Welcome to today's show. I'm recording from London. I've moved to London

part-time. So while I'm walking on the James River in South

Maine, London. So I want to talk about today something I consider pretty important,

which is just time management. So I want to give you five tricks to getting

twice as much done and half the work. Because after all, what is the goal of life?

You know, happiness is the goal. Everything else is a tool that humans use to

achieve happiness. At least when we're talking about conscious goals, there's

always subconscious goals like keep breathing, that your autonomic system forces

upon us. But conscious goals people want to be happy. It's like Simon Freud says

in civilization it's just contents. He says what the purpose of life is, people

have tried to answer that question time without end. Without ever a perfect

answer. He said maybe that's because there is no perfect answer. But he said

but the behavior of humans tells us what they care about. And that is happiness

moving towards happiness and away from pain. So number one tool, trick to time

management is understanding your goals. If you read the seven habits of highly

affected people, one of the seven habits is start with the ended mind. Meaning

know what your goal is before you head on this path of improving your daily

routine and your time management. So it's kind of like if you're taking a trip

from Florida to New York, you got to know where you're going before you just

walk out the door. You're going to walk in the wrong direction. So I want to

just talk for one second. The first tool of time management, the first hack is

not what you think. It's not like I'll do the Pomodoro system or do this to

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