Improve Every Day

Sleep can be complicated.

There are many factors that affect your sleep quality and quantity.

Some improve your sleep, while others make it worse.

Just a few simple habits can make the difference between a good night’s sleep and a night spent tossing and turning.

That's why in this video I'll explain which habits you want to avoid, as they are ruining your sleep.

Some habits are worse than others, but if you can avoid all of them, then a good night's sleep is almost unavoidable.

Sleep can be complicated.

There are many factors that affect your sleep quality and quantity.

Some improve your sleep, while others make it worse.

Just a few simple habits can make the difference between a good night's sleep and night spent tossing and turning.

That's why in this video I'll explain which habits you should adapt to improve your sleep.

Some habits will help you more than others, but when all of them are combined that's when the real magic happens.

Let's talk about a balanced life.

In our modern society, we want to do it all. We want to be great at the work we do, we want to be healthy, we want to have great friends, all while being the best spouse and the best parent we can be.

This is something many people want, but rarely anyone achieves it.

But why is it so hard to achieve all those things?

Today we'll look at life balance through a concept known as The Four Burners Theory.

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Most of us don't manage to do everything we want to do in any given day.

We only have a certain amount of time and energy, so some things inevitably get left behind.

Can you manage practicing the piano, reading books, meditating, and exercising every single day, while working a day job?

I can and you could as well.

Today, I would like to share a method I’ve found to be extremely helpful for managing all these competing goals.

It's called: Mini habits.

Productive and procrastination.

You would think that these two words don't go together.

You're either productive or you're procrastinating, right?

Well it isn't necessarily so black and white.

In this video I'll explain why it's possible to be a massive procrastinator and yet still get a ton of work done.

Everything you do, could be categorized in 3 tiers of importance.

Tier 1, tier 2 and tier 3.

Tier 1 is the most important tier. This is where your most crucial work falls into.

Then we have tier 2.

These activities are still important, but not as important as your main task in tier 1.

Then finally we have tier 3.

This is where everything that doesn't need to be done at all, falls under.

Now what would happen if you were to remove the possibility of doing tier 3 tasks all together?

In today's world, being able to focus is almost like a superpower.

You rarely see anyone who's able to concentrate on a single task for hours.

And the individuals who are able to focus, to nobody's surprise, get so much more done than other people.

There are many areas where you could benefit from better concentration. Whether it's for school, studying, work or a hobby. If you're able to focus you can get your desired results faster.

So today I'll explain what's holding you back from focusing and what you can do to improve it.

You probably heard about the Law of attraction before. It was made popular by a book and movie called "The Secret".

Basically to sum it up, Law of attraction says that anyone can attract whatever they want, just by thinking about it consistently.

So if you think about making money a lot, money will appear in your life.

That's all pretty silly.

We can't just make money appear out of nowhere, by just thinking about it.

But our thoughts can and do affect our lives.

And this is because of a concept I like to call: Mental Proximity.

Thanks to all the data science has gathered over the years, we know that not getting enough sleep leads to a shorter life.

But there's one more thing that the data has also shown us. And that is the relationship between sleep and mortality risk is not linear. You see, the more and more sleep you get, doesn't mean that your risk is lower and lower.

Instead once the average sleep amount surpasses 9 hours, there is an upward hook in mortality risk.

Just like with sleeping less than 6 hours every day, there is a higher chance of premature death, if you sleep over 9 hours daily.

So what is going on here?

Are we supposed to be aiming for exactly 8 hours to live a long and healthy life?

Not quite.

we tend to talk a lot about success.

But we never really talk about what success actually is.

Like many others, I grew up equating success with money, status, fame and power.

And for many years, that was my definition of success, so I pursued just that.

But over time my perception has changed.

You see, success is a very personal thing.

And you'll understand what I mean, after this video.

Humans have tons of dreams, aspirations and goals which we would like to achieve.

And since we are social creatures, we also like to talk about them.

But maybe it's time we stop telling people what our goals are.

The reason why we shouldn't, is because when we tell others what we're planning to do, it makes us less likely to follow through and actually achieve those goals.