On Tuesday, April 14, 2015 IABC Los Angeles presented a new “Hack Your Life” webinar as part of IABC-LA’s Learning Lounge Webinar Series during lunchtime. The webinar was presented by Demir Gjokaj, Founder of Lifehack Bootcamp, a system in eliminating, automating and outsourcing the clutter in your life. IABC-LA board member Nick Duggan moderated the well-attended webinar while Demir presented five life hacks to reclaim time in your life…not so you can do more(!) yet so you can truly be present, less stressed and focus on one task at a time.
Built on the premise we live in a perpetual multi-tasking, time-starved world, Demir states emphatically “there is no such thing as multi-tasking”...we’re switch-tasking (poorly) from one unfocused task to another. (I’ve been saying this for the last few years!) Lifehacking is about applying single-minded focus to a task by knowing exactly what outcome you’re working for. How many of us can admit it’s seemingly “more productive” or “more efficient” to answer email threads first to get them “taken care of” before we would suffer the pain of shutting off our phones, email and other gadgets to work on a priority project? Shut off our cell phones? Is Demir crazy?! Not so much.
Demi Gjokaj’s journey and his qualified exuberance for the life hack topic began with an admission he was, in fact, originally terrible at time organization and de-cluttering his life. While excelling as the youngest frequent commentator on Bloomberg and co-founder of start-up MONTAJ, which pioneered social media and video storytelling, Gjokaj became frazzled from the constant demands of managing time, technology and daily work and home life. Demir became dedicated to the notion it really doesn’t have to be this way. We make constant choices throughout the day to mismanage our work and home life resulting in too much stress, ignoring what’s really important and many times because expectations of others’ are involved…we allow our lives to become “stolen”.
We learned there are very painful consequences to not having life hack systems in place including being supremely scattered with and without tech, big dreams not moving anywhere closer, getting seriously behind, losing out on opportunities, and even financial problems. We also learned some techniques towards reclaiming your life so you can be engaged, alive, present…and joyful!
If you’d like to learn what the tomato timer technique is (hint: turn off everything for 25 minutes and get to some focused one-task-at-a-time work) or some super-efficient strategic”snooze” delay email applications like Boomerang along with some other “Hack Your Life” techniques, play the recorded free webinar here (about 52 minutes long) which simply requires registration of your name and email first:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8311206560842152962
Demir provides a tremendous amount of thought-provoking and time-saving tips and techniques that helps turn all IABC-LA-ers into happier, more productive, less stressed execs, team players, managers, and consultants! And with the active participation by IABC-LA-ers in the webinar, clearly this topic was well-received and will be put to great use throughout the chapter!