I've read pretty much every book on productivity and time management lol - here are my top time management tips that I genuinely use 👇
🕑 We own all of our time - at any given moment we're doing what we most want to do. If we decide to play WoW or scroll twitter like a wasteman then we can't say "I don't have time to workout". We're all in control of our time and choose how to prioritise it.
👍 Hell yeah or no - It's okay to say no. If someone asks me to do something and I'm not like "hell yeah" then my default position is to say "nope, I'm not gonna do this". Thanks @sivers for this one.
📅 The daily highlight - I started doing this thanks to the book 'Make Time' by @jakek and @jazer. Every day I try to write down the one thing I need to get done that day. By focusing on just 1 thing I don't drown in all the other tasks I need to do.
📋 Use a to-do list - the reason we let stuff slip through the cracks when managing our time is because we haven't written it down. I like to use a physical to-do list and cross stuff off as I complete it. But it doesn't matter what you use tbh.
🗓 Time blocking - put a block in the calendar whenever we need to do something. I don't do this for everything, but I always time block my daily highlight (like "call Grandma" or "record video"). That way the 1 thing I've decided is super important is always going to get done.
⚖️ Parkinson's law - work expands to fill the time that we allocate to it. So if I have to film a video and give myself the whole day to do it, inevitably I'll use all that time. But if I have just 1 hour, I'll get it done much quicker. Advice: leverage artificial deadlines.
🔑 Protected time - I like to keep my mornings free from Zoom calls. This means I can wake up whenever I want and for a solid 4 hours I have uninterrupted time to do whatever I want (like writing my book, thinking about the business, or playing WoW).
👨💻 Delegation - ask yourself: what's the dollar value of my time? It was about $25/hour for me when I started on YouTube. If there's any work you don't enjoy that can be outsourced for less than that (like cleaning your flat lol), then it might be a good idea to do that.
⚙️ Automated scheduling - I found I was wasting a lot of time scheduling chats with people as we'd email each other for a solid 10 day before anything got done. But then I discovered @Calendly. It's great. You send a link to someone and they just book a slot in your calendar.
😊 The choice to be satisfied - when you’re a productivity nerd it’s easy to think “I’ve only filmed 1 video today but I could’ve filmed 5, what’s wrong with me?” We internally beat ourselves up, instead of choosing to be satisfied with what we’ve done.
🎬 Check out the video I made on this yesterday - hopefully you find it useful :)
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