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1. The Class Trailer: When I was young, I didn't
really know what I was gonna do when I got older.
People kept asking me. And but then eventually
I thought that the idea of inventing things would be, would be really cool. And the reason I
thought that was because I read a quote from Odyssey clock which said that a sufficiently
advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think it actually
goes beyond that because there are many
things that we take for granted today that weren't
even imagined it in time. They weren't even in
the realm of magic. So that it actually goes,
it goes beyond that. If we can advance the
knowledge of the world, that we can do things
that expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then we're better able to ask the right questions and
become more enlightened. And that's really the
only way forward. Everybody has the same amount
of hours in a day, just 24. So how comes to there are
people who accomplish so much more in these
24 h than others. Elon Musk has the same amount of hours and minutes in his day. Have you had how many of those same
minutes have you faced it today and yesterday? How many of those
minutes are you wasting on dumps stuff every day. My name is Alex, I'm a peak performance coach. I work with successful
entrepreneurs like 100 million dollar
business owners, hedge fund founders,
top athletes. And I love to produce videos
that move people to action. The systems you'll learn in this masterclass are
the same systems I teach my high-paying
coaching clients. And time is your most
valuable resource. So let's get right into it.
2. The Productivity Trap - Don't Skip!: But before we can
start implementing your three new time
management habits, we need to get rid of
your inner resistance. Because let's face it,
you have a bunch of to-do lists and
posted flying around. And you think you
enjoyed the freedom of a calendar that leave
some room for breathing. But let's have a closer look. This is how average
people manage their days. Let's have a look at an example. This is Paul. Paul has read and bestselling
self-help book and is ready for change. But not only that, she
has defined daily goals. And let's have a look at his
three goals for tomorrow. He wants to meditate in the
morning after waking up. Number two, he wants to focus on an important client projects. And then the evening he
wants to go for a run. But then life gets in the way because Paul had a tough
birthday and getting home, he needs something to online. So he starts watching
an episode on Netflix. And because the episode was
full of exciting turns, he continued watching one
or two episodes and pet. Therefore in the morning
he had some trouble getting out of bed early
for his meditation. And instead of the
plan meditation, he had to use his social
media feed, wake him up. During his commute. She
recalls his plan to spend his time today on the
important client project. So he sits down at his desk, but he doesn't really
feel alert and he realizes that he needs
some coffee first, and of course, it will
only take a second. In the kitchen, he meets
Andrew who asks him about different ads and they end up drinking
the coffee together, which will only take a second. And 50 min later,
Paul VI is much more awake and sits down at his workspace to
get some work done. And that's when he realizes that has inboxes overflowing with your email and he decides to reply the most
urgent ones first. It will only take a second. And after some concentrated
work in his inbox, a little thing from his
phone, notification pops up. He unlocks the screen just
to realize that there are a bunch of little
red icons and pause, curious and quickly scans the apps. Will only
take a second. And while he's replying to some messages and
switching between apps, he forgets a time until there is another notification as reminds him of the meeting
starting right now. So he joins the meeting
and decides to address those other emails
and messages later. But after the meeting,
he decides to ignore those messages and
do some actual work. So he finally opens his
laptop to get some broken. He opens a new browser tab and somehow magically
ends up on Facebook. It will only take a second. And after 40 min, he realizes that he has went on Facebook feed rabbit hole, and it's right now looking at some photos of a France friends. And so he closes the browser tab to finally get to
the client project. But wait, she's hungry. Thankfully, it's
lunchtime, what to eat. And so he talks
to his colleagues and they end up discussing lunch options and researching
a new place nearby. Until they leave the
building to get some food. After lunch, he sits down
and as keen on starting with the project work,
he wants to take action. He opens a new tab and base for the project data to
load and vibrating. He thinks about those
Newman wireless headphones. And since the client
project keeps loading, he opens another
tab and Google's to new gadget is thinking about. It will only take a second. And so he spends the next 30 min researching it and ends up
watching review videos. But with the new noise
canceling feature, a day should make him so
much more productive. He reminds himself of the
important client projects. But first there is a notification
and she has to answer some urgent emails he has
received from his team lead. In the meantime, this
will only take a second, but it takes longer because
people have replied to his answers from the
morning and he should reply back to keep
things rolling. And after spending 40 min
clearing us inbox Paul views to satisfy it about having basal hours for
all of this stuff. So he ends up on YouTube
watching motivational videos and some inspirational TED Talks to get his mindset ready
for some real-world. It will only take a second. The entire afternoon.
Goals like this, answering urgent
emails, Googling stuff, checking Facebook,
likeCount Paul would work on his commute back home. He realizes that he has
spent his entire day busy with basically
unimportant stuff, not doing the actual
work to client project. Maybe tomorrow. At home, he has a look at
his daily goals and realizes he has executed none. Well, he still
could go for a run, but he doesn't really
feel like going for a run now right
after his workday. So first you need
something to unwind. So he continues watching
a series on Netflix. After an episode or two,
he will go for a run. But then life happens. Paul gets distracted too easily. He gets distracted by external triggers
like notifications. And by his own
internal triggers like a thought to Google something
or quickly check something. And the truth is if you don't
set things up correctly, we all get distracted
too easily. It's not enough to
set some to-dos. You'll need to set up your
mindset and habits for execution and set a
time for those to-dos. Let's check his calendar. As you can see, Paul has only a few appointments
in his calendar. Duress does open space, and he thinks he should
have enough time in the day to get his three tasks done to get everything done. But that's not really true. And pulse day feels like arrays. He's trying to get a
lot of stuff done, but he's distracted very easily because his day has
no real structure. So other questions like, should you reply to
Argentina's now, should he accept the meeting? Now, what about this
totally interesting video? We can't really say, since the space in his
calendar is empty. And then the end
poles accomplishing only few of his
priorities Labor Day. And overall, he has
a feeling that he is lazy and to others
accomplish so much more. Do you still think an empty calendar has
anything to do with freedom? Actually, it's the opposite. Without the right time
management habits, you are a slave of
your bad habits. And you will end up going
to bed disappointed, feeling unproductive
and unfulfilled. So now you know how average
people manage their days. But you are not in this program because you want to
stay where you are. You are here because you want to bring your life to
the next level. You are here because you
want to build something. Some of you want
to build a career. Some of you want to
build a side hustle, and some of you want to
build a huge business. And all of those things require massive amounts
of concentration, dedication, and excellent
time management. Routine has something to
do with it and habits. Because excellence is a habit.
3. Habit #1 - How Planning Works: As Aristotle said, We are
what we repeatedly do. So let me introduce you to your new habits for
time management. Habit number one is plan
your day in advance. So via these people, so productive and y as
Elon Musk, so productive, how can this man revolutionized transportation both on
Earth and in space? You are struggling to
clean up your car. If you even have one. If you listen carefully to what the most successful people that we know say about
time management. You will realize that they
all talk about minutes. If they manage their time, they don't talk about days. They don't talk about hours. They talk about minutes. They think in minutes. And from the second
they get out of bed, their day has already
been preplanned in advance. Elon Musk, e.g. plants as day out in
five minute increments. Here's what Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of ikea, said. You can do so much
in 10 min time. 10 min once Gan
are gone for good, divide your life and to 10
min units and sacrifice as few of them as possible
in meaningless activity. So time management
habit number one is, from now on you will
plan your day in advance and you will break your day up into small segments. This habit alone, the
kick-start, your productivity.
4. Habit #2 - Never Use a To Do List: Habit number two. Never use a to-do list. Do you think Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or Mark Zuckerberg, are running around
with a to-do list, crossing things off and prioritizing items
with a, B, and C? No. According to a study, 41% of to-do list items
are never completed. And another problem with
to-do lists is that we actually only write down
things that are urgent. And if there are tasks that
are important but not urgent, they will remain
unfinished forever. Stop using a to-do list. This is no joke. If you would ask self-made
millionaires are self-made billionaires
for some tips regarding their to-do list, they would laugh at you. You will not find one
highly successful man, but a to-do list or to-do app comes down to a
simple decision for you. If you want average
results user to do this. If you want
extraordinary results, stop using a to-do list. Because to-do list is to number one bad habit for
your productivity. And you will get rid of
this bad habit as of today.
5. Habit #3 - The Ultimate Calendar: Habit number three, live your
life from your calendar. Question. Severe is Elon Musk putting his todos if he is not
using the to-do list? Well, he puts them
into his calendar. And this is what all
high-performance man do. They work from a calendar? All of them. So if you really
want to get something done, pick a day and the duration, set the location of needed, and then just follow
your calendar. But actually there's
a bit more to it. It's not about filling up your David all
tasks that come to your mind because there's simply not enough
time. Dave predentin. It's about looking at your goals and intentionally
scripting your days so it supports your goals. And again, it depends on
what you want out of life. If you want to stay
where you are, just keep on using
your to-do list. But if you want to escape
the nine to five job, if you want to build
a side business. If you want to build a
successful business, if you want to expand
your existing business, then your calendar
better becomes your Holy Grail from now on. And this was the knowledge part. You know, this is
fair self-help, books, podcasts, videos,
and other courses stopped. This is where we start. Now, we will install this
knowledge in your life.
6. Action #1 Calendar Setup: So let me introduce you
to your action items. You can also find the
right under this video. Action item number one
is set up your calendar. That makes sense to use
a digital calendar, especially for
collaborative reasons. And from now on
your calendar will replace your to-do
lists and post it. If you have a new to-do, pull out your phone and put the new to-do in your calendar. And average people have
multiple calendars on several devices which are
not sinking up correctly. And so they constantly lose
stuff and miss appointments. Because the calendar is
the number one success. Two, you will invest some
time in setting everything up and make sure that you have the same calendar
synchronized on every device. And there are a lot
of calendar apps out there that are slow
and buggy and sinking. And you want to avoid that. Pick one of two major providers. If you want a recommendation. I use the Google Calendar
on all my devices.
7. Action #2 Eliminate To Do Lists: Action item number two is
eliminate your to-do list. So now that your
calendar is ready, go through all your to-do
lists and post-its and whatever crazy formula to do systems who came up
with until this point. Go through them and
delete every to-do on those lists that are
urgent, but not important. If you come across it to do
that is urgent and important. Put it in your calendar, pick a date and a duration. If you come across
something that is important but not urgent, put it in your
calendar as valid. And touch things only once. If the task takes only
5 min to complete it, it doesn't go into
your calendar. Do it right now, or
decided not to do it. Now there is an
exception to this rule. There are things to do not go on your calendar right away. So if you have a bigger project and you break it
down into steps, then you can do this in a project management
tool or in a document. But once you start
executing on project, you put those tasks
into your calendar. Not on the to-do list.
8. Action #3 Time-Box Tomorrow: And action item number three is plan your next day in advance. For this, you will
use the print out, the stoic day planner, printed out seven times. If you don't have
a printer around and draw its elements
on piece of paper. From now on, here's what
you will do every evening. Every evening, you will
plan tomorrow in advance. And you will do
this yourself until the point comes where you
hire a personal assistant. And to get this essential
time-management habit installed in your life. Here's what we will do. So let's have a closer look at how you will plan the next day. The basic rule is, if something is not
on your day planner, then it's not going to happen. So put everything in there
that is important to you. Meet up with friends, date with your wife, quality time with your kids. Those things will not happen if you don't put them
into your day planner. And here's what you will do
every evening, step-by-step. Step number one, check
your calendar and schedule any appointments from your calendar on
your day planner. Step number two is
determined and schedule your priorities in this tab is the reason my day
planner is stoic. Because every day
you will ask herself three powerful stoic questions and make time for
them on the next day. First, identifying the
most important task and schedule it in if you can put it right
in the morning. Because if you get your
most important tasks done right in the morning, That's a huge win, and you will feel like a winner
for the rest of the day. Now, this most important task depends on your current
situation and goals. So what is the one
thing tomorrow that is going to tan x your
business in the future. Or what is the project
that will get you the promotion or
gets you the bonus? The question is, what domino
can you tip onto moral? That's going to lean on the
next one on the day after it. And schedule a minimum
of 2 h for this and make your environments distraction
free before you start. And average people
start work with checking email and
jumping on compensations, working on someone else's
most important tasks. In the next block,
you will answer the following question. I would die at the
end of this day. What would I do
and say and think? This is a famous stoic question. And the idea is to make
meaningful things a priority. E.g. even if it does not seem urgent to take time in your day for the
persons that you love. It's important. So you will think about this
question every evening. And the next block
contains the question, what have I been avoiding? And you will write
everything here that makes you
feel uncomfortable because you have
been avoiding it in the past and schedule it and at least the next step
every day until it's done. And step number three is to bring some structure
into your day. Just starts with a
morning routine. Because the number to
productivity tip of highly successful
people right after this whole calendar
thing is what they do in the first hour of their
day, their morning routine. Because if you start
your day with Vince, this will have a very positive
effect on your entire day. It's not about getting
work done here, it's about setting up your
mind and body for the day. And the next block is e-mail, scheduled email and
messages in your day. Highly successful people do not check their inbox if
they feel the urge. And they also don't have
pushed notifications for sure. They do inmate on schedule. So they don't just go to the
inbox to waste time there. So decide how often you need
to check your messages. So if you're a stockbroker
and need to instantly check your e-mails or whatever
scheduled email every 15 min. If you're in a corporate job, I would advise you to
schedule it once a day. And if you are an
entrepreneur and you're focus is on
building something big, I recommend checking
e-mails once a week. And the next block is
collaboration time. Meetings should be a last resort because they cost so much time. Say no to meetings
much more often. And Richard Branson
says on this topic, there's few meetings
that need to last more than five or 10 min. So the golden rule is,
don't do meetings. And if you have to keep
meetings very short. The next block is quite obvious. Planning tomorrow to date, scheduled time for planning
the next day, every day. And in the beginning, I was
scheduled 30 min for this. So at the end of your workday, you should plan the next day. And of course, you
need to schedule the planning itself every day. And this way you
start every day with a plan on how to
invest your time. And the last block
is for the evening, scheduling some time
to connect with others and to wind
down after work. To conclude this, here
are some general tips. Say no to everything
that doesn't support your immediate goals. Do you think that your mask has any stuff in his calendar and daily schedule that does not
support his immediate goals? No. He is so
productive because he defenses calendar
from everything else. Every time you say yes to
something like a meeting, you're saying no to something that is important
for your goals.
9. Why Do You Want to Do This?: And always remember
we are doing this. Because time is the most
important asset you have. Once it's gone, it's gone. And every minute of this
day so far is gone. You will never get it back. And Seneca says, live if well, live is long enough. That's why from now on, you will invest your
time like a billionaire. Because now you know
how billionaires and the most successful
people manage their time. And and that is really
the only way forward. And hopefully there are some
lessons to be drawn there. I think that the overarching
point I want to make is that we're the magicians
of the 21st century. Don't like anything.
Hold you back. Imagination is the limit. And go out there and
create some magic.
Alex Leeberg, Award Winning Film Editor
