Hi everyone! This is Farzana from Farzana's Law and in today's video,
I'll be sharing with you all how I make time for everything in my life,
whether that's fitness, hobbies, family time, social life, or anything in between, so if
you're interested to find out how to make time for everything, then please keep watching this video.
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Other than that, I'll be sharing with you all today how I make time for everything in my life,
how I stay organized with my time management skills, so if you're interested to find out and
if you're especially a student I think this will be a very good video for you, so please go ahead
and stay tuned till the end. I've included also some timestamps in the description box as well as
the comment section below so that you can skip to the parts of this video very easily without having
to watch the whole thing if you don't want to, but other than that, FINALLY let's get started.
So in order to make time for everything, you have to make sure that you're, first of all,
making a table or creating a table yourself. You can do this on paper or on Microsoft Word, like
the way I did, and the first step is to basically make sure that you're putting on the y-axis
all of the hours of the day, so it starts from 12 a.m, 1 a.m, 2 a.m, etc till 11pm, and the second
thing is to make sure that you're putting on your x-axis all of the days of the week, so Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday and Sunday as well, and you're making this really
nice, neat table and I would recommend doing this mostly in the Microsoft Word, just because you can
edit it very easily, and even if you make any mistakes, you can just edit it very easily as
well. So yeah, that will be the first step for you to really make sure that you're making this table
and it's nice, neat and it has all of the hours of the day as well as all the days of the week.
The next thing for all of us to do is to make sure that we are adding all of our lecture
tutorials and any other obligatory things or activities that you have to do during the week
and insert/put them down on the table. So for example, if you have lectures, put them down and
if they're all in the fix at the same time every week, insert them down, if it's tutorials as well,
then put them down as well, and also for anything that is non-academic, but you know is going to
happen at the same time every week, for example, if you have a part-time job, then definitely go
ahead and put that right now too because, in that way, you know exactly when you have to do
the part-time job and what you can actually do in those days. For example, I have a part-time
job on Saturdays and Sundays, so I try to make sure that in the allocated hours of my shift,
I am there available and I actually go in the shift in those times I'm putting them down
on the table at the same time, every week, so I would recommend for you to now again
summarizing this step, to put all of your lectures, tutorials classes or any kind of
non-academic obligatory things you have to do on a weekly basis, put/insert them now in the table.
The third step to make this super quick and nice timetable is to make sure that you're adding
at least an hour for yourself dedicated to morning time/routine, for your lunchtime and your dinner
time every single day around the same time if you can, and it doesn't have to be necessarily
one hour, if you think that you can finish your breakfast for example in the morning in
15 minutes or 30 minutes and maybe your lunch is one hour and your dinner is one hour, go ahead and
put that right now in the timetable, because then you will know that you have enough time to relax
and enjoy your time with your family. If you're having your lunch or dinner with your family, and
also in your morning time, make sure you're not really rushing, so in order to make sure that
you're making enough time for those, you have to put those things down right now in the timetable.
The fourth step, and it's very self-explanatory footstep, but the most important one out of all
of these steps that I'm going to be sharing with you all today and that is to add your
fitness hours or exercise time, or any other kind of activity that you do that makes your body move,
so, for instance, Zumba, yoga, basketball, dancing whatever that might be, you have to add at least
three hours of these fitness-related activities in your week so it could be any day, any time,
whenever you like it, whenever you think that you have the time to exercise. I would highly
recommend putting exercise hours in the timetable because in that way you're actually taking care of
your body, your health, and you're not going to be in this chronic sedentary
lifestyle all the time, because I know that most of us are students or at least have a
nine-to-five job, so it makes sense for us to really have the time to really move ourselves
during the week, especially if you're sitting down most of the time in the hours of your day,
so go ahead and make time for some fitness hours and it doesn't have to
be every single day as I mentioned before, it can be two-three-four-five times a week,
and in that way, you will have enough time to take care of yourself.
The fifth thing that you should add definitely to your timetable is hobbies,
or any kind of activities, or side projects, that you do on a weekly basis, for example,
I'm a full-time LPC with LLM student at the City University, so I have to make sure that I'm also
making time for all the things that I like to do in my free time, for example, painting, drawing,
coloring, dancing or any other activities that I might be interested at the moment. So,
I'll definitely recommend for you to make time for at least two to three hobbies, every single week,
and spread them out throughout the week. (IDEA: have one hobby that is creative,
one which will make you money and the other that will keep
you in shape). Indulge yourself and make time for your childhood fantasies. For example, when I was
a child, I used to love drawing and loved coloring. I would draw houses, a stickman,
trees and clouds, and all these kinds of things, so I really do have time to draw and color every
morning currently. I feel really relaxed and all my energy is really high at that time, so
I highly recommend you to add at least two to three hobbies to your timetable.
Number six on this list is to make sure that you're making time for your family, friends,
and yourself as well as a relaxing SPA day. For me, that's usually on Sundays when I finish my
part-time job, for example, I try to make sure that I am not doing any of my academic work
whatsoever after I come back from my part-time job, because I want to make sure that I'm making
time for my family, for my friends, I catch up with them by texting or on social media.
Alternatively, I try to make sure that I make time for myself and do things that I love doing,
for example doing YouTube, so maybe you will see me editing a video on Sundays
after I've come back from my job, but if you don't have a part-time job yourself,
then definitely make sure that you're making your Sundays as your No-Work or Zero-Hour work day,
in that way, you're actually going to have enough time to recharge yourself and make time for your
friends, family, who are really really important to you in your life, and still find this time to
also focus on yourself, so I definitely think that number six is just making time for others
as well and not forgetting about others whilst you're still focused on yourself and it is all
about having the balance of you and them, and you're going to have a happy life hopefully.
Number seven on this list is to make sure that you're now putting out all the remaining
blank parts of your timetable as "independent study hours" so this is when you're actually
preparing for your next week's lectures, or next week's tutorials, or workshops, or preparing in
general, for any kind of work that you have to do, for example maybe doing a past paper, or
revision for an exam, or mock exam coming up, so in that way you are now making time for actually
those independent quality study time that cannot be missed, or you have to do them,
because you have so many other things going on into your life, so that you cannot really migrate
them to the next day, or you can migrate them to any other time that you wish so, because you have
tight schedule right now, so this is basically the mental trick, it is to make sure that you're
making time for as many things as possible at the same time but also not leaving or forgetting our
independent quality study time, because then you will know exactly when to study and when not to
study, and it would be like a natural flow into your routine and you won't never feel stressed,
because you're making time for everything, so this step is very very important, so go ahead
and now add all of those independent study hours, because I am sure, there are some
places in your timetable that are blank and that should be your study time only.
The last step that I have to share with you all is to stick to this timetable as much as possible
because I know how it feels when you're making a new timetable and it's all clean and nice that
you're making and you're getting very excited that "I'm gonna do this at this time, I'm gonna do that
in that day..." It's very exciting. However, the challenging part comes when you actually have to
follow it through every single day, and try to stick it to it as much as possible,
because you can make as many timetables as you want, but if you're not going to be following it,
there's no really point and you're just wasting your time,
so I would highly recommend for you to actually plan to stick to this plan as much as possible,
because it is then when you're gonna see all the success, and you're gonna feel happy, because
you're taking care of so many parts of your life very easily in one schedule, and you won't need
to really stress out about it, because again, you're making basically time for everything,
so in that way you're going to be making time for your hobbies, your fitness, your family,
your friends, yourself, your study time, your lectures, your tutorials, your teachers, everyone
in one single piece of A4 paper, which is very magical in a way and very miraculous, so I would
highly recommend for you to actually stick to this plan as much as possible, and see if it fits you
for at least 21 days I would say, and then you can see if you need to make any changes or not.
This brings me to the end of this video! I hope you really enjoyed it and found this
very helpful or valuable in any way, and if you did, then please comment down below on what is
the one thing that you do personally to make sure that you're making time for everything,
or how do you schedule your timetable in general. What is your favorite hobby
and what do you love doing in your free time...comment down below, I'll be very
interested to find out what those things are and I'll reply to your comments as much as I can,
because I know you guys are very excited with these videos and you
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