hey guys ~ welcome back
last video I talked really briefly about how..
I will wake up around 5AM or 6AM in the morning..
go into the office and stay until about 9PM or 10PM at night
a lot of you guys asked how I was able to do that almost 6 days a week
and also create content on here
so this week let's talk about how to make time like magic
before we get started
I'm not working working the whole time I'm in the office
the first 3.5 hours I'm meditating, doing qi gong, and reading
I'm also working on some of my own personal stuff while I'm there
so I'll talk about more of this at the end
and I'll also talk about what my full-time job is
it's all more of an end result of putting in place everything that I will talk about first
which is more like time management
knowing what's important to you
so that you can design a life around everything that's most important to you
alright ~ let's get started
so the first thing we're going to talk about is the most important thing
that needs to happen before anything else can happen
because you can manage your time as much as you want
you can organize, you can plan, you can think and dwell..
and do all the things as much as I want
as much as you want
but if you don't know what's important to you..
if you don't know your "why"
if you don't have a North Star
if you don't know what you're working towards
none of that really matters because you'll just kind of be running in circles
which is what I did for the majority of my adolescence
so this is a saying that I've been going by for a really long time now
it's that you will make time for what's important to you
and a quote from Jim Rohn who's Tony Robbins' mentor is..
"If you really want to do something you'll find a way"
"If you don't you'll find an excuse."
and for majority of my life I just gave like a bunch of excuses to myself
as to why I'm not doing this.. why this isn't good enough..
why I quit all of these things and all that good stuff
when it really comes down to how I'm able to do everything that I want to do
in a way where it just seamlessly fits into my life is because..
I've taken the time to really figure out what's the most important to me
and that is my spiritual practice Falun Dafa
which includes meditation, qi gong, being a better person
it really to me is just like continual self-betterment
like how can I continually look inward and reflect..
and do better and be better as a person
so that's #1
#2 is my family
#3 is helping others
so everything that I do revolves around that
how can I be a better student of my spiritual practice
how can I be a better daughter
how can I spend time with my parents more
how can I design my life in a way where I can see my parents often
since I'm living in New York and my parents are in LA
and how can I continually help and serve others in a way where..
I can encourage them to chase their dreamiest of dreams..
and to not feel like they're alone in whatever it is that they're doing
because for the majority of my college years and post college years
I felt really stuck and alone and lonely and just..
I don't know
not many people talked about something like this
so because I knew what was most important to me
I was able to design my life in a way where
what I did for work is aligned with my spiritual practice
again I'll get back to this at the end
and what I did with work allowed me to have flexibility to see my family as much as I want
and what I do for work also allows me to help other people as much as I can
by doing what I love
so all of us is say..
it's really important to really know what's the most important to you
what's your North Star
what is your "why"
why are you doing the things that you're doing
and why do you need to do the things that you need to do
and usually what you need to do is things that are most important to you
to give you guys a couple pointers..
because I know something as daunting as finding your life purpose may be very paralyzing
and it probably will be for you know the first couple of months
or maybe even like the first year or two
but the more you chip away at it, the more clear it'll become
and the first video I made ever
I can't really watch it because I kind of cringe but I'll link it right there
I talked about what inspired me to start my YouTube channel
and it was reading 'Start With Why,' 'Big Magic,' and 'The Dip'
'Start With Why' it'll..
the goal is to help you find your "why"
or to get you to understand why it's so important to have a solid "why"
'Big Magic' to me it gave me permission to pursue something creative
like it's 'Big Magic Creative Living Beyond Fear'
so like it really gave me permission to be like..
you can do this
you're able to do it.. so go do it
and 'The Dip' really taught me that..
growing up we just assumed quitting is like the worst thing to ever do
but the book's like if you're not going to be the best at doing this thing..
then like ya... you should quit
whenever you learn something new it's really fun and then it sucks
and then you like..
if you break through.. that's like "the dip"
and...
you guys can watch that video
I'll link.. izz izz it's right there
and a couple of things you guys can do as well..
is make a list of..
just like write out what are the most important things to you
just kind of free writing and just going off the top of your head of like..
I'm seeing a write down what I think is the most important to me
and then kind of figure out from there
or you can use writing prompts like..
who do I want to be in the future
what do I want to achieve
who do I want to become
what kind of value do I want to give to the world
that will help you find what's most important to you
and I actually made a video on how to write your life together
there's 3 writing prompts
I start crying and it's kind of..
it's kind of... intense
I can be intense sometimes
so I'll also link that right there
how to write your life together
talked about this in previous videos
Pareto's laws/Pareto's principle.. the 80/20 rule
which is 20% of your inputs will produce 80% of your outputs
and for me I learned that to be the most productive person and human being
and to be calm and composed and grounded throughout the day
it's really important to me to start the day with meditation, with qi gong..
and with reading Zhuan Falun which is the book written by the founder Falun Dafa
this goes along with the knowing what's most important to you because..
when I look at the 24 hours I have in my day
and then let's say 8 of those hours are spent..
either sleeping or like winding down and like me-time
so I'm left with 16 hours
and 20% of 16 is about 3.2 hours
so I should be able to spend those 3 hours
like those 3 solid hours doing what I know will help me..
be the best that I can be for the rest of the 13 hours
and for me that is meditating for an hour, doing qi gong for an hour..
and reading for about an hour to an hour 30 minutes
every morning before I start working
and so that is something worth considering
what is the one thing or the couple of things that you know you can do
either it be you know in work, in your personal life, in your spiritual life
what can you do for 3 hours every day..
to help you make the rest of the 13 hours like super amazing
trim the fat or cut out the excess in your life
before you can cut out the excess and before you can trim the fat..
you need to have a decent understanding of how you're spending your time
you can do that by tracking your week
just one week..
or maybe even tracking one or two days of your life
writing out everything that you do throughout that day to be like..
okay, do I really need to spend 15-30 minutes in the morning scrolling through social media
do I really need to spend 2-3 hours at night watching TV or watching movies
do I really need to do half the things that I do because the answer is no
we don't need to do half the things that we do
if we know what's important to us..
we'll be able to identify and really trim out everything else that is more noise..
than what will actually help you get to where you want to be
and a great question you can ask yourself is
what are you willing to give up and sacrifice and what are you not
so again it's like if you know what's most important to you..
this becomes a lot easier
so for me it's like..
my most important things: spiritual practice, family, work
those things.. not going to change
that is what's most important to me
I was willing to give up and sacrifice everything else..
including my social life, including watching TVs and movies..
including going out to dinner with friends
including any form of entertainment.. any form of fun
because I felt like I had way too much fun when I was younger
so like my whole focus..
I was able to really just hone in on..
how to be a better student of my spiritual practice
how to be a better daughter
and how to excel at work..
so work is like YouTube or like my work that I'll talk about
going back so what you're willing to give up and what you're willing to sacrifice
there's a really great article by Mark Manson called..
7 strange questions to ask yourself to find your life purpose
something like that
he talks about how nothing is pleasurable and uplifting all the time
and he has a really great question..
what sandwich are you willing to eat
what that means is.. whatever we do we're gonna have to rough it out
we're gonna have to eat dirt every once in a while or for a few years
before we actually see or we actually like are able to reap the benefits
and a few other questions that he wrote down..
dude honestly this article is so great
so these are all great questions that you guys can also..
after reading through this.. answer
it'll really help
this article actually helped me a lot maybe in 2014-2015
so the moral of this story is really to just be protective of your time
and a thing that I do is..
every day I turn my phone and my laptop on Do Not Disturb
this is for Macbooks and iPhones
and what it does is it just.. it mutes every form of notifications
so nothing's ringing.. nothing's dinging
nothing's chirping.. nothing is popping up to be like..
~ hey! look at me! ~
and it actually took me a while to really understand and grasp that most things can wait
if there's an emergency..
if someone really had to reach me.. they'll call me
but if not.. emails, text messages, the news..
anything.. social media, notifications actually..
all of my social media notifications are off because it's such a huge destruction
um..
so yeah.. next point
the next thing is something that I'm really bad at
because I somehow convinced myself that I'm different and I'm an outlier
and that I can actually be very productive and useful when I'm multitasking
but I cannot..
so it's something that I'm still trying to work on
but it's something that I've learned over time that..
yes, making time and carving out time for deep focus on one thing is very important
"What is the one thing that you can do, such that by doing it, everything else becomes easier or necessary?"
this is a great question to ask on something super big of..
what is my life purpose
or something super small day-to-day..
what can I do today
what is the one thing that I can do today that will help make everything easier or necessary
one thing that really helped me be more of a focused person and less of a multitasker
one thing is the Pomodoro method which is..
setting a timer for about 25 minutes for deep focus on just one thing
if any other thing comes up during that 25 minutes.. you don't do it
but for me it's like okay if I'm in deep focus mode on this one task
and I remember I have to do a couple of things
instead of actually getting distracted and doing those couple of things..
I'll write it down on a piece of paper or my planner
there's like a little section that I block off that's "Parking Lot Thoughts"
so that I'm kind of unloading what's in here onto somewhere else
and I feel safe and secure that it's safe and secure somewhere
and I can get back to it later
and then I can redirect my focus and my attention back onto what I'm doing
of everything I talked about..
the most important thing is to know what's important to you
or to try to find what's most important to you
and I think the second most important thing really is..
to be kind to yourself and to respect and to trust the process
because something like this wanting to be more productive
wanting to be a better person
wanting to find your thing
it takes time because you need to first find what it is that you want to do with this time
and how can you do that
and why and then what and then..
there's all these things that you have to figure out
and so for me I'd say it took from 2013
maybe like deep like when I really wanted to figure out it's 2014
so it took me 4 years
it took me a little over 4 years to really figure out like okay
this is the life I want to live
this is the life that I've designed
and to let you guys in on a little secret
this whole thing is a work in progress
for as much as you guys might be like..
wow! you're like in the office so much!
like how do you do that?!
to me it's like.. why do I still waste so much time on social media
and why do I sleep in sometimes
and why am I not more productive
so again all of this takes time to strive forward vigorously
but remember that change takes time
and that it's kind of not realistic or practical..
or even as much as we want to wake up the next day and have our lives be fixed
and to be the most productive people we want to be
it doesn't happen like that
but if you work hard at it day-to-day, week-to-week, and month-to-month..
you will for sure start seeing progress
and that's what life is about, right?
celebrating small wins
so this is the..
you know the 5 things..
the 5 practical tips
and the end for those of you who are asking..
I feel like this video is already pretty long
so if you really want to get like an in depth.. thing of like how I found my life purpose
and then what it is that I do for work..
it'll be linked right there
it's the video I talked about like part 5 of how I found my life purpose
alright so what do I do for my full-time job
my full-time job I'm working at NTDTV or The Epoch Times
NTDTV is like the television broadcasting division which YouTube falls under
and then Epoch Times is news, hard news, print newspaper
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maybe more moving forward
but for now.. twice a month
and there should be a movie on..
there should be a movie
~ haha what?? ~
there should be a video on how to detox coming this week
and I will link it down below when it's up
more on this next time because this video is already so long
okay baaiii ~
thanks for being here
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