(Author Brittany Wang) hey guys and welcome back to part 2 of
my bimonthly author life goals for
September and October in my first video
I shared all of my writerly and author
platform goals for the next two months
and there were a lot of them so if you
missed that you can go check that out
here and below but in this video I'm
gonna take all of those goals and
somehow schedule them and make sure I'm
gonna get all of them done by using my
bullet journal as I shared in my last
video I've been working with author
coach Jade Young and she's been helping so
much and has given me the tools to set
up everything I'm going to show you so I
will be linking her program below if you
want to check that out but basically
besides helping me set up all of my
goals Jade also helped me nail down
actual deadlines for like literally
everything which during this process we
found out was something that I really
struggled with that I didn't even know I
struggled with and along with that we're
also working on figuring out weekly and
daily routines that balance my author life
with my personal life want to see
what it looks like let's get into it
first thing I considered was how much
time I wanted to devote to this new
career and what personal things I had to
work around so even if you can't do
other things full time yet notice I say
yet you can still use these same
principles to schedule your own time for
me I basically decided that weekends
were for my husband church family and
vacations maybe the occasional writing
event or time to catch up on writing if
I need it or wanted but otherwise I
didn't want to have to work on the
weekends so that left the weekdays
Monday through Friday so I drew out
those days here you'll also see here
that I left some more room in certain
parts of my day's timeline as I knew
certain hours might have multiple things
in them so some hours have two blocks
and some hours have one I also have this
separate section up at the top here to
list my top three absolute priorities
for the day but we'll talk about this
section a little bit more later during
the week I wanted to make sure I
mirrored my husband Ben's work schedule
so that unless he wanted some downtime
to himself I was four
to help him with anything in the morning
and spend time with him when he got home
from work so I put in little B's for Ben
to mark when he leaves and when he comes
home
by the way while I do outline the day's
times and lines in the spreading pen I
usually write all the other details in
pencil so I can easily adjust my
schedule if I decide something works
better in the future and also so I can
correct mistakes like this one I just
made but I decided to work out
everything in pen here so you can read
it easier in the video I also needed to
write down when I would have lunch
because God knows how many times I've
been in the zone and forgotten to eat
during the day and I also wanted to know
when I would make dinner and make sure
that cleaning happened because again I
can get laser focused and before I know
it the day is gone and everything I
wanted to do for the household just
didn't get done oh and I also really
wanted to note my morning routine as it
helps me start out the day with the
right frame of mind I'm not going to go
in-depth about my particular morning
routine here because I want to get to
the fun goals part but if you'd like to
see a video where I talk about my
morning routine and how to create an
effective one for yourself let me know
in the comments and I'll definitely make
that video too after highlighting all
these things in purple so I could see
all the white space time that was left
that I really had to work with and after
talking through some ideas with Jade
about how to schedule the time I had I
then set up time blocks to do certain
things each week that would help
accomplish my goals here you'll see me
mark down that I wanted to start each
day with my bullet journal or buho as
some call it to set up my to-do list for
that particular day and then I also
noted a section at the beginning of the
day when I would be posting on YouTube
Instagram etc and answering messages
from the day before I'm not a hundred
percent sure this daily to-do will stay
at the beginning of the day but for now
I decided I'd like to do it in the
morning so I could have the rest of the
day for other things other blocks you'll
see me insert are for things like
long-term planning and dreaming which I
definitely wanted to include as I never
want to get into a rut of just
maintaining what I'm doing
to week but to always have designated
time to dream and plan for that future
book or project obviously there are also
whole blocks of times solely dedicated
to whatever book project I'm working on
at the time and what I do during these
blocks will depend on what part of the
book process I'm in some months I will
be drafting others editing may be going
through beta readers or querying most of
my other time blocks you'll see here are
four content batching sessions which are
for filming and editing my videos as
well as writing all of my video scripts
blog posts and Instagram posts for the
following week my goal right now is
actually to try to create two weeks
worth of content during these bashing
sessions so I can devote even more time
to working on my book but in the future
I might also try committing one whole
week each month to batch a month's worth
of content and then keep the other three
weeks on the month to purely writing and
posting the content I created but I
think I'll experiment and see what works
best and if you guys would like me to
keep you updated as I try out different
things and find out new tips and tricks
definitely and let me know that in the
comments the other thing I'm adding here
as well is that I will probably be
multitasking while I clean or cook on
certain days by listening to writerly
podcasts YouTube videos and audio books
so I can keep learning I'm actually
looking for a few more podcasts to add
to my library so if you guys know of any
great ones I should be listening to be
sure to let me know that as well
finally after I schedule everything out
I look at my days and pick out the top
three priorities for each day this way
if I can say I've done these two to
three things by the end of the day I can
count my day as success and if something
comes up that makes me have to shift my
schedule like a holiday or a family
event or emergency I know what things I
need to make priority with whatever time
I end up having or what I need to fit in
somewhere else once I've completed this
this weekly spread is what I used to
reference at the beginning of each day
to set my intentions
I might even set alarms so I know when
I'm moving into my next time block and
I'd also use this to make my
more specific daily to-do list if you'd
like to see a video on how I used my
bullet journal more day-to-day let me
know and I can definitely make a future
video on some monthly and daily spread
ideas for authors in the meantime I do
have another bullet journal video on a
different channel of mine that shows
more of a daily spread idea I was using
for a while so I'll link that below if
you'd like to check that out for now
well guys I hope that was really helpful
and whether you are a full time author
or you have a full time job or a part
time job or you're at home with the kids
all day whatever your situation
I hope this at least gave you some
principles where you feel like you can
look at your present schedule identify
where your free time is and then
purposely plan that free time to get
some writing done and get your author
platform off the ground if you enjoyed
this video and would like to see more
productivity tips from me in the future
definitely let me know that in the
comments and give this video a like
which also supports my channel in a big
way that's all I have for you guys today
so happy planning set those goals set
that schedule and until next week happy
writing
you