Practice #15 - Create Perfect Routine

1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,120 Routine is one of the most important parts of the structure of your day. 2 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:12,520 You want to get a certain amount of tasks done every single day and you want that to be pretty much a guarantee. 3 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:18,160 And what I mean by that is you want, it's most advantageous for you to be 4 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:23,200 mindless or at least not have to think about when you're gonna do it in the day 5 00:00:24,120 --> 00:00:28,080 to do certain tasks. For example, going to the gym, working out, 6 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:30,080 eating specific meals, 7 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:39,760 editing, like doing work. Any type of task that you want done every single day should go on a routine. Also, 8 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,320 brushing your teeth, 9 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:43,820 showering, 10 00:00:43,820 --> 00:00:50,360 meditating, like all these things are good to put into a routine. But the thing is that 11 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:59,720 you may not know how to actually create an optimal routine. And I've practiced many times over the past couple years actually. I've been 12 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,760 really nailing in my routine developing ability. 13 00:01:05,320 --> 00:01:08,140 It's not been like a main focus for me, 14 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:13,680 but it's been something that I've been like actually developing the skill over the past couple years, 15 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:19,600 whether or not I realized it. It wasn't till, honestly, it wasn't until recently that I actually 16 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:27,080 started to actually realize that this was an important skill. And I realized that I was actually doing pretty good at it. 17 00:01:27,880 --> 00:01:33,840 So let's get straight into the routine. And the routine is, the way I do it is I actually 18 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:38,240 did it today and I'm gonna pull out my notebook because I 19 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:44,840 really liked how I did it. Because first of all, you don't want to do this in a quiet 20 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:53,840 solitude, a quiet isolated location. And I say this because you just want to, 21 00:01:53,840 --> 00:02:00,680 the creation of a routine is gonna take a lot of thinking. If you're trying to make an optimal routine, 22 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:05,880 it's gonna take a lot of thought. I don't know how long it took me to create this routine, 23 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,440 but I wrote, I filled in 24 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:15,120 four whole pages of my notebook and my notebook is pretty big. So I 25 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:21,480 wrote four pages worth of things and in some areas I was writing pretty small, but 26 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:32,280 let's talk the routine. First things first, what I like to do is I write down my weekly structure. And so 27 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:42,280 this routine creating skill is gonna get better and better the more you know about how to be productive and then the more you know about 28 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:48,880 health things like the more little pieces of information and knowledge you pick up, the better your 29 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:58,080 ability at this will be. Because the first thing I do is I write down all of the things that I want done 30 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:07,080 in the week. So all the things I want done during the week. So for me, this would be I want to record, I want to edit, 31 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:18,680 and I want to make thumbnails. And then some other things I said was read and a long idea generating time, 32 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:25,680 which is basically me sitting in my room coming up with ideas for the YouTube channel. But these are like four things 33 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:32,680 because I just batch together, read and idea generating. So these are the four things that I want done in the week. 34 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:43,680 Like these are just the four crucial things for my work. And as you can see, idea generating, record, edit, and thumbnail. 35 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:51,680 These are the things that get a YouTube channel developed. So these are the important things in the week. 36 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:59,680 And I put these in one column, and then I make another column where, well, actually, I don't do that yet. I actually 37 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:10,680 write out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. And the reason why I do this is because when you are coming up with 38 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:16,680 your things for the week, your main tasks, so for me, it was recording, editing, thumbnail, all these things. 39 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:24,680 When you're coming up with those, you're going to want to try and figure out how you can batch them together. 40 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:32,680 So you want to be, you want to have a day dedicated to one or the other if it can take up an entire day. 41 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:43,680 So for example, I, my like the ideal thing for me would be to have all of Monday dedicated to thumbnails, 42 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:53,680 all of Tuesday dedicated to thumbnails. And then that's simply because it's best to create the title and the thumbnail first in a 43 00:04:53,680 --> 00:05:02,680 YouTube video. But so that's why I have Monday and Tuesday dedicated to thumbnails. But I said all of that day, 44 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:11,680 and I'll get to that in a little bit. It's only like three hours. Because when we're going to make our actual schedule, 45 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:18,680 we're going to have an empty spot that's just going to be replaced by that day's work. 46 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:28,680 So Monday and Tuesday, and then you basically just fill in the most optimal days for your certain task. 47 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:37,680 And so once you've done this, you figured out what days you're going to do each task in the week. 48 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:50,680 Then you also want to figure out your gym routine. So you're basically your push, pull legs or whatever split you have in the gym, 49 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:56,680 assuming you're you go to the gym and lift weights, whatever split you have at the gym. 50 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:05,680 So for me, it's push, pull legs. So let's just run with that. You want to figure out what days you're going to do each of them on. 51 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:14,680 For me, I do push, pull legs and I only rest when I feel I need it. So I'm not always doing push on Monday or Tuesday. 52 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:21,680 It's like some days I'm doing push on Monday, some days it's Friday. It changes every week. 53 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:31,680 So it won't really work out for me with that. But the reason why I say this is because I just recently am trying to rework my gym routine, 54 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:42,680 which makes it so I'm trying to go early in the morning on before like at like 430 or 5. 55 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:50,680 And the reason why I say this is because it will have to be different on days that I go to the gym on the weekends, 56 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:56,680 because my gym doesn't wake up or my gym doesn't open on the weekends until six. But on the weekdays, it's 430. 57 00:06:56,680 --> 00:07:01,680 So you're going to have to figure out the weekend and weekdays. 58 00:07:01,680 --> 00:07:07,680 And then the next thing to do is to figure out your day to day routine. 59 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:17,680 So pretty much this whole time we've been focusing on our weekly routine, when we're doing specific tasks and on what day. 60 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:26,680 But now we focus on the day to day routine. And right now I'm doing the same routine every single day. 61 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:36,680 The only thing that's different is during my work time on some days I'm doing on Mondays, I'm doing thumbnails. 62 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:44,680 On Wednesdays, I'm doing editing and then recording and then Thursdays, I'm doing editing. 63 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:50,680 That's just the difference. And so you basically go through your day to day. 64 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:55,680 So first thing you do is you write down the time you're waking up. 65 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:04,680 So I have a specific time I like to wake up. And you want to have your wake up time and your bedtime the same even on the weekend. 66 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:12,680 So you want to wake up and go to bed at the same time for the entire week, the entire month. 67 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:20,680 You want to be consistent. And the thing is that a lot of people don't like to do that, but that is so valuable. 68 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:25,680 And so much so that I actually was sick recently, you might be able to hear it in my voice. 69 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:33,680 But I was sick over the past like four or five days and I still woke up at my same time. 70 00:08:33,680 --> 00:08:42,680 But since I was sick, I still needed more sleep. So I went to bed like an hour or two earlier than normal. 71 00:08:42,680 --> 00:08:45,680 So and I also took lots of naps during the day. 72 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:52,680 But that's pretty much like the waking up and going to bed at the same time on the weekends is very important. 73 00:08:52,680 --> 00:09:01,680 And then once you figure out your waking up time, you also jot down all of your pretty much guarantee things. 74 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:11,680 So for me, my waking up time is something that I need to have done every single day and also showering and brushing my teeth. 75 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:16,680 Like my morning routine needs to happen every single day. And that usually takes 30 minutes. 76 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:20,680 It's just showering and brushing my teeth and getting water and using the bathroom. That's all. 77 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:27,680 And so I pretty much have until 4.30 filled out because I wake up at 4 in the morning. 78 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:33,680 And then you also then you basically just create another list. 79 00:09:33,680 --> 00:09:38,680 So we go back and create another list. We probably should have done this first. 80 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:42,680 But you create another list of everything you want done in the day. 81 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:49,680 So this is going to be lunch, breakfast, dinner, gym, running, cardio. 82 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:56,680 Like these are all the main tasks. And then like reading here are some of the things I wrote down. 83 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:06,680 It's like shower, work, gym, breakfast, walk, rice, read, run, like all these things. 84 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:13,680 And you write down this list and then you start to think of the best order. 85 00:10:13,680 --> 00:10:25,680 And basically I wrote down a another kind of list of my most ideal times to do each of these things. 86 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:30,680 So I'm trying to find where I wrote it. But pretty much I wrote down like the gym. 87 00:10:30,680 --> 00:10:34,680 And then I wrote down work and I wrote down breakfast. 88 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:39,680 And so I wrote down like, when do I want this done? 89 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:44,680 So for me, gym, I've tried going to the gym in the morning. I've tried going to the gym in the afternoon. 90 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:48,680 And I just like to go to the gym early in the morning. 91 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:53,680 And so like pretty much first thing and that is that's where I put it. 92 00:10:53,680 --> 00:11:03,680 That's just where I prefer. Now there are there is things that say there are like science that says you should like, 93 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:10,680 or not science, but I've heard people say that you should do your work first or you should do whatever first. 94 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:16,680 To be honest, I just like to go to the gym early in the morning. So that's what I'm going to do it. 95 00:11:16,680 --> 00:11:26,680 And then you basically just go through like the easiest way to do this is just go through all of your daily items 96 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:34,680 that you want done every single day and just write down your preferred time that you do it. 97 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:41,680 So like the morning afternoon or during the during nighttime, like just write down your preferred time. 98 00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:48,680 It doesn't have to be an exact time. It can just be like early morning, late morning, night, like it just average. 99 00:11:48,680 --> 00:11:53,680 And then that will give you a clear like roadmap to start filling in your day. 100 00:11:53,680 --> 00:12:01,680 So then you basically I just start from the morning, like we've already written down bed like wake up time 101 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:06,680 and then we've already written down our so I just had a massive brain fart. 102 00:12:06,680 --> 00:12:11,680 But we've already written down our wake up time and then our morning routine. 103 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:15,680 And then we just have to go and fill in like after that. 104 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:20,680 So for me, I would just write down the gym next because that's what I want to do. 105 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:25,680 And then I have to figure out when do I want to do work? When do I want to do breakfast? 106 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:34,680 And so for me, I want to be fasted while I do work. So then I do work next and then I do breakfast after that. 107 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:41,680 And then you basically just go through and fill in the most things you want to follow certain rules when doing this. 108 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:48,680 The first rule is when do you want to do something like if you liked if you just like to go to the gym in the morning 109 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:53,680 or if you like to go in the afternoon, then fill it in into the afternoon. 110 00:12:53,680 --> 00:12:57,680 Unless you more desire optimum optimal. 111 00:12:57,680 --> 00:13:04,680 And then it's a different story. So let's say you believe it to be optimal to go to the gym in the afternoon, 112 00:13:04,680 --> 00:13:14,680 which for your goals, it may as well be depending on your goals going in the afternoon could be more optimal than going in the morning. 113 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:21,680 So then you have to decide whether you care more about being optimal or desire. 114 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:27,680 And I still feel like I'm getting I still am getting gains at the gym. 115 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:35,680 And for my goals, my YouTube is higher has a higher priority in my life right now. 116 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:45,680 And so I'm still I want to get the gym in the morning and then I want to work on YouTube right after because I found that I work way more clearly 117 00:13:45,680 --> 00:13:51,680 focused after I've worked and after I've worked out because then I'm like more awake and vigilant. 118 00:13:51,680 --> 00:14:06,680 So you just go through and fill in all of your time slots based off of desire or how you like want to do it or desire or optimal optimalness.