Give me 11 minutes, and I’ll improve your productivity skills by 500%

I’ve been watching self-improvement and productivity videos for years now I think that the most important thing that I’ve learned the most useful thing that I’ve learned after all this time after actual years of watching these kinds of videos has just been to do the work okay and I know maybe I’m losing you right now maybe that sounds stupid let me try to explain it okay if you’re kind of like me then maybe you’ve realized a lot

Of the advice that the people give in their videos are kind of wishy-washy you know sound nice in the video but if you actually want to use it in your real life it’s kind of like kind of stupid just making everything more hard for me because I’m thinking that I’m not doing good enough if I’m not doing all of these 25 tactics you know that’s just what I think anyway I I’ve never really been able to to get myself

Into doing like a 3our morning routine and doing the Pomodoro Technique for studying when you sit down to do your work let’s say you’re studying math okay let’s say you’re not very good at math like me you sit down and you see your math in front of you where are you are you listening to music who’s around you where’s your phone at is your phone face up or face down what’s the situation on potential distractors around you what

Distractors are around you that are limiting you from just doing your work I want to ask you now to see it from the other side do you think it would help you to study your math if there was a bunch going on around you bunch of noises people talking over here phone is ringing phone linging people are trying to reach you you have respons responsibilities now that like you you should probably get to attending not very helpful right this

Doesn’t sound like it would get you very far right to be working and listening and hearing and Kanye West is blasting in my ears the one thing that has helped me actually helped me from all of these self-improvement videos productivity videos is to make time to just do that just that one thing that I want to do make time just for that I need to honor this time honor this time don’t need my phone I keep looking here cuz that’s but

You can’t see that’s what it’s that okay no phone no music no people just the work honor this time because it doesn’t need to be a very long time you just need to honor the work for now okay and let me talk about that too this doesn’t need to be like 12-hour sessions you know you see on YouTube as well and it makes you feel bad like I want to study for 12 hours that sounds cool imagine if I study

For 12 hours then I could like brag to people that I’m that kind of person you could be but we got to start somewhere you don’t need to do 12 hours you don’t need to do 5 hours you don’t need to do four hours all at once start with 1 Hour 2 hours half an hour you know this is manageable part of this too part of everything all the the productivity YouTubers say is it’s like it’s not

Manageable it’s like I have to do so much setup I have to keep so much in mind I forgot oh I didn’t do it right make it manageable for yourself make it easy easy for yourself you make time for yourself 30 minutes I can I can spare 30 minutes in the entire day so now all of a sudden it’s like really easy to do the work you just do the work for 30 minutes and then you’re done you don’t even need

To worry about a rest of the day good job good honor this time honor this short 30 minutes by giving it your 100% no phone no music just that honor the time when you’re working out in the gym honor the time it doesn’t need to take you that long you don’t need to find the next song on the playlist I don’t even listen to music in the gym anymore you just do it you honor the time one hour in a day and then I don’t

Get to do it again for for a while honor the time and I know that it isn’t easy man I know it’s it’s sometimes kind of hard to find the time to just dedicate to that one thing when you have people talking to you all the time responsibilities you have to go to school you have to go to work you have to do this you have to do that well when am I going to have time to work out and

Then if you actually do make the time you sit down you’re looking at your math I don’t want to do this like there’s so many things that work against you in your own head but this is how you make progress if you’re dialed in 100% even just for 30 minutes that’s like super good if you trying your best for 30 minutes to understand this part of math that you have trouble with that’s progress it’s better than

Like just half ass like I’m not even paying attention if I spend 4 hours not paying attention at the math I’m just wasting my time here I’m not retaining anything if you’re giving 100% in you’re retaining it okay promise me you’re way better off just dedicating time for that if you want to listen to music go go away go do something else all right but for now while you’re with the math just do the math okay I’m just

Telling you that this I know I know that it’s hard but this is how this is how you get work done I consider myself you know even even now I I know that this is like not good selft talk but I don’t think I’m the most disciplined person ever even still I’m trying to be better but I don’t think I am but even me I’m saying it works this helps a lot you know I thought that

I was undisciplined I thought that I was just the kind of person who who doesn’t get good grades in math because I’m bad at math I did this for Math and I Prov myself wrong this is how I learned that I can do more than what I thought I was capable of you know by by doing this for my math class for the longest time High School junior high before that I’ve been bad at math I’ve been bad at math that’s what I

Thought but now for college I had a college math class I actually sat down okay I was like not again I’m not letting this happen again and um the first test didn’t go so well in that class I got like 50% I actually I saw this first test and I said I can’t let this happen again so so I switched it up I tried this Hamza taught me this I gave it just just sometime at the end of the

Day I always remember it would be at the end of the day before I went to sleep or like 7:00 around there 7 o’ not before I went to sleep okay I’m not like a grandpa you just give it a sometime when you have quiet time you can just only focus on that you don’t need to talk to anybody you don’t need to to worry about any other responsibilities just only that okay that’s how you make progress that’s how

You get good at it that’s how you that’s how you get good at it this is coming from a guy who got 30% on the grade 12 math diploma and I’m telling you I I like math now I can handle it okay if you’re like me if you think you’re bad at math I want you to prove yourself wrong really bad okay I want you to try I just want you to try to dedicate some time to

It that’s how it goes that’s how it has to happen you can’t skip around it you can’t you can’t do oh the Pomodoro Technique the Pomodoro Technique is going to help me it’s going to save me cuz I need to study better you don’t need to study whatever you can study better later after you figure out how to do the basics the basics is sit down and study you got me I finished this college math class with an

A+ and I got 30% on the grade 12 final math diploma I got an A+ I’m doing better and I didn’t think that I would be able to do better I did better if I can do it as undisciplined as I think I am as I know that I kind of am still I know that you can do it if I can do it you can do it okay I don’t think you need any Pomodoro Technique

Or I don’t know 8020 rule probably that’s something I think you just need to sit and do it okay some of these YouTubers will tell you like you need 25 techniques to improve your studying and it’s just like brain overload it’s like I need to do all of this or or I’m feeling like I’m not going to be doing it right or good enough you don’t need to be doing it good enough you just need to do it

That’s the truth once you get into it it’s actually kind of fun I used to hate math my entire life genuinely but now I genuinely feel like I do enjoy it I would I enjoy math would do again t 10 I hope this helps today is January 23rd probably you might be seeing this at a later date maybe not probably I hope this helps I’m getting pretty hungry now 7 p.m. I’ll talk to you guys later peace