... feel like you have so much to do but so little time.
This is how I plan my most productive days, start to finish.
And it's going to help you revolutionize your YouTube game and consistency, and also your
entire life.
Let's do it.
If you're just tuning in, you know that this is episode seven of our YouTube Business Bootcamp,
which is dedicated to you for being here with me for years on this channel, which is so
cool.
And honestly, I've been paying attention to all of the questions that you've had for me
about how to really build a profitable business from YouTube.
That's why I wanted to make this whole series.
It's not just about how to make money, although we're covering that, and it's not just about
YouTube either.
It's about your mindset and getting organized and being productive, and being able to tackle
this as a true business.
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The first and most important thing to having my most productive days, and truly my most
productive weeks, months, and years is the time journal.
I mentioned this in this video on how I plan my week.
So you make sure that you're basically tracking the amount of time it takes you to do the
most regular tasks in your routine.
So you know that if you have to respond to emails or you need to schedule something in
your calendar or you have to shoot a YouTube video, you now know, okay, that's going to
take me this much time, and that's going to help you block that time off in your calendar
so you know you can actually get it done.
So keeping a time journal, if you haven't done it yet, is vital.
All you do is, as you're doing things throughout the day, whether it's going to the gym or,
like I said, filming a YouTube video, you want to make sure that you're keeping track
of how long it took you, so you know next time moving forward, that's how long it's
going to take.
So just put it in the notes in your phone or even write it down at the end of the day.
But it's best to be doing it in real time so the time is accurate.
So the first thing is, a really productive day always starts the night before.
And the cool thing is my daily priorities don't change.
They stay the same every single day, as I've mentioned a couple times in a couple different
videos.
So my daily priorities are booking sales calls, making sure that we're driving traffic to
our conversion sites, and getting people into our funnels and our automations and our machine.
Making sure that we're getting results and testimonials from our clients, because those
are the most important things.
And then making sure that I'm making the best product available, so product development.
Those are my four daily priorities every single day.
Now, obviously, there's things that are associated with those daily priorities to actually make
them happen.
That's where I use some tools to actually help me plan my productive day.
So let's dive into my computer, and I'm going to show you exactly how I do that.
Everything relates back to those daily priorities, which are just constant.
And so then I take those daily priorities, and obviously there's different tasks that
I have to do on a daily basis to achieve those.
So, for example, I'm planning my day for tomorrow, and these are the things that I know I need
to do.
So this is in Asana, and Asana is basically my Bible.
It has everything that I need inside of it, and so this is where all of the microtasks
and little things that are associated with those daily priorities live.
So for tomorrow, this is a recurring task for me, reviewing the sales metrics, so I
know I'm going to do that.
I need to create an outline for our masterclass for the Authority Accelerator, I need to promote
the Authority Accelerator on an Insta Story, I want to screenshot and add my new testimonials,
prep our AA call, and host the Authority Accelerator calls.
Those are my microtasks associated with the daily priorities that I showed you.
So things like gathering testimonials, I've got that in here.
Things like...
I'm looking at the wall because it's sitting on my wall.
Things like making the best product available.
That includes prepping our Authority Accelerator weekly call, where I talk to my clients and
help them in real time on these live calls.
I prep it beforehand so that it's a really great experience for the clients.
Also promoting the Authority Accelerator Insta Story is helping me achieve the goal of booking
sales calls and enrollment calls, and making the best product available is adding new Authority
Accelerator content into the portal.
I'm constantly working on it, and also creating a brand new masterclass for it.
So I'm hitting all four daily priorities every day.
It's just the tasks might look slightly different every day.
So first it starts in Asana, and then if you look at my Google Calendar, which is where
I actually time block...
I talked about this a lot in my how I plan my week video, but I'll just show you an example
of what a day looks like for me.
I block off the things that are steady and I know need to happen on a daily basis, just
so they're always in my calendar.
So for example, sales metrics, that's what this is right here, from 8:00 to 9:00.
If I can't get it done from 8:00 to 9:00, then I can always move it.
But generally, I stick with that time block so that it's always blocked off and I don't
plan anything else there.
My fitness always goes in yellow.
That's from 7:00 to 8:00 AM.
And then I know that I have a meeting tomorrow for an interview with Business Insider to
talk about how to use YouTube to grow your business, so that's blocked off.
Our weekly support calls with our Authority Accelerator clients are 1:00 to 3:00 every
Wednesday, so that's blocked off.
And then I have training as well.
Now, my hip hop class is something fun, and that's not going to happen tomorrow, so I
can just go ahead and delete that event and take it out of the calendar for just this
week.
And that's totally okay.
But the value of blocking off my time for the things that have to be there and the constants
is that nothing ever gets overlapped, and I'm super, super organized in the things that
have to be done, so that I know that those are the top priority.
Now, I know I mentioned other things in my list of to do's, and those are the things
that I map out in my daily map of how I plan my day, which I'm going to show you in just
a second, which is really, really detailed.
But I just know that these are the blocks of time that have to be blocked off in order
to actually get these things done and to execute on them.
And a lot of the times, they're also involving other people, so I need to block them off
as meetings to make sure that both of us are going to be there for it.
Or all of our clients are going to be there, in this case.
And this is an iCalendar.
So I block my time in Google Calendar, and then it is associated and linked to my iCalendar.
You can see how it looks in here as well.
So from there, I actually write out my daily plan, and this is where I get really detailed.
But I have tried so many different ways of staying on task and getting things done, and
this is the best thing for me.
It works so well because I actually pretty much time everything out to the minute, whether
it's personal or has to do with my business.
So I write everything down from the time I wake up, and something as simple as drink
a lemon water, have a half of an avocado, and meditate.
I block that off from 6:30 to 7:00 AM.
From 7:00 AM to 8:00 AM, I do my workout.
From 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM, I get ready and shower and then check all my metrics.
And then from there, the entire day until 5:00 is basically planned out in blocks.
I always include things like go for a walk, or just stand up and take a second to breathe.
Because I find that I'm the type of person that if I could just work all the time, I
actually would, because I enjoy what I do so much.
But that's not healthy.
So I block out time to eat, I block out time to exercise, I block out time to be with my
friends and family, I block out time to just even journal or write a gratitude journal.
And then I obviously block out time for the things that are all contributing to those
daily priorities of keeping my business going and growing.
And then my favorite thing is the next day.
So the morning of my most productive days, I get up and I actually start checking things
off the list.
That helps me stay productive and stay motivated, because I know right off the bat, I'm winning.
Because even if I'm just checking off, okay, I had my lemon water and I ate my half an
avocado and I did my meditation, which is part of my morning routine, then I know that
I've at least gotten one thing done.
When you get that roll going, then you want to get everything done on the list.
And nothing makes me happier than checking things off a list.
I'm weird.
Maybe you're the same, let me know the comments.
But it's my favorite thing, so that helps me stay productive, because I know that I
have so many things that I can check off.
And they're all microtasks, which is really cool.
To get motivated in the morning to actually do these things, make sure you check out this
video in our series.
It's my morning motivation checklist, so I'll show you exactly what I do in the morning
to get motivated and pumped up for my day.
The whole thing about how I plan out my day, it really is incorporated with how I plan
out my week and my month.
So I like to plan my week versus really having these daily priorities and tasks so rigid,
because it gives me some flexibility.
But having everything written out the way that it is also keeps me productive and on
a roll, like I said, because it gives me that momentum of continuously checking those things
off.
The great thing is we all have big goals.
I know I have a lot of things that I want to achieve, and doing this on a daily basis
and allowing myself to take these big, huge goals and the things that I want to achieve,
and breaking them down into daily priorities and tasks, it actually helps me achieve them
slowly but surely.
Because the biggest way people get stuck and are unproductive...
Is that a word?
I'm not sure, but maybe it is... are unproductive is because they're trying to do these big,
huge goals in one day.
That just doesn't happen.
It's baby steps.
It's microtasks that get you to that end result.
So make sure that you're breaking things down.
I.E., if I want to shoot eight YouTube videos and I need to get them done, that's all broken
down into a plan.
I have a whole video on how I do that.
It's called How I Did Six Weeks of Content in Six Hours, and you checked that out here.
It's how I batch like a boss and how I am able to create so much content by breaking
it down into microtasks and projects and to do lists, and my whole workflow when it comes
to YouTube, which is really, really important to staying consistent.
So having those tasks written down every day is allowing me to build real momentum and
move forward and be super productive.
So my most productive day, I finish the day by checking everything off my list, and that
is the best feeling in the world.
And as you know, this entire series is dedicated to helping you check your big goals off your
lists.
So if you haven't checked out the whole series yet, you can find the entire series playlist
in the link below in the description.
Also, don't forget that we have this massive giveaway.
You're winning a scholarship to my Authority Accelerator program to work with me and my
team on building your business using YouTube, as well as a Logitech C920 camera and a $500
Amazon gift card.
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