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1. Introduction: Hello everybody. Welcome
to my Skillshare course. Let's start with a
little story, shall we? Now we have two individuals. Individual number
one, his name is Bob. He has his own social
media marketing agency and he started this thing
entirely on the Internet. He doesn't have to go to work. He just worked from home. He has a nice flat in the middle of the city with
an amazing view, but he doesn't even have to
live here the whole year. He could just fly to anywhere. He goes on holiday to Thailand, to the Philippines
and each hills for three months at a time. But you can still work
because its job is on mine. It's awesome row and he gets up at the same time every day, early in the morning and
accomplishes goal after goal. Now meet individual number two. His name is Karen and he wakes up at random times
throughout the day. Like sometimes he
wakes up at four PM, sometimes he wakes up at six. He sleeps at random times to his sleep
schedules messed up. Every time he wakes
up in the morning, he just lays in his
bed just sideways, like honest side grow. That's his daily routine. He wakes up two hours on
Instagram, just mouth, breathing like a loser, bro, he plays League of Legends
for like six hours a day. He's hard stuck in gold
row. You can't get out. He's trash. He spends his entire life playing the
game, but he's still trash. That was me, bro, I came for like 10 years
and I'm still dogs, that it guarantees
fed up with life. And he pushes the blame
onto other people. He never takes blame himself. It's always something else's
fault, someone else's fault, some hidden power in the universe as the reason
he's being held back. Like, it's so unfair man, this sucks, bro,
it's the government. The government is the
reason why I can succeed. But he just being
a little bitch, that's what you are down here. A little bitch, bro, like, What are you doing
with your life? And you're just sitting there on Instagram every single day, how much life are you wasting? Grow, okay, I don't really know where I'm going with this story, but I'm just trying
to illustrate to individuals and you can decide for yourself, who
do you want to be? Do you want to be knob or
do you want to be Garan? The only thing that separates these two people is
their productivity. Seriously, trust me, bro, your productivity decides
if you succeed or not. There's no magical formula like you do this one thing and
then you become a boss. If you can level up
your productivity, you will make it in life grow. Your life will improve so much, It all comes down to optimizing
your time management. Now you may be thinking, Who is this random dude,
Bro, on the Internet, There's lose are
trying to tell me how do I manage my time and
how to be productive. My name is Luke and I
have struggled personally with time management and productivity for
most of my life. So I've been there. Okay. I know what it's like to just waste hours in a day
just doing nothing. And being somebody who
was very ambitious, I've always struggled
with motivation and that's always held me back
and I'm still not perfect. I've got a long way to go in this
self-improvement journey. Or recently, my productivity
has improved massively. And it's thanks to these
tips that I'm going to share with you
guys in this course. So enough with the chit chat, Let's get on with the first tip.
2. Setting Goals + Priorities: Now the first thing we have
to do is find the motivation. You have to find your purpose. So ask yourself
this one question. What do you want to achieve in life? It could be anything. Just think outside the box, just let your
imagination run wild. You want to make a lot of money. You want to get good at a sport. Do you want to make a hit song, bro, you're gonna
make some music. What do you like to do, bro? Do you like art? Do you want to achieve the body of a Greek god? It could be anything you want. You must figure out what
your priorities are in life and then set
goals to pursue them. Now you must make sure that
your goals are specific. Don't just pick a
random goal like be healthy, because be healthy. What does that even mean? That's such a general statement. Usually the person that
set the goal themselves, they don't even know
what the goal is beheld. He could mean anything. And this is why the person ends up quitting
after like one month, they set their new
year's resolution and then after one
month, they're done. It's over. Does that sound like you
Is that something you do? That might be why your goals
are not specific enough. When your goals are not specific and you have
no accountability. This will allow you to cheat on your goals and take
the easy way out. Like what does being healthier
even mean seriously, you could improve by 0.1% and then technically
you're being healthier. But previously you were eating McDonald's
seven times a week. Now you're eating it's
six times a week. Oh wow, that's such
a big improvement. By, I guess it is better technically you are
making an improvement. So if that's the way you
gotta go about it and you go, you go from seven times a
week, six times a week, five times a week, 4, and then you slowly
lower it down. I guess that could work right? But if you end up at
six times a week and that's what you end up
doing as your new baseline. That's still not optimal
for wanting to lose weight. What you gotta do is set
a more specific goal. The goal has to be not just
lose weight or be healthier, but instead set, lose 20
pounds in six months. Now that's a target. You have a time that you have to achieve it in and
you have the amount, a measurable amount
for you to follow. And you couldn't be
the opposite too. Maybe you want to
gain weight like me, I want to gain some weight. So you can set a goal
to put on 20 pounds of muscle in a year and like whatever the time
frame is for you, depending on how much you
want to prioritize it. And it becomes so much easier when you have a target in mind, right for me right now, my main goal is
financial security. So I set a goal with this online business
to make a $1000 a day. Now what our Fog now. But that isn't
always a month row. Okay. $1000 a day would be sick. $1000 a month. That's children. Like that's what I'm
aiming for right now. Maybe in the future
at $1000 a day, but you got to start somewhere
and then work your way up. So you want to set like
your main vision, right? And then you have your little
micro tasks, micro goals. So my micro goals that I could
actually measure would be spending at least four hours a day working on my business. So that's how I stay on track. So now the goal
isn't just a result. The goal is an
action I can take. You don't want just the result
you want the action to. You might have lose
20 pounds in a year, but then you've got to
also add another goal, which is the action. And that is work out
every single day, eat a certain
amount of calories. You see what I mean? So
what are your goals? You probably already
have some things in mind because you're thinking about it every single day,
they're just there. So what I want you
to do is write down 123 goals that you have
on a piece of paper. Make sure to also include the daily actions that you will take to achieve these goals. Now stick this piece
of paper up on your wall so you can see
it every single day, like put on your mirror, put it on your wall
like above your desk. And that way it will act as a reminder when you start being lazy and unproductive bone that things like write
on your wall row, you can't avoid it. It's going to remind
you and that could help just set you back on track. Now when it comes to
your daily productivity, you want to base your schedule
around making progress towards your one to three goals that you set every
day before bed, you got to pick three to
five high priority tasks that you will do the next day. And if you don't do these
tasks, then you messed up. It's been a shit day. Personally, I like to pick three business goals
and to personal goals. So personal goals and
be like fitness staff, family things, and then business goals,
that's self-explanatory. Anything that makes progress
towards your career. I mean, that's just my priority. Your priority might be
something different. Now having a checklist like this has helped me a lot personally, also because it kind of
gamified as the daily grind. Once you complete the tasks, you just check it off your list. It's like completing a
quest in the video game. You get that buzz. You like, holy shit, I just succeeded at
something and then now you want to keep
working towards your goals. It's like it sets you
off like you just like you get hard
afterwards, bro. You're just like, Oh shit, and then you just keep going. It gets addicting. So now that you have your goals and priorities figured out, the next step is optimizing your day so that you
achieve the most possible.
3. Daily Routine + Class Project: When it comes to accomplishing
a lot throughout the day, the key comes down to planning your day from start to finish
if you'd like to wing it. So cool and so free. But you're wasting so
many valuable hours. I like to use the notes
app on my phone to serve as a little checklist
for my daily activities. Every time I finish a task, I check it off. Boom, it's done. And then I move onto
the next thing. When I first started this habit, I will list out all
my daily tasks, but I wouldn't list a
specific hour to complete it. This often resulted
in me getting to the end of the day
what I've only been like halfway through
my daily tasks and then it's so late
I'm like fog grow. Okay, I'm just gonna restart the next day and I never
got to finish my tasks. So in a very annoying, so recently I started setting time blocks and
this has helped cut out a lot of the idle time in the middle of the day
during these times, I'll be like sitting on my
phone and just scrolling. It's always YouTube
and Instagram. Okay. It's those two, mainly YouTube. Youtube for me is the worst. Especially the YouTube
shorts like that stuff has been algorithmically
designed to waste your time. It's like a science. They've created this AI
software row and they'd split, tested like thousands of
variations for the app, just for that stuff to be so addicting and you
never get off the app. There's no counter play to it. You can't defeat it. There's no way to win
when you're in there. The best way to fight it is not to go in, in
the first place. And speaking about mobile
phones and social media, you have to lower your usage. I know this should
affects everybody. It's not just me, okay? Everybody uses social media
so much and you might have something
else that takes up the majority of your time. For me, it's the phone by far. That's the number one
final boss of time waster. But Apple has a feature, it's called screen time. It actually shows how much life you've wasted on the phone. Android might have
a similar feature. I'm not really sure, like I
think they do, but you know, it's a problem when Apple
themselves have given you a feature to see how
much you use your phone. I even they know it's
addicting and it actually benefits them the more you
sit their mouth breathing, scrolling through Instagram,
they make more money. They can serve you more ads. They can do a lot of stuff. So if even they are
telling you that it's sucks and you got to stop,
that's when you know. Okay. That's when you know. So one thing you can actually do is put the screen time widget on your wallpaper
so that every time you turn on your phone
you see your screen time, it serves as an indicator
for you to know. Okay, you're wasting
time right now. You've got like ten
hours on your phone. Do get off. Get off right now row. Imagine ten hours you'd like, I would check my screen
type those times, right. I'd have 10 plus hours, 11 hours and my phone. Like what am I doing? It it doesn't seem
that long, right? You don't feel like you're
on your phone that long, but 10, 11 hours, It's crazy. Imagine ten hours put into
doing something else, like learning a
new skill, build. I'd be a boss at so many things have I
learned probably 20 hours. I think you learn a skill, you master something or
might have been 1000 hours, I don't know, but
do just ten hours a day doing something else
you'd achieve so much. Now I don't know if
you guys have heard about the Pareto principle. It's also called the 80 20 rule. You might have
heard of that rule states that roughly
80 percent of consequences comes from
20 percent of causes. So basically 80% of your productivity will come from 20 percent of your actions. So the key here is to discover where the majority of your
productivity comes from. You gotta base your daily
schedule around doing more of these
productive activities. Now you also want
to do the same with figuring out what your
time waster is R, because 20 percent
of your actions account for 80 percent of your wasted time
to figure out what these are and cut them out. So in my case, mobile
phones, get out of here. Rho mobile phones, fuck you. Cut out these time waster. And sometimes these
things will be required like maybe it's tours, daily chores, things like that. Probably still do
these things, right? You don't want to live
in a shit Hall house. But if you are a
high income earner, right, you could actually just
pay someone else to do it. Now it's going to cost
you a little money, but just say you earn
$200 and our right, you can pay someone $30 an
hour to clean your house. You're saving more money because when you could
have been earning $200, you're cleaning the house. So just a little bit
of economics if filmy. So for me personally, I've noticed that removing
all the bad habits has actually needed a better
return on my productivity, especially reducing
my phone usage for you and might be Netflix
and I'd be video games, whatever it is, just try
to cut it out your life. And I'm not saying
quit it entirely. Obviously, you wanna
do these things. It makes you happy, right? So what I like to do is
set a little time block, like at the end of
the day for me, usually from 06:00
PM to 09:00 PM. I said a three hour period for me to do
enjoyable activities. To this can include YouTube, video games, watching shows, just anything you can think of, just fun activities, spending
time with your family, whatever it is, it's
your relaxation time. And the nine PM
boom, no devices. So that way you
get all your work done early on in the day. And once you reach 06:00 PM, That's when you stop your work. You're fine to just relax now, you're proud of the
work you've done. Now as a reward, you get your reward time,
your relaxation time. It also stopped me
from feeling guilty afterwards because sometimes
I don't get my work done. And then I'm just messing
around is watching YouTube. I feel like in the
back of my head, really guilty like FARC row, I got behind and I'm
not doing my work. I feel like shit, so I can't
even enjoy the activity. They've got to actually
do the work first. And then when I'm doing
the enjoyable activity, I'm not constantly
thinking about how I'm not on schedule C, I'm going on a little tangent, but why don't you create
your own schedule? So your class project is to
create your own daily routine that you will follow in
the upcoming months. Feel free to share it with me and the rest of your classmates. I look forward to
seeing the epic plans that you guys have to show me now on
to the next tip.
4. Final Thoughts: Okay, Well, I guess that
is the end of the course. I hope that these tips can help you on your journey to success. Remember it's all about
creating good habits and sticking with them over the
long term is where you, when you just want to
remove the bad habits, bringing the good habits, and over 30 days, 90 days, the good habits
will become your life. There'll become what
you do by default. And at that point is
when it gets easy. Now if you guys wanna
see more of me, you can follow me on Skillshare. I'll be making more
courses in the future. I also got some YouTube
channels that you can subscribe to and got a Tik Tok
and on Instagram. So I'll link all those
socials below in the course description,
the course Bio, whatever it is, you find it row, the main like
description area of the course. There'll
be right there. And yeah, thanks for sticking
to the end of the course. I'll see you guys later. Yeah, I got you there.
Well, you got scared. I'm being so risotto right
now trying to shut off.
Luke Robins, Just a Regular Dude
