How I stay productive all day.

Good morning. It's just after 6:30 a.m. I gotta keep it quiet. So I don't wake Natalie up. But in this video I wanted to take you through an actual day in my life for as much as I talk about my daily routines my habits how I stay productive. I realized that I usually just talk about it. And so in this video, I want to show you. How do I set my deadlines? How do I say productive during the day?

Do I avoid distractions? So this is going to take you through an entire day. Let's get started..

So people are always asking me the different ways that I brew my coffee because I use so many coffee montages in my videos and I usually use a pour-over method but ever since we moved to Sydney, I've been using this more portable method which is an arrow press it's very phallic looking but it does the job and I also have a portable grinder because I don't want a big obviously my bring big grinder with me on the road the only problem with this..

Is that it takes a lot of work to grind your beans?.

Already, so today is Monday, February 22nd. I am just about to get to work here. So typically what I do in the morning is I will open up my to do list if I haven't pre-planned it the day before which I really like to do to help me make sure that I'm staying productive and on task and I don't waste away my mornings. I will plan out my day plan out my week kind of the big tasks and the major things that I want to get done. I like to.

Strict my most important tasks to just three items. I'll show you guys right now what this looks like so you can get an idea of how I actually plan out my days. So as you can see here, I've actually got quite a bit of tasks here planned for Monday and that's because well, I've got one personal item mixed in there, which is my workout biceps and back these two items right here are review items. So there are maintenance tasks there things that will probably take me 30 minutes..

It's each Above This I have my tasks that are going to take up and consumed a majority of my day. So my big goal for today is to write my content strategy lesson, which is a lesson in my upcoming YouTube course, and so that's probably going to take me three to four hours now in my experience things always take way longer than I expect them to take. I'm always under estimating how long things are going to take me and so three or four hours. Hopefully I can get it all done today. But if I can't then I'll just.

The rest of my day with it. I'm not going to move on to the next task. I'm just going to keep working on that one until I finish it and then after that we've got film and edit the secret podcast Episode 34 and this is a podcast for my patreon peeps. That'll take a couple hours to film and edit. I've already got that episode planned out the questions pulled and organized and so it shouldn't really take too long to work that one through and then the final big task here is film daily productivity blog which is kind of.

Meta because that's exactly what I'm doing right now. But when I'm actually filming these kind of log things it really does does disrupt my day. And I mean as you can see up here at 7:50 a.m. I woke up at 6:30. That's because it took me about over an hour to film all those opening establishing shots. No, it does not take me an hour to brush my teeth and make coffee in the morning. I also in the morning. I like to check out my calendar and so you can see here. I've got one..

Main item this is primarily where I keep all of my meetings and interviews and things like that. And so usually I don't schedule that many interviews and meetings not more than a couple of week. I really like to keep my schedule clean so I can focus on the most important work to me which is making videos working on courses and all that good stuff. And so right here, I've just got one meeting which is for the YouTube course with Natalie again. It's a very ambitious day, but.

looking forward to hopefully tackling as much of this as I can..

So the one thing I forgot to do this morning and Natalie's really upset with me is that I didn't wash my face that way I found some moisturizer. That would be good for you. Thanks, honey. I'm gonna go outside and right..

So my goal every day is to get to this point as quickly as possible sitting my butt down and getting to work. There are so many obstacles and distractions and excuses that can get in our way before we get to this point. So the quicker you get here the better your brain is going to tell you that you need to check email that you can just put this off until later. But if you can overcome that resistance sit down and start to do the work, it doesn't take long before you get into a flow state..

Hi, Matt. Hi, Sonia and I are going to have a little impromptu meeting about the at slow growth Social account. We are in the middle of doing a bit of a Rebrand / facelift with the design for the Social account. And so we need to go through some options that are designer sent us and talk about what we like and what we don't like so you might already know this but not has been working with me on my business slow growth for the past year and since you always.

Keeps Monday's free for personal work. We usually have lots to chat about we like the blend of the more minimalistic posts like the full small ways Host this one against the more rebellious cage rattle a post like these three. I mean the thing is like if we have more of this we have a problem to figure out because this currently is not reflective of the kind of content that we write for the platform. All right, so it's 11 a.m. And.

it's time for my very first meal of the day, which is lunch..

Can you show the camera spiders for your sake? I am not going to even explain this..

How does that look net?.

So I really try my best to make sure that I don't disrupt my day too much. And so yesterday was Sunday. I spent the evening preparing my meals for the next couple of days. All right, here's my lunch meal prep recipe listen closely because I'm only going to say this once step one cook rice step two seasoned chicken step 3 burn rice then under cook your chicken then over cook your chicken cut up fruit eat around the apple core. I mean, you don't want to waste..

Add to blender blend pack everything up..

And put it in the fridge..

So I my meals are pretty bland. There's not much to them. It's just chicken and rice and a smoothie but it really works for me. I really enjoy it. It helps me to get all the nutrients that I need, especially before a workout. One of the reasons why I like to eat around 11 or 12. Is that way once I go to the gym at around 3 o'clock or so the food has had enough time to digest and work its way into fuel for my workout. I'm usually pretty good at avoiding Instagram during the day but during lunch is when I have some.

intentional distraction time browsing Instagram and my other social feeds.

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Alrighty, so I'm jumping back into my lesson script here. I made some pretty good progress this morning. I think that I should be able to get done in the next hour or two that might be pushing it it was I spent the next couple hours or so writing without making a huge dent in the task. So I think one of the big things that I've learned.

About completing projects is that consistency is key and to be consistent you need to set consistent deadlines and so for my YouTube channel when I first got started out I set a deadline of every Monday so every Monday, I would upload a video eventually I moved that to Tuesday and Wednesday, but having that consistent deadline every single week really kept me committed these days. I upload a video every other week. I'm uploading less frequently because I'm trying to focus on my mental health and make sure that uploading YouTube videos and.

And doing this whole content creator life doesn't drive me completely insane, but I still think even with pulling back. It's important to have a consistent deadline. Of course, you can push deadlines back if you feel like you need to that's definitely something that I don't take lightly and it's something that should be a last resort. If you really feel like you need that extra time to make the project or make that video great, but for the most part when you're hold when you hold yourself to that commitment of following through on the deadline releasing what you said you were going to release.

No matter what state it's in you will find the time we will often fill up as much time as we can leading up to that project some of us procrastinating but eventually when the deadline comes we need to know when to release and when to finish and say, okay, that's it. That's the best I can possibly do..

Alrighty, so this is impromptu meeting number two. This happens a lot. But now and I are going to be having a meeting now about some content within the course. And so that's what we're doing. Sorry. Okay, it's actually really hard to have a dime mating with this guy because his mind is purely focused on like wait, I got the shots like halfway through a sentence. I'll be talking and then he'll be like, can you say that again from a different angle?.

I need you know, what rule number one get the shot. So the shock can't do that. This will surely I no guns allowed take that up. I'm gonna add gun sound effects..

So that meeting it wasn't really that productive then I got back to writing for the next 45 minutes or so..

After two impromptu meetings with Nat, we're ready for our actual meeting meeting now. You ready? Yeah. Okay. Let's go..

It's very hard to name me a channel before, you know, your content strategy. I was thinking the same thing very hard. This meeting actually was productive but towards the end of the day. I was feeling a bit frustrated with my lack of progress and kind of had a mental breakdown a fish. I like I feel like my wife..

Why is your head like that? I don't know. I think you need to go to a doctor. So Matt's having a breakdown which happens. This is normal. This is normal for us. Just questioning life in general. Why does it always feel like we're running out of time. You have eyelashes all over your eyes glow..

What did you wish for a better life? Yeah, I said I was gonna like do these five things this morning and like I just completely I think underperformed in terms of my expectations, but this happens all the time like every day. This is what like leads people to burn out is because like you work your ass off all day and then you realize like I didn't get halfway where I expected to be a collaboration takes to him, but I think that's why I like you just have to push things and like you have to you have to actual have cut-offs and bound..

Is and that's why right now, I'm going to go to the gym because I'm like I have to actually work out and then we're gonna get the bait and then we are going to go to beach got to do it. I'm sorry priorities. Alright, so my work day is wrapped up and I'm about to head to the gym. It's 4 p.m. Right now. Yeah, so let's just go through this to-do list to see what we got done here. You know, I did write my content strategy lesson. I didn't finish it. And so I'm gonna Mark that as checked off and then I'm going to add it to.

To Wednesday right content strategy lesson. Hmm and then I'm going to move I'm just going to delete that one. So now that's what I'm going to finish on Wednesday and I'm going to move this here Bobcats to Wednesday film daily Vlog Jack did that and I did these two. So I did review all these important items about to do bassett's him back. This is literally probably the most accurate.

Day in the life that I possibly could have put together. I hope that it shows you guys just how messy life gets even for somebody like myself who knows a lot about productivity and habits and and building effective routines. You never really know what you're going to get into you're always going to be terrible at predicting how much you can get done in a day. That's just part of the process. You just have to keep working and keep pushing forward and do the best you can it wouldn't be a real..

Day in the life if I didn't take you through the entire day. So what do I need?.

It doesn't mean good or something fresh fresh came up empty to I'm gonna give you something good for Humanity of a tile setting. Yeah, please.

This is officially lost your mind..

All right, super down at the gym heading back to the apartment. Are we gonna go to the beach? Yeah..

Thanks for caring but literally everything I had to start importing some of these files you can see right here. Boom. This is the card reader. So I filled up now two-and-a-half 256 gigabyte cards about six hundred gigabytes worth of footage in one day of vlogging in 4k with the Canon EOS are 5 so that just gives you an idea of the amount of storage and space..

Add is required for this. I've got a little bit of work to do yet to like just get these files compressed so that way tomorrow everything's ready for me to start editing..

Smart move you got to put them in the fridge..

I was like, I don't know where the garlic is. I've never used the garlic..

Look at that. That's like healthy..

It's been awhile..

Is exactly what I needed I'm saying on the inside packed with flavor. So I think we have a change of plans. Actually. It is looking rainy outside it is do you think so I don't think it's actually raining do not want to go..

Graham out loud.

This is literally every shirt that I owned has this massive hole in the armpit. You've probably seen it, but I have had this stain on my shirt the entire day, which is super embarrassing. I think maybe it's about time for some new shirts before dinner Nat and I caught up on some quality time together..

So because net and I have such a small kitchen here in Australia, we decided to sign up for a meal plan service called eat Fit Food which has been really great. They deliver fresh food. I think it's what is it two times a week two times a week. And so that has been really great and that's what I'm microwaving right now..

So as you might know my one habit that I'm trying to build this year is to read more books. It's a habit that I've broken as of the past few years and it's been really great to get back into it. I'm now on my fourth book of the year, which is my first fiction book of the Year where the crawdads sing really beautiful book an amazing book. It is really renewing my love..

Fiction and so this is definitely not going to be the last fiction book that I read this year. I'm almost done with it. I've got about like like 10 15 pages left. Yeah. I'm just gonna probably finish up this book tonight and then go to bed and then that's the end of the day. So yeah..