("All In My Head" by Viktor Hallman)

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Time is our most precious asset.

You can't get more of it

and everyone on the planet has the same amount of it.

It's kinda crazy to think of it that way.

What you decide to do with your time

is completely up to you.

It may not seem like that, but it's true.

Probably one of the reasons that you're watching

this video right now is you're not making the most

out of the time that you have.

You know it and you're kinda beating yourself up about it

and you want to learn what it actually means

to do something about it.

You wish you were accomplishing more

and the really great news about this

is you have all the time that you need

if you want to accomplish more.

Today I wanna share with you the time management tips

that have completely changed my life,

allowed me to get a lot more done

in shorter amount of time or at least get as focused

as possible in the time that I am allotted

in order to accomplish more

and I'm actually gonna call on my friend Chris Ducker

to chime in on this as well.

Before we dive in I just wanna double check,

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Are you?

You know if you subscribe and you turn on notifications

I am telling you, I promise,

and you can ask any Social that's been around for awhile,

I will make it well worth your time

starting right now.

So you wanna get more done.

People are not magical.

They are not born productive.

None of us are really born productive.

It's a culture and that instant change cannot happen

until you make that big first step

that's critical to this process

and that is your mindset shift.

What does that mean?

That's like super buzzy.

People are talking about that mindset shift all the time.

What does that actually mean?

Well, first you kind of need to look

at how you ask questions right now.

If you're asking questions like,

"Why should I wake up early?

"Why do I need to use a calendar?

"What's the importance of planning ahead?"

You're probably not in the space right now

to get more productive because you're holding yourself up

with the mindset that you currently have

as to what the point of that would be anyway.

The people that have made that mindset shift

are less likely to ask, "Should I wake up

"early in the morning?"

And are more likely to ask, "How much time do I have

"in the morning before my first appointment

"to myself that I can get things done?"

Or maybe they're asking,

"When should I schedule my workouts this week?"

Or how about "What can I do in this 30 minute

"pocket of time between dropping the kids off

"and going to the next thing?"

When you're questioning why you would go ahead of the curve,

why you would plan ahead,

why all of those things are important

you're not as likely to be able to make

that instant change because you don't see the value

in time the way somebody who understands

what it means to be productive,

not for the sake of saying the word is,

but because of how much they're able to get done

and they see every moment

in time as a very valuable asset,

as a vehicle to move forward.

So you'll really know when you've had this

mindset shift when you start to reframe your questions,

when you start to notice yourself moving in that direction.

If you feel that shift, if you're there,

then we can move forward and I'm so excited about that

because now it's time for you to use your calendar.

I don't care if your calendar is on the refrigerator,

on your desktop, in your bullet journal, on your phone.

It does not matter, you need to use it.

I like to quote Peter Drucker in this case because,

"If you can't measure it you can't improve it."

The calendar is where you're gonna plan

and track your time.

This is the best place to do it

because it's quite literally a list

of all of the hours in the day that you have

and how much of it you can use

and how much of it you should be sleeping,

how much you've given away to other people.

You have to be able to analyze it and look at it.

I've talked to you in a previous video

about a specific tactic that I use on my calendar

which is calendar blocking.

You can go watch that to get more of a synopsis

of how exactly this happens,

but the overall takeaway here is track every single thing

that you do on the calendar.

It kinda goes to like dieting.

You know how they say you should track everything you eat

so you can get a feel for what you're doing wrong,

what you're doing right, where you can make small changes

to make all the difference and lose a few lbs?

That's basically what we're doing here

so if you're not quite sure about planning ahead

or using your calendar yet,

you could at least start at this moment

where you can just block out the time

that you spend doing things

so that when you see that two hour,

let's be real maybe it's three or four hours,

of time that you spent in the evening

after work vegging out in front of the TV

and Instagram-stalking

you have to fully take that in because you are

typing it in or writing it down as something you did

for two to three to four hours.

Tomorrow when you're tracking your time

you're probably gonna think to yourself,

"What could I have done in that amount of time yesterday

"that I could do instead today?"

Is it finish the laundry?

Is it write a blog post?

Is it search for a new job?

Even taking an hour out of that chunk of time

and doing something more productive with it

moves you so much further ahead

and then you still get the enjoyment of the scroll.

So meanwhile you probably have this other tactic

that hasn't really been working for you, the to-do list,

which is actually in my opinion called the should-do list

and you know how I feel about shoulding all over yourself.

That list is staring you in the face

not becoming a reality, but more guilt tripping you

on the things that you're not doing

which is just not productive all on its own

because you're just beating yourself up over it.

The goal here is to take that to-do list

if that is an easy way for you to track things

that you have to get done, fine, into time,

into real spaces of time that you can work and get it done

and hopefully in a short amount of time

because just looking at it is taking longer

than probably achieving a lot of the stuff.

Some of the tough conversation that we've had here

on this channel in the comments is pushback from parents.

I don't have that perspective to offer.

I don't have kids.

I have a really high-maintenance dog,

but that's as difficult as my life gets lately

so I understand that can be a little bit difficult

to listen to me and go, "Yeah sure,

"I'm just gonna block out my time and follow it verbatim."

When the reality is how can you be more strict

and more rigid with your time when you have kids

who tend to make your life a little bit more of a variable

which, although is not a part of my personal life

at this point in time, is absolutely something

I can understand that you would be grappling with

and maybe one of those mindset barriers

that's holding you back.

But what if we could just call children

that urgency in your life that could happen to anyone

like someone's boss taking somebody out of a project

and saying this is more important

or maybe somebody has a client

and they don't show up for their session

because they don't feel like it today,

but you planned on it and now all of the sudden

you have this gaping hole of time

that you didn't apply for something else.

Planning your time is never going to be perfect,

but planning on these moments that are variable

that move around is so vital for you being able to swoop in

in that moment and be able to move things around.

Speaking of that I'm just gonna bring Chris into this now.

Chris Ducker is a serial entrepreneur,

best-selling author.

He is an event coordinator of some

of the coolest events I've ever spoken at and been to.

He is a father and a very, very dear friend of mine.

I sat down with him while I was at a conference in San Diego

because I thought maybe he could offer a little bit more

of this perspective that would be useful for you.

Chris I know you're gonna get this

because I talk about this so much.

The value of a calendar.

I'm actually starting to wonder if it's a weakness

how much I use my calendar.

I'm very rigid with my time,

but I think you're similar to me

so I kinda wanna break this down on a level

that makes more sense, right?

Using your calendar to schedule everything,

but, like, emphasis on the word everything.

- Yes.

- You have accomplished a lot.

You've done a lot of things.

You have books and businesses and you're moving here

and there and you're launching events.

I mean like there's so much that goes into that

and it can feel very overwhelming to get there someday.

Scheduling everything got you there.

- Yes.

- What does that mean to you?

Like when you say you schedule everything,

what does that actually look like?

- It means I'm acutely aware

that when I say yes to something

I'm at the very same time

instantly saying no to something else.

- Oh my gosh.

- Oh my gosh. - I don't,

I, but I don't think I have I don't think I realize

the impact of that until maybe in the last couple of years

because when you're first getting started

it's very yes to say every, yes to everything.

- Well, no, you have to.

Kind of you have to say yes to everything

because you don't wanna say,

you don't wanna say no to the opportunities.

- So you don't realize the impact of saying,

what you're saying no to at that time.

- That's it.

- You and I have, well, you're further ahead,

you're further ahead than me,

but you and I I think really feel like

the impact of saying yes now means saying no

because it's feeling much more

like you're being pulled in different directions.

- What happens though is this and it's beautiful.

When you, when you're acutely aware of that