good morning it is 7 20 a.m i've definitely started waking up later and going to bed later
since coming to spain the sun actually rises quite late here and breakfast only starts at
eight my day revolves around meal time so i had to adjust i got a subscription to the atlantic
recently because i don't want to look at social media in the morning but i do feel more awake
after my phone screen has burned my retinas a little bit so it's like a good compromise
no matter where i am spain or the u.s wherever i need to do my morning routine there was one day
that i literally woke up right before class and then i did my morning routine when i got back home
at 2 p.m because i just couldn't like get on with the rest of my day without
properly doing my routine so i do some stretches and exercises i take a cold
shower for 30 seconds do my skincare routine and then i journal about what i'm looking forward to
that day this usually only takes a few minutes i like to use a paper notebook and pen because
screens are just really distracting and i want to be as focused as possible in the morning
i do a quick glance at my emails and i also check my to-do list i plan my week in advance
so everything is pretty much set for the day so i just review it i see what my schedule is
for the day i love time blocking how long each of my tasks is going to take me because i find
that that really helps me to beat procrastination and then it was time for breakfast breakfast for
me is like meditation it's very important to me that i start my day not thinking about work
savoring my food talking to other people at the table or listening to a podcast if i'm alone it's
like that buffer that i need between planning my day and actually starting my day after breakfast
i went back up to my room for a quick zoom meeting and then i had some homework that i needed to do
ew i like to do my homework in the morning before anything else in the day has a chance to distract
me today i just set a 25-minute pomodoro timer i'm gonna try to finish editing our group presentation
for globalization class that's what i really like about pomodoros is i think i work faster when i
have these mini goals to reach so i'm going to try to do that and then read an article also for
globalization class usually during my breaks i like to just like go around my room and pick up
some clothes that might be on the floor or fill up my water bottle use the bathroom it's like
go stare out the window anything that will get me away from the screen and not thinking about work
okay that's enough talking i really need to get this done my group is waiting for me
okay the video is uploading i need to pack my backpack now i'm gonna be on campus for like
nine hours i have a notebook for taking notes in class pencil case i have this little bag
wallet hand sanitizer gum pen sunglasses lip balm since i'm gonna be there for a while i'm
definitely gonna bring all of my chargers water bottle i am vlogging today so i've got my camera
extra batteries oh headphones i almost forgot i have no time for lunch today so i got a sandwich
at the cafeteria yesterday so i'm bringing that i'm not super excited to eat this but
this is the best i've got and i think before i leave i'm gonna have a peanut butter banana
sandwich just so that i don't get hungry during class my quest for efficiency often ends up in
me being late to places but i also don't like getting somewhere early and then having to wait
so sort of a compromise for me is trying to get somewhere early but then using that extra time to
answer emails or something because i find that the extra sense of time urgency helps me get through
those emails a lot faster i've also been getting through emails a lot faster because of superhuman
who are the sponsors of today's video i'm not very good at emails i have a tendency to open my inbox
get overwhelmed with the stuff in there tell myself i'll do it later procrastinate and then
never get back to people my current inbox number and i want to show you how things look before
superhuman is 10 in my work email 9 in my school email and 43 in my personal one so what superhuman
has done is they have basically redesigned email look at how beautiful this looks basically
each email in your inbox is treated as a task that you have to do something about you're going one
by one through your emails deciding reply to this one send it and mark it done this email i'm gonna
get to before i go to bed i'm gonna forward this email i'm done with this one i've read it there's
no other action needed you decide what you're gonna do with every single thing in your inbox
and before you know it you're at inbox zero so what i love most is all these keyboard shortcuts
that i conveniently had pop up on the screen pretty much everything in superhuman can be done
entirely with your keyboard anytime you forget a shortcut you can just do command k and search for
it another feature i love is the split inboxes especially for my personal emails so that i can
gather for example all of the newsletters that i'm subscribed to they don't clutter up the important
emails that i have to respond to i have a split inbox for updates so like order information and
stuff like that i have one for travel updates in my youtube email me and maia maia is my assistant
basically she goes through my emails first and anything that i need to take a look at she'll
tag it with that label and so i have this split inbox where i know that this is what needs my
attention your calendar actually comes up in the sidebar whenever a date is mentioned in the email
you can actually create an event from that sidebar you don't even have to open up your calendar
separately and those are just some of the features that i love about superhuman so if you also want
to get to inbox zero faster than you ever have before use this link and give superhuman a try
so in my writing for media class we had a three hour session and we learned and practiced how
to write a lead for a hard news story once in a while inevitably in class something is going
to go wrong with the zoom or like the professor won't be able to access an article and we're just
gonna be sitting there waiting so i always like to have some backup tasks that i can do in any free
time that i have and today i use that time to plan my trip to madrid the following day i made
this super fancy google maps and compiled all the recommendations that you guys sent in on instagram
luckily we actually got to leave class 15 minutes early so i did have time for a quick lunch
before writing skills class i honestly can't tell you much of what happened in this class
but we did have an assignment about in-text citations so that is what we're learning
about we're doing essays and bibliographies and stuff i had an hour and a half break in
between classes so it wasn't worth going back to my dorm instead i found a comfy place to sit and
had my weekly meeting with my assistant to work on planning content and setting goals for the month
my last class of the day was globalization at 6 00 pm this is globalization and cross-cultural
communication and once again i can't tell you much of what we learned in this class
so normally i would use the 30 minutes before dinner to post on instagram
um upload some stories respond to comments respond to dms but today i'm not going to do that today
i'm going to talk to you a lot of people have been asking me how i deal with feeling overwhelmed and
honestly so far i have not felt that overwhelmed but that is by design i knew coming into this that
youtube would take up so much of my time like last week i time tracked and i think i spent 38 hours
on blissbean stuff if i remember correctly so my attitude was always like okay when it comes
to classes i need to be efficient but yeah just trying to be efficient with my homework only do
what is necessary for each class and also not join too many clubs i think what i'm gonna do at least
for this year is this volunteering club that does events once or twice a month and then i was also
kind of interested in investment club but we'll see how that goes i did not join any newspapers
or magazines because i feel like i get enough of that in my classes and with my youtube channel and
i know that if i were to join a publication like it would just completely suck me in on a similar
note i am not going for any leadership positions in any club so i'm keeping my freshman year very
very minimal as you can see so yeah i guess just like my advice for feeling overwhelmed is like
understand that you don't need to do everything especially if doing more things is going to come
at the cost of your well-being so like pick a few things that you really really want to do and then
do them well because if you're sleeping enough and you're taking care of yourself and you're resting
that's when you're going to be able to do the best in those activities that matter the most to you
it's really important to me that i just allow my brain to rest and socialize during dinner
no distractions no work to do i also like to linger a little bit after i'm done eating just
to talk to my friends and then on this day after dinner i went and visited a friend's
dorm because i wanted to see her projector i've been thinking about buying one from my
room and we also got an impromptu concert from my friend and her guitar which is really nice
so after dinner and a concert i showered i tidied up my room watched an episode of ted lasso with my
family and then i felt ready to do another chunk of work so this actually didn't really take any
long i just responded to any last few emails that i had i responded to anything that i asked
superhuman to remind me of later in the day i also labeled my hostel reservation and bus ticket
emails with a travel label so that i had easy access to them for my madrid trip the next day
finally it was time for my bedtime routine so at the end of the day i like to review my to-do
list update my budget write a journal entry in the day one app update my habit tracker brush my
teeth and do my skincare routine i usually don't have three classes in one day i didn't have any
classes on monday and wednesday this week actually so that's when i did all of my filming podcasting
editing etc that's why it's really important for me to do my weekly planning and see in advance
when i'm gonna have busy school days and when i can do my youtube work to balance the two
i do have a video on that if you want to watch it but for now it's time for me to grab my kindle
read a little bit of dune and go to sleep i hope you enjoyed this video thank you for
watching please give it a like and subscribe to my channel and i will see you next week bye