November 2, 2023 • 28 mins
Are you struggling to focus due to ADHD? In this video, we're here to help. We'll explore five crucial areas to improve your focus, even when dealing with a restless mind or ADHD. Let's dive right in.
🧠Learning to Focus when you have ADHD ðŸ§
Our ability to focus is essential for success, but it can be incredibly frustrating for those with ADHD. Here are some quick facts to set the stage:
- ADHD affects 6.1 million (about 8%) children in the US and about 4% in adults.
- Boys are three times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than girls.
- Adults with ADHD may struggle with substance abuse, anxiety disorders, and depression.
- In Kentucky, 14.8% of people have ADHD.
If you're dealing with severe ADHD, it's crucial to talk to a doctor or therapist.
Now, let's explore the 5 areas to boost your focus:
- Time & Task Management Supports
- Problem: Managing time, prioritizing tasks, and staying organized can be a challenge.
- Solution: Implement practical time management techniques like using timers and structured methods like the Pomodoro Technique.
- Studies show that creating daily or weekly to-do lists can enhance task completion and focus.
- Environment Optimization for Improved Concentration
- Problem: External distractions disrupt focus.
- Solution: Create a clutter-free, organized workspace. Research supports that an organized environment positively impacts concentration.
- For noise sensitivity, use noise-canceling headphones or calming background sounds. Studies have shown their effectiveness in reducing distraction.
- Mindfulness and Self-Regulation Practices
- Problem: Impulsivity and lack of mindfulness hinder focus.
- Solution: Regularly practice mindfulness techniques and meditation to enhance attention and impulse control.
- Research has shown that mindfulness interventions can improve attention and self-regulation in individuals with ADHD.
- Incorporating Physical Activity
- Problem: Restlessness and hyperactivity disrupt focus.
- Solution: Engage in regular physical activity to reduce restlessness and enhance focus.
- Studies suggest that exercise releases neurotransmitters that support attention and mood regulation.
- Nutritional Considerations
- Problem: Dietary choices influence energy levels and attention span.
- Solution: Maintain a well-balanced diet, including foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids and essential nutrients for brain health.
- Research indicates that a balanced diet can positively influence attention and cognitive function.
If you're seeking ways to improve your focus despite ADHD, these strategies can be incredibly beneficial. Remember, you're not alone, and there are practical steps you can take to enhance your focus and productivity. Watch the full video to dive deeper into each of these areas and get on the path to improved focus.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
What you got.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
I think our ability to focus.
Focus is a skill it's a muscle.
It can be one of the greatestcontributors to our success.
But trying to focus when youhave a restless mind, which many
of us have, some of us havewhat's called ADHD, so it can be
as extreme as squirrel all dayand it can be as less extreme as
(00:27):
just having a hard timefocusing.
But that can be extremelyfrustrating when you sit down to
read a book and you're likethree pages in and you don't
even know the book.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
No, I have no idea what you're reading.
Yeah, you're like thinkingabout random things.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, that can be frustrating.
Sounds frustrating, yeah.
So today we're talking abouthow to focus, whether you have a
restless mind or all the way todiagnosed ADHD.
Some good old tips or tricks toincrease focus.
Nice bro, let's do it One, two,one.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'm Jonathan Nawal and I'm Brian Nawal.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
This is the focus cast where we help you remove
distractions, increase focus soyou can live a life with
intentions.
So, bro, we're talking aboutfive areas to help you increase
focus when you're strugglingwith the restless mind, and I
think you should hit us withsome quick facts.
Quick facts ADHD, some did, youknows.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
ADHD Attention hyper.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Attention deficit, hyper deficiency, something like
that we should probably knowthat Just don't define it bro.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, you're right.
Adhd affects 6.1 million about8% children in the US.
Wow, I fucked that up.
Alright, just go ahead and clap.
Alright, we'll sit.
Some ADHD Quick facts.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yes, right, some did, you knows.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
ADHD affects around one of our on 6.1 million
children in the US.
That's around 8% and around 4%of adults in the US.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I wonder how many just struggle with restless mind
.
This is just time to do a pulsecheck.
Do you have a restless mindsometimes?
Ask yourself that in the car.
The second quick fact is boysare three times more likely to
be diagnosed with ADHD thangirls.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Being diagnosed and actually having it, though.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, there's a lot of controversy around that, so
today we'll just talk about Doyou struggle with focus or not?
And boys have a three timesincreased likelihood that they
struggle with focus over girls.
I.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Think that One of the problems could be what are they
being told to focus on?
But true, that's a whole notherthing.
Yeah we're not here.
This podcast is not for eightyear olds.
Yeah, that's, true so you know,adults with ADHD are more
likely to struggle withSubstance abuse and have higher
risks of developing anxietydisorders and depression.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, this is crazy, totally out of nowhere stat, but
I thought it was prettyinteresting.
Out of the states, kentucky isthe highest state with Diagnosed
ADHD, at fourteen point eightpercent of people.
Why, what the hell's?
Going on in Kentucky I don'tknow, I, I, I saw that and I was
just like, well, that'sinteresting, old Kentucky, oh,
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okay, the land of ADHD.
14%, that's wild.
The average is four percent.
Kentucky is 14, point.
I couldn't help but immediatelythink about what different
Chemical plants are in Kentucky.
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Like I couldn't help in the water.
Yeah or like what's in theschool cafeteria.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, I couldn't help but think about the food.
So, anyway, anyway, interesting.
If you have severe ADHD, thisis like you literally can't
function, like you forget tofeed your kids.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Is that?
That sounds like a Neglect?
No, what's it called?
Where you forget everything?
Insomnia no, it's when youcan't sleep.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh, I don't know, hmm , whatever, yeah, yeah.
So if you have that, like, gotalk to professional help.
This podcast is this is just.
This is restless mind.
You're really trying toincrease your focus, but you
struggle with trailing off,thinking about random, stupid
shit that you and you're reallytrying To just increase the
ability to focus.
Yeah, we're gonna talk abouttips and tricks, tips and tricks
(04:57):
, tips, facts there.
So if it's severe, just justpause this and tell us to fuck
off.
Call some help.
Call person help.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So what's first, bro?
How do we start this?
Okay, keep getting distracted,that's right.
How about a little time andtask managing support?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, you know, we just talked about reducing
procrastination, we talked aboutjournaling, so today I thought
we would round it out with thisgroup of episodes and talk about
Really combating this restlessmind.
So time and task managementsupports.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Right, because if you do struggle, yeah, in this area
it may be challenging to manageyour time and for our dice test
that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So here's a very practical solutions, and this is
like I love this batch becauseit is very practical.
So first, use timers.
It's funny we don't think aboutthis as adults.
No, like I've used timers forkids, my kids, yeah, you know.
Do this for 20 minutes and thenthis will happen.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And when you're, when you're a kid, like trying to
brush your teeth like twominutes.
Oh, see my ABCs.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, you know all that kind of stuff, but using
timers, time perceptiondifficulties contribute to poor
task management.
So if you struggle with resttight, like like severe
restlessness, adhd, what happensis your time perception gets a
little out of whack.
Right, interesting, you can justsit there and trail off for
like an hour and a half, youknow.
Just imagine, like you know,when you get on Instagram and
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then two hours goes by.
Yeah, so using a timer justhelps the brain orient towards
45 minutes, you know, and and ithelps you, you know, accomplish
those tasks within thosecertain time periods.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
What's the?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
next one.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Task organization tools yes.
Create daily or weekly to-dolist to set priorities and
maintain organization.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Mmm.
So just some good old-fashionedtime blocking, some good
old-fashioned writing your goalsout.
Man, we're mentioning these alot.
They must be very helpful.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I hope so.
Let me tell you, trying toremember it all and just do it
off the top of your head, like Idid for most of my life, yeah,
not as easy.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, I've, it's in our marriage.
This has helped a lot of justneedless Arguments in my
marriage.
If my wife Ask me something, orabout my schedule or anything,
I say I hear you, but unless mycalendar's out and I don't write
it down, I will not remember.
(07:36):
Yeah, and after a long time ofjust being Just saying that, now
she just looks at your calendar.
Now we have calendar time once aweek and my wife and I sit down
and we look at our calendarsand we write down everything
that is on our calendars Wow,where we need each other and we
do a calendar sink every singleweek.
(07:57):
Look at that and you know howmany times we've argued about I
thought you were gonna pick upthe kids, yada, yada in the last
two years.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Fucking zero, zero, zero son.
So that's results.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
That's results.
Ask yourself in your marriagethe last time Y'all had a little
Tiffed, a little tiffed becausethere was an expectation around
doing something that you forgotor they forgot.
Zero in our marriage.
Look at you, bro, zero bad in athousand.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That's amazing yeah but it's effective and you're
actually using it, so you knowit's effective.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, we're not just saying it exactly.
So good old, good oldorganization tools and work
together right with your friends, with your, with your peers,
with your spouses yeah ones.
So some studies around thestuff.
So research around using timeor structure time management,
such as the Pomodora technique,can enhance productivity.
That's Creswell 2013.
(08:58):
And then Task lists areeffective, enhancing task
completion and focus.
That's garden 2018.
So they've obviously done a tonof research about task
management and time managementlike that We've been.
We've been studying this stufffor a year.
So these are.
These are tried and trueresearch based.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, what's next, bro?
What are what's?
What's the next thing we can doto help with restless mind?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Let's use our environment to optimize and
improve concentration.
I love this one.
What's the problem?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
External distractions can significantly disrupt focus
and attention for individualsif you're it, you know the open
con, open office concept.
Yeah we went from cubicles andoffices to Just wide open spaces
.
Spaces, pros and cons.
The con of the open workspaceis just constant distractions.
(09:59):
Yeah, I was in a meeting theother day as a consultant and it
was an office that had it was acorridor with two open doors,
ah, and there was six people inthe meeting and every time
someone walked by, all sixpeople that I was looking at
would just stare at them Likewhat the fuck you doing?
(10:23):
And it was funny because, likeit would, I'm, I'm dialed in.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, I can focus yeah, I've been working on it
for a while.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
So if I'm in a meeting, I don't care what's
going on around me.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
We will accomplish what's the goal in this fucking
meeting in your laser.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, so I can go to the next thing.
Yeah, I hate meetings.
Yeah, who doesn't?
Right, if it's inefficient?
And I promise you it washilarious.
Every time someone walked by,everyone's just looking up I
wonder what they're doing, and Isaid something.
I was just like y'all, weshouldn't meet in here anymore
because y'all can't, y'all can'tliterally ignore Every single
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person that walks by.
You look up.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It was hilarious, yeah, and they don't even
realize they're doing it.
No, just completely unconscious.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Reaction why is that person walking down a hallway?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, someone who works in the building.
Why is so many works in thisbuilding, walking down the
building?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I could understand if I turn around.
A damn Sasquatch was there.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, some guy in a clown outfit.
No, it's no way his birthday,anyway, all right.
So yeah, environment,environment.
Yeah, establish a clutter free,organized workspace.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
This can help your environment, you know we talked
about this a long time ago, Ithink this was in around episode
20s.
Yeah, for sure, we talked aboutthe clutter.
The clutter if you have shitall over your desk, mm-hmm, yep,
and every square inch you turnthere's just some stack of stuff
that you haven't gotten to youyet.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
That sounds like hell to me.
There's that toll bill fromthat trip you took three months
ago.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
That's now 3000% higher because the government
wants to.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Turns out if you drive to New York City.
And you go through all the theyou know, the Delaware and the
New Jersey and all the turnpikesand all that shit and you pay
all the administration fees.
It's around.
I think it was like $250 justto drive through, just to drive
to New York City.
Someone's getting rich.
(12:22):
Those are the dope.
Those are the situations wherepeople should show up at the
mansions and just start burningthe fuckers down.
Yeah, just my personal opinion.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Anyway.
So we're moving distractions.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Oh wait, did I get distracted?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
The other one of this is when you see someone's
desktop, yeah, and there's likea thousand files on it.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I have a few.
I have one folder called active, and within that folder are the
three to five projects that I'mcurrently working on and the
files Associated with thoseprojects are in my one active
folder.
That's on my desktop, and theonly time Anything else is on my
desktop is when I'm activelyprinting it, sending it to
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someone or yeah, using it forusing it for that specific task
in that moment in that momentand when I'm done with that file
, in that moment, move to trash,it moves to trash.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You're better at that than me.
I still got a couple songshanging out on my desktop, you
know.
Move them to the trash.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Oh my gosh.
So the second problem in anenvironment is noise.
Sensitivity is common amongindividuals who struggle with
the restless mind and ADHD.
You know what I?
I?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
listen to all the notification sounds and the
Ringtones on Apple and I noticedthey all have very high-pitched
frequencies.
Yeah, and they're not stupid.
Let's bro, a billion dollarcompany like this, yeah, you
know.
So I wonder if they've dialedin the frequency ranges that
really obviously grab yourattention the most.
(13:58):
Yeah and the answer is duh.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, this, of course .
They already thought about this, probably 35 years ago.
Yeah, so If you're reallysensitive to noises, you got to
turn those notifications off.
Gotta turn it all off.
Yeah, turn all that shit off.
Put on headphones and justlisten to the binaural beats.
Yeah, if you go on YouTube andGo to the binaural beats, you
look at the comments, there's alot of people who say, literally
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I have, you know, maybe sensoryoverload or sensory disorders,
or I have this and this and this, and they're they love that
shit.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I helps them focus a hundred percent and I love it
too.
Yeah, it works so good.
Oh yeah, I can't listen tomusic with singing, no, I can't
listen to music with melody, butlistening to my just that, that
like the frequencies.
Yeah, not bad for a stop thatit does it's magic.
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It really is so.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, the gamma waves .
Yeah, could you eat some theta,alpha, beta gamma?
That's right, slamma.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Slamma those tasks.
You're listening beta waves,slamma waves.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, exactly, so you know there are things you can
do.
Yeah, turn the phone off, atleast the notifications off so
third of our five Mindfulnessand self regulation practices
man sounds familiar, I like itsays self regulation.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
It's a unique word.
So what's the problem here, bro?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Impulsivity and lack of mindfulness can hinder focus
and attention control.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Psych.
Your phone goes off being.
Yeah you're reading the textand then all of a sudden you
start checking email.
All of a sudden you're readingabout some special offer from
some company that you don't givea shit about 15% off.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, let me go check and see if they have that thing
.
I want.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Wow man, I'm almost out of toothpaste.
Let me see if I can get some oftheir toothpaste.
You know, all of a suddenyou're buying fucking toothpaste
.
Yeah all because of onenotification, all because I want
text message.
Yeah, so anyway, it justhappens.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah.
If you're not laser focuseddialed in well in this
self-regulation, likeUnderstanding how to regulate
your impulse control.
This is, you know, we'rerounding out a hundred episodes
and the last few episodes we'regonna talk about some of our
goals.
Yeah and what we want toaccomplish.
Yeah, and one of them we'regonna talk about specifically
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our goals for 2024 and and thisimpulse control right, like I
want to snack, yeah, go get abag of chips, and All that kind
of stuff sounds pretty good, Iknow.
But, um, but theself-regulation.
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Sometimes you just have toliterally put on the noise
cancellation headphones.
Sometimes you literally have tomake it to where you cannot
easily access.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Right, it's way access these things.
It's way easier to put thephone in the other room.
Then they just sit there listento it go.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah and not answer yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, I mean, what the fuck?
Yeah how it's just.
Sometimes you just have toisolate yourself.
Yeah it's way easier puttingput the snacks away.
Yeah, how am I gonna sit thereand stare at a bag of chips on a
desk and not eat them?
I'm possible, impossible,impossible, absolutely, and I
care about those things, I'mstill gonna do it you damn right
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.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I think there's a way I don't know how to do it.
I wish there was.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I don't even like Twinkies.
Sorry to cut you off.
You don't like, oh yeah,Twinkies.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I don't even care about Twinkies, but if you sat
one in front of my desk, it'sgone.
I Would.
I would do pretty good for awhile, but I'd eventually reach
the point where I'm like I haveto eat this fucking thing.
So now we're gonna say I wishthe iPhone.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Maybe you know how to do this or someone knows how to
do this, but I wish I could setit to where I can determine
what, what contacts Make myphone ring, because I keep my
phone on silent, but my wife isthe only person who has access
to me a hundred percent of thetime no one else does and I
don't.
I don't keep my phone.
I keep my phone on silent allday.
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Yeah, the only time that I keepit off silent and then I check
it periodically, mm-hmm.
The only time I keep it offsilent if, like you know,
there's something going on or,like you know, whatever right,
yeah, I was traveling orsomething.
Yeah, and, but I wish there wasa way, because like everyone's
on silent.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
But you know, my wife , yeah, I don't know.
It's got to be possible, got tobe.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
All right, what's next, bro?
What's four?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
out of five Incorporating physical activity.
This is so big yeah, this ishuge.
Physical restlessness andhyperactivity are common ADHD
symptoms and that disrupt focus.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, so physical restlessness and hyperactivity,
what I say, that, oh, but that'slike like when you just feel
like antsy.
Yes, it's hard to focus.
Yeah, oh yeah and that'susually, if you like.
When you never exercise, youjust feel like shit all the time
.
But when you start exercisingand then you go like three or
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four days without exercise andthat's when you really feel it
Awful and you're like I got tomove.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, I'm dying.
Move.
It literally feels like you'redying.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, you just you just feel like you just want to
do us restlessness Yep, justjust tenseness.
Yep, you just got a stretch.
You got to run, move, punch, dosomersaults, car wheels, hell
yeah, flip shit over, breakstuff.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, smash things, smash it, destruction.
No, exercise, no, it'sabsolutely true.
Yeah, when I, it's about twodays, three days maybe.
Yeah, if I'm not exercising atall, yeah, I feel awful.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, and I can't focus.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, I've literally can't do shit.
It almost is like debilitating.
Yeah, I Don't know that mightbe an extreme word, but not
really.
Yeah, because you go fromfeeling great to just worthless.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, you know what I've.
You know what I think is true.
What's that?
This phrase?
I've never heard this before.
I just made this up.
Okay, you ready?
Yeah, physical activity is thelube for the brain to run smooth
oh Gotta, grease them wheelsright.
And it's based on everythingwe've read over the past hundred
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episodes.
It is true exercise it helpsthe brain function better.
It helps the neurotransmitterstransmit better, right?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You've got the metabolic waste in your body.
Yep, your lymphatic system doesnot have a pump.
Yeah, so you got to move toreduce the metabolic waste.
Yeah and then it also releasesthe endorphins and yada, yada,
yada.
You less stress, whatever yeah.
It is what it is, but it helpsyou focus.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yep Lube that brain up exercise.
Last but not least, of course,as always, mentioned again
nutritional considerations.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
So yeah, this is true .
Okay, speaking from experienceagain, as we try to do yeah,
there was one Holiday season.
You know I'm an adult.
At this point I'm eating absurdamount of cookies.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, it's Christmas.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, you know, I think mom gave me a bag and I'm,
so I'm eating, fucking, youknow whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Cookies.
All our mom gave you a bag ofcrack bag of crack.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
So I Felt like shit.
Yeah it's just too much sugar,yeah, and I couldn't focus.
I got so like foggy and I thinkit's from the sugar feeding the
bacteria and your gut orwhatever the wrong.
Not necessarily wrong, but itwas an imbalance.
All right.
All right, your body's you'rejust not meant to eat an absurd
amount of white sugar.
No, it's just plain and simple.
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Yeah, and maybe it affects memore than others.
Maybe I'm sensitive, oh, maybe.
Whatever the point is, itdoesn't matter.
I felt like shit and I couldnot focus.
I feel like I could barely workout any kind of mental problem
in my head.
Yeah, it was like walkingthrough Literally a haze.
I'm not even kidding.
Yeah so, yes, you have toconsider your nutritional
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environment.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah Well, I'm gonna refer to the book again because
it's so fresh, but hacking theAmerican mind.
What they say?
Sugar is a toxic chemical, soimagine that it provides no
nutritional value.
Yeah we can survive without it.
(22:58):
I'm not talking about naturalsugars and fruit, right, talking
about man-made process sugars.
Yeah, because when they run andI'm saying this wrong because I
just heard it the other day butwhen they, when they go through
the processing of the sugar,they actually unbind All of the
nutritional value, and sotherefore there's zero
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nutritional value and and it'snot like it's definitely not
healthy for us.
Our brain freaks out, bodyfreaks out over it.
Mm-hmm and, but for some reasonit has Not been classified like
that of caffeine and alcohol.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Imagine that it's almost like someone's making a
lot of money off of it.
Yeah.
So less sugar more focus, right, and that's not just sugar.
You know if I'm eating times inmy life where I was a stoner.
Yeah, you know, and you eatTaco Bell.
Whatever I'm trying to rip onTaco Bell, but yeah, two in the
morning, you know you're doingthings like that.
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Yeah you're IndiscriminatelyEating trash whenever you want.
Yeah, it will affect yourmental clarity.
Yeah, just plain.
And simple.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
There's a few times I've done seven to ten day fast
Mm-hmm, not a lot, but a fewtimes where I've made it pretty
much through the whole thing andI would do a water fast and
then a juice fast.
So just fresh raw juices andday four and five, the clarity,
the fog just lifts.
(24:36):
It's insane, yeah, radicaldifference.
And also, our bodies justrequires energy to even process
food and if you think about it,we're just constantly processing
food.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
That's why eating all the time is not Giving you
energy.
Yeah, yeah, it's like that'swhat's to eat all the time.
Yeah, that's why I alwayswondered why the the snacking
thing.
That just felt like bullshit tome.
Yeah you know, some people havelike all.
Instead of three big meals, I'mgonna eat seven tiny meals.
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Yeah, your body's alwaysdigesting food.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I think that's fine if you're like out in the
wilderness and you eat like fourblackberries.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, but that's probably different than like,
different than like, fourParty-sized bags of LMS.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, yeah so yeah absolutely, so that makes sense.
So, yeah, I mean these are verypractical.
But if you have extremerestless mind or if you've even
been diagnosed with ADHD, reallyfocus on those time and task
management Skills and supports.
I like the timer you know theyhave those for like the super
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creative things where you canset like apps on your Chrome
extensions to where it's like,after 45 minutes literally your
computer just goes to black andyou can't do anything on it for
five minutes.
So they have a lot of guides outthere, a lot of things you can
do if you need help you.
There's some things out therethat will force Force the help
(26:06):
on you.
Yeah, force the help on youreally consider that environment
.
You know what environment areyou in.
Is it distracting you?
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I, I know we went from, you know, work at the
office and then work from home.
And then COVID hit and everyoneworked from home and now
everyone's like everyone's gotto come back to the office.
I like a hybrid approach.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I like a couple days in the office, a couple days at
home, because at home you'regonna get a lot of those just
grind tasks done, mm-hmm, nodistractions, unless your home
is a distracting environment.
But you know what I mean.
Being in a very Siloed, nondistracting environment for a
couple days a week is nice toget those tasks done, and then
being around people, because theenergy of people, the you know,
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collaboration, like I said,what I have, of course, but be
very, very conscious of yourenvironment.
And then that mindfulness andself-regulation, man, and then
physical activity and nutrition,talk about it every freaking,
freaking episode but yeah, Imean think about there's a lot
of office situations wherethey're not.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
that's all backwards, it's all about you've got the
snacks, the sugar on the desk.
You're not exercising andeveryone's distracting you and
your phones going off.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
getting done.
Yeah, it's a very expensiveeight hours to do 40 minutes
worth of work.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, and everyone's stressed out because they don't
have enough time and people arehaving to get to the office.
You know, your office is notefficient when people have to
get there earlier or leave lateto get stuff done.
Yeah, I Think I want to do that.
I Think that's a service I wantto provide as a consultant the
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office audit.
Yeah, the energy management andefficiency Office environment.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I'm trying to think of a clever name for your
business that sounds really fun.
It does sound fun.
Maybe a branch of yourconsulting.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I could have every manager Write down every time
they're distracted in the day.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
They would spend the whole day writing down what
they're getting distracted.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You know, every Asshole dickhead manager would
write I'm distracted, writingdown why I'm distracted.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Definitely someone would be writing that yeah,
sweet bro.
That's it, man.
I think we're done here.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Let's get out of here .
You know what?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
What you got.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
I think our ability to focus.
Focus is a skill it's a muscle.
It can be one of the greatestcontributors to our success.
But trying to focus when youhave a restless mind, which many
of us have, some of us havewhat's called ADHD, so it can be
as extreme as squirrel all dayand it can be as less extreme as
(00:27):
just having a hard timefocusing.
But that can be extremelyfrustrating when you sit down to
read a book and you're likethree pages in and you don't
even know the book.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
No, I have no idea what you're reading.
Yeah, you're like thinkingabout random things.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Yeah, that can be frustrating.
Sounds frustrating, yeah.
So today we're talking abouthow to focus, whether you have a
restless mind or all the way todiagnosed ADHD.
Some good old tips or tricks toincrease focus.
Nice bro, let's do it One, two,one.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'm Jonathan Nawal and I'm Brian Nawal.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
This is the focus cast where we help you remove
distractions, increase focus soyou can live a life with
intentions.
So, bro, we're talking aboutfive areas to help you increase
focus when you're strugglingwith the restless mind, and I
think you should hit us withsome quick facts.
Quick facts ADHD, some did, youknows.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
ADHD Attention hyper.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Attention deficit, hyper deficiency, something like
that we should probably knowthat Just don't define it bro.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, you're right.
Adhd affects 6.1 million about8% children in the US.
Wow, I fucked that up.
Alright, just go ahead and clap.
Alright, we'll sit.
Some ADHD Quick facts.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yes, right, some did, you knows.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
ADHD affects around one of our on 6.1 million
children in the US.
That's around 8% and around 4%of adults in the US.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I wonder how many just struggle with restless mind
.
This is just time to do a pulsecheck.
Do you have a restless mindsometimes?
Ask yourself that in the car.
The second quick fact is boysare three times more likely to
be diagnosed with ADHD thangirls.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Being diagnosed and actually having it, though.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, there's a lot of controversy around that, so
today we'll just talk about Doyou struggle with focus or not?
And boys have a three timesincreased likelihood that they
struggle with focus over girls.
I.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Think that One of the problems could be what are they
being told to focus on?
But true, that's a whole notherthing.
Yeah we're not here.
This podcast is not for eightyear olds.
Yeah, that's, true so you know,adults with ADHD are more
likely to struggle withSubstance abuse and have higher
risks of developing anxietydisorders and depression.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Yeah, this is crazy, totally out of nowhere stat, but
I thought it was prettyinteresting.
Out of the states, kentucky isthe highest state with Diagnosed
ADHD, at fourteen point eightpercent of people.
Why, what the hell's?
Going on in Kentucky I don'tknow, I, I, I saw that and I was
just like, well, that'sinteresting, old Kentucky, oh,
(03:51):
okay, the land of ADHD.
14%, that's wild.
The average is four percent.
Kentucky is 14, point.
I couldn't help but immediatelythink about what different
Chemical plants are in Kentucky.
That's exactly right.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Like I couldn't help in the water.
Yeah or like what's in theschool cafeteria.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Yeah, I couldn't help but think about the food.
So, anyway, anyway, interesting.
If you have severe ADHD, thisis like you literally can't
function, like you forget tofeed your kids.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Is that?
That sounds like a Neglect?
No, what's it called?
Where you forget everything?
Insomnia no, it's when youcan't sleep.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Oh, I don't know, hmm , whatever, yeah, yeah.
So if you have that, like, gotalk to professional help.
This podcast is this is just.
This is restless mind.
You're really trying toincrease your focus, but you
struggle with trailing off,thinking about random, stupid
shit that you and you're reallytrying To just increase the
ability to focus.
Yeah, we're gonna talk abouttips and tricks, tips and tricks
(04:57):
, tips, facts there.
So if it's severe, just justpause this and tell us to fuck
off.
Call some help.
Call person help.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So what's first, bro?
How do we start this?
Okay, keep getting distracted,that's right.
How about a little time andtask managing support?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah, you know, we just talked about reducing
procrastination, we talked aboutjournaling, so today I thought
we would round it out with thisgroup of episodes and talk about
Really combating this restlessmind.
So time and task managementsupports.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Right, because if you do struggle, yeah, in this area
it may be challenging to manageyour time and for our dice test
that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
So here's a very practical solutions, and this is
like I love this batch becauseit is very practical.
So first, use timers.
It's funny we don't think aboutthis as adults.
No, like I've used timers forkids, my kids, yeah, you know.
Do this for 20 minutes and thenthis will happen.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And when you're, when you're a kid, like trying to
brush your teeth like twominutes.
Oh, see my ABCs.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yeah, you know all that kind of stuff, but using
timers, time perceptiondifficulties contribute to poor
task management.
So if you struggle with resttight, like like severe
restlessness, adhd, what happensis your time perception gets a
little out of whack.
Right, interesting, you can justsit there and trail off for
like an hour and a half, youknow.
Just imagine, like you know,when you get on Instagram and
(06:28):
then two hours goes by.
Yeah, so using a timer justhelps the brain orient towards
45 minutes, you know, and and ithelps you, you know, accomplish
those tasks within thosecertain time periods.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
What's the?
Speaker 1 (06:45):
next one.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Task organization tools yes.
Create daily or weekly to-dolist to set priorities and
maintain organization.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Mmm.
So just some good old-fashionedtime blocking, some good
old-fashioned writing your goalsout.
Man, we're mentioning these alot.
They must be very helpful.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
I hope so.
Let me tell you, trying toremember it all and just do it
off the top of your head, like Idid for most of my life, yeah,
not as easy.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Yeah, I've, it's in our marriage.
This has helped a lot of justneedless Arguments in my
marriage.
If my wife Ask me something, orabout my schedule or anything,
I say I hear you, but unless mycalendar's out and I don't write
it down, I will not remember.
(07:36):
Yeah, and after a long time ofjust being Just saying that, now
she just looks at your calendar.
Now we have calendar time once aweek and my wife and I sit down
and we look at our calendarsand we write down everything
that is on our calendars Wow,where we need each other and we
do a calendar sink every singleweek.
(07:57):
Look at that and you know howmany times we've argued about I
thought you were gonna pick upthe kids, yada, yada in the last
two years.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Fucking zero, zero, zero son.
So that's results.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
That's results.
Ask yourself in your marriagethe last time Y'all had a little
Tiffed, a little tiffed becausethere was an expectation around
doing something that you forgotor they forgot.
Zero in our marriage.
Look at you, bro, zero bad in athousand.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
That's amazing yeah but it's effective and you're
actually using it, so you knowit's effective.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Yeah, we're not just saying it exactly.
So good old, good oldorganization tools and work
together right with your friends, with your, with your peers,
with your spouses yeah ones.
So some studies around thestuff.
So research around using timeor structure time management,
such as the Pomodora technique,can enhance productivity.
That's Creswell 2013.
(08:58):
And then Task lists areeffective, enhancing task
completion and focus.
That's garden 2018.
So they've obviously done a tonof research about task
management and time managementlike that We've been.
We've been studying this stufffor a year.
So these are.
These are tried and trueresearch based.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, what's next, bro?
What are what's?
What's the next thing we can doto help with restless mind?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Let's use our environment to optimize and
improve concentration.
I love this one.
What's the problem?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
External distractions can significantly disrupt focus
and attention for individualsif you're it, you know the open
con, open office concept.
Yeah we went from cubicles andoffices to Just wide open spaces
.
Spaces, pros and cons.
The con of the open workspaceis just constant distractions.
(09:59):
Yeah, I was in a meeting theother day as a consultant and it
was an office that had it was acorridor with two open doors,
ah, and there was six people inthe meeting and every time
someone walked by, all sixpeople that I was looking at
would just stare at them Likewhat the fuck you doing?
(10:23):
And it was funny because, likeit would, I'm, I'm dialed in.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Yeah, I can focus yeah, I've been working on it
for a while.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
So if I'm in a meeting, I don't care what's
going on around me.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
We will accomplish what's the goal in this fucking
meeting in your laser.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Yeah, so I can go to the next thing.
Yeah, I hate meetings.
Yeah, who doesn't?
Right, if it's inefficient?
And I promise you it washilarious.
Every time someone walked by,everyone's just looking up I
wonder what they're doing, and Isaid something.
I was just like y'all, weshouldn't meet in here anymore
because y'all can't, y'all can'tliterally ignore Every single
(11:00):
person that walks by.
You look up.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
It was hilarious, yeah, and they don't even
realize they're doing it.
No, just completely unconscious.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Reaction why is that person walking down a hallway?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, someone who works in the building.
Why is so many works in thisbuilding, walking down the
building?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
I could understand if I turn around.
A damn Sasquatch was there.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Yeah, some guy in a clown outfit.
No, it's no way his birthday,anyway, all right.
So yeah, environment,environment.
Yeah, establish a clutter free,organized workspace.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
This can help your environment, you know we talked
about this a long time ago, Ithink this was in around episode
20s.
Yeah, for sure, we talked aboutthe clutter.
The clutter if you have shitall over your desk, mm-hmm, yep,
and every square inch you turnthere's just some stack of stuff
that you haven't gotten to youyet.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
That sounds like hell to me.
There's that toll bill fromthat trip you took three months
ago.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
That's now 3000% higher because the government
wants to.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Turns out if you drive to New York City.
And you go through all the theyou know, the Delaware and the
New Jersey and all the turnpikesand all that shit and you pay
all the administration fees.
It's around.
I think it was like $250 justto drive through, just to drive
to New York City.
Someone's getting rich.
(12:22):
Those are the dope.
Those are the situations wherepeople should show up at the
mansions and just start burningthe fuckers down.
Yeah, just my personal opinion.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Anyway.
So we're moving distractions.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Oh wait, did I get distracted?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
The other one of this is when you see someone's
desktop, yeah, and there's likea thousand files on it.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I have a few.
I have one folder called active, and within that folder are the
three to five projects that I'mcurrently working on and the
files Associated with thoseprojects are in my one active
folder.
That's on my desktop, and theonly time Anything else is on my
desktop is when I'm activelyprinting it, sending it to
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someone or yeah, using it forusing it for that specific task
in that moment in that momentand when I'm done with that file
, in that moment, move to trash,it moves to trash.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You're better at that than me.
I still got a couple songshanging out on my desktop, you
know.
Move them to the trash.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Oh my gosh.
So the second problem in anenvironment is noise.
Sensitivity is common amongindividuals who struggle with
the restless mind and ADHD.
You know what I?
I?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
listen to all the notification sounds and the
Ringtones on Apple and I noticedthey all have very high-pitched
frequencies.
Yeah, and they're not stupid.
Let's bro, a billion dollarcompany like this, yeah, you
know.
So I wonder if they've dialedin the frequency ranges that
really obviously grab yourattention the most.
(13:58):
Yeah and the answer is duh.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, this, of course .
They already thought about this, probably 35 years ago.
Yeah, so If you're reallysensitive to noises, you got to
turn those notifications off.
Gotta turn it all off.
Yeah, turn all that shit off.
Put on headphones and justlisten to the binaural beats.
Yeah, if you go on YouTube andGo to the binaural beats, you
look at the comments, there's alot of people who say, literally
(14:26):
I have, you know, maybe sensoryoverload or sensory disorders,
or I have this and this and this, and they're they love that
shit.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
I helps them focus a hundred percent and I love it
too.
Yeah, it works so good.
Oh yeah, I can't listen tomusic with singing, no, I can't
listen to music with melody, butlistening to my just that, that
like the frequencies.
Yeah, not bad for a stop thatit does it's magic.
(14:55):
It really is so.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, the gamma waves .
Yeah, could you eat some theta,alpha, beta gamma?
That's right, slamma.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Slamma those tasks.
You're listening beta waves,slamma waves.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Yeah, exactly, so you know there are things you can
do.
Yeah, turn the phone off, atleast the notifications off so
third of our five Mindfulnessand self regulation practices
man sounds familiar, I like itsays self regulation.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
It's a unique word.
So what's the problem here, bro?
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Impulsivity and lack of mindfulness can hinder focus
and attention control.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Psych.
Your phone goes off being.
Yeah you're reading the textand then all of a sudden you
start checking email.
All of a sudden you're readingabout some special offer from
some company that you don't givea shit about 15% off.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yeah, let me go check and see if they have that thing
.
I want.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Wow man, I'm almost out of toothpaste.
Let me see if I can get some oftheir toothpaste.
You know, all of a suddenyou're buying fucking toothpaste
.
Yeah all because of onenotification, all because I want
text message.
Yeah, so anyway, it justhappens.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Yeah.
If you're not laser focuseddialed in well in this
self-regulation, likeUnderstanding how to regulate
your impulse control.
This is, you know, we'rerounding out a hundred episodes
and the last few episodes we'regonna talk about some of our
goals.
Yeah and what we want toaccomplish.
Yeah, and one of them we'regonna talk about specifically
(16:39):
our goals for 2024 and and thisimpulse control right, like I
want to snack, yeah, go get abag of chips, and All that kind
of stuff sounds pretty good, Iknow.
But, um, but theself-regulation.
(16:59):
Sometimes you just have toliterally put on the noise
cancellation headphones.
Sometimes you literally have tomake it to where you cannot
easily access.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Right, it's way access these things.
It's way easier to put thephone in the other room.
Then they just sit there listento it go.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah and not answer yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, I mean, what the fuck?
Yeah how it's just.
Sometimes you just have toisolate yourself.
Yeah it's way easier puttingput the snacks away.
Yeah, how am I gonna sit thereand stare at a bag of chips on a
desk and not eat them?
I'm possible, impossible,impossible, absolutely, and I
care about those things, I'mstill gonna do it you damn right
(17:40):
.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
I think there's a way I don't know how to do it.
I wish there was.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I don't even like Twinkies.
Sorry to cut you off.
You don't like, oh yeah,Twinkies.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I don't even care about Twinkies, but if you sat
one in front of my desk, it'sgone.
I Would.
I would do pretty good for awhile, but I'd eventually reach
the point where I'm like I haveto eat this fucking thing.
So now we're gonna say I wishthe iPhone.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Maybe you know how to do this or someone knows how to
do this, but I wish I could setit to where I can determine
what, what contacts Make myphone ring, because I keep my
phone on silent, but my wife isthe only person who has access
to me a hundred percent of thetime no one else does and I
don't.
I don't keep my phone.
I keep my phone on silent allday.
(18:26):
Yeah, the only time that I keepit off silent and then I check
it periodically, mm-hmm.
The only time I keep it offsilent if, like you know,
there's something going on or,like you know, whatever right,
yeah, I was traveling orsomething.
Yeah, and, but I wish there wasa way, because like everyone's
on silent.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
But you know, my wife , yeah, I don't know.
It's got to be possible, got tobe.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
All right, what's next, bro?
What's four?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
out of five Incorporating physical activity.
This is so big yeah, this ishuge.
Physical restlessness andhyperactivity are common ADHD
symptoms and that disrupt focus.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, so physical restlessness and hyperactivity,
what I say, that, oh, but that'slike like when you just feel
like antsy.
Yes, it's hard to focus.
Yeah, oh yeah and that'susually, if you like.
When you never exercise, youjust feel like shit all the time
.
But when you start exercisingand then you go like three or
(19:26):
four days without exercise andthat's when you really feel it
Awful and you're like I got tomove.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, I'm dying.
Move.
It literally feels like you'redying.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Yeah, you just you just feel like you just want to
do us restlessness Yep, justjust tenseness.
Yep, you just got a stretch.
You got to run, move, punch, dosomersaults, car wheels, hell
yeah, flip shit over, breakstuff.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Yeah, smash things, smash it, destruction.
No, exercise, no, it'sabsolutely true.
Yeah, when I, it's about twodays, three days maybe.
Yeah, if I'm not exercising atall, yeah, I feel awful.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Yeah, and I can't focus.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, I've literally can't do shit.
It almost is like debilitating.
Yeah, I Don't know that mightbe an extreme word, but not
really.
Yeah, because you go fromfeeling great to just worthless.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, you know what I've.
You know what I think is true.
What's that?
This phrase?
I've never heard this before.
I just made this up.
Okay, you ready?
Yeah, physical activity is thelube for the brain to run smooth
oh Gotta, grease them wheelsright.
And it's based on everythingwe've read over the past hundred
(20:41):
episodes.
It is true exercise it helpsthe brain function better.
It helps the neurotransmitterstransmit better, right?
Speaker 2 (20:50):
You've got the metabolic waste in your body.
Yep, your lymphatic system doesnot have a pump.
Yeah, so you got to move toreduce the metabolic waste.
Yeah and then it also releasesthe endorphins and yada, yada,
yada.
You less stress, whatever yeah.
It is what it is, but it helpsyou focus.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Yep Lube that brain up exercise.
Last but not least, of course,as always, mentioned again
nutritional considerations.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
So yeah, this is true .
Okay, speaking from experienceagain, as we try to do yeah,
there was one Holiday season.
You know I'm an adult.
At this point I'm eating absurdamount of cookies.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah, it's Christmas.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, you know, I think mom gave me a bag and I'm,
so I'm eating, fucking, youknow whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Cookies.
All our mom gave you a bag ofcrack bag of crack.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
So I Felt like shit.
Yeah it's just too much sugar,yeah, and I couldn't focus.
I got so like foggy and I thinkit's from the sugar feeding the
bacteria and your gut orwhatever the wrong.
Not necessarily wrong, but itwas an imbalance.
All right.
All right, your body's you'rejust not meant to eat an absurd
amount of white sugar.
No, it's just plain and simple.
(22:13):
Yeah, and maybe it affects memore than others.
Maybe I'm sensitive, oh, maybe.
Whatever the point is, itdoesn't matter.
I felt like shit and I couldnot focus.
I feel like I could barely workout any kind of mental problem
in my head.
Yeah, it was like walkingthrough Literally a haze.
I'm not even kidding.
Yeah so, yes, you have toconsider your nutritional
(22:37):
environment.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Yeah Well, I'm gonna refer to the book again because
it's so fresh, but hacking theAmerican mind.
What they say?
Sugar is a toxic chemical, soimagine that it provides no
nutritional value.
Yeah we can survive without it.
(22:58):
I'm not talking about naturalsugars and fruit, right, talking
about man-made process sugars.
Yeah, because when they run andI'm saying this wrong because I
just heard it the other day butwhen they, when they go through
the processing of the sugar,they actually unbind All of the
nutritional value, and sotherefore there's zero
(23:21):
nutritional value and and it'snot like it's definitely not
healthy for us.
Our brain freaks out, bodyfreaks out over it.
Mm-hmm and, but for some reasonit has Not been classified like
that of caffeine and alcohol.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Imagine that it's almost like someone's making a
lot of money off of it.
Yeah.
So less sugar more focus, right, and that's not just sugar.
You know if I'm eating times inmy life where I was a stoner.
Yeah, you know, and you eatTaco Bell.
Whatever I'm trying to rip onTaco Bell, but yeah, two in the
morning, you know you're doingthings like that.
(24:04):
Yeah you're IndiscriminatelyEating trash whenever you want.
Yeah, it will affect yourmental clarity.
Yeah, just plain.
And simple.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
There's a few times I've done seven to ten day fast
Mm-hmm, not a lot, but a fewtimes where I've made it pretty
much through the whole thing andI would do a water fast and
then a juice fast.
So just fresh raw juices andday four and five, the clarity,
the fog just lifts.
(24:36):
It's insane, yeah, radicaldifference.
And also, our bodies justrequires energy to even process
food and if you think about it,we're just constantly processing
food.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
That's why eating all the time is not Giving you
energy.
Yeah, yeah, it's like that'swhat's to eat all the time.
Yeah, that's why I alwayswondered why the the snacking
thing.
That just felt like bullshit tome.
Yeah you know, some people havelike all.
Instead of three big meals, I'mgonna eat seven tiny meals.
(25:08):
Yeah, your body's alwaysdigesting food.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I think that's fine if you're like out in the
wilderness and you eat like fourblackberries.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Yeah, but that's probably different than like,
different than like, fourParty-sized bags of LMS.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, yeah so yeah absolutely, so that makes sense.
So, yeah, I mean these are verypractical.
But if you have extremerestless mind or if you've even
been diagnosed with ADHD, reallyfocus on those time and task
management Skills and supports.
I like the timer you know theyhave those for like the super
(25:45):
creative things where you canset like apps on your Chrome
extensions to where it's like,after 45 minutes literally your
computer just goes to black andyou can't do anything on it for
five minutes.
So they have a lot of guides outthere, a lot of things you can
do if you need help you.
There's some things out therethat will force Force the help
(26:06):
on you.
Yeah, force the help on youreally consider that environment
.
You know what environment areyou in.
Is it distracting you?
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I, I know we went from, you know, work at the
office and then work from home.
And then COVID hit and everyoneworked from home and now
everyone's like everyone's gotto come back to the office.
I like a hybrid approach.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
I like a couple days in the office, a couple days at
home, because at home you'regonna get a lot of those just
grind tasks done, mm-hmm, nodistractions, unless your home
is a distracting environment.
But you know what I mean.
Being in a very Siloed, nondistracting environment for a
couple days a week is nice toget those tasks done, and then
being around people, because theenergy of people, the you know,
(26:48):
collaboration, like I said,what I have, of course, but be
very, very conscious of yourenvironment.
And then that mindfulness andself-regulation, man, and then
physical activity and nutrition,talk about it every freaking,
freaking episode but yeah, Imean think about there's a lot
of office situations wherethey're not.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
that's all backwards, it's all about you've got the
snacks, the sugar on the desk.
You're not exercising andeveryone's distracting you and
your phones going off.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
What are you?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
getting done.
Yeah, it's a very expensiveeight hours to do 40 minutes
worth of work.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, and everyone's stressed out because they don't
have enough time and people arehaving to get to the office.
You know, your office is notefficient when people have to
get there earlier or leave lateto get stuff done.
Yeah, I Think I want to do that.
I Think that's a service I wantto provide as a consultant the
(27:42):
office audit.
Yeah, the energy management andefficiency Office environment.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
I'm trying to think of a clever name for your
business that sounds really fun.
It does sound fun.
Maybe a branch of yourconsulting.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
I could have every manager Write down every time
they're distracted in the day.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
They would spend the whole day writing down what
they're getting distracted.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
You know, every Asshole dickhead manager would
write I'm distracted, writingdown why I'm distracted.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Definitely someone would be writing that yeah,
sweet bro.
That's it, man.
I think we're done here.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Let's get out of here .
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