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DeMir Bentley into EO fire studios DeMir is a productivity expert and co founder of life hack method he teaches efficiency techniques and accountability strategies that have helped clients generate millions while saving thousands of hours

and today for nation will talk about how DeMir famously squeezed 80 hours of work into a two hour work week will talk about the top things that everybody gets wrong about being more productive and will share the three top strategies to win the week and so much more fire nation when we get back from thinking our sponsors

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DeMir say what's up to fire nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with what is up fire nation so glad to be here thank you john my wife and I have a philosophy that we call lifestyle first and what

means is we believe that you need to build a core of a healthy happy lifestyle first and then build a business or career around that and you'll find a lot of people who disagree with that buying into hustle culture thinking you

need to work like a maniac and you know sacrifice your health and happiness today so you can get that pay off later I'll share more about my story later a little

bit later but my wife and Carrie and I we both burned out and had to walk away from our career so we know that a sustainable lifestyle is key because if you can't sustain your lifestyle you're not going to be able to keep it up for the long

whole and you know what we have the proof that this works even though we made a lot of money in our old careers we have quadrupled that money with our new career even though we've

dropped our hours to quarter of the hours so when I start working with my clients I have them create a vision for the life that they can honestly say I could do this forever well this is actually where I want to move into

next you kind of been teasing this a little bit we had a little pre-interview chat around the eternal spring that you now live in for the most part because you did leave that

active Wall Street career to start this productivity business you know in Medellin Columbia so do tell tell us that story 10 years ago I almost work myself to death working 80 hours a week in finance for over a

decade got rushed to the hospital mystery illness couldn't figure out what it was finally got diagnosed with salary man sudden death syndrome which basically means hey you're

working yourself to death and that brush with death forced me to step back and just take a totally new approach to my work and by the way I'm not alone in this I think

COVID has pushed us all to that break right we desperately need to change our relationship to work today anyway to save my own life I created a system to plan my week ahead of time cut my working hours and

half and within two months I went to work from working 80 hours a week to two hours a week so I pretty much called the system the winning the week method I teach you to tens of thousands of people and I love seeing people get huge productivity gains and slash the work hours and just get their

life back well we're going to really be doing a deep dive into winning the week in specific strategies you're going to be sharing later on this interview but I do want to start by just kind of getting into you squeezing 80 hours of work into

a two hour work week I mean this is before of course you knew your method you've you know taught now to many many clients so talk to about that process of how you even started going down that road yeah I mean of course this is a question

to get all the time how on earth did you reduce your workload by 40 X so here's how I manage that feed I'll break it down into four stages to make it easy to follow you

first I had to get massive clarity on what to be prioritizing because I was all over the place John I mean I was trying to do everything and finishing nothing so I actually had to slow down to speed up because being

efficient doesn't always mean you're being effective and I couldn't just try doing everything anymore you know my doctors made sure that

wasn't an option they told me you have to work less than 40 hours a week and that was when I was 18 hours a week so I finally had a reason to make the heart choices and cut deep so that was number one number

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