If you only had 1 hour in the morning to be productive before work or school, how should you spend it? Here’s my simple 3-step answer: Step 1: List Take 5 minutes to list out the most important things you want to get done during the day. Prioritize them and assess how long…

Tim Ferriss schedules two vacations a year: one in the summer and one at the end of the year. Like most of his behaviors, this is strategic. In a podcast, I remember him saying something along these lines: The anticipation of the vacation provides more joy than the vacation itself. When I have an upcoming vacation, I try harder to make sure everything is “on point” in the days and weeks leading up to it.

At age 14, and maybe even younger, I had a to-do list. I was obsessed with “productivity” and making sure I was doing the right things every day. At the time, I just listed routine things. I had things like “listen to my parents” on my to-do list. Here are a few suggestions on how you can spend your time more effectively…

Why doesn’t age seem to affect Tom Brady? I read an article about how Tom Brady uses nutrition, training, and a healthy lifestyle to “age backwards.” In short, he follows a diet, training program, and lifestyle designed to improve performance and health at the same time. Diet: Tom Brady follows an extremely strict diet consisting of mostly raw vegetables…

Can you lose weight while eating potatoes? Not only can you lose weight while eating potatoes, you may find it easier to lose weight while eating potatoes compared to other types of carbs. As someone who loves carbs (particularly starchy carbs), I enjoy eating foods like bread, rice, pasta, and potatoes. Of all of these, potatoes have been the best option for me when it comes to weight loss. Potatoes are more nutrient dense and…

What can you do more of every day to be healthier? I recommend three things: Eat more fruits and vegetables Sleep more Walk more None of these are groundbreaking, but they do require constant attention because they are easy to neglect. Eat more fruits and vegetables: The Western diet contains very few fruits and vegetables, which explains why so many people are malnourished. The result is…

I keep a daily to do list and more often than not, I don’t finish all of the items. Most of the time, I’m okay with this because I usually do finish my two or three highest priority items. I suggest prioritizing your to-do list and having a smaller subset of items within the larger list that are “must-dos.” The rest of the items are still items you’d like…

What can you do in five minutes in the morning to make your whole day better? Build this simple daily habit: Write down a list of the things you need to do in order to have a successful day. Writing these things down helps you internalize them and keeps you focused throughout the day. I do this by keeping a daily to do list on my…

Peter Diamandis wrote an article called Top 10 Tech Trends Transforming Humanity. In this article, Peter describes technologies that exist today that many people don’t know about. All of it is pretty incredible, but here are the ones that were especially mind-blowing to me: Global connectivity: In 2010, 1.8 billion people were connected. In 2017, that number was about 3 billion, and by 2025…