Mark Simpson shares how he completes a full day's work in four hours. He discusses discipline, routines, and productivity strategies in a conversation with Lenka about managing your time efficiently.
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening and welcome. And I am not really here. I am currently in the uk. Fingers crossed. All things going well at the Book Direct show and the Short Stay Summit. Now I am pre recording a couple of these intros so there is something to go out on the daily podcast. Like I said in the whole of 2021, I want there to be a daily podcast going out to help you do the hosts get the tools, the tactics, the training and the confidence to get more buckets. Now I'm going to slightly flip it kinda because I was interviewed on a podcast recently by the Amazing Lenka. Now what I wanted to do was just to put that podcast on the Boosted podcast in its entirety, but it was over an hour long and I do like to keep these episodes kind of short. So what we're going to do is I've got a little segment of that podcast to show with you. Lenka has some amazing questions. I sort of documented the whole of Boostly.
So if you're been ever been interested who I am, how I got started.
Why I do this, and most importantly the tools that I use to run Boostly and recommend to others, then this will be a good one to check out. So without further ado, let me flip my camera. You're going to be listening or watching to the Amazing Lenka and we are delving into all about Boostly and who and how I got here. As always, thanks to the sponsors, I'll be back hopefully in a few days time from the UK where we'll be able to pick this up as per usual. But for now, thanks for watching, thanks for listening and here is the amazing linker.
Especially when you get started, it's like yeah, yeah, yeah, very woo very all those things. But again, it is very important to take stock because again, life as a business owner, as an entrepreneur, whatever you want to call it, is very much like a roller coaster. One minute, like amazing, all my properties are full. You know, I've just got a really big six grand booking what coming in. I've got all these properties about to come on board and then the next minute it's like, oh shit, I've got all these properties coming on board. My calendar is not looking the best. I literally haven't got a clue on X, Y and Z and it's like, it's up and down, really important. And I had that myself. I had a very like anxious moment just a couple of days ago, but I by taking a minute to, to jot down a gratitude, put a little plan together it does help definitely keep you grounded so you don't just literally go off the rails. So all that being said and all that I am doing, it just means that when I do come to work in those four hours, every single day is laid out. I know exactly what I'm doing on each day. And that means I can get what most can get done in an eight hour day. In four hours, I combine structure with discipline. So right now there is no notifications on my MacBook at all. I've got do not disturb mode on. It's on all the time. All notifications are turned off. So there's no little shiny object syndrome on my phone. Again, all notifications are turned off. The only notification is turned on is when my wife messages me. That is it.
That's the one you don't want to escape.
Everything is going on and things are happening, but I check it on my own time.
Yeah, that's good.
And I couple that with the pomodoro technique. So when I've got some deep work that I need to get done, whether it's writing the book or whether it is X, Y or Z, I set a timer for 25 minutes. So I do 25 minutes on and it's a five minute break. So I'll just go sit down, put a bit of fresh air outside or whatever it may be. And by doing that, I don't get, you know, exhausted or mental fatigue or anything. So it's a combination of those things. It really does help mean that you can just get a lot of work, a lot of work done.
Fantastic. It's all about exactly what you just said. It's listening to that. It just shows that how much discipline, routine and right to do list, it makes huge difference, doesn't it? Like to me, what I was learning about, for example, the power of to do list is that I've learned as well that do not leave your to do list, for example. And it works for me is for the morning. Like, I like going to sleep, I like going to sleep knowing you already have your to do list written down. Which means that when you go to bed, you don't need to think about, oh, I forgot that, or tomorrow, I need to do this, I need to do that. It's all written down. You're not going to forget that it's there. And then you wake up in the morning and you know what's waiting for you. You're not going to be like, oh, today, oh, where do I start? And the day starts like that. So how do you do this.
Sorry, sorry to interrupt. That's a very common theme with a lot of people that I admire and, and read and watch, et cetera. Noah Kagan is somebody who does exactly that. He's the founder of AppSumo, Kingsumo, all the Sumos. He's a very successful business owner based out of Texas. He does exactly that. I was so fortunate last year with the lockdown, he agreed to come on my podcast. He's somebody that I followed for so many years and he's a very, very successful business owner. But again, lockdown made it really easy to get hold of people who are otherwise unattainable. And he does that. And again, I totally agree with it. And I think to add transparency and to add a little bookmark in here, and this is very much going to be sitting on the fence, but it's whatever works best for you.
Absolutely.
And this is something that I've learned is that there is no quick fix. There is no roadmap to success. There is no do this, do that, do this. We can, I can you come with the podcast and talking to the host and I can, by talking to the host, show things that work and you know, I try and give tons of information and just hope that one thing sticks. Because for one person, it may be social media. For one person, they may prefer to do blogging. For one person, they may prefer to do vlogging, do videos. One person, they may prefer to do email marketing or work with influencers or X, Y and Z. But the trick is to do what? Do something. Be proactive.
Having a blast. Gonna get it on the Bruce Lee podcast. Bruce Lee, like Bruce Lee Cuz it's so hard and the tea is loose leaf Making up those rhymes. Don't write it, just do it loosely.
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