 So last week I had a very interesting question from a subscriber named Jake and he was wondering Since the lockdown happened, what have you been spending your money on like what are some big purchases you've made or just purchases in general? Since you can't go on do the normal things like eating at restaurants or going to the bar or going out and partying What have you been spending your money on? So I thought I could turn that into a fun video today and show you seven things that I have Spent or bought during this lockdown and also seven things that I can't live without That helped me run my business on a daily basis, so I'm gonna show you that those seven things It's it's actually 14 things in total, but it's gonna be an informal video more of a fun video I'm gonna show you around my desk here and show you different things that I use and that I have bought So number one is this mouse here. It's called the MX master 3 so Let's see I like it because it fits my hand nicely and it feels pretty I've never had a like expensive mouse before I have like a cheap logitech down there. This is a logitech as well, but I think it was a hundred and ten dollars So I got this on Amazon and the reason I like it so much. I love this mouse Is this first this vertical wheel? This is like the one that all mouses have but then also this in here this horizontal wheel so I Have a like a 24 a 27 inch Monitor here, and I have a MacBook Pro hooked up to and I'm constantly moving back and forth in different pages horizontally and vertically So usually I have to go down to the bottom of the page and click and drag it to the right drag it to the left But what this wheel here game changer, right? I can just use this to quickly go back and forth There's also these forward and back buttons that help you go quickly between you know forward forward a web You go to a website you go forward you go back, right? So it's the normal back and forth feature, but this mouse I think it was a hundred and ten dollars on Amazon. They call it a productivity mouse, and I would definitely agree with that Maybe more productive made me a lot faster in certain tasks that I'm doing all the time in my business or on my computer here So that's number one Logitech MX master 3 mouse number two is let's see This keyboard so let's see if you can hear this So that's that sound is so satisfying to me. I don't know why but it's a mechanical keyboard And I was looking for a wireless Bluetooth Mechanical keyboard for my Mac and I wanted a make an actual mechanical keyboard Which is the one that's why you hear that that sound there when you type when you type the keys It's really loud and plucky right so I like that. It's satisfying to me I think this was a so this is this is called the keychron K6 by the way you can go to keychron comm They started on Kickstarter I think their first model was called the keychron K2 and this one was just released It was just they just started to ship it out from their Kickstarter campaign So I just got this is their newest model the K6 It's more compact than the K2 and it's a mechanical keyboard that goes really well with a MacBook or any type of map Apple computer so that's number two the keychron K6 wireless mechanical keyboard Absolutely love this thing. I got it two weeks ago number three is my Kindle oasis So this is I was kind of hesitant about this right so this is a Kindle oasis It's their their highest level Kindle their most expensive one and I love physical books I love the way they smell. I love the way they feel I retain information a lot better from physical books But the reason I got this this Kindle oasis is it has a feature and I saw another youtuber named Eman Godsey He was talking about a Kindle oasis and how he can take notes and highlights certain things and I thought this would Be really good to have for myself as well as for my students and my clients whenever I read a new book And I usually read about a book a week I can highlight and take notes on these books and give it to my clients and give it to my students so that they can Benefit from my readings more like a cliff notes thing So I can buy books on my Kindle oasis and I can highlight certain passages or phrases Things that I want to remember in that book Lessons or whatever it is quotes from the book and have them all in one place Where I can read all those highlights and notes that I made from all of the books that I read all in one easy place now If you have a physical book what I would have to do is I would you know highlight the book I take notes on paper. I would put it in my phone. It's a lot more difficult to track all those things So I actually really enjoy this because it helps me to highlight and have all my notes and highlights in one place Which is so convenient as well as having your books all in one place So that's number three the Kindle oasis was number four The fountain pen so I actually just bought this last week and I am loving this thing so far Let's see if we can see the tip here I don't know if you can see that There we go. Well, you can see it's a bit of a sharper tip. How does it focus? Anyway, it's it's a bit of a sharper tip. This is like an old-school type of pen I think this one's called the pilot metropolitan. It was $30 or so on Amazon and I write a lot every day I do a lot of copywriting. I am let me see if I can grab this here. I Am always handwriting things and writing out old-sales letters from Legendary copywriters like Gary Halbert and Gary Bence of anger and like John Carlton and John Cables All those legendary copywriters are right out there like old order forms and their sales letters And it helps that there's a psychological trigger that happens when you write things out Physically where it registers and retains in your brain a lot better than just typing something out So I wanted a nice pen to use with that and this is my first fountain pen. I am really liking it so far Okay, so that's number. What number was that? One two three and I was number four number five print newsletters So this is a gonna see these things here. These are different print month print newsletters. We got one here For different types of topics. These are for marketing. This is called email players by a guy named Ben Settle It's all around email copywriting email marketing. This is called make it rain monthly from a guy named Chris Orzakowski Around a lot around automated email campaigns, and this is from a guy named Doberman Dan More on direct marketing direct response copywriting and just general business strategy, so each of these are $97 a month. So this is $300 a month right here and all they do is they ship me one of these newsletters It's like 16 to 20 pages or so and I learn new things every month from that, right? And there's one more I have as well from a guy named Matt fury He is like the king of email copywriting and email marketing one of the pioneers and so all into in total It's about $400 in monthly Payments that I make for these print newsletters and all they do is they send me the 16 to 20 page book or this This newsletter where I learned something new about a certain topic and these are all about marketing So these I all signed up to within the last month or month and a half or so during the lockdown and I am really enjoying these like it might not seem like a lot might seem super expensive to you If you're just starting your business to pay a hundred dollars for a piece of paper 16 pages of paper, but I am more of an experienced business owner now So I get a lot of value out of these print newsletters here, right? All I need is one little trick or insider tip or strategy to take me to the next level So I already got one thing in let's see make it rain monthly here. This is from Chris Orzakowski again I got one tip in here where I implemented it the next day and I instantly made a thousand dollars The next day just from implementing one little automated email campaign that I didn't already have in place And now that's just running automatically every single day week and month So all you need is really I wouldn't recommend you pick any of these up if you're brand new Starting a business for the first time, but if you are in business Maybe you're at the five or six figure mark or even the seven figure mark picking up these print newsletters. They're short They're concise and they're going to give you fast hard-packed lessons where you can implement immediately So these are that's number one two three four five that's number five. What else there's books There's physical books and there's kindle oasis books. So I actually bought these three during the lockdown physical books this one right here 16 word sales letter. This guy is Evaldo Albuquerque. He was he's a copywriter at Agora, which is one of the largest public publishing companies in the world I think they do close a billion or two billion dollars a year in revenue So they're a massive publishing company and this is all about writing sales letters So this guy's this specific copywriter generated nine figures in revenue in the last three years using the strategies in this book here So I think this was $37 on Amazon. I am reading through it now. I haven't read it yet So I can't comment on it. This one here is called almost alchemy by Dan Kennedy So the legend I haven't read this either, but it's about making any business of any size produce more with fewer and less So I picked this up because someone else recommended it to me They said it's all of Dan Kennedy's business lessons condensed into a book. Just why I picked this up And the third one is this email players schema book. So this actually came with Whereas it came with this print newsletter So email email players this book came with it for the first month that I signed up And it's all around email copywriting and email marketing So those are the three physical books that I picked up in the last month But I have six or seven books that I picked up on this thing on the kid to Loasis So let's see in the last month ten books or so in the last month and a half or so So yeah, that's number six is books and then the last thing number seven Things that I purchased during lockdown is this mat here See if I can show it to you So I don't know if you can see this but it is a it looks like a plain black mat And it's a it's called the topo to PO anti fatigue mat So I have a sit-stand desk and I'll show that to you in a second as well But I have a hard time standing for a long period of time before I had this mat So this the mat I just showed you helps me to stand for three to four hours per day now without my feet getting too You know painful and sore so now I can stand a lot longer a more energy throughout the day whenever I have sales calls I am standing as well because it helps me to project my voice and have more energy during the call so that Matt I think it was a hundred and ten dollars or so and It's it's paying off so far. I usually stand half the day now So that's called the to PO topo anti fatigue mat It's if you if you have a sit-stand desk where you can go from standing to sitting to standing and I'll show you that in a second here But those are the seven items that I bought during lockdown So number one is this this mouse here logitech mx master 3. I'll link to all these below by the way Number two was this keyboard The keychron k6 that's probably my favorite thing that I bought number three was the kindle oasis here Number four was this fountain pen number five were these print newsletters I have four of them total each of them are ninety seven dollars a month Number six are these books here to help me with my knowledge and number seven was the Anti-fatigue mat. I just showed you okay now business things that I can't live without things I use on a daily basis to help me run my business and make it easy for me. So first. I don't know where it is There we go The first thing is my iPhone so I use it mainly for Keeping track of my schedule. So today's Monday. We've got a bunch of calls here lined up So the of course your iPhone it helps me to take calls and then I also use the keep track of my day So my calendar, that's the main thing that I use it for number two is my sit stand desk So it's gonna be kind of messy, but this is my desk and you can see right here If you press one of these buttons and this is called the autonomous AI if you guys want to pick it up I'll link to it below it allows you to Make your desk rise so you can stand during the day and helps with energy levels So that's my desk number three is the this chair here This is called the ergo chair to and from the same company autonomous AI and it's super comfy And I can lean all the way back if I set it to So when I'm reading I usually have it set back like this But if I'm working I'm usually standing or I have it locked into place over here So this is called the ergo chair to and this from the it's from autonomous AI Which is the same company as at this desk next we have the LG 27 inch. So this is the screen that I work off of okay, super simple and Yeah, it's it's just it's just a plain old monitor and I use it every day I plug it into my MacBook Pro and it helps me to have a bigger screen to work on number five is this full focus planner now this is I think from a guy named Michael Hyatt and I plan all my days in this thing So you can see plan your day hour by hour I don't know if you can see that hour by hour. I have my affirmations here my Every day I write down three things I'm grateful for and then I write down my goals every day my three big objectives for the day In here as well and you can track your day your week your month in here So I recommend you get a written planner the digital planners don't work for me I can't keep track of those but this written planner I've been using those since I quit my job like four years ago. So written planners I need that I use it every single day to write down my goals my objectives and also my affirmations and things I'm grateful for every day next is a physical notepad. So Here we go. I already showed you this but every day I'm writing notes and thoughts and maybe sometimes journaling and I also hand write a lot of Copywriting stuff. So sales letters and order forms and emails I like to write those by hand and it imprints it into my brain learning from all the legends that have already made it work Okay, so that's a physical notepad number six is this thermo flask so you can get a hydro flask I don't know what you guys use but get a big water bottle because Most people that I talked to they don't drink enough water, right? I drink maybe this is 32 ounces I'll drink maybe six of these every day. Okay, and I can my my girl for my fiance She she doesn't even drink half of that I'm trying to get on to get on her about drinking more water But if you're an entrepreneur, especially and you're doing sales calls and you're talking to people You need to drink a lot of water. So I have this I usually drink it drink six full of these every day 32 ounces grab something like this you can get it for like 20 bucks on Amazon lastly You can't see it, but I am using something called a Canon G7 X mark 2 That's the camera that I'm recording on right now for anyone. That's wondering and those are the seven things that I use My business that I can't live without number one my iPhone number two the sit-stand desk from Autonomous AI Number three is the Ergo chair which I'm sitting on right now Ergo chair to Also from Autonomous AI number four is my LG 27 inch monitor to help me with just having a bigger screen to work on My full focus planner to write down my objectives my goals my affirmations things. I'm grateful for our journaling I have a physical notepad to write down and handwriting sales letters and copywriting practice I have my thermo flask for water stay hydrated stay energized and then lastly my Canon G7 X mark 2 What you record all my YouTube videos on that you guys learned from so I hope you guys enjoyed this video I gave you a little look into What I'm using on a daily basis types of things that I like and that I buy and hopefully you'll get some ideas for For your home office or things that you might want to buy to make yourself more productive in your life in your business So that's it for this video. Hope you guys enjoyed it Give me a like if you did comment below if you have any questions or if you have recommendations on things I should buy as well. Let me know, but take care and I'll see you in the next video