Sleep. We know sleep is important and in this video I'll tell you how I learned how to sleep better because the thing is I have spent a lot of time and money on Learning how to improve my physical sleep. I've been tracking it through this ring, which is an aura ring It's a sleep tracker as you can see the little three bumps on the ring there that tracks my heart rate my blood pressure my movement body temperature all kinds of stuff and basically the goal is that I wanted to And maybe you can relate. Okay, I wanted to sleep for the minimum amount of time that I needed for my body and Still get the maximum benefits, right? So I wanted my sleep to be really efficient and I've learned a lot about how to do that and I'll teach you in this video So this is kind of similar to my other video about how to fall asleep in two minutes flat because when you improve your sleep You also fall asleep faster They kind of go hand in hand But this video is gonna be a bit different and more focused on the actual quality of the sleep instead of just falling asleep fast Okay, so when I say quality I mean things like how much of your sleep is REM how much is deep sleep? How much is you know light sleep and how much is being awake like how often in the night?  I mean that's what we all kind of want But you'll be surprised and it wasn't until I started tracking my sleep that I realized how bad my sleep actually was I was waking up, you know multiple times three of through between three and five times a night Sometimes I would stay awake for 20 minutes or half an hour My REM and deep sleep was super low I just you know the sleep wasn't good and this is why I had to basically learn everything from Scratch again because what I thought I knew was wrong clearly and it wasn't until I started tracking it that I knew that I'm gonna try not to repeat myself too much Compared to the other video, but let's just very very quickly go over some things that are the same So the first thing is that you need to be active during the day in the first part of the day Right, so you need to spike your cortisol in your heart rate not with coffee Coffee should wait until 11 a.m. Because that's when it's the most efficient way of taking it if you take it first thing You're just gonna be you just gonna have a huge crash in about two hours afterwards You need the coffee to be a boost and not a kickstart very important difference, right? You'll kickstart first thing in the morning should be from exercise whether that's press-ups, you know squats burpees walking Jogging cycling who cares just exercise in some way in the first hour of the day I'll ideally do it outside because then you're getting the vitamin D. You're getting the fresh air Natural sunlight all of that stuff. It's very important. Okay, so that's the first step The second step is of the first one the second part of the first one is no caffeine after 12 p.m The half-life of coffee or caffeine is six hours So that means if you have a cup of coffee at well, let's let's do the math So if you have a cup of coffee at 3 p.m Half of that coffee is still in your system at 9 p.m.   All right So the next step is, you know, I said this before but I'll just very quickly say it again. No water after Well, it varies depending on when you sleep. I would say 8 p.m Maximum 9 p.m. No water and no drinks nothing after that. No food after 8 p.m And also no screens after 8 p.m. I know it's strict But I promise you when you've if you just do it If you just follow these these things just for a few days or even a week I know it's strict But at the end of that week you will never go back because your sleep will be so good that you'll be worth it to you I know it sounds difficult, but it's I promise you it's worth it when you wake up every morning feeling super refreshed Energized strong, you know, you recover you heal at an insane rate Like when you get good sleep your body heals very fast not to mention this great for the immune system I haven't been sick in over two years and when I was last sick. It was very very like quick, you know It happened. I think Maximum for about just over 24 hours, right and people around me were being sick for two weeks three weeks You know flu long-term symptoms all this stuff No, if you get good sleep and if you if you've locked all this other stuff down Your body is incredibly resilient and it's very strong that the immune system is incredibly strong when you give it everything It needs.  Spend an extra half an hour working whatever Just give your energy and You'll fall asleep better. No huge meals before bedtime that kind of goes without saying no massive like digesting food As you're trying to sleep big meal at lunchtime If in my opinion that you should have your biggest meal in the middle of the day and then straight after that meal You walk it off so you go out for a long walk ideally half an hour or more And you burn off all that energy and then on top of that you can then consider things like supplements if you want to But I would recommend only doing that when you've got all of this other stuff locked down Okay, so next let's take this to a more advanced level now So if you're still with me now, hopefully you you know all that stuff is you know gonna work and you want the more advanced stuff so The more advanced stuff really comes down to optimizing your environment like so where you physically sleep Which is usually the bedroom right so the main things you can do is you need to make sure it's completely dark all the LED lights Any light source is gone? Blackout curtains blinds whatever. There's there's different ways of you know making that happen in your room You can get stick on things Electrical tape. There's all kinds of stuff. The next thing is your body needs to be warm But the room needs to be cold. I know that sounds a bit like a paradox. What I mean is the air in the room needs to be cold ideally between The but my favorite temperature is about between 14 and 16 degrees But you can go some people go cold that you could go down to like 10 even or less Below 5 I wouldn't recommend because it's just gonna be too cold for most people between 10 and 16 degrees It's gonna be good. Don't leave it at the daytime temperature Which a lot of people they stay at this temperature of about 20 to 23 degrees with the heating on That's too warm. Come on. You're not gonna sleep well with that They've shown that up to a point, you know, the the lower the temperature the more deep sleep you have And there's all kinds of expensive intricate ways of making yourself cold during the night I have experimented with a lot of them at one point I spent over $1,000 on a Water-cooled mattress like underlay thing. I'm not gonna say the brand because I don't want to you know Speak bad about them, but long story short it ended up just not working It made the bed cold, but the motor in this water pump was just too loud for me I don't like to wear earplugs. They fall out and so there it had to be had to be quiet Otherwise, I it wouldn't work and long story short. It was not quiet. It was just it's wiring noise I always heard it. So yeah, if there was a way to have like a water-cooled mattress underlay with a silent motor Let me know because that would be a game changer for me Well, I say game changer. It would only increase my deep sleep by a small percentage maybe five or 15% Because those foundation things I told you about the free stuff is Gonna get you like most of the way that it's gonna do most of the work beyond that you're really just looking at the cherry on top of the cake like the extra 510 maybe 15% increase To your deep sleep and your REM sleep and your overall sleep quality So it's not there's not a lot in it. You don't need to buy anything This is the very important thing you don't need to buy anything to improve your sleep quality You have everything you need. It's just about using it and building the right habits pillow spray I have a love-hate relationship with pillow spray. I know there's different ones you can get I personally only like the lavender one, but even that I feel these days It just doesn't add anything. It smells nice, but it does for me. It doesn't really make a big difference You know like when I Thought it did when I first started using it years ago now But at the end of the day, it was just a nice smell helps to relax your mind I suppose but if you're doing other things to relax your mind You don't notice any extra difference with pillow spray another thing which I have found Massively beneficial for sleep quality is to have either a hot bath or do yoga an hour before bed the hot bath Contrary to popular belief actually lowers your body temperature I know it's complicated is weird right? You think a cold shower would do that, but no Hot bath does the trick On top of that yoga is well, there's many benefits to yoga But in the western world a lot of people think it's just kind of it's whoo whoo It's just stretching. It's weird. The poses looks funny. Whatever. Okay Just give it a try be open-minded. You know, that's all I can say I thought the same about yoga and then I tried it out and You get really into it, you know, it's good for the body and mind It helps your body to relax and fall asleep and there are all kinds of other benefits energetically Which I don't need to go into in this video, but yeah Just give it a try and if you're gonna do it do it in the hour before bed. Yeah, that's it


The form may not be in the robot. Everyone has been to the weird part of YouTube. If you haven't, then I suggest you try to do so. It's a very simple process. In fact, to make it even easier, I will lay this out in step-by-step form. Step one, important, you find any video you want. Absolutely anything you want. A cat video, a music video, anything. Something from Japan will work best. Step two, click on the strangest related video. The absolute most mind-blowing looking thumbnail or title. Step three, continue step two until the most liked comment is, I'm in the weird side of YouTube again, or something along those lines. Now, this alone isn't all that scary. It's mostly just funny. You can laugh at failed ads or absurd stuff from different cultures. Sometimes it gets scarier. A dancing girl with no arms or legs. Someone with a shitload of tattoos eating glass.  It gets stranger though. Did deep enough and you can find actual death. I don't mean like the news stories on people getting killed, I mean full on amateur snuff films. No after effects or CGI, just real people getting killed. You're wondering why YouTube doesn't take them down, aren't you? Well there are two reasons for this. First, there are days worth of video being uploaded every minute. So much that it just can't be analyzed by the YouTube staff. They take down anything pornographic that isn't art, but even that slips through. Second, money. YouTube only pays attention to the stuff that pays, is protected by copyright, or gets a large amount of views in a short amount of time. That last one is the reason for the 301 views phenomenon. Due to these reasons, there are plenty of people who can easily upload almost unnoticed videos. Some of them truly are unnoticed with only two or three views. There are a ton of these amateur snuff films that just require a while of searching. Just try for a few hours. Just be warned, you might not hate what you see. You might just want to see more. Or, you might just want to try making one of these videos. After all, they have to come from somewhere. Thanks for watching!


Hello, everyone. This is Shila Ratna Banshwade from Walshan Institute of Technology, Solapur. Today we are going to see the topic sections of solids and in that we will be particularly looking into prism. At the end of this session, students will be able to draw the sectional view of prism. At this point of the video, I suggest you to pause it and think over the geometry of a prism. As we all know, solids are of two types that is polyhedrons and solids of revolution. So prism is a type of polyhedron which has bottom base as well as top base. It has vertical edges or longer edges. It has vertical faces. It does not have an apex. So it has a top base and a bottom base. Let us move further. Consider an example. A pentagonal prism edge of base 30 mm and length of axis 65 mm rests on one of its rectangular face on HP. Such that its axis is parallel to vertical plane AB. An auxiliary inclined plane perpendicular to VP and inclined at 30 degrees to HP cuts the prism by secting axis. Draw the front view and sectional top view. So let us proceed with the drawing. Now this is concerned with the pentagonal prism. Let us draw the XY line. That is the basic thing what we do before starting the drawing. Now as the question says that a pentagonal prism edge of base so and so given as 30 and 65 rest on one of its rectangular face on HP such that its axis is parallel to vertical plane. You can see the condition. It is resting on rectangular face on HP and the axis is parallel to VP. In this condition when the prism is totally horizontal and its axis is parallel to VP it is considered that or it is the fact that the axis is also parallel to HP. So in this condition the axis is parallel to both HP as well as VP and the axis is perpendicular to the profile plane. So instead of starting with front view or top view we start with the side view. So in the side view we have to draw a pentagonal structure this way. So this is the rectangular face on which it is resting on HP. This is the pentagon of 30 mm. These are the namings. So this is the side view of a pentagonal prism which is resting on triangular face 34 with axis parallel to HP as well as VP. Now as the axis is perpendicular profile plane it will be seen as a point view in the side view. Let us move further to draw the front view. We project the points from the side view in the horizontal fashion towards the front view. Now the height of prism is given as 65. So we draw a rectangular of 65 with this height in this way. Naming 1 will be 1 dash 1 dash. 2 and 5 will be 2 dash 5 dash and 2 dash 5 dash at both top and bottom. 3 and 4 will be 3 dash 4 dash at both top and bottom bases. The same naming we have used for top and bottom. Now to complete the top view let us make the construction of orthographic projections that is draw a line at 45 degrees as you can see on the screen. Project the points from the side view on the 45 degrees line and rotate it through 90 degrees in the top view. Project the height of the prism from the front view. So this is the required rectangle which is of the given size of the prism. Further the sides 3 and 4 that is 3 3 4 4 will be seen dotted in the top view as they are at the bottom and direction of observation is from the top. So they are shown as dotted. Naming you can see 3 3 is dotted 4 4 is dotted 1 being at the top 2 and 5 being at the sides. So this is the projection of a solid which is resting on rectangular face and axis parallel to both HP and VP. Further an auxiliary inclined plane perpendicular to VP and inclined at 30 degrees to HP cuts the prism. When a plane is perpendicular to VP it is seen as a line view in the front view and inclination with HP is seen in front view. So we draw a cutting plane in this fashion. So the cutting plane is perpendicular to VP and inclined at 30 degrees to HP. Now consider the points where this cutting plane cuts the edges of the prism that is the bottom edge the vertical edge and this bottom edge. So here we have two sides two here we have two edges and here we have two edges. So in all total we get six points where the cutting plane cuts the solids. We name them as PAPB, PCD, PEF. Now let us project these points in the top view. Before that we project the points in the side view to obtain the section view. Now as this part of the solid has been removed and the direction of observation is this we project the points like PEF will be on 1 2 and 1 5. So 1 2 and 1 5. Similarly PCD will be on 2 and 5. Similarly A and B will be on 3 4 and 2 5. So 2 3 1 point and 4 5 1 point. So these are the points and this is the required cut section. Further project the points PAPB, PC and PD on the 45 degrees line and project it in the top view. So these are the points that is PA will be projected through 45 degrees line and it will be projected at this that is 2 3. Similarly PB 4 5 and we obtain the points that is PC, PD, PE and PEF. By joining these points we get the section view in the top view. So this is the complete projection of the solid when it is cut by a cutting plane making angle of 30 degrees. So these are the darkening of the edges that is remaining portion of the solid. Now let us move for the true shape of the section. As the cutting plane here is inclined it does not give you the true shape. You can draw the true shape by the following method. Take and one more xy line x1 y1 parallel to the cutting plane. Project the points PA, PB, PC, PD, PE and PF perpendicular to the new x1 y1. Now we have to transfer the distances of these particular points from the previous view that is the points on PA, PB will be at a distance of from xy to this PA from xy to this PB. So you have to take the distances of points PA, PB, PC, PD, PE and PF from the top view with respect to xy. So from xy the distance of PA is plotted at this from x1 y1. Similarly distance of PB from xy will be taken and it will be plotted with reference to x1 y1 on the projector of PA. So this is the point PA. So this distance from xy is equal to this distance from xy. Similarly PB, so x1 y1 to PB is equal to the distance of xy to PB in the top view. Similarly we obtain different points PC that is xy to PC is equal to x1 to PC in the auxiliary view. The remaining points PD is xy to PD. Similarly x1 y1 PE is xy to PE, x1 y1 to PF is equal to xy to PF. By joining these points we get the required true shape of the section. So this is the projection of a prism and this is the way you obtain the true shape of a solid. Thank you.


They gave us everything we asked for, things that I've been talking to you guys about last night and today, effort, fight, connectivity, and what I've been telling them is that you can't be having fun the way we're playing. So tonight, there's a lot of smiles, a lot of joy, there's a lot of passion for their teammates and their job, and so just that is something to build on. So I was proud of them for bringing it. We asked for it and they delivered and that's a great sign. I know this kind of goes without saying, but how important will it be and it will be the key to modeling this up and carrying this on the road for this West Coast trip? Yeah, it's something to build on. You'd like to say, now we've got to sustain it and the next game has got to be outstanding again. It's inch by inch. Step by step. Just keep growing, keep getting better. Be prepared for a tough trip out West. This is a great way, a great getaway game for us to bring that type of mentality and toughness and just build on it. That's it. The NBA is not like that. We're like, now we're going to play like this for the last 40 games. We know that's not how it works. It is something to build on. It's something that gave us a glimpse into what we're capable of when our approach is right, when we're connected and when we fight. You can still lose games, but you can sleep at night when you give it that effort and energy and you know that you're going to get better even if you lose. That was the key thing. We got better tonight. We delivered with the energy and the fight and that's something to build on. Brian Lewis with the New York Post. Hey Steve, this is two-fold. Just following up, you said having fun, did you get the impression that this team might have been getting a little tight as these games were going on and the performances weren't what they expected? And secondly, I'm just curious, whom, if anybody, was the most vocal in there in terms of the locker room guys about kind of getting the message across and echoing what you had been saying? I thought Jeff Green was great with the guys. He spoke after the last game. He spoke today when they made their run in the second half. He's definitely been the voice of reason I think for us this year in the locker room, so he provides a lot with his experience and the respect he deserves. It's going to take a lot of guys stepping up and being the one that has to be the ignition on different nights. Sometimes with your voice, sometimes with your play and I just think that Jeff's voice was important but the guys all stepped up and tried to ignite our performance and that's what it's going to take because it's a collective energy, it's a collective commitment and a willingness to go the extra mile. I thought DJ was fantastic tonight, played a lot of minutes, did a great job on an All-Star Center and that type of effort and performance was pivotal for the win. Greg Logan with Newstay. Steve, that's exactly what I was going to ask about because it looked like last night you had a conversation with DJ. Was there something that you said to him last night that maybe sparked that kind of effort particularly in the first half? From honest, it was an emotional night last night, I think DJ and I got upset at each other for a minute. I know DJ got upset a few times during the game so I'm proud of him because he bounced back with an incredible attitude, effort and performance tonight. Last night was tough on all of us and for him to come back and be a veteran leader and presence with that type of effort and energy and extended minutes against an All-Star Center was outstanding. Bruce Beck with NBC New York. Steve, you've thrown a lot of stuff at us the last couple days, connectivity, personal pride, attitude, togetherness, competitive spirit, but does it really all boil down to bringing it? Is that the big message? Yeah, I mean all those things are kind of connected in some way, right? So it's our approach, you know, whatever thesaurus we want to pull out and take advantage of by all means, but you're right, you know, however you want to word it it's just having the right approach attitude and competing and you know there's layers to that of course but it is fairly simple as well and so I thought tonight they were outstanding with their approach and you can tell from the start they were locked in and when they are locked in you see what they're capable of. Christian Winfield with the New York Daily News. Hey coach, I mean I guess these questions are kind of all along the same vein but only 104 points for you guys tonight, Jeff Granger, 3 of 11, James shoots 4 of 13, Kyrie 2 of 6 from the field, you guys still pull out the win, is this just more proof, you know, adding to the proof that even if you guys aren't as sharp as you can be offensively as the defense that's going to pull through at the end? I wouldn't get carried away Christian, but you know we'd love to continue to build our defense and and be able to win games with our defense at times. I think we're a ways from that but hopefully that that is a place we can get to at some point. You know tonight I think part of our offensive roles was just the second half, you know, that's tough sometimes and you have a big lead, the other team's playing free because they think the night's over, the game's lost and so they're kind of desperate and have the freedom because they have nothing to lose, you know. So that can be difficult, they played, you know, hard and loose and I think we were trying to manage a lead instead of extending a lead, which is natural and I think that happens in our game so I thought the offense was pretty good in the first half and the second half it was a matter of dealing with the state of the game, you know, what was occurring in the game and that was them having to race back and nothing to lose so but you're right our defense was the star of the game and I think that just proves that we're capable but you know every team poses a different challenge, every night has a different bounce and tonight though we did our job. And last question, Alex Schiffer with the Athletic. Hey Steve, it feels longer than this but it's four weeks ago today you guys traded for James and you said early on about how he's still getting into back in a shape just in the near month that you've had him or so, how much progress has he made in that department to you? I think there's definite progress, you know, he plays a lot of minutes and does a lot of things for us so I'd say, you know, he's definitely I think we accidentally unmuted you there. Sorry, got me him. Yep, got you now, thank you. No problem. You know, I think he's in a much better shape than when he got here. I think he could probably get in better condition as the season goes as well. What did we say?  I think Kevin and Kai and James have played five and a half games of you include the Raptors games together. So it's kind of astonishing in one respect to have him for a month basically in that they've only played five games together if I'm right. So we're five and a half, six games. So lots of time but but we got to get going here and hopefully get all three of them on the court and our complete roster for the time being going and try to build and continually improve even with the small, small margins, small improvements, regardless of our record, if we keep getting better, I think we got a chance to be a special team.


All right, so somebody has decided to join us. Hey, this woman, Mary is live in the building. Hello, Mary. Hi. How are you? I'm good. Look amazing. Thank you. I almost cannot be this pretty. All right, so Giving Hearts Day falls on the second Thursday in February every year, and takes place on February 9th this year. So do you know that it has been 13 years since Giving Hearts Day was first observed? Giving Hearts Day is an opportunity to donate as much as possible to charity organizations and those in need. It is a great way to show compassion and help those that need our help.  Honestly, I'm not a fan of giving, giving like, giving money and all of that. I know how to give. I mean, how to give. I give, no, not even time. I know how to give like the hook and the knife and the, sorry, the hook and the whatever to cut the fish. I don't know how to give the fish, but I know how to give you opportunities to make the fish. So I don't know. Usually my own kind of giving is not popular because people tend to want to focus on, because I just believe that if I give you the opportunity to make money, it will be easier for you to also empower more people, as opposed to just handing you money. So I don't know if there's a way we can start to reorientate the minds of people. Anybody that hands you money, the person is not helping you. It's the same, it's the same thing. That's why politics have money, go hand in hand. Because the mindset is just give me what I can eat now. But what if you gave me an opportunity, right, to make much more? You know, but people don't think that way. That's why we still have the problems that we have, you know, very much prevalent in Nigeria. So I mean, in the spirit of giving, if you can as much as give, you know, just give people opportunities, genuine opportunities for them to grow and move up the level, you know, instead of just staying in a position where they continuously beg. That's what I feel. I don't scatter about that, I'm not lovest. I mean, I agree with giving people opportunities, but I don't think it's in all cases that that is possible. There are sometimes people need that money to get out of that particular situation. But then if it looks like, oh, it's a real current thing, then yes, giving them an opportunity to create money for themselves or create wealth for themselves is the next course of action. But yeah, I agree with you. Because sometimes when you keep giving people money or you keep handing them things, they get very entitled. Yeah, let's quickly breeze through what we found in this whole run out of time. All right, so I will start in with. Tinella, you ready? Yeah. Go ahead. Okay, multiple auto crashes on Cara Bridge. This is quite sad. Very sad. I thought we went over these accidents on that legal slip by the expressway boats. Unfortunately, this happened today. There was an accident involving an 18-seater bus belonging to Geo Motors, a Siena car, a Toyota Corolla, and a Toyota Matrix car. And this accident happened early this morning on Cara Bridge on the legal slip by the expressway access. And eyewitnesses claimed that the trailer rammed the vehicles from behind, which led to the Toyota Matrix car falling off the bridge while the Toyota Jeep got seriously damaged. There was also an unconscious body of a hooker that was in line on the road. I can't imagine the glory. Oh my God. This is actually really, really sad. Yeah. So yeah, that's what I found in the news forest today. Very sad. Okay. That's a very sad news. You know, these things are like... The National University's Commission, NUC, has directed that all universities in the country should go and break from February 22 to March 14 this year for students to participate in the coming general elections. I think it's a good idea because we don't know where the country's headed at this rate. Yeah. But what's gonna happen to officers as well? Are we going to go and break? Somebody was... I was listening in on the radio, somebody was saying that it's only in this country that we carry elections like I said, we're going to warfare. That election is supposed to be fun.  But because again, you know, power... We have a lot of power drop people that just want to be empowered by all means. So Nigerians, the elections in Nigeria is kind of like unique because it's like I do it or I die.  So I don't know. Haven't you heard people that are saying that they're not coming back to London because they're not so security? And who... Do we not have somebody amongst us that we don't have? That is shaped to you, that person. I don't know. I don't know. I didn't say anything. I'm going down, you know. Yeah, then I'll go over here. But you won't blame them now. Come on. It's like we're at war. We don't have fuel or water. Come on. Like Jennifer, your story. So Tim said to bag another RIAA plaque for found. Okay. So Tim recently won a Grammy Award and she said to receive another RIAA plaque to her collection after her single passed the 500,000 mark in sales. And this is actually worldwide. So there was a US chat data that actually brought all of these out and said that in the US she topped 500,000 units for her song. And she had also topped for her previous song, which was Freemind and Hire. And it's actually really amazing the rate at which Tim's is going so far. She has done a song with Beyoncé. She has done a song with Future. She's done a song with a couple of other people with Drake as well.  And she's doing so well. For someone who hasn't even really dropped an album, all her singles have actually been a hit. So congratulations, Tims. I'm really, really rooting for you. I'm happy for you. I feel like most times in the music industry, there's just that one person that just comes. I think it's just her time. But everything that she has touched has literally turned out to be I'm proud of her, she's great. So our president, Boo Boo, Boo Boo, he was hooded as he had this story actually. She said, ah, Boo Boo is, you can always believe. So the president has actually approved the establishment of the Presidential Transition Council to oversee the 2023 transition program. And he signed the Executive Order 14 of 2023 of facilitation and management of the presidential transitions. So a key feature of this presidential executive order is the institutionalization of a legal framework that would enable a seamless transition of power from one presidential administration to another. I think this is a good thing. All right. This is what we say that, you know, when let the best man win and whatever happens, whoever wins, the president should be ready to say, you know what, take my hand over notes and, you know, go and prosper. On that note, I want to take a break. I come up from the break, but I think it's a good move. We'll discuss this Lagos State Parks and Guardian proposed partnership with the INEC residents in Lagos. Stay with us, we'll be right back.


Internal Revenue Service, R.S. Tax News, understanding business travel deductions, understanding business. You know, with business travel, the first thing to understand is not to stand under the bus. Otherwise, your head may be deducted from your body, which is not the kind of deduction we're looking for here. And it can be confusing because when attempting to understand travel, it's natural to conclude that we would be standing under something travel-related, you know, would it not? But ironically, understanding business travel has more to do with moving than standing still the meaning of the term seeming to emphasize the travel part more than the standing part.  So the term should really be overstand because like you've conquered it, you know, so like you're overstanding it now rather than understand. I mean, the term understand sounds like the thing's gonna fall on your head like at any moment, which is usually true when trying to understand taxes. But that's not the point. That's not the point. The point is that understanding something should be good. So I feel like the phrase should be overstand, overstanding it. But anyways, I guess maybe it is depressing when you understand the hard truths of life, like nothing is certain but death and taxes, and that we're all just like dust in the wind, dude. All we are is dust in the wind, dude. You know, I don't know about you, but when I'm traveling, I usually quickly deduct that I'm lost. How do you know about them? And I mentioned, my dear Watson, this man has been dead for at least two hours. Completely dependent on that GPS thing. And I don't trust that GPS lady. I swear she's out to confuse me just like those modern AI chat GPT computer things.  I mean, I think we've taken a wrong turn somewhere along the way here. AI, dang AI. I trusted you and you lied to me. I turned into paper saying that babies come from drag shows to my school. No, no. I don't want to hear the rest of the story about how some dude's beer belly miraculously turned into a kid. I don't care if it is a top critically reviewed series on Netflix.  Just win, dude. Internal Revenue Service IRS tax tip 2023-15, February 7, 2023. Whether someone travels for work once a year or once a month, figuring out travel expense tax write offs might seem confusing. That's because they are confusing.  No, it's a confusing, complicated subject with a lot of gray area to it. It's confusing by nature. So the IRS has information to help all business travelers properly claim these valuable deductions. So let's take a step back and just to get a general idea of the travel types of deductions. We're typically talking a business type of deduction, a deduction for a business or possibly like a sole proprietor categorizing a business type of deduction. And then the question is what is a deduction for businesses? Remember, we have an income tax type of system. And so you would expect then the things that are ordinary and necessary to generate revenue would be deductible. In other words, we don't typically tax on gross income. You would expect an income tax system to tax on net income because it's possible for basically two businesses to have very different gross incomes, but still have similar net incomes because they have different things that they need to be purchasing or consuming in order to generate that revenue. So just a natural deduction for an income tax system, you would expect to be an ordinary, necessary business type of deduction. That gets a little bit lost oftentimes because if you're not dealing with businesses and the tax code, you're dealing with individual taxes, you're often dealing with people that just have W2 types of income and you don't have these kind of deductions because the idea would be that the employer is the one that's taking care of those kind of expenses for an employee and it's further confused by the fact that we have all these other deductions that aren't really natural to an income tax, they have different incentives for them, such as we want to deduct for charity, for example, or something like that, has nothing to do with what you would think would be a normal deduction for income taxes, which would be those things that you needed to consume in order to generate the revenue, but we might want to incentivize that. That's why they put it in there. Same with most of the stuff on the Schedule A, like charitable deductions, like the mortgage interest and stuff like that. That's a personal deduction. So you would think why would it be something that's been deductible on an income tax system because they wanted to incentivize housing or whatever they felt like doing at that particular time. But the natural deduction would be those that are used in order to generate revenue. That makes sense from an income tax perspective. Then the question is, well, what is a travel deduction? It categorizes as a travel type of deduction. For that, we might need some terms like a business place of business or home so we can distinguish what is travel versus a commute because there's a difference being a queen commuting and travel oftentimes in the tax code. And then what kind of things constitute travel that I can deduct, and then if there's gray area with regards to personal versus business, that's also a confusing component. So where are some tax details all business travels should know? So business travel deductions are available when employees must travel away from their tax home. There's a link to that home here or main place of work for business reasons. So a lot of ambiguous kind of terms we've got to define what our tax home is. You can get more detail here or main place of business and then for business reasons. So again, what does that exactly mean? So a taxpayer is traveling away from home if they are away for longer than an ordinary day's work. So there's a definition of sorts and they need to sleep to meet the demands of their work while away. So if you're traveling somewhere and you're staying in a hotel and it's business related, then you would think that would be a qualifying characteristic and not just a commuting kind of situation. Travel expenses, there's a link to that here, must be ordinary and necessary. Now ordinary and necessary is kind of like the standard for most deductions that are business deductions. You needed to consume those expenses, which are the business deductions in order to generate revenue. And that's why you get the deduction because the government is like your silent partner. They get part of the net income, not part of the gross income. It wouldn't be fair to get the gross income because that would incentivize certain businesses over other businesses. So they can be a lavish extravagant for the personal purpose. They can't be lavish extravagant or for personal purposes. So employers can deduct travel expenses paid or incurred during temporary work assignment. There's a link to that here. If the assignment length does not exceed one year, travel expenses for conventions, there's a link to that here, are deductible if attendance benefits the business. There are special rules for conventions held outside North America. And there's a link to that. Deductible travel expenses include travel by airplane, train, bus or car between your home and your business destination. Fairs for taxis and other types of transportation between an airport or train station and a hotel or from a hotel to a work location. So obviously the moving around kind of costs and what not, shipping of baggage and sample or display material between regular and temporary work locations, using a personally owned car for business, lodging and meals, dry cleaning and laundry, and business calls and communication tips paid for services related to any of these expenses, other similar ordinary and necessary expenses related to the business travel. Self-employed individuals or farmers with travel deductions. Those who are self-employed can deduct travel expenses on schedule C form 1040 profit or loss from business. Obviously the schedule C is where you might want to dig down and look at the instructions for the schedule C's for more guidance that can kind of lead you to where you need to go from there. If you're a sole proprietor looking into travel, farmers can use the schedule F similar kind of thing. You can start there to kind of check out the rules. Rules are a little bit different for farming often times. So although the general concept is the same of ordinary and necessary business deductions. Travel deductions for the National Guard or military reserves. National Guard or military reserve service members can claim a deduction for unreimbursed travel expenses paid during the performance of their duty. And then we've got the record keeping well organized records. There's a link to that here. Make it easier to prepare a tax return. Clearly so whatever your documentation on the travel, especially obviously if you're in an industry where an IRS auditor is going to look at it and be jealous of your business travel being more exciting than what they're doing as work. So they're likely to say that doesn't sound like work. And then it might be is just that you have fun or work or something. And so you have to make sure that you're ready for them to come and question you about whether or not that is in alignment with the goal of an ordinary and necessary expense and not just you gallivanting around the world hobnobbing with people and then writing it off. Anyways, keep records such as receipts, cancel checks and other documents that support a deduction. There's links to that stuff here. There'll be a link to this in the description.


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