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- Hi friends.
It has been a long time since I last vloged,
and I don't know, I just felt like making a blog today,
of just me working from home,
during this country-wide lockdown, self isolation thing
that's happening in the world.
If you've watched my vlogs in the past
you'll know that I actually don't
really leave the house much anyway,
when I am working from home.
I feel like I, normally anyway, I travel so much
that when I'm home, I do just want to be home.
So I guess in a way, I'm lucky that my daily life
hasn't had to be too interrupted by this whole thing
but, I don't know, it is,
it's still just very unsettling to know that right now,
here in Spain, and I'm recording this on the 19th of March,
I think it's important to say that,
because everything's changing so quickly at the moment.
But right now, Spain is on lockdown,
under a state of alarm and that means that,
we're not allowed to leave our houses,
unless it's for one eight, pre-defined reasons
and for me, the reasons that apply are basically,
I can go to the supermarket, I can go to a pharmacy,
I can go take the trash out, that's pretty much it.
So yeah, spending a lot of time at home
but like I said, because I work from home anyway,
that's been a transition
that's been fairly easy for me to make.
But, in general it's a strange time.
This is a weird time that we're living through.
I know there's a lot of people out there,
who are probably working from home now,
for the very first time,
and I don't know, maybe you're watching this
'cause you want to see how someone else does it,
or maybe you're just watching this because
you wanna watch something and you want an escape
from all the news and the talk about the virus.
So, this is the last I will say about the virus, I promise
and we can just get on with the video.
I'm gonna talk to you about the work that I'm doing today,
how I do that work and just show you, a regular day,
working from home in my life.
So as per usual, I'm starting it off with a cup of coffee,
that you just saw me make and I'm here in my home office.
I'm planning on doing an office tour soon,
I think that, that will be good,
but here is like a quick overview of my room,
my desk, et cetera.
While I was making my coffee I was listening to a podcast,
which is called the future belongs to creators
and it's actually a new daily live recorded show,
that they're live streaming to YouTube,
that the leaders of my company, the company I work for,
are putting out so that's been pretty cool.
If you're new around here, I'm a designer
and I work for a company called Convertkit,
we make human marketing software for creators
and today, I'm working on a bunch for stuff
for some changes we're making to our, our free plan.
We're basically increasing the level of what you get
for free with Convertkit,
because we know a lot of people are struggling right now
and that a lot of people are wanting to channel
their creative energy into building something online,
doing something for themselves.
So yeah, I've got some changes to make to our pricing page,
to a few other places like on our site
and so that's what's on my list for today.
I like to make a little list at the start of each day,
just in my bullet journal.
Can you even read my writing?
Sometimes I can't even read my writing,
but yeah this is what it's looking like it.
I spend the first 30 minutes of my day,
doing a catch up over everything that happened on Slack
while I was asleep, 'cause most my team is in the U.S
and then in the morning, I wake up and I write a list
of what I need to do that day,
and then I just get started on it.
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Just been doing a bit of coding actually,
which is not something I do lot these days,
because last January, so January 2019,
we hired a friend developer
to work with me on the marketing team,
so that frees up my time to design more.
But every now and then, I find myself
getting back into the code when it's something
that is faster for me to just do it myself
than it is to, like go through and document
all the changes that are needed.
In this case, it was for, this page here,
which is about, Creator Pass,
which is an online courses that we have.
We're gonna be including this now,
in every Convertkit free account
and so basically I had to remove a bunch of stuff.
So yeah, I have instead of documenting
all the things that needed to be taken off this page,
just went ahead and removed it all myself.
I don't know if that's someone singing,
or playing like a really loud stereo out there,
but people are out on the balconies listening to it.
It's actually a fiesta today, in Valencia.
Meant to be the last day of Fallas,
which is like a big yearly,
I think it's a celebration of spring, maybe.
But yeah, normally the city is full of not only residents
but tourists out and about,
viewing these giant statue things they have around the city
and then usually on the 19th in the evening,
they burn them all and there's these bonfires
all over the place,
but yeah, obviously that's been canceled,
'cause of the virus.
I told you I wasn't going to mention that anymore.
I will stop.
I usually like to take a break around lunchtime,
it's like quarter past 12 right now,
to work out a little bit,
just try and move somewhat every day.
When I'm not stuck inside,
I like to go for walks.
I'll sort of alternate between doing an at home body weight
or yoga or something and then going out for a nice
big long walk while listening to a podcast,
is one of my favorite things to do.
Can you hear that clapping?
What is happening out there?
I can't see it, so I feel it's down the street
that I can't see.
That's good, people are entertaining themselves.
Anyway, since I can't go out for a walk,
I've obviously been having to do all workouts at home.
Last Black Friday, the only thing I bought
was a discounted subscription to this site here,
called Barre three, where they have online barre classes,
which is sort of a mix of aerobics with pilates
and some yoga and like, dance positions and things.
Anyway I found the classes to be really great.
They're like super professional
and right now I'm doing this balanced body series.
So every day, I just hit play on the next one
and I get to it and I'm like,
I really don't wanna do a 45 minute strength workout today
but that's what's next, so, that's what I'm about to do.
Let's see what you got for me Denisha.
- And over the next 45 minutes,
we'll work towards adding more ...
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Four down, settle into your space.
Feel your feet pressed into the mat.
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I'm onto my second cup of tea for the day.
This is how I've been spending my afternoons recently,
it's just drinking tea.
It's been kind of cold here.
I've been working on this template gallery
to go on our marketing website,
so that people can just view all our templates
without before they're signing up for an account basically.
This is gonna be a project that I work on,
kind of in collaboration with the product team
because we want the gallery of the marketing site,
to match to what you're seeing in the app.
So in the app right now, it looks like this.
Where there's just these used cases along the top
but I'm thinking that I want to expand these categories
and that we're gonna need to expand them in future anyways,
if we add more templates.
And so I'm gonna propose something like this,
but I'm still working on the,
what the view eye of this should be.
Now because it's Thursday and on Thursday's
when when we have team meetings,
so I enter an afternoon of some calls.
We got our all team call,
where everyone from the company gets on
and then I have my marketing team call after that.
And that will probably be the end of my work day.
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I'm not entirely sure, why they're in the police car
driving slowly down the road playing music out loud,
but hey, this is weird times, weird times.
I'm sort of wrapping up my work day now.
Had a meetings.
There's a few things that I'm now
starting to write on a list for tomorrow,
because it is, seven 40 and I want to,
end my work day now and go make some dinner instead.
So just writing some stuff down,
so I'll tackle them tomorrow.
I'm afraid this has been a very boring vlog,
because I mean, you've just seen me in this room all day,
but it's pretty accurate depiction of my life today,
so hey, I don't know,
I hope that maybe you got something out of watching it.
If you're working from home,
like newly and you're getting used to it,
go easy on yourself.
This isn't the usual situation
for you to be working from home in.
So I promise it's not,
I don't know, it's not always like this.
Personally I've definitely being very distracted lately
and just not being able to work as much,
because my brain just keeps wanting me
to keep checking the news.
I think I'm going to end this vlog here.
Like I said, I'm gonna go off and make some dinner now.
I've been doing a lot more cooking,
since this whole lockdown thing that's for sure.
Mike and I usually eat out a lot,
or order and take away.
It's like one of our joys in life.
I much prefer it to cooking
but yep, been cooking a lot,
getting through all the food that we bought over the weekend
before this all started,
and think I'm gonna watch some senseless TV
which is usually what we do to chill out in the evenings.
So thank you for watching,
this hopefully not too boring vlog.
I appreciate you.
I hope you're doing well.
I hope you're staying safe and healthy
and I'll see you in the next video.
Bye.
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