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1. Introduction!: Are you busy? Are you too busy? Can I interrupt
you for a second? I know you are busy. I'm
sorry. You are busy. I know I am so busy. I have got all of
this plate spinning. I mean, my plate is full
and my plate is spinning. And I'm really,
really, really busy. And I don't have time for
this because I'm busy, and I'm not doing a good job at work because I am so busy. And you know what?
I'm stressed out. Stressed out because
I am so busy. I don't have any time from my family because I am so busy, and I don't have time
from my friends or for working out or for taking
that trip to Paris. I am so busy. Are
you busy? I know. I know you are. Everybody
wants so much from you, and there are not
enough hours in a day. Well, in this course, we
are going to find you one extra hour per
day every single day. My name is Montan Patel, a time management
speaker and coach. I'm passionate about helping you to find more
time in your day. And if we do this correctly, you and I can end up this global addition
of time management, this stress, this business that we appear to
be caught up in. Studies has shown
that 75% of parents report being too busy to read even to their
children at night. This stress of time management, this business, it causes
headaches. It can upset you. It can cause stomach
and back pain, neck pain, depression,
diseases, and sleep problems. Well, I'm here to help better manage your time and
reduce the amount of your stress even exponentially.
You will be healthier. You will have less pain.
You will think better. Bigger twins have better ideas. You will be more calmer
and less reactive. You will have better
sense of humor. You will be a better listener, and you will live
overall better life. Are you excited? Are you ready? Do you believe me?
It is okay if you don't believe me because I'm
going to prove it to you. All right, I will see
you in the first lesson.
2. Time is Your Ally: Making Time Work for You: You may have caught
yourself talking about time is your enemy. For example, where
did all the time go? Why I am so busy. Times always flies. Time flies when we are having fun and why there
is 24 hours a day. But I'm here to tell you
that time is not your enemy. I'm here to help you notice that time does pass
and it is your friend. And I time is your friend, then you start thinking about partnering with
time more wisely. With time as a friend
and a partner, you can trade low
impact activities, which takes a lot of time, but do not bring
you any happiness, joy, satisfaction, money,
or energy back to you. You can create that for
high impact full values. You can create self sacrifice
for self nurturing. You can trade constantly putting
out fires for activities that will create
long term betterment for you and the people you love. Time is your only non
renewable resources. We don't know how
much time we have, but spending time on things
that matters to you. Spending time building
relationships, spending time creating
a better future for yourself and your family, spending time strengthening
your body and your spirit. These are investment Wile. The only way to get out of these patterns and time
management daily struggles is to sink down into ourself as though we were down at
the bottom of the ocean, where it is quiet. It is dark, but it is calm. This is where the
treasure is to be found. Now, some people
find this place of deep reflection in
prayer or meditation, other people hire
a coach for that. For some people,
structure programs gives them a space
for self reflection, and some are lucky
enough to have a close friend or
relatives who loves respects and ask them the question that will help
them to go into their self. When decisions are made from this place of depth
and serenity, you will have a better life, and you will make
better decisions. You will be nicer, calmer, easier to get along with. When you spend time in this depth and serenity
of your own soul, you will likely to know yourself better and experience
your life more richly. The purpose of life is
to experience your life, and I want you to be
awake for your life. So imagine your new friend
by your side, which is time, helping you notice how
your life is unfolding, helping you appreciate
each chapters it unfolds.
3. What Will You Do with Your Extra Hour?: So if I give you an
extra hour a day, what are you going
to do with it? Imagine if I have a
magic wand and I wave that magic won to you and
give you an extra hour. What are you going to
do with that 1 hour? Answering this question is
more important than you think. Because when you are
clear and decisive, when you know how you're
going to spend your time and the result that you want from the investment
of that time, it's a lot easier to find
the time and commit to it. We all know how it is. You have got a free weekend, and you will be thinking, Oh, I will get done with
so many things. Maybe I will read the book
that is in this deck. I will go hiking,
I will work out, or I will start
my craft project. But then because you
haven't actually figured out how you're going
to spend your weekend, you will end up
just fretting away your time and really not sure where the
whole weekend went. Now, I'm all for fittering. If you want to spend
some time filtering, you flitter, and you fritter like you mean it
and you enjoy it. But if you don't
want to fritter, then you need to make a
decision and be clear about it. If you are wondering,
what should be the most effective thing to
spend your hour doing that. What kind of work should
I do in that extra no? Well, I have some
suggestion for you. First, is to be intentional. What would help you feel
refuel or recharge, not starving from rest, but rather something that will
lighten up you inside out. Spend an hour a day doing
something that makes your body stronger and makes your mind clearer and makes
your heart open up, something that increases
your intellect or something that
sparks your curiosity, something that
make you feel good about being on this
planet right now. So that will be my first choice. Anything that refuses
you or recharges you My second choice is anything
that will help you create a better future for yourself
and for your family. Remember, every
decision you make right now today is a vote for
the future that you want. So maybe it's worth paying
attention to your finances. Maybe it's worth
paying attention to your living situation or into your relationships
with your better half, your family and your friends. But what is that you
want to do today is going to bear fruit in
next week next year, next ten years, or maybe
30 years from now. Go ahead and make some notes
right now about what you might choose to do if you had extra hour every single day. And here we are just
really brainstorming. We are having fun. So
let yourself go crazy. Remember, this is an hour
for you to refuel you or recharge you and to build a better future for
you. You can do it.
4. How to Decide What to Do: Prioritizing Tasks: You can imagine
all of the things that you can do with
that one extra hour. But you're finding trouble deciding which one
you're going to do, or which will be the best. Oftentimes, it feels like you're looking too
far ahead, right? Let's say you feel like
you want to take a walk. But then if I go
to walk every day, I will injure my knee. And what if I run to that
person that I don't like to see in my neighborhood and all
of that stubs of what. And so then you
don't do anything. On the other hand, we have something called being
perfect all the time. Something it feels like, Well, I want to try this, but I
don't know if I'm good at it. I don't know if I will succeed
or fail at it, really, we have putting a
lot of time and energy thinking into it
rather than doing it. First of all, give yourself a little break on all of
the perfectionist things. Well, let's say you can try, I will give it a try
and see what happens, and I will experiment it. But also try to pick
up things that you enjoy in the process
instead of the result. Whatever the outcome
of your work will be. Let's say success or failure, but the work you are going to do should be enjoyable for you. I want you to start
experimenting with all of the things
that you like to do because we really don't know which one
is going to best. Do we until we try. So you may just want to
start playing around, see what feels great to you. But if I can help you
with this decision, I have a terrific little process that I would like you to
work through right now. Step one is, I want
you to write down three things that you can do if you have an
extra hour a day. So just go ahead and make a
list of these three things. Whichever three comes first
to your mind are fine. And now we are going to do bare comparison with all of these three
things in the list. What I mean here is, compare the first thing that you
have with the second one. Which one weights ounces more
or less. So Peak one that. Let's say in our case, we have first choice better. Then compare that first
choice with the third choice. Again, compare both of them, which has a stronger pull to you and which one s a few more? Then compare the
second and the third. Now, obviously, your desire and your list will
change over time, but this kind of pair
comparison work, right? This one to two, one to three, two to three can be really useful way for
focusing your mind. Because when you have got too many unknowns or
too many variables, the mind can sort of start
chasing of its own tail. But when you just say this one or this one or this
one or that one, it's a lot easier to make choice and be decisive about it. I'm hoping you have got
some more information, what you might do if you
had an extra hour a day. It's getting exciting. Isn't it? Well, I will see you
in the next one.
5. Start Small: Transform Your Time with 15-Minute Changes: This morning, I a avenar, and it was schedule
for half an hour. But the first 15 minute
of that whole meeting, I told people to do
whatever they like to do. Meaning whatever things
they want to do, or whatever thing they
have left to do, do it. So the whole first 50
minute of that avenar, I stood there with my clock
dimer and telling people, let's clear this much
part of your desk. Go do 50 push ups, write a novel, or write two page of your essay.
Or call someone. You haven't called in a while. And after this 15
minute is over, everyone in the chat was. Thank you so much.
It is amazing. For instance, someone made a right decision after
thinking for 15 minutes. Someone clear up their
room or their desk. Someone need work
out or push up, someone reach out to the person. So what I'm trying here to say is 15 minute is all you need. You can literally change your
life in just 15 minutes. Know, I have promised you how to find an extra hour
every single day, but I want to just start by finding extra 15 minute a day. Now, I'm a big believer
of 15 minutes. So I want you to invite
you in this idea of 15 minutes a day that can be spent on
something that you love, something that refils you, something that recharges you, that lightens you up,
that makes you happy. Bring your joy can
really make difference. It's totally worth it. So think about
spending 15 minutes a day on something
that matters to you. I don't care if it
matters to anyone else, but it should matter to you. Because when you spend time on the things that
matters to you, you refill your own tank, you stay refilled and a flame, there's a light or spark
in your eyes again. The wonderful thing
about 15 minutes is it is not hard to find
extra 15 minutes a day. It's a relatively
short amount of time compared to everything we
have in that whole day. And also, it is not hard to get a 50 minute earlier, either. You know, getting up
half an hour earlier could stress me out or anyone, but you can wake up 15 minute earlier or you can put
people off for 15 minutes. Fore, working for 15
minutes and whatever you love will also hop squash right over your
perfection reason. Because how perfect can
it be in 15 minutes? And the community effect of spending 15 minutes a day every single day on
something that really matters to you is incalculable. Mostly it's just
interdiscipline. Don't talk yourself
out of it because it's not other people who are going to encroach
to your boundaries, it's you letting other people encroach on your
boundaries, right? So when you tell yourself, it doesn't matter or
it's not a biker deal. I will call it later. You are
going to sabotage yourself. But otherwise, just
lock the door. Turn off anything that beats and give it to
yourself as a present. These 15 minutes can really recharge or refuse
you. You deserve it. Do you know that if
you played piano for 15 minutes every single day, in no time, you will be a perfectionalist or
expert in playing piano. Or let's say, if you spend 15 minutes doing burpis
or stretching out, you will get more stronger
and more flexible. If you spend 15
minutes a day writing, let's say 15 minutes, you can write 200 words
where in 250 days, you will have 50,000 word
book, less than a year, 15 minutes a day of
cluster clearing, 15 minutes of day of
enriching your relationships, reaching out to someone or writing a thank
you message note. These tiny actions can have a profound effect on your life. So that's my invitation to you. It start by spending
15 minutes a day on something that
really matters to you.
6. The Power of Five-Minute Transitions: I want to suggest another
little incremental step that can have a profound
effect on your life, and that's giving yourself
little 5 minutes prey. Maybe just one or two a day. I try to get up and actually
go to another room. I try to stand up and
stay away from my desk. And sometimes I do like little stretching or maybe going to balcony or
terrace or something. But mostly, I just try to go to another space, another area, Because it stimulates
my thinking into a whole new way and gets
me up out of my chair. These 5 minutes breaks
can be found in between meetings or big chances
of task during your day. In transportation, just getting to where you are going
5 minutes earlier, maybe parking car around the corner and just give
yourself a couple of minutes. To just sit to think to
notice the world around you. No time on your screen
or not retting e mails, not checking out what latest
trend of video is there, but just 5 minutes with
being yourself for yourself. This is particularly helpful when you're transitioning
life rules. When you're going to work,
maybe just get there a couple minutes earlier and
just sit there for a minute. Or after your workday is over, and you are coming home, pause when you block or
two away and give yourself a second to pause all of the
wind tunnels in your life, and ask yourself like your good friend,
how are you doing? What do you need?
How did today go? What can it be better? Giving yourself these
intentional moments of grace of empty time. It will allow you
to fill yourself. So you can stop feeling like a robot running all
day all around, every day, doing
everything for everyone. And you can start to remember that you can be
present in your life. In this little 5
minutes transitction, you might find yourself having ideas of things
you want to do, projects you want to do, researches you want to start, movies you want to write. You might find yourself
growing in self compension. You might find yourself
reflecting upon your past. You might be even uncomfortable with some of your own feelings. Many of us are not
used to being alone or being quiet with ourself
for whole 5 minutes. So give it a try. Practice
just throwing yourself down and giving a couple
of minutes just for you.
7. Permanently Erase Unnecessary Calendar Commitments: I don't think there is such
thing called life penance. I think it's just ridiculous. I think it's a phrase that
they just made up to make us feel bad because life
is not a cake pie, and it's not important
for you to have equal proportion going to everything and everyone equally. What important is there
should be a balance, so that from everything
that you are putting out, you are getting something back. When you give your time and
your energy to your job, you basically receive money. When you give your time and energy to your
spiritual community, you will receive friendship
and spiritual well being. So when was the last
time you look at your calendar for a
day or two thoroughly. You know like actually
looking for a day or two and then analyzing it
and analyzing that day. So here's a practice
that will help you find more time or an
extra hour a day. Take a look at
your daily book or your online calendar and find something that you can
erase permanently. Maybe it's an activity that
you used to enjoy or like, but you aren't getting
much out of it these days? Maybe it's a commitment
that you have outgrown or maybe
you're tired of. So what I'm here trying
to say is look out for the things when you're putting your time or effort
or your money, particularly time
and not getting anything back or
getting more out of it. Make sure that everything on your calendar has
something written on your investment
of your time or money and something that
you are getting back. And I know you might
feel shy about removing yourself from
this obligations, but you are maturing. You are growing up
to become a better, braver person, and you are
taking stand in your life. So have you found anything yet? Well find something
on your calendar, that needs to be
gracefully resigned, and then do it and see how
much extra time you will find.
8. Do You Really Need to Attend That Meeting?: We may never know why these
meetings are being so popular right now or why people insist on having
so much meetings. But we can take a stand in our life for having
shorter meetings, better meetings, fewer meetings, or even no meetings at all. The first trick to better
meetings, fewer meetings, and no meeting at all is to
ask yourself this question, what is the point
of this meeting? Then, what are we trying to
achieve with this meeting? And lastly, what results do we have to have from having
been in this meeting? Cause sometimes, it
may be the best way to achieve this goal
is not in the meeting. It can be simply an e mail. It can be simply a quick call or a conversation over a coffee? Maybe something s, just some information that need to be shared
across the team, or only one person need to make a decision and
not the whole team. The next question
is, why am I here? Why is my attendance
important at this meeting? What is my function. What am
I bringing to this meeting? What am I expecting to
get out of this meeting? Having this kind of
frank conversation about your meeting
culture might be a little challenging or difficult in your business or your
industry for the first time. But I recommend or I encourage
you to ask them anyway. These questions are
good from everyone. No one likes a boring meeting. No one want to spend more
time in these meetings. When you ask these questions,
what they are for, and what your specific
role in that meeting is, you open up conversation
from other peoples as well. You may find that
you can elimate some regular meetings
or even reduce them. A weekly meeting can become a bi weekly meeting or
even a monthly meeting. When I offer people
time on my calendar, it will say 15 minute
appointments, right? Now, my calendar will automatically
bro out half an hour, so that if we need to
talk longer, we can. But the person who is booking the appointment only knows
that I only have 15 minutes, a total time saver. So an excellent way to recover
your time is to reduce or better elimate some of this meeting that
have less important. All right, good luck with it.
9. Put Your Phone Down: Reducing Digital Distractions: You may have noticed
that your phone is an endless gapping
more of time. It will eat all of your time. You will give it to it, and it will just keep
feeding you stoves. It is designed to keep it
connected with it all the time. But when you overuse it, you will hardly feel, or you will hardly even know where the whole
day goes, right? So you have got to put
limits on your phone. You have got to set it
on the ero pin mole. You have got to turn off all the ringers and all of the notifications
that you are allowed to. Must be in charge of your phone and not
the other way around. Again, I will repeat,
you must be in charge of your phone and not
phone in charge of you. Also get your phone
out of your bedroom. It is destroying your life, and you will not even know it. There's all these studies about how many people sleep with their phone within
the distance of their hand or even
under their pillow. Don't No. Waking up is a secret
time of the day. You need a minute
to stretch, relax, even breathe and snuggle
with your person if there is a person or just feel the pool side of the
pillow for a minute. Give yourself some
time before you allow your brain to
prioritize the outside world. Give yourself a minute. And if you're one of those
people like I have a job, or I have kids, and I always need to be
on the phone, fine. But keep your phone on the
outside of your hand reach. Keep it on the desk
away from your room. Really, you need
to sleep better, and you are going
to sleep so much better after you keep
your phone aside. You are going to enjoy
your life so so much. Put your phone down. The same way you
break up with anyone, obviously with love
and intentionality, you say to yourself
and to your phone. Phone, I love you. But it's not good for us to spend
so much time together. It's taking away
from other things that really matters to me, like my business, people, projects, and things
I want to do. For sake of both of us, we are going to have
some span time apart. And then when you're
together, it can be special. When you are together
with your phone, it can be a special
time with your phone. If you find promising yourself that you are going to spend
less time on your phone, and yet, for some reason, you keep reaching out to it. You can't resist, you cannot
resist to it in the future. One more real, one more photo, one more video,
one more one more, You may have a problem. And the first step of solving any problem is acknowledging
or knowing that problem. So the first thing we
want to do is say, I'm noticing that
I'm not good at controlling my relationship
with my phone. So we are going to put in some obstacles in between
you and your phone. And that means removing
some of the apps, games that you like the most. That means keeping your phone in another room or in your
purse or someone else. That means having
a commitment as a household to use your phone
less to your children's, no phone on Sundays, no electronics after 10:00 P.M. Turn off your Wi Fis. Also, there are tons
of applications and programs that can help you to reduce your screen
time on the Internet, particularly on your computer, so that you can allow
uninterrupted time for your writing or your
creation work or your work time, and it just won't
let you go there. So become really intentional
or really serious about your usage of your
mobiles or your laptops. Now, if you need to get more
sleep, then get more sleep, claim that sleep, Step away from all of the things that
robbing you for the sleep. If we need to have
better relationships, then step up into
your relationships. Showing up for the people
more in real life than just texting or sending
rays. Does that make sound? Look, I'm not saying to
get rid of your phone or your laptops or any other
technology completely. Instead, recognize it as
a tool and then use it. Use it rather than it using you. Optimize it for your
work or your studies, rather than constantly checking from something, something, somewhere somewhere,
some new photos, some new videos, right. Technology has a
place in our life, but technology is not our
entire life. Remember that.
10. Get Outside: The Benefits of Fresh Air for Productivity: Thing I often hear from people
when I ask the question, what will they do if they
had an extra hour a day? And they will say, I
would like to spend some more time connecting with the people I love
or I care about. And also sometimes I hear
people would like to pay more attention to their health or
their physical well. So here's a little way that might accomplish both
of those things. Establish a tradition of
a regular walk, ting, or any other outdoor activity, like tennis or going to gym. Do it with your
family, your friends, even with people in
your neighborhoods, or it can be just with one
person or really by yourself. It doesn't has to be long. Five, 10 minutes one
around a block is plenty. But everyone is getting
out of the house together, out in the fresh air,
moving your body. Being in the fresher, spending time in nature away from screen. Outdoor time like this gives people opportunity
to talk with each other about things that they just might not
talk or discuss. Maybe even discussing some of the things that has been
previously undiscussable. You know, this one,
the undiscussable, and that's not a bad
way to bring it up. When you're walking
with that person, you can bring up that topic
and say something like, hey, can we talk more about
our undiscussable talk? Studies has shown that while some people like to
talk face to face, other offens enjoy
parallel conversation. That's when when you're
next to each other, but facing the same direction. Like when you're talking in your car or fishing
or even walking? If you are having trouble communicating with
someone in your life, a walk might be a better way or a great way to get started. Getting outside
connects you with the physical world,
the natural world. Remember the trees, the air, the soil, that's the real world. All of these buildings and telephones and plots
that we have created, Well, that's just us, and that is not the real one. So try spending 10 minutes or even 5 minutes intentionally
outside today right now, with whoever who wants
to join with you, see what comes of it,
see how you feel it. See if you want to make this a daily habit or daily activity.
11. Class Project: Creating Your Personalized Time Management Plan: Hello, everyone, and I
hope you're doing amazing. In this lecture, we're
going to talk about our class project and
our class homework. The class homework for
this course will be a time management planner
or a yearly planner. Let me show you what
I'm talking about. As you can see in
this Cokle sheet, this is a yearly planner, and this is what
I'm talking about. And don't worry,
I'm going to share this Cokle sheet in
the research section, so make sure to check it out. Let's say today
is first of July, Monday, and I'm going
to do three tasks. First of all, I will
shoot my YouTube video. Then I have to go to gym. Lastly, I have to read a
book or read 100 pages. Today on first of July, I have to do these three things. As I have done
these three things, I will simply click on the first one and click on strike through. As my shooting of my
YouTube video is done, I will click it, my gym is done, and my reading is done. Eventually, I will
know that what I have accomplished or what
I have done today. If you haven't
accomplished this thing, let's say you haven't
shoot your YouTube video. Then forward it or taste
it in the next day. That's how you will know that you haven't done anything on Monday and you have to shoot your YouTube video on Tuesday. If by any chances, you are not able to shoot
your video on Tuesday even. Simply again forward
this to Wednesday. That's how you can
trace your progress and see day by day
what you are doing. You will know that you haven't
done anything on Monday, Tuesday, you now have to do
everything on Wednesday. As you go through this,
you can fill out this map for a whole week for biweekly
or even for a whole month. After check marking this thing, you will feel a sense of
accomplishment and gratefulness. It will also motivate you to
do more things further on. Let me show you my example on how I uses this
yearly calendar. In June month, I have
accomplished all of this thing. On Monday, on third June, I have edited my video. I shoot my one course, as well as I have
shoot my one course. I have done Jim, I have
done reading my book. That's how you can easily
trace your work by just knowing that for you
have done in the whole month. Here are some of the main
objectives you can write, as well as some notes, feel free to explore, and feel free to
write your own yearly calendar in this Google sheet. Don't worry, I will
share this google sheet. Next thing I want to show
you is daily planner. We have covered yearly planner, and this is of monthly planner. Now let me show you what I
uses on day to day basis. This is my daily planner, and feel free to write
your own name as in Monthens daily planner.
Then write the date. Let's say I'm getting
up at 7:00 A.M. So I will write all
of the things that I did in that half
an hour period. Because until and unless
you don't know what you're doing in half an hour or
early basis in your day, you won't actually know how
your entire days just pass. By doing this, you are changing
your unconscious mind to conscious mind because you are tracing hourly or half
an hourly progress. I highly urge you to try
this for a day or two. Let's say you try
this for two days. You will see that
in last two days, you have accomplished
more than in a week. I promise you that. This daily planner will
allow you to change your mindset to fit or whatever you call into
work ethic and success. Again, don't worry, I will attach this daily planner
in the resource section. Make sure to check it out
and fill this daily planner, take a screenshot of it and then attach it in the project
or resource section so that we all get inspired from you and you can earn
certificate of this course. Last thing I want to show
you is my Google calendar. This is my Google
calendar configuration, and you can see I
get up at 7:00 A.M. Go to sleep at ten or 10:30
P.M. Then I get my shower, then I meditate and
then all of my project, all of my support calls, all of my community calls. The rest of the day
is planned like this. You can also fill out your
Google calendar like this. But again, it has to be
strategic and fill out in an hourly or half hourly
basis. Don't worry. I will attach this Google
calendar screenshot in the resource section so that you can all
have a look at it. Well, that's all
for this lecture, I hope you complete your
project or your homework, and I will see you
in another one.
12. You Made It! Closing Moment: First of all, congratulations on completing this entire
course on time management. You should definitely
clap for yourself, and if you don't, I will. Therefore, without
wasting any further time, let us conclude our course. So if you have any
questions or any doubts regarding the tips and tweaks that we have
explored in this course, feel free to reach out
to me and don't forget to leave a review or leave
your feedback to this course. I will guide you
how you can leave your feedbacks and
reviews to this course. So that's all for this course, and I will see you
in another one. Bye bye. As we wrap up, I really hope that you
found this course valuable. But either way, please leave a review and share
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