Life Hacks 203 - #281

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, wonderful people. Welcome back. My guests today are none other than Jonny and Yusef from propanefitness.com, and it is another Life Hacks episode. If you are new here, you may not have heard one of these yet. We did the last one in October, but this is maybe the 15th episode we've done on Life Hacks. Basically, we go through our favorite tools, tips and tactics for productive and efficient life, everything from apps to strategies, books, ways to make a toasted sandwich and everything in between. And then we discuss them for a little bit and everything that we talk about is linked in the show notes below so that you can go and buy it or check it out for yourself or just remember it later on. So today, expect to learn why I brought a potato to a podcast, my biggest productivity tip for 2021, how Jonny is generating ideas in the shower, Yusef's favorite journaling app, how to ensure you never miss your creatine again, and much more. But for now, it's time for a very, very hot potato with Jonny & Yusef.
Jonny, I've got a present for you here. I'm not sure if you can't see that.

**Dr. Yusef Smith** (1:24)
Oh, yes.

**Chris Williamson** (1:25)
This is a very, I mean, it's burning my fingers. I'm having to sort of... So if Jonny, if you can just...

**Jonny Watson** (1:32)
What we all need is a potato prop.

**Chris Williamson** (1:34)
Yeah, well, you've got one.

**Jonny Watson** (1:35)
And then Dean can make it...

**Chris Williamson** (1:37)
Look like a real potato, yeah. But this is a real potato. You're up first, Jonny. What have you got for us?

**Jonny Watson** (1:42)
It looks room temperature, but I'm happy to catch it. So I have what I think is the best list of life hacks I've ever had in the history of Life Hacks. Are we ready for Life Hack number one? I think I've already told you this, but it is a waterproof notepad for the shower.
So, I have the most ideas and thoughts that ever occurred to me all day happen in the shower. And what I do is like try and leave my phone within sort of kind of touching distance so that-

**Dr. Yusef Smith** (2:28)
Hey Siri.

**Jonny Watson** (2:30)
Exactly, but that doesn't work because the sound of the water is loud or like gets in the way. And then you try and make a note on your phone with shower hands and it's just not gonna happen because it's like you end up typing the wrong word. So I bought it off Amazon. It's waterproof paper with a waterproof pencil. It's a suction onto like a tile or glass. And I just write it down. And then when I get out of the shower, I pull the thing off, put it in my OmniFocus, captured. Turned showers, I reckon, I reckon we've generated revenue now from my showers.

**Chris Williamson** (3:04)
How does a waterproof pencil and waterproof paperwork?

**Jonny Watson** (3:09)
It's like, it's hard to describe, to be honest. It is like no other pencil and paper I've ever used in my life. So it looks like a pencil, it functions like a pencil, but somehow you're able to write on wet paper and it works and it doesn't wash off. It's brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. But of course this, I suppose this requires, so I suppose it's part of a general kind of way that I'm trying to improve my life, which is I'm so confident now we're not only focused because it's so much better than tic-tac, that I know that the only thing I need to do is make sure I'm capturing everything. So I have like a pad of paper for when I'm meditating because that's another time that it happens, and I have this in the shower, and then I use like Siri in the car and my AirPods and I'm training and things like that. So it's just a game of how do I ensure that nothing slips through the cracks and the shower.
The waterproof pad of paper is the one I'm most proud of. Any questions?

**Dr. Yusef Smith** (4:11)
You've got quite a lot of use out of it so far.

**Jonny Watson** (4:14)
Loads.

**Dr. Yusef Smith** (4:15)
You said you must have a really high identity of shower thoughts.

**Jonny Watson** (4:20)
So it's an average of like three to four things a shower.

**Chris Williamson** (4:24)
How long is a shower for you?

**Dr. Yusef Smith** (4:26)
Five minutes?

**Jonny Watson** (4:28)
Sometimes longer.

**Dr. Yusef Smith** (4:30)
What's interesting is I've found shower thoughts correlate with viral tweets for me. There's been times when I've poured my heart into crafting a tweet that I think, yeah, this ticks all the boxes to gain traction, gain followers, go viral, tumbleweeds. Then a stupid shower thought that you just think, next day you wake up and it's got thousands of likes, and you're like, ah, I didn't really want that one to go viral.