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1. Intro: What's a man's most
valuable asset in the whole wide world? Is it gold? Is it crypto? Is it dollars? Is it
diamond, or is it oil? No, it's time. This chart shows how many weeks
you have until you're 90. Not so many us it when you digest it in that format,
it's not to scare you, it's to wake you up
to really consider if you're spending
every second wisely. In this course, we look at seven strategies on
how you can be more productive and buy back your time to spend it
on what really matters, relationships, health
experiences, so you can experience life to the fullest
before your final breath. But that's not all.
If you watch till you discover the one
tip that might be the game changer
that allows you to live your best life, friend. If you're new here, my
name is Olivier, Engineer, current Product Manager and wannabe digital nomad and tuber. Alright, let's dive into the seven strategies on
how to buy back your time.
2. Project: In this course, you will have
a choice of two projects. Number one, we'll look
at how you can use your calendar to the fullest
to plan your ideal week. For this, you will need a digital calendar like
the Cuckoo calendar. Number two, we look
at how you can create and leverage
your own can ban board to track and optimize
your life and work using a tool like Notion
Trello, Asana or Jira. Once you've done, we have
one or both of the projects. Take a screenshot of what
you've done and post it in the project section
of this course so you can showcase your
work to your peers and potentially receive some feedback on how
you could improve. Remember, it's a safe space, and feedback does help us
to improve much faster.
3. Do the one thing: Do the one thing. Always focus on the most
important task or goal that will make everything else easier or unnecessary
every morning. Flag the one thing that if you
were to get it done today, would make your day
a successful day. And focus on that first. How do you find the one thing? Ask yourself the question, what's the one thing I can
do such that by doing it, everything else would be
easier or unnecessary? The concept of the one
thing was popularized by real estate magnate Gary Keller in his book of the same name.
4. Learn to say no!: Learn to say no and
set boundaries. Most of us have the
default behavior where we don't want to let others down and want to do our best to make them happy. This is often called a
people pleasing personality. Usually having a people
pleasing personality will make you feel guilty for saying
no to requests from others, however big or small
the request is. So how do we get
better at saying no? So we can be protective of
our time first and foremost. Like many things, it's something you're going
to have to practice. It's something that
I'm currently working on myself to help
with that practice. You should always
have at the back of your mind that you are not
put on this Earth to make other people happy
while you constantly disregard your own
enjoyment of life. If you are skipping that
yoga class that you were looking forward to after
a long week of work, because someone asks you to hang out with them last minute, you might want to
consider that word no, instead of always compromising to make someone else happy. As naval ravicart would say, don't spend your time
making other people happy. Other people, being
happy is their problem. It's not your problem. If you are happy, it
makes other people happy.
5. Tap into monk mode: Tap into mock mode by intentionally
eliminating distractions, simplifying life, and
focusing on specific goals. You would aim to use your time more efficiently
and purposefully. Mock mode refers to a period of time where you isolate
yourself to do just that. The term draws inspiration from the disciplined and focus
lifestyle, often associated. Monks have focused goal sprints, periods a couple of times a year during which you
go into monk mode, let's say for a month or so, then emerge from your monk
mode period, a change, man or woman, having hit all the goals you set for
yourself during that time.
6. Remeber to pay for access: Don't hesitate to
pay for access. Once you start to make money, then comes the fear
of spending it. You've seen your
account increase, now you fear it going back
down to a lower number. So you tend to be
reluctant to spend, but as the saying goes, you need to spend
money to make money. It's a mindset I'm
trying to work on too. If you think that
there is discourse that could give you the one tip, that ten x is your
revenue or productivity, even five X is them, or to access them by the course. It reduces the
time it would have taken you to figure
out the hot tip. The hack, the unlock by yourself and allows you to make that
extra revenue much faster. The extra revenue means that
you can either spend it on further experiences or you could use it to outsource
some of your busy work. Which results in
you getting back your time to do what
fulfills you the most instead of spending it on the daily grind building
someone else's dream in a nine to five living
a life that's been assigned to you by default.
7. Health: Take care of your health. A healthy man wants
1,000 things. A sick man only wants one. If you go through life
on unhealthy mode, and you've let your
health deteriorate so much that you
constantly need to go to the doctors or frequently need to take days off to rest. You're naturally losing
on time that you could instead put towards enjoying
other experiences in life. Instead, that time is redirected
towards your recovery. Operating on unhealthy
mode also means that you are never
performing at your peak. That's inclusive of getting enough quality sleep
throughout your life. New research shows
that as adults, we owe to get the right amount of sleep every single night. If you are not, you
are exposing yourself to a range of
negative impacts on your physical and
mental health that could come crashing down
on you at any time. A well rested mind is more
focused and efficient, contributing to better
time management during working hours. Think you're doing the right
thing to be healthy today. One step further is to
also think about what your health span looks like
several years from now. That means building the
health foundation right now for when you are
60, 70 and beyond. If you haven't built
enough muscle mass by going to the gym regularly, you might be spending your days in joint
pain when you are 60 and beyond due to the lack of muscle to
support your frame. And then you won't be able to go on those walks and trips. Unhealthy mode is a time sink. Buy back your time by
cultivating a healthy lifestyle.
8. Leverage time blocking: Leverage time blocking. Block your weekly calendar with all the ideal
activities that you need to and would like
to perform in a week. This includes work as
well as leisure time. Want to integrate the habit of a weekly yoga class
in your life. Block it in your calendar. Blocking time in your calendar not only allows
you to plan ahead, it also allows you to say no to last minute requests more
easily as you've already thought through what you're
supposed to be doing for each hour of the week to
allow you to have an ideal. Here's an example of what my
weekly calendar looks like. So this is what my weekly
calendar looks like. So basically, as
soon as I wake up, I go for a walk, no matter
what the weather is. Then after I come back, I get ready for the day. And then depending on the day, it's either Youtube and
skill share research, which mostly is done during the week or if it's a
Sunday, we're going to yoga. So as you can see, it's
planned to the tea, and if something unexpected comes through, I'm
already prepared. I'm either exercising
my new habit of saying no or I
do the new thing. And then when I come back, I basically know
what my calendar is and what I'm supposed
to be doing at the time, I just execute on what I'm supposed to be
doing at the time. So as you can see,
everything is in. If look at Monday, go for work, get ready for the day tube and skill share research 95
after the 95 exercise, some space here to wind
down from exercise, shower, dinner, read,
get ready and cook bad. And then the next
day starts the same. And then Saturday and Sunday, or it will be different
with Friday night as well, will be different
with family dinner, so it's a time to cactually catch up with
the extended family. And there's another
one on Saturday where it can be either
family or friends. Hopefully, you can use this as inspiration to produce
one of your own. Your turn now, take
the next 5 minutes to create your ideal week in
your digital calendar. And don't forget, at the
end of the activity, take a screenshot of
the calendar you've produced and put it in the project section
of this course. So that, number one, you can help your peers by
sharing your own example. And number two, you could get some feedback
on how you've been traveling and someone might see something that
you could improve on. Remember, it's a safe
space and sharing feedback helps us
improve much faster.
9. Use Kanban!: Systematically track your
work progress and blockers. Like many people, I have several projects running
in my life at once. Creating classes
for skill share, a Youtube channel,
my nine to five, trying to figure out
how to become a digital mad and start
traveling the world, handling my finances
and investments, and trying to rent out my property as I get
ready to travel. How do I keep track
of it all and ensure that the minute details
are taken care of? Example, is the rental
property contract drafted? Well, I use Notion and can ban
Workflow to manage it all. This is what my Notion dashboard
and workflow looks like. If you want to create your
very own notion dashboard, feel free to watch
my notion video. It's all explained there and
it's beginners friendly. However, for the purpose
of this exercise, we will keep it simple. You can use any of
Notion, Trailo, Asana or Jira to create your Caban workflow
if you're new to. Can Ban Can Ban is a project management tool designed to help visualize work, limit work in progress, and maximize efficiency or flow. Taichi, owner and
industrial engineer at Toyota originally
developed Can ban, improve manufacturing
efficiency in the late 1940s. Now it's commonly used in
software development to track all the tasks needed to
build and ship software. Can ban can be even more
powerful if you start to use it to track your life and work
on a digital platform. So that you know at every single point in
time on what tasks you're supposed to
be working on to move the key aspects
of your life forward. Operating this way
will allow you to have a clear focus what needs to be done now and what
needs to be done next. And allow you to optimize every single minute of your day. This means that you will
either be able to run more and complete more projects
if you decide to do so. Or you could now use the
time that you have freed up by being more efficient
with your work To relax, catch up with friends, family on hobbies,
basically leave life. All right, let's quickly set
up a canbanboard in notion. All right, let's create
the canbanboard in notion. So this is a notion page, we're going to call it tracking
quickly, life activities. Let's give it a
city icon because it's life and work empty page. And first off, we're
going to create an inline database called
Tasks and we will populate it. So what are our tasks? All right, we have some tasks. Let's delete this tag column here because we don't need it. One useful property to
have is the date property, which we will add and
we'll call it date. Let's populate that we need to buy groceries. It's tomorrow. Rams present for the
birthday on Sunday. Complete carding
project on Saturday. Complete the Tube
project next Monday. Spanish class project
six by clothes, let's say on Thursday. And complete housework,
let's say on Friday. And now we could potentially
sorted by date, date. Then we have a list
sorted by date. Then another column that
we would like to add is the status column. A cool thing is databases here in notion of different
views and layouts, review it in all
view. Here we go. This is our can ban board. If we start on the by
groceries activities, we just move it in progress. And once it's done,
once we've done it moves, there you have it. The concept of can Ban also
has a work in progress limit. You are not overwhelmed
at the number of tasks you're supposed
to be tackling at once. Set your limit. Maybe only have three tasks in progress at
any given point in time. It also forces you to prioritize your tasks so that you're always working on the
biggest bang for buck. One simple framework that
you can use to prioritize your task is the hyzonowaer
matrix of urgency. Vious importance. The metrix looks like this. If the task is urgent
and important, move it to in progress
on your caban board. And tackle it right away. If the task is not
urgent but important, schedule a time to do it later. If your task is urgent but
not important, delegate it. And if your task is not urgent and not important, eliminate it.
10. Bonus: Here is a bonus. If you're
watching this video, you're most likely
someone who works hard and wants to achieve
loads of goals in life. However, remember that life
is not all about work, but it is to be experienced. This is something I constantly need to remind myself as well. If you're living frugally, you've figured out
your emergency fund and how to invest
your income surplus. You're surely on track to be financially stable
in the future. However, remember to also spend those hard earned
dollars on activities and experiences that
will enrich your life. Money is not the most precious. Time is when time
is running out. Even millions of dollars in your bank account
cannot get it back. If we reflect on
famous millionaires who are no longer with us, but who might have traded their dollars for
some time back, we realize that often we might be focusing on the wrong
thing in life when it comes to work and building
financial wealth Is working a stressful job to
the deterioration of your health for some extra
money, really worth it.
11. Outro: Today we've learned
about seven strategies to be more productive
and buy back your time. But as Coef said,
knowing is not enough. We must apply, go out there, use the tricks we've
learned about today to optimize your life and hopefully
get the most out of it. Thank you for
watching. Remember to check out my Notion
course if you would like to build an
awesome dashboard to track all aspects
of your life. In the Notion course, we build the dashboard that I
actually use to track my life and work every single day and until
next time my friend take care.
Olivier
