How do you stay motivated during a pandemic which is having
Unprecedented impacts across every aspect of your life? How do you stay productive and keep your mental health in check whilst
You're socially distancing?
These are questions that I have been grappling with over the past couple of days and kind of struggling with I can't lie, but
But - I've been trying things out. I've been doing some research and I think I've cracked the code as to how to be
Motivated and productive during self isolation because we are in this for the long run my friends
Oh hell so my name is Jack Edwards. Welcome to the channel and let's get freaking motivated on tonight's program
Ladies and gentlemen, we have something that's gonna make you sick
So today is Friday normally on Friday mornings I wake up and go straight to the gym
However, the gym is closed. So what the hell we gon do now
well
I'll tell you I am going to do and I'm going to show you how to do a
Workout which my PT recommended which is basically an ab workout that you can really really easily do from home
So that's the plan I have this um
Exercise mat which I bought
For literally no reason and finally it's getting some use out of it. So I'm just gonna
Blow the dust off of it and do a little ab workout. Sure. Why not? So I just use this app here
It's a high-intensity interval training app. So it's basic like a timer that you can use to time the workout
So you just press this and it gives you your timings then that is going down
Perfecto, where are my glasses? I can't do anything without my glasses. There. They are
Can you see me for the first video basically games do you like?
Crunches then when the time it tells you to you get like a five-second break then the next position
Basically your back is on the floor and your legs go like up and out
Up and out then take a break
And in the last one you basically put your hands like in this diamond shape
Below you and then with your legs, you're gonna do this
but like outstretched, so
I don't know if you can see that. I hope you can then you just keep doing those three things until the timer runs out
I think it's like three minutes or something then take a break and then set the timer again and this time you're gonna do
Plank have a break and then basically sit like this put your hands here and then you like rotate that way
Rotate that way, but you're moving like using your abs not anything else, you know
So I'm gonna do that now too would you shut up and let me finish? Oh
My god, okay. So I've just finished that that like I said before it came from my PT out result fitness theorem like this
I didn't come up with that that actually came from a trained professional
I find that working out is so good for my brain. And so it's something that I need to keep doing whilst in self-isolation
So I just share that real quick if you want some advice from someone who actually knows what they're talking about then go check out
This Instagram account bear training close. This is my friend George who has set up this account showing some home workouts
I think he's going to be posting new home workouts every single day
This is what I would like to look like, but absolutely don't so
Yeah, maybe check this out instead of what I just did
Another huge thing for me is that I am such a creature of habit
And so I'm trying to keep to having my meals at the same meal times
I normally would have had them had we not been you know going through a pandemic
So this morning I'm having my granola and yogurt
same as I always would and then I'm going to have my lunch at the same time as I normally would have it and the
Same goes for waking up in the morning
Even though now when we wake up, we just have the whole day stretching out ahead of us
We don't have to necessarily go anywhere
I think it's still good to set an alarm and wake up at a normal time and just get up and get going
I'm finding when I set an alarm and wake up at my normal time
I'm Way more productive and - way more motivated to actually do something that day
so bon appetit is
the next pretty major thing for me is
getting in the shower and getting dressed as I normally would in the outfit that I would normally have worn if
We weren't locked in the house
Psychologically, there's something about putting on an outfit specifically to go and do something that makes my brain think okay
We actually need to do it now
So if I still was in my pajamas or in a dressing gown or something?
I just don't think I would be anywhere near as productive
So for me, it's really important just to get dressed properly, and I'm not saying
You know put on a suit as if you're going to go to the office
But put on something that's a step above loungewear because we ain't here to lounge. No, sir. Not today
So yeah, I've got dressed properly
I put some wax in my hair but my contact lenses in and now I'm going to go downstairs
To somewhere that isn't my room because I felt like I associate my room with like relaxing and taking your chill
So I'm going to go and sit at the kitchen table and get my work done there
It's not quite the same as commuting to the office
But I feel like going to a specific place where you're going to work or study is so useful
I find it like puts me in the right headspace to actually get stuff done. So I've left the phone upstairs
I'm going to set myself here and get some work done. As a lot of you will know I absolutely swear by
The self control app. Oh god not right now. So basically you can block
Certain websites for a certain amount of time so I'm gonna go for four hours and blacklist all social media so I can't get distracted
Okay, so some time has passed, I have listened to Harry Styles' complete discography, his complete back catalogue
But I've got the task done that needed to do which I've been putting off for ages
So when I write essays I make one of these
Research logs where I just input all of the research that I do into one big document when it's done
I print it off and just make loads of notes
So I color code it with highlighters and pens and then I go back to the original document
so that's this one and
Color code it in the same way as I've color-coded my notes and then copy and paste all of those into documents
Where each color becomes a paragraph. So that's what I've been doing, it's been quite boring and quite long-winded but it's necessary
So hopefully this is gonna make my essay way better. I just made myself some lunch
I had a chicken sandwich and totally forgot to film it, cause I just I kind of forgot that I was vlogging today
I am an idiot. a housebound idiot. a cov-idiot if you will [like covid-19]. maybe I am going insane
But I'm basically just trying to keep with the routines that I would normally have but just doing them
At home. now back to the grind, I'm going to continue trying to work at
The kitchen table until 6:00 p.m
so I'm just going to do some writing of my diss and hopefully something good can come out of this terrible situation and I
might actually get some work done, so. but I mean, it's a big price to pay for me to just stop being lazy.
trust me, this is the ultimate productivity playlist. It's called optimal focus. It's just like lo-fi beats with no words to distract you
It's four hours long so it can get you through quite a long time and I just added loads of new songs to it
So yeah, it's my own playlist, but like I would recommend
Okay, I've been working for like an hour and I'm really starting to lose focus like I'm not concentrating at all
So I'm gonna go and take a break and do some reading
I think it's good to have like little breaks doing other things which are away from the screen
like trust me I could spend this half an hour break on tiktok the whole time but
But I'm gonna try and show some self-restraint and I'm not gonna use my phone
I'm just gonna gonna do some reading. This is the book. I'm reading at the moment
By the way, if anyone has any opinions on this or any recommendations, please let me know
I would love to hear them
Don't mind me just treating myself like an actual child and rewarding myself with chocolate after every five minutes of work that I do
In fact, I'm kind of timing it like every song that I finished listening to then I can have a chocolate
and so it's probably less than five minutes, but
*mouth full* it's delicious!
Okay, so it is six o'clock, I'm done with the dissertation stuff for today
I think and my reward and something else that I've put into my daily routine is to watch today's study tube project video
So basically the study tube project is an initiative set up by myself and loads of other study tubers
We've all come together on one channel called the study tube project and every day every single day at 6 p.m
there is going to be a brand-new video where we talk about our subjects or teach you a new skill or something like that
Just to keep your brain to you know, keep you occupied give you something to do in this weird time
And since it's 6:00 a brand-new video has just gone live on the channel
so i'ma watch it today's video is from V and I'm really excited about this because it's about masculinity in the ancient world and
I am such a nerd for ancient Greece ancient Rome anything classical love it
If you are interested
Then I will leave the link to the study tube project down below and there's also an Instagram called @thestudytubeproject
So it's basically the idea is to create a community out of self isolation. So go check us out
So now it is the evening and to make sure that I'm still being productive this evening
I am going to make a little to-do list with all of the small tasks that need to get done
especially I need to do some admin in terms of changing some flights because
coronavirus is currently doing the world tour that I was hoping to do and visiting all of the countries that I wanted to visit and
So pretty much all of the plans I made for the Easter break are now cancelled. So
Yeah, Corona is currently on the world told and no one asked for so I very much need to do that
But also I've been keeping a to-do list of tasks that I need to get done which I've basically been putting off
so for example, I
Shove all sorts of s**t under my bed anything
I don't know what to do with goes under the bed and that's a problem because I'm well
I'm supposed to be moving out of this house in July. Maybe I'll be moving out of this house next week
I don't know isn't it fun? So I'm going to have to clear out at some point and that point could be tonight, maybe
Or not but now it's the perfect opportunity to take
Advantage of the fact that we're house bound were stuck indoors we can do all of the little tasks that we've been putting off for
for ages, so I also need to package up some things, that's all going on the list,
I need to stop filming and write the list
I think I'm gonna leave this video here because the rest of it is just going to be me
chillin a little bit probably watching quite a lot of tiktok doing some admin and
Maybe even going a little bit stir-crazy because I'm the last one left in my house. Everyone else has evacuated
And it is getting dull as f******ck
So thank you very very much for watching this video
I hope it inspired you to get a little bit more motivated whilst you are working from home or self
Isolating. If you're not self isolating,
Don't be an idiot. unless obviously you absolutely have to and of course
I really really appreciate all of the work the incredible work that people who are on the frontline
Fighting against this virus are doing you are incredible amazing. Thank you. But if you're one of those 'coronavirus can't kill me, I'm invincible'
'I'm unstoppable. I would infect my families and potentially be asymptomatic and passing on this disease to vulnerable people' then
You suck man. You really suck. Anyway, thank you very much for watching this video if you enjoyed it
Give it a like if you like and subscribe for more from me
I've got loads of videos that you can watch whilst you're in self-isolation
And also check out the studytube project
If you are feeling a bit lonely
you need something new to watch and also I'm on loads of social media where you can find me all the time and
I will be updating that regularly because we all bored. So see you next time. Bye. Bye
In case I don't see ya good afternoon good evening and good night