn't look up my inbox for day or you
And when this happened emails would sort of pilot p
And i sort of feel shame
And i avoid my inbox and the pile o would just get way worse
It was a vicious cycle
Once i saw that i realized that there was a logical place intervene what i really needed to do
Was to catch myself right at the point
Every couple of weeks ii
Clean inbox was turning into a mess
And if i could do that i knew i could keep clean rest at the time
This brings us to the next step
Experiexperimentation once pproduct of people have recogas the problem
And i observe its controls without judgment the chinese solutions to find out what works again
This can be really easy to get twist up about we're all filled with preconceptions about what's in and at of bounds to experiment with
And we're really boxed in by those preconceptions
We don't want to look silly
We don't want to look like weak
But if we allow ourselves to find what works for us
We often find things that no one else would for me
I tried a lot of different experiments to deal with my inbox problems
I tried going to new coffee shop
Every time i needed to cover through some emails
I tried talking about it with my business partner and other people
My company to try to lower my sense of shame about it
I tried to one touch email mastegy gy tritry to only checking my email twice today
But none of these really solve the problem completely
So i keep going
And i had a big inside
I figured out
That i might be able to use my own insire not to let you down
To help me get through my inbox
So i tried enough to split of virtual system with my business partner
So i wondered what if i put an hour of my caldar a few times a week
Where they would baby sit me at the beginning of the hour
Or did message me and ask me
How the emails i had in my inbox and at the end of the hour that message me again to ask company ii tten done i used my virtual system
But you 以kuse anyone in your life
A family member or friend
Who struggles us like sigsigling similar and because se a trait
It literally takes a couple seconds message back and forth
When i started to consider this my mediate reaction
Mshame i felt like i should not need a abysitter to do my work
And i dreaded the conversation
Where i had to ask for this kind of thing
I also dreadadmitting it anyone else it all seemed very very silly
But i decided to try it anyway
And turns out just that little interaction a few times a week makes the organtic different from me
Getting a message from my system
Kess me on on task on my email
And prevents the piles from being created
Which makes it really easy for me to keep my inbox cleen it every other time
And now i'm sitting here
Almost year later with a clean inbox on a consistent basis
This may not work for you
But it does work for me
You might find that other purchases are better like transfering your mostgy
Your chedualist or making sure you're following a one touch inbox strategy
Or maybe even examining why you need to get through your inbox in the first place
But the only way to find out out is a try it
But i've realized all of my exploring is that i actually didn't really ever want to be a machine
I just felt guilty and ashamed for not being one
And once i sorted to work with that everything changed for me
We think productivity ity about software and notebooks and to do this and frameworks and calendars and schedules and inboxes
And it is all of those things
But it's also about our brains in our bodies
It's about our emotions
And how they guide us and sometimes get in our way
If you turn over the rocket productivity
You can find a lot hiding underneath identifying what's there is the best productivity hack
