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1. Intro: Hey guys, my name is silas. Yes. So for this course you're
going to learn how to be productive today. So quick story, I was in a
place where all these dreams, all these crazy ideas I
had things I wanted to do. But I just felt so overwhelmed and I didn't
know where to start. And that made me feel really
discouraged and unmotivated. And so what ended up happening
is I was just in podcasts. I did some learning
on the subject of focus and productivity. I've learned so
much and I've taken where I've learned and put
it into my own practice. So today I would
say I'm way more productive, way more focused. I'm doing the things
that are important. I'm not wasting time on things that aren't that
important to me. I'm just getting some
shes done. Okay. It's been awesome.
And now I want to help you also achieve that, also get things done. This course is for
those who are creators, creatives, for
writers, if you're, just need to sit down
and focus on something. And guys, I have
three simple steps for you to accomplish
this today. And we'll get into those. Hi guys. I'm super excited to be your guide to help you
be more productive. I'll see you guys in
the first lesson.
2. Before We Start: Hey guys. So before
we get started, some things I want
to mention first, the ways I do things
might not work for you. Okay? So take these
things as inspiration. Take what I have created, the ideas I've come up with, and make it your own, okay, use as inspiration. And I'm still
learning this, okay, I'm still growing, I'm still changing it a little
bit here and there. And so this is a pretty sweet concept and I'm excited to
share it with you. So with that being said, I think we're ready to start. So let's get on to step one.
3. (Step 1) Create and prioritize tasks / goals: Okay, we're on to step one, which is create and
prioritize tasks slash goals. Okay? So as we're doing this, I will be using Miles Morales from Spider-Man
Into the Spider-Verse. As an example. I'm going to be making his life more productive, setting up tasks
and goals for him. And but yeah, follow along and actually implements,
try it yourself. And the programs I use might be different from
what you're used to, what you want to use. So yeah, and that's okay. So I use Google Calendar
and Pomona focus, okay. If you want to try
them, go for it. If not, you can still implement. So step one a is going to be
to create categories, okay? So in Google Tasks, Gould tasks is awesome. I've been using for years. It's pretty sweet
because on desktop, it appears on the side of your Google calendar
and your Gmail. Okay. So it just on the side
there you just press tasks, bang, it pops up, it's pretty sweet
tooth because you got an app super easy to use. And then obviously
when you use your app, it also updates on the desktop. First thing we're gonna do is create some different
categories or lists of different tasks for the different
areas of our life. Okay. So four miles, I've already created some here. But so to create a new
one in Google Tasks here, you're going to just
press the create new list down here
and you can name it. Okay, so I would
always recommend creating a personal one. So you can go personal. Bang done, and bang. There you go. You
created your own list. And then you can reference
the other ones right here. So I've already created
these other ones. If you want to delete one,
just press on these dot, dot, dots or you
want to rename it. You can do that here. So I'm just going to
delete this list. Okay, so we got a
personal one here. I added a school one, a big graffiti project that Miles is working on Spider-Man. And then template is just, well, I'll show you some things. So first thing we're gonna
do is create some goals. Okay? So to create some goals, I usually like in this program, it looks pretty clean if
you go slash slash goals. Create a new one. I like
to create a nice line. And then you can add your
goals underneath there. So test bang. Cool. So it'll look like
this once you have it still have goals align all
your goals underneath here. Then you have all your
tasks going to be sitting above it so that you can
still reference your goals. But they're not
in the way, okay? Okay, so now what we're gonna do is just come up with
the tasks pretty easy. So your tasks are usually
going to be stepping stones in order to
get to your goal. Okay? So for example here to
start a drawing club, miles has to talk to Mrs. Brown. Okay. So literally every day I go in, I referenced my goals and I create my to-do so I add things, maybe takeaway things
that are irrelevant. And you didn't
throughout the day. If I think of things,
all I need to do this, all I need to do that, I'll
literally add it, okay? Alright, next step
is pretty simple. We're going to start in
the first subject here, and we're going to
prioritize our tasks, okay? Because I don't know about you, but I don't want to spend time wasting time on things
that don't matter. Okay. I don't want to work on
something that's due in three months when I have
something to do in an hour. Right. Okay. So we'll start in a
school category here. And so for miles, let's say, okay,
practice shooting. I'll put it down. I like to actually layer minds so that the most important
things are at the top. Okay? So most important thing for him is he's got to
finish his essay. Then he's got a complete
English homework. Okay, That's really important. Review math notes, maybe third, and then talk to Ms. Brown. And then actually,
Ms. Brown isn't as important because he just wants
to create a drawing club. So that'll sit on
the bottom there. So now you can go
through your other ones. Okay. And just go through all
of yours and prioritize. Yeah. It's worth noting as well. I like to use the reference
my calendar to make sure that if things are coming up that I'm well prepared for it.
4. (Step 2) Create a plan: Okay, we're on to
step two, okay? You guys are crushing it. We're creating this
right now if you're thinking what the
heck is going on, we're not even actually
doing anything. Why are we doing this? Okay, think about it this way. If you want to go to Hawaii, and let's say you just
go right away right now to go to y, okay? It's probably not
going to go very well. You're gonna get the airport. There's not community
flights even going until tomorrow.
You get there. You don't need to have your swim shorts to go in the ocean. Okay. And what texts going on? So what we're doing
here is we're planning, planning out our day, planning
out all of our tasks. So that we can do this at
the beginning of the day, set ourselves up to win for the day so we get things
done, they're important. Then we will have to
worry about going back and are questioning ourselves whether what we're
doing is important. Okay? So what we're gonna do now is I want you to download
poem autofocus. You can get on your
phone, you can get on your app on the desktop here. And it's, it's an amazing tool. Okay, we'll get into how the actual timer
and stuff works, but I'll put a link in
the description for downloading it's completely
free. Don't worry about it. And what you can do
is actually create tasks inside of Pomona focus. Now you might be thinking
Why the heck would I need to task list? Okay, I already
just created one. So the reason that I used
to is so that this is the one inside of Google
Calendar and the the Google Tasks
one is my master. Okay, that's where
I keep them all. The one inside of ****
focus is for my day. Okay, so I'm actually going
to put down for my day all the ones I want to complete today in the order I want. And each day this will
refresh and change. And so if you're just writing stuff down or whatever yeah, dude, on and maybe a separate
notebook or separate page. And you'll notice that it
actually put in all of the things we already
just did into homophobia. Okay? So what I actually do, I do this every single day. I literally created a template. I'll show you how of
these four tasks, okay? And I go through them
and they literally go through this process
of creating tasks, prioritizing them and then
creating a task for the day. Okay, and then I get
to check them off. So I already like
accomplish something pretty pretty great right off the bat, so it feels good. Okay. So what, yeah, what are
you going to write? Is you'll create a
new task down here. Then yeah, you'll
write these down. So I like to do a little
slash slash just because it's like kind of different than the other tasks because
it's creating tasks. You'll write down,
write down tasks, prioritize tasks, create today tasks
prioritize to day tasks. Okay, So we already
just did write down tasks and prioritize tasks. We're now going to create
today tasks, okay? So to create all, so yeah, I'll show you how to create a template
here real quick. So what you'll do is
just save as template. And then those four
things you can basically bring back by pressing
Add from Template, and then it'll be right here. Okay, so we got those two down. Now we're going to create
today tasks, okay? So what I like to do
is start from the top. So now that we prioritize them, we're actually going to write
in the top two or three, and we're going to put
them into this program. So even copy and paste
if you want here. So finish as say, Okay, we'll put that in. Save. Complete English
homework control C. Control V, complete
English homework. See I keep going
and just write down the top two or three tasks and put them into this program. Okay, so once you've
completed that, you can now check off complete today tasks because
you've asked, you've basically
place the today tasks into this software, okay? And the last step,
super-easy almost there. We're just going to prioritize
to day tasks, okay, So we're gonna take these
that we've inputted and we're just going to
prioritize them from most important to
least important caves. Same way, by just rearranging k. This program is super-simple, same, same, same system. So we're going to do put final case for pain as probably least
important and get some tips. We'll put that there. I would say the most
important things to finish the essay. I'd say this is probably
the order I want to use here, okay? And what you can do now is checkoff prioritize
today tasks, okay? Because you're obese, you just complete
all the tasks, okay? And in this program, you can hit the dot-dot-dot,
clear finished tasks.
5. (Step 3) Get to work!: Okay guys, we are
now onto step three, the last step of the process. What you wanna do first, okay, In step three is removed
distractions, okay? So for example, your phone, you want to put your phone. I usually actually
either put this in another room or I zip
it up in my backpack. Okay. You want to move to a quiet location if
you can. Really helps. If I usually like a library or try to find
a workspace to work, put on some headphones, okay, putting on
some headphones, putting on some study music really helps to get
you in the zone. It really helps as well. Yeah, with distractions in
little noises and stuff. With the focus music, I can send you a link. I usually, I usually
use this fast jazz. It's just helps me
work, work better. Final works for you. Turned notifications off on
your laptop and your phone. Okay, so now I'm also
going to go more into the actual Pomodoro technique. Okay? So I learned this a little while back and
it's changed my life. Okay. So pretty simple. Within this program, you got the Pomodoro, you got the short
break and long break. I actually don't
use a long break. So what it does is you
work for 25 minutes. Okay. For the 25 minutes, you
don't do anything else. Okay. So you're you're
focused and you're going to work on the thing that's
at the top of the list, which is the most important. Okay, so you're gonna go for it. You might even finish multiple things inside
of one Pomodoro. So a pomodoro is the
25-minute section. And once it goes through, I'm not going to wait
Twenty-five minutes here. It'll go to the short break. So which is five minutes
for this five-minutes, get up out of your seat, maybe do some push ups, walk around, get some
an ego, the washroom. And this really helps
to kinda reset. It actually stays as shown. This is actually
really improved focus. And over long periods of
time of workdays, long term, it really helps me
to stay engaged, not get tired, helps
me to motivate myself. And it really helps out, has helped me focus
their studies. You can check out to
see for yourself, Give it a try, see how it works. And yeah, it's really helped me. Okay. Yeah. And recently too, I've been learning
that slow is fast. Okay. So when I get to this
five-minute short break, sometimes they can
feel like Frick, I just want to keep going. I want to keep working ahead. But these breaks actually make us more productive
in the long term. So now that you know
what a pomodoro is, on each task, you
can actually set how many pomodoros you
think each task will take. Okay, So you can say,
okay, practice shooting. I wanna do that for three
pomodoros or something. Then complete English homework. Let's say two pomodoros. So then you're estimating. Okay, That would take to
25-minute sections to complete. And what would I like to do is set it and then stick to it. Okay, so when you stick to it, it really pushes you to get it done in that amount of time.
6. Final thoughts: Alright, so that's it. That is my way of
being productive, getting the most important
things done for today. I hope you enjoyed it. Special, thanks to, it's good
to double-check name here. Rob dial, the mindset mentor. He taught me the
Pomodoro technique. He has awesome podcasts
and go check them out and let me know how it goes. I'm really curious
if you want to send me any questions
or if you want to send even some ways you've found
have been helpful for you to focus and be productive and
get your goals completed. Send them my way. Yeah, it was a pleasure
having awesome day. You guys are awesome. Peace out.
Sylas Boesten, Filmmaker, Entrepreneur, Creative
