Some of it now with daily vlog has to be an unknown. That's the nature of a day you've logged and it is violating my batch and principle here a bit but this is the thing with the batch and you don't you're not going to take it in its entirety you need to take this concept understand the concept and then adapt it to your livestock. So batch and out your days like that can be super super effective. Wednesday is my podcast day like you're seeing this podcast because it's a Wednesday it's a podcast every Wednesday and that's the way I just ensure that I know where I get into a headspace that morning where I I'm like, fine, what am I doing today? I'm recording podcasts. I'm going to go to two podcasts. It's equipment only has to be hooked up once. You know, I only have to sit down here, get to set ready, sit in the studio, once the camera only needs to be pulled out. Once you've recorded multiple things on the same day. And you can also block out weeks, which I've seen where you're going to say, you know what, in the first week of January, that's going to be my creative week. So I'm going to deal with all creative tasks on the fourth week. Second week it's gonna be my administrative style tasks. So I'll do them all on the second week. So forth and so forth. So what I would be urging you to do is last week we talked about, if anyone didn't say it, I said, to get a piece of paper. And once so I bet write your Sunday list, stuff you'd like to do Sunday, I'd like to learn French, I'd like to learn guitar, I'd like to live in Gerona, I'd like to travel the world in a band, write these down on your Sunday list. It's the lifestyle you wanna build for yourself. And on the first side of the page, write down your daily to-do list. And it's normally absolutely garbage, checking email, commuting, scrolling through social media, stuck in a shit job I don't like, meaningless interactions online. And then you just ask yourself, if this is your to-day list, how are you going to get to your Sunday list? Because the actions we do today are what build our Sunday. So if our actions today are calibrated with our Sunday, it's not going to happen. It's a pipe dream. But to follow on from that and extension of that, when we start auditing our time and wondering what way we're gonna block this stuff out and we're gonna batch this out, we start realizing that some of this stuff that we're dealing with, it's one, completely pointless and we can cut it out. Or two, we can outsource it. We can, you know, does a company, BrickWorks India, I use, which were amazing if you're looking for a remote virtual assistant. Go and check them out, they're amazing, they're trustworthy, they're credible. but they have an amazing diversity of talents. Like they'll do anything, any sort of job from board processing to graphic design to book and cinema tickets or flights, to stuff that occupies your time. You can outsource that. And it's a fraction of the cost you would think it is to get that sort of stuff done and it frees you up more time. You'll also just find things that are downright waste your time and aren't taking a closer to your Sunday list. Those just need to be completely, completely axed. out of us. So, Hawaii might be asking at this point should I bother with this whole concept of bachie. And it's because studies are just so concrete now as to the disruptive power of task switching. So task switching is when we're moving from wanting to an earth. So if I'm sitting down to try and go out a chapter for a book and I pull out my phone and I look at my phone, That change from focus from the creative over to the trivia and then back to the creative. It's not seamless when we switch it from the swippers. That works, definitely not a word. When we switch from one task to another, it's called task switching and we lose massive focus. To illustrate how much focus we lose, there's a study in the US that I've seen and in SAT e-scores. Participants that came, there's a decent-sized sample group, and participants that came in stoned performed six points higher on average on their SCT scores than people who are interrupted with intermittent cell phone use. So it's stoned, it's less harmful to your productivity than tasks reaching and picking up your mobile phone to look at it. Let that sink in because every one of us is picking up our mobile phone when we should not be picking up our mobile phone. So let's start building what I'm calling force fail time.
I like this idea of force fail time a lot. It's just protected focus time for doing exactly what we should be doing at that moment and it's being ruthless with it. If it's for me, if I'm rising, I'll have to get my phone, turn it off and it has to be in the middle room. If it's close to me, you know, maybe it's a discipline thing, maybe it's a habit thing, but if it's close to me, I'll reach for it and I'll pick it up as soon as I'm struggling. But if it's not there, I'll struggle on, again, a solution and I'll keep going and I won't suffer from that task switching. I think when you sit down and you order to arrive on this and you realise that there's so much of your stuff is trivial that you can pull it back. There's a lovely stock quote and I just flick pages so I'd have it, I didn't know I've heard. And the quote is perfection, it's not wonder, it's not more to add rather when there is nothing more to take away and I think that's really the essence of this. When we start stripping back that stuff that we don't need, we don't want, that's when we get perfection. So I'd say to you unplug, refocus, find out what items are work batching, outsource or ditch the rest and you will have a lot more time and time. You will have much more time for your priorities in life and you're much much more likely to hit your someday goals. Right, that was a valuable round. It's valuable for you know most of the time in this podcast I'm preaching to an audience of one, preaching on myself and it's stuff that I felt super helpful and that's why I'm giving it to you guys because I'm hopeful that I'm portioning the audience. Let me know in the comments down below if you're watching on YouTube or if you're a podcast that jumped across YouTube and let me know in the comments If you're finding those sort of tips helpful because I find them so helpful in keeping me motivated, keeping me on track and keeping me sort of hitting those targets and moving towards my someday targets instead of just travelling through that endless list of daily to do. So let's talk bike racing. Let's talk the wacky bazaar world of tandem racing. So if anyone's been following the podcast, I was effectively in silent retirement for two years doing very little on the bike racing a little bit locally for fun, but not trying in any serious way. And then I had a call from Buddy of Mine about four months ago at this stage. Good Buddy of Mine, Peter Ryan. Yeah, if anyone doesn't know Peter Ryan's story, Peter Ryan's is a fascinating story. Peter was an inter-county holler for temporary. who doesn't know what Harlem is, it's a national sport here in Ireland and they're fanatical about it in temporary. So he was a very promising open common athlete and probably butchering his story but the details are right, the details, the exact details may not be right but the general gist is he lost his eyesight to the generous of eye disease at the age of 18 and then he went through a really difficult period where he struggled to come to terms with where he got addicted alcohol subsequently went into a treatment center, came out to fire soil, the treatment center, and he's been, I'm going to say, an exemplary human since then, went to Rio Para Olympics. He's raised crazy amounts of money for charities, been elected for Finnegane as a local counselor, and now I'm on the tandem with him, hopefully secure on qualification for for his second Olympic Games, which would be massive. So I've come in at short notice, he's on a four year Olympic cycle, but I've come in very late in the day, hoping to secure qualification. Qualification runs until June. And the way it works is over the last four years Ireland have secured a number of bikes. And that period runs of securing Olympic qualifying points. That runs until June. Then in June, we'll know how many bikes we're sending. And then it's down to Silicon Valley, that's the who they send in those positions. So although I haven't been there for the four years, I'm still well in the shakeup. So qualification is by no means guaranteed a very important event this Friday evening. So thanks in advance, because I know you're good people, and I know on YouTube, you're gonna be jumping in the comments down below right now, and you're gonna be like, fuck and do it out until you bring her home for the parish, shut the parish. Yeah, tanks and van for those well wishes. Was that too much? Too try hard? Too much need in your support?