I have nine to six job run a successful
YouTube channel
have family life and I'm also
participating in some wellness related
activism and initiatives related to
autoimmune diseases mainly
where we spend a lot of time in you know
like zoom calls
talking to people so sometimes people
ask me
how am I do able to do these four or
five different things
in my life like don't I get too busy.
and by the way I'm not the kind of
person who work crazy hours you know.
I'd still take like nine hours of sleep.
I do my exercise and everything
so I'm gonna share some
tips which I have learned based on my
own experience in last few years
and if you want to do few multiple
things at the same time maybe
these tips can help you so I will share
total
five tips which I have noted down here.
In the note so the first tip
is focus hours we live in a world
of distraction. okay let me
show you a biggest piece of distraction
mobile phone
huge distraction so if you learn
how to avoid distraction properly
you your productivity will go up like
crazy
so when I am working at my job
or let's say when I'm doing my YouTube
preparing content
I set focus hours so let's say this
next three hours are my focus hours I
will keep
my phone away so if I'm working
my hand cannot reach the phone you know
listen my phone is
10 feet away from me this is a very
practical tip
that can help you a lot let's say if you
are doing studies you know
or something where you need to focus
just keep that stupid device
away from you it will help you
tremendously people sometimes argue
what if I get important call what kind
of important call are you going to get
like come on
right there if there is an emergency
you will I don't think 99 percent of the
time
there will be such an emergency so we
have lived like when I grew up as a
child we did not have phone
people were living the life fine. all
right
so be master of that phone instead of
letting that stupid device become master
of you
sometimes what happens is like this is
hap this is happening
it with me even today when I'm coding
and let's say I'm facing an error now
the mind
wants to go to the easy places the error
is
that i have to put a lot of hard work so
the mind is like
oh go check whatsapp go check facebook
on that phone
see what's going on go check news
that's a huge productivity killer
because even if you check whatsapp and
come back your problem is still there
you will be even more frustrated oh It's
been two years I have not fixed this
error
focus hours very important when you are
focusing
you know like if you are in a in
a
office space let's let's put your
headphone you know or decline some
meeting invites like in your
calendar just set some focus over time
that these are my focus hours
don't disturb. Second important tip
is not wasting time on useless things
for example I don't read news every day
I read news every two to three days so
recently there were farmer protests in
India
and there was some in US also there
were like Capitol Hill riots
I was not aware about that event for two
days I the third day I think
some one of my friend told me that this
this thing is going on
so have days where you don't look at
news at
all you know you can look at look you
can read news
maybe every three days that's not gonna
hurt because
news like when you start reading news
you will get curious you will spend half
an hour one hour
like just just tell me honestly like how
much time you spend on reading news
every day
I was the same and then I'm like oh if I
have to do something in my life like
some
good meaningful thing in my in my life I
need to save my time
from news you know so it's almost like a
news
fast you know like when you do religious
fast you don't eat certain things
have a news fast for let's say
four days in a week someone might argue
what if there is an important event
and if I miss out well what kind of
important new event you are talking
about
if there is a flood in your town you
will come to know about it if there is a
riot in your town
you are going to know about it your
friends
like if you don't read don't think like
you don't read news and you will miss
out an important
event that might be life-threatening for
you or
have a huge impact on your life like
seriously
all right so news first that's
that's what i have been following and it
has helped me save a lot of time
which now I can put on my YouTube work
there are two other things where I
personally save my time
which is not wasting time on
surfing internet on shopping and deals
let's say you want to buy something from
online
i have seen many people and again i was
saying
I would go to this website that was
where I tried to find a deal look at the
price look at the review
huge killer of time now what I do is
I know some trusted website like Amazon
newegg here in us
if I want to buy electronics i'll go to
this website that website
hardly like one or two websites many
times I just put order on Amazon you
know I don't even
waste my time searching internet but
overall I don't really
read like reviews too much because see
it's
you will not even realize you would have
spent like two hours two hours
in figuring out which keyboard you want
to buy like you want to buy a
keyboard and want to waste like two
hours of your life come on
so nowadays I don't
waste any time almost no time on
shopping deals
and the third thing is if i'm
I need a service let's say I need a text
advice previously i would go to internet
look at turbo tax look at all the forums
on you know
here is my situation what should I do
nowadays
I don't serve internet for that I have
some good tax consultants
so I would just pay them fees and I
would get the advice
because that would be the authentic
advice like the things you did from
internet you're not sure
and you again waste a lot of your time
so
not wasting time on useless things
have saved me so many hours which I am
able to put back
on YouTube my usual schedule is nine to
six. I am working
and my my job is busy it's not like I
get free time so
I'm kind of busy throughout the day so
some some days like in the morning I
will wake up
yeah spend half an hour one hour on
let's say I'm doing a deep learning
tutorial I want to write some code
so I'll spend some time there then
most of my youtube recordings and
everything you know even even this video
I'm recording on a weekend so
I utilize my weekends for doing
most of my youtube work and on weekdays
I will be responding to
people's comments, I will be
spending some time in writing code let's
say in early in the morning or in the
night
then the fourth thing which has helped
me is constant learning even a job
so when i'm working at my nine to six, I
will
look for seminars like if there is a
technical seminar going on
I will pay my full attention, I will try
to learn things because
on YouTube if I'm a teacher like one
thing I have learned is
in order to become a teacher you need to
be a student first
you I am learning new things
every single day so even at my job
uh if I am doing programming and if I
can do
use some new type of design pattern
lesson new module
I will try to use that and I will try to
follow the best practices that way
I gain some knowledge which I can share
on YouTube later
the fifth thing which has helped me is
outsourcing task
so previously I used to create thumbnail
on my own
post production on my own but I have
outsourced all those tasks to someone
else you know there is
there are like two or three people who
help me I will pay them
and my thinking is if I spend two hours
in post
production of this video rather than
that
I give that work to someone else pay
that that person that money
within two hours maybe I can create two
more videos so outsourcing task is very
important
and another thing is like
right now it's me and my wife and
previously if we want to go for grocery
we both will go
but now we have kind of divided our
tasks you know the task division so if
you're living with family members
can you divide those tasks so that you
can save so I'm looking for
opportunity to save time you know like
everywhere in little tasks
my mind is like how can I save time here
how can I save time here right
so then my wife takes care of she's just
very
good corporate life I'm lucky to have
her in my life she will take care of
groceries like you know parcel drop off
like there are some tasks
which she doesn't mind doing and she
will take care of those tasks
and on the other hand I take care of
other things let's say my mortgage my
bills like
text tax you know so
let's say as a family member me and my
wife have 10 tasks
we can both spend our time in all those
10 tasks
versus I can say okay I will do this
fight us you do this other fighters okay
and it has to be on mutual consent and
of course my wife
wants that okay someday I go with her on
groceries or shopping
so we'll go with her you know on some
days but it's not like
every weekend I go for groceries and
shopping and I waste like three hours
like
if you are in US nowadays in India also
you will realize like
people waste so much of their time on
weekends going to shopping mall
they go to shopping mall to buy a
t-shirt
and you count your time you know by the
time you leave the home and come back
you
spend already four hours why don't you
order t-shirt online
you know what a huge waste of time
so and then when it comes to
social time management sometimes let's
say we have a
gathering at my friend's home and if
I try to keep my phone and my
laptop with me so sometimes I will find
some video of
windows where you know let's say we
there is a gathering we reach there
and rest of the people come after one
hour and if I sense that okay they're
coming after
let's say half an hour one hour what I
will do is I will
spend time learning something you know
responding to comments on
on my YouTube channel so that way I'm
kind of
maximizing my time now of course you
don't want to be extreme you know you
don't want to be like okay everyone is
there in the social
occasion and you are responding to
you know YouTube comments I mean I don't
do that as well like don't
you know don't think like I'm like total
nerd
but once people are there then i will
keep my phone away from me again then
I'm in that moment I will spend time
with my family
my friends kids so overall
doing time management requires some
discipline but it's not a rocket science
come on right like there are there are
people like you know like people like
Elon Musk like
I haven't like how come this guy do like
so many things
how is he able to do so many things in
in his life
and one thing I have found is it's just
the time management and focus hour so
when you're focusing on one task
just be in that almost like a meditation
just be in that moment
and doing all these tips helps me
tremendously and due to that reason I am
able to do
or two to three things in my life and I
feel like I'm living a very
you know very satisfactory life like I
get pleasure in what I'm doing so I hope
this sharing this experience maybe
helps you if you have any comments or
question please post in a
comment box below. Thank You