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Notion for web if you're not new to notion if you're not new to notion
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So what I want to show you guys is a little bit about how I've approached
Resolutions and goals in 2019 and what I want to say with this is it's actually super
Not important when you do this if you want to plan for 2019 in June time
It doesn't matter. And also what I would say is these goals and like thoughts as well are totally
Opportunities to change stuff so you don't necessarily have to stick with stuff
You could really just adapt it as you go along and naturally you're still following that same path
The goal is really to get things moving. So I'm going to show you a template that I created
near the end of
2018 and give you a bit of an idea on what I think and how it will be useful for you
Now the thing that I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make this available to you guys as some template
to basically get you started because I know sometimes
It can be tricky. Ah skill at skill share notion actually doesn't allow you at the moment to
Copy that, but you can actually just use it for reference instead of waiting in this video pausing it every 5 seconds
So what I did in 2019 and what I did actually is make this
in the real page is available in personal at the top so I can click into it and
It can get access to it at any time
now what I want to demonstrate to you guys is the sort of a
simplistic approach I've gone with this so you can see here that I've created something called a
Gallery and that can be really easily created if I press slash inside of notion and type in gallery
You can create a gallery in line
and as you can see
These sort of pages appear once you click in
you're able to access that page and edit it and what if simply done up here is
I've simply created this and actually just started modifying. What's inside it. Now the great thing is it previews what's already in there?
So I've actually got from Jan we to June to some extent because I haven't actually added my June goals
into here, so it allows me to actually
span six months ahead
you can actually have this for twelve if you wanted to all you'd have to do is press plus and
a new month would appear and you could for example and
July and
As you can see a new mumps appear and when I can start adding stuff, for example if I added sub header
That's me sub had a focus
It appears inside of there
So that's really nice and you actually have the ability to plan all 12 months or however long you want
So the great thing is for example
This is my 2019 plan for next six months if I click in I've got two things
I've got a focus and I've got an achievement area. So my focus is
You know launch Broadcom. Okay, so I've actually done that one. I could probably turn that went into a tick box
And tick it off. Hopefully all went very well
And as you can see here, this is the new area. So I for example launched the
The sculpture class with the students so I can drag that one down into achievements and drag that one down there, too
So you can start to see the idea. I've got my focus
I've got maybe five to six seven things and I want to focus in on January and
Really to help channel that and keep a track of the achievements
So I've tried to do that with a couple of months in advance. Obviously. This isn't my full one
so it's something that obviously will change but for example
you can have absolutely anything in there if you wanted to have like travel plans or you wanted to have like work goals or even
Health or finance goals would be a good way to plan ahead
So it's really up to you and what you have in there
now what I actually did to create these different sections is I really simply
Created a sub header. So for example if I were to create this from scratch
So for example if I tried to make it to July 1
I'd go in add an icon. I didn't really mind what the icon is. I pressed slash
Sub header, and I typed in focus I then went down and press slash sub header
achievement
Achievements. So if I go to focus all I don't have to do is color this one and go down to a yellow background and
the same with the achievements
I'd have to go down to green background and I really simply created it without having too much of a hiccup there
So for example if I wanted to ask myself, you know, for example
When's March coming up and you solely want to see March you can do that quite easily now. This isn't like a calendar
This is very simple. It's a gallery ability and
You can change it up
for example
You could add your own view if you wanted to but I don't necessarily recommend it if you want to add a table
Or a ListView you could do
So for example if I created it into a table you'd be able to see an outline of the mumps there
But in this case, it looks pretty good is a gallery because it's very visual when you come into the page
You can actually see a few of the things that you've got
Prompted for this year now. Okay. So that's the 2019 planning and really what I recommend from my own experience
is that you set yourself five to six things a month that you want to work on now if you're really looking for a
Thing to guide you before you do this and I definitely did the first thing all targets before actually did the gallery planning
So what I recommend doing is creating something like this
so this is a page are called all targets and it's got a few toggle lists here and it basically
Breaks down the different areas. I sat down at the end of the year and I went. Okay, what areas of my life?
Could I improve and how can I make them better?
So what I did is I broke it down into social finance career
health and habits in an attempt to really
reduce the amount of
Negative habits and improve the amount of positive habits across the board. So let's start with social I think social is important
Maybe you can get some inspirational from this just to let you know
I actually got inspiration from someone on Twitter who did this. So I actually stole this idea completely from them
I love try and reference and below. So you guys can
Take advantage of it, but it's a similar technique and be able to just you know
Uncover what you want to work on in specific areas of your life. So let's open up social
I'm you can see here. Then I've set myself about you know, I think it's about six different targets
So for example, it says send meaningful messages to family friends. I am typically quite
Slow replying and also my messages are really fast and I would like to improve that and I'm trying to at the moment
The second thing is to be more positive overall. I
Want to be more positive overall in terms of like my approach things
you can obviously see some of these are quite general and what I want to do across a year and what I recommend that you
do is
Hone in on them make them more actionable. These are more just statements
and
They're sort of like a guideline verses necessarily actionable stuff. So evenings past 5:00 p.m
I don't want to stay up past 5:00 p.m. Working and there must only be four podcasts
so for example
That's something I want to do that will improve my social aspect switch off iPhone before bed and bring it to another room
I'm still challenging with this one because I guess having a phone near you in case something happens in night
It's good because obviously it's security but again, I bought myself an alarm clock
So a small alarm clock that will help me get up instead of necessarily using my phone
so my phone isn't the first thing to touch in the morning and
You know get distracted by the second thing is log to entries into daily journal per day. You can just modify this
click per day
So also you've got there become a top product under so that's a good social goal apparently
So the naps sort of my social area
I designed that based on a sitting down within a three piece paper and just saying to myself what?
Can you do in 2019 to really enhance your social life?
Okay, so the same with Finance so I open up finance and I can see for example, it would be reach
xx sales in my business or in my freelancing efforts or it could be your salary like aim for a xx a
Thousand dollar salary a per year. So for example, you can set yourself a financial goal
this could be for example, like saving a goal say for example like save
$1,000 a month or one $300 a month. Yeah, whatever it is. It's an opportunity for
You to set yourself a target and and review every single month. Now. The other thing I did is only spend what I must
And this is something that obviously correlates to the second one reduce all overheads monthly
Spending I'm asked is quite an important one to me because this year I want to be a bit more
Intentional in what? I actually spend my money on the same word reducing overheads monthly
so basically printed out my bank statements for the last three months and I essentially wanted to sit down with it and
Circle the things that I could have potentially removed and we won't talk about this later in terms of habit sign of stuff
but this it was actually a really good practice for me and I can't recommend it enough because
When you've got your bank card and you're swiping it across you don't take into account
It's very difficult to take into account what you actually spend your money on there are apps it can help you to
You know fine-tune that and actually see what you're spending the money on but still, you know
sometimes when you're on about you don't necessarily think about it, so I looked at it and I said, okay where can I
You know reduce any overheads that I have monthly and that practice was really beneficial and I am actually gonna be doing that monthly now
And that's something I've really found beneficial. So introduce more passive income strategies again, very general and opportunistic
But actually gives me a focus for this year also save X X amount outside of mortgage. So it's an opportunity for me to
You know, you know work a bit harder to get some extra income
So for example in Korea, I have achieved one thousand five hundred subscribers
So if you're not subscribe to the YouTube channel do because you'll help reach that goal
I've also got maximize all YouTube space opportunities. One thing I'm worried about doing is not taking advantage of all of that. So
You know
I want to make that a career goal also release ten main courses
And that will be a way to boost the finance side of s2. Also grew the block to the monthly visits
So this could be an opportunity for you to sit down and go for example
let's say you're in an internship or you're actually working in a full-time role is
looking at whether you want to get a promotion or something like this or
even you just want to be able to improve your income or
Develop a certain amount of sales for your team. It doesn't matter what it is. It's an opportunity for you to
Progress yourself in your career. So that's end of you goals really and I could modify that as I go make it won't find you
so health habits
So I've got do not eat after 8 p.m
Gremlin style, that's just something I've been reading about. Obviously the you know, the negatives to eating after a p.m
Can you know not be so good sleep eight hours a day trying to do this one seven and a half at the moment
only box one time a week
I'm not sure why and it that one because I'm boxing like three times a week and it's it's working beautifully
So maybe like only box?
four times a week
so that's an opportunity for you to
Set yourself some limits or some goals work out a healthy balanced body
So that's an opportunity to do that and also only eat one sugar items a day
Which is gonna be a challenge so you can set yourself a few health goals
They don't have to be like this, but they can get the ball rolling and they can be a bit more specific
So for example could like benchpress
100 kilograms. I don't know how much that is, you know do four core workouts every single week, you know, and
That can help feed into your good stuff. So let's open up the habit side of stuff. So I do two really bad habits
I bite my fingernails and my my cheeks to you, which is really bad
But it's an opportunity for me to flank myself up on that and actually keep a track of it
So week to week when I look at this I can go
Alright how good have I been in these categories also intentional browsing on Twitter?
unintentional browsing
Again, this is something that I don't want to be doing and something I want to crush. So these are negative habits
Also checking analytics every few times a day
That's really something that I know a lot of people do when they've stand as a side project, but it's really unnecessary
Buying clothes and not tactically wearing them. So for example
Fine tuning my use of clothes. I noticed recently
I've been really only wearing shirts and they last me a long longer. So, you know working out what is better for your
Efforts, you know completing low-value tasks only intentional that's something I've been doing but negatively with my to do this is actually just completing small
Things versus going for big things and spending I want to only spend up to 55 pound in coffee shops a month
I work from okey. So that's going to be a lot better. So you can see this you can make this list for your own
simply all you have to do is type in toggle list and then write the category and
you actually have to import the
Go-to emoji, uh, pedia and copy these in because they actually won't be able to do that
Once you've done that you can add some bullet points below and add your own ideas. So it's really a simple method
So what I do with my week review
for those who don't know I sit down every Thursday and
I open up my goals and sign of notion
Plan my week inside of todoist and really get an idea for what I need to get done
so I opened when I first started this one and what I recommend doing is
Create this one first. See all targets then populate this and then weeks a week sit down and go okay in January
Am I on target to complete all of these goals?
And I can go okay. Yes or no. No if I'm no on a lot of those
Then what can I be doing to improve that and if I'm yes, and that's fantastic
what can I do to make sure I absolutely nail that one or over exceed it and if I
Need to and what I also try to do is go to all targets
Read down this list and just get an idea of what it can be doing to reduce that. So guys, that's my
Approach to goals and resolutions in 2019. Let me know what you thought of it, honestly
It'd be great to hear some of your opinions
Naturally, I will make this available as a like a mini template
I guess or page that you can go away and check out of course
I will be developing this and I don't recommend necessarily that this is the be-all and end-all
You know, you could create this if you're getting started
But absolutely make your own methodology around it if it's something you're struggling with and it were guys
Thank you so much for attending prod con today
Honestly, I was the last talk today number nine, but I did include myself. I wanted to make this a bonus one, really
Honestly, I can't thank you enough further
I'm going to pro con
It's been something that I'll probably look to release back in April if you guys enjoyed it if you enjoyed it that is
And I really do
Would love to have you back. So thank you very much everyone
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