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at it. And. That one things

1:52

are always like to do when we kick off

1:54

our episodes is to share our top three favorite

1:57

resources. So the first one is an app called

1:59

Tic Tic. Though it's belt T I

2:01

C K C I see Case or Tic

2:03

Tac. And. It's it to do less

2:05

Apt that's available on all platforms and

2:07

has a beautiful you I. May.

2:09

Has lots of rich features that I think a

2:11

lot people with light. Such. As

2:14

having a Pompadour a timer built in

2:16

but can easily share your list with

2:18

other people. Is so much more. It's

2:20

a really popular apps. I had a recommend you check

2:23

it out Tic Tac if you need a new to

2:25

do lists up. Another

2:27

resource and want to recommend is called

2:29

Chats. Pts said this is a website

2:31

a uses Ai technology. To. Make

2:33

life easy for you especially for

2:35

people were in academia because what

2:37

it allows you to do is.

2:40

You. Can upload a Pts and

2:42

then able to analyze that using

2:44

ai technology. And then you

2:46

can interact with a. Lesser. Say

2:49

a chat bots about what's in the

2:51

documents. even ask it. To summarize, You.

2:53

Can ask it to do additional research based

2:55

on what's in there. You can ask her

2:57

to decide all the resources that are in

3:00

there and give you a list. A can

3:02

reference other papers. You can do all these

3:04

different pass based on whatever the content is

3:06

of the Pdf. so this is really popular.

3:09

Among. Academia Among those who

3:11

are embracing. A I right now

3:13

and are at the forefront. So I wanted to bring this

3:15

up because I know let people whose listen to the show.

3:18

And were Asian efficiency. Customers are come that

3:20

world's but even if you're not in academia,

3:22

I think Chappie D S is very helpful

3:24

when it comes and like legal agreements. You.

3:26

Can upload and be like eight. Am I

3:28

allowed to do their space on this? Legal agreements and

3:30

stuff like that. And. Then the third

3:32

resource I want to recommend is called the or

3:35

ring and this is one that I've been wearing

3:37

for a lesser for for to have years now.

3:40

It's a fitness tracker. It's a shape of

3:42

a ring. I like how we as Apple

3:44

watches or with bands. I be using my

3:46

for a long time and as. Still,

3:48

And a big fan of it. I

3:50

can't live without it. If I were

3:52

to lose this, I would instantly remind

3:54

without thinking about it. So. I.

3:57

recommend you check out the or ring if you

3:59

want to get some insights on your health and

4:01

wellness. And everything that we talk

4:04

about here on the show can be

4:06

found at theprodactivityshow.com and also the resources

4:08

that I just mentioned. All right, let's

4:10

start diving into today's topic. So today,

4:12

I wanna dive into this idea of

4:14

trends for

4:18

the way we do work, productivity,

4:21

how we collaborate. And

4:23

something that I've done recently for Asian

4:26

efficiency customers was I

4:28

hosted an exclusive webinar for

4:30

our top clients and

4:32

gave them a presentation on what

4:35

I foresee happening in 2024 in

4:38

terms of trends, apps and tools you wanna be

4:40

aware of. And I gave people

4:43

a list of my current favorite apps and

4:45

tools as well that kinda

4:47

covered a big four. And

4:49

a big four, I mean a to-do

4:51

list app, a calendar app, no-ticking

4:54

app, and then project management as

4:56

well. I'm going to link a

4:58

recording of this here in the

5:00

show notes so you can go check out the recording

5:02

if you want. It's about an hour

5:04

long and I go into a lot more detail, but

5:07

I talk about the current state of

5:09

apps that you wanna be aware

5:11

of and wanna check out. I

5:14

also talk about artificial intelligence,

5:16

how that is a major trends for 2024. And

5:19

then also health and wellness, which I believe

5:21

is going to be a big driver this

5:24

year for people and

5:26

as the technology is growing and evolving,

5:29

it is going to change how we

5:31

work and look at productivity as

5:33

well. Now we have been kind of

5:35

like big fans of looking at health and

5:37

wellness, right? Since, I don't know, 2016. If

5:42

you think about the T framework, which we

5:44

are mostly known for, right? Time, energy and

5:46

attention. Energy is all about your

5:48

health and wellness. If you have

5:50

no energy, guess what? Nothing will get done. Even

5:52

if you have the time to do the work,

5:54

even if you know what you need to do,

5:56

which is attention, but if you have

5:59

no energy, guess what? But you are

6:01

not going to be clicking buttons, doing

6:03

stuff and move forward on

6:05

your projects and goals. And

6:08

I've been a big fan of just focusing on

6:10

your health and wellness partly because of my own

6:12

journey as someone who had a shoulder

6:15

surgery back in 2016 and wasn't settling on this

6:19

idea that I had to rehab for six months

6:21

and be not as productive as I could

6:24

have been. And so I went down

6:26

this journey of how can I recover

6:28

way faster because my orthopedic surgeon told me

6:30

that I couldn't work out for

6:32

six months and I said,

6:34

okay, well, let me go

6:37

against the grain and see what's out there because I

6:40

just don't like the idea of not being able to

6:42

work out at all for six months. And

6:44

long story short, I went down this rabbit

6:46

hole and fortunately, I

6:49

live in Austin, Texas where health

6:51

and wellness is a big cutting

6:54

edge forefront here. And

6:56

there's a lot of functional medicine, there's a

6:58

lot of practitioners, there's a lot of tech

7:00

companies who are on the cutting

7:02

edge when it comes to health and wellness.

7:05

So I was fortunate enough to

7:07

get access to some of those people, pick

7:09

their brains, figure out what I could do. And

7:13

eventually, I came across different

7:15

solutions where I was able to rehab my

7:17

shoulder in about two and

7:19

a half months compared to what most people would

7:21

do in six to eight months. So literally

7:24

two and a half months later, I was fully

7:26

done, I could like lift weights again, all that

7:28

stuff. And in fact,

7:30

I have a funny story. After my

7:33

post-op, I had a

7:35

follow-up with my surgeon like a week later after

7:37

my surgery, just to double check where everything was

7:40

going and make sure that everything was going

7:42

well. I remember seeing him,

7:44

it was like a Wednesday

7:47

afternoon, somewhere around one or two o'clock. And

7:50

saw him for a few minutes, he said, hey, everything

7:52

is looking good, how are you feeling? I'm like, yeah,

7:54

I'm doing all right. He kind of gave me a

7:56

timeline of six months and then to reconsider working out

7:59

and stuff like that. But I already

8:01

had an appointment scheduled with this clinic here

8:03

in Austin called Newfit. And

8:06

I didn't tell my orthopedic surgeon that

8:08

I had this, but basically I went

8:10

there right after I saw him and

8:12

I was lifting my arm and

8:15

doing all these like ranges of

8:17

motion that would normally not be possible,

8:19

but a week after my surgery, which

8:22

gave me the confidence that I could

8:24

rehab a lot faster than is traditionally

8:26

accepted. So all of this

8:28

to say is that the T framework,

8:30

time, energy, and attention, part

8:33

of it is an evolution of my own journey

8:35

and productivity and what I've seen working with clients.

8:38

A lot of times when people come to us, they

8:40

struggle with time. And

8:43

then the second barrier they usually run into

8:45

is that, okay, once they get a good

8:47

grasp of managing their time, then

8:49

it's usually energy. That's the second barrier that's

8:51

holding them back. It's not

8:53

getting enough sleep. That's not feeling

8:56

right. It's always feeling tired, coming

8:59

home from work and then not

9:01

having the energy or focus or the capability

9:04

to study for their certification or to

9:06

work on their side hustle, which really

9:08

stems from energy. And

9:11

typically when they resolve that and things

9:13

are going well, that's when attention usually

9:15

becomes the main pillar that they have

9:18

to focus on, especially as you're growing,

9:20

whether it's a fast company, you're

9:22

growing in your career, there's a lot of stuff going on.

9:25

Opportunities just come your way and there's a lot more things you

9:28

have to focus on and have

9:30

to prioritize as well. And so

9:32

managing your attention and mastering that as well

9:35

is usually the third pillar that people run

9:37

into, hence the T framework. And

9:39

I've seen this just happen over and over again working

9:41

with clients since 2011 that we

9:44

kind of formulated it in 2017 into

9:47

an official framework, which then later

9:49

led to the 2020 25X productivity

9:51

system. Now why am

9:53

I saying all this to you? Well, as

9:57

I was doing this live webinar where I

9:59

talked about the... trends, I've

10:01

kind of realized, okay, productivity has come a long

10:03

way. Back in the day, it was

10:05

all about maximizing your time,

10:07

maximizing every 15 minutes, hyper

10:10

scheduling and the

10:13

shift that I've made personally and starting

10:15

to see people make as well

10:17

is that we go away from, hey, we

10:21

have to do everything possible as humans

10:24

and almost sacrifice our health

10:26

and wellness to get stuff done. We

10:29

go from that to now shifting more to

10:31

focusing on health and wellness and

10:35

especially with AI around the

10:37

corner, a lot of the menial and

10:39

admin tasks that we're currently doing, yes,

10:42

some of them might be delegated to other people

10:44

right now, but over time, technology is going to

10:46

take that over. I'm starting

10:48

to see the shift that a lot of

10:50

things that we're currently doing, even

10:53

creative stuff or simple routine stuff

10:56

will eventually be done by

10:58

other tools. I

11:01

think in maybe two episodes ago, Brooks and I

11:03

talked about how there's this

11:05

new phenomena coming up where you don't

11:08

just pay for SaaS, right, software as

11:10

a service, but actually

11:12

you start to get AI tools or

11:14

software as a solution. Now,

11:17

they're taking over work for you,

11:19

not just you getting access to

11:21

tools to do the work yourself,

11:24

but now getting access to tools that actually do the

11:26

work for you and give you the results that

11:28

you're looking for. That

11:30

I think is really exciting. Hence why I

11:32

think AI is going to be a big

11:35

forefront for this year. My

11:37

prediction that I mentioned on the live webinar

11:39

for 2024 is that especially if you're following

11:44

the podcasts, you've been a

11:47

recent subscriber or you've been with us for

11:49

a while, 24,

12:00

you will be using AI

12:02

tools on a regular basis. And

12:04

some of it will be very obvious because they are AI

12:07

tools like chat, GPT, or bard. And

12:10

some tools are kind of like

12:14

they use AI tools in the background without

12:16

you actually knowing it. So

12:19

for example, if you look at Notion, which

12:21

is a popular note-taking app, a

12:24

lot of them, a

12:26

lot of the features that are in there are using

12:28

AI without you actually realizing it.

12:30

Now some of it is also going to be more

12:32

at the forefront. So for example, one of their newest

12:34

features is called QA. And

12:36

it's basically kind of like chat, GPT,

12:39

but using the data source of your

12:42

stuff in Notion. So imagine

12:44

having a chatbot that you can interact with that

12:47

studies and analyzes whatever you put into

12:49

Notion and then can answer questions and

12:52

give you output and data and results based on

12:54

whatever you put into Notion. That's

12:57

kind of like what's coming up right now and

12:59

happening, but that's going to be extended to even

13:01

more detailed. So some of the demos that they've

13:03

showcased is how you might say,

13:05

hey, I'm starting a new project where I

13:08

have to redesign my website. Can

13:10

you create a list of tasks for me? And then guess what?

13:13

All of a sudden, it will create a list of tasks for

13:15

you in Notion that you can then follow.

13:17

So there's all these little features that are coming out, not

13:19

just in Notion, but many other tools that I

13:22

think is going to be more common

13:24

this year so that pretty much

13:27

all of us are going to

13:29

be using features like that, if not

13:31

standalone AI tools. So again,

13:33

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again, I talked about the big apps. of

16:01

the big four. I talked about

16:03

some other noteworthy apps. So a couple ones that

16:05

I want to mention here are this

16:07

one has been really popular recently called OneSec.

16:10

So OneSec, you

16:13

spell it as

16:16

O-N-E-S-E-C, OneSec, and it's one

16:18

word, so one second essentially. And

16:20

it's available on iOS and Android. And

16:23

basically what this does is that let's

16:26

say you want to use Instagram

16:28

less often or TikTok less often

16:30

on your phone. Now

16:34

a black and white method is to just

16:36

to delete the app and reinstall the app

16:38

whenever you want to use it. Some people

16:40

do that, and I can see

16:42

that being effective for some. However,

16:45

many of us also use other apps like that

16:47

maybe for work or we have to use it

16:49

for other things. And we

16:52

also at the same time want to

16:54

use it less often. And

16:56

how many of us oftentimes grab

16:58

our phone just to quote unquote just

17:00

check stuff and then lo and behold

17:02

you're spending 15, 20, 30

17:04

minutes on it and then you're like, man, I wish

17:08

I hadn't done that, right? So

17:10

this is where OneSec comes in. So OneSec,

17:12

it's a bit of a technical setup once

17:14

you set it up, especially on iOS because

17:16

you have to use some automation

17:18

to make it all work. However,

17:20

once you have it set up, basically

17:23

what it allows you to do is that

17:25

anytime you open up Instagram, the

17:27

app itself or TikTok, it

17:29

will actually open up OneSec and

17:32

it will show you a bar that

17:34

does like a little countdown timer like

17:36

five, four, three, two, one. And then

17:41

it will give you an option to say, hey, do you

17:43

want to continue to use Instagram or do you want to

17:45

exit it? So what's great

17:47

about this app is that it forces you to

17:50

break this habit and it catches

17:52

you in the moment when

17:54

you have usually the lowest amount

17:57

of willpower to make your behavioral

17:59

change. And it will ask

18:01

you, hey, do you actually want to use this?

18:03

And it will force a pause before you can

18:05

continue. And this is a great app for that

18:08

reason because, yeah, I

18:10

can tell you like, hey, just delete the app

18:12

or hey, just stop using the app altogether or

18:14

just use it less often. But that doesn't work.

18:16

I've seen that with so many clients. It just

18:19

doesn't work. However, if you

18:21

can break the pattern every

18:23

single time with

18:25

tools like OneSec, you're less

18:27

likely to then follow through because

18:30

most of the time when you open up the app

18:32

and it forces you to do this five second countdown

18:36

and then continue to say, yes, I want to

18:38

use this app, now you're a lot more intentional

18:40

about it. But

18:42

you can also have the option to say, hey, actually, you

18:44

know what? No, I don't want to use

18:46

Instagram at all. Let me just exit right here and go back to

18:48

work. So go check out OneSec.

18:51

I think it's a great tool and

18:53

I highly recommend you check it out. And then I have a

18:55

list of other noteworthy mentions, but you're going to

18:57

have to check out the full live webinar if you

18:59

want to see all my recommendations here. All

19:02

right. So that was kind of like the app section. I

19:05

also want to talk about AI. Now, if

19:07

you're not using AI right now, I would

19:10

encourage you to sign up for a free

19:12

account at chatgpt. You can

19:14

find it at chat.openai.com. It's

19:16

free. You can also use Google.

19:19

They have Bard, B-A-R-D. It's

19:21

free to use as well. It's kind of

19:23

like their main competitor. And it

19:25

basically has a similar feature set, but chatgpt was

19:27

kind of like the first one and personally the

19:29

one that I use. And

19:32

if you're a Pro Activity Academy member,

19:34

you already know that last year we

19:36

did multiple master classes on how to

19:38

use chatgpt to be more productive. And

19:40

personally, I've been spending, I don't

19:42

know, too many hours learning this tool

19:45

and also learning about prompt engineering and

19:47

how it works behind the scenes and

19:49

that kind of stuff. So,

19:51

let's get into the nitty gritty details and bore you to

19:53

death there. Assuming we are on

19:55

board with that, I want

19:57

to talk about a few different AI tools to

19:59

that I think you should just look into.

20:02

Again, I go into more detail here on

20:04

the Live Webinar, but one that I definitely

20:06

want to bring up is Chat's PDF. I

20:09

mentioned this at the very beginning of the

20:11

episode as one of the top three resources.

20:13

But this is a more

20:16

user-friendly way of using Chat

20:18

GPT and documents, basically. You'll

20:21

start to notice over time that a lot

20:23

of AI tools are kind of using OpenAI

20:25

as the backbone, which is the

20:27

creator of Chat GPT, because you have

20:30

an API access where you can basically create an

20:32

interface on top of

20:34

their engine, kind of like how

20:36

Fantastical is kind of like

20:38

a forefront engine for Google Calendar in a way.

20:41

Anyway, so going back to Chat PDF, what is

20:44

great about this is that, again, you can upload

20:46

a PDF file and it interacts

20:48

with the chatbot based on the content that's

20:50

in there. So you can have

20:52

it summarize it, you can ask questions, and

20:54

it can answer it for you based on

20:56

what's in the content. So

20:59

it's great for legal contracts.

21:01

It's great for research papers.

21:03

If you're a student, you can learn from

21:05

this. There's just a lot of things that

21:07

we can do. I

21:11

highly recommend you check it out because I know

21:13

many people who are listening to the show work

21:15

in academia and die

21:18

to have something like this. If

21:21

you don't know about it now, this

21:24

is my calling to you to say, go

21:26

check out Chat PDF and just play around

21:28

with it. Even if you're not in academia,

21:30

just upload a PDF that you've maybe even

21:32

created and just interact with it

21:35

and see what you can discover. Even

21:38

if you already know what the content is, just ask it

21:40

to say, hey, can you summarize this for me? And so

21:43

on. You'll be amazed what it can do.

21:45

And then once you kind of get the gist of it, I

21:47

think you'll be inspired to do a lot

21:50

of other different things. So that's one I

21:52

want to recommend. Another one is especially

21:54

if you're into more creative stuff

21:57

and creating images, I think

21:59

Adobe. Firefly, again, it's also

22:01

a free tool, something

22:03

that you wanna check out. It's kinda like Photoshop,

22:07

but you can generate

22:10

artwork and make edits to photos just

22:14

based on clicking a bunch of different

22:16

things and then telling it to change

22:18

it. So for example, let's

22:20

say I have a photo and I

22:22

use this in the presentation as well. There's a

22:24

photo of a lady who is standing in the

22:26

desert and has a blue sky

22:29

as a backdrop. And what

22:31

you could do is literally just use your mouse and

22:34

select the blue sky area and then

22:36

have this little prompt to say, hey,

22:38

change the color of the blue

22:40

sky to something with pink

22:42

clouds. And then

22:44

within seconds, the app

22:47

Adobe Firefly will change it and you just

22:49

go, whoa. It

22:51

happened within seconds and normally an

22:53

artist would take like hours

22:56

to create something like this, but

22:58

then novices like you and I can create this

23:00

within seconds. And it's insane.

23:03

I mean,

23:05

I skipped art classes back in school.

23:08

I was never a big fan of it. I still

23:10

regret it to this day. I wish I stayed, but

23:13

back then, if there was

23:15

one bad habit I had, it was

23:17

skipping art classes. Now that I am

23:19

a little bit older, I wish I had taken it and

23:22

understood some of the styles and learn

23:24

about different art forms and

23:27

various different things so that I

23:29

could take more advantage of Adobe Firefly and

23:31

other tools like Mid-Journey, which is

23:33

I think a little bit more technical in terms of

23:35

creating images because you have

23:37

to use technical details and

23:40

prompt engineering to create images from scratch,

23:42

which again, is a little bit more

23:44

advanced, but Adobe Firefly is

23:46

something that I think everyone should check

23:49

out. It's free, easy to use. Just

23:51

upload a photo of yourself and just play

23:53

around with it. You'll be amazed at what

23:55

you can do, even if you have no

23:57

Photoshop skills at all, like I. Like,

24:00

I have no skills whatsoever and I could

24:02

make some crazy stuff. So go

24:05

check out Adobe Firefly. And

24:07

speaking of images, a fun tool I

24:10

want to recommend. I kind of mentioned this earlier, which

24:12

was Mid-Journey, but another one

24:14

that is a little bit easier to use

24:17

and kind of uses a similar feature set

24:19

is called Bing Image Creator. So

24:22

again, if you are familiar with

24:24

chat GPT, you might have heard

24:26

of Dolly, which is their engine

24:28

for creating images. And

24:30

Bing Image Creator is kind of like their

24:32

nice UI to use that engine to make

24:34

images from scratch. Now, if this all

24:36

sounds super technical to you, basically

24:38

imagine having like a

24:41

Google form where you

24:43

just type in a bunch of things of

24:45

what you want to be creating and then

24:47

you press a button and then all of

24:49

a sudden you get the image that you're looking for. So you

24:51

literally could type in, hey, I want

24:53

to see an elephant flying in

24:55

the sky wearing a pink dress

24:59

and that's it. And

25:01

then all of a sudden it will create that

25:03

image for you, right? But then you can get

25:05

into a lot more detail. So for example, you

25:07

could say, hey, create an

25:09

image of a elephant flying in the

25:11

sky in the art of

25:14

Da Vinci or

25:16

Rembrandt or Vermeer or whatever

25:18

artist. This is when

25:20

I wish I'd taken art classes because I could

25:22

have been a lot more creative, but that's beside the

25:25

point. Anyways, I want you to

25:27

check out Bing Image Creator and

25:29

just start to play around with it. You'll

25:31

actually be surprised how much of what

25:33

you create will end up being used

25:35

in either your presentations, your webinars. I

25:38

use a lot of those images in

25:40

presentations now and a lot of people can't tell that they're

25:43

AI generated, which is really cool. So

25:46

go check out Bing Image Creator. Again, I have a

25:48

lot more tools that I recommend in the

25:51

live webinar that you can access in

25:53

the recording. Somewhere on the

25:55

show notes there's a link there. Okay.

25:58

So the final thing I want to mention here before we go, we

26:00

wrap up is that one of the other major

26:02

trends that I mentioned in the webinar

26:04

is health and wellness. So, earlier

26:07

I mentioned how I've been using the

26:09

Aura Ring to track my

26:11

health metrics and I've been

26:13

using that data to essentially

26:16

optimize my health, feel better, have more energy,

26:18

sleep better, and so on. And

26:20

I think that's going to be a major trend

26:22

for this year as more people become more aware

26:24

of it. And to

26:27

give you a funny story how early I was and

26:30

how timing is so important, so

26:33

Asian Efficiency actually started in 2011 as

26:36

a passion project. And one

26:38

of the things I was very aware of

26:40

back then is how important sleep was. And

26:43

so even though A started

26:45

as a passion project, I had this desire

26:47

to turn it into a business, especially after

26:50

so many people emailed me

26:53

and said, hey, I really like your blog contents,

26:55

do you have any courses or programs for sale?

26:57

And I said, no, this is all for free,

26:59

this is just a passion project. But I kept

27:01

getting those emails, I said, oh,

27:03

maybe there's something there, maybe I could turn this into

27:06

a business and make this a full-time living. I had

27:08

this like imposter syndrome almost where

27:10

I was like, I don't know if

27:12

I can do this, but let's see what

27:14

happens. And so

27:16

I created this course, it was called Better

27:18

Sleep back then. This is 2012,

27:21

about a year, year and a half later.

27:24

And to kind of give you some

27:26

perspective, we had probably somewhere

27:28

between 8 to 10,000 people

27:31

subscribe to the newsletter. And

27:34

I felt this course called Better Sleep

27:37

to help people optimize their sleep because

27:39

I know, and again, this is 2024 now,

27:42

I still talk about it, but I was talking about

27:44

it back then in 2012, how important sleep was.

27:48

And back then, it wasn't as widely

27:50

accepted as it is today. And

27:54

so guess what, I launched the course,

27:57

I sold it for like $20 or something. And

28:00

I just saw tumbleweeds flying

28:02

by. Nobody bought this course.

28:04

It just didn't resonate with them because it was just, there

28:07

was no awareness around how important sleep was, even

28:09

though I kind of mentioned it on the blog

28:11

and so on. And I still believe

28:13

to this day, that's one of the

28:15

biggest force multipliers, hence one of the

28:18

major focuses within the T framework, within

28:20

the energy pillar itself is optimizing your

28:22

sleep and having routines around that as

28:24

well. So all of this

28:26

is to say that, back then it was a little bit

28:28

too early, but now as there's more

28:30

conscious awareness around the effects

28:33

of alcohol, the effects of lack

28:35

of sleep and how alcohol affects

28:37

sleep, I've noticed personally

28:39

here, Austin, Texas, fewer people are

28:42

drinking alcohol every single year. Maybe

28:44

it's a function of getting older, but

28:46

also I think it's a function of people becoming

28:49

more aware of how alcohol

28:51

just has negative effects on your overall

28:53

health and especially on your sleep. But

28:56

even then, as we just have

28:58

more awareness around our health with wearing an

29:01

Apple watch and other fitness trackers like the

29:03

Ora rain, whoop, and

29:05

other things, people are just becoming more aware of

29:08

all the factors that are affecting our

29:10

sleep. And so I think maybe

29:13

we haven't quite hit the tipping point yet

29:16

where it's like mainstream mainstream. Like

29:18

I always use my parents as kind of like

29:20

a barometer for that and I don't think we've

29:22

kind of hit that benchmark yet. But

29:25

my brothers who are younger than me are very

29:27

well aware of it, even though they don't wear

29:30

fitness trackers whatsoever. They like to

29:33

go to the gym, they like to work out, they like

29:35

to eat healthy and be great at work, but

29:37

they also starting to realize like how important sleep is even

29:39

though they're in their mid 20s. And

29:42

so if I think about my mid 20s, yeah,

29:45

that was a decade ago, but I was like

29:47

one of the nerds figuring out how to be

29:50

a better performer, be superhuman productive and that kind

29:52

of stuff and they are not in

29:54

that category whatsoever. So

29:57

all of this to say, yes, health and well.

30:00

Wellness is going to be important this year. I

30:02

think if you're not using a fitness tracker

30:04

already, that's something that I would encourage you

30:06

to do. I

30:09

personally like to wear the aura ring just because

30:11

I like to wear mechanical watches. I

30:14

don't like the idea of buying an Apple watch for

30:16

that reason because I don't want to wear two watches

30:19

or one in replacement of

30:21

something else. That's

30:23

something I mentioned in the live webinar as the

30:25

main action item is, hey, if you're not using

30:27

a fitness tracker right now, I

30:29

highly recommend you get one because

30:32

the more awareness and insights you have,

30:34

even if you just track and do

30:36

nothing else, tracking is done on

30:38

your behalf. You

30:40

don't even have to do anything other than wear the thing. You'll

30:43

start to notice that a lot of behaviors change

30:46

over time. From my own

30:48

personal journey and experience, from just wearing my

30:50

aura ring, I didn't set out to drink

30:52

less. I didn't set out to optimize my

30:54

sleep and do all these things. I

30:57

didn't set out to do a lot more

30:59

stretching throughout the day and breathing exercises

31:01

and mindfulness. I didn't intend

31:04

to do any of these things that are now

31:06

regular habits and routines that I do throughout the

31:09

day and as part of my lifestyle and all,

31:11

and something that I always look for in other

31:13

people that I hang out with or associate with

31:15

and stuff like that. But

31:18

it all started because I just started

31:20

tracking and noticing different patterns of my

31:22

sleep. Oh, I had a

31:24

drink last night and now my sleep is terrible.

31:28

Oh, okay, whatever. And then

31:30

it happened again a week later. And

31:32

then it happened again two weeks later and I go, ah, maybe

31:35

there's something there. Maybe having even

31:37

one glass of wine throws

31:40

off my HRV and

31:42

my quality of sleep. Huh,

31:45

let me run an experiment and lo and behold,

31:47

it turns out to be, yes, even one drink

31:50

or even a few sips can

31:52

affect and throw everything off. And so

31:55

all of this is, hey, I still have a cocktail,

31:57

a glass of wine every now and then. them

32:00

completely stopped. I do

32:02

enjoy those drinks I've been having done, especially

32:04

socially with people. But funny

32:06

enough, I have all this stuff at home and I never drink

32:08

it. It's only for guests when they come

32:10

over. And so slowly, I've

32:13

been giving away a lot of my liquor,

32:15

use them as gifts when I visit people's

32:17

homes. But that's a different story. Anyways,

32:20

to conclude this podcast for today, all I

32:22

want to say is yes, health and wellness

32:24

is a big thing. Again,

32:27

AI is here to stay. I want you to

32:29

be on top of it, kind of get familiar

32:31

with it to be honest. I use chat GPT

32:33

instead of a Google search next time and I

32:35

think you'll be surprised what you'll

32:37

discover and how much faster things

32:39

will be. And then again, there's all

32:41

these cool productivity apps that are out there. But

32:44

if I had to give my top list, I

32:46

mentioned them in the live webinar that you can check out. So

32:48

I appreciate you listening to the

32:50

productivity show. We'll be back again next

32:53

week. We always have new topics, new content. But

32:55

if you have something that you want me and

32:57

Brooks to cover on the

33:00

podcast, email us at podcast at

33:02

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33:04

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33:06

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33:09

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33:11

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33:44

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33:46

2024. We're only a few weeks in,

33:49

but I'm excited for what's coming up for this

33:51

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33:53

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