Hi guys, welcome to the video.
I'm so glad that you're here,
because today we're going to be talking about
something that I'm pretty passionate about,
which is time management and productivity.
I think it's just a personality I have,
I like being on track,
and I like being effective in everything I do,
or I like trying,
so here's all of my time management skills.
A lot of you have been asking me to make a video on time management,
and how I keep up with everything I do in my life.
This video is in partnership with Notion,
so thank you guys so much for sponsoring this video,
because I love Notion.
It is single-handedly saving my life.
I will be talking about how I've been using Notion
and also other systems to keep me on track.
A little intro before we actually get started is that
I have always considered time management as one of my strengths
but taking time off from school last year and coming back to it
has been making me think otherwise,
because it's been pretty tough to keep up with all the deadlines, and then
social media,
and then my personal, social life.
And I realized that time managing is very different as a college student,
when no one is there to remind you what to do and when it's due.
So here is a system that's been working for me,
and that is incorporating Notion and also Google Calendar.
One last thing before we get started is to realize that
time managing and time management is a skill,
which means that you have to put in the time to learn.
So I'm going to be talking about specific applications
that I use to schedule my life,
but a lot of people actually avoid managing their tasks
because of how intimidating these applications look.
But I'm gonna tell you, this extra effort to learn and adopt the system
is going to go such a long way.
I'll be sharing the simplest way, because I like things straightforward too,
and when it comes to Notion it can definitely be overwhelming,
but I like to keep it as simple as possible.
All the things I need, and I'm out.
So here's what use, Google calendar, which I've been using for scheduling,
but I realized that this app is just good for scheduling, not planning.
At least for me.
For planning, Notion is what I use.
It's been great, because it really does it all.
So I was drowning in all the different tasks, and I had different lists,
different to do lists everywhere.
I had it down on my journal, I had it on my phone notes, I had it on my Google Calendar,
I had just too many things to keep up with,
and I was starting to miss deadlines,
because I can't see everything on one screen, or on one paper.
So Notion allows me to put all of these lists on one little thing.
And it is so customizable,
where you can use it for social media,
you can use it for school, you can even use it as a team.
So if you look at my homepage,
you can see that I use Notion to manage three specific areas of my life.
Just daily tasks, socials and school.
And these all to do lists are where I just dump all of my tasks
so that I don't forget,
and from here, I assign days and times to prioritize
what needs to get done first.
So I'm going to talk about how I've been using Notion for school.
I've been utilizing the templates Notion already created for us.
Here's the first one, which is...
Course schedule.
This is where I put all of my assignments, all of the lessons are listed out.
I sat down and used my syllabi as a reference,
so went through all the due dates,
I can come to this list every day to see what needs to be done,
and what needs to be turned in,
and I have never missed my deadline ever since this little system.
And I can also review before class, if I have time,
by looking at what the lecture is about today.
And it is so easy to customize.
You can add extra column,
add people, you can add e-mail, phone numbers...
And then the next thing I have is class notes.
For several classes, I like taking notes on my laptop
because it's so much faster for me to type than write
and a lot of my professors actually talk really fast,
so I don't have time to write down everything they say,
I don't have a lot of experience note-taking on my laptop,
so I don't know too much about it,
but I've been very satisfied with Notion's note taking features.
I'm easily able to make headings,
bullet points, underline,
and you can also add times and links to it,
so that you can easily find the notes when you're studying.
We switched up the vibe a little bit, because...
we're going to move away from school
and talk about how I've been using Notion to plan
like the personal and social side of my life,
and also the creative's "passion project" side of my life.
So,
here we go, personal side of my life.
The biggest help has been taking advantage of this weekly agenda that Notion has,
So when you pull this up it's just going to give you a week view of,
a weekly to do list, basically,
but in addition to my weekly planner,
I added an in-line table,
and in-line means that, when you're adding an element into your page,
it's going to stay. It's going to show, like, right away.
And if you do it as a separate page,
it will give you a little line that says 'table', but then
it's like you have to click it to see it,
but I prefer the in-line because I'm a visual person,
I like seeing everything on one page, which is why I love Notion.
I made a habit tracker with the in-line table,
and here I can see how I'm doing with my habits throughout the week.
So I have like, working out, reading, journaling, stretching,
and as you can see, today's a Friday, and I only have like one of them checked off for reading.
And that kind of tells me, "Hey, you should probably read during the weekend."
Just a nice visual representation of how I've been doing.
And then of course, I have a to do list.
I am a huge to do list person,
So I will dump everything that I have to do
on my personal home to do list as you guys saw,
and then I'll have a huge list,
and then from that, I take that list
and delegate each of the tasks to different days of the week.
So I have a list of ten things to do. I'll put two on Monday,
two for Tuesday, two for Wednesday, two for Thursday, two for Friday so that I am
not procrastinating and getting things done.
That is on my weekly agenda, nothing too special.
And then moving onto social media calendar, because this is so helpful
and it's actually been like encouraging me to
plan more and also to put more time and effort into it,
now that I have this nice layout of scheduling and planning.
I created this page myself so this isn't a template
but you can basically go in and create bullet points,
to do lists, I have an inline gallery that I use
to plan out and detail my videos,
and then I have a calendar which I schedule around
like what I'm gonna post and what I'm gonna film.
The thing about this is that you can also move around all of these,
freely,
and for aesthetic purposes I also selected small text and full width,
if you guys are curious about that also.
So as you can see, you can click into
this Notion video and I have a layout of everything I'm gonna say,
if you look at the calendar, today's a Friday and it has "film Notion",
which I'm doing right now,
and then for instagram, I have two instagram pages that I'm currently running, which is
my main one @kelly.kim and the other one's @mindingmyownbiz_
which is more of my thoughts curated, podcasts,
ideas, et cetera.
So if you go into my main instagram,
I have a calendar also, which I haven't been making much use out of,
so I might take that out of the folder here,
and I have an inline board as well here,
where I have all of my content ideas on the left,
and then I have,
I can like mark each of the process as "completed" or "in progress", and then
and then some of these I can add as like, "not started"
and then I can go in here-
Sorry for the angle change, my camera died so I had to restart.
But I was talking about how
you can click on these in progress
and add some details you want to add,
or details you want to remember while creating content,
that's very useful, and lastly for my other instagram account
I have a schedule of what I can do with the account,
so just basically brainstorming, and then again I have this board,
all of my ideas on the very left,
posts that are in progress, and completed posts
so if you click on the completed posts
you will see
it's like a blog post, pretty much,
of what I wrote, and this is now on my page, if you want to check it out.
If you guys are interested in organizing your life with Notion, definitely
check out the link in my description box, you guys can sign up using my link,
and this isn't, like, gonna make me more money,
it's not gonna make me money at all actually,
it's just to keep up with who signs up and how many people sign up using my link.
So let's show Notion how dedicated we are in
and staying organized.
And lastly I was going to talk about how
I use google calendar now, I also have notion,
how I use my Apple Watch and my phone to stay in sync with all this.
So Google Calendar is what I use to
plan out my days by hours,
so I like scheduling my days,
so that I know for sure I'm gonna get everything done in time
so if you look at my google calendar,
you'll be able to see what it looks like
and you'll be able to see what I mean by I like scheduling my days out,
and then I sync my google calendar with my apple calendar
so that when I have my Apple Watch on
it will tell me what I should be doing at this hour,
and also remember to sync-
I am so sorry the end got cut off like this,
In my defense, it was my first time using my new camera,
and I had no idea what I was doing.
Anyway, I sync my google calendar with my Apple Watch
so I can check what I should be doing conveniently by looking at my wrist.
Lastly, I have some time management tips I want to share.
A big part of it is knowing how to prioritize.
Learning how to make the commitments to finish everything on the list
but also allowing yourself to stop at the right capacity
so that you can get the rest you need to grind more the next day.
Performing your best in the moment is great but you also have to think about tomorrow!
One very last thing is to stay realistic when it comes to planning and scheduling.
Give yourself time to nap, eat and be on your phone.
All right, that's it for all of my tips and tricks.
Thank you all so much for watching,
don't forget to check out Notion through my link,
and I will see you all in my next video!