I'm a big productivity improvement self-help junkie where I'll be like, okay, I got to make my bed

every morning, make the bed, cold shower, do the Goggins mode hard shit early.

Yeah.

You know, just eat that frog.

That's so tempting.

But all that shit sets up for failure.

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What's rule number one for you?

So rule number one is timing everything that I do.

Like now, I've got stopwatch going, lap timer, is just on the go.

So you're on the clock, Matt.

Pressure's on. Yeah. You better write faster. I time everything. And when I talk about that,

people start thinking, oh, it's a productivity thing. You're trying to maximize your time. You are trying to homosify everything and get more shit done and set a deadline for all your tasks.

And it's actually not about that for me. I can definitely see that as being a happy accidental side effect of it for me.

But for me it's more just about awareness and mindfulness of whatever it is that I'm doing because you're probably

in a similar situation where you'll get to the end of a work day and you feel like you've been

so busy but you don't have anything to show for it and you're like what have I done and you get

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