hi it's me your girl simranjeet kaur mann and today i'm going to be talking about how i balance
all the different things that are happening in my life right now so for those of you who
don't know about the stuff that i do i'm currently a trainee solicitor for a uk top 20 law firm
i'm currently in my first seat and i'm going into my second seat very soon and also on the side
i do youtube videos like this one i create instagram content i my mic just like dropped there
like not like a mic drop my mic genuinely just dropped just now but it's all right we move um i
like i said i was doing youtube content instagram content i also vlog for your careers net i run my
own newsletter i try to update my website where i can as well and then on top of that
of course i try and manage my social life i try and attend events i try and do loads of different
extracurricular stuff i try to go to the gym i try to read books that kind of thing so i've got a lot
going on and this video is essentially about how i manage all of those different things that are
happening so you can hopefully gain some ideas about how to manage all the different things you
have also got going on in your busy lives before we start however i really want to start with some
gifted content and you might be thinking oh sim jeez look at you influencer getting gifted things
here and there now but i'm really excited to show these products that i've been gifted by a company
called tine it's actually pronounced t-i-j-n but it's pronounced tine and they are an international
company and they essentially have loads of i guess products like shoes and bags and accessories
so those are the three main categories that i saw on their website so here is what i was
gifted first of all we have this really nice bag i'm not gonna lie until this point i've never felt
leather as nice as this super nice i'm not gonna lie and in it it's got like two deep compartments
and also a little one here and how it goes like the thing it goes like over like that
and it's super cute and it comes obviously with the crossbody bag which then you can like take
off like you can remove it like that and turn it into a handbag as well really nice and i think it
comes in different shades as well so i got cream i think there's also like black and a tan kind of
colour as well so that's really nice i also was gifted a pair of sunglasses and a pair of blue
light glasses so let's talk about the sunglasses first so it comes in a really cool case and
these are the sunglasses really snazzy i'm really excited to wear these would you look at that
i love them i love them so much i don't know these are my favourite thing
i've always wanted a pair of glasses that fit my face properly because i feel like
i have loads of like round sunglasses but they're too big for my face whereas these ones are the
perfect size for me so i'm happy about that and the next pair are um like i mentioned blue light
glasses they've really i guess increased in popularity recently um with people saying that
it's helped them go to sleep uh when they've been staring at a screen for too long so these
are my blue light glasses as well and they're not prescription glasses so i can't see a thing but
because i am short-sighted not long-sighted i can use these glasses for when i am reading a screen
and stuff and not feel that glare from the laptop screen but yeah those are my gifted
products which i am really happy and proud to receive if there was anything that i'd say for
the matter of transparency i thought that shipping did take quite a long time because it was shipped
from an another country other than that i didn't have any problems or qualms with them the sales
team were really nice i like the quality as well so if you're interested i've dropped their website
in the description below now let's jump into the video itself so the first way in which i'm able to
balance all the different things that i've got going on in my life is to accept the fact that
sometimes my priorities will change so for example after 19th of July everything suddenly opened
back up as if covert didn't exist anymore and i then decided that my social life needed a bit
of ramping up after spending god knows how long inside as well so therefore during that period of
time my priority was not actually youtube at that time it was more so actually getting out there
meeting people catching up with old friends being in social situations again because that's
something that i genuinely really missed and now of course when i started my training contract
you may have noticed that my youtube content decreased a little and for me that's personally
fine because again my training contract i've put that as my first priority at the moment it's
something that i really worked hard for to gain so i didn't want it to be a second job
it's my first job so that's why at the moment my training contract takes the utmost priority
again it's about having that adaptability to know that certain times your your priorities might
change so this weekend for example i've not got much going on so i've decided to use this weekend
to create my youtube content and do my instagram content whereas another weekend i was actually
chilling with friends or hanging out so it's just about understanding that there'll be different
times where you've got different priorities and being open to that the second thing that i'd like
to emphasise that i always try and emphasise to myself when i'm balancing different things that
are happening in my life is that i'm trying to learn how to live not learn how to make a living
and that's something i've been telling myself a lot recently because for example say if i've had
a really hard day at work it's been really full on i've been quite stressed and then in the evening
i try and force myself to make a youtube video purely because i want to create a video that i
can monetise from and then increase my income that's not necessarily something that's going
to make me happy instead it's going to make me burn out faster it's actually going to make me
feel like youtube is a job when instead of something i should be doing for fun
and that's how i've kind of set myself that ethos of learning how to live rather than make a living
if i don't feel like doing something at that current time for example making youtube videos
because i'm tired because i'm not in the mood i'm not going to force myself to do it because at the
end of the day it's something that i do for fun i should never really lose sight of that element
and i guess this links on to my next point in terms of how i balance things and it's about
not being too hard on yourself back in the day i guess no one really knew this because i was
churning out content so much but i used to really beat myself up about missing certain days or weeks
after posting on youtube and i used to feel like i'm letting everyone down on letting myself down
and i used to really be hard on myself for it and i i guess now it's more so if i miss
a week or two on posting on youtube it's fine at the end of the day you know i'm not going to
sacrifice my happiness or my productivity for the sake of just trying to get a video out
so now the way i do it is if i feel like making a video if i feel like filming one like i do today
i'm going to film it and if i'm too tired if i don't feel like it then i will try and do other
things instead for example if i don't feel like filming a youtube video but i want to do something
that's related to content creation i'll use that time instead to maybe script my videos or think of
content or organise when i'm going to post content so then i'm able to be prepared for when i am in
the mood which obviously does come around i do get into the mood of filming or whatever
then i am ready to do that now my next tip i guess is more of a practical point in terms of how i
managed to balance everything and it's essentially i live by my calendar my calendar and my to-do
list absolutely run my life if you saw my calendar right now it's a lot of bunch of colour coded
things so i've got certain colours for certain things yellow is my content creating purple is my
calendar for work so say if i have a work social that will be on my personal calendar as well
if i'm hosting any webinars or any events or doing any podcast recordings that will be in blue
so i've got loads of different things that are happening on my calendar to loads of people it may
look overwhelming but for me it's actually quite peaceful to look at because that's everything
that i need to do on paper in front of me that i can look at well i don't i say on paper it's
actually google calendars but everything on google calendar for me to look at and the same is with my
to-do list so i have a to-do list widget on my phone and essentially well how that widget works
is every time i think of something that i need to do i just write it down and that essentially is
my checklist for what i need to get done for the week i keep on adding to it so the to-do list has
never actually gone to zero it's always usually remained around uh around 19 20 things to do
the worst i i and that for me when is that 19 or 20 things to do that's when i'm actually quite
relaxed because i know i've got quite a lot done whereas if it's on say 30 sometimes 35 things to
do i get a little bit like okay i need to get a crack on with things so that's my to-do list as
well which never gets completed it keeps me aware of all the different things that i need to do
right now and some of those deadlines are long stop deadlines for example one thing that i
definitely need to do is research taxes for content creators that's been on my to-do list
for ages i've not looked at it yet but that's kind of a long stop deadline one
and the ones near the top of my to-do list are the ones that have more of an immediate
deadline the last thing i'd like to say in terms of how i balance my time is actually being really
self-aware about my capacity and availability and one example that i can give to you is i write a
newsletter every month and to be fair there are weeks where i have said to myself you know what
i could potentially do two newsletters this month or i could do three i could even do it weekly but
the thing is because i have that self-awareness about my capacity and my availability i know that
that's not realistic so sometimes it's important to just take a bit of a step back and think
okay you might want to do something like start a newsletter or start a blog for example but
really give yourself i guess boundaries in terms of how much you want to commit to that
for my newsletter i've set myself a monthly you know one newsletter a month because i know that's
how much i can do given the time that i have and i don't want to i guess overwork myself as well
so really having that awareness about what works for you is also something uh that's really helpful
and it certainly helps me in balancing my time with all the different things that i've got going
on so that's everything that i wanted to say in this video if i think of any other
fun things i'll drop them in the comments below or maybe i'll make another video
in a year or two where i might have some updated tips about how i balance my life but if you've got
any further tips as well like always drop them in the comments i love hearing what you will have to
say about this as well and yeah thank you so much for watching i'll see you all in the next video