Hello guys, welcome back to another video it is francesco here welcome to the Keep Productive youtube channel
Today's video i'm passing over to Jesse Showalter
I've been following him on YouTube for a fair while now
Here's a channel dedicated to design new acts and also talking about their ways that he combats freelancing decisions
It's such an awesome channel, even though I'm not a designer
I follow along and happening for a fair while now because there's so much value that he brings in his videos
So it's so great to have him on today
He will be discussing today about how he uses Trello as well as how he Maps his goals
Projects and tasks over on that application. I really enjoyed Jesse's feature and I really think you will too
So stay tuned for today's video and I'll pass over to Jesse. Thank you very much
Also to Jesse for having me over to his channel to discuss the top 5 productivity apps for designers
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What's up everybody, I'm Jesse Showalter and super thankful to francesco for inviting me on the channel
I run my own YouTube channel about design and development and freelance business type stuff
So if you're interested in that, maybe go check it out after you watch every video. I want keep productive because they're amazing
As a creative entrepreneur my schedule is absolutely crazy I got invoices I got clients I got deadlines
I got projects. I got side projects
I got side side projects and there needs to be a way to keep things in line and
Organized and for me I use Trello to do that
Trello is an awesome software that you can use for absolutely free to organize your life and it's not just for creatives or entrepreneurs
It's for anybody that has a hectic schedule and needs to make sense of life
So with all that being said, let's make sense of our crazy lives together
Trello is an awesome tool with lots of flexibility and versatility so you can use it
However you want but I've created kind of a method of using Trello that allows me to plan for three things life
Projects and goals and kind of bring them all together to make sense
So let's start the very bottom of the list where we talked about goals
Everybody has goals
If you don't you should have goals and the way that I use Trello is to plan out all of my life goals on one
Distinct board I'm talking anything that I want to accomplish in life
I input
Inside of Trello whether it's how many books I want to read this year how much money I want to bring in how many letters?
I want to write to my wife just because I love her all of those things go into Trello
So that I can kind of have a handle on
What it is that I want to accomplish and how do I break them into?
Smaller bite-sized tasks and overarching method that you'll see across
everything that I do in Trello is not only do I have all of my goals kind of filtered into
Categories like books and relationships and fitness, but I also have all the way on the far left
So when you first open up the board
You're gonna see this week this month next month and this year some sort of categories that break them down
into kind of time spans
So as I'm planning out what I want to accomplish this week and this month and this year I start dragging
Cards out of the columns and popping them in to those appropriate time columns when I'm done when I complete them
I move them all
The way over to the right into done and what's really fun is at the end of every year I go through that done list
And I just look and see how much I've actually accomplished versus how much there actually is left to do
It's a lot of fun goals get you something
Okay
Next step on the lid is projects and you don't have to be a designer or developer or freelancer to have projects a project
Really in the end is anything that has?
multiple moving parts that all kind of accumulate to be one overarching goal
So whether you're trying to write a book or build something around the house
You can call that a project and break it into a series of steps that you need to do to finish that project
I knew projects in a particular way
I set up three different columns in Trello
One is things to do
One is things that I'm currently doing and one is things that are done each one of those cards might have multiple
checklists and I always make sure to use
Deadlines and I love to use trelles power up of integrating the calendar inside of it as well
So I'd kind of see things at a calendar glance
that's really the main gist of it is breaking down your project into multiple parts and putting all of them in the to-do section and
Then slowly but surely moving each individual piece or part into the doing and then hopefully into the done
it's such a nice feeling when you get all the cards moved over from the left to the right and the project is complete the
last part of the list is called life and it's the way that I get a 10,000 foot view of both my goals and my
Projects together what I like to do is open up two trailer windows at a time
I like to have my life board over on the Left
I like to have either my goals or an individual project over on the right hand side
then what I like to do is create cards for any overarching project or
Overarching goal that I'm trying to accomplish and I will create a card for it in my life board
This allows me to look at a 10,000 foot view of all the things I have to do without drilling into each individual project
So I'll make one card for a client project
one card for a personal goal and one card for something else that's happening and I'll space those out into the appropriate time columns that
Way I can just look at it and say hey, I know what I have to do this month
I set goals this month and gave my word to accomplish that client project and this personal goal and
This life goal all this month or this week. I need to make sure I get those things done
it's a really easy way to flip on Trello in the morning and see exactly what you're supposed to be working on and what your
Timing isn't compared to what's coming up the following month or the month after that when you wrap all that up together
You have a really succinct way of seeing your life and your goals and your projects all together and it's really really helpful
Well, that's it. That's how it not only my projects and my creative stuff but my life using Trello
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Hope you guys are having an awesome week staying productive and accomplishing your goals. I'll see you in the next one