I'm going to show you how you can be so productive and get so much done that it actually feels illegal.

I'll do this by sharing 20 powerful principles that help me unlock this illegal level of productivity

in my time building three successful software companies and today while building my AI venture studio.

These principles haven't only worked for me but for thousands of my clients that I've taught this to around the

world. So they will work for you too. Starting with principle number one, the 955 principle. Most people

have heard of the 80-20 rule, the Pareto principle, but you can actually take it to another level.

It's essentially that 95% of your results come from 5% of your work. So for yourself, you got to figure out what is the

5% of the work you do that generates 95% of the value or the results in your life, which

leads us the principle number two, the definition of done. There's this quote by Albert Einstein,

a problem well defined as a problem half solved. Most people don't have clarity around what they

need to get done. Understanding what your success criteria for completion looks like helps everybody

get clarity and that creates alignment to the outcome. Which leads us a principle number three,

the two minute rule. In my early 20s, I read this incredible book called Getting Things Done by

David Allen and he had this simple two minute rule. If you get a text message, reply to it right away. If you get an email reply right away. If you have a dish, it needs to get clean, clean it right away. Don't put something off. Some people spend more time managing their to-do list than doing the thing on the list. Don't overthink it. Move with a sense of urgency,

which leads the principle number four, the domino effect. The way you want to think about life,

it's like dominoes. And that first domino hits the second domino and the third domino. And if it's

big enough, important enough, the one thing, then it makes all the other dominoes easier.

A simple example is focusing on my breakfast and what I eat versus

how hard I'm going to train at the gym. I can't out work out a bad diet. That's why food is

always a leading domino to getting fit. Productivity starts by choosing that one thing to focus on

that makes everything else easier or unnecessary. So before you get into the work, stop and say, what's the

first thing that if I do makes everything else work? Which leads us a principle number five,

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