hello swedish potatoes i hope you've
been doing swell
for most of my 20s i lived my life very
reactively resetting whenever i feel
like i'm on the verge of burning out or
collapsing
after a few unhealthy cycles of burning
out and resetting content
i told myself i was going to start
taking much better care of myself moving
forward and to be far more proactive
with resetting you can think of this
video as a follow-up or a quarterly
check-in to our how to un-potato your
life in 2021 challenge no matter when
you're watching this video either it's
mid-year
a few weeks into quarter two which is
where we are right now or just
on an especially challenging day where
you just want to be
a potato know that you can reboot and
start again whenever you want and with
that
today's video will be divided into three
sections reflect
dream and plan more specifically
reflecting on the past quarter streaming
with vision boards and planning personal
okrs or
objectives and key results basically
setting measurable goals and systems for
your north star
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as with all things before moving forward
and dreaming it's important and helpful
to reflect
to see where we were if we did the
things we wanted to do
and if not what can we improve on so
that when we dream
when we plan we can take all of that
into account so whether you followed
along or how to um potato your life
challenge or not
it's not too late to start even though
it's for
new year planning 2021 planning doesn't
matter what time of the year starts so
if you want to check that out i'll link
all the worksheets down below as well as
a playlist for the videos so just
quickly going over
a few of the videos and
notion worksheets the first one is
celebrating the small wins i feel like
this is still an amazing exercise to do
instead of three things that went well
this year it can just be three things
that went well this quarter
three things i learned three things i
overcame three things i'm proud of three
things i did for myself just because
this is a great way to celebrate the
small wins and get the gears turning get
it nice and oiled up
so that you can do the deep deep deep
work because we're all about doing that
deep deep deep work okay
two other worksheets that i say are
worth reflecting back on would be the
self-care
toolkit seeing if you have been
successfully implementing said
self-care throughout your days and
throughout your weeks as well as the
seven mindset habits this is what
all the previous challenges led to i
will be going over
my seven mindset habits to share with
you guys how i
reflect and review first i copy and
pasted my seven mindset habits into a
fresh stock so i can mark it up and
highlight it and do things with it if
you didn't set mindset habits it's
totally fine any goals that you have put
in a fresh dog so that you can make it
messy the second thing i did was i
reminded myself what some of these
habits were because i was trying to be
fancy with the names and when i was
looking at i was like
what was i trying to say if your goals
or habits already clear enough then this
is totally optional the third thing is
to ask yourself
how you did whether you lived up to
these mindset habits whether you lived
up to these goals
why or why not and during this time of
course it's important to be brutally
honest with yourself
at the same time you can still be kind
and the last thing is to go through and
highlight every single one of your goals
in green yellow or red
you guys probably know what green yellow
and red means right red is just oopsies
i fell short of this
nice habit or the skull yellow is i made
progress but there's still room for
improvement and green
is yeah
there is many many many reasons why
people create vision boards
to me it's a visual representation
of my goals and my systems and the life
that i want to live
while i do generally prefer things to be
physical so that i can touch it
so i can cut it so i can glue it down
because i don't have
any magazines on hand and i just i'm in
a more digital mood these days i
i shin shi laita how do you translate
that i got a sudden urge
i got a sudden urge to create a digital
vision board so here we are i'm using
the app millino if you guys aren't
familiar with it
it is a super easy to use tool to help
you organize your ideas and projects
into visual boards there's many many
different templates in here that you
could use but there is a preset template
for
vision boards and that's the one that
i'm using right now
what is really really cool is they have
a browser extension
for chrome where you can very easily
click a button and
have all the images pre-populate on this
sidebar
you can very easily drag and drop it
into the board what i really appreciate
is that it still
keeps the what is it the url links if
you click captions
it will still take you back to the
original image so for example i
found a bunch of images on pinterest i
stocked my friend veggiekins
instagram because so aesthetic i
basically just pulled images that spoke
to my heart and i think this is the
this is the point of vision boards one
you're dreaming
one you're absorbing and just allowing
your heart to go where it wants to go
and putting it all in one place and then
picking and choosing what you actually
want on your board
where you want to put it and moving it
around accordingly when i'm putting
together my vision board i am
asking myself a few questions what kind
of a
mood do i want this quarter to be what
kind of aesthetics what kind of
vibes what do i want to feel from all
the images i pulled it's very
comforting pastel
slightly dreamy i picked
this specific image from kiki's delivery
service i love miyazaki films i've
watched spirited away
at least a hundred times i'm not even
kidding and james and i have been
working through the rest of miyazaki's
film catalog we've recently watched
kiki's delivery service and i'm like
why did i not watch this early this is
the most wholesome
miyuzaki film they're pretty weird they
can get pretty weird but this one
is so wholesome it's about a young
girl's adventure
in a big big city
young girl big city not so young anymore
but big city where
she learns the importance of working
hard but also
not working yourself to the point where
you burn out and lose your magic
and it encourages the youth to go into
nature go in the forest to find yourself
and to rest and to recover and it's
important and i was like this is
beautiful i need this on my vision board
so that's here
this vision board is for q2 quarter two
so i don't have
too many big hairy audacious goals on
here i do have i want to wake up earlier
i want to travel when it's safe to
travel again i want to see my parents
i want to start a project
launch voice hugs which is the podcast
that i've been putting off for the
longest time
i want to do many many many things be
softer
be more gentle spend more time outside
spend more time by the water
do more things that i know can put me at
peace so there's a lot more that you can
do with millino any creative project
planning mood boarding anything that has
to do with visualizing your ideas and
thoughts you can do it
all in this app i'm really excited to
continue learning about this app and see
all the different ways that i can work
it into my workflow if you guys want to
try it out for free
you can use the link in my description
box and
happy vision boarding moving on to
planning this
is what i get the most excited about a
quick
overview a lot of this is going to be
red verbatim from google's
rework website because i believe this
was
founded and created at google objectives
are ambitious and may feel somewhat
uncomfortable
here results are measurable i think this
is the most important part and help
prove if the objective was achieved this
is a very good visual representation on
how one objective can have multiple key
results
so why are okrs helpful it will help you
focus and prioritize it will help with
alignment
okrs should come from the company's
mission and vision even though we're not
companies we can still create a personal
mission
and or vision for ourselves it can also
help with motivation and it can also
help build a culture of execution and
results orientation again this is very
business about building company culture
but i think as individuals it can help
us be more responsible
and do more than we think enough talking
i think
it will be easiest if you guys actually
see it
in practice i'll first go through my
personal okrs and then go through my
work okrs when i was thinking about my
personal
okrs i thought back to my son my dad
habits and the two things that weren't
green
what are they and how can i improve so
the first one is to check your default
and look proactively i change it to be
more mindful
of your default and live proactively
versus reactively distractedly and
escapingly
the key results i wrote down i want to
spend at least one hour every sunday
reviewing the previous week and planning
for the coming week so during this time
i can review my okr's i can set personal
goals i can set intentions for the week
i can ask myself questions like what
will i like to accomplish
second okr i set for myself is ask for
feedback
once a month from family significant
other friends or co-workers so this is
real feedback like hey what are my
strengths
what are my weaknesses how can i improve
in any aspect of my life
and is there something you've noticed
about me that i may not have noticed
about myself
asking for feedback was one of the
biggest breakthroughs i had this year
realizing that i'm human and that i'm
not perfect and someone giving me
feedback about how i'm not perfect is
totally fine
looking inward working on yourself is
first and foremost what's most important
but there are times
where people around you your parents
your family your significant other
your friends your coworkers who may be
able to see
something in you that they're not just
going to be like
hey ro your system sucks here's a better
way to do things
so giving them the permission to give
you
constructive feedback is something that
i found to be very very
very helpful okay moving on to the
second objective
this was the the one mindset habit that
was read
i want to be more consistent things that
are easy do it often things that you do
do them well so for this specific
objective when i was thinking about key
results i was thinking about okay
what are my keystone habits or what are
the things that i
do that just throw off my schedule for
example my
goal has been to wake up early so to
wake up early i need to go to sleep
early but why don't i go to sleep early
oh
it's because i work really late so my
first key result is to not work after 9
pm
daily and to take care results one step
further
is to set up systems that that'll help
you
stick to your goal for example
i will set an alarm at 8 pm to remind me
to start winding down
for me to start wrapping up whatever i'm
working on so that i can log off at 9 00
pm
sharp so stopping work early is so that
i can go to sleep early
and wake up early my second key results
is waking up before 8 30 a.m
every single day including the weekends
the goal is 6 30
but i'm trying to make it realistic i've
been waking up anywhere between 7
2 10 10 30 11 i just want to be a little
bit more consistent and
a system i can put in place is to start
showering washing my face
doing things i need to do at 10 talk to
james at 10
so that i can be in bed and asleep by
11.
so here's an example of how you can turn
your reflections
into objectives and key results to take
it one step further
i just want to quickly go over my work
okrs to
show you another way you can use this
going back to the very first thing of
it'll be helpful to have a personal
mission or vision statement for yourself
i have this one liner create meaningful
impactful and uplifting content and
community
to give hope and help others be their
best and most authentic selves
so that they can find purpose in what is
truly essential it is quite a mouthful
i can probably condense it but this
isn't time and place for it so this
is my north star it is what will guide
all of my
okrs going into the specific okrs
this is what inspired me to go through
my seven mindset hab is to mark
everything in green yellow and red for
the objectives i broke it down into
three sections one of them is
specifically for content creation
the second section is for community the
third section
is for growing the potato team the first
key results is increase watch time which
is average view duration which is what
youtube's algorithm
it's what they care about the most the
second thing the algorithm cares about
the most
is increase the click-through rate of
your video
which includes thumbnails title and
description all of this
is basically search engine optimization
and because the first two key results
were more analytical
data driven the last key result for this
section is to publish at least nine
videos
so that if i want to take a break
once a month i can so i recently went
through all of this
and filled it in with what the average
view duration was for january what it
was for february what it was for march
what was the overall for the quarter
went through the same thing for
everything else so that i can highlight
in either green
yellow or red once we review this
we're able to create okrs for q2
whether it's personal okrs or work okrs
it should be in a place where it's easy
to see for my personal okrs
i have no idea where i'm going to put it
yet but
but one thing that i started doing
did you know you can send emails to
yourself in the future i knew there's
that function but i
don't know why i haven't thought about
doing that for myself you can also
send yourself your mindset habits your
goals
on a weekly basis no no people that's
that's a lot on a monthly basis or on a
quarterly basis to be like hey these are
the goals
you set in january how's it going you
can also write
emails to yourself hey you're doing
great
i love you make sure to take time to
breathe and
be nice to yourself send future ascent
so with that
i'd love to hear how you guys reset on a
quarterly basis or even a monthly basis
to check in with yourself to make sure
you're on track to keep yourself
accountable
anything even if it's a little hack like
emailing yourself
do share down below sharing is caring
and with that thank you so much for
millino for sponsoring this video again
i guess down the description box below
if you guys want to check it out
and we go in for a hug
you guys in next week's video
bye