The productivity Hack I Use Everyday (part 2) | E63

one of the most important things that. everybody listening to this podcast. should be doing. is i'm just going to be completely. honest i've never said this before as. i've come to learn even more so this. year. and as i hope i'll continue to realize. in 2021. the ultimate goal is. [Music]. this is part two of my look back at 2020. and i look forward at 2021. if you've. not listened to part one. go back and listen to that first um in.

this episode i'm going to continue to. look at. the ways that i want to improve in 2021. and the ways that i know i went wrong or. could have approved all the lessons that. i've learned. in 2020 so without further ado i'm. stephen bartlett and this is the diver. ceo i hope nobody's listening. but if you are then please keep this to. yourself. the next point in my diary is one that. i've banged on about in this podcast. like a broken record but i just.

i just know how important it's been for. me in 2020 that i'm just gonna. give it just a couple of more sentences. and this is that word consistency. um if you're watching youtube um you'll. see that i've been. very consistent with the gym this year. but it's it stretches across all facets. of my life. i i had this real revelation i think it. was actually when. um it was two things happen at the same. time it's when i hit a million followers. on instagram. and i thought about the reason why i. achieved that.

and i realized that it was literally. just posting every single day and. learning and trying. and looking at the analytics and getting. a little bit better and then posting. again. for years and years and years and when i. saw that my first 900 posts had got me. 10 000 followers and the next 900 posts. had got me 1.1 million. and then i started reading about. compounding interest and how consistency. and money. um achieves the same effect and it's. really all about time. and patience and showing up every day. with your investments. and as i reflected on the slight edge.

which is one of my favorite books of all. time which talks about how the small. things. repeated over time are much more. powerful than the singular big decisions. we make. then i've just fallen in love with this. idea of consistency and and. the reason why i'm talking about it. again on this podcast is because it pops. in my head every day. and it pops in my head at the times when. it most needs to pop in my head like the. gym last. night i'm sat here i'm sat in my uh my. apartment it's midnight i'm thinking i'm. [ __ ] tired. i've gotta wake up on saturday as i am.

right now and be consistent and do this. podcast at 8 00 am on saturday morning. but i also need to go to the gym and so. that voice creeps in and says. [ __ ] it just go to bed right [ __ ] it off. but then this new voice. appears in my mind these days and it. goes steve but remember the power of. consistency. and it's these moments it's these. moments where you don't want to do it. that are going to make all the. difference. and it's these moments where people. typically bail. and so it must be these moments that are. most valuable these these must be the. moments that most people don't overcome. and so i drag my ass up every day and go.

to the gym and then when i'm at the gym. as it was last night i'm sat there. thinking bro you're tired right i had my. pre-workout but. um it started to wear off it's 1am and. i'm thinking steve you've done five sets. i know you usually do six but just pack. it in and go home now but then this. voice shows up again and goes steve. consistency remember the power of. consistency you've seen it all year in. your life. just do that last set and again as i. said it's. um i'm recording this podcast on. saturday we woke up. all of the team not just myself for 8. a.m to do this because we know we have.

to be consistent with this podcast. historically we've not been but you. we've seen this year. the power of being consistent the. podcast this year is doing three times. more downloads and listeners and it's. growing quickly. than it did in all previous years where. i wasn't consistent. and this voice shows up in my head i. don't i don't want to wake up. i got into bed at what 3 a.m last night. i woke up this morning at what 5 a.m to. start writing this podcast and to go. through my notes and stuff like that. like two hours sleep i don't have to be. doing this [ __ ]. right but i know that the goal i want to. achieve with the podcast and with all.

these other areas of my life like my. health my fitness. my business depend on me. being consistent especially in the. moments where every part of my. body you can probably tell i'm pretty. tired now if you're watching me on. youtube. tells me not to be um and that's why i'm. just the biggest evangelist of. consistency and listen if you're bored. of it. then uh then good because hopefully. you'll be so bored that you might give. it a try. the next point in my diary is one that i. actually talked about. um when the pandemic first broke out and.

if you guys listened to the podcast i. did i think it's called the. dealing with uncertainty or unexpected. chaos or something like that. um i did this in april time when the. pandemic first struck. um and the topic is optimism pro. and proactivity and these two words are. so incredibly important to me i learned. a very valuable lesson this year when. you know our business in march was. absolutely smashed i think we lost 50. of our revenue in that month we bounced. back even stronger and better than ever. but in that particular month we. were absolutely [ __ ] right and none of.

us knew at that time how long this. [ __ ] was going to last and how long. our business was going to be smashed for. and you're faced with a bunch of options. and moments like that and i always speak. about this burning room analogy i call. it. if a room is on fire you typically have. two types of people you have one type of. person who will literally just say. the room is on fire oh my god the room. is on fire oh my god the room is on fire. oh my god the room's on fire and. eventually the [ __ ] flames will. engulf them and they're dead right. and then you have another type of person. who's in the same room with the same. people. and they won't need to tell you the.

room's on fire because clearly the room. is on fire and there's no. upside in dwelling upon the fact that. we're all about to burn down that type. of person. will have optimism and proactivity they. will be solely focused on making a plan. and galvanizing others to feel the. optimism to deliver upon that plan. they will say here is how we get out of. the room right they don't dwell on the. fact that we're all about to burn to. death because it's a waste of time. and that time and energy will take away. from the. um the chance of the solution working.

out and when the pandemic here. we could have gone one of either way uh. one of two ways is the business we could. have dwelled. negatively or we can galvanize the. troops and figure out with optimism and. proactivity how we're getting out of it. and it always transpires in life in all. of those moments where i thought we were. gonna [ __ ] burn down. that optimism and proactivity are much. of the reason we survived and we look. back on it and it wasn't actually that. bad. and this is a this is a rule for any. time in your life when you encounter.

those moments where it feels like. you are finished and i tell you what we. all had them this year but. you've got more coming because that's. the nature of life when you encounter. those moments where it feels like it's a. wrap. um you have to lean towards optimism and. you have to lean towards creating. a plan to get out of there anything else. anything else detracts from the solution. and also. as it relates to your friends and as it. relates to the people you keep around. you and the people you hire into your. businesses. and the people you call your your. business partners when you start your.

company. you need to do everything in your power. to avoid people who are pessimistic. and who refuse to be proactive in those. situations they are. baggage they really really really are. baggage. and you're gonna have to carry them and. there's a lot of [ __ ] you have to carry. in life right whether. it's in your personal life or in your. career so you want to limit the amount. of weight you're carrying and those. people that are negative that. dwell on all the things that could go. wrong that are. um that are quick to cast to. catastrophize about.

the fact that we're all [ __ ] those. people are tremendous burdens and. in 2021 carry less of those people. people don't like when i say this. because i listen they you know what they. say to me and i'm just gonna be. completely honest and i've never said. this before. but every time i start talking about. negative people people misconstrue the. point. um as i'm talking about people that. suffer with their mental health they say. steve well. you know people have depression and you. can't give up on them completely true. i'm not talking about those people with. mental illnesses i'm talking about. people that have a.

disposition to always see the negativity. as a reflection of their own opinion of. themselves or. what they've been through they have a. predisposition. to point at the negative to to. immediately gravitate towards the. reasons why things can't happen. those people are [ __ ] burdens and i. tell you what they say you become. like the five people you hang around. with the most right so unbelievably true. so unbelievably true maybe the greatest. influence on all of our lives. maybe even more so than social media and. that's one hell of an influence. is those four or five people that you.

let really close in your circle. and um it's almost unavoidable that. you'll become. somewhat of a replica or a clone of them. when i was. 14 years old i became an indie and i. started listening to the kooks and. arctic monkeys and i started wearing. skinny jeans and a little fred pet fred. perry polo shirt. because the five people that i was. closest to will wear all those clothes. by 16 i was a total chav right i had. like ditched all of that stuff i was. stone island i was going to the football. match wearing caps and stuff probably. being a bit of a football hooligan.

because the five closest people to me at. a very influential age i will say. were like that and now i'm 27 28. i can't remember my own bloody age now. that i'm 28 years old i. although i've shaken off a lot of that. desire to conform to the you know the. people around me. i'm still getting my energy getting my. my world view getting my perspective. from the people around me and. i you know i've done a very good job. and i will continue to do a very good. job of shaking off those burdens. and i think you should too because those.

people even though people will get. offended when i say this. they are burdens they're absolute. burdens their burdens in your companies. their burdens in your social life their. burdens and your family. and you your life is too short for you. to carry burdens so don't carry them. and it doesn't matter if that hurts. people's feelings it's the truth don't. carry burdens you're going to die so. you know you don't you want to go far. you want to be slowed down by carrying. large. human shaped backpacks. the next point in my diary i've just. written if you're easily provoked you. are. easily controlled and in 2021 please.

make composure. your superpower i am i've been very. guilty of this you know i did this. podcast and i tell people you know. all these philosophical ideas i have and. all the things i figured out about. myself and how to implement them into. their lives but i still. find myself falling foul of all the same. [ __ ] nonsense that i evangelize. about which is. part of being an imperfect human being. right and i still find myself being very. easily provoked at times whether it's in. a romantic context or. by some just totally random twitter.

account right or some random dm i still. find myself being. provoked too often something that i've. definitely definitely improved on i'd. say i'm 100 better than i was last year. but um but in most facets of life if. you're so if you're susceptible to being. provoked emotionally. if you're someone that is quite. sensitive to um. to to someone's comments or to a. stranger because of typically because of. some. insecurity you have and that's a.

completely separate point if. if when you are provoked you ask. yourself that question [ __ ] why was i. offended by that. asking myself that question has helped. me identify many of my own insecurities. because. if some little random egg emoji twitter. account can. can genuinely change your mood with a. 180 characters or a couple of words. then that speaks to some kind of. internal insecurity or vulnerability. which you probably should address. because as i said if you're easily. provoked you're easily controlled and. it's it's not their words that are. controlling you it's that insecurity.

that's still driving you. um one of the things i'm trying to work. very hard on this year. this coming year in 2021 is to be less. easily provoked and in fact the way that. i. i imagine i'll go about that is by. addressing more of my. insecurities i've done a really good job. though you know. i don't think i have that many. insecurities left i still have. hundreds but we're down from probably. millions right like there's probably a. million things that i was insecure about. to some degree um but yeah.

i'll let you think about that and the. next point i've written in my diary is. one that definitely applies to everybody. and it's a lesson that i've learned. um over the last couple years especially. being a young entrepreneur that started. my first business at 18 years old and. that always was dealing with. older people that knew more and that. were in some cases double my age. i've just written the easiest way to. remove disrespectful people from your. life is to start by respecting yourself. i know for sure that there's a direct. correlation a very very very strong. undeniable correlation between the.

amount of respect you have for yourself. and the amount of respect you get from. everybody else especially as it relates. to business. especially as it relates to personal. relationships especially as it relates. to. romantic relationships i know that at. certain moments in my life the reason. why i've garnered the respect i have. is because i have intentionally. faked being a bit of a tough guy. and i think that kind of stayed with me. i'm going to try and explain this. i've had to deal with some very.

successful. old experienced wise people in business. that are many years ahead of me. and if i hadn't been a fake. tough guy and. sometimes cussed and sometimes been a. bit. you know antagonistic and a bit a bit. violent with the protection of my. boundaries. i know for sure i wouldn't be. where i am today because.

those people will respect me as much as. they think i respect. myself and i've learned this lesson not. just through my own observations of my. own life but also. people around me people who are also my. age and people that i've watched deal. with those same people. and i've managed to watch those same. people those old very experienced. business people totally disrespect. these people because they don't respect. themselves and they're not. coming with that same i know my value. you're gonna. [ __ ] respect me or i'm going to.

um violently protect my boundaries type. of energy. and it was just a lesson i've learned. and it applies to all facets of life. even at those outside of business in. your relationships with your partner. they'll typically respect you typically. not always some people are a little bit. nicer but they'll typically respect you. as much as you demand. to be respected through the presidents. as you set. the standards you set through what you. allow and what you accept and it's just. a really important lesson.

the easiest way to remove disrespect. from your life is to start by respecting. yourself. and the next point in my diary is one. that i've um i've learned through the. hiring process of hiring. almost a thousand people we have some. about 750 active employees at social. chain i've not hired all of them but um. as i've hired people but also in my sort. of close friendship groups i've learned. this very very important lesson. about self-awareness and i've just. written in my diary if someone can't. accurately identify. what their own flaws are then they have. the most dangerous flaw of them all.

which is a total lack of self-awareness. and i'll be honest the people who i'm. most impressed by the people that i see. achieve the most success and. those that are often the most happiest. or at least those that appear to be the. most in control. of their life are those that can tell me. all the ways that they're [ __ ] up. and i i have conversations i remember. one particular conversation with a. friend who i shan't name because. they will not like it and they i know. they listen to this podcast where. i ask them their flaws and as their. friend i think as. friends we can always identify glaringly.

obvious flaws in our friends we know. what they're good and bad at sometimes. and unfortunately more than they do. and my friends sat there and went oh. nothing yeah couldn't think of anything. right could think of all the things they. were good at but couldn't identify their. own flaws. and it struck me in that moment that. they had the most sort of debilitating. dangerous floor of them all. which is that lack of self-awareness i. think everybody. should have a very very clear idea and. also brag about the fact that they know. what their [ __ ]. at and what their insecurities are and.

how they're damaged and how their. childhood [ __ ] them up. i think those are the people that i bet. on the most. those are the people that are conscious. about the things that might hold them. back and therefore. can do something about them if anyone. you encounter in an interview. or on a date or wherever a colleague at. work can't tell you accurately what. their flaws are how they're [ __ ] up. or what they're not good at or what. their recurring toxic thoughts and. habits and patterns are. then that's deeply concerning because. perfection definitely doesn't exist.

right we know that for sure. but we also know that a lack of. self-awareness certainly does. if someone can't accurately identify. what their own flaws are then they have. the most dangerous flaw of them all. a total lack of self-awareness in part. one of this podcast. i talked about huel in my partnership. with huel and the impact it's had on my. life. i've actually got one of my best friends. one of my top four best friends. has suffered for the last how many years. probably about the last two decades with. his diet. he's got like a mild eating disorder and.

because of that. he's been fairly unhealthy and fairly. overweight for the last two decades. right. and he came across hugh three years ago. i. have always been worried about my friend. because if you eat just crisps every day. you are going to it's going to catch up. on you at some point he came across. huell. and the guy lost so much [ __ ] weight. and now has a six-pack he actually still. eats domino's pizzas which is quite. strange. but he says that hule is the reason that.

he now has this like. beautiful six-pack he's skinny you know. him jack don't you. you know do you know what i'm talking. about actually i'm talking about yeah. and. he attributes that to huel i've seen you. know the upside of having a. nutritionally complete diet. some of us are too busy to have it some. of us are we don't like fruit enough or. we don't like this enough and that is. where heal comes in. it's changed my life has changed the. life of my best friends. and um i know if you're one of those. people like me. too busy to eat well or at least that's. what they tell themselves and who can.

change yours too. the next point in my diary is about. labels and i've just written in my diary. resisting my own labels society and. culture. and instagram is very very quick to tell. you to go and find. your passion or to go and find your. thing or what you. are or who you are as if it was like. pre-ordained or pre-determined for you. before you were born. and this like i think this this this. fuels this culture of labeling but we. also have this. innate desire to fit and to be.

identified and to fit in. so we search for labels that that make. us make sense. and this year i quit my business i was. the ceo. of socialchain and as i am as i left. my business i left with that label it's. what the world knows me as it's my. sort of adopted but also like earned. identity. i am a ceo of a social media business. and as i reflected upon that as i was. out in the jungle in costa rica writing. my book which you can now pre-order.

happy sexy millionaire on amazon. um i started writing about this idea of. labels and how. really really dangerous they are we all. have labels and i don't mean just labels. as in work titles i mean some of us. have labeled ourselves poor we've. labeled ourselves as a poor person or a. rich person. mum dad tall short fat black. white these are all labels we've given. ourselves ceo. intern creative right these are all. labels. i don't think any of them really help.

when i left social chain. you know typically what you'd think okay. successful social media ceo oh he's. gonna go and start another social media. business. and i just thought but why i've done. that i've achieved that i've built a. great social media company. i don't have to be my label what what i. am fundamentally. if you want to get down to the the the. sort of fundamentals is like. i'm a set of skills and experiences and. a set of skills and experiences that. should theoretically be able to be. applied to any. um challenge that i put myself to.

and if i if i if i if i just focus on. these labels. ceo social media business there's a high. chance i might. lose some of the joy of life which is. the spontaneity and the exploration i. might start to just live out my label. i think a lot of people do that they. live out the label that they are a mum. and only a mum and they can't be. anything more. or they are a poor person or they are a. this or that or whatever. and these labels i think are more.

restrictive than they are beneficial. so what i said to myself this year upon. leaving social chain was that i was just. going to resist all my [ __ ] labels. and trying to live life on those on that. basis. because these labels are just a bunch of. society. induced given [ __ ] and so. the first thing i did was obviously the. diary of a ceo. right so the diver ceo live live show is. a big theatrical performance. you guys that haven't bought tickets i. really think you should have bought. tickets because it's such an amazing. thing. it's basically like a theatrical.

performance i'm giving the game away a. little bit here. but i wanted to create like a theatrical. performance because. because why not because that's not. because i'm creative right. the next thing i did was write a book. again and does not in line with the. labels of being a social media ceo. every word of that book no ghostwriters. because again like i'm creative and i. have ideas these are the fundamental. constitutes of who i am then i started. to learn how to dj. because that's interesting and fun as. well and then i started working in. biotech because that's interesting and i.

can apply myself to that as well. and i've basically for the last six. months completely. resisted all of the things that. my labels tell me i should do. um and i really think it's a much better. way to live. i think there's this real sort of. insecurity and comfort seeking nature in. all of us. that tells us to go and be the thing we. just were and to stay in our lane and i. think the danger is that if i start to.

believe that because i've spent the last. 10 years doing this thing on social. media and being a ceo. that the next 10 years has to be the. same or that my comfort or happiness or. i i'm only allowed to be my past. i think my life will be really like. one-dimensional and shallow. one of my goals for the next year that. i've already started to implement. is to resist my labels and to just focus. on the fact that i am nothing. i am just a guy with a bunch of skills. who can apply those skills to a bunch of. different things that he might enjoy. and i think a lot of the time in fact.

that's why. people don't quote unquote find their. passion not that it is. some easter egg that's waiting at the. bottom of your garden for you to find. but because they think too narrowly. about what and who they are they go to. one school. with a certain sort of economic. situation socio-economic situation. and then they start looking at five. things and saying well i don't like any. of these five things. when you broaden your approach and when. you stop. living your life through your own labels. i think you can discover how many. different things you love and.

and for me variety is the spice of life. and. labels are the antithesis of variety. they are. pigeonholing they are excitement killing. and they are unnecessary they're one of. the things in life that. aims to guide you but paradoxically will. lead you astray. okay so the next lesson which i i felt. like i have somewhat of an obligation to. talk to you guys about because i know. there's going to be some of you. listening to this podcast. that aren't doing this and haven't.

probably even considered it yet because. you just don't think it's important. um one of the most important things that. everybody listening to this podcast. should be doing and i say this as. someone that does this. and spends at least two hours a day. doing this is investing your money. um there's a there's a couple of. important sort of sub points to this. find ways to spend less find ways to. save more. and find ways to invest even more and. when when we talk about investing. typically you think of investing as. something that other people do right.

like. wealthy people that live in you know. canary wharf in london or new york city. run around in suits waving pieces of. paper at the stock exchange. and investing their money but genuinely. genuinely genuinely. if you learn the habit of investing your. money now. it can have a completely. disproportionate impact on how. free your life is in 10 20 or 30 years. time. and when i talk about investing people. will often come back to me and say well.

i just don't understand it right that's. how i just don't i just don't know. and i think it's like isn't it tragic. that in a in. an era where we have the sum total of. the world's information at our. fingertips. and with 5g internet so we can get it in. a in a second. that not understanding something which. is actually quite simple if you just. gave a couple of hours to it. is the barrier that's stopping a lot of. people. from ever building their wealth and like. living hand to mouth is like okay. if you're earning a decent salary but if.

you want to build wealth which is. ultimately. freedom i think of money as just like. freedom coins. and you're letting i just don't. understand it because you've never. googled it and never tried. be the barrier be the first hurdle that. you can't even jump. for me that's a great shame and i did. this for a long time i did this for. maybe 25 years i think i started. investing capital when i was about 26. years old. but up until 25 years i just thought. well investing is for other people right. people that aren't like me and my thing. is i can i need to make more money. and then just save it no your money can.

act like. like soldiers it can go out every day. take prisoners and come back. with more right and that's what you. should be doing with your money if you. don't know how to invest. and um because you don't understand or. you don't understand cryptocurrency or. bitcoin or whatever. google it please i swear to god if there. was one. investment of your time that stands to. make you. multiple riches over the next 10 or 20. years. it's just learning what this investing. thing is and it could quite.

literally take you 10 hours. to understand 10 hours to genuinely. multiply your future wealth and you're. letting i don't understand it. stand in the way of you and your chances. of being wealthy i don't actually know. how someone can be wealthy without. understanding investing. with outside of winning the lottery or. starting a very big business that ends. up being sold or acquired or whatever or. you know when i'm and i'm keyword here. not rich i'm talking about wealthy. right but i also know how someone who is.

earning a wage a decent wage. can become a. multi-multi-multi-multi-millionaire. by just doing the most basic form of. investing. but the problem is they don't teach you. this stuff in school so this is one of. the things in life where. you're gonna have to do it yourself. you're gonna have to go and put those 10. hours in. my brother said to me one day he said um. i was talking about you know what to do. with my money i was like bro i'm gonna. my brother's an investment manager an. investment banker. i said bro i'm gonna um i'm gonna buy a. house and he turned to me said steve if. everybody knows how to do it the returns. are low.

and he said how many people do you know. that are buying houses and that know how. to buy a house and said everybody i know. everybody in social channel 700 people. some people have two or three houses he. went then don't do that. he said if you want a higher return you. have to go and do the thing that most. people. don't know how to do and he went. investing most people don't ever bother. to teach themselves about investing. we all typically live in this world. where um the narrative is you you go to. university whatever you get a job and. then you go and get that mortgage and. you buy a house that's the path. so just like thinking logically it does.

make sense that there would be greater. returns. doing the thing that nobody's told you. about or that is off-piste right. and that's what investing is and we're. we're seeing a real renaissance moment. at the moment with young people. old people who would never invest before. because of apps like revolut and monzo. and. how easy it's become to invest start to. get into investing but also because the. bitcoin. that pulls a ton of people in and i just. want i i would just i think if i could. give you a piece of value if there's. something you could come away from the. podcast and think you know what.

that was the day where i started. investing then i think that would be a. tremendous. um a tremendous thing that i've done. because if i get to get one person. listening to this podcast to put in. those hours into google. how to invest and to get the hargreave. lands down app or. an investment app on their phone and. just start putting 10 pounds in every. single month into. the index funds or the s p 500 or into. facebook stock or whatever it might be. then i think the habit you'll learn and. the rules you'll learn about money will. change your life in the life of your.

kids forever so i think that's a. i just couldn't not say it today the. last point in my diary this week kind of. goes against what you typically hear. from people. there's a narrative which is circulating. social media at the moment about. burnout and about you know don't work. too hard because it'll destroy your. mental health and all of those kinds of. things. but i just want to bring a bit of nuance. and realism to this debate. um hard work does really really matter. and. i am people like don't like when i say. this because. they they think that i'm i'm pushing.

that hustle porn star thing. there's a caveat to this like hard work. really really matters if you want to. achieve. really great things and the reason why. i'm comfortable with saying that. and with it feeling true is because i. can't think. of one person that i know. founder of a company um philanthropist. activist that has achieved really great. things. scientists without really hard work. even the you know the the absolute.

astonishing job they've done with the. vaccine with operation warp speed where. they managed to get this vaccine done. in a fraction of the time with urgency i. can't think of one person. i know that's been wildly successful. that hasn't worked really really hard. not one so as much as tempting as it is. and i know for a fact that if i do a. tweet saying hard work doesn't matter. take care of your dog and. take your wife for dinner i know if i. tweet that i'll get. [ __ ] loads of retweets but it's just not. true it and like. i know people don't like when i say this. but can you think of one person in your.

life. that has been extraordinarily successful. in like building a company or that sort. of initial uphill graph that it takes to. achieve great things. that hasn't worked really really really. hard. i can't and so i think that's important. but but. here's the thing hard work. at the expense of all of the other. things in life that make life worth. living. family relationships your dog. hard work at the expense of those things.

is illogical. because as i've come to learn even more. so this year. and as i hope i'll continue to realize. in 2021. the ultimate goal is happiness. that is the north star that is the. sort of prism in which you should look. to make all of your decisions right. not success not being really really rich. not being. happy sexy millionaire like i wrote in. my diary 18 years old.

it's happiness that is the north star. and if hard work or your career or your. job or any of that stuff. compromises your happiness then it's not. worthwhile. but i don't want to lie to you and i. wouldn't be sat here now you wouldn't be. listening to my podcast i wouldn't have. all this stuff i wouldn't be in this. penthouse in london with. these people around me if i didn't work. really really [ __ ] hard for a long. period of time. but i managed to do it and i managed to. maintain my focus. on that north star which was being happy.

and that's really the nuance that this. debate needs. and i genuinely believe that anybody. that tries to tell you otherwise. has liked your face thank you so much. for listening. we're back again next week with an. amazing amazing guest on this podcast. and. 2021 is the year of the diary of a ceo. it's the year where we're gonna deliver. a podcast every single monday. and i'm gonna own your monday um we're. gonna be consistent and we're we're. urgently stepping up our level of. ambition with this show.

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