what's up, everybody? pat flynn here and i'mso excited because i've shown bits and pieces of my home office before in different videosand pictures and a lot of you have been asking, "pat, when is that tour video of that homeoffice of yours is going to come out?" this is exactly what this video is. i'm going toshow you and take you around different parts of the room and show you the different partsof it and they're very specific to different things that i do. whether you work from homeor a coffee shop or whatever you work, you're going to get a few things out of this. first,you're just going to see the different kinds of work that i do and why it's important tohave a specific environment where you do those certain things.you can get in that right mindset but also
hopefully it will give you some inspirationfor something to work for to because this is definitely not how it was in the beginning.it took a number of years and a lot of hard work to get this level. i'm not about dreamcars and dream vacations and things like that, i'm about the dream office because this iswhere i produce a lot of what i produce for you guys. after the bumper, you're going toactually see some old footage of my very first office when i started my own online business.stay tuned, check it out, and thanks again for watching spi tv.i remember my very first office in a one-bedroom apartment with my wife and we just gottenmarried and it was just a little dinky corner in the kitchen space and it was hardly anyroom at all. i made it work and i remember
shooting this video back in 2008 and it waspretty crazy. i think it was 2009, maybe, but just to show that you don't necessarilyneed an incredibly big and spacious office. you just need a place to do your work. wheneveryou get into that work mode mindset, you sit down or you stand up or whatever it is thatyou do when you work and that's your location to do that, and that's probably the biggestlesson i've learned in terms of having an actual space is that when you go in there,you can check in mentally to do that work that you need to do, but then when you leavethat space, you can check out mentally, which is really important, as well.it worked really well in this little tiny space. from there, then we rented a houseand i had my office for the first time and
that was really nice, having my own door thati can close, especially when we had a kid and the kid was making all this noise or wantedto come in the room all the time. then now, we are in this office that i was able to buildfrom scratch and i knew that this was going to be a place that i wanted to invest a lotof money in, but i want to walk you around just the different parts of what you see.a lot of people have been asking, "what's this? or how does this work?" i put a lotof thought and care into this and it was really cool because i got to tap into my architecturepast to help make this happen. i did create some design drawings and theni shared those with the interior designer that i hired, and then she shared it withpeople who are going to construct it. here
we are. of course, thanks to the hero cam,we're able to see more of the space, which is why i have it on right now. let me closethe door real quick and there we go. this is the space and i'm walking through all thedifferent parts of it. it was definitely built from scratch and it's my dream office. i hadit very, very specifically laid out for all the different tasks that i do and i'm goingto share those things with you each various space has a very specific reason and for beingthere. i'm going to show you exactly what each space is all about right now.the first thing you'll probably see is this thing in the middle here, this very largestand-up desk, and this is one of my favorite spots because standing up while working hasbeen one of the best things for me in terms
of just staying focused and being able tojust get off my butt a little bit because it's nice to stand up, it's good for yourback. if i have to sit down, i can pull out one of these stools, these stools are strategicallyplaced under there so they don't take up much of the room.this room isn't really that big, i would say maybe it's 14 feet by 16 feet, maybe, butit is definitely utilized in a way that it maximizes the productivity and the uses ofeach of the spaces. as you can see, there isn't much wall space left but it's not justa bunch of shelves, either. it's a bunch of strategically placed items. the stand-up deskis really cool and i love it because this surface, which you can see throughout therest of the office, as well, is writeable,
so i can actually go into my drawer here andpull out one of these markers and i can write on the surface if i wanted to and erase withone of these chamois later on. you might recognize these post-it notes frommy previous episode of spi tv, episode 1 where i walk you through my book writing process,and all this is laid out here not only because i write here but behind me i write on this... it's not really a whiteboard, it's a glassboard, this is a frosted glassboard and you can hearit and maybe you can see me there in the reflection a little bit.essentially what this is, is my whiteboard and i like it because it's a little more stylish,the regular dry erase whiteboards don't really do justice to some spaces and i wanted tomake sure that this just looks really good
and fit in the space nicely. it connects prettyinterestingly in the back here using these little pegs that hold the glass together,which is really cool. now you might see here on the ground the infamous, hello, my nameis pat backpack, which some of you all have seen at conferences before. i always wearthis when i'm at conferences, you also see something like that on my website at smartpassiveincome.com,as well. now, i'll get into some of the other importantparts of the space right now. this is the planning area. as you can see, there's nocomputers here or anything. this is essentially where i sit down to do a lot of planning,scheduling, and things like that, and you can see here this giant calendar, which isessentially the whole year laid out. now i
do have a lot of the end of the year hereopen for various products but i do have a lot at the beginning, q1, q2, and q3, filledout quite a bit. some other interesting parts here, there'smy diploma from cal and let's see, college of environmental of design, that was wherethe architecture program was, it's really cool. this is a foam roller, i sit on thefloor here every once in a while and do some foam rolling to wake myself up a little bitif i'm feeling a little tired. it's good for the muscles and tissue, as well. books thatyou might recognize from some posts that i've written before. other books. fun little tidbit,my interior designer, who i hired to help create the space, said that books look reallygood when you take the covers off. if you're
trying to design a nice elegant space, youcan take the cover off and this is actually the 4-hour body, which you might recognizeis green and [inaudible 00:06:20] book, but take the cover off and it's a nice lookingblue book right there for you. there's me at the platform conference, andyou might recognize this from the last video, as well. i got a lot of comments on it. thisis a hoverboard, actually. let me take this out really quick. this is a hoverboard fromback to the future 2 and it's not a real hoverboard but it does look like it, and this was purchasedon etsy.com. it's a real cool and i'm a huge back to the future fan, if you couldn't tellalready, from the hoverboard and the back to the future lego set there, and this isreally cool. an artist sent me this, who was
a fan of spi. if you look closely, i thinki can get in here, you might be able to see some of the threading. this is thread andyarn that is made on beeswax to put that together. a fan sent me that and it's so awesome.it says pat to the flynn, spi, which is super cool. this is my planning space and i sitdown here when i'm doing a lot of planning for the year, essentially. don't use thisspace very often, it's more decorative than anything right now, to be honest. here inthe center console you might notice this large tv and this is really cool. i love this becausewhat i do sometimes is i can pull out this keyboard, see if i can do this for you liveright now. this is a cool keyboard because it's bluetooth, this is a logitech keyboard,i can turn on the television for you, hopefully
that turns on, and at the same time, i canpress f2 to toggle that device, press enter, and maybe you'll see apple tv there.apple tv is right there, which is pretty cool. let me see if i can pull up something foryou. i think there's a youtube channel, right? maybe i can pull up smart passive income orspi tv, actually. let's search and let's do spi tv, and see if anything comes up. in themeantime, i got some really cool things to share with you here. on this side, which isactually where i spend most of my time. you'll notice these two screens, which are just wherei do a lot of writing and things like that. this is my main screen here, this is a secondaryscreen. this is an older imac 27-inch, this is one of the newer retina display 27-inchimacs, i love it. it's where i do my writing
and stuff, although i do a lot of my writingup here on this and if you look under here, you'll actually see some stools. oftentimes,i'll pull one of these out, set up my laptop up here, and i can work, i can actually useapple tv and airplay to show what is on my laptop on the screen, as well.speaking of screen, this came up and one of the things i love to do on this screen, aswell, is pull up my keynote presentation so i can practice my keynote presentations. let'ssee if i can get episode 1 up here running for you while ... that's pretty cool. oneof the things i like to do is not only keynote presentations and i'll often walk here whilepracticing my presentations while looking at my slides up here, i'll oftentimes justwatch youtube videos and coursework here and
just sit at this stool and i'll just sit hereand learn and take notes and things like that. it's almost like i'm watching a lecture, whichis really cool. i find that i learn better sitting in thisspace up here than right there on the computer where i potentially can be distracted andthings like that. what i have to do is go on this computer, set up a course or playa youtube video from there, or even just straight off of apple tv, and then i can stay focusedand not get distracted and take notes as i need to.i'm going to put this stuff back and just another fun little fact here. this littleoutlet here was probably the biggest problem of the whole entire office. there were a lotof things that took time but this little bugger
right here took a lot of time and effort becauseit was installed later. i decided that i needed an outlet and it comes with a couple usb ports,too, as well. we had to go inside, cut holes, put electrical things all in the guts of thistable. they all run underneath here and through the wall. that took a lot of time.anyway, let's go to this space here. this is, again, the corner that i spend most ofmy time at. you'll notice the heil pr-40 for those of you who are podcasters, you mightrecognize this microphone. this is one of the top podcasting mics although you don'tnecessarily need this top podcasting mic to sound like a top podcaster, the atr2100 byaudio-technica is great, as well. there's my smart passive income mic flag, which isreally cool. you can go to impactpbs.com to
get your own mic flag just like that.the arm is really cool because it connects right into the desk right there. there's ahole in the desk. the actual device that comes with this arm typically falls apart or thepart that's supposed to keep it from sticking or from moving around falls off, so i justsaid, "hey, let's drill a hole in the counter and let's stick it there," and it works reallywell. typically when i'm podcasting, i actually have this up here and swing it around likethat so then i can talk right here while looking at the screen and i like podcasting standingup. i feel like i have fuller volume, i am just more alert and more focused, and oftentimesi'll be doing skype interviews in the same fashion, as well.some other cool parts about this space and
tidbits. this is a shelving area that wasput up here. originally it was just stacked full of books, the whole thing was books.the books were moved to the library in the other room but my interior designer came inbecause she loved this space so much that she wanted to take pictures for her portfolio.she got a lot of these little books and little boxes and coral and vases and bottles fromher house and she brought them here. i liked the way she set it up so much that i justhalf jokingly said, "hey, i'd love to buy that stuff off of you because it looks greatthere." she said, "okay." i bought all those things and they stayed there and i adorn themwith some of my camera stuff and other things that were important to me.you can see the trumpet up there, i played
trumpet in marching band in high school andcollege. a bear because i graduated from uc berkeley. of course, i got the delorean withworking gull wing snad you can actually convert to a flying machine, as well, which is reallycool, from back to the future 2. this is a baseball signed by nolan ryan, my favoritebaseball player, which is super cool. thank you, azul, for hooking that up for me. thisis a lightsaber. if you've been following me on instagram, you might have seen my halloweencostume. i was darth vader for halloween. if you push up on this button, yeah. exceptthis segment, for some reason, does not turn on so it's already broken.i usually don't turn it on for people because of that reason but you're in my office, thisis an insider look of pat's office so you
get the full deal here. let's see. let's goto this space. i love this space, too. there a lot of cool things that happen in this space.i'll talk more about the fabric and the acoustics in this room, too, because that was a hugeproblem, but this is really cool. it's one of my favorite parts of the room, and that'san image of me at new media expo last year, 2014, presenting about how to convert yourcasual audience into raving fans. the cool thing about this piece of fabricis that it's not just a canvas, it's a piece of acoustical fabric. it was specially printedcustom on this fabric and it absorbs sound in this room so there's less echo. you'llalso see these edison lights, which are really cool, on either side. this is the banket area,it's what my interior designer called it and
it's sort of my thinking area. i sit hereand read sometimes. it's just very relaxing area. seating but also smart with some storageunderneath, as well, and things like that. now this is one of my all-time favorite partsof my room. this is behind all these cards if a 5-foot board that is similar to thatone, not printed on but an acoustical panel to, again, absorb sound but on this i've pinnedall my thank you notes and letters from fans of smart passive income and people who i'vehelped with their business and this isn't all of them, not by far but when i'm downand when i'm out and when lacking motivation, i'll oftentimes just turn around and lookat this board and just, this thing always gets me fired and some people have sent metheir first dollars or this person sent me
$5 that they've made online, their first $5because they promised that's what they would do.it's just so cool. i got videos, i got magic cards because somebody knows i like magic:the gathering. this is one of my all-time favorite spots of the room and that's whyit's right there next to my i guess you can call it my ... not my phone, my phone's rightthere, my meditation chair. i do a lot of things on this chair and i'll share anotherangle of me utilizing this space but this is where i'll meditate using what you seehere and also journal. this is the five-minute journal, you can check it out at fiveminutejournal.com.this really cool table, also, cuts away to have some magazines here, as well. i havesome iblog magazines, i'm an adviser for them,
inc magazine, jessica alba, super cool.okay. going back to this space. what else can i tell you about this space? this is reallycool. this is a usb charger here. this upper left one, for some reason, they tell me thatit charges two or three times faster than these other ones, so i always plug it in there.i don't know if that's true but i plug it in here anyway when i'm charging my phoneor ipad or whatever. i use that actually quite often.i have a lot of storage space in here, as well. what's cool is the drawers close niceand quickly. one thing you'll notice about this room is that the wires are virtuallyhidden and that's one thing that was important to me because i didn't want to get distractedand i don't like seeing wires everywhere.
all of that is in the walls or inside thecabinets and you'll see that when i open this cabinet, this is where all the internet stuffis and when you go in here, it looks pretty messy. i got my router, my internet, and allthat stuff. my printer and stuff, if i move this over, this is where my printer and ihave another usb cord here. my sound mixer because i don't need to touch it very often.this is a scanner, which should have been closed, save as much power as we can, of course,and my printer is up there, so i just easily wireless print something and it prints onthis hp printer here. this is a ... you probably can't see it becauseit's all dark but it's an hp laserjet p1102w. it's the thinnest printer that i've seen soit fits in that space really nicely, and then
some paper there, as well.now you'll notice these red boards here. these are actually padded. this is more acousticalpaneling on either side of the television here so it frames it quite nicely. the windowsare roman shades, which also absorb sound, too, and i like this little white border thatmy interior designer insisted be placed there and i'm really glad she said to do that becausethey look really good. now if you look up, you'll notice these tracklights. these are also really cool, something i've never had in a home before. they do addsome modern elements to the space and they also point in different directions to highlightcertain things. you'll notice up on the top some more books and some memorabilia, stufffrom my college years, and of course, more
back to the future items and yeah, let mecut to the video of me using this space because this is really important. i use this spaceevery single morning when i wake up and so i'm going to show you some video on exactlywhat i do here and then we'll wrap up. this is my favorite chair in the room. thisis actually an ikea chair that was just reupholstered for a couple hundred bucks and next to itthere's a little coffee table and i love this space because i do a lot of my thinking andreflection in this space and i use this space mainly in the morning in my morning routine,i come down, i get a glass of water, i get the water boiling so that when i come backout of this office, i can then have my bulletproof coffee. typically when i do, when i sit downhere and is i journal. journaling is the first
thing i do. thank you, caleb, for the journal.this is the five-minute journal. i've been writing in this every day for the last, atthis point, 30 days, and it's just been life changing to be able to write down why youwake up during the day and what you appreciate and what you hope to strive for and then atnight before you go to bed, you talk about the things you accomplished and then you writedown what you wish you could have done better, and that's really cool.i also use this table to meditate and to help me meditate, because i've always had issueswith meditating, but this is the spot where i do it, and again, i have certain spots wherei do certain things. i could meditate here or there but i have it here just so i'm inthat routine and i know that this is a spot
and i can check in mentally to that stateof mind. to help me meditate, i use this device. you've probably seen me talk about this beforeon the blog. if you go to choosemuse.com, you'll see what this device is all about.it's a brain-sensing headband. you put it on like this and what i do is i typicallysit down and i'm going to sit down and share and show you what i do for 7 to 12 minutesevery morning. i look like this. yeah, that's basically it, but i'm listeningand i don't have my headphones on right now but actually what's happening is with this,it senses your brain activity and when you have an active brain, you hear crashing wavesand loud wind. when you have a calm brain, you hear hardly any wind at all, maybe littletrinkles of water, and if you are calm for
a certain period of time, you also hear maybesome birds chirping in the distance. it's really, really cool. it's helping me validateif i'm doing it correctly because that was the biggest issue for me with meditation.i didn't know if i was doing it right. this tells me if i'm doing it right, which is reallycool. i love sitting in here. i also read in here,as well, and this is, again, my improvement area in the room. i get my work done overthere but this is where i sit down, i relax, i journal and meditate, i read, and i loveit. i can also be right next to what matters most to me besides my family, it's just youguys. i showed you all these different spaces inmy room, space for getting stuff done, planning,
and then my meditation, self-improvement area,and i know a lot of you might not have a home office and even if you do, i might not bequite as intricate and planned out as this one. maybe you get most of your work doneat a coffee shop. it's up to you. you have to figure out what works best for you andi'd like to see where you work, as well. where do you get your work done? where do you doyour planning? where do you do your meditation stuff? maybe it's all in the same spot. i'dlove to see it. if you go to watchspi.tv and find episode 2 of spi tv, you can actuallyleave a comment and leave a picture of your workspace, too. i'd love to see what you havegoing on and where you do most of your work. thank you again for coming and visiting meat my home in my home office today. i really
appreciate you taking the time, and again,for all the requests to view it, i wasn't originally going to share it but this is prettycool. it's been really fun. thank you and make sure to go watchspi.tvto subscribe to the show and more videos coming every friday and you can view the archivethere, as well. i appreciate you. thank you so much and i look forward to your workspaceon the blog, as well. cheers.