hi guys (welcome back) for the for the lack of better lighting this is how we are gonna film for
the rest of the day hey guys and welcome back to aseel by sketchbook am I in
focus how have you been? I've missed you guys yesterday I had a ready video for
you but I couldn't upload it there's it's it's a long story but you can check
it on my Instagram I'll leave the handle here I'll leave it in the highlights
that's it's a Sunday and this is what I plan my whole week I want to take you
with me so we can plan together and I can show you exactly how I plan. a little
disclaimer here and it's a very important disclaimer sometimes things
don't go according to the plan like yesterday's video and sometimes you get
stuck in a rut I've been stuck in a rut for two weeks straight I am not really
perfect no one is I mean I'm gonna show you what
I do when I am planning and hoping for the best because that's the best we can
do all of us right but to be honest with you I've lost faith in the whole concept
of having a to-do list it's kind of really hard to keep it to do list and
there's a lot of things that you have to do during a day and this is exactly why
I switch to digital but there's something that I do before I go to
Google Calendar I plan I write it down and this seems a lot more organized
because it's a very precious notebook my one of my best friend's her name is Lina
and she got it for me Thank You Lina I love you it has healed my sketchbook
engraved and I thought it was the cutest thing what are the best gifts that I've
ever received is this not book circle on this notebook I'm trying to like
maintain a more organized system usually it looks something like this but
this is the one that I use the most and there's all kind of things there's a lot
of clip it's there's a lot of weird quotes like random lists really so
because I want this video to be aesthetically pleasing for you I'm gonna
be planning nicely on this one and I told you with all of these information(s) *DID I JUST SAY INFORMATIONS?*
because I didn't want to tell you oh my god I'm so perfect because I'm really
not so yeah let's get started what I like to do is write down the task list
that I need to accomplish within this week especially if I have certain
deadlines or urgent things like this week I need to be servicing my car so
this is an urgent matter special dates so I have my anniversary this week which
is very exciting I'm gonna be writing general tasks
because I don't want to overwhelm myself with small teeny tiny details that I can
plan for within the day obviously I titled the page with the date but I
forgot to do this until like a later stage so I use the calendar and my phone
or I use this teeny tiny calendar that I have
set the intentions
I wrote down all of the tasks that I need to finish this week what I like to
do as well is set the intentions for my physical health for my for my spiritual
health for mental and emotional why I do this is because I want to have the
mindset of taking better care of myself so my physical health it's about cooking
and working out for the spiritual aspect can be religious or if you have
meditation whatever it is that you do that is a spiritual practice this is
where you write it down and then you have the mental health which is like the
downtime and you know expanding your knowledge reading a book or listening to
a podcast that can be as well a mental health emotional I say like positivity
like a positive mindset with sitting I feel like with setting this intention
I've already given the expectations for myself to to have a certain mindset so
this is why I do this these are the obvious things I mean you can do that
it's up to you if you don't but this is my intention for the week this is what I
want from myself to accomplish this week and they're very very general I'm gonna
be going to the digital work so let me show you how that goes so what I like to
start with is to go to calendar google.com since this is not a google
calendar tutorial I'm just gonna be explaining to you what I have I have a
bunch of calendars on the left which are my personal calendars and then my
projects calendar and as well as a couple of other tasks so what I do with
Google Calendar is I set up a block of time that I know I'm booked for this
task I make sure that I get enough sleep I sleep usually at 11:30 or sometimes
way earlier and I try and wake up every day at 5:00 a.m. because this when the
prayer is and then I try to check what kind of things that I have to do I leave
a space empty from 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. because I tried to
wake up and understand where my head is at so I tried to study what my
emotional status is just time which is gyst it's a short for get your together
have to finish tasks that are repetitive but they're important because if they
give too much then it will be super overwhelming for you my gyst list is
either in like something that is you know personal maintenance or it's for
the house so cleaning and things like that make sure that when you're
scheduling on Google Calendar because it's easier to of things around by as
much as you can to understand where are you spending your time so you can cut
off those tasks that are not important or that you shouldn't be doing like
Netflix or something that is you know you're better off without whatever it is
I just make sure that I'm setting enough times for my tasks they make sense be
grouped in a way where it's a lot more organic for you so let's say you have to
you know pick up the car for example because I'm just reading it off here for
example I'm gonna be picking up my car on Tuesday but at the same time I have
to go and see my friends on lunch so I'll stay out I'm gonna work outside and
in this way I'm just preparing myself mentally for what's going to happen
overall in the whole week I make sure that special dates are set on the top of
the calendar so I for example my anniversary is on the 18th of July so
I'm just you know blocking it just to know that I have to make a cake or
something like that you know if you look at my calendar as well you can see from
8 till 9 a.m. I have a scheduling time and yes I have the journal schedule but
let's say we chase them something during the day this is where it goes like I
understand what the alternatives are and if anything needs more detailing like
it's very vague for me to say that I need to take the car to the service
because you need to call you need to prepare some papers and then you
to take it to the service I kind of like break down the big tasks during that
time in the morning and I don't follow my schedule 100% but I try to fix it
afterwards just so I understand where my time went even though that time has
already passed you can still adjust to understand where's most of your time
going and I really advise you to do that the key thing about using Google
Calendar is that you can you know see it everywhere you can use it everywhere you
can use it on your phone on your iPad it will sync on all of the devices and at
the same time you can adjust or move something on the spot and have something
replaced right on the spot and this is why I love Google Calendar you don't
need to ruin your notebook when something is cancelled you just
basically delete which I saw was just something I really enjoy I really enjoy
the colors as well but I have to stop that's not the only reason it's one of
the main reasons why I use Google Calendar but that's basically one of the
nice things to have whatever it is that you do even if you work nine hours like
I used to you can do is you can organize the time before work and during work so
maybe you want to meet someone over lunch so you can schedule it on top of
the tasks that you already have so and you can even break down what you have to
do at work using Google Calendar this is it's super versatile it customize it as
much as you want and you can open up each of those time blocks and can
actually you know change the counter if you want and you can send it to someone
you can invite guests to it and you can add the location and even I have
description so let's say you like to do lists and you like to break things down
to a lot of tasks this is where you can do it you can add description and you
can open it anytime anywhere and you're done that's basically it
all right you guys I hope you liked this video if you did please subscribe and
consider giving it a thumbs up so let me know down below how you schedule your
time because I'm always looking to upgrade the ways that I'm planning my
day with so we know how you do your planning and have a great time over the
day wherever you are in the world see you next Saturday good bye