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In today’s episode we’ll be talking about personal finance, how it’s had an impact on our lives, and what we’ve learned along the way to help us build out wealth.

We’ll be giving you quick tips and tricks on how to manage your finances and we'll also be diving into our own personal systems we use to automate the entire process for a simpler life.

Google Doc: Diego & Eduardo's Personal Finance Workflow Breakdown

Tools

• Online Banking: Ally Savings
• Robo Advisor: Wealthfront
• Online Investing: M1 Finance
• Budgeting Software: You Need A Budget (YNAB)
  • Video: How to setup YNAB
• Net Worth Tracker: Personal Capital

Books

• I Will Teach You To Be Rich by Ramit Sethi
• The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey

Documentary

• Playing With FIRE
• Minimalism

In today’s episode we’ll be talking about the negative effects high dopamine habits like social media and streaming websites have on your life, and the importance of fasting from high dopamine habits in order to reset your brain for optimal performance.

Content & Tools Mentioned:

• Video: Cal Newport Digital Declutter
• Video: Alex Becker
• App: Freedom.to
• App: HeyFocus (Mac)
• App: Forest (iOS/Android/Chrome)
• App: Cold Turkey
• Book: Make Time by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky
• Book: Deep Work by Cal Newport

In today’s episode, we discuss how we plan our weeks for clarity and making progress towards our year goals. This episode is a follow up of the previous episode (Episode 5) where we discussed how we structure our goals for the new year.

Content Mentioned:

• YouTube | How to Do a Weekly Review That Works for You
• Things 3
• Hobonichi Planner
• YNAB
• Eduardo’s Week Review Checklist
• Full Focus Planner
• Diego’s Weekly Review - Google Doc
• Diego’s Productivity System

In today's episode, we will be talking about how we structured our goals for the new year and how we break them down for clarity and easier execution.

Content Mentioned:

• Full Focus Planner
• Hobonichi Techo Cousin Planner
• Things 3 (iOS/MacOS only)
• Goals In Categories (Noah Kagan)

In today's episode, we will be talking about the importance of focusing on things in our control and stop stressing so much about the things outside it in order to focus our time, energy, and other resources to move forward in our lives instead of in circles.

Content Mentioned:

Book - No B.S. To Time Management

Book - Man’s Search for Meaning

Article - What is Stoicism? A Definition & 9 Stoic Exercises To Get You Started

In today's episode, we will be talking about the importance of having routines in your life for staying consistent to achieve your goals, semi-automating recurring tasks/projects, and they help us be in a healthy mental state.

Content Mentioned:
Book - The Myth of Mental Illness by Thomas Szasz
Article - Ness Labs Article - Habits, routines, rituals

In this episode, we explore what it means to us to have a productive life and why we believe it is important to strive for one in order to increase our happiness in life. We also explore the different systems we are currently are doing to increase our productivity.

Websites/Tools mentioned:

• Full Focus Planner
• Notion
• Google Calendar
• Bullet Journaling
• Moleskine Notebooks

Content mentioned:

• Book - Maybe It's You by Lauren Handel Zander
• Book - No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs by Dan S. Kennedy
• Book - How to get Straight A's by Cal Newport
• Book - Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Podcast - The Daily Stoic

In this podcast episode, we explore having a Growth Mindset (Designer Mindset) and how to view life as seeing things in a way that you are not bad at something, but something you may be bad at now but can improve on over time through constant iterations.


Growth Mindset:

• "A growth mindset is “the understanding that abilities and understanding can be developed” (Mindset Works, n.d.). Those with a growth mindset believe that they can get smarter, more intelligent, and more talented through putting in time and effort."
• Source

Fixed Mindset:

• "On the flipside, a fixed mindset is one that assumes abilities and understanding are relatively fixed. Those with a fixed mindset may not believe that intelligence can be enhanced, or that you either “have it or you don’t” when it comes to abilities and talents."
• Source

Our definition of a designer mindset:

• Someone who takes personal responsibility for themselves and actively seek out to test out new systems/applications into their life with the goal of improving in a specified area. This is done by constant iteration, each iteration reflecting on the previous and designing a new iteration that is ideally better than the previous iteration.

Websites/Tools mentioned:

• https://www.udemy.com/

Content mentioned:

• Book - Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz