First really big tip in this category is don't commute if you commute right now, and it's taking you an hour, hour and a half, two hours. I live in a part of Long Island where people near me who commute into New York City every day, spend a total of three and a half hours a day commuting. I do crazy if I do that. If you want to increase your productivity, my advice is don't commute. Move to a walking distance from your office or move your office to I realized that doesn't sound practical for everyone. If you have a family and a mortgage and a spouse who works five minutes away and you have an hour and a half commute, that's going to be a very difficult conversation.

But if you're a single person or you are someone without kids and with a spouse who isn't totally entrenched in a job that is in your neighborhood, then I would highly recommend move. We buy into this myth that everyone has to have a home, at least in the United States, and increasingly around the world, or you're not a real person. And then you got to buy the home, but then you're locked in forever. Or for 20 or 30 years. So you spent all this time kept Why? sell your house, you tell me you may lose $100,000.

Guess what, you'll get all that back, and more. If you're highly productive in your job, and you've got a lot more time to think and be creative and create products and services. You'll also have so much more time to live a life. You'll also have a lot more time to do things like oh, I don't know, exercise because you're not going to be on a train or a bus or in a car for three hours a day. This is Something that is an absolute productivity destroyer for so many people that are on a commute, and you can kid yourself and tell you, Oh, I like it. It's personal time, it's time to catch up.

If you're dashing out of the house at 645 in the morning before your kids are awake, or before you're awake, and you're getting a home at eight o'clock at night, I guess that's not me time. That is your total life. Do you really want to spend it on a train a bus, or driving a car, which I think is the worst of all possible scenarios. So it seems like a very unhelpful tip until you think about it. You can sell your house and go rent an apartment in the city if your job is in the city. Now if you have your own business, and you have an office in the city, and you think well you just have to because your client sucks Well, maybe your clients don't really care where your office is.

I constantly encounter people who have PR firms at agencies, other types of consulting firms, and they think that they have to have a presence in a major city. And then I asked them, when's the last time a client came to your office? Are you doing everything through Skype video, email, fedexing packages, and they're like, Oh, yeah, we haven't had a client come here in years. Guess what? clients are not coming to your office, move your office to your home. It's worked for presidents of the United States for a long, long time, hundreds of years having a home office.

It's worked for a lot of really successful people from William Randolph Hearst, and the 20th century meet in late 19th Century Media era and it works for a lot of People today, have a home office or move so that you have a short walk a 10 minute walk to your office. Say it's not practical. You say it can't be done. It all depends on how you defined if practicality is making yourself miserable for two hours, three hours a day, add up that time, over a lifetime. How many years of your life? Are you going to spend doing something that is inherently unproductive, unrewarding, and depressing.

Just because you think what you lose 10% of your property values if you sold now, and it's not the high end of the market, or renting is throwing money away. You know, what's throwing money away is living a life where you're not happy. And you're spending two or three hours a day doing something that isn't productive, that's throwing money away, not renting a place where you can live and be happy and lead a productive life. So that's it. The big tip is figure out how you can eliminate your commute time or at least get it down to a 1015 minute pleasant walk. Do that and your productivity is going to have so much more opportunity to explode because you'll have so much more time to be productive you'll also be so much more rested, and you'll physically feel better because you'll have time to do exercise and other fun things.