- Is it Groundhog Day for anyone else?
Good morning good life, welcome back to AmyTV
where we come together to help you
go after the life you want.
If you're watching this episode, then you may
or may not be in a similar situation to myself
where you have been working from home
for a little while now.
For me, 10 years.
For you, may only be little less than a year,
just depending on what your life circumstances have been.
Or maybe you aspire to working from home,
it's something you're working toward,
you want to make a change in your career,
and so you find that this information would be very useful.
And if that's the case, you're right.
There's two sides of the coin, here.
First of all, it is a total luxury
and privilege to be able
to go after the life you want, and
be able to work from anywhere, including
to not have to leave home.
To be able to do that work.
So I want to start with that.
This is an unbelievable blessing that I have
and trust me when I say, I am grateful
for it every single day.
But that doesn't mean that
it doesn't present its challenges.
And there actually are some really sexy things
about having to go somewhere to do work,
because if you are trying to figure out
where you do your best work and live your best life,
that separation helps you get
a really good understanding of it.
Now, we can still leverage that information
to be efficient working from home,
which is what I want to chat with you about today.
The reason I'm doing this video though,
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today I am releasing my second class
with Creative Live, and it is all about
mastering work from home life balance.
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If you're watching this when the video comes out
like literally, day one, first of all
high five to you, because you got those notifications
(snaps fingers)
you know when to show up for AmyTV,
I appreciate you.
Secondly, the class is streaming for free
all day today, so you can go and check it out
on the Creative Live website.
All 10 sessions of this master class.
If you want to save it so that you can watch it
at a later time, you can get the pre-order price,
you can also buy it later, whatever, whatever.
They also have a subscription over at Creative Live.
There's a million ways for you to get this in your arsenal.
But it is free right now to go watch,
so I want to encourage you to check out
whatever you can today, to see if it is something
that could help you.
But to give you a little bit of an idea,
I want to tell you the three really important pillars
to efficient working from home,
but also living your life,
and mastering what that balance looks like for you.
The first is boundaries.
Boundaries are so important, and not just because
we need to implement them with other people.
Sometimes we need to implement them with ourselves.
And we talk about that in a lot of different ways
in this class.
So whether it's something around communication
with people that you love, or the people that you work with,
as well as just setting up your space.
Like, where do you work?
How do you make that decision?
Do you have a place that you go to get in that mode,
and how do you know where that place is,
and how to set it up for success,
even if maybe you don't have a home office,
or any of those extra lovely things
that would make it a lot easier.
That's probably 80% of the battle.
Having those boundaries with people in your life
and yourself to know when we're working,
when we're focused, when we're staying
with our calendar block, and making sure
all the notifications are turned off, and all those things
that help us to get the thing done in the set amount
of time, instead of letting it take the whole day.
That's the biggest thing about working from home.
Feels really sexy at first, 'cause you're like,
I could just get this done whenever I feel like.
I could roll out of bed
(snaps fingers)
and start on it right away,
or I can just stay up super late and drink Red Bull,
and finish it at two o'clock in the morning.
Nobody's gonna know, 'cause I don't have
to clock in and clock out of somewhere.
That's not sustainable.
So boundaries are so important, and a very
very big focus of this class.
The second is blocking.
This has a lot to do with time blocking,
but it has more to do with the fact
that we need to prioritize and stay focused.
How do you decide what that looks like?
How do you decide when that happens?
How can you leverage time batching for your blocks
to your advantage?
We talk about this a lot here on the channel,
but I think this is gonna be a really great deep dive
for someone who is new to it.
So if you want an actual tutorial
in terms of Google Calendar and how I would approach
a calendar block for a typical work from home situation,
we unpack that in the class.
I would say that the most important component
of this one, is making sure that we have like tasks
together as much as you can control.
There may be a little bit of a dynamic
on the boundaries side, where you have other people
who are sending you tasks a lot and might introduce
a challenge to your block.
Well, we have to understand how to deal with that,
and we have to understand when we change our priorities
accordingly, and so I really think that the way
that we talk about this in the class
is going to be super helpful for you.
And the third principle and pillar
of great work from home life balance is breaks.
Like I said before, we need to have boundaries
so we don't work until two o'clock in the morning
when it is not appropriate to do that
for just a typical task in your day to day life.
I can understand the grind of a launch, or a big project,
or a crazy awesome campaign.
But lets' be real, that's not happening every day, okay?
So we cannot act like that.
We can't act like we are grinding in the middle
of the night, because that's normal practice for us.
This may not be something that you do.
You might just roll over a little into dinnertime,
roll over a little into the evening, feel like
it's no big deal, you're doing your work,
you're drinking your wine, but you've got
to have those breaks.
One of the most important things that I feel like I've done
is give myself that clock out time,
so that I tell myself, Amy no.
You can't just get this done anytime you want.
You need to get it done by this deadline today.
Because this is the batch day for this kind of task,
and you need to say hello to your husband sometimes.
So, five o'clock, honey,
there's clocking out.
There's taking a nap in the middle
of an afternoon if you're a nap person.
There's taking breaks to work out and reenergize yourself.
There are so many different ways to take breaks,
including giving yourself a break to start the day
and focus on yourself.
Good morning, good life.
We talk about good morning, good life,
and how that applies to great work from home life balance.
So those to me are the three big principles
of mastering work from home life balance.
First you have boundaries, next you have blocking,
and finally, breaks.
We talk about the intricacies of each of those
in my new class of Creative Live, and I really
really hope that you check it out.
The team and I worked so hard on this,
and we're so excited because we feel like it's something
that's really coming in handy for people in 2021,
because if we're still working from home,
and it's cold outside for some of us,
and we're waking up and it's Groundhog Day every day,
and it just feels like the same thing all the time,
and on top of that, we feel like we don't have a life
anymore, and we feel like we're working all the time
because we can,
that is something I would like to see change for you,
and it will significally,
significally?
Hmm.
Significantly upgrade your life, even in a situation
where we are staying home to stay safe.
So from setting up your space, to productive
work from home communication with the people you work with,
the people you live with, the power of saying no,
the time blocking method, and of course,
your morning routine and everything in between.
We have a class that touches on all of those things
that help you with those three pillars,
and I really, really, really hope you enjoy it.
I'd love to hear what you think.
Make sure you share in the comments
after you've seen the class.
But the link is in the description.
I hope that you'll join us today
when this video is live,
as we are live on the Creative Live site.
I just want to say thank you so much
to Creative Live for having me back.
They are extraordinary people doing absolutely
first class educational work on their site.
I've been a fan of them since before all the cool kids
decided they wanted to livestream too, like,
Creative Live was first.
They were like, we're gonna teach,
(snaps fingers)
and we're gonna be live, and it's gonna be dope.
And they've been doing it for so long,
and now even in the pandemic, when they can't have people
in their studio the way they typically would,
they're still bringing a lot
of amazing information there.
So not just my class, I think you're going
to love creativelive.com
if you're not familiar with it yet.
Maybe consider a membership if that's a better fit for you,
but definitely check out the class today,
especially if you clicked on this,
because you are struggling
with the situation
that can be working from home.
That's all for today, thank you so much
for tuning in, I appreciate it as always.
Remember, subscribe for good vibes,
kiss the ones you love.
(blows kiss)
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And go after the life you want.
Cheers.
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Let's just be honest, my work from home situation
right now is that I could not bring myself
to put real pants on, so.
Enjoy this.
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