👋 Good day good friend
On this week’s version, you will discover the next:
• 💡 Focusmate: Digital co-working for Getting Issues Performed
• 🐝 Beeminder: An App that combines self-tracking and dedication contracts: didn’t obtain your objective? They take your cash.
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Take a look at my beeminder targets I observe each day. My title is bee_sum_sum.
• 🎧 Optimizing for psychological and bodily efficiency | Podcast Episode w/ Dr. Humberman and Tim Ferris
• ⛄ Final couple of days, I attempted out completely different lakes and rivers at ~ 5C°
Over the weekend, I acquired extra To-Do’s completed than within the earlier 6 months.
I might NOT say that I’m a devoted particular person with regards to administrative duties.
Like a fruit fly desirous to get exterior, bumping its head in opposition to the window many times, I had the identical method making an attempt to even begin with my 30 Gadgets To-Do Checklist.
My outdated method: I have to inform myself in regards to the latest productiveness instruments, apps, and different tips that Reddit shops.
In the event you do what you all the time do,
you get what you all the time get.
– Albert Einstein
💡 Focusmate: This web site matches you with one other one who desires to finish their most vital duties.
It creates this environment of a library, (you simply have and need to work), besides you don’t have to depart the room!
A Step-by-Step Information on use Focusmate
Step #1. Guide a session within the Calendar on the web site.
Select a 25-, 50-, or 75-minute session.

Reserving a session in Focusmate
#Step 2. You can be assigned an individual from the group to the scheduled time. Inform your “focusmate” what you’ll work on for this session.
#Step 3. Focus time. Mute your self and let the work start.
#Step 4. After the session ends, you possibly can mirror along with your buddy on how the session went.
I do know; I additionally thought: That’s it?
Easy, however so rattling efficient.
If you wish to go deeper into the leveraging science that will help you focus and get stuff completed, I’d recommend testing the web page the place they clarify issues like social strain, accountability, and the movement expertise.
🐝 Beeminder, for the analytical, graphs and statistics-loving tremendous nerds: You pledge cash. In the event you obtain your targets, you retain it. If not, you lose it.
There are 2 sorts of folks.
🥕 The one rabbit runs as a result of it desires to eat the carrot. (In the direction of-Targets, utilizing pleasure or reward)
OR/AND
☝ The opposite rabbit runs as a result of it fears the stick. (From-Targets, utilizing punishment)
Beeminder makes use of the second methodology: They’re punishing you with a stick when you don’t obtain what you will have dedicated to. (stick = taking your cash)
And it’s rattling efficient.
Let’s say you need to eat 3 parts of greens each day.
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Possibly you learn my newest article on Develop into Superhuman with the Gradual Carb Food regimen by Tim Ferris 😉
On the finish of the day, you enter when you managed to stay to your objective or not.
In the event you did, good for you.
If not, relying on how strictly you set it up, they cost $5 from you. The quantity get’s larger from not following by to not following by.
One integration permits you to join Beeminder to your smartwatch. Presently, I’m making an attempt to stroll 10.000 steps each day. The info from my good watch then syncs to Beeminder and presents the information in several graphs, in fact, utilizing punishment for this behavior too.
Dr. Andrew Huberman and Tim Ferris talk about the 5 fundamentals of psychological and bodily efficiency.
What caught to my thoughts probably the most:
“Sleep, vitamins, train, mild, relationships—these actually set up the muse of what I take into account to be the entire components that create our means to maneuver as seamlessly as attainable between the states that we occur to be in and the states we need to be in.”
— Dr. Andrew Huberman
“If we don’t really take the time to determine what’s occurring in our head, how can we actually belief that we’re on the perfect path?”
— Dr. Andrew Huberman

From @hubermanlab on Instagram
⛄ For the previous couple of weeks, I’ve been making an attempt out completely different lakes and rivers so long as they’re nonetheless chilly.
They have been between 5-10C°, so nonetheless in a tolerable vary.
Listed below are just a few images from final week.

Are you able to see my foot within the lake?
A tub just for me

Good climate for a swim
Have an excellent week!
xx Lukas
Observe: I’m not affiliated with both Beeminder or Focusmate; I need to share my expertise. That’s it 🙂
