June 13th, 2024 – Over the past two years of trying to become Bruce Wayne, I’ve discovered and implemented many ways of becoming more efficient and productive. While some of these are more systems that over time I’ve grown into habits, others are just simple techniques or actions.

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UPDATE July 6th, 2024 – Added a page list to organize the growing list of systems being implemented.

• Google Calendar
• Notion
• MyFitnessPal
• Clockify

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A collection of systems and techniques that I implement into my life in order to stay productive as possible

TECHNIQUES I’VE IMPLEMENTED

• ‘Brick and Mortar Theory’ – In the typical person’s day, they usually have a couple large blocks of time dedicated to unavoidable tasks. For example, having 15 minutes allotted to commute to work, followed by 8 hours allotted to working. Another way to think about it is by picturing bricks and mortar. I like to think of the bricks as the large time commitments. Between each large commitment though, is a smaller bit of mortar connecting the two. In real life, this is the downtime between larger activities. I realized when I started tracking my time, to see where all of it was going, that these mortar bits were swallowing up a great deal of my day. The key to not wasting these moments it to not think of them as downtime, but time to complete smaller tasks that can be started and finished within the short time frame allotted.
  • For example, during my daily 100 pull-ups, I’ll spend 40-1:20 seconds resting in between each set. This isn’t really enough time to get anything meaningful done in that time by itself, but once you add up 10-20 of those breaks, the time starts to add up. Between sets I’ll sit at my desk with Notion open, looking for tasks that I can easily knock out. I’ll often spend the first rest brushing my teeth (if doing pull-ups immediately after waking up), and some of the following breaks on preparing my daily creatine, taking my vitamins, checking my inbox (as well as organizing it, which I speak about further down this page), checking YouTube for anything that needs addressing, checking my phone’s notifications, etc. A link to my Notion daily checklist can be found further down this page, under ‘Using Notion…’
• Different senses multitasking – Still working on getting better at this, but the idea is that you should be able to one thing with your body, while listening to something completely different. For example, while getting your cardio workout in, listening to something educational. In interest of full disclosure, I’m not very good at this yet, and off the top of my head, cannot think of any major instances in my life where I use this. Hopefully this section will be updated in the future with examples of how I was able to implement this into daily life.
• Being held accountable – Easy to give up when no one is watching. It’s a lot harder to do so when you’re in front of an audience. This is why having people to hold you accountable for your actions helps you be more productive. For me personally, people notice when I don’t post a daily update on this site, when I don’t upload my daily pull-up video, or when I don’t post a weekly update. Thinking about this makes me more motivated to put in the work and get it done, even when I don’t feel like it. It also makes me more motivated to spend my time productively during the day, as I have to post exactly what I did each second of the day on the internet for people to see. I also have someone to send my daily progress to personally, who also hold me accountable and to my own standards.
• Deleting all social medias and video games – Before starting the project, from what I can remember, most of my time was spent doom scrolling on TikTok, Instagram, and even snapchat when I got desperate. I slowly started deleting them one by one and this gave me back so much time in my day that I can actually dedicate to useful endeavors. Social media is mainly people building a façade to hide behind, instead of actually living it. Something that really helped me come to this realization was hearing Jonny Kim say that social media breeds narcissism. Deleting and stopping playing video games also gave me back a lot of time. I would try to hide from reality in a false one, when the real one had the potential to be so much better.
• Turning black and white color filter on on your phone – Turning your phone to black and white only makes it a lot less appealing and addictive to be on. Although I originally thought this would have much more of an effect, it definitely helps. I’m definitely not completely clean and sometimes after checking the YouTube channel, I’ll catch myself scrolling in the shorts section. However, since turning off colors, it’s definitely become less frequent.
• ‘Time-stacking’ – This what I like to call stacking time requirements on top of each other. For example, working two jobs based on eight hours a day total, while actually only doing eight hours total. Obviously this is only possible if you’re extremely good at your job and have extreme time management skills.
  • A simpler example is having to run on a busy schedule. As I write this, it’s June of Year 2, and I’m going to be working security for the next couple months. I’ll be working a ton of overtime, but still obviously need to keep up with my marathon training and weight workouts, so this is where time-stacking comes in. I usually get off the train and then have a 20 minute bus ride. However, what if I were to just bring a change of clothes with me to work and run home? Assuming I need to do about an hour of cardio each day, both this and the bus ride come to an hour and twenty minutes total. By time-stacking, I’m able to use that 20 minutes that would otherwise be spent sitting on the bus (with much less capability to do anything useful) to skipping both the bus ride and the wait for the bus and heading straight home in an hour, cutting down time spent by 20 minutes, plus whatever time is spent waiting for the bus (time spent waiting for the bus is a good example of ‘mortar’ time, which I discussed above – basically time in-between more important events that is usually wasted by people with poor time-management).

PRODUCTIVITY SYSTEMS I’VE IMPLEMENTED

• Keeping all email inboxes clean – I use to let emails pile up in my inbox, to the point of where I had around 33 thousand just sitting there. At some point during Year 2, I started to organize important emails, carefully sorting them, labelling them, and then moving out o my main inbox. I also delete unwanted emails, so when I’m done with checking my inbox for the day, it’s empty, with all emails either responded to, deleted, or labelled and organized.
• Scheduling – I first got this idea from one of David Goggin’s books, in which he speaks about sectioning off a chunk of his calendar to specifically dedicate to the wildfire season. He spends a good third of the year doing something completely different from what he does the rest of the year. He also talks about how he would find races in cities that he was going to to speak at, so while in the city giving his speech, simultaneously on a sort of tour of races all around the country, being able to excel in two unrelated fields at the same time. The trick to making this work is in the behind the scenes logistics of it, ex – finding dates of races that not only correlate with the speeches, but also with where he plans on going next. I’ve tried to implement this sort of complex scheduling into my own life, penciling in and reserving dates months and months in advance so that they all fall together perfectly when the time comes, allowing me to progress in multiple fields at once. For example, when going after my motorcycle license in Year 1, I scheduled the driving school, the road test, and the DMV licensing appointments all in a row months in advance. This way, I was able to get perfect dates that correlated with my already existing obligations as get through the entire process as fast as possible. I believe out of my entire driving class, I was the second with license in hand.
• Meal prepping and creating customized meal tracking templates in MyFitnessPal – I recently started meal prepping (Year 2), both as a way to save time and a way to know I’m hitting my daily calories and macro profile. I usually have two curry based chicken over rice with a side of bread meals, as well as one gainer shake based on milk and peanut butter. As of now I have enough meal prep containers for only three meals, though the results from just those have been phenomenal. I never have to worry about what I’m going to eat, as it’s always the same thing, and they’re already prepped and sitting in the fridge for me to heat up and eat.
  • For instance, while writing this, I just grabbed a shake from the fridge and re-blended it, giving me an almost instant 500 calories.
  • During meal prep, implement ‘time-stacking’, which I discussed under ‘Techniques’. During meal prep, this would meal starting tasks that are mostly automated as soon as possible, so that they can run in the background while you focus on more attention-based tasks – starting the rice cooker ASAP, so that it’s cooking while you’re handling prepping the meat.
  • Using MyFitnessPal to track calories, as well as creating custom meal profiles for automatic of tracking – Although many of you reading this may already use MyFitnessPal to track your calories, much less are using the ‘Create a Meal’ function under ‘My Meals’. This function allows you to enter a meal that you eat everyday once, and then have it available to select after in only a couple clicks. This greatly cuts down on the time required to track food intake, as if you’re eating the same thing almost everyday, you can just add your custom meals in a few clicks.
  • I also use the app to track my weight progress. This is yet another task I track on Notion and complete during my rest periods while doing my daily pull-ups.
• Having a meticulously planned out sleep schedule (preferably polyphasic) – In the aim of being completely transparent, this is not something that I am good at, nor am I currently doing. On the YouTube channel, you can find my failed attempts to adapt to the Everyman 3.5 sleep schedule. On this schedule, I’d wake up at 3:30AM, having gone to sleep at 11:00PM, and sleep in three separate 20-minute naps, equidistant from each other. This is much better documented on YouTube why I wasn’t able to stick to the schedule, but I hope to return to polyphasic sleeping in the future when I have a much more stable hours job (writing this section during June of Year 2, while I’m about to start working security).

• Using Notion to keep on top of smaller daily tasks – My sister suggested I start using Notion during the beginning of Year 2, but it took a couple months before I actually looked it up and started implementing it. However, I’ve been using it consistently ever since. It’s mainly filled with smaller tasks that I need to do daily that I’d probably forget. This allows me to see what still needs to be done in between breaks of larger responsibilities and time blocks (see ‘Brick and Mortar Theory’ where I talk more about this).
  • The following link is to access my daily checklist on Notion: I may have to manually approve requests so please allow 24-48 hours for me to get back to you. Hopefully you can use this to help build your own, as mine is always changing with new things being added and outdated items being removed, depending on my current goals.
    • https://www.notion.so/59602f8f28274ec782085d8b900e13e7?v=c2000df467cf491d8a8a8497a09c9ee4