Texting, I'm not going to do a whole big long section on texting. Look, I understand everybody uses texting, I use texting, a couple of rules for productive people, they've got a system for turning off the text when they're doing something important. Right now, I am making this video for you. So I've hit a button on my phone, excuse me on my watch that allows me to not see text. Normally I would see a text coming in on my watch. And on my phone, I hit a button that stops all that communication.

And that's what I think you need to do. For most of your day. You're doing something creative that requires your focus. You don't need to be getting text now. You're in a meeting. And it's important and it's with your boss you don't need to be getting other texts.

Of course there are always extenuating circumstances if you're waiting to hear about possible death of a relative on death's door, you want to be accessible, I understand that. You may have to be accessible to your most important client or to your boss. But you do not have to respond instantly to every single text what I see happen to so many people, smart people, well educated people, friends, colleagues is they're totally in a reactive mode. They're totally the slaves to their phone. somebody sends them a text, it could be spam advertisement, they still feel like they have to look, they still have to respond. They'd have to hit delete something.

It destroys your productivity it fries your brain, the worst of all his friends and hey, I have friends who text but you're not to respond to them that moment or during the work day or when you're in your most productive you can respond later. Not everything has to be instantaneous and to start typing A whole conversation back and forth and lose two hours in the middle of a productive day is the ultimate destroyer of productivity for many, many people. So a couple of things, try to figure out whether it's on your phone or watch something that will allow you to stop getting taxed at certain parts of the day. Number one, number two, something I've only started doing recently is I respond to text in an audio format, I can simply speak much faster than I can type with my thumbs. That makes me much faster, more productive.

You may be a faster typer than a talker. Do what works for you. The final big tip for texting is don't text in front of other people unless you want them to hate you. Sorry if this makes me sound old to those of you under 35. And you think it's perfectly normal to be having a conversation with your best friend, or with a family member or on a date and you're texting The whole time, maybe that works with your colleagues. But I can tell you, there's an awful lot of people in the world who still think that is profoundly, profoundly obnoxious and that you're showing utter contempt for their time and their attention.

So again, I get back to this whole multitasking concept. You can have a conversation with someone, you can listen to someone, or you can text you really cannot do both at the same time. I know you think you can. You can't. So do one thing at a time if you're texting, don't do anything else.