in this video I want to give you a look into my daily routine this is what I do
every day it may or may not be of interest to you it may or may not be of
benefit to you but one or two people have asked me how do I operate in
terms of organizing my time and scheduling my day and so on video might
just prove useful to somebody who has a difficult time getting themselves
organized or getting together anyway and not suggesting this is what
you should be doing I'm just telling you what I do this is what I do my daily
routine involves getting up at half-past five I have my breakfast at 5:45 and then I
run through a number of websites I go to Gmail first and I check on my emails
that would have come in the previous evening or overnight so just see
is there anything pressing there I check my Instagram account and see how the videos
and posts that I would have shared on Instagram are doing how they're
performing and I would check also whether there's any comments or so on
and he replies or direct messages for me to respond to I then check the Irish
Independent.ie website just to see what's going on in the world
generally and in Ireland and see it's really interesting developments in the
courts for example or anywhere else for that matter overnight in politics and
so on I then go to Facebook and I check whether there's any messages there that
I need to respond to although I have an automated messaging situation set up
with Facebook I'm asking people there who contact me on Facebook to send an
email it's just handler for me to channel all
communication through the one channel as it were and that's why I like everything
to come into my email that way I don't miss anything but the messaging is set up
automated on Facebook asking people to send me an email I also check on
Facebook the advertising campaigns I'm running I run one or two campaigns all
the time and i run one certainly all the time and I always
check to see how it's performing what is the cost per acquisition of a a lead or
a sign up for my free online employment rights report I then go to KDP. KDP is
the Amazon Kindle website so I checked the book sales on the cap on my in my
Kindle account or in my Amazon Kindle publishing accountant that tells me I
have a number of books for sale to do with employment law, to do with buying
property to do with acquiring clients online and business generally so I
check the sales there I then go from KDP to the Amazon affiliate site which
gives me the data on book sales of paperbacks so all of my books will be
available in paperback and I check the sales figures they are on the Amazon
affiliate site I then go to LinkedIn and I see is there comments there or
anything I need to respond to any direct messages and so on that I need to
respond to I then go to YouTube and see how my latest YouTube video is
performing and I will check to see is there any comments that I need to respond to
or answer I didn't go to Google Adwords and I check how my Google advertising is
going and the only Google advertising that I do is I run YouTube advertising
so I advertise some of my YouTube videos it's incredibly good value and I've made
other videos about YouTube advertising but that is the only advertising I do
with Google it's very very cost effective so I go there and just check
the click-through rate the view rate and the cost per view the cost per view I
know is one cent so I'm getting a huge amount of views for one cent per view
which is excellent value and i sometimes go to google analytics and just check
the analytics the website traffic statistics for my various
websites and I also check things like from which social media sites I'm
getting most traffic because that way I then can decide to spend my time on the
most efficient most effective websites and not be wasting my time on sites on
social media sites that are not delivering for me, and are not a good fit for
my business and I do that based on the analytics on the evidence on the data I'm
not on what I fancy or what I like I then head over to Twitter and I just
check how my latest tweets and my latest videos which I share on Twitter are
doing and see what sort of views and getting and again that's what a view to
assessing whether this is a good use of my time and efficient use of my time if
it is I continue to do it if it's not, i wont. I then head to ACX. ACX is the
audiobook wing of Amazon of audible and I have my employment rights Ireland or
my employment law and Ireland book now available on audiobook it's selling
actually very well since I started as only in the beginning of January there
and I checked the sales figures on ACX that's the audio publishing platform of
Amazon. 6:15 that that all takes place over my breakfast from about 6 o'clock
to 6:15 or there abouts. At 6:15 then I head to the office when I get to the
office I'm working from say 6:30 and I work with the Pomodoro Technique so I
work in chunks of 25 minutes and I take breaks of 5 minutes I have a timer a
little timer on my on my computer and you'll see it up here on the right hand
side you see it just here I have a three minute break there at the moment because
I didn't restarted but basically that'll kick in now again and it'll tell me when
my break is up and I have to work again flat out for 25 minutes which is what I
do I find the Pomodoro Technique very very good in terms of efficiency because
it breaks down today into chunks of 25 minutes and after a
period of three or four Pomodoro's you can see visibly that you've made
progress did you've actually given good concentrated effort to work, to your work
for two three four five six periods of twenty five minutes at the end of the
day at three o'clock or four o'clock or half four in the day when I'm ready to
go home I can see that I've done six seven eight
nine ten Pomodoro's or whatever it is but I find the principle of eating an
elephant one bite at a time is the proposition or the authority for
this Pomodoro Technique in other words it's easier to do a good efficient
hard-working working day if you break it down into smaller chunks of intense
focused activity that's what I find anyway so I work I do two Pomodoro's one
in online or digital marketing as I'm doing now for example I might make a
video or a might write a blog post so that's the first two Pomodoro that's
fifty minutes each day small business owner I have no marketing department I
have no marketing gurus or experts helping me I've nobody to create the
content that I create the videos and the blog posts I do it all myself so in
order to do it myself and do it in an efficient time effective way I dedicated
two Pomodoro's each day each morning first thing to creating content because
that's what generates clients for me and making this video and videos like this
is what generates clients for me and so that's the pomodoro kicking in there now
so one Pomodoro a long break I've already done three Pomodoro's today and
it's eight o'clock in the morning so obviously I'm making progress and it's
good to see the three red balls there because it's an indication that I'm
actually doing what I'm supposed to be doing I'm working away so now I start
focusing again so two Pomodoro is then from what 7:30 in the morning until five
o'clock in the evening and in the office all day
I do consultations the consultations can be visits people coming to the
office can be Skype conversations or
consultations or it can be on the phone or alternatively I maybe in court or I
maybe at the WRC but by and large I'm working flat out in the office from half
6:00 in the morning until five o'clock in the evening but five o'clock in the
evening I'm out of here and you could set your watch by me and
if you're looking for a consultation at 5 or 10 past 5:00 I'm afraid you're
going to be disappointed because I'm gone to five o'clock it's a long enough
day I work hard enough and I go or five o'clock so five o'clock I'd quit the
office and go home six o'clock down at home but I'm watching the news doing
whatever I'm doing at home taking it easy relaxing I check my email as I keep
an eye on them and then 6:45 when my wife comes home we have dinner and at
9:30 I go to bed so I go to bed early I read a lot I read it in my Kindle and I
listen to all audio books then when i exercise in the evening actually I go for
a run every evening when I come home from work or five o'clock and have the
dinner then after that when my wife comes home I listen to audio books when
I'm running and I read Kindle books when I'm at home watching TV or not watching
TV but just relaxing and when I go to bed go to bed at half 9:00 and then I
rinse and repeat in other words they do the exact same thing the next day don't
know whether you find this useful or not if you do give the thumbs up down
below but that is my regular routine my daily routine and I actually quite enjoy
my work and I've no difficulty getting up early but I do insist on go on to bed
at half 9:00 or 10:00 which isn't the most popular or social thing to be doing
according to my wife anyway but that's my routine hope you find it useful if
you do give the thumbs up down below and if you're interested in Irish Law or Irish
business subscribe to my youtube channel I make two videos a week now I am
currently at five-and-a-half thousand subscribers to my youtube channel
I have a goal for 2020 of getting ten thousand subscribers by the end of the
year I'm unlikely to reach it but I gonna try thanks for watching