Hello ever welcome back to another video it is Francesco here
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So glad it's what I thought would do today is talk a little bit about the topic of daily
organization and sort of balance to some extent I talked about a month ago now about sort of
managing burnout
And it's a topic that a lot of you guys said that you'd like to hear more about
So today I'm gonna be sharing two things that are going really well
in terms of my routine and things like that and two things said I'm sort of confused not confused about but sort of looming and
Are in about and I'd love to hear your opinions on when it comes to balance and sort of keeping that routine going
So guys hopefully this video is insightful
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the first thing I want to talk about is sort of routine daily routine and
Over the last couple months have been a bit manic with stuff. So let me just give you a bit of background
We got married
And then we went on honeymoon and then we came back and we went for a vacation
So the last two or three months have been sort of up and down which has been a bit strange
So obviously routine has sort of been pushed out a little and of course routine is important
getting a routine and make sure you keeping it sort of building sort of roots to it will help you to I
guess do better to some extent a lot of the the sort of the people the most successful people around the world have
Positive and healthy habits and routines in there. So while I was on vacation, I read a really good book called the morning routine
It's sort of a collection of morning routines from professionals CEOs
And sort of even though he's sort of buddhist monks
which is amazing and you've got a real good idea about how to sort of take the morning routine and there was such a
sort of different
Blend of routines that some people started it slowly did their own thing and sort of focused on themselves other people went straight into work
And really intensified and then took an afternoon break or an evening sort of ritual that calmed them down
And I was really in this my full read for me. And so I am actually get the book finished
Although it. Actually probably have a small section at the back that I need to do finish
but the book was very
impressionable and what I did when I came back is that when I actually don't have much
from now until Christmas in terms of like a big
vacation or mass airily a big event
so what I thought I'd do is sort of hone in on my daily routine and since then I've
I've had some real success with my routine. So the thing that has been very successful is
Understanding a bit more about my own process and that's where the book helped. I saw so many people
Posting in this book and in the side of this book with their different sections
Stating the differences in every team and saaremaa classes is familiar
probably seeing the different statuses of their routine and and I saw such a different sort of approach to all of them and
that sort of got me thinking I was someone who's very
pointed towards starting very early and even
You know doing workouts in the morning and things like that and and sometimes you have to listen to yourself a bit more
What works best for you? So my morning routine starts a little bit later. I've been getting more sleep. So probably around seven o'clock
I'll wake up with Becca. I'll go in and if it's
Optional I guess I'll go in and do a morning
Meditation and that really does help some days. I'll do a little bit of writing or listen to some music, but I tend not to
necessarily have
some breakfast or anyway, Oh either way until the fall and summer will after a workout or I will
have some
breakfast and it will just make
That sort of day like a real nice start and and I feel sort of a lot better at myself
And this is coming back to that point of I'm listening to myself and then I'm actually sort of applying it out to my routine
So yeah, I feel a lot better on my routine. I'm going to the gym a little bit later in the day
So I'm going about 11 to 1 o'clock and I find my my body and my brain have sort of kicked in by then
Which is really been great. So that first thing I guess the first thing is the first lesson that I've learned there is
That I am now understand
That my body and mind to some extent
Should be listened to when it comes to selling out your own routine. Obviously, some people was
restricted because of work and lucky laughs I've been a less restricted, but still I think before I could have done a lot more to
Sort of, you know make my own routine and sort of give myself some time back. So that's the first lesson
I've brought across but I think it's going in the right direction. I'm really happy at that and number two
I've been a lot more organized of myself. I feel over the last sort of month
I changed a lot of applications and I don't do this often at all
the last time I did a major change of applications was about five years ago now so
the real transition in the last couple of months from sort of
Using notion has really helped me and helped me to stay a bit more organized
So I am I feel a lot more organized and but what I would want say is that I'm being a bit more
Restrictive on my work so I'm being I'm setting less tasks on my to-do list
So that I complete them and then I'm able to add more later previously
I would dump loads on and then a middle of day
I'd sort of like defer
Snowball a lot of them till tomorrow or the day after and now I'm being a little more too restrictive with my time
I'm also doing a lot more
Time-based productivity to some extent so when I'll start a piece of work like an article or working on
Marketing for a client I will be like, okay
I'm set myself a 30-minute timer or 20-minute timer. Then I'm gonna give myself a 5-minute break
I'm also doing trying to squeeze in a 20 minute nap in the afternoon to
All those I know that's not possible for a lot of people. It's actually been really beneficial on me
I felt a lot more energetic in the evening
and it sort of given me a lot of time back and obviously if you're in a position where
You can't do that in the office
Luckily, I work from home. So I'll just jump on one of the sofas and you know, put a pillow over my eyes
But if you can't I guess a car would suffice
so I want to talk a bit about the bad habits and the sort of things that I definitely do need to improve and of
Course, I'd love your advice on this one where they have any articles or resources that you think I should be pointing towards
Will be very helpful. So pop them in the comments. The first is distracted time
Of course. I've been a little more a lot more organized or more focused
But when I'm not when I'm not in that mood, I tend to snowball into a negative flow of stuff
so for example if I'm like it's at 4 o'clock and
I'm a bit knackered and I didn't do maybe my nap or I didn't do stuff like that. I will then be more distracted
I like play music or like watch a video and then watch another video. Then I know that I wouldn't necessarily need whether that's like
Self-improvement video or like a music with you? I'm like why 1 listen to this and then in our lair be like, okay
This is silly
So I've been I definitely when I'm organized and when I'm focused I'm focused
But when I'm distracted and you know that so maybe I do need to explore a few more of these sort of freedom
Applications that allow you to block sites and things like that again, I'll use a lot of the popular social network sites for work
so that's where it can be distracting and I'll use a lot of
Sort of some of the features and functions for it. So I can't necessarily block elements of the site
So, I guess maybe I need to set specific times where I do it and then I'm not allowed to do it after that
Obviously in the sort of weekends, I would casually play like a game on my phone
But I really need to sort of our staff and I have maybe the last two weeks have been sort of
Obliterated that to some extent so if you have any recommendations for ways that you can reduce distraction
I'd really love to hear that. The second area is
Imposter syndrome that sort of kicked back in again. So I would say the end of last year. I had a lot of this
that the YouTube channel was growing a lot with you guys and
I was doing a lot of good things and working with it some really
Great people and you know you start to doubt yourself when that happens. I started playing with my glasses if you can hear some sound
You can subject out yourself once you've got like
Sort of like some clients in and you're like it's something that success sometimes can put down with your mind
And I'm sort of more of that character at some times, but I think you try to calm down with that, but I'm still suffering
To some extent from me
Overthinking a situation so the last couple of months and where I've been doing some great stuff and a link for example
I brought in David Pierce from not fair. Don't say The Verge The Wall Street Journal
that was a real shocker to me because
We managed to like get in touch with him and he was so eager to come on
and I've been obviously trying to reach out to him for a fair while but
It was again imposter syndrome because I had followed him since I was SuperDuper young
So like eight nine years ten years and that's a massive amount of time
to have got in touch with them by so I guess my sort of thoughts around this is that
It's a bit of a struggle when you know you
You can see yourself doing well, but then you sort of doubt yourself
so that's my sort of mindset right now if you've got any resources or articles or I
Don't have videos that were helpful when helping you to get out of pasta syndrome
Maybe you move to a new position and they were like hmm. This isn't
I'm over
overqualified not over qualified under qualified for it, but I'm doing well in it and you're getting a bit of doubt then maybe that's
Maybe you found some resources that were helpful. Just let me know in the comments
I'd be you know, I add it to my reading list and give it a go any lice
I thought I brown up a few of the things that I'm doing well on and doing not so well on
Give you a bit of an outline of my own organization bit of an honest sort of approach to it
But hopefully give you an insight in some lessons I've learned maybe you can take away some good stuff from it on and also
Look to help me out with a few of those are the recommendations
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