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Our four best productivity habits give us 25 extra hours of performance each week. Habits that save time!

We are two habit nerds that constantly tweak our days to maximize output.

In this episode, we will break our habits down for you. How you can apply them and how you can use them to boost your personal development and your career.

Today's episode has been split up in four topics:

1. How Erik got two extra hours every night 2. How Emil saves tons of time by going against the social norms. 3. A health habit that Erik has constantly evolved over the last decade. 4. The most controversial of our habits, yet the only one we both do.

An episode full of habits that save time. -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective.

We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. --

1. In the first section we dive into the habits of watching TV in the evenings. How Erik changed from spending almost every evening just watching a screen and instead turned this into a more productive use of the time that got invested in his relationship and his health without taking any extra energy. A habit that saves time, about 10 hours each week.

2. The second part is about our view of alcohol and drugs and how Emil decided to go completely sober a few years ago. This has increased his productivity significantly and added many hours to his week thanks to not being hungover. A habit that saves time - about 8 hours every week.

3. In the third part we have a habit that saves time from thinking about food. Almost every day Erik replaces one meal with a large smoothie. This both adds to healthy living as well as to not needing to waste time cooking or thinking about what to eat. A habit that saves time - about 3 hours every week. The recipe is: 100g blueberries 100g raspberries 1/2 avocado 1/2 banana 25g broccoli 25g spinach 5g ginger 5g turmeric One tablespoon olive-oil Water

4. Finally we talk about not watching the news. How this saves time both in mindless scrolling and in better sleep and higher energy levels. We discuss whether we fall behind other people or not if it's important to keep up with the news. A habit that saves time - about 4 hours per week.

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One of the most important factors of Erik's business success is that he a great networker. He's good at creating exciting conversations where people open up and they quickly get to know each other. In this episode, we will teach you the technique that he is using, breaking it down in examples, explaining how to use it and why it works. Today's episode has been split up in four topics: 1. What's the beep beep technique? 2. How to make every conversation interesting? 3. How can you make someone excited to talk to you? 4. Why does the beep beep technique work, what is the magic going on? -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt explore topics about how to grow as a person. We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. -- 1. In the first section we are explaining the "beep beep technique", a way of asking questions and finding the most meaningful and interesting topics for both parties in a conversation. There isn't a magic formula of what specific question to ask but there are several guidelines that you can use to get much better at conversations. 2. In the second section we use the beep-beep technique in several different examples. Showing you how it can be used to take the conversation to more exciting places and how you can avoid making common mistakes that make conversations flat and boring. 3. In the third section we are diving deeper into the beep beep technique and show you how you can use the tone of voice and choices of words from the person you are talking with to find the best ways of asking further questions. 4. In the final section we are breaking down the technique to see what is actually happening when we are using it. What are the different parts of the technique that makes it work and how can you apply it in your own life.

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There are four mistakes that almost everyone does in conversations. They are easy to avoid but most people are not even aware of them. You are most likely doing them as well - and they will lower your chances of happy relationships and successful careers. Today we are diving into how to develop the most important social skill by avoiding these mistakes.

Today's episode has been split up in four topics:

1. How do you stop making these mistakes? 2. What are the two most important mistakes to avoid? 3. Why giving advice at the wrong time is a huge mistake? 4. How do you stop making these mistakes?

-- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. --

1. We start by looking into how Erik was called "The radio" when he was a teenager and why he was talking so much. What were then underlying factors that made him be a person that always had something to say.

We are also looking into what it feels like to be around someone that talks a lot and shows how it will impact your life if you are a person who does.

2. In the second topic, we look into a painful memory from Erik's childhood and how he early on learned that he was doing social mistakes without fully understanding what they were. The look at the two most important mistakes to avoid, mistakes that we both have done over and over again in our lives and that we are now working on fixing.

3. In the third section we end up in a painful situation were we look into how Emil dealt with Erik's sadness when he had broken up with his girlfriend three years ago. Emil did some big mistakes that he wished that he would have avoided and we are looking at what he could have done instead.

4. In the fourth part, we talk about where do you start? What are the steps to take after this episode to make sure that you will quickly become a better listener, develop the most important social skill, and be more popular in social situations?

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Three years ago Erik learned a skill that completely changed his life - and it only took one minute to learn it. In today's episode, you will get a chance to learn the most important social skill. It's an aspect of listening that will change how you act in all conversations.

Today's episode has been split up in four topics:

1. How will listening change your life? 2. What does it mean to be a great listener? 3. What's the best way to learn the skill listening? 4. What is the first thing that you have to do to learn the most important social skill

-- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. --

1. In the first section of the podcast we dive into the question of "How will listening benefit you?" and we are looking at it from different angles.

How will listening help your relationships? How can listening make you a better entrepreneur or help you climbing the career ladder in the office? How can you use listening to get your parents to understand YOU better?

All of these are questions that we are addressing.

2. In the second topic we look in to what a great listener looks like. How is a conversation with someone who is really good at it, what are they doing that makes them good? How does it feel to talk to someone that is great at listening and how does it benefit the person being great at listening?

3. Thirdly we look at listening as a the most important social skill and what it takes to learn it. How it can be enough with just one minute for you to completely change how you listen to other people. We are diving into when we realized the value of listening to others and how we wish that we would have realized it earlier in life.

4. In the final part we look at how you can start to become a better listener. What are the first steps to take? What do you do?

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Feeling passion is great, but how do we find our passion? Many people make mistakes that prevent them from finding their passion. In this episode of the Becoming Great.com podcast, we explore 3 key concepts that will help you understand how to find your passion. --

Today's episode is on personal development and entrepreneurship, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person and as an entrepreneur.

Erik and Emil are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing their ideas and reading about new things. This episode is excellent for you who want to learn about their latest perspective. They share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in their lives, and how it's useful for business -- They have divided today's episode into 4 topics.

Topic 1: What is Passion? Erik and Emil give their definition of passion. What is passion? What is it not? Can you have more than one passion? Does playing computer games count as passion?

Topic 2: Try new things! The first key to finding your passion is to try new things. If you try enough stuff, you will find something you enjoy. Just by share luck. This happened to Emil when he started as a professional poker player.

How can we find joy in trying new things? What is preventing us from trying new things?

Topic 3: Fight when it gets hard! The second key to finding your passion is to keep going when it gets hard. Often our biggest passions lie behind our deepest fears. This has been true for both Emil and Erik when they started to explore public speaking and communication.

How can we make sure we don't stop when things get hard? How can we make difficult tasks easier?

Topic 4: Don't try to create new passions with old friends. Having like-minded people around you is crucial. A common mistake is to try to change your old friends to fit into your new passions.

How do you make new friends? What can you do if you are the only one enjoying your passion?

We hope you enjoy this episode. It's full-on knowledge, laughter, and personal stories.

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We are back from our summer break and there are a lot of things that have happened. Today we will discuss what's going on and give you an update on Great.com.

First: We will talk about that Great.com still makes 0 in revenue, why that is, how it feels and what we are doing about it. In this segment you will learn about how to deal with struggling times and how to stay focused on the positive sides of the business. Secondly: We go in to a phone call Erik had that created €500 000 in 20 minutes. A call that will change a lot about how Erik spends his time moving forward. In this segment you will learn more about how to think when you are networking.

Thirdly: We enter the topic of recruitment, our current challenges and progress. In this segment you will learn about the challenges of recruitment, how to think and what mistakes to avoid.

And lastly: We are following up on our last update episode where we talked about our $100 000 donation - we were hoping for a lot of publicity, did we succeed or fail?

-- This is an "Update episode", it means that In today's episode of Becoming Great.com podcast, Emil Ekvardt and Erik Bergman, explore the very real challenges and problems that come up when building Great.com. A company that gives away 100% of its profit to protect the environment.

This is an opportunity for you to get a behind the scenes look, of what it feels like to build a company - and also get an update on our progress.

What you learn here is not something you will read in a book. It's the real story of how Great.com gets built. --

Great.com talks with Clean Air Task Force #21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiuo1DKFBYk

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A great leader makes people excited to move in a certain direction. A great leader makes everyone around them better and more confident.

One of the most powerful ways to do that, is by becoming good at showing appreciation. It costs nothing and it can be remembered forever.

Today's episode is about Powerful leadership skills with focus on appreciation leadership skill.

The episode is split up in four parts:

Part 1: Appreciation is a skill that you can study to learn

Part 2: What is most powerful, appreciation or bonuses?

Part 3: Tips on how to show appreciation, that you most likely haven't heard before.

Part 4: How are we applying appreciation as a part of Great.com

-- Today's episode is an entrepreneurship episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to become a better business person.

We are often sharing real life examples that have happened previously in our careers. What we have learned, who we have learned from and how we have applied that into our real lives. Everything in a mix with personal thoughts and reflections. -- Powerful leadership skills and specifically appreciation leadership skill.

In the first part of the episode we are exploring what appreciation is. If it is a skill that you can learn and who you would have learned it from if you are good at it already. If you are not good at appreciation, who's fault it that?

In the second part we dive into how appreciation and compliments work as a motivator for work. How do positive feedback and showing gratitude compare to giving financial bonuses? What is it that makes appreciation so powerful and what is it about money that makes it work or not?

The third part is about what happens if you don't show appreciation and how that impacts your team. We also look into what are some very efficient ways to show appreciation and how can you learn to do it very well?

Finally we round the episode off by talking about how we apply this knowledge in building Great.com. What are we doing to increase motivation and morale in the team by using appreciation.

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This is an email we got from Anna, one of our listeners.

I don't like the job I currently have. My boss is very demanding and I'm stressed out. I wake up early and spend an hour every morning in rush hour traffic.

I would love to be able to focus on creating music. The problem is that I can't afford to quit my job, I only make $15 per hour and because I'm working so much - I don't have enough time to turn the music into a career.

What can I do? How to stop working and follow my dream?

If you have a similar situation as Anna, this episode will be perfect for you. We are diving in to the concept of that "The purpose of money is to buy time".

By understanding this concept, it will be a lot easier to free up your time and live a life without a boss.

-- Today's episode is an entrepreneurship episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to become a better business person.

We are often sharing real life examples that have happened previously in our careers. What we have learned, who we have learned from and how we have applied that into our real lives. Everything in a mix with personal thoughts and reflections. --

Our goal with this episode is to change your mindset about money in a way that will help you to have more freedom in your life. Teach you the answer to "How to stop working and follow my dream?"

In part 1 we talk about that almost all money is used to buy things, and very little is used to buy time. Why is that? How come we think of money as buying things and is that really the most valuable use of money?

In part 2 we look into how you can use your money to buy time instead of buying things. That if you use your money to buy more time early on it will free up your life and even make it easier to buy things in the future.

In part 3 we talk about how to build a small money machine, by beginner friendly investing creating a way to get you extra hours every month.

In part 4 we come back to Anna's question, and we give her our recommendations of what we would do in her situation.

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Links: Episode #18 - Finance, easier than you think. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/18-finance-2-investing-easier-than-you-think/id1452049777?i=1000440642313

What is actually meditation? How could meditation help you in your personal growth or your entrepreneurial journey?

There are many ways to meditate, and there are many benefits to the practice. Today Erik and Emil break down their favorite ways to meditate so you can feel BETTER and be less distracted, Meditation - How to get started. -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. -- Meditation - How to get started:

We start by defining what meditation actually is. Since it's such a big word. We decide to divide it into active and passive meditation.

How much time do you have in your life where there are no distractions? We explore why silence and reflection are so important.

We explore when meditation is the most beneficial. What types of meditation works the best in emotional periods to feel better and be less distracted by negative thinking.

What do we mean by active meditation? How can it help reduce overthinking and lower anxiety?

We explore common mistakes when meditating. Like forcing fast results and thinking there are good or bad sessions.

Finally, we discuss which meditation apps have been the most meaningful for us. We recommended:

https://www.headspace.com/ https://wakingup.com/

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Great.com will give away 100% of its profit, but so far we have had zero revenues. Yet, we have decided to do our first big donation - $100 000.

The purpose is to unify the team, get a publicity push, and support what we believe is a great organization - the questions to answer, are we really unifying the team, or only causing stress and distraction? And will we get any publicity at all?

Part 1: The first part is for you who don't know much about Great.com. How come we will donate all our profits? How far has the business come so far?

Part 2: In part two we explore how come we are donating this early. We haven't made any profits yet, still, we take this decision. Why?

Part 3: Thirdly we look into where we are donating the money. The organization is called Founders Pledge, but why do we choose them and what do they do?

-- This is an "Update episode", it means that In today's episode of Becoming Great.com podcast, Emil Ekvardt and Erik Bergman, explore the very real challenges and problems that come up when building Great.com. A company that gives away 100% of its profit to protect the environment.

This is an opportunity for you to get a behind the scenes look, of what it feels like to build a company - and also get an update on our progress.

What you learn here is not something you will read in a book. It's the real story of how Great.com gets built. --

Great charity podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/great-com-talks-with/id1498831309

Founders Pledge http://founderspledge.com/

Top-ranked charity organization https://www.catf.us/

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