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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Shower Notes, State Changes, and Systems: Life Hacks That Stick
- Chris Williamson, Johnny, and Yousef share a rapid-fire collection of practical and often funny life hacks aimed at improving productivity, training, and everyday convenience.
- They cover everything from capturing ideas in the shower and managing sleep and wake times, to gym equipment tweaks, digital organization, journaling, and using music and movement to change state.
- A recurring theme is reducing friction: making it easier to capture ideas, execute important tasks, maintain habits, and avoid being bottlenecked by tools or tech.
- Underlying the banter is a serious focus on systems thinking—treating tools as extensions of memory and attention, and taking responsibility for recurring patterns in one’s life.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasCapture ideas wherever they appear to prevent losing them.
Using tools like a waterproof shower notepad, a pad near your meditation spot, Siri in the car, and a trusted task manager (e.g., OmniFocus) dramatically reduces the chance that good ideas and commitments slip through the cracks.
Use simple triggers to get out of bed and stabilize sleep.
Counting down from ten with rapid breaths, sunrise alarm clocks, and consistent bed/wake times (often anchored by a partner’s routine) help prevent snoozing and set the tone for the rest of the day.
Reduce friction in your training setup to stay consistent and safe.
Power hooks for dumbbells let you unrack heavy dumbbells like a barbell, opening up safer, heavier dumbbell work (bench and overhead press) and reducing the risk of injury from awkward cleans or setups.
Treat your tools as a ‘second brain’ and make notes searchable.
Apps like Craft, Roam, or Evernote (legacy), combined with tagging and cross-linking, allow you to store and later retrieve insights by searching likely future keywords—turning fleeting inputs (books, calls, podcasts) into reusable knowledge.
Use state-change rituals (music + movement) to clear brain fog.
A short playlist of high-energy songs plus five minutes of light movement (press-ups, squats, mobility) and a glass of cold water can reliably boost alertness and mood before demanding work like podcasts or deep-focus tasks.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesTurn showers, I reckon, we’ve generated revenue now from my showers.
— Johnny
If I get out of bed on time when I said I would, most of the rest of the day goes right.
— Chris Williamson
I see OmniFocus as like my RAM on a computer… and Evernote or Craft as your hard drive.
— Johnny
The thing that you need to remember is that you are the common denominator in every experience within your life.
— Chris Williamson
Find joy today… not presuming that it’s a thing that you get to do in the future once you’ve got today out of the way.
— Chris Williamson
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