HIIT app to focus, Better to-do lists, The magic of Stripe Money

What’s on the menu

• A HIIT app to improve focus

• A better time for creating to-do lists

• The magic of Stripe Money

A HIIT app to improve focus

My ability to focus hasn’t been great lately.

Our daughter waking up at 5 to 5.30 most days recently might have something to do with that 🤔.

I’ve started to do HIIT workouts more frequently in the morning and the effect on mental performance is (significant in my case).

Like most people, I struggle to work out daily.

The health reason, especially long term is sometimes difficult to be fully motivated by.

However, being at peak mental performance after a workout is pretty motivating for me.

Also, everything seems to fall into place. My house is tidier, I’m on top of my chores, I’m getting work done and I feel great.

The app I’ve been using is called Downdog - HIIT.

I do 30 minutes of ‘Full Body Shred’ (their words, not mine) leaving most settings the way they come.

I’ve been enjoying HIIT and Yoga Fusion, Tabata, and Circuits with Isaiah’s deep smooth voice guiding me 😅

A better time for creating to-do lists

I have a love-hate relationship with to-do lists.

The reality is that I’m not great at keeping one. Having a long list of to-do’s overwhelms me.

Similar to my bank account when I was a student, I tend to avoid looking at it.

I’ve been trying to improve this though. Especially after I saw this post from Tiago Forte, a chap I admire in terms of productivity advice.

The TLDR of his message is the following.

⭐ Write your to-do list at the end of the day instead of the morning ⭐

In the morning, you can use all your brainpower to check off your first and most important task instead of scattering your brain doing prioritization.

This approach has been working for me.

The only flaw is that sometimes I forget to make the list at night 🥲.

Still working on a hack to solve that.

Stay tuned.

The magic of ‘Stripe Money’

Last Thursday I opened pre-orders for my PM Course.

Within 30 minutes I had made my first sale.

I felt ecstatic.

There’s something liberating about getting that first customer to pay you online.

It opens your eyes to the possibilities.

That there’s another path to generating income that doesn’t involve employment.

Even though this was not my first online dollar, it brought me back to that feeling of ‘anything is possible’.

Why am I sharing this?

Because I want to inspire you!

We tend to underestimate the knowledge we have (and what we might be able to monetize).

There’s a technical term for this and it’s called ‘The curse of knowledge’.

It’s a cognitive bias that leads people to believe that their knowledge is so obvious or common that everyone else must surely know it too.

But often it’s not…

The weirder and more niche, the better!

And even if you think there’s absolutely nothing you have to offer … (which I doubt is true)

You can obsess over, and learn a subject matter you like for a couple of months and have more knowledge about the topic than 99% of the world 🌐

So if you are hungry, get after it. If someone decides to pay you, make sure whatever they get is damn good!

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Cheers,

Arjen