Good morning. Welcome to the Daily Five, how to survive and thrive in times of crisis.

And look, you know, today is a brand new Monday of a brand new week and I want you to try something that I do every

single day and it's called Maker Mode. Maker Mode is something I do every

single morning for about three hours. I get up, I get into work, I get ready, maybe get some poo-o-o-o-o-o- I create something that's what's really important is to create something and that's what maker Mode is and if you think about it anybody in

any one of these offices here all create something they write a proposal they write a

book they make a video they something, and that's what gives your work value.

And sometimes we forget that and we think our job is to answer emails and reply to people and go to meetings,

but it's not, it's to actually make

something so whether you're at work or not or working from home or not go into maker

mode first thing this morning and create something and maybe you start writing your book.

I saw Dan Bizzarian who's been on the show before starting to write his own book.

And that's a way of making something.

Maybe you want to make a podcast.

Maybe you want to go make a video. I know my kids at home are making

a rainbow balloon that they're going to stick in front of our house. I love Maker Mode. That's why we're

here to create things and yet in this weird time of working from home it's easy

to sit around and just let the day get away from you to not do something and you just

get this kind of yucky feeling about yourself because you've never actually done anything productive.

So today lock into maker mode.

Another thing you can do is something called the Pomodoro technique, which means you set an alarm

for 25 minutes and you just jam on one thing for 25 minutes.

You don't let yourself any distractions.

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