- Make a list of your goals and assign a priority level to each one (low, medium, high)

- What are the daily habits that have the greatest productivity impact in your life?

- Name the 3 major daily distractions you could remove from your life

- Which time management and strategic planning technique is most useful to you? (The Pomodoro technique, setting an action plan, time boxing..)

 

My Goals:

1. 5 hours a day of Japanese learning (Low)
2. Build up YouTube Channel (High)
3. Work on Garden (Medium)
4. Work on Etsy products (High)
5. Work on Blanket (Medium)
6. Meal Planning/Prepping (Medium)
7. Cleaning (High)
8. Weekly/Monthly Planning (Medium)
9. Social Media Management (Low)

Daily habits that increase my productivity are going over my planner once a day, eating a good meal, and listening to things while I get stuff done (music, an audio book, or a podcast).

Well, my kids are the biggest distraction that I have in my life, but I can't get rid of them lol. So:
1. Doom scrolling on Facebook.
2. Watching videos on Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube that don't improve my goals. For example, watching an anime on Netflix in Japanese would help me knock out 1 or 2 hours of Japanese learning, but watching Uncle Roger on YouTube instead, wouldn't help me with any of my goals. So in this case I would keep the anime but eliminate Uncle Roger.
3. Stop spending time on Reddit.

The time management technique that helps me the most in my life in time blocking. I need to schedule every second of my day, otherwise I'll fall into bad habits and never get anything done. Since I have to take the bus everywhere, this makes my planning easier, even if it makes my life harder, because I know that if I have to take the bus to the grocery store, I'll be on that bus for 1 hour and 5 minutes because a bus needs to stay on schedule. So I can use that 1 hour and 5 minutes to listen to a Japanese language podcast or do something that doesn't require reading because I know that I get motion sickness if I read in a moving vehicle. So during that commute time I don't have to sit on the bus and stare out the window, being bored.