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Hey everyone. It's me, Hallease. Endeavoring to persevere, as always back with another
Monday Motivation for you. Recently, as y'all have probably seen on Patreon,
I have been doing a lot of stuff behind the scenes. Pitching things, getting things going,
applications, "Hardly Working," just a lot of stuff. The way I've been able
to stay on track with everything is, of course,
a to-do list. Something I have been struggling with for a while is the traditional to-do list.
Just a simple putting everything you need down onto some kind of paper document or
paper app document. Then as you finish them, crossing them off.
The thing that was starting to get me flustered I guess, or starting to make me
rethink this though was that your to-do list never ended. So! This is so simple. It's so simple, but
you just ... I never thought to do this. The thing I do is I make a priority list of my to-do's.
The first thing I do is I write down all of my to-do's. If you're interested, the app I use to
take notes and keep track of everything that I do is called Notability. What I do is I put my
traditional to-do list on one side of the app. It's just a hodgepodge. I just list everything
out because usually things come to me in waves so on and so forth. Then on the other side, I start
to prioritize them. I prioritize them in sections of maybe three, max four, to-do's per section.
I prioritize them in sections A through ... I usually don't have to go past C. I will say,
it works. I have noticed that by doing this, by figuring out and prioritizing what I need
to prioritize, I get a lot more done. Because what this does, is it forces you to do the hard
thing first. We as humans, we always wanna go the path of least resistance in things.
Generally speaking, if you can get the hard thing done first, you will feel less stressed.
Yeah, you will think, "I'm only crossing one thing off the list," but that thing
was compounded with a lot of time, and energy, and resources. Sometimes I'll
notice just by doing this prioritization list and maybe I have something that I wanna do
in the C section that is more fun. It's more just a way to escape, or more just
to try something new, but I'll notice I'll keep doing those things in the C section,
that lets me know that, "Okay, Hallease, mentally you're starting to get a little burnt out."
"Maybe you just need to take a day or two and do the C section,
do all the fun stuff," ... C section. That's weird. Do all of the items in section
C (laughs). There we go. Do all the items in section C that seem fun, and engaging,
and exciting to you. Go ahead and prioritize those and give yourself that time to just breathe
and try something new or creative and fun. That's something else I would say, too.
If you're someone who maybe is struggling with ideas around burnout,
or struggling with things around just not quite ... never being able to see that in yourself of
when maybe it's time to slow down, take a break, rest. Putting some self-care items in section C
and beyond and seeing how maybe you just kind of keep doing those can be a good signifier
to you of, "Okay, maybe I need to take a step back and truly prioritize rest for a second."
'Cause I know, something that the panini press has taught me is the value of resting. So valuable.
I just wanted to get on and show you this real quick. Think about prioritizing your to-do list.
I always wanna have something that I need to do, but not something where it's like 5, 6,
7 things and I'm just starting to feel overwhelmed, anxiety,
all that kinda stuff. Doing this priority list for the last month and a half ...
Again, on the Patreon y'all have seen I've been doing pitch decks, building documents,
I've been doing a lot of stuff, sponsored videos on the channel. It's a lot going on.
Doing this priority list has really, really helped me to stay on top of it and stay focused.
This combined with my Google Calendar to see when things are due, cross-referencing emails,
all that kind of stuff. I would also recommend. I don't think you need to do this once every day.
I have learned that when I do this priority list, I don't need to make a new iteration of it
for three days. I'll do one Sunday night to get going into the week. I'll come back again
to it because I've finished everything in A by Wednesday-ish or so, and I need to revamp and
redo things. Also, now maybe some of the B stuff is now A stuff because we're later into the week.
So on and so forth. Then maybe I add a few extra things to C now.
Because during the week I learned about something interesting, or I wanna explore a topic,
or something like that that goes in section C. Big shoutout to my Patreon producers,
patreon.com/hallease who actually got to see this video well in advance of everyone else at
the fan level which is $5 a month. Big shoutout to y'all. Patreon.com/hallease if you're interested.
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I open them up to everyone else. If you made it this far in the video, I'm Hallease a digital
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