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Hey everyone.
It's me, Hallease, endeavoring to persevere as always.
Back with another Monday Motivation for you.
Hope you're havin' a good week.
Hope everything's going well.
Endeavoring to persevere as always.
In this Monday Motivation, I wanted to talk about how I've been using Trello for the past
week to organize my thoughts, and organize the many projects I've got going on right
now.
If you're new to my Patreon, then you probably won't be familiar with.
Last year, I made a similar video.
Except back then, I was using a combination of bullet journaling and a spreadsheet that
I designed using Google spreadsheets.
Those are still available for you if you liked that method.
I'll link to that video and also link to the Google spreadsheet that I designed that you
can use for project management.
Lately, I've been on a visual kick.
I've been really wanting to visualize how I'm moving through projects.
More specifically, the YouTube videos.
And how I'm beginning to organize what a month of YouTube content looks like.
And then, combining that with a daily To Do.
My first board, which I'll show you here, my first board is a simple To Do.
I have labels for my To Do.
So, I have a labels key.
You'll see how I've color coded each of these To Do's based on a few different parameters.
Whether it be it's a YouTube video, a client project, if it's a StumbleWell original project.
For example, the online classes that we're offering, original content that we're trying
to get off the ground.
Things like "Where I Stay," and stuff like that.
Those are labeled accordingly.
Patreon content, if it's exclusive content for y'all, like this video, that is there
for a label.
Personal stuff: go to the doctor, get a check up, maybe switch that plant to LECA that you've
been wantin' to switch, that type of stuff.
I have a personal label.
And then, sponsored.
Sponsored videos that need to get done by a certain time.
That's the labels key for you to easily reference.
Then I have the list of To Do's.
This area's really where I end up putting the To Do's, usually today.
I've already started putting some of the To Do's that I wanna get done for this week.
I'm tryna get that composting video done.
I'm gonna be going to the farm to film tomorrow.
So, that's a To Do.
For the Adobe livestreams that I'm gonna be doing, since I'm doing the Adobe Community
Residence Fund, I need to write down what those titles and descriptions for those livestreams
are gonna be.
That's due in two days.
Then film the Monday motivation.
Currently doing that right now which leads us to our Doing.
Some of these things, they aren't just things that I can easily check off a box.
They're things that I'm currently working on.
The fact that I have a Doing section, I really like.
As you can see, since I'm filming, I went ahead and moved the Monday motivation to Doing.
Finally, once it's done, I can move it over to Done.
I went ahead and left last week's To Do's so you could see how I got stuff done (laughs)
for the week.
Again, for me, I'm a really visual person.
So, I really like that I can see by the next Monday, I can see everything I've done, everything
I still kinda didn't do, and things I'm doing.
Then I can make those strategic adjustments based on what I'm looking at.
I really like how this is a very simple Trello.
It's a very simple board, but it really does give me a quick visual picture of what's going
on.
I really like that.
Then, I have my monthly goals over here.
With monthly goals, I usually only have, as y'all know, two to three big monthly goals.
They usually are something in regards to what I'm trying to do for that week as well.
In my monthly goal for August, I only have one.
It is film, produce, and edit the How-To Podcast class.
Right now, I am still finishing the outline, which actually, oh that needs to move here,
'cause I'm working on that right now.
Silly.
Then, that'll move to done.
My next card that I create will be something along the lines of Film the How-To Podcast
Course.
That'll be the next thing that I put from To Do to Doing to Done.
That is how you can kinda stay in tune with sort of the canopy what are you trying to
get done in a month, and then how are you moving through those sub-categories within
that monthly goal that you have.
This has really been great for me to visualize things, move things around.
I still use a pen and paper.
I still have a BuJo and use the BuJo method.
But, I am noticing now with this creative process that I'm starting to develop, being
a full-time YouTuber: the fact that I can't erase, or move things around, or get a canopy
visual idea of what actually am I working on right now, is kinda hard for me with the
BuJo method.
I'm really liking that I have this digital version to reference back to.
The other thing I like about this is you can put in due dates for yourself.
As you can see with my Done section here, there are different due dates based on what
I was working on and when I felt like it should get done within a week.
That's something also that's really good.
By the way, I am using the Trello free membership.
Everything I'm doing in here, you can do with a completely free membership.
Don't feel like you need to upgrade or anything like that.
Moving on to the YouTube video workflow.
Again, this is really simple.
For me, this is great to see at a glance, canopy, what videos am I trying to produce
for the month.
As y'all know, I try to average around six or seven videos a month on YouTube.
And actually, generally, I kind of usually have an idea of what those videos are gonna
be.
In here, it's a similar method.
My main goals are Research and Writing, Film, Edit, Upload, Promote.
Right now, I think the only video I've gotten up this month as of recording this is the
StumbleWell 21 questions video.
Then, y'all got to see an exclusive version of that video.
It's been promoted, it's live.
I need to actually promote it.
That's why I've created a to-do list in here, promotional clips and copy.
I still have that stuff and I haven't done it yet.
That's there.
I have a couple of other videos that I'm currently working on.
With each card that I use for each video, I've based them off of a template.
I'll show you, here's the template I designed.
This is the template card.
Then, I would go in and change whatever the topic of the video is going to be.
As I complete each thing, I can check it off the list and also move it over into the next
slot.
This also gives me an idea of just, let me delete all that, this also gives me an idea
of just within a specific video, where am I at currently?
For example, the Getaway Vlog, which y'all will probably see in the next week or two.
This is a vlog that I have filmed for Getaway House.
It's where you get to stay in a tiny house out in the woods for a few days.
They're doing some really cool stuff with that.
Mr. Hallease and I actually did that.
I wanna make a vlog about it, because I did end up filming stuff.
Right now, the Getaway Vlog is in the Edit section, 'cause that's the step we're on.
But I still probably need to do some voice-over for it.
So, I haven't check that box yet.
Does that make sense, hopefully?
Yeah.
This is just how you can start to visualize videos of where you're at with things within
a month.
No underwear for a week.
That's a vlog that's coming up.
I have officially filmed everything.
But I know that I still wanna do a mini lookbook about the type of styles that I wear when
I know I'm not gonna wear underwear for that week (laughs).
The videos I make: wow.
It kinda gives you a little bit of a glance of like, okay, where am I at with each different
video?
Where are they in relation to the production timeline, production schedule?
At the end of the month, I can reference back here and actually see, okay, what did I end
up filming, what did I actually end up completing, how many videos actually went live for that
month?
I'm really excited about both of these.
They're very simple Trello boards, but it's been really nice for the past week to use
these to visualize what's going on with the company.
I'm really liking it so far.
If you are interested in downloading either of these templates to use in your own Trello
workflows, your own Trello boards, I will link to both of the templates in the description
box.
Again, along with the Google spreadsheet that I designed and the video to go along with
that as well for you, as well.
As I said in my last Monday Motivation, I was feeling a smidge overwhelmed, in a good
way, but it was a smidge overwhelming.
I was just like, I need to visualize what needs to get done.
'Cause I'm low-key losing my mind a little bit.
I feel good now when I open Trello and I can just see that, "Hey, you're doing things.
You've done things.
And there are things to do."
Again, I make these Monday Motivations for y'all where I just kinda talk about things
that are happening behind the scenes, workflow, running a production company, personal questions,
anything you have: please let me know in the description box below.
Or if you're watching me here on Patreon, let me know in the Patreon description.
Either way, I will see the comment.
Thank you so much.
I hope you have a great week, as always.
I will see you when I see you.