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1. Introduction: Hi everyone. My
name is Ahmed Khan. I am a full-time students and a entrepreneur
and also a YouTuber. And this is my very
first Skillshare course, where I'm gonna be
teaching you how to unlock your secret productivity and how you can
design and create your perfect daily routine, which is going to allow you to maximize your humanly
possible productivity. And you're gonna be able to achieve your dreams
and aspirations much faster without rumbling
much buckle your seat belt. Let's get into the content. I hope to see you
on the other side.
2. Class Project: First, I'd like to let you know about the class project that we have at which is your
perfect daily routine. So here's exactly
what you should do. We have H 29 lessons, actually, eight normal lessons
and one bonus lesson and disclosure course that I
have prepared for you guys. And that is going to teach you exactly how you should build your perfect daily
routine when you watch all those lessons
at the end of it, I want you to create your
perfect daily routine from the moment you wake up all the
way to the evening, night, The moment you go to sleep after you essentially write
that piece of paper down, I want you to clip
that onto your wall and look at that every single
morning when you wake up, when you go to sleep, if
you're having a meal, when you're watching a video, and I want you to look at it all the time because
that is going to motivate you and that
is gonna make you remember the Skillshare class, which is going to
motivate you as well. I really want you guys to do this glass project
with me and upload that onto the class
project panel that we have under this,
under these lessons. And of course, you can also use the discussion
step where you can ask me questions
I'm gonna be answering every
single one of them. But to the class project
is write a piece of paper. You're perfect daily
routine and with the strategies that you're going to be learning from this course. And then after that, upload
that onto the projects tab. And I'm going to let
you know how it looks. I'm gonna give you probably a feedback from there as well. Because if you're not going to take action after this course, I don't think that
is a good way to go. Please do this after
you're watching the course and I'll see you
guys in the next lesson.
3. How to Fix Your Sleep Schedule: And yes, let's get started with the first lesson that we have, which is all about sleep and how you can fix your
sleep schedule. When my friends asked me about like how do I get started
with productivity? How do I get started
with improving my, improving in myself
improvement journey? How do I increase
my productivity? What is the first step? I always answer. You should be focusing, first of all, on
your sleep schedule. Because if you had a
fixed sleep schedule, you are going to be probably, you're gonna get
them for the first 20% of the productivity lessons that I'm
going to teach you. This is probably this one
lesson just includes first probably 20% of the results
that you're gonna be getting. Because I know for a fact
that when I look at my life, when I have a hiccup
in my sleep schedule, I generally lose a big portion of my productivity
because for example, I'm going to actually
be a little warmer, little hill wool honorable here and tell you guys a story. Because a few days ago I had a big like nap in
the class and I was like sleeping for 1.5
hours the whole class. And that is that was because
of the fact that I was really tired from preparing
the Skillshare glass-like, which like preparing some
of the videos because I'm gonna be having a one-week
holiday index week. And I wanted to get a lot
of work done before that. And I was like really, really tired and I had a
fixed sleep schedule, so I wasn't able to sleep
much more than that. I felt asleep. I fell asleep in the
class for 1.5 hours. And after that, my
friends woke me up. And what happened was because of the fact
that I couldn't sleep. I did sleep for 1.5 hours, that they just couldn't
go to sleep at the normal time that I should've
been in bed and asleep, which is like 930 PM for me. And we're gonna be talking about all those things in the next
couple of lessons as well. And that's just completely crushed my productivity
because of the fact that for the next couple of days I
just couldn't get out of that cycle where I wasn't
able to wake up really early, where I wasn't able to
go to sleep at the time. That was just because of that
1.5 hours worth of sleep. And I don't want this
to be happening to you. That's why I'm going to
teach you exactly everything you need to know about sleep. And the first thing that we have talked about is basically a rule that is called
attend 321 rule. And all these numbers
are essentially sending for something
that you shouldn't be doing before we
go to sleep and that $0.10 for essentially ten
hours before you go to sleep, you shouldn't be
drinking anything that has a high caffeine rate. This might be coffee
or energy drinks, maybe some type of t's as well. Like in Turkish de this, it doesn't really consists of a lot of, to be
honest, caffeine. So I drink some traditionally
before I go to sleep. It is not a problem, or
maybe green tea as well. But some type of T's
are probably going to be included in this
category as well. So don't drink actually, a lot of things that are
have a high caloric, high caffeine range before you go to sleep that
is like ten hours. So if you're gonna
go to sleep at 11 or 12 wherever you were, sleep schedule looks
like generally do not consume a lot of
caffeine after midday, which is like 12 noon. That is gonna be the
rule number one, not a rule and that's
something that you have to do. But that is just an
a recommendation because that caffeine takes a lot of time for your body to just get
out of your system. And that is something that
I know personally because I used to drink a lot
of caffeine, nutcase. I used to drink a lot of coffee. That's just completely crushed. My sleep schedule,
which is something I wanted to let you guys know. Three stands for three hours
before you go to sleep, stop having big meals. And when I say this, I don't mean that of course you
can have a snack like, of course you can
have a chocolate bar or wherever that is. Of course you can have that. But what I'm telling you
guys is if you're gonna go to sleep at 11:00 PM, You should be done by
APN with your big meals, which is gonna be
like your dinner. Please eat your dinner like three more than three hours
before we go to sleep because you're not
going to probably have any digestive problems
if you do that. And two hours essentially stands for before two hours
before we go to sleep, you should stop doing all the
work that you have because of the fact that when you are working until the
minute that you sleep, which is something I used to
do for a long time because I had to finish all
of these projects. That is going to create
a lot of stress and your problem not gonna be
able to fall asleep faster. And all these tips
that I'm giving you, all these 10321 rule
is always about how you can essentially
fall asleep faster and have a higher-quality,
deeper sleep. One stands for essentially
the hardest one. Definitely the ones stands
for the hardest one, which is you should
be staying away from screens one hour before
you go to sleep. In my case, I generally
go to sleep at 09:30 PM, which is my fixed
sleep schedule. And we're gonna be talking
about your evening routine and morning routine in the
next couple of lessons. But one hour before
you go to sleep, you should be stop. You should be generally stopping using any type of
screens that you have. You shouldn't be watching TV. I never acknowledged like watching TV is I think
it really bad for you, at least that go with Netflix. Maybe. One thing I'm going to
add here is especially your phone and do not have your phone in your bed with you. Just watching, like scrolling through social media
before you go to sleep, that is definitely
not a good way to go. And this is going to be
the 10321 rule that you really should think about when it comes to having
the proper sleep. Because I think it's going to be really, really important. In other thing that we have to really talk about
when it comes to your sleep schedule is
definitely consistency. I'm going to talk about
in this whole course. A lot of things that you need
to know about productivity. But one thing it always
boils down is this. If you are not going to be consistent in any
change you're gonna do, you're probably not going
to make that change something that has a huge
result in your life. I'm gonna be honest
with you guys. I have never been in the past at very, very
consistent person. My parents always used to tell me when I wanted to play
soccer that they went like, oh, you're gonna play
soccer for a 1.5 months and then you're
going to do something else. And I was always like, picked up on that and the house. And I know that trying to be consistent is
something really, really hard. But when it comes to
especially or sleep schedule, consistency should be
the number one goal. If it's not going to, it shouldn't be like
if you go to bed, for example, at 10:00
PM, if that's your goal. And then you go to bed
at midnight one day, like two AM one day and
then sometimes like ten PM. Ten PM. It doesn't it shouldn't
work like that generally because that is
definitely not the way to go. That is going to just
crush your sleep schedule. Just know that you're
not gonna get this perfect every time of course, you're gonna go to bed
sometimes 30 minutes late to over if
something happens, if some emergency happens, I hope it doesn't happen. Of course, you're going to
probably go to a bit later. But as best as you possibly can please go to bed
at a certain time, which is gonna equal you to waking up at a
certain time as well. That is going to be our
lesson in number one. If the actionable
step that we have to essentially thinking
about here is have a consistent
sleep schedule, go to bed at the same time
and wake up at same time every single day and try to do that on the weekends as well. I know it can be difficult
to do that in the weekends. What I personal
news for example, I wake up at 530 AM every
morning on the weekdays and then I wake up at
generally like the six AM. And sometimes if I'm
feeling really tired 06:30 AM in the mornings
on the weekends, which means that I'm going to have a one-hour change there, but it is not a problem. I love getting sometimes
like more sleep than I kind of
needed because it is something as I'm a 1719
year-old guy and it just helps you grow as a person as well because sleep is just
really, really fundamental. And in this lesson, I also want to give you
guys a book that you should read because why we sleep by Matthew Walker is definitely one of the best books you should read about sleep
and the psychology of sleep and the
science of sleep. Definitely got to
read that book, or at least like check the
summary out because it definitely contains a lot
of knowledge about sleep, which is something really, really cool to be
honest, I learned a lot of the things
I talked about, like about sleep from that book, which is dope, check that
book out if you want to. Definitely a big, big
good recommendation. Let's get into the next lesson.
4. Building Your Productive Evening Routine: In our second lesson, I'm
gonna teach you guys exactly how you should be building
yourself a night-time routine. Generally, when it comes
to self-improvement, everyone is talking
about morning routines. You can go on YouTube and find a lot of videos about like, what's my pipe am my two AM morning routine looks
like you can find all of those videos and
also some people are talking about night-time
routines as well because I think night-time routines are a little more even
important than the morning routines
because you can have the best perfect morning
routine in the world. And you might be thinking, I'm gonna wake up at 06:00 AM going to do this,
gonna do that. I'm going to exercise,
I'm gonna go to the gym, I'm gonna read this
book, I'm going to write an entire video. You can think about
all those things. But if you're gonna go to
bed at two AM and then you're definitely not
going to be able to do your morning routine
in a good way. That's definitely you is
something that you should know. So definitely we're creating
yourself and evening routine should be a priority when it
comes to your productivity. That's why I'm going to
teach you now exactly how you should be building
your evening routine. Doesn't matter who you are. I really do think
that's every morning. Every evening routine
should start with an evening alarm
because in the evening, like this is just what
happens to me as well. We generally lose track of time. We are watching TV like I'm not I don't watch
TV to be honest. If I'm just scrolling
through social media, which is something I
also don't really try to do if I'm working, for example, or if I'm exercising at home, I always lose track
of time because I'm really focused on what I'm doing and I just lose track of time. So the evening alarm essentially helps me to remember
remind myself, oh, it's 830, which is
my evening alarm, 830. And I'm like, okay, now I have to do my evening
routine and go to sleep because if I don't go to sleep at this certain
time than I should, then my tomorrow
is going to be a little risky because
I'm not going to have the energy that I needed to have a
productive tomorrow. So now I'm gonna tell
you guys exactly how my evening routine looks like so that you can create yours, maybe similar to
me or just think, just look at the way
that I'm thinking when it comes to creating
my evening routine, you can find some really valuable information
from this as well. My alarm rings at 08:30 PM, which is my evening alarm. And that ending alarm tells
me you've got to stop. We are doing it doesn't matter if you are editing a video, it doesn't matter if you're
shooting a Skillshare course, it doesn't matter whatever
it is that you are doing. Just stop and start
your evening routine. And then from 08:30
PM to 08:45 PM, that 15 minutes like window, I generally go to
the bathroom like I do two things that I have
to do before I go to sleep. I brush my teeth,
I wash my face. I have a small skin care routine that I just
started a few weeks ago. And then I say, good night
to my family and then I come to my room Before nine PM. I always come to my
room before nine PM from 08:45 PM to 09:00 PM. This is my meditation time
where I'm gonna be essentially meditating for 1015 minutes
if I'm actually late. I am also a human. I am sometimes lady as well. I generally do meditation at least like four
or five minutes, but generally like ten
to 15 is the goal. That's what I do. And we're gonna be
talking about some of the important
self-improvement habits in the upcoming lessons as well. And then of dry meditate
by the way, I should, maybe I should talk about
now I'm gonna talk about meditation in the next
couple of lessons as well. Then after that
meditation session, I generally from nine to 930
PM in that 30 minute window, I plan my next day
for five minutes. I generally like having
a strict schedule already that I am teaching
you guys right now. And then I generally
like write down money, my T's, which are my
most important tasks. And I'm going to tell you
guys about those as well. Like I have so much to
go through and then I really have so
much to go through. And then I read. While I read, I
generally like fall asleep after 1020
minutes of reading. And I like to read
books that are into letter about
self-improvement, productivity. I sometimes like to
read fiction as well, but I like both of those
things to be honest. I like to read. I love
reading at same time, I love reading
self-improvement books. I love reading a fiction
book sometimes as well. If they're really high-quality, then 930 is exactly
where I go to sleep. I had been experimenting
for a lot of months until this point with the best evening routine
that that's possible for me. And this has been
actually one of the best evening routines that suits me because that allows me to get like
eight hours of sleep. I go to bed at eight I go to
bed at 930 PM that night. I wake up at 530,
which means I'm gonna get like eight hours
of sleep in total, which is exactly what I need. Everyone needs of course, different like hours of
sleep, but generally, eight hours is a good
way to go if you've never experimented
about it in your life. One action tip that I
want to give you guys in this lesson is going
to be, of course, you should definitely do some self-improvement habits
that I'm also going to be teaching you in lesson
four of this course. And this is really, really important because
if your evening routine doesn't consist of literally like anything
that's productive, it's not gonna be back good. I really actually
enjoy like meditation. I enjoy planning the next day. I enjoy thinking about my goals. I enjoy reading. So when I put those things
into my evening routine, I really feel like I look
forward for my morning routine, which is going to
be an essential essentially tip that I have to give you guys when it comes to any type of productivity
that you want. If you hate what you're doing, if you hate the
things that you do, you aren't definitely
not going to feel a good above them. You're just not going
to feel like you are enjoying those things and
you're not gonna be like, oh, I'm looking forward
to my evening routine. I'm looking forward
to waking up at 530. Am. I look forward to doing that because
I had some habits that I've included
in them that I really enjoy and I want
to do those things. So I look forward to, for
example, waking up at 530. But we're going to talk about the morning routine as well. One actionable tip that I
want to give you guys is add one to two habits
that you enjoy. These can be reading, journaling, meditation,
planning the next day. But I really encourage you to do essentially use one habit of planning the
next day as well. Because it just really
key when it comes to like having the nice
structure for the day, or choose one of these habits or choose maybe two of
these habits and do them before you
essentially just go to sleep. And that is gonna be
like or maybe structure, maybe if you go to
sleep at 11 PM, your evening evening alarm, it might be at 10:00 PM and
then some bathroom stuff. Of course every human has to do. And then maybe
journaling and reading a little bit and then go to sleep. And one thing that I really, really like about evening
routines is the fact that my evening routine
is a little stripped, as you guys can see, that really allows me
to not go my phone, which is another
crucial tip as well. I'm going to talk about how you can avoid modern distractions. And in the next
lessons, as well. As I said before, I have
so much to go through. And evening, your
evening routine should definitely prevent
you from going to bed and having your phone
in your bed and scrolling through social media,
scrolling through Instagram. Or maybe if it's like
Tiktok or something, It's definitely so addicting. Definitely your
evening routine should essentially prevent
you from doing batch. Then let's jump into
the next lesson, which is how we can create the best perfect morning
routine possible.
5. Building Your Productive Morning Routine: Welcome to the third lesson, which is how you
can create yourself a essentially a proper
morning routine, which is a very,
very important part of productivity and
self-improvement. However, before we
get into this lesson, I want to essentially give
this warning out to you guys. One thing I really want to
add here is basically do not try to make all
these changes at once. I'm going to of course, give you guys all the strategies that you need to know
about productivity of an, about how you can create
that perfect daily routine. Whoever do not try
to essentially do all these changes at
once in your life because you are probably
not gonna be able to, if you're not a superhuman, you're probably not gonna
be able to do those things. And yeah, you're probably
not a superhuman. One recommendation that I
have here is basically take two weeks out for every single
change that you are doing. Maybe first two weeks focus on your sleep schedule and then the next two weeks add your night-time routine and then the next two
weeks at, for example, your morning routine
and continue like this because It's
much better than spinning your
wheels and being at the same place you have been
where you are trying to do all these changes at
once rather than maybe in two months from now
you have already implemented like for changes
and that are consistent, that is going to be
just much better. So let's get into how you
can essentially build your amazing, incredible
morning routine. I think I think your morning routine should
include one main thing, which is your deep work. Let's talk about deep worth a little bit, which is a concept, that concept that
was discovered by commonly report who is
the author of two books, deep work and social
minute minimum. I was gonna say
social minimalism. Know it's that
digital minimalism. Those two books are definitely
great books you can read. Those two books are definitely
great books you can read. And I really encourage you
to read them because I did, and I actually gave
talks about those. I gave talks about those books, which is amazing. When
it comes to deeper. Deeper essentially means that you should be sitting down in the morning and being completely focused with 0
distractions on one thing, which is the hardest tasks that you have
throughout your day. In my case, this is sometimes shooting a
Skillshare course, which is actually really not
an easy task to be honest, or preparing your
Skillshare course or what it is maybe studying
for an upcoming tests that I have or whatever that
is when I choose the hardest task that I
have and that one task that each step frog that is a book from a bright and
Tracy and he talks like if you have a frog but you have to eat or else
you're gonna die. You're gonna eat that frog
first thing in the morning so that you can get
rid of that situation. And that is the
exactly the same thing that I'm gonna go here. Your deep work essentially
is like a 90 minutes, which is what I do. Maybe you, in your case,
it's one hour or two hours, 90 minutes polar session
where it's just gonna be incredibly focused on your work on whatever it is that you do. If you were a student,
maybe it is your lessons. If you are an entrepreneur,
maybe it is your business in the morning after you
wake up early hopefully, which is what I
do, which is also what I recommend
for you guys to do. Definitely focusing on
the number one thing that you have and making actually good progress
in that because there is no better feeling than
for example, at SBIR. For example, let's say at eight AM where you
are already done with your really hardcore
deeper accessions and nobody is still awake and
you feel like you are much, you're getting really progress done before anybody
else wakes up, which is an amazing feeling. And one thing that I
really have to add here is just try to go as long as you possibly can without touching your phone,
your night-time routine. And I may have mentioned this in the night-time
routine video. Which lesson, which
is essentially do not get to your one-hour
screen time like that. One-hour time before
you go to sleep, do not touch your
phone there or do not look at, for
example, screams. That is because of the fact
that those screens create that blue light
which prevents you from falling asleep
but in the morning, just do not touch your
phone because that is just going to make you
much more unproductive. I have experimented
for a few days. What I had, for example,
a 115 minute break where I was just like
touching my phone, where it was like
checking my stuff out on my messages or any calls and
I was checking those things down for ten to 15
minutes and that tend to 15 minutes just killed my productivity
for the morning. So there's gonna be one typic, go as long as you possibly can without
touching your phone. Now I'm going to
explain you guys how my morning routine
looks like so that you can essentially model
that after your life. Because I think you're
looking to looking at really productive people's
morning routines and evening betweens
a daily schedules is a very, very good way to go. I wake up at 530 AM
every single morning. On weekdays and on weekends, that can change sometimes it's
like six AM sometimes and sometimes if I'm really
tired, it's 630 AM. And from 530 AM all the way to like 07:30 AM in two hours, I do not touch my phone
in those two hours. I wake up, I go to the bathroom probably I like wash my face. And then I come here
to this desk and I started working on my studies. I will start working
on my lessons that I have for school because of the fact that I
generally like to get those things done first
thing in the morning. Then at 730, I guess
I stopped doing those things and I had breakfast that mom my
mom prepared his me, which is awesome.
Thank you, Mom. You're probably not
gonna watch this. This is a Skillshare course. And then I actually go
to school at eight. I leave generally at eight AM, which is my strict like
morning routine that I do. But one thing also
I like to add it sometimes is when I'm not really feeling
motivated to do things, I add some journaling
in that as well. Journaling really,
really motivates me to get back on things, get back on track and start doing things that are
really, really productive. So one tip that I have, as you can see, do deep work which is really needed
in the mornings. And then of course go as long as possible that you can without your phone and then it building your consistent morning
routine is gonna be a very, very big tip here because if you aren't going
to just wake up early for one week and do that morning routine like
could do a couple of maybe self-improvement
habits and then it do some deep work for a week. Probably not much
is going to change. But if you go forward a day in, day out, really
putting in the work, waking up at earlier
than other people to put in the work
and doing deep brick, which is I think the best way to essentially make some
progress really focused. Notice fractions
do not even have your phone maybe in the
room that you're doing, studying or working,
whatever it is that you do. For example, when I wake up, I do not charge my
phone in this room. I charge it in the
next room that we have here because I don't want to see my phone
even in the morning. I use a physical alarm clock, which is actually here. Let me show you guys that,
which is actually here. This the physical alarm clock
that I use because I did not want to see my screen
at all in the morning. I just want to see
one screen and it is this laptop screen because
I want to work and I want to do a little bit
of continuous studying, which is going to
be a big, big tip. Actionable tips. Let's
get to that part as well. I think when it comes
to actionable tip, I really have to
tell you guys that consistency is the
key number one, also add one thing, one self-improvement
habit that you enjoy, just like the tip that I gave in the evening
routine section, had the one thing
that you really, really love in your morning
routine because this is something I've never
done for a long time. And I was like when I woke up at 530 or five AM or sometimes even Fourier am that I did
for a month or so in 2021. It was like I didn't
want to wake up. I was like, Oh, I
want to go to sleep. I went to Sonu is
because I didn't really enjoy my morning routine because I didn't really
have anything else that I look forward to. I just had like
deeper accessions off trophic woke up
directly going to that. And it was like kind of boring. So you can add one thing I'm actually really
used to that now. You can add maybe one self-improvement habit
that you really enjoy. Maybe it's exercising first
thing in the morning, going to the gym,
whatever that is. After you do that, you can go
to your deep work sessions, which is in my personal
opinion, the best way to go, best way to eat that frog.
6. The "MUST" Self Improvement Habits: And listen for is going to
be all about the fact that you should start with the
most self-improvement habits. So let me tell you, what are these habits? Must self-improvement
habits are essentially, I don't want to say like MST
that you have to do them. That is illegally law. Of course it is not like that, but I think these are some habits that we talked about and self-improvement
that are really, really valuable to you guys. Let me tell you what they are. So it can be working
out meditation, Reading, journaling,
get visualizing, taking cold showers and
everything that like all these, may be productivity
YouTubers or books you read about self-improvement
or talking belt. And these are essentially
the end-all be-all of self-improvement
because habits are the main keystone of your life. Like, you probably
know the sentence 90, 70% of the things that we
do throughout nature are essentially habitual that are already programmed in our minds. I really do think that's doing these habits are really,
really enjoyable. Like when I look at my life, when I look at my
daily schedule, I really do think that like going to the gym with my
buddies, for example, or just meditating for
meditating for like 1520 minutes or reading a nice book that I love for 20 minutes, 30 minutes. Unlike just getting
taken notes from that is just something that I really
look forward to in my days. I think I convinced you that you should start these
habits may be slowly, but what is the best way you
can start with these habits? Let me tell you the answer
because we are at Skillshare and we're gonna be sharing
our skills that we have. I don't I don't know
why I said that. The best way you can essentially start doing
these implementing B7 proven habits in
your life is basically putting them into your evening routines
and morning routines. And as I said before, you
should be like generally taking two weeks to try things out and then adding one more
change in your life. That's why, for
example, when you first start with your evening routine, after you fix your
sleep schedule, when you first start with
your evening routine, add one habit that you enjoy, and then two weeks after that, you prepare your morning routine and your morning routine add, for example, one more habit. Maybe in the evening
you want to plan your day and you want to read,
and then you go to sleep. And then after two weeks of
implementing that change, you add another
change, which is, for example, after you wake up, you go to the gym with a gym buddy or maybe
you don't do that. Maybe you just like to meditate 415 minutes and then
you go on to your day. That can be a very good way. You can implement all these
habits into your life. One suggestion I
really should do, which really helped
me a lot when it comes to building
these habits and really being consistent in these
habits is building yourself a chart that tells you every single day that you
should do those things, which is gonna be like,
for example, meditation, Reading, journaling, and after do you actually
started doing all those heads? Of course, I'm not
telling you to like drug lists out every single
one of them tomorrow. But after you have slowly implemented every single
one of them into your life, have for example, cold showers, meditation, Reading, journaling, and then put a tick or a plus two Everyday
you have done them, which is going to
create that effect off like chain where you don't
want to break the chain. And also it's going to create
that urgency like, Oh, I haven't been actually
meditating for some time and I definitely
think I should, It's going to create a sum. A sum of that, like sad
feeling where you realize that you haven't been making a lot of progress, but he
really wanted to do. So. That is a very
good way to start doing all these
self-improvement habits. And one thing I
really hope is that I hope you are not going
to tell me like, I don't have ten
minutes to exercise, I don't have ten
minutes to journal. I don't have, for
example, five minutes to meditate and sit down
and think about my goals or I really hope that you're not going
to be coming out of those places where you just make excuses because
as I said before, they are just excuses not
to sorted these habits. I really do think that all
these self-improvement habits, or portly like life-changing, if you start, for example, meditating throughout
your day and it's gonna have just so many benefits
that are gonna add to you. If you start journalling, you're gonna be much more mindful if you
start, for example, gratitude like meditation stuff, which is like sitting
down and thinking about things that you're
grateful for for a minute. I think they are
all a little bit of like life changing
because I think they are all changing my
life and be making me a person that I really
want to be in the future. I really am fond of all those self-improvement
habits that I just mentioned. It
wanted to do them. You are gonna see
some progress in your life and I
promise you that. So let's get into
the next lesson.
7. How to Avoid Modern Day Distractions?: The lesson five is going
to be all about how you can avoid the
modern-day distractions. And of course, you can
probably guess this. The main distraction
that we're gonna be talking about in this
lesson is going to be, of course, this
device right here, which is you guessed
it, your phone. And I'm going to tell
you guys some of the essentially rules that
I set for myself that really helps me stay
away from my phone and reduce my screen time
greatly because I was someone who had
like on average 67 hours of screen
time on average a day. And right now I
generally average like one to two hours if I have
work to do on my phone, that might be even three hours, but that is for
business purposes. And after Let me tell you
guys the rules that I have. First of all, the first
thing is, of course, which is something like
some of these rules are alerted mentioned
in the second and the third lessons on the Skillshare course because of the fact that they are a big part of the morning and
evening routines. The first lessons, of course, no phone at one hour
before you go to sleep, the moment my
evening alarm rings, I'm gonna take my
phone and go to the other room and charge
my phone is you have that? I can have it it completely
like charge in the morning. And then after that,
I'm not going to use my phone et old. I used to use my phone for meditation or I used to
use it, for example, for planning my next day, but I stopped doing all of
those things because it is not worth it checking your phone
out before you go to sleep. It's definitely not worth it
because it always carries that risk of having
your phone in your bed and scrolling
through social media. And that is definitely
not a good hole to go. The second rule is
going to be, of course, no phone in your
morning routine. And that is definitely
a big, big, important piece of
advice that we have here because when you have your
phone in your morning routine, you are not going to be as productive as you
actually really want. Because if you already
like woke up early, What is the point of going to your phone because
you woke up early, just do something productive. That is the Ahmed Khan
principle that we have. A third essentially
main rule that I set for myself is when I have a specific task
that I have to do. Maybe it is shooting
the Skillshare course. It is maybe writing a video that I have or it is
working on a project or it is studying for 1.5 hours except shooting the
Skillshare course because I have my
phone right here. The rule is, do not have
your phone with you. You have your prep, for example, in another room that is
not going to distract you. Now, you might be saying that, well, you have this rule, but you are not obeying
the rule to yourself. But I wanted to show
you guys like doing this and show you guys
like it is your phone. And I didn't want to
not have my phone like it here when I'm
talking about it. Then one additional tip that I really want to talk
about that really, really helped me essentially
personally is deleting the social media apps you are
essentially using a lot. I was gonna say you
are addicted to, but most people do not really see themselves as like
social media addicts. Even though like
most people are, if you have a phone, like if you have a screen time that is more than two hours, three hours, you are probably addicted to it, and
that's how I see it. I still do think that I'm
a little bit to my phone. And in 2019, at the end of 2019, in the beginning of 2020, I was completely addicted
to Instagram because I was checking out like people who I kind
of had a crush on. Like I was just
checking out people on Instagram that had a
crush on and I was like on Instagram all
the time and there was a bad time to be
honest in my life. And I'm going to admit
that when I deleted the social media app completely
when I deleted Instagram. And I also delete this
actually my account as well. I deleted completely my account. And after that it took some
essentially resistance to go back and create
another account and just get started
again and follow people, wait until those poor
people follow you back. And it was definitely not
something I wanted to do. So deleting the social
media apps directly from my phone also really
helped me in a good way. And another tip that I am going to give you
that you're probably not going to implement
because it is definitely incredibly
hard to implement. That tip is to essentially
get your phone to grayscale. As you can see, my phone is not on grayscale at this point because that grayscale
looks a little disgusting. But I really do think that if you put your phone
onto greyscale, which is something that you
can find in the settings. If you put your phone into gray scaled who are probably
a productivity monster, and you probably do not want to spend any time on
your phone at all. But I watch my videos sometimes on YouTube
and I want to see like how good they are for when they come from
my video editor. And I want to see essentially the colors from that as well. So that's why I normally
do not have grayscale on, but I used to have my Gretzky
alone for a long time. But now for business
purposes, men, I always say like from
business purposes, but generally works like that. Lesson five is how you can
avoid modern-day distractions. And the main modern-day
distraction that you have to avoid is this. If you can sit
yourself boundaries like I'm not going to have
it more than three hours. I'm not going to check
it out in the morning. I'm not going to use it in the evening before
I go to sleep, you are going to be good to go. However, when it
comes to your phone in the lesson number seven, I'm going to talk
about a concept that I have been
really thinking about for a long time that I've never really talked to a
lot of people about. And you can definitely
like if you are not going to continue watching
this Skillshare course, just watched the
lesson number seven. Because in that I'm
going to talk about a very important concept
about when it comes to your phone in reducing
modern-day distractions and having a more memorable life
that you actually like, having more memories that you're gonna remember in the future. That is gonna be
important point. And let's get to the
lesson number six.
8. Small Tricks to Double Your Productivity: In lesson number six, is going to be all about some of the really important
than high level of productivity tips
and strategies that you guys essentially need
to use throughout your day. Which is going to in my opinion, like if you use these
three main rules, I think you're gonna be doubling your productivity easily. So let's get started with
the first rule of which is every evening before
you go to sleep. Please start like
plan your day out, like plan the next day out. And there are so many ways that you can plan your day's outfit. You can use a to-do-list. You can use anything
you again from fine, from the Internet like
there are so many templates you can use and stuff, whoever the main
thing I recommend you guys to do is
a success list. I have been talking
about success list for a long time because
I really do think that they are at the very best
way to plan your days out. Because when it comes
to a to-do-list, like you're gonna
be writing down 20 items that you want to do next day and you're
probably going to get them like two of
them, three of them. And you're gonna
feel bad because you have been
procrastinating all day long when you are
using a success list. And for the people
who don't know, of course, what
successful list is. A successful generally includes three things or like 2123
things, that is what we say. 123 main ideas, my main things that you want to
get done at the next day. And the way you should
be looking at this is basically if you've got them, those for example,
three things for today, I actually in my success list, I had two things
which was creating this planning this
Skillshare course and filming the
Skillshare course. If I have to get done just these two things
and nothing else at all, I still do think that
that is going to be a successful,
a productive day. That's why, why we call
it a success list. If you have, for example, three items on
your success list, just focus on those
three things. You do not have to
focus on like 20 things and trying to be a
productivity monster, which is actually
not the right thing. To be honest, the I am
a productive person. I'm telling you that
don't write down like those 20 items on
your to-do list and that is not the way to go. Have yourself a nice
success list that you get. Essentially, it'll look
up to every single day. I sometimes have my
success list old. They logo my desk when
I'm working so that I can remember all of those three
tasks and I can work on them. And also one thing that
I also add here is basically I might use
the phrase MIT's here. It is not the school, MIT does not the college. It is most important tasks. It's an abbreviation of that. So that is the
first tip is going to be every evening
before I go to sleep, plan your days out, any type of planning you can do. However, I think the best
way to go is scheduling, like having a script
scheduled for the next day or maybe planning the next day through
a success list is gonna be definitely
the best way to go. The second thing, it's
sick and productivity tip. I need to tell you guys that I use all the time in my life is do not switch between tasks
like whenever you want to, because that just kills
your productivity. Your brain takes probably
like I would say, 15 minutes until it starts to actually focus on a
task like if you want, I'm speaking to you in camera
in the first 15 minutes. I'm not really in the mood. I'm not really like, completely focused and
in the flow state, but after those 15 minutes, your brain is slowly going
to get to that flow state. That is really important when it comes to, for example, studying. If you're studying, for example, two different lessons
do not go on. For example, was studying
30 minutes here, 30 minutes there, 30 minutes
here, 30 minutes there. First get one thing done and then we wanted
a second thing because your brain is going
to take just so much time, really so much
time when it comes to I'm switching between tasks. And that is going to be the
essentially tip number two, or if you want to call it
a trick wherever you want. And as third thing
is going to be essentially a more
like a pro level tip, which is using a specific
playlist of music or using a specific type of music whenever you are
doing different tasks. So for me personally, I have this main thing
which is I do two things, mainly studying and
also I do writing these videos or any courses that I have in the
future as well. And those are two
things that require for me to sit down
and be focused and essentially just keep my head in the
task all day long. When I do those things, I generally like to have like two different
playlist that I have. The first one is the classical like focus playlist
that is on Spotify. You can easily find it. And the second
thing that I do is on YouTube way go on
YouTube and search. Unlike focus at the first
video that pops out, which is like 3.5 hours
long or something. If 3.5 hours long, video is generally about
essentially not about us. That 3.5 hour like music, like focused video is
what I use when it comes to when it comes to writing
my videos and events. Spotify essentially playlist is what I use when I am studying. So these are three main
essentially ideas that you can use every single
day very gonna get your productivity to that
next level, which is ID. Think that if you can just
implement these three things, you aren't going
to probably more than double your
productivity, especially. The first one is just
critical because if you are not planning your
days in any shape away, if you're like, I'm
going to wake up today and then let's see
what we're gonna do. If you're gonna do that, you're probably not gonna be proactive. And because that is
just an experience I had from my days. Whenever I do not blend my days, which does not
happen that often. But whenever I do
an upload my days, I just do not have a
very productive day. That's why definitely
the first one is probably the
most important one. Then the second and the
third ones are also really considerable when
you aren't getting to that higher level
of productive state. So let's get into
the next lesson.
9. How to Enjoy Your New Productive Lifestyle?: And the lesson seven
is going to be essentially in my
personal opinion, the lesson that I am
really looking forward to this is going to
be less than that I'm really looking forward to. And it's about a new
way of approaching fun and how you can enjoy your
new productive lifestyle. One problem, main problem that I had for a long time was I was really ambitious and I
wanted to achieve all of these goals that I had to
building a YouTube channel, building lot of things
outside of school as well. And I always prioritize
to just work and school and getting a success and everything before anything else. So what I did was
I woke up early and then until at the
moment I went to bed, I was working, studying or doing something productive
all day long. And I was like really
bored of that. One solution I tried
to find was I wanted to find a way to essentially
look forward to my days. I wanted to find a way
of actually having memorable memories
that is probably not at right thing will
become single English. That's probably not right
English sentence because I'm not to be honest
American or even English. I think the best way
to approach this, this is something that I found out a couple of months ago, which is do one thing every single day that you are
going to look forward to. This might be, for example, watching a soccer game with your brother,
which is what I do. Maybe playing soccer with it, playing, playing chess
with your brother, maybe having an hour off,
like watching Netflix. This might be even Netflix. This might be just one thing. Going to a movie theater, meeting up with your
friends and eating out, or go to a coffee shop and just hanging out with your
friends or calling to someone you have never cold to calling somebody you have never cold to
cooling to a friend, for example, you haven't been
talking for a long time and doing one thing that is
actually fun and memorable, instead of just
spending your time on social media
or on your phone. So as you guys know, on average, which is something I found
out like from some studies. On average Generally people
spend a four to five, not four actually five to
six hours on their phones, but let's make it five. Let's think about it as five. And let's do some
simple math from that. Generally, the first hour or one hour from your
phone is needed. Like you want to call some people who want
to have text messages. You want to check
out some reminders. You want to check
out some signs like Safari to find something else. Of course, like 12, maybe even two hours is gonna be like normal for every single person. But from two hours
to five hours, that three-hour window is
completely unnecessary. It's completely like
scrolling through social media, watching
YouTube videos. I don't know doing
something else that is just not needed. So you can use that
three-hour time to do something
every single day. You look forward to thinking about it in
those three hours, maybe you can go to the
gym with your buddies. And like I sometimes
do that once a week. Like we go to the gym like five people and it's
like it probably takes like three
hours to get through a workout because like
when you were five people, you have to wait to the
machines like all day long. But it's really enjoyable. Whereas sometimes going
to a movie theaters, sometimes going
on a date, maybe, maybe sometimes going to a coffee shop with
their friends and it's just chatting instead
of being on your phone all day long for three
hours long on average, which is just what is the
average for people just do something every single day
that you look forward to. Now you might be thinking, No, I don't have time, for example, to go to a coffee shop where coffee shop with my
friends and sit down for 1.5 hours to think about or
to chat about like something. You might think that, but when you look at
your screen time, you are gonna realize
that you actually have a lot of time to do
a lot of things. You are just not doing them, you are just making excuses, but you are on, for example,
YouTube, watching videos. Maybe you are on Instagram
scrolling through reals or you are on
TikTok like God forbid, you weren't Tiktok
just scrolling through a different TikToks, that is not the way to go. So instead of having
that passive enjoyment, I think this is the right
way to think about it. Like instead of having
that passive enjoyment, you should have an
active enjoyment, which is just doing something that is actually
fun in your life. I like, of course, I'm not talking about
like video games. When I say fun,
maybe going to a, I'm a big fan of soccer, I'm
a big fan of us as well. Maybe going to a soccer game in which is like 90
minutes in total and everything is gonna be like 34 hours maybe doing
that once a week. And that is of course in doing, not doing that daily, but doing that
once a week can be a very nice thing
that you can do. That is that you will
look forward to, in my personal opinion, like I think people should take Sundays like completely off from productivity and
from goals and from working because we
didn't take one day off, you generally create
some urgency which you need kind of throughout the week to essentially
get things done, which is in my case, really important because if
I don't take Sundays off, it becomes a cycle, right? Just work all the time, registering all the time, and that's definitely
not healthy. That's why I take
Sundays off and I do one thing that is just
really enjoyable. Something I have started to do is basically I have in bed, I have a best friend whose
name is many times and we got, for example, different
places in stumbled, I live in stumbled personally. And he stumbled is a
city where it even if you had been living in that
city for 191819 years, it is just filled with blazes. You had never went
to. It is filled with historical places you
have never went to. It is filled with natural
places you have never went to. I liked, for example, with
this visit those places and have my camera with me
and take some photos. And it is just a really nice It's a really nice experience. And I really like
to do that because instead of just
spending your time on your phone and being
like this all day long or watching Netflix
completely alone. And like not even reacting to a funny scene that happened in friends, you would
like generally. Not a good way to
go to be honest, that's why I really recommend
you to do something that is actively fun instead of
just passive button, which is definitely
an important thing. I really want you
to consider this because this is an
important lesson. And let's get into
the next lesson.
10. My Insanely Productive Daily Routine You Can Model After: In the lesson eight, I'm
gonna show you exactly how my daily routine looks like. And I really want you guys to take some
inspiration and take some strategies that
I'm using throughout my daily routine so that you can implement them to your life, which is going to essentially
allow you to have a really nice
practice day as well. I think that I am a
productive person, a managing the
YouTube channel and managing a business on managing a Skillshare course
right now I'm managing these notes and a
lot of extra curriculars. So I think I'm a
productive person and I'm gonna show
you exactly how my daily routine looks like so that you can take
inspiration from that. But of course I know for a fact that every
one is different. Like I go to school. So you might not be
going to school, you or you might be in
high school and college, whatever that is, your days probably going to be much
different than mine. However, I still think
that you can use a lot of the strategies or ways of thinking that I am using
in your days as well, that is going to allow you to
have a much productive day. So let's get started from the moment that I wake
up, which is 530. And I also talked about
my routine is already. So let's go over them once more. And because your routines
are so important, your days should be filled in with routines that
you enjoy that are productive and
that is probably the worst the best way
to plan your days ahead. I wake up at 530 and then I go to the bathroom do to
bathroom stuff and then I sit down and journal
and then I go to my deep work sessions
and my network sessions aren't generally for
1.5 hours until 730 AM. After 730, I have my
breakfast and then I go to school and my journey first
lesson starts at 08:30 AM. And my accommodation from the place that I live in,
which is in a scooter. And I go to school
in Sitka to you, which those are two
places in assemble and that transportation takes me generally like 30 minutes to do. So. My morning routine
generally goes like this. When it comes to school,
I have Lessons from a 132 generally like
1PM or 03:00 PM, but mostly like 3PM. 1pm doesn't really
happen nowadays. I wish it did, to be honest. And after 03:00 PM
I have my workouts. But tricky thing
is I go to the gym three days a week and
after those three days, I have it three days of home home working out
like working out at home. Sometimes in this room,
even in this small room, sometimes in the basement. What I do is if it is a Monday or a Wednesday
or a Saturday, like I go to the gym if
it's not one of those days, I don't really go
to the gym which creates that effect of, oh, I have to go
to gym that day. It is also Parkinson's Law, if you can essentially guess it. And after I essentially have my workout session, which is, I think one of the things in my life that I
really look up to, look up to look forward to. I generally work out at least with one friend, with one edge, somebody who is probably my school like I
have a couple of friends that go to the same gym with me because of
me to be honest, because I started
working out before them. Then after Jim I arrive
home by 530 generally strict because I
don't want to be like completely late because
when I am late, you know what happens? I went I'm late. I'm probably not going
to have my work sessions after 06:00 PM. I arrived home by
530 AM PM and then I take a shower and
then I eat some food. I generally eat my dinner. And then after that,
unfortunately because of the fact that I went to
work on my YouTube channel, I have been missing some of
my dinner like with family. So I generally eat
my general loan it before six PM and
then at 06:00 PM. Strict, I start working on my YouTube channel from
six PM to 08:30 PM. That 2.5 hours of time, which is we are
invest right now. And about 2.5 hours
of time is what I use for my YouTube channel and everything when it
comes to my YouTube channel making those videos, editing those videos, like making thumbnails and making
the Skillshare course. Sometimes like writing
a lot of e-mails, answering a lot of comments, anything that comes about
from a YouTube channel, anything from a
business perspective, do all those things from
06:00 PM all the way to a 30. And to be honest, I really
love what I do about that. I make my living from that and
I really enjoy doing that. That's why I really look forward to this part
of my day as well. After that 830, as you know, the evening alarm
kicks in and then we have to get started
with our evening routine. And after that, until 930, I have my evening routine
in which consists of, as you know, planning the next day reading
and meditation. I go to sleep as 930 strict. Sometimes I have my Pfam thing that I
do every single day. Sometimes it's just
going to accomplish job after with my friends,
going to look up, show up to work sometimes there if I had to write some scripts, which is what I did yesterday, I might even have a photo
right here or how fat. I didn't actually
take a photo there, so I'll probably not
going to have that photo. So this is essentially how my daily routine looks like as a blanket
productive person. So this is the way how I
plan my days and I hope you can see those ways of thinking that I am
personally using. That is just going to give
you that like outlook on how you should be creating your essentially daily
routine as well. And as you can remember, our class project is the fact that you are going
to be creating your perfect either routine and
sending that out to me through class projects that
we have on Skillshare. And that is gonna be just great. Of course, you can
ask me some questions in the comments down below. So this is the end of the
normal course that I had. Let's jump into the bonus
lesson that we have. And that's gonna be
also pretty good.
11. How to Stop Procrastination Forever?: And our bonus lesson
is going to be essentially about
how you can stop procrastinating because
it is always good about thinking how you can
start your daily routine, how you can build that perfect
deal routine for yourself. However, if you are
procrastinating all your phone, if you're procrastinating
on anything, you are probably
not gonna get done. Those good things that you
have been thinking about. So let's dive into
what I'm going to teach you about how you can stop progress needing the number
one thing is going to be always what comes
procrastinating, you should have a plan. This is something I
already talked about in the lessons that I
already taught you guys. But planning your day is
just incredibly important. This can be through, for example, a daily
routine, this game, which is what I
recommend as well, or scheduling or success
list, that is a good one. I told you guys about that, or a dad or a random
to-do-list or however that is, just please plan your days. As always, I tell
this all the time. No plant having no plan
at all is just so bad. Having any type of blend,
it doesn't matter. The worst blend
possible is just much better than not having
any plan at all. And that is going to be the first way you can
stop procrastinating. And the second one is
going to be using and leveraging the Parkinson's
Law in your advantage. So this is a thing like, I'm actually kind of progress
needed to be honest. I'm gonna tell you guys
Hawaii smart bill, how I productively
procrastinate. Maybe that is a
good way to put it. Let's say I have two
tasks that I have to do. One, I have it, for example, sponsored video I have to
make for my YouTube channel. And I have, let's say,
homework that I have to do, but that essay, for example, it doesn't have a
deadline on it, but my YouTube EDU
does because I have to essentially uploaded
on a certain day. I'd first do the homework, I first write the essay that I'm probably not
gonna have a lot of time to make that video though because of the fact
that in the Parkinson's Law, like I have to do it,
it is a deadline. There's a deadline.
I have to do it. I will do it like
no matter what, because it is something
that I have to do. It is not like, first of all, if I make the video that I'm
gonna be with the essay, I'm gonna be like, Well, I don't have to do it right. They say right now, so I
will probably not right it when it comes to Anything that you have
in your life, for example, any important thing
that you have, you should be leveraging
Parkinson's law through setting yourself deadlines to all
of those things. For example, I'm not
going to tell myself, I'm gonna go to the gym, LD probably vacuole
like I don't know. Maybe in the evening,
I'll be back. I'm not going to
tell that to myself. I'm gonna be telling myself I'm gonna be at home at 06:00 PM. I do my workout. I do it fast. I do it precise, but I don't really like do
it like when I do that. It's not like in a bad way. It is of course, always like I'm going to
do that organized. I'm not going to waste time. If for example, if I
tell myself, okay, I have to shoot the
Skillshare course in the next 2.5 hours. That is the deadline. I do that and I don't waste time through
while doing that. So this is pretty much
everything I wanted to tell you guys when it comes to how you can stop procrastinating. And thank you so much for
watching my Skillshare class. I'd really appreciate you guys. This was my first time Do creating a Skillshare
course like this. Maybe we can do more
ones in the future. Thank you so much, I love you. I support you. Keep crushing it as always, and have a productive day. Upload your class projects which is your Procreate creating your perfect
daily routine. And I will take a look at
all of them and that I stay. I love you guys.
Ahmet Kaan, Student / Youtuber / Athlete
