 Alright, let's see if that should work good, yeah, alright, and there we go, I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna get my coffee ready guys, hope everyone's doing alright, just gonna get my coffee here and we'll get right to it, Joker how you doing buddy, alright just gonna get my coffee, second cup so I should be pretty good, there we go, okay so hope everyone's doing well, I guess I guess this makes it about 14 15 days for me, I don't know for you guys but for myself I certainly knew, you know when South by Southwest got canceled, I knew there was an issue and then a couple of the other festivals got canceled, Coachella, all that stuff, but I knew that there was going to be a lockdown when they canceled, Armani, how you doing buddy, I knew that they were going to shut down stuff when basketball canceled, you know why, because America loves its sports so much and sports are such a major part of American life that there is, there is, if you if they're willing to shut that down at the cost of the bookies and the the American underground mafioso industry without recourse, if they're willing to shut that down, excuse me guys, if they're willing to shut that down then, oh yeah it's crazy, yeah exactly how many sectors are affected, sorry guys I got a little gunk on my glasses here, if you're willing to shut down sports then you're willing to go all the way and that's when I knew things were really bad, Brad how you doing buddy, except Johnny missed on having cell phones, yeah it was going to be a bad idea buddy, I swear, so so that was when I started to take heat of something was going down and then it was the Joe Rogan episode with Nicholas Kristakis which was two weeks ago, which that certainly cleared up everything for me, that there was a major problem and I remember Nicholas was saying what was going to happen and I was like thinking to myself that is surreal, that can't be right, that can't be what was going on and if that is what's going on, we're gonna be in trouble, so I've been locked up since then, that's basically a little over two weeks, but to be honest with you AJ and I were so busy with work during that period, I mean I was basically living a Monk lifestyle anyway, we were trying to crank out some a transition to move fully more so into virtual with our programs because we were wrapping them up at the end of the summer and for those of you who are still want a piece of that you can hit us up as soon as we're back up and running we're gonna be finishing those out, but that's so I you know to be honest I was already working from home most of my time which brings us to our topic today, I'll be giving you guys some tips at home but first I just wanted to chat with you all about some some two interesting stories here in Hollywood that I had to contend with that you know during this period it's it's it is definitely Hollywood it was two Hollywood stories that that I thought you all would appreciate and it put me in a position because I didn't know what to do about it you know with everything that's going on I I don't want to get involved with other people I'm told to stay home but I also have I'm also a human being I also have a inclination and a desire to want to help people and and and to do our part they want us to hold back not that I am signaling what a moral do-gooder I am I'm a flawed human being like everybody else so but I will give you these these two stories also my glasses are a little funky today probably who they just cleaned them so I don't normally wear glasses either Lisa's on the other and one of our art of charm groups there and she knows that but it's funny it's like what am I gonna why am I gonna go through contact lenses if I'm not out being social that's it's a there it's a waste so however you know I kind of when it came to the glasses I kind of dig what I picked out I picked them out because I thought they were sturdy and they made me look a little bit studious as studious as I could possibly look with my rock-and-roll cut and do but I like it what do you guys think they're all right do I look studious or do I look completely insane so to Hollywood story so two things that happen while I've been on lockdown that was it all looks good on you well thank you Lisa I appreciate that I can always expect I can always count on you for a wonderful compliment insanely studious thank you I will I will take that so if you guys follow me on Twitter and that is I have the art of charm Twitter which is the one I use which probably most of you guys in Periscope know me from I also have a private account which is AOC Johnny which I'm I'm able to be a little bit more frank a little bit more candid there because I don't have to speak through the mouth of AOC and there's some things that that I just don't feel are appropriate from that account so you could follow me AOC Johnny I appreciate that and anyway if you would follow me over there you had you would had seen I posted a picture of a few weeks a few days ago this was last week I think this was Friday so I live in a little studio apartment on Hollywood Boulevard it's a it's it's I guess spacious for a little Hollywood apartment but as you can see this is my this is my kitchen that's the door out and then I have a nice I have a little living room bed area anyway I'm very minimalistic like that it's just the way I am I have always been that way anyway so I and I have a little makeshift desk that I have put by the window so I can look out into the common area of my building in that common area it has a pool it has a hot tub and it has a seating area anyway as our building is on lockdown as well we're not allowed in any of those parts and and I'm sitting there and I'm working away and I I hear the gate crash hold on guys are ambulance or whistles all right sorry about that so I'm at my desk I'm working and I hear the gate crash and I I look outside and I see this random guy with a backpack bopping around the the courtyard now people have been walking through it but you're not allowed to hang out congee gate you're not allowed to be out there anyway he goes over to the pool when he sticks his hand in it and test the water and gives a little nod and then he walks over to the hot tub and strips down and he has swim trunks underneath his pants so this was obviously planned and so he takes off his pants he's in his swim trunks he sets his backpack down and he goes for a swim and I'm thinking what the hell's this guy doing and he gets out of the pool and walks over to the hot tub and he sits down in and he opens up his backpack he pulls out several things of sushi a bottle of wine and and and and and and and some soap and detergent and starts washing up in the hot tub now this was a clean shaven person he planned to come he had swim trunks on this sushi was bought directly from the store as was the bottle of wine and he starts washing up in the hot tub so I'm watching this and I'm mind blown because we have a oh I should you know what I should have put my light on so I look a little better too and I'm watching this and I'm just amazed at this guy and I'm waiting for security to roll up and interrogate what this guy's doing and I go back to work and eventually I hear some commotion outside and I realize that's that's them so security and they're they're asking him sir do you live here oh yeah I live here and they're like what building and he just starts pointing to all the buildings and they're and he's like I work here I work for some people and he doesn't really give a real answer and they ask him they're like sir this area is off limits due to the virus what are you doing and he answers them hanging poolside having some sushi and I'm I was amazed and they're like you can't do that here this area is is prohibited and everyone must stay in the building sir what building do you work in well I work for some people over here and some people over there like sir now they're like how did you get in and he's like I walked in I got on the elevator so through that it was obvious that he has been here before he felt comfortable enough to walk into the pool area he had swim trunks underneath his jeans so it was amazing so that's Hollywood story number one oh and if you want to see the picture of this if you go over to my private Twitter account AOC Johnny you will see the picture of him in the hot tub with the sushi and the wine it's ridiculous and so yesterday it was it was sunny out for the first day in a long time and what's extremely odd about what is going on is it had been raining for much of the time we've been stuck in our on our lockdown and so with that it's been cloudy and and it's also been cold like low 60s and so I haven't felt compelled to to leave and but yesterday the sun came out and I really wanted to get outside I really wanted to be in the sun I really wanted to fill the sun on my face so I walked out to the to the area where the elevators are and but there's a balcony there and I looked out in the street just to make sure it was it was okay what was going on out there and I had seen some other people with some groceries a couple people going to the Shake Shack that is in the retail space of my building and looked okay looked pretty normal and then I looked down the street and there was a guy in just jeans just jeans no t-shirt no shirt jeans and that's it he's just wearing jeans no tennis shoes no socks just jeans and he was a clean shaven Asian guy which was odd if he's going to be homeless he's going to be dirty and he's good well stereotypical in general what what the homeless folk of Los Angeles look like are the usual tie to rags and beard and facial and and all that stuff and I'm watching him and he he is moving as if he had drank a few bottles of maker's mind I mean his guy is lit up and he's staggering on the sidewalk bouncing off the buildings now I saw him approach some people but he didn't say anything he just kind of slurred into them and so I'm not going downstairs with this going on so I decide that I'm just going to watch to see what is going on and I'm looking over the thing and he's just back and forth the whole way down Hollywood Boulevard I finally let him get far enough down that I go downstairs I look out the door I see him very far down the Boulevard now and where I live I live on a Hollywood and Vine area so it's relatively flat I could see pretty far away and not to mention there's not really anyone on the streets so I can see this guy and he sticks out right he's no clothes on and so I can I can see him down there and I'm certainly worried about the guy but I'm also not worried enough where I want to get involved and get myself in trouble and there was a truck going down a hauling truck and he went off to the sidewalk right in front of the truck the truck hits the brakes hits the horn and this guy swars the other way back out of the way the truck goes and then he swars back in the road across the street into the W hotel for your area and then right next to that is the red line on Hollywood Boulevard where he kind of just fell down the stairs into it was cocky bitch hello to you as well that is the Twitter so anyway that's when I decided it I'm not willing to hang outside here in Hollywood and for the most part I really would love to go jogging I haven't been jogging in three weeks now I jog at least once week as for my cardio with all the other exercise I've been doing I've been relegated to exercising you look like Austin Powers that wouldn't be the first time that I've heard that and that's the it's certainly I picked off these glasses for a reason but what I saw yesterday and the saw last Friday was enough for me not to want to go jogging I'll stay in my house until it was over anyway so now I promise you guys some tips for working at home I have another appointment yes so I'll go ahead and get to that guys so number one you're going to have to treat the day as if you're going into work you cannot make exceptions because you have all day sitting at home to do things if you look at it in that manner you're not going to get anything done and you're going to end up putting things off where's the blow I wouldn't know it's certainly not here and so number one get your schedule together get up for myself I work out in the morning I usually put on Scott Adams because he can be quite whimsical and interesting takes on what's going on that you tends to cheer me up while I'm working out and then point I get some coffee going I take a shower and I get out and then I arrange my day into three sections and this is something that I got from Kevin Cruz's book great leaders have no rules this is a rad tip and actually Kevin's gonna be on the show next week we just talked to him yesterday and he arranges his day in the three parts creative collaboration and connection and so for myself I tend to do the the stuff where I really need my brain power the brain power that I have I use that first thing in the morning so creating writing anything that I have to do that I need as much power and and cognition as possible those things are the things that I do first in the day and then I arrange my coaching calls my meetings with AJ my business partner and anyone else as collaborations I do that after lunch and then lastly the moments where I'm connecting with friends family needing to reach out talk to people I do those things in the evening this allows me to focus on the things that I I need to be focusing on without distraction and I also know that there is a time allotted for the other things that I need to do in their appropriate time this allows me to give all of my attention to the tasks that I need to be doing so and then you can get slightly more granular with it by scheduling the things that you need to do in certain time slots reason being if you just say well as long as I get this done by the end of the day I'll be good what tends to happen is we tend to push things off and then because we've pushed things off to the end of the day of course we don't have much cognition we're already working on decision fatigue so we it's easy for us then to push things off our plate for the next day and because of that things are not getting done so I arrange my day in the three parts the three C's creative collaboration connection and then I actually schedule the times when I'm going to be doing those things so that I can give my complete focus to the tasks at hand and that certainly helps me with that I I after getting a shower I get dressed up I put on some clothes that I would be that are casual they're comfortable but that that are telling me mentally and emotionally that there is work to be done that I'm clocking in now for those of you who are living with family I there I'm by myself and there's pluses and minuses to that trust me I would love to have somebody to talk to perhaps that's why I'm going live with you all right here but tend to block out with that creative time the times you need most cognition let your family members know that this is the time during the day that you're need to be locked in that you're going into to do work that you need to be doing deep work deep thought and this will allow you to focus the attention that you need to those tasks you can tell your family you can tell your children to that afterwards that you're going to be able to have the time to devote to them to be with them and you can even schedule that time you don't have to let them know that you're doing that that helps you know when you're going to be doing those tasks also for myself I don't know about you guys but right now I'm going live in two places one of our other charm groups on Facebook the challenge if you guys would like to be a part of that I have to do is go to yard of charm.com slash challenge it's free and so and I'm also going live in periscope so I have two devices up and most of the day I usually have several devices because of all the work that I'm doing but I try to collect ideas that I want to flesh out on my warboard I have a dryer raceboard where I can put ideas up so that I'm just going to see them all day and because I see them on there all day it's a trigger to remind me that I that these are ideas that I need to flesh out no those ideas that I'm fleshing out they either go into content for our products they might go to content for the lives that I do or they might go to content for the podcast that we do for the art of charm so so that helps me collect ideas and then I have an opportunity to flesh them out when I have more of an opportunity and of course I if I see them up there and they haven't been fleshed out yet or I haven't spent that much time I can either do that during that creative time or I can schedule them for the next day for a certain time when I'm going to devote more cognition to that fleshing out of those ideas so those things certainly help me so there's about five tips for you guys to be able to manage working from home because let's face it for those of us who have the opportunity home we want to use this time wisely for our sanity for our emotional retainment mental retainment physical retainment and and come out of this hopefully as good as if not better than than going in I know plenty of people who have taken this opportunity to get some much needed work done and that's great on them if you're living with other people having an opportunity to dive into your work will give you a break and allow you to stretch the rubber band into another area into another way so that it doesn't get pulled apart and and that's one of the important things that we're going to have to take in consideration if you're around family you don't have much space it can be quite taxing so I have an interview to do for the grow podcast so I'm going to go if you guys have any questions comments if you have any tips that you would like to throw you can put them in the comments I would like to hear what those are if you're interested in any of the AOC stuff our private groups our coaching any of that you can go to our website or check out the art charm accelerator it is for you guys in the in the challenge group the accelerator address is above you for you guys on Twitter if you go to our Twitter page you'll see the accelerator there and I will talk to you guys probably tomorrow oh cheers alright guys have a good one