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3 Quick Questions - Goals, Rest, Podcast Setup | BOOK OF SECOND OPINIONS - 047

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Peter Saddington shares insights on productivity, rest, and podcasting. He emphasizes the importance of setting goals for tasks that don't require full engagement, suggesting that this strategy aids focus and provides a sense of accomplishment. He illustrates this with the analogy of filling a jar with different-sized rocks, prioritizing larger, more demanding tasks first. Addressing the need for relaxation, Peter recommends activities like driving or spending time with his children to de-stress. He highlights the concept of "time boxing" work with scheduled breaks. Finally, he details his simple podcasting setup, which includes a Blue Yeti microphone and OBS software for recording.

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I built many startups, most of them are failed, so Bitcoin is exactly the place that I like to be. We're gonna end it right there. What's up guys? What's up behind the scenes community members? That's cool. Behind the scenes community members of the Bitcoin Lambo podcast, things you didn't learn in school. Now you guys know that I'm asking you and to ask me questions. Anything about anything. I want to be helpful and I want to give you guys the first roots of my thoughts. Now this stuff is ever really planned out, but what I love is the ability to just engage with you from video format perspective and be able to answer your questions how random as they can be. So I'm gonna answer three questions today. Let's just get started. Let's just jump right in. So the first question here comes from Nick. Nick.

He says this. He says what strategies have you found work to keep your mind in the moment when you're doing activities that do not require your full spirit? Now this is an interestingly written question Nick, but I know I know you and I know exactly where you're going with this. What you're basically saying is hey look there is work that has to be done. For example these podcasts like these podcasts and the podcast that I do. With all of my notes like I'm really involved. My heart, my soul is involved with writing all these notes down making sure that I can make sure that I can create some sort of format and put out my ideas and be able to communicate them effectively through the podcast medium. Like these require my full spirit. These require my full heart. However there are administrative things that I

have to do every day to keep the shit moving to keep the world going. At least in the universe and obviously with the bit coin level podcast. With those things the easiest way to keep myself in the moment is to make sure that I have set goals Nick set goals for the day. The administrative things I'll give you an example many you guys know this every week we load in new coins new cryptocurrency coins into N IQ. It happens every weekend I do it every weekend for them for a for Monday and I publish it on Monday on DC TV as you guys well know. But this is administrative. This isn't stuff that I enjoy like really enjoy doing it is it is manual it is copy pasta you know throw the tweet in. Write the context down make sure it's added into the sheets

added into the Bitcoin pub like these are things that are just they have to get done. And the only way that I can stay in it and make sure that I get that stuff if I is I set the goals for the day and you guys know I got to be sticky notes I always write my goals down in the morning or in my journal. And my journal here as to what I need to get done and so that's the best strategy the best strategy is to set goals for the things that don't require your full heart the administrative things the logistical things that the kind of the minutia crap that you have to do throughout the day is make sure that you've written down a goal to complete that because once you get that stuff done. Man it just feels good now another analogy

journal here as to what I need to get done and so that's the best strategy the best strategy is to set goals for the things that don't require your full heart the administrative things the logistical things that the kind of the minutia crap that you have to do throughout the day is make sure that you've written down a goal to complete that because once you get that stuff done. Man it just feels good now another analogy and you guys have probably heard this before is the analogy of like the different size rocks and like a jar. All right someone will go and say hey you know let's put all the rock put put the rocks and you put the small pebbles in the put the medium size and they put the large rocks in it doesn't all fit. Obviously the answer is put the large

rocks in first fill in the medium ones and then sprinkle in the small ones and then all the rocks can fit in the jar right you get this analogy. So the whole idea is get the highest priority things done first Nick that you've written down in the for the day get those things done be accomplished feel great about achieving those things. I mean especially when you like for me one of the biggest things on me say every day is to not get my podcast this is a full four hour endeavor thinking of the idea writing the idea down on notes creating some sort of framework for my logic and my thinking getting on recording it for 20 25 minutes going into going into post processing for podcast post processing for video and then for distribution right this is like a four four and a half

hour process. Every single day it's my big rock every day Nick after that all the other goals of making sure that like I do the 20 coin loader follow up with 200 fucking people or you know punch this out do this video or even this video this video that I'm doing to you guys was a lower priority then my number one part today which was to do my podcast so when it comes to strategy that I found to keep my mind in the moment when I'm doing activities that do not fully require my full spirit. I make sure that I write them down and as a goal for the day so that it that that mental accountability right keeps me to do it keeps me doing it that makes sense I hope that was helpful next question comes from gunney gunney says with all the

work in all the everything what's your top ways to blow off steam easy driving sound. Driving sound actually actually it's even easier than driving sound take a walk go outside and play with my kids or something like that that's basically it since you guys know that I'm always here in the garage always grinding away on content code product development all sorts of stuff. The best ways for me is take the car out take the race car out take a drive the best time is after the kids are down so that I can have free moments and the sound I've talked about the sound mastering I think one of my podcasts on on on discipline and pain. I talked a lot about the sound and how that is a is a going to the sun and burning everything with fire and and making sure it's like

me is take the car out take the race car out take a drive the best time is after the kids are down so that I can have free moments and the sound I've talked about the sound mastering I think one of my podcasts on on on discipline and pain. I talked a lot about the sound and how that is a is a going to the sun and burning everything with fire and and making sure it's like a resurrection moment coming out of the sound and feeling brand new like these are things that that keep me going keep me going obviously I have the opportunity which is great I have the opportunity all the time gunney to just walk outside. Grab some fresh air kind of reset. Mess around a little bit listen to some music write some ideas down on my notes and then get

back to work and so I think I one thing that I would look up is the I think it's the pretto the pretto time box thing where like you work for 40 minutes and then you take 20 minute rest work for 40 minutes take 20 minutes or it's time box time box your work time box your work is what I'm saying. The third question for today's video comes from Marty he says what's your podcasting rig look like if you guys want I also answered Marty in my other behind the seats scenes group my other community group in yin.io on podcasting I also answered the similar question but I'll answer the question now for the coin Lambo behind this in group and community here on yin. What's your podcasting rig look like Mike software publishing well Mike pretty simple guys I'm running a blue a Yeti

blue a Yeti blue Mike it's great it's plug and play you don't need a receiver it's usb just plug it in it works like I've gone through three of these I believe and they're just they just work exceptionally well software I use OBS I'm recording off of OBS right now you can check out OBS website for that it's free on Mac and it's free. On Windows it's great for podcasting and it's great for video obviously publishing I went hardcore I didn't go with any of the Mac software I went straight to Adobe and I use Adobe Premiere Pro CC which I believe is 45 bucks a month and it's totally worth it and the reason is is because you by by learning Adobe Adobe Premiere Pro CC you literally have access to the entire spectrum of movie making and podcasting now is podcasting is is

Adobe Premiere Pro CC for podcasting probably overkill probably probably but I'm telling you going going into Adobe Premiere Pro CC the website go to the tutorials if you're willing to spend the time going through them and doing the tutorials it will open up your mind to opportunities to create and that's what I that's what I love about Adobe Premiere there's just so much so many options to create full movies to create great podcasts great episodes great shows I mean they can teach you how to do all the animations all the transitions all the overlays and all that stuff I mean and you're paying I kind of like the fact that you have to pay so much you know 45 bucks a month or whatever it is because it it's like it's like fuck I'm paying 50 bucks a month for this thing I better freaking

create full movies to create great podcasts great episodes great shows I mean they can teach you how to do all the animations all the transitions all the overlays and all that stuff I mean and you're paying I kind of like the fact that you have to pay so much you know 45 bucks a month or whatever it is because it it's like it's like fuck I'm paying 50 bucks a month for this thing I better freaking learn how to use that better be able to learn how to use it to its max now there are other options out there for podcasting but Adobe Premiere Pro CC is what I use it's certainly not built for podcasting but if you're recording off of OBS you don't really need anything else you don't really need anything else I hope that was helpful morning and I hope that

was helpful everyone out there in the Bitcoin Lambo things I didn't learn in school behind the scenes community on yen.io make sure that you invite your friends to this cool community guys I'm really going to be spending a lot of time helping and giving back to this because I really believe that communities are where life change happens and not just a posting feed

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