 What is going on everybody it is Friday 16th of April 2021 Hey James. What's going on buddy? It's cloudy and 64 Fahrenheit. All right. Let's see if I can trump you today Oh, yeah smack the like button man. He reminds me every time guys Would you do me a favor and smack that like button? I would really appreciate it if you did that All right. Oh, that's funny. I just looked down. I saw one of my own ads targeting me. That's kind of funny So what is the weather today James? Let's check this stuff out. It is going to be 69 today Oh, good. You can hear me. Awesome. He says loud and clear in Savannah Man, I want to get back to that buffet there. Yeah, man I bet that buffet is so good in Savannah and the pink house is so good in Savannah. I want to get back there Okay, it looks like it's 69 But it feels like it's 55 so it's not that bright and sunny here today Oh, well today's our Friday lunch day guys and before I get into all that Hey, this this live is to help you guys start running grow your online businesses So any questions you have about starting running and growing your online business feel free to put in that chat section I love to get your questions comments suggestions, whatever you want to put put it there Even if this isn't live to you. You're watching the recording, you know Go in there and put your questions. I come back and I answer those things I usually sit down a few times a week and go through and answer everybody's questions. So feel free to do that I love getting your questions and comments and all that stuff in there And during while I'm talking, you know anything you pops into your mind You want to ask me? I will look down there and I will check those out and I will answer those questions for you So there you go Today we're going to talk about decluttering your smartphone If you got one of these It's like I've got like so many apps on here But I do have some organization and I'm gonna give you 10 steps where you can kind of organize your smartphone Man phones have come so far I remember when I had my flip phone and they were talking about having phones where you could text people And I thought who the heck is going to type out a bunch of words on their phone I mean just give them a call And I got to tell you I don't talk to anybody on my phone But I think my daughter and son but outside of that, you know, unless it's a business thing I have to do I don't I don't talk on my phone. I don't know you can put in the comments Do you guys talk on your phone? How often do you actually have a conversation on your phone? Almost everything is text, right? I mean we don't do anything but text and then they talked about apps to do things I thought what the heck is an app and you know, what am I going to use an app for I'll never use that And now that's what I do all day long as I use my apps. You'll sip your real quick So that's cool that you have these apps, but isn't it true that your phone gets like Incredibly cluttered after a while. I mean ridiculously cluttered. I have so many apps on my phone And I'm using some of these techniques. I'm gonna tell you today, but man if you don't Go through and declutter your phone every now and then you are screwed I mean it gets ridiculous on your phone. So what I want to do is I want to go through Some of the things you can do to you know declutter your phone So that you don't have all these issues and you get a little bit more organized so unless you guys got anything else right now, I'll just go ahead and get started on that and Give you some suggestions And I do want to at the end of this tell you what I'm gonna be doing for the rest of the day today Tell you what I'm gonna be doing this weekend So you can kind of get an idea, you know, if you want to be a digital marketer I'll give you an idea of what you got to do And I will tell you I do a lot of work and that's where I lose most of my audience Is I'm not the person who's gonna tell you that you can work a few hours a week and make a million bucks a year Because you can't it doesn't work that way And I think it's funny because I do have some friends who are digital marketers and they sell these programs on how you Can just work a few hours a week and make millions of dollars and they themselves work their butts off They're constantly working, but they're selling programs tell you you don't have to work. So I don't know how that works But they do it Let's see James Breen says he is over 90% text. Oh, yeah, I think I am too James But you know what I've done which helps me a lot is I use talk to text because I'm not a good typist So then when it comes to the screen, we're gonna use a couple thumbs or something. I'm really bad So I just hit that talk to text button and it's pretty darn good as long as you enunciate That talk to text works pretty good So let's talk about all these things on your phone now the first thing you can do to declutter your phone And this seems really painfully obvious But some of us just don't do it and that's number one delete unused apps Okay, if you've got apps on your phone and you're not using them. Why don't you just delete them? I mean we've all downloaded an app and we discover it wasn't as useful as we once thought Or it cultivates our need to use it, you know, like, you know You just need to clean out our phone get rid of all that stuff. Okay, purging your phone of apps You no longer use will keep your phone running fast. That's another thing your phone can slow down and clutter free I've been doing that as the time to look through a bunch of random apps just to find one They actually need so the first thing is just go in there and delete stuff before you do any of the other things I'm gonna tell you today. Just go in and delete delete delete delete delete. Go and do that number two number two is Hide less frequently used apps Now you probably have a few apps and tools on your phone and you may use them, but you don't use them as frequently excuse me, but What you want to do with these is it may be I could be something like a photo editing apps up like that or games or I don't have any games I just I can't do the games thing or proprietary apps that are pre-installed on your phone with the operating system Some of these apps were not even able to delete So we kind of want to hide them someplace else and others come in handy on down the road So if you if you got an Android phone, which I do not but if you do you can install an app hiding App there's an app hiding app called Nova launcher or apex launcher which allows you to store apps in drawers, okay, if you've got like to say an Android phone So they won't clutter up your home screen Depending on your phone model You may be able to create your own app folders Which I do and I'm going to talk about that in a second on iPhones You can create your own app folders. You have to worry about it when that's number three Number three is create your own app folders. Now. That's what I did. I've got one that is travel I got one that's restaurants, you know, I've got different, you know, as I look through here Let me see here. What do I have? And I went and scrolled to another screen I've got travel like I said restaurants. I've got business. I've got social media So I've got all these different ones that I use So that I can put a whole lot of different ones in there And I do keep my food and travel ones on the main screen there because I use those so much But you can certainly create these folders. They'll help keep your phone from being cluttered and distracting And it's even helpful to put time-eaters like Facebook and Instagram into folders that way It's not the first app. You automatically open when you open your phone. Okay, you don't go to these stupid things number four Organize your apps by task. Okay, so if it fits Your organize if it fits your organizational style You can create folders based on what your various apps do for example, you know, create a scheduling folder If you have that an organizing folder communication folder, whatever it is You can create folders for workout help fitness Whatever you want to do and keep those apps in that particular folder Organizing apps by task will help you find exactly what you need when you need it It also helps keep you focused on the task at hand. So you won't get tempted to check out social media Oh my god social media such a time suck when you really are attempting to access your banking info So I think that's a really good idea My phone is running slow because I'm running out of storage got to do something soon You know James, I would also suggest you use like I don't know if you have an iPhone or an Android But I've got an iPhone and I use Apple storage the cloud thing they have And that helps a whole lot to put stuff there But I will I will touch upon that a little bit more in just a second also The other thing you can do is organize your apps By usage with emojis. Okay, so you can actually use emojis You can also organize folders by usage Create folders for your most frequently used apps And you're less frequently use apps Move less used folders to another screen. So don't even keep them on your main screen move them to another screen You know you slide through all the screens put them on a screen that you don't use that often On your iPhone, you could organize your folders using emojis, which you know are kind of visually appealing Use the runner emoji to name the folder for you. Let's say your health and fitness. Okay, that makes sense to you Use the typewriter or pin for blogging apps or use a phone emoji to represent communication tools There's tons of emojis to use and it certainly makes the app Excuse me Finally a whole lot more fun now iPhones I have an iPhone I like iPhones because whatever I do on my iPhone it goes to my computer It goes to my ipad it goes to my watch it goes to every device I have And I really like that because it helps keep me organized So what you want to do is organize your dock and home screen on your iPhone So you want to keep your home screen and your dock organized by storing only the apps you most often use So like on my home screen here What I've got is just the apps that I'm going to use on a daily basis and you know a lot of times I'll look at this and I'll say am I using these apps or these apps that I'm using And so far if I look at it today. Yeah, these are all apps I'm using I like to look at I look at my stocks too many times during the day, but it's interesting watch and go up and down But I have a folder here Like right here. I have one this is finance. I don't know if you can see it or not This is finance and when I hit the finance one it goes to and let me go right here So I can see what you guys are seeing But when I go to the finance one, it's got PayPal. It's got navy fed. It's got credit karma It's got loans. It's got stocks and it's got Thinkorswim and thinkorswim is my There it is. Okay thinkorswim that is my app for my stocks through a TD Ameritrade And I like to look at those a lot so I do James brain motorola z play android. We have gotten into A serious relationship I know it's funny. I mean as kids we could have never Dreamed of any of this stuff and now we use it every single day and we don't think twice about it Somebody posted the other day on facebook One of the stereo systems we had like in the 80s and 90s where they had all the stack amplifiers and mixers and all that stuff And I made the mistake and they said, you know, that's what we all dreamed of in the 80s and 90s And I made the mistake of saying yeah, and now the sound of my cell phone is just as good And oh my god did that piss somebody off some guy was like i'm an audiophile and that's not true because You can't get this sound and this he just went into all this detail I was like, oh my gosh, you're way too much in the music and sound that's for sure but The point is things have improved so much now. I mean, this is so much better now. Um, so Uh, that was number six. I did the iphone one, right? Okay, cool. Uh, number seven is for android Keep your home screen minimal minimal android users can access their apps From the apps section tray drawer, whatever you want to call it. Uh, for most they're sorted alphabetically But if you've got a samsung User apps are sorted by most recent downloads Now that's kind of goofy because you could have downloaded something recently and it may not even be a great app It may just be something that you downloaded to check out to see how it works. Now you've got it on your phone. So That's not exactly a great way to do it Keeping your home screen organized To only the apps that you regularly use will really help you declutter your phone too So limit your home screen to maybe six or nine apps Um, like iphone users focus on organized and key communication tools You use most often you want to include, you know, like your email your texting now on an iphone The ones that I most use Let me pull it up here for a second has this like strip on the bottom here So those are the ones I most use. Okay, and that is like, um, my phone. Obviously my email Facebook, which I don't know why I have that there. I don't use facebook that often and also Internet so if I you know wanted to want a browser or something like that Store your less frequently used apps on other screens. Um, you'll still be able to access Everything by scrolling through, you know, your app tray or whatever Or by visiting another screen, but your home screen will become your go-to hub for productivity And that's you know nowadays. There's so much coming at us that we're really trying to be more productive on a daily basis You know, that's what we're trying to do and be less cluttered I know on fridays and I'm going to get back to that was number seven I got eight nine and ten yet, but on fridays. We kind of dial it back a little bit. We don't work as hard As a matter of fact every friday we go out to lunch somewhere We pick a cool place to go and have a nice meal. Um, and that's what we do on fridays But you know people will say well, my god, you're taking a whole day off Not really. I mean, I'll I'll do a little bit of work maybe in the afternoon or something But it is a chill day for me, but saturday and sundays. I normally work sundays I don't work a full day, but I'll do something and my wife has a live on sundays But you ought to check that out, man. If you if you if you've got a dog you want to check out her stuff on sundays She's a amazing dog trainer and she always has something really cool on sundays So if you want look up, let me see. I'll put it in here Check out the furry family coach jessica l fisher on youtube Now check her out guys. Uh, I just talk text that in there. Um, she always has a really cool q and a on sunday And I think it's at 11 30 a.m So you want to check that out and it's live q and a so you can actually talk to her Ask questions about your dogs all that stuff All right number eight I mentioned this briefly in the beginning use cloud storage Excuse me to save memory on your phone james, and I was just talking to you about that Back up the information to the cloud evaluate your highest areas of memory use of usually it's going to be like photos And my photos gets really clogged up because like I'll do a screenshot of something to show it to somebody And then I forget I did that and I've got all these random screenshots on my phone Which I don't need so every now and then you just got to go through and get rid of all that garbage But the other things that take up a lot of space or documents music video files Store them on the cloud service rather than on your phone. You just you don't need them all the time If you're an android user, uh, you can check out dropbox, which actually dropbox works for, um, apple too You can check out amazon drive Microsoft one drive google drive. I use google drive too This may already be preloaded on your phone iphone users can use iCloud Which is the one I talked about and I think I pay like two dollars and ninety nine cents a month or something like that Or you can use one drive as well google drive for ios and dropbox is also available for iphone like I said Some cloud servers are free, but most require a monthly fee depending on the size of your files I pay for dropbox. I pay for iCloud. I pay for so many things. God knows it drives me crazy sometimes Fortunately, the fees are nominal You can use a cloud service for your computer. You can typically use the same For your phone and it's covered under your monthly charge Number nine. Number nine. Let's get to number nine here. We're almost to number 10. My god, we're moving along today It's only what nine seventeen. We're getting a lot of stuff done Let's see here James says controversy is good for creating passion and participation You are 100 right my man You know, if you're a little bit controversial, you know, you're gonna you're gonna be shaking things up And people are gonna be mad at you or they're gonna be happy with you They're gonna jump on your side or you're gonna, you know, be pushed away from you But controversy is certainly something And you know, I don't do it that much. I guess i'm controversial in as much as I tell people you got to work hard instead of You know, they don't have to work or they could make money However, I give them stuff that actually works and if they try it they find out that it actually works Number nine. What can you do stream music? Okay When you use a music streaming service, there's really no reason to clog up your phone with mp3 files I don't know why anybody stores any music on their phone Almost any music you want is available Spotify is one of the most popular streaming services with a free version or with ads For $10 a month you can get an ad free version and for $15 a month you can do your entire family You know, so why would you actually put files on your phone makes no sense Apple music pandora also soundcloud or also popular options Most streaming services offer Such a huge variety of music, you know suggestions extras You won't miss your mp3s guys. You just won't There's a great deal about streaming that there's no extra charge for your phone It feels strange at first and I know it does especially for those of you who grew up You know purchasing albums and cassette tapes and all that You don't own the music, but you can access at any time and it's all available on your phone So I mean really why bother? Let me get another step here. Why bother? Hey guys, feel free to put your questions comments suggestions in that chat section as we're talking today And also I do want to mention. Oh, I didn't mention you need to subscribe I should do that you need to subscribe and Ring the bell turn on all bell notifications so you're notified every time I go live Or I upload a video That's really important that you do that and give me a thumbs up if you don't mind I think we're down to number 10 already. Man, we're making some good time today. What time is it? Only been here 19 minutes. We're down to number 10 Plus some time for some questions if you want or I take off early either thing you want to do If you don't put questions in there that I'm out of here early number 10 Back up your photos and delete. That's one of the best things you can do Just start backing up all that crap and delete it. Okay Another huge source of phone clutter and phones Is photos photos photos photos. Oh my god, you know, they just clog up your phone so much because we're always taking pictures with our phone Now and a lot of the photos if you think about it, you don't even want anymore Okay, maybe you took a photo of a meal you had and sent it to a friend. You don't need to say that that's not important to you anymore We tend to take more photos In two minutes in the entire world snap in its entirety in entirety in the 1800s Did you know that so the number of photos taken to date Is in the trillions. That's a lot of photos guys. It's in the trillions Let's see. Paul says I find I make a monthly declutter day. That's really smart. It's really smart You know pick a day say, you know the first first day of the month or you know the 15th of the month or whatever I'm just going to go in and declutter stuff. Um, here's the thing though It's tough to narrow down photos and even delete them, especially photos of our kids or our loved ones Many of us want to keep every single moment even if their eyes are closed to the photo Or it's making a weird face or whatever it is. Um The point is you don't need them all And you're going to have memories in your head whether you have the photos or not You know, I I get a kick and I'm not making fun of people with tattoos But I get a kick out of the people who have a tattoo on their arms say well This is to remember my brother my sister my child my husband my wife And I'm like you can't remember them without ink on your arm. Is that really beyond you? once again not not real, um Accepting of tattoos, but I'm not a tattoo person. I'm just not I don't want to see all that stuff I just I think it's silly, you know, I look at it and I go well, geez anybody can get a tattoo But if you have them, you know, hey, I don't slight you for it. Just not my thing Uh, your video on how to write a book was grand slam out of the events Field ballpark. Well, thank you. James. That's very kind of you. I really appreciate that Um, you know anybody can write a book, you know, I used to be impressed with people who wrote books I was impressed. I remember when I was like 19 my sister I was four years older than me and she told me she was going to write a book and I want wow You're going to write a book. I thought wow, man, you are smart. You're going to write a book Um, she's now in her 60s and she hasn't written a book and I've written several So saying you write a book is one thing writing a book That's entirely a different thing. Um, here's the thing though It's tough to narrow down these pictures. So narrow down your photos. Delete duplicates We've got duplicates on our phone out here. We've got burst You hold down the button and it takes a whole lot of pictures of the same thing Get rid of all that crap. Only keep the best of the best, right? Then move your photos to photo storage like, you know, google photos or snap fish or flicker or something like that Um, let's see here back up your shots rather than keeping them on your phone Use print services like Shutterfly if you want to have a print out or Walgreens Costco Costco has a great print service to create keepsake photos if you prefer tangible Excuse me photos The single action alone will dramatically Improve your phone's performance and declutter your phone. So guys if your phone is slow The first thing you want to think about is photos photos photos because that's that's probably the culprit The next is probably going to be videos. Um, so get that stuff off of there Paul says off topic when you got divorced and we're wanting to start a business Did you have to do any credit repair? Um I mean, I I wasn't perfect on my credit back then today my credit's perfect I mean literally spotless perfect. Everything's perfect for probably over 10 years um You know credit repairs a funny thing I know people that make a living really teaching people how to be credit repair But credit repair really comes down to you know your debt to credit ratio. That's your biggest one I mean big big big, you know, I'll tell you how big it is. I literally have hundreds of thousands of dollars in credit cards Um, but I'll put like purchases on there for my business My beacon sore can be like a 823 one day and it can be a 650 the next day because I've charged a lot of stuff on a bunch of cards and then I pay it off every month actually I pay it off every few days um But having that uh percentage of debt to the amount of credit you have available can dramatically lower your credit score So that's the biggest thing you can do. Uh, and if you can't Pay off a lot of your credit cards The thing to do is apply for more because if you apply for more your amount of debt to credit card Actually goes down that percentage goes down and it's based on a percentage Get something like credit karma. It's a free app. You can get on your phone I use credit karma And you can click on it. You can see what's going on almost in real time. I mean, it's pretty accurate. You know, just sit here Um, so that's what I would suggest Um, but paying stuff off. I mean, that's the big key Um, trying not to have late payments I mean, this is easy to say if you have money because I remember when I didn't have money and people would tell me this I'm like, well, I don't have the money to pay it off So it was like useless information to me, but paying off your dad You know, and I'm on time having a low percentage of debt owed to credit cards Is very helpful and there's a lot of credit cards. I don't have fees anymore and a lot of times I'll just grab a credit card because Um, they're offering me a hundred and fifty dollars if I spend five thousand I'm like, yeah, I'll switch over to that credit card this month because I literally will put 50 a hundred thousand dollars on my credit cards paying for supplies for my business So I'll go ahead and grab all the and you know, I get like different cards We'll pay me three or four percent back too. So I mean some of my cards. I'll get fifteen hundred two thousand dollars a month back Just in percentages You know bonuses they give you so I I get that stuff every month, which is kind of nice Um, paul, what you got to say here, buddy? I love I love your comments The difference between those who write a book and those who don't is those who write a book do it Anything else is an excuse very true. Um, and it's not that hard. I mean really it's time consuming and it's really Man, you just look at it as this huge elephant But you know, it's like they say you eat an elephant one bite at a time You just do you know a pager to a day, you know and in a month you got a book, you know, it's really not that hard to do Um, let's see here James brain suggests everyone to read how I made 10 million dollars affiliate marketing by antoine walker Who began digital marketing back in 1999? He has a great life lessons. He's learned the hard way. Yeah, I don't know him But yeah, if you say it's a good book, I believe you. I have a great lunch piece and blessings always everyone change green Thank you so much secrets to success There is no try do yoda. So true there is I mean, you know success is um Success is basically a reward for those people who constantly fail Hey, I want to write that down. That sounds pretty good success is basically a reward for people who constantly fail And what I mean by that is if you just keep trying stuff and I do it all the time You know I was looking at my ads last night And I had a whole bunch of key words and placements that weren't working And I went through and I just deleted those and you know paused all those so that the ones that are kind of working get more play Um, but you know, that's a small example. It's just do stuff every day. You know, what have you done today? To allow yourself to be successful. You can't allow yourself to be successful. You don't do anything I mean you got to do stuff. It's the number one thing I see is 99.9 percent of people In the in the world just don't ever do anything. You know, I talk to people all the time about what they can do Um, I have a friend who's an actor over in England and he's brilliant. I mean great actor And he was going to do a channel where he taught people how to get jobs and acting Uh, and I've talked to him over the past few years. He hasn't done anything Hasn't done anything and it's like, you know, you got to do something That's what it comes down to is you got to do something or somebody will start something and then they quit It's that consistency. It's showing up every day I mean, I show up every day and do this live for you guys. But in addition to that, you know, I Film videos and I upload those videos. I upload five videos a week That's a lot of videos to me. I mean to some people they do five a day or whatever. I mean, that's insanity But it's it's that constant just drudging of doing it On wednesday, I did my videos, but I had a lot of other stuff going on because I wouldn't got the covid shot And I couldn't I had 12 scheduled and I only got eight done That was on wednesday So yesterday I had four left and I was looking at it and I was like, well, you know, I got four left I've got the scripts written. However, I've got enough in the hopper where I'll be fine for a couple weeks So maybe I'll just do those next week and then I finally I was like now go in your office and film the four friggin videos So late yesterday afternoon, I went and filmed the four friggin videos and got them done now They're behind me, but it's really forcing yourself to do these things you don't want to do Yesterday we had to work out. Yesterday was push-up day. Yesterday was all upper body day And I was like my arm was so sore from that that covid shot. I'm like, well, man, my arm is sore today It's gonna hurt too much and I'm like, no just go ahead and do your push-ups So you you have these battles in your brain all the time that are telling you not to do stuff That are uncomfortable for you if they're uncomfortable for you, they're probably good for you And I went ahead and did all my push-ups. I did my whole workout and it hurt it hurt But I was fine. I was fine. There was nothing wrong with me. Okay I had a sore arm suck it up buttercup You know success was a success is a journey not a destination That is so true and it's like every day pushing yourself guys every single day pushing yourself when you think Oh, I don't have to do this or I don't want to do this Do it do it anyhow do it anyhow. It's that's if I want to leave you with anything today That's that is that you got to do it anyhow. It's how we got 9 30. We did it. We did it We got it done by 9 30 guys. Thank you so much for listening to this. 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