- Good morning.
(soft music)
Today I'd like to hang out with you
at my home office, as I am proceeding
with a typical day just getting things done,
being as productive as possible.
We've talked about this mainly in comments section.
You guys love traveling with me
when I do sort of those kinds of day in the life
follow me on the road type of videos,
but you also said that you wanted
to just see what it was like for me
to have a regular day at home in the office,
and that makes so much sense,
so now that I've finally have had some time
in the home office where I'm not on the road,
I'd thought I'd have you follow me around.
Today's a pretty good day for it.
I'm not leaving the office for anything,
unless something pops up tonight
that I'm potentially scheduling,
but I don't even think I would bother you with that,
so it's really just gonna be in my office doing work,
and I wanna give you an idea of what
that actually looks like.
So to give you an idea of where we're at,
it is a Monday morning, it is 10:45 in the morning,
and so I've actually accomplished quite a bit already,
so I just wanna kinda give you a rundown,
because I did not wake up like this.
First of all, I woke up at 5:30 this morning
to give myself that jumpstart.
There are a few things I kind of do in my morning routine
and I actually will put on my calendar Morning Jumpstart,
do the things that you do when
you first wake up in the morning.
Not that I need the calendar reminder,
but just so it actually has a space
in time in my life, which we talk about a lot here.
That sort of morning jumpstart takes me an hour,
and so yeah, I'm pretty much done with that by 6:30.
This morning at 6:30 I wrote a blog post,
so I kind of had some ideas about something I wanted to say
about the real estate industry,
so I wrote a blog post about that
and I posted it on LinkedIn.
Once I was done with that, Vincenzo had kind of
gotten his brain together after waking up,
also like he has own little morning routine
that he does, and we started talking
about something that was top of mind with a client.
It wasn't really ideal to have a first thing
in the morning client chat, but certain things
are just pressing, and they need to be discussed,
and we've co-founded a company together,
and so any time there's a client issue
that we really need to address,
it's something that's very hard for us
to kind of draw the line, like oh, let's schedule a meeting
for this, like no, we just start talking
about it as quickly as we can to work
through a solution as quickly as we can.
So that took about a half an hour.
He left to go to the gym, and I sat down
on the couch to read.
I finished a book this morning called "Managing Oneself"
by Peter Drucker, super fast read,
so much value, totally recommend that,
I mean, I don't know why it was such a short book.
I felt like it could have
gone a million different directions,
but now I think I'm a lot more excited
to dig into even more of his work,
so definitely recommend that,
I'll leave a link in the description.
After that, I had to get my butt moving
on the elliptical, so I did about 40 minutes there,
some cardio, and then just got ready.
Threw on some sort of no-makeup makeup,
because I don't have to go anywhere today
except for to talk to you, and so I was like,
hmm, can they let the foundation pass today?
I think so, and I also blew out my hair differently just
because we're still keeping it interesting.
I just cannot bring myself to curl it
when I have no where to be.
Sorry.
And so that's taken us to here.
I have told you guys in the past
that I don't eat breakfast super early in the morning.
I do like my own iteration of intermittent fasting,
which essentially means that I only eat
for certain hours of the day
so that I'm not eating all day long, all the time,
'cause I think it's a little bit harder
to control how much you eat when you do that.
I don't like to control how much I eat.
I like to eat, but if I give myself the parameters
of okay, I can only eat between the hours
of 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., that helps me
from going completely haywire.
Queue Lucy tip tapping, because she always thinks
when I'm talking, I'm talking to her.
It's rare that I'm actually talking to her,
but she still thinks it.
So now I think I'm gonna pull out a little shake
that I made out of the refrigerator
just go kind of be my breakfast,
because I kinda wanna dig into something else quickly.
I have some things I gotta post on Instagram,
so emails to get back to, so I think I'm just gonna
have that shake, Lucy is now digging at the carpet,
so let's move on.
(liquids sploshing)
I thought I would kinda take you through my day,
so I have calendar-blocked my entire day.
I read probably most of those things to you,
because they're already done,
and so now I would like to share what else is
on the agenda for today.
First, we talked about this recently.
Actually I think it was the last video
that you watched about prioritizing and your to-do list.
Like I said, most everything that I do is
on my calendar, so if it's important,
it has a time slot on my calendar,
but there are a lot of things on my calendar
that take up time, and yet, if you have at to-do list,
it's really important to keep that limited
to just a couple of things or maybe three things.
Those big three things you've got to get done today,
so I have that list of three things.
I've actually been liking it.
Not for the sake of just having things to check off,
although I get so much,
so much satisfaction out of that,
it is more for the whole staying focused thing.
If something's to come, if an emergency's to pop up,
if a meeting goes long, if something takes longer
than it should have, I have to look
at that list and say, okay, what is going
to get de prioritized, because the three things
on this list are supposed to be the most important things
for me to do today, so I've got to get them done today.
And so those three things for me, today, include
my content experience presentation.
I'm going to Toronto, oh my gosh is that next?
It's next week, which is why this is
on my top three today, oh my god.
I also need to have a call with my assistant, Meg.
Vincenzo and I need to have a call with Meg
because she is getting ready to go on maternity leave
because she's about to pop and have a baby.
It's important to talk to her, because it's like,
okay, Meg does a lot of things, and so we need
to make sure that we cover bases,
as she is not going to be available
for the next six weeks, because that's how much maternity
leave we give her from After Mark.
And my third thing is Poshmark,
(laughing)
which sounds so silly, but there's a big elephant
in the room right now, and it's driving me crazy.
I'll show you.
This is the elephant in the room,
and that is, well these are clothes
that are getting donated, and these are clothes
that are either getting donated or
(laughing)
this just looks freaking amazing,
either getting donated or are going listed
on my Poshmark store, and so the tripod is
laying there so delicately, because I need
to use that to kinda take photos today,
and get my Poshmark listings up.
This is a priority, because I cannot have this in my life.
P.S. thank you to Poshmark for sponsoring this episode
of AmyTV, because look at how horrific this is.
Thanks to them for this.
You guys really gotta check out the link
in the description for Poshmark.
It is so fantastic to be able to list some things,
make a little bit of money when you're trying
to clear out your closet, and I love it.
It went over so well, last time I cleaned my closet
out with you guys, you jumped
into my Poshmark store and bought all my dresses
and I was like, oh no, maybe I do like them,
but it was so fun, I was writing notes
for the packages and sent them out to you guys,
just whoever got the dresses that I wasn't gonna
be able to wear anymore, and it all worked out for the best.
It all worked out for the best.
I announced recently that the next book
for book club is "The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up."
Ever since I started reading that book,
I have been going insane to just throw everything away.
(laughing)
It's my favorite thing in the world right now.
That's probably more than half my closet.
Crazy!
But it's because I realized I was keeping so many articles
of clothing, which is a big chapter
that's sort of toward the beginning of this book.
I was keeping so much stuff just for sentimental value.
Don't tell Vin, I'm throwing away the dress
that I wore when he fell in love with me.
Sorry, I don't need it, but you're already
in love with me, and you put a ring on it,
so I've just gotta get rid of the dress, right?
It's stuff like that, it's gotta go.
So that's a big priority.
I would love to show you though the rest
of my day calendar blocked, just so can kinda see what a
real life day calendar block looks like.
And there it is, as you can see,
I have gotten all the way to 11 o'clock.
It is literally 11 o'clock on the dot right now.
So we've accomplished all this stuff
that is sort of grayed out.
What I have the rest of the day,
I need to post that book club selection.
I've emails, I've got to do that Poshmark stuff,
maternity leave meeting is at 1:30.
I'm gonna do treadmill and emails,
so I'm gonna do a lot more sort of outreach,
and that's what this is as well,
but there's gonna be one our of email happening
on the treadmill so I can walk
and do email at the same time.
Five things and text engage is sort of like a code phrase
for me of type of outreach that I want to do, so this is
in an effort me continuing to build my speaking career
and get more clients for After Mark,
I do a series of different networking tasks
every day in order to continue
to make that a reality for us.
Gotta work on that presentation,
so I'm gonna spend some time in the afternoon doing that,
because it's really just a lot of image searching
and things like that, because it's pretty much totally done
otherwise, and then I'm getting a new hard drive today,
which I'm excited about because I'm out of space,
and also because I'm gonna start a new B roll organization
process, which I'm pretty pumped about,
so I may have to bump this to later
and cook dinner at this time,
but that is to be determined, based on when Vin gets home.
So I'm gonna finish my shake and get it going.
Got stuff to do today, let's make it happen.
So I need to post on Instagram about book club.
If you know about book club, we have done one so far.
The next one is being announced.
I like to announce in my community tab on YouTube
and on Instagram what book we're reading
for book club so that we can read it
at the same time instead of just announcing it in a video,
so we can read it together.
Anyway, so I gotta post that on Instagram,
but I already found out something even more important
(laughing)
And so I really need to go to my Instagram,
and I've been trying to do more of vloggy stuff like this
on Instagram and actually chat with my community
over there more in stories, so
that's what we're gonna do right now.
Hey, happy Monday, I don't know if you were already
struggling with the fact that we're entering
into a five-day week, maybe you're still feeling
very summery and not ready to go all in on your work,
but I have a piece of great news I just found out.
Have no fear, National Prosecco Day is here.
So if you're not feeling quite
on your A-game yet, I know you could be like me
and make sure that your husband is gonna bring home a bottle
of Prosecco for dinner, because
that's gonna make it all better.
(soft music)
- So that's what we were talking about today.
I think for continuity purposes, we may.
(soft music)
- Okay, I may have let email take over a little bit more
of my life than I wanted today,
which is not that productive, learn from me.
But now it is time to work on my Poshmark listings.
I knocked out email, it's done,
so I'm not even gonna do my treadmill and email.
I just kinda did it here.
I had my call with Meg, so we're all set
in case she goes into labor in like five seconds,
which is probably going to happen.
But yeah, gotta do this Poshmark thing,
and do my presentation.
There was time when this was sorted,
and then I just kept adding to it,
so
I think it's gonna need a re sort.
- [Vin] And there was especially the meeting people,
meeting speakers in person at the conferences
and how it affected that to be,
but even like you mentioned that even if you linger around.
(soft music)
- Oh my god, that is so much better.
It's almost like I forgot that that floor was mine.
(laughing)
Don't worry, it's just over there.
All right, so now I have two piles I had
to like get some things out of there
that are not gonna go on my Poshmark store, so,
but the pile of things that is
is enormous, so it's gonna be really, really busy.
I'm gonna try to do as much as I can.
I wish I could show you this part,
but I realized I can't because
I'm gonna be using this camera
to take photos, and my phone is actually going
to be like my remote shutter, so I'm gonna have
to use both of my cameras at the same time,
so I can't really show you what I'm doing,
but all of these things I'm gonna show you like the product
of like me actually putting them on the Poshmark store,
so you can see what they look like
in case you've not seen that before,
but I have a lot of clothes to put on,
and photos to take, so let's see
how many I can get done today.
(camera snapping)
I just finished taking all the photos
for Poshmark, so they're gonna go on my store,
and you can download the app for free
with the link in my description.
Go check out my store with that link,
it's @schmitastic, that's my username on Poshmark,
and shop everything that I just posted
and get maybe something that's interesting to you.
Okay, so now that that's done, I need
to work on my presentation, and I'm trying really,
really, really hard not to get distracted
and go check the mail, because I'm getting something
so cute in the mail today, and I'm just
so excited about it.
Lucy's so excited she's like shaking.
Were you shaking?
Lu?
She can't contain her excitement, clearly.
Okay, it's getting dark, which means it's
almost the end of the day, I really got lucky
with my presentation, I didn't give myself
as much time as I wanted, but
it's done, so I'm really excited.
I'm gonna send it off to get sort of vetted
by my assistant, make sure I didn't have any
grammatical errors in there that I didn't already find
and now I think I'm just waiting for Vin
to get home so we can eat dinner.
Later I'm gonna be kind of creating those listings
for Poshmark, so I can get that up
and get that done, so I can start to sell some stuff
and I think I'm gonna put off this B roll hard drive
organization thing I wanted to do at the end of the day
until tomorrow, because I have plenty of time,
and it's not a super pressing thing.
It was not on my top three items,
so it can just wait.
(soft music)
Shout out to these lights making this vlog possible
at this point, it is almost 9 p.m.
I have not been in the office for this long, don't worry.
I actually just got done with dinner with my husband.
I made him some food, but that was like two hours ago,
and we've just been sitting at the dining room table
talking ever since, which is nice because we don't get
to see each other throughout the day.
He goes to the office, I'm here,
so we end up having probably too long
of a business conversation after dinner, not gonna lie.
But that's the end of my productive day.
I really need to go and snuggle in bed
with a book right now with a washed face,
like, can we be real?
I need to wash this face right now.
And that's gonna do it for me.
Am I still wearing a bride shirt?
Probably, because I love this sweatshirt so much.
Don't forget to check out my Poshmark store,
big shout out to them for sponsoring this little productive
day in the life video, and you know what time it is.
That's all for today, socials, thank you so much
for tuning in, I appreciate it.
As always, make sure you subscribe for good vibes
and remember to continue to go after the life
that you want, see you on the next one.
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