How to Manage Your Time Outside Your 9-5
Ali Abdaal2024-02-14
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💫 Short Summary
In this video, Ali Abdaal shares the foundational mindsets and philosophies for managing time appropriately outside of a 9 to 5 job. He emphasizes the value of time as our most precious non-renewable resource and encourages viewers to focus on their personal development and growth by learning how to use their time better. Ali also mentions the importance of setting goals and working towards them, as well as the need to focus on more than just life maintenance but on progressing in various areas of life.
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The video is the first episode of a three-part series on managing time outside of a 9 to 5 job.
00:00The series is aimed at helping people who want to do more outside of their 9 to 5 but struggle to find the time and energy.
Viewers will learn foundational mindsets and philosophies for managing their time effectively in this video.
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The waiting room will never be empty, so the focus should be on prioritizing and managing time effectively.
04:07An example is given of a doctor in the emergency department who realized that there will always be more patients to see.
The key is to focus on the highest priority tasks first.
It's important to take breaks to maintain focus and concentration.
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There are two buckets of things we can do with our time: maintain the status quo or progress our lives.
08:28It's important to spend at least one or two hours every day doing things that progress our lives.
Setting goals and actively working towards them is a key part of progressing our lives.
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Having goals for the year provides a sense of progress and momentum.
12:25People want to celebrate wins and progress in work, health, and relationships.
Writing down goals and regularly reviewing them helps maintain a sense of progress and momentum.
The focus is on the pursuit of happiness and having something to work towards outside of the 9 to 5.
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The speaker encourages treating oneself like a robot when it comes to time management, focusing on tweaking the system rather than beating oneself up for failures.
15:02The speaker shares an example of how they would analyze the reasons behind not having enough energy to edit videos after work.
The emphasis is on identifying and diagnosing problems with the system and finding solutions for the future.
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The video emphasizes the importance of having personal goals outside of work and making meaningful progress in life.
20:10Having a clear why and a set of goals to work towards outside of work is essential.
The focus is on making meaningful progress in the pursuit of something that is meaningful to the individual.
The speaker encourages viewers to check out the next video in the series for practical tips on minimizing time wastage.
00:00 hey friends welcome back to the channel
00:01 if you're new here my name is Ali I'm a
00:02 doctor turned entrepreneur and the
00:03 author of feel-good productivity which
00:05 is about how to do more of what matters
00:06 to you in a way that's enjoyable
00:08 meaningful and sustainable and this is
00:09 the first episode of a three-part series
00:11 about how to manage your time outside of
00:13 your 9 to-5 job now this is a topic
00:15 that's really close to my heart because
00:16 I started this YouTube channel and my
00:18 business and basically every good thing
00:20 in my life has happened as a result of
00:21 me being able to manage my time outside
00:23 of the time where I had a 9 to-5 job
00:25 when I was working full-time as a doctor
00:27 and really this video series is for
00:28 people who for example haven't 9 to5
00:30 whether you're a student or a
00:31 professional or whatever and you want to
00:33 do stuff outside of it but you maybe
00:35 struggle to have the time and energy to
00:37 do the stuff outside of the 9 to5 and
00:39 the stuff might be starting a business
00:40 or growing a side hustle or like you
00:41 know this sort of thing but it might not
00:43 be it might also be just taking up a
00:44 hobby or making progress on that
00:45 language that you're trying to learn or
00:47 even just giving more time to your
00:48 friends and family and so really in this
00:49 video series I want to try and share as
00:51 many tips as I can so that you can take
00:53 away some kind of philosophies or
00:54 mindsets or experiments to run in your
00:56 own life that can help you achieve more
00:58 of the things that really matter to you
00:59 outside of your95 and so in this video
01:01 we're going to be talking about the
01:03 foundational mindsets and philosophies
01:05 that you need to manage your time
01:06 appropriately outside of your95 in video
01:08 two we're going to be talking about how
01:10 to not waste your life all the time
01:11 drains that get in the way and then in
01:13 video number three we're going to talk
01:14 about the five skills that you need to
01:15 master in order to become amazing at
01:17 time management depending on when you're
01:19 watching this these videos May well be
01:20 out so they'll be linked down in the
01:21 video description and I would recommend
01:23 you watch them in order because you know
01:25 then you get the philosophy before
01:26 worrying about the tactics all right
01:28 mindset number one time management is a
01:30 really valuable skill to work on now the
01:32 unfortunate truth is that we are all
01:33 going to die and the other unfortunate
01:35 truth or maybe fortunate truth is that
01:38 time is our single most valuable
01:40 non-renewable resource we can always
01:42 make more money but we can never make
01:43 more time the fact that you're here
01:44 watching this video and maybe subscribe
01:46 to my channel means that you care enough
01:48 about this topic you care about personal
01:49 development personal growth you probably
01:52 want to make the most of your time
01:53 outside of your 9 to-5 but you might be
01:55 you know like I was back in the day
01:56 feeling a little overwhelmed with all
01:58 the stuff that there is to do and I
01:59 think some sometimes people will dismiss
02:00 this to be like well you know people who
02:02 teach about time management they're just
02:04 like promoting hustle culture or like
02:05 toxic productivity or any of that stuff
02:07 but this is not about getting you to
02:10 work harder this is not about getting
02:11 you to hustle harder this is literally
02:13 about us appreciating that our time is
02:15 our own to do with as we as we like and
02:18 if we tell ourselves the story that
02:19 we're bad at time management and we
02:21 haven't like actively worked on the
02:22 skill of time management then we fall
02:24 into the default of like turning on the
02:26 TV going on Netflix and just clicking
02:28 yes on whatever the recommendation has
02:29 in store for us we fall into the
02:31 unintentional default of just going on
02:33 our phones and habitually picking Tik
02:35 Tok or Instagram or YouTube and just
02:36 sort of scrolling and watching the
02:37 videos and the thing that made this hit
02:39 home for me when I started to get into
02:41 this productivity procrastination time
02:43 management type stuff the thing that
02:45 really made it hit home was that I
02:46 didn't want to be in a position where
02:48 you know a few decades from now I would
02:50 look back on my life and I would feel
02:52 like I'd squandered the time and the
02:54 energy that I had when I was younger
02:55 realistically I probably I'm probably
02:57 not going to remember the TV shows that
02:58 I watched unless they're absolutely
02:59 amazing gave me THS for example I'm very
03:01 unlikely to remember the time I spent
03:02 scrolling YouTube shorts or Instagram or
03:04 Tik Tok but if I use my time
03:06 intentionally and effectively on the
03:07 things that I wanted to use it at the
03:08 time on like the H Hobbies or friends
03:10 and family or building my business
03:11 whatever the thing might be I'm far more
03:13 likely to sort of give a high five to my
03:15 younger self and so really the problem
03:17 we're dealing with here is not a toxic
03:19 productivity or hustle culture type
03:20 thing I'm not telling you you just have
03:21 to be more productive what I'm
03:23 suggesting is that time is so valuable
03:26 and so important that spending a little
03:28 bit of it learning how to use it better
03:29 I think is a skill that that all of us
03:31 could benefit from now as a bit of a
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05:00 number two is you can do anything you
05:03 want but not everything you want if
05:05 you're watching this video and if maybe
05:06 you follow my channel then you're
05:07 probably the sort of person that takes
05:09 on too much stuff you're probably quite
05:12 ambitious you're probably quite
05:13 hardworking you probably want to thrive
05:15 in your 9 to5 you want to do all at work
05:16 but maybe you also want to be
05:17 intentional about your health and
05:18 relationships and want to level those up
05:20 there is a phrase there there is a story
05:23 that is wrongly attributed to Warren
05:25 Buffett but like I think it's
05:26 directionally legit I don't know where
05:28 this attribution came from but guy
05:29 called Alex Bayan once asked Warren
05:31 Buffett at his Omaha conference Mr
05:33 Buffett I've heard that one of your ways
05:36 of focusing your energy is that you
05:38 write down the 25 things you want to
05:41 achieve choose the top five and then
05:44 avoid the bottom 20 bu kind of laughed
05:46 and said like that was complete BS like
05:47 he never he has never said that well I'm
05:49 actually more curious about how you came
05:50 up with it
05:53 because it really isn't it really isn't
05:55 the case it sounds like a very good
05:56 method of operating but it's it's much
05:59 more discipline that I actually am but
06:01 you know directionally the advice is
06:03 still legit even if Warren Buffett never
06:04 actually said the thing a lot of our
06:06 priorities 5 to2 end up derailing and
06:10 taking a lot of time away from the
06:11 things that truly matter to us and
06:12 really we all have the best will in the
06:14 world when it comes to this like you
06:15 know maybe you watch my channel and
06:16 you're like oh it' be pretty cool to be
06:17 a YouTuber I want to start a YouTube
06:18 channel and then maybe you're like oh
06:19 you know I'd love to write online you
06:21 know for me I was like I want to get
06:22 better at the guitar and I want to get
06:23 better at piano I want to get better at
06:25 singing I'd love to be able to play by
06:26 ear oh man drawing would be really cool
06:27 I'd love to learn how to draw you know
06:29 what I'd love to learn Japanese cuz I
06:30 like watching anime and it's just we
06:32 keep on adding to the to-do list and we
06:34 fail to realize that a big part of time
06:36 management is about prioritization it's
06:38 about knowing what you want to say no to
06:40 so that you have the time energy and
06:42 focus to truly say yes to the things
06:44 that really matter and there is a story
06:46 from my time as a doctor that I I I I
06:48 always think about um this was when I
06:50 was in my first week of working in the
06:53 emergency department and I walk into the
06:55 emergency department and I you know I I
06:57 take a look in the waiting room and the
06:58 waiting room is absolutely absolutely
06:59 teaming with patients there's just so
07:01 many people and I'm like whoo this is
07:02 where the real medicine is at I'm I'm
07:04 going to save the lives I go to my
07:05 computer and I go through the list and
07:07 then I see the next patient in order of
07:09 priority and by the end of the day I've
07:10 seen about eight patients cuz it takes
07:11 me about an hour it's like an 8 hour
07:12 shift and I don't even take my lunch
07:14 break because you know I've got the
07:16 energy I've got the vibe I've got the
07:16 passion I'm going to save the lives and
07:19 on my way home I look in the waiting
07:20 room and it's still absolutely teeming
07:23 with patience it's still completely full
07:24 what the hell and then on Tuesday I'm
07:26 like all right cool it's Day 2 that was
07:27 my first day I was a little bit
07:28 inefficient I only saw one patient an
07:30 hour let me be more efficient with this
07:32 let me take two patients at a time let
07:33 me batch my calls to Radiology let me
07:34 batch the Bloods that I'm doing let me
07:36 sort of parallel process so there's no
07:37 like downtime and I was applying all of
07:39 my kind of productivity principles to
07:41 the seeing of patience and you know
07:43 again I skipped my lunch break and I saw
07:46 12 patients that day I managed to do 1
07:47 and a half patients an hour or 1.2
07:49 patients an hour whatever the number is
07:51 and then on my way home I looked in the
07:52 waiting room and it was still absolutely
07:55 teeming with patience it was like
07:56 nothing I didn't made any difference and
07:58 then okay the next day I was like what
08:00 the hell's going on here and I mentioned
08:02 this to one of the consultants and the
08:03 consultant said to me it's your first
08:05 day isn't it I was like yeah how do you
08:06 know and he was like yeah cuz everyone
08:08 realizes this a few days to a few weeks
08:09 in and what he said really has really
08:11 stuck with me since he said the waiting
08:13 room will never be empty there will
08:15 always be more patience to see all we
08:17 can do is show up each day as our best
08:19 selves and see patience in order of
08:21 priority he also forced me to take my
08:23 lunch break because it's like legally
08:24 mandated that every 4 hours you have to
08:25 take a lunch break uh because otherwise
08:27 your focus and concentration Falls and
08:28 so I actually started taking my lunch
08:30 breaks but that has really stuck with me
08:32 because whatever you're doing with your
08:33 job whatever you're doing outside your
08:34 job whatever you're doing with your
08:35 family there is always more you could be
08:37 doing you know I've heard from parents
08:38 it's like you know you think you're
08:39 doing well at work and then you get home
08:41 and it's like you know the school is
08:43 saying you got to bake a cake for the
08:44 freaking bake sale you've got to do your
08:45 parent teacher meeting you've got to do
08:47 this and that you've got to sign up to
08:48 be a governor of the board and if you're
08:50 an entrepreneur you know I've got a
08:51 business you might have a side hustle
08:53 you know there is always an infinite
08:54 amount of work to be done the waiting
08:56 room will never be empty but as long as
08:58 we can show up each day as our best
08:59 selves and crucially focus on things in
09:02 order of priority then in a way it
09:04 doesn't matter if the waiting room is
09:05 always full because as long as you are
09:07 seeing the highest priority Patients
09:08 First this is how a surgeon on the
09:10 battlefield triage patients if someone's
09:12 about to die you see them first if
09:13 someone's you know got a bit of a cough
09:15 you see them second and then you
09:17 reprioritize I think of my entire to-do
09:19 list and time management and like
09:20 everything I'm trying to do with that
09:22 metaphor the waiting room will never be
09:23 empty therefore what I choose to do is
09:25 just show up as my best self every day
09:27 and focus on things in order of priority
09:29 and if we can just do that every day
09:31 forever then we're not going to be
09:33 filled with regret that like we made the
09:34 wrong decisions early on in other all
09:36 right mindset number three is that life
09:38 maintenance is not the goal there are
09:40 broadly two buckets of things that we
09:42 can do with our time there are there are
09:45 things that we have to do to maintain
09:46 the status quo to maintain our lives and
09:49 then there are things that we can do to
09:51 progress our lives and progress can me
09:53 anything it could be in work could be
09:54 side hustle could be like taking up a
09:55 new hobby learning a skill you know that
09:57 kind of stuff actively improving a
09:58 relationship actively improving our
09:59 health rather than just maintaining and
10:02 when you have a 9 to5 when you're
10:03 working full-time it can be very easy
10:05 for all of the stuff that you do outside
10:07 of your 9 to5 to be in the Life
10:08 maintenance Camp so for example sleeping
10:10 8 hours a night you know that's the life
10:13 maintenance Camp unfortunately we kind
10:14 of have to do it but it's not really
10:16 progressing Us in any meaningful way it
10:18 is maintaining the status quo similarly
10:21 cooking and eating food is in the
10:24 category of Life maintenance it's just
10:26 you know you have to eat unless you're
10:28 like actively trying to improve your
10:29 cooking skills and experimenting with
10:30 new recipes and stuff you know then that
10:32 would fall in the progression camp but
10:33 just cooking and eating and cleaning up
10:35 is in the maintenance Camp cleaning the
10:36 house unfortunately he's in the
10:37 maintenance Camp there are all sorts of
10:39 these activities that we need to do in
10:40 the Life maintenance camp and what it
10:41 can be really easy to do especially if
10:43 you're overwhelmed with stuff at work
10:44 and stuff at home is for everything we
10:46 do to either be going to work or to be
10:49 maintaining our life and maintaining the
10:52 ability to then go to work the next day
10:54 now obviously in certain seasons of our
10:56 life we're going to be you know more
10:58 imbalanced where we're just going to
10:59 where it's going to be a bit of a
11:00 struggle just to get by a lot of people
11:01 were like this in the pandemic I hear
11:03 that when you have kids it becomes like
11:04 that for a few years but generally the
11:05 way I like to think about this is that I
11:08 want to make sure that every day I'm
11:09 spending at least one or two hours doing
11:12 stuff that is progressing my life
11:13 outside of work not just maintaining it
11:16 so this might involve for example
11:17 blocking out time specifically to work
11:19 on specific projects this might involve
11:21 setting goals for the year or setting
11:22 goals for the quarter and then actively
11:24 making time to work towards those goals
11:26 this might involve thinking of my gym
11:28 stuff rather rather than I'm I just want
11:30 to exercise because exercise is required
11:32 for Life maintenance instead of thinking
11:34 about it as I want to train I want to
11:35 train for a specific thing I want to get
11:37 my bench press to 100 kg or my deadlift
11:39 or like 180 or like I want to train for
11:41 that Marathon this sense of progress is
11:44 a big part of what makes life feel
11:46 fulfilling and meaningful and a big part
11:48 of when people feel like they're in a
11:49 rut is because they go to work they come
11:51 home they maintain and then they go to
11:53 work the next day so what I would
11:55 encourage you to do if you haven't yet
11:57 is you know tangibly practically
11:58 speaking
11:59 set some goals for the year now lots of
12:02 you attended my annual planning workshop
12:03 that I hosted a couple weeks ago um
12:05 planning to do more of these but if you
12:07 have not yet set goals for the year
12:08 honestly what I would recommend is you
12:09 pause the video right now and have a
12:11 think 12 months from now what would you
12:14 like to be celebrating what would you
12:16 like to be celebrating you know when I
12:17 do talks and stuff I ask people to close
12:19 their eyes I play some soulful music in
12:20 the background Tony Robin style it's
12:22 great I love the but what would you
12:24 like to be celebrating 12 months from
12:25 now in work in health and in
12:28 relationships those are like the three
12:29 broad buckets of life you could add more
12:31 to the list if you want we tend to want
12:33 to celebrate the wins we want to
12:34 celebrate some kind of progress so what
12:36 kind of progress could you make in work
12:37 health and relationships that you can
12:38 imagine yourself celebrating with a
12:40 friend 12 months from now and then once
12:42 you've thought about that it is worth
12:44 writing it down somewhere you can see it
12:45 regularly so for me I have a Google doc
12:48 which is the first thing on my Chrome I
12:49 call it my goalkeeper doc because it's
12:50 where I keep my goals and where I do my
12:52 weekly reviews more on that in part
12:53 three but that is something that I look
12:55 at at least once a week and it reminds
12:56 me what my goals are and it helps me get
12:59 into this mode of thinking oh yeah I do
13:01 have a sense of progress I do have a
13:02 sense of momentum and there's a really
13:03 nice uh phrase which is that it's not
13:05 about the pursuit of happiness it's
13:07 about the happiness of pursuit a lot of
13:09 using our time well and managing our
13:11 time is having something to actually
13:13 work towards outside of our 9 to5 that
13:15 helps us feel the sense of purpose it
13:17 gives us a reason to be better at time
13:19 management it gives us a reason to not
13:21 procrastinate so much it gives us a
13:22 reason to you know prioritize and set
13:24 goals and work towards them while
13:26 enjoying the journey along the way
13:27 because that sense of I'm there is some
13:30 I'm I'm on a journey I'm climbing the
13:32 summit there is something I'm working
13:33 towards it's profoundly energizing and
13:36 it's profoundly fulfilling even outside
13:38 of work all right mindset number four is
13:40 the mindset of intentionality in the
13:42 world of meditation I think in like
13:45 monasteries and and stuff they have a
13:46 bell a ding that goes off you know every
13:49 every now and then and the point of the
13:51 ding is to remind the monks or the
13:54 people in the monastery or whatever to
13:56 focus on the present moment you know one
13:58 way to think about time management is
14:00 you know especially if you're if you're
14:02 in the confines of of a full-time job
14:04 then one way to think about it is to
14:06 what extent am I being intentional with
14:07 the way I'm using my time because when
14:09 you get good at time management you'll
14:10 end up with basically 100%
14:12 intentionality so for example if if you
14:14 imagine this Bell were to go off every
14:16 15 minutes and when a bell goes off the
14:18 ding happens and you ask yourself to
14:20 what extent were the last 15 minutes
14:22 intentional or not that gives you a
14:25 sense of am I using my time
14:26 intentionally or am I not using my time
14:28 intentionally now let's say you intended
14:29 to for example cook and eat food ding
14:31 the Bell goes off great fantastic you've
14:32 cooked and eat and and eaten food but
14:34 let's say the Bell goes off and in the
14:36 last 15 minutes you've been scrolling
14:37 Tik Tok or Instagram or watching Netflix
14:39 and you didn't actively make that
14:40 intention to do those things now you
14:42 have not been intentional with your use
14:43 of time that's not to say it's a bad
14:45 thing that's not to say you should beat
14:46 yourself up but the point of time
14:47 management and getting good at this
14:48 stuff is that we want to get it to a
14:50 point that every every 15-minute block
14:52 of time that we have in our calendars
14:53 and and in our lives is at least
14:55 intentional now again this is not this
14:57 does not have to be doing work this does
14:59 not have to be doing things that are
15:01 productive it just needs to be things
15:02 that are intentional did you intend to
15:04 scroll Tik Tok for 15 minutes if so
15:06 great if not then that's something we
15:08 can work on did you intend to watch that
15:10 Netflix show and another episode and
15:12 another episode and another episode if
15:14 so fantastic you're literally living the
15:15 dream but if not now we've been a bit
15:17 unintentional with how we've been using
15:19 our time and I like intentionality as
15:20 the bar you know sometimes people say to
15:22 me in podcast and stuff you know you
15:24 know are there any times where you're
15:25 not productive and for me like
15:28 productive is basically the same as
15:29 intentionality it's like if I'm using my
15:31 time well I consider that being
15:33 productive so if I intended to watch
15:34 four episodes of House of the Dragon I
15:36 consider that productive but if I have
15:38 found myself watching four episodes of
15:39 House of the Dragon having not intended
15:41 to I would consider that unproductive
15:43 and really the goal of time management
15:45 is you know firstly to have the sense of
15:46 progress of things that we're actually
15:48 act actively doing but then secondly to
15:51 intentionally use the blocks of time
15:52 that we have and the way I think about
15:54 it is that each of these blocks of time
15:55 is 15 minutes I think 15 minutes is good
15:57 is is is a good amount you could think
15:59 of it as hours but an hour an hour is a
16:01 bit too long I think you know thinking
16:03 of it as like there are four of these
16:05 blocks of time every hour and every hour
16:07 I have a choice of what I can do with
16:08 these 15 minutes 15 minutes is a lot of
16:10 time it's a lot of time to make progress
16:12 on making a YouTube video a lot of time
16:14 to make progress in writing a book 15
16:15 minutes to connect with your spouse or
16:17 your loved one with your entire presence
16:19 is actually quite a lot of time like
16:21 from what I've read and what I've
16:22 experienced um most romantic Partners
16:24 care a lot less about the quantity of
16:26 time that you spend together and it's a
16:27 lot more about the quality of time and
16:29 so really 15 minutes is a solid block of
16:31 time 15 minutes is enough time to make
16:33 progress on meaningful projects and also
16:34 to make progress on improving the health
16:36 of a most important relationships and
16:37 mindset number five is treat yourself
16:40 like a robot now what I mean by this is
16:42 that if for example you were programming
16:44 a robot and it didn't do what you
16:45 intended it to do you wouldn't like
16:47 flagellate the robot you wouldn't like
16:49 beat it up you wouldn't like tell it
16:51 tell the robot it's a terrible person
16:52 you would just think okay the code
16:54 didn't work you know I programmed the
16:55 system wrong and when it comes to time
16:58 management Focus distraction
16:59 productivity a lot of procrastination a
17:01 lot of this stuff we tend to have a lot
17:03 of negative energy towards ourselves
17:05 about it like oh man I'm such a freaking
17:07 idiot I didn't go to the gym three times
17:09 this week oh oh why do I always do why
17:11 do I always procrastinate like it would
17:12 be so counterproductive to say that kind
17:13 of stuff to a robot if we thought it was
17:15 a robot because it's just the system
17:16 that hasn't worked and so if we can
17:18 treat ourselves like a robot in like a
17:20 nice way it means that when we struggle
17:22 with something or when we fail to be
17:23 intentional with how we're managing our
17:25 time or procrastinating or getting
17:26 distracted or whatever it means the
17:28 solution to the problem is we just need
17:30 to tweak the system rather than I need
17:33 to beat myself up now I'm saying all of
17:34 this with the risk that you know I
17:36 sometimes get comments being like Oh my
17:37 God Ali abdal is such a productivity
17:39 robot it's like you know what I'll take
17:41 it if being a productivity robot means I
17:43 don't beat myself up for failing to do
17:45 the things that I intended to do then
17:46 that's a trade I'll take I'll take any
17:48 day of the week but I guess practically
17:50 speaking an example is so you know when
17:52 I was working as a doctor when I had a
17:53 real job when I had my 9 to5 confining
17:56 me with an hour commute to work an hour
17:57 commute back back having to like cook
17:59 for myself or whatever I wanted to build
18:01 this YouTube channel I wanted to film
18:03 one or two videos a week and edit them
18:05 and publish them this was back when I
18:06 was doing my own editing and there were
18:08 certain days where I would get home from
18:10 work and I would feel completely drained
18:12 and I would not have the energy to
18:14 actually edit the videos now in that
18:16 context I could have just decided to
18:19 push through it I could have beaten
18:20 myself up I could have told myself I'm a
18:22 I'm an idiot and I just need to be more
18:23 disciplined just need to work harder all
18:25 that I I could have had all of those
18:26 narratives but instead what I did is I
18:28 would treat myself like a system I would
18:30 be like okay the robot did not have
18:32 enough energy in the tank to do video
18:34 editing this evening great that's useful
18:36 to know why did the robot not have the
18:38 energy okay well robot only got 4 hours
18:40 of sleep last night because robot was on
18:42 a night shift the night before I like
18:43 okay cool that's useful to know why else
18:45 well robot didn't really eat anything
18:47 today all day because it was like a
18:48 stupidly busy day on like the obstetric
18:50 and Gynecology Ward with all these
18:51 emergencies I was like okay cool
18:52 emergencies happened and I didn't have
18:53 time to take care of myself nice
18:56 therefore what can that tell me about
18:58 next time so next time around let me
19:00 make sure I don't time block an editing
19:02 session for myself after a night shift
19:04 because it's very hard to have the
19:04 energy after a night shift where I don't
19:06 have much sleep and secondly let me make
19:08 sure you know that there is always 5
19:10 minutes to take a lunch break there's
19:11 always 5 minutes to just grab a little
19:12 sandwich grab something rather than just
19:14 starving myself all day cool now I've
19:16 got like a new set of algorithms which
19:19 is number one no editing after a night
19:21 shift and number two eat every day for
19:23 lunch it's not that hot I've treated
19:25 myself like a system and yet I know so
19:27 many people who are in identical
19:28 situations or analogous situations where
19:30 they won't take that step back to think
19:32 why did this happen they will just say
19:34 oh this thing happened I failed I failed
19:36 to do this thing therefore I'm bad
19:39 therefore I'm lazy therefore I'm a
19:40 procrastinator and it gets into this
19:42 like personal flagellation but if you
19:44 just think think of yourself as a system
19:45 you just identify and diagnose what what
19:48 were the problems with that system today
19:50 cool what does that mean about what you
19:51 should do moving forward great hunky
19:53 dory life is all good Okay so we've
19:54 talked about these five mindset shifts
19:56 but if there's just one thing that you
19:57 take away from this video I would love
19:58 for that to be actually having some
20:01 goals outside of your work some personal
20:03 goals to work towards because there's no
20:05 point in time management if it's just
20:06 going to result in us watching I don't
20:07 know watching more Netflix or just
20:08 maintaining our life a little bit better
20:10 I think it's really important to have
20:11 those things that we're working towards
20:13 have a think about this 12 month
20:14 celebration and then in videos two and
20:16 three of this series we're going to be
20:17 talking much more about practical things
20:19 that you can do but it's it's almost
20:21 like you know that Simon synic book
20:22 start with why if you don't have a why
20:25 behind why you want to be more
20:26 productive or why you want to manage
20:26 your time better then it's just not
20:28 going to happen right we need to have a
20:29 clear why we need to have a set of goals
20:31 that we're working towards just outside
20:32 of our work so that we're not just
20:34 spending our life maintaining the
20:36 ability to do our 9 to5 but instead
20:38 we're actually making meaningful
20:40 progress in the pursuit of something
20:41 that is Meaningful to us it does not
20:43 have to be a business it does not have
20:44 to be a YouTube channel but it can be if
20:45 you want that's what I did that's why
20:47 I'm here um it can be whatever you want
20:49 but it should be something outside of
20:51 just life maintenance that's that's what
20:52 I would say so this was episode one of
20:54 our three-part series around managing
20:55 your time outside of a 9 to5 check out
20:57 this video here for episode number two
20:58 which is all about the Practical things
21:00 we can do to minimize the amount of time
21:01 we're wasting or draining away from the
21:03 things that that drain our time so I
21:05 hope you enjoy this video and I'll
21:06 hopefully see you in the next one
💫 FAQs about This YouTube Video
1. What are the key mindset and philosophy for managing time outside of a 9 to 5 job?
The key mindset and philosophy for managing time outside of a 9 to 5 job include the value of time management as a skill, the importance of prioritization, the distinction between life maintenance and progress, the focus on intentionality, and treating oneself like a robot when it comes to time management.
2. How can I manage my time effectively outside of my 9 to 5 job?
To manage your time effectively outside of your 9 to 5 job, it is important to have a clear understanding of your priorities, set specific goals for the time you have, and focus on making meaningful progress in the pursuit of your interests and hobbies.
3. Why is it important to have goals outside of work and how can they be achieved?
Having goals outside of work is important for personal growth and fulfillment. These goals can be achieved by practicing time management, being intentional with how time is spent, and consistently working towards the desired outcomes.
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