Welcome, let's cut right to the chase
I'm guessing that if you clicked on this video
You already know how important and how effective creating lists and journaling can be.
I started regularly journaling this year
And it's had a huge impact on how I approach my days on my productivity, on everything basically.
So, I just wanted to really quickly share my approach on how I do things.
I have a really, really simple way of doing things,
because I don't like to think about it. it needs to be so simple that I'm not caught up on the
Technicalities or the systems. It's just something that I reference and go back to regularly to keep me in line.
Okay, so I'm gonna break this up into three parts
Basically what I do on a daily basis, what I do on a weekly basis and what I do on a monthly basis
Beyond that, I feel like it's just too long-term
I'm gonna come back to that, but it's just to stay really focused and really on what's important right now
so, at the top left
I always start with the date, obviously and then from there, I start to list off the things that I need to tackle in
My day, right? This is something that obviously depends on the person, depends on your approach
I try not to go too crazy with my lists and add too many items,
even on days where I have a lot to do,
I just always try to be intentional about what is the most important stuff I've got to do.
So I just wrote down a couple of examples really quickly, and then on the right side,
Which is just as important as what I put on the left, I've put the word why
Okay, it's up, it's at the same level of the date and it's written in red. This is super super important for people like me
Where I, kind of lose sight or lose track of what I'm doing because I get so involved in the tasks
And so this is a really helpful reminder to always remember
Why I'm doing any given thing, if I can't fill in that item on the right-hand side in red then that item on my list
Shouldn't even be there. It doesn't have a why for me to be doing it that day
So a couple of examples would be like on the top
Creating content for my brand, right?
So I write content/brand
Going on a run is great for me because it's for my health and it's for having balance in the day
Right, because I spent a lot of time sitting so I try to just boil it down into like one or words of essence
why I'm doing that thing
And that provides an enormous amount of clarity
It's very visual, the redness of it kind of attracts my eyes and so I'm just always constantly being reminded
Okay, that's two thirds of it. The last third is just at the bottom
I have a section for notes in review, where I just kind of reflect on the day
I look back on the stuff that I was able to do on the stuff that I wasn't able to do and why
So the same sort of thing happens every day, right? So Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, etc
And then on a weekly basis so week of in this example, November 19th
Review, I'll just look back. I'll flip through the pages of
what I've done in the last week and
read over once again what I was able to do what I wasn't able to do and this is super important for me because
For whatever reason I will forget
sometimes, all the stuff that I was able to do how productive actually was, on a given week, and
When I forget that, I go to this place where I'm sometimes very critical of myself
Or I think I wasn't as effective or productive as I was, so this is a great way to have perspective
And to see what you're doing on a weekly basis
I'll just write down my thoughts write down my reflections and kind of sort of recap what I was able to do
On a monthly basis, It's the same sort of concept. Okay
So in this case November review, I'll write down exactly like what I do for on a weekly basis
but just look back on the whole month and this actually goes in tandem with what I'm about to talk about in a second, but
reflecting on my goals and what I was able to accomplish and at the bottom once again, I'll write down my successes and
Highlights and big wins essentially that I had in that given month.
And on the next page, I will write down my goals for the coming month
Right, so December goals and I'll split that up into two parts on the left-hand side
I have short term goals. And this is just it's kind of a loosely defined category, obviously
It's going to depend on who you are and what works best for you. But for me, what I've done is short-term and medium-term
like I mentioned before
planning too far ahead
Doesn't work for me. It's almost like I'll set out goals
for like I don't know six months or a year in advance and things never pan out how I expect them to
So I kind of let that one go and I'm just focused on what's more in my control in this short and sort of medium
term, right so I split it up into two sections and
On the left, like I said short term, I'll write down
Three or four items, right?
And again, I don't like to write down too many things because I feel like it can sort of water it down
So what are like the top three or four most important things?
I want to accomplish in the short term which for me is kind of like I don't know the next
three weeks, next month, maybe that's sort of the short term and
then on the medium term side of things same sort of thing three or four items that are really important to me and
that would be
probably within the next
Two or three months. It's sort of a loose category
But again, it's it's kind of just meant to guide me and give a little bit of direction into where I want to go
So that's basically it that's what I do on a daily weekly and monthly basis
It is working out really well for me. Obviously. It's a system that has evolved over time
And it's probably going to continue evolving. I always appreciate suggestions
so if there's anything that you guys do that you think could really
Complement this I would absolutely love to hear it down in the comments below and that would actually also be great for the community
In general again. This is just something that is super super simple and works for me for my personality because it's effortless
I don't have to think about it again
I respect a lot of the other methods that are out there
But this is what I do and this is actually just like I said my bullet journal
So I have a separate journal that is more personal and reflective. So I keep those two separate. Okay?
I hope you liked this breakdown of how I do things
This is just a journal. I got on Amazon. I'll throw a link to it down below
If you want to check it out, I love it because it's just super super simple
I think that's sort of a theme for me. Thank you for watching the video
I didn't introduce myself in the beginning, but my name is Nathaniel
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Alright, I will leave things at that, soon