Practice #55 - Plan Every Minute Of Your Day

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About a month ago, I read a book called Deep Work.

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And that is basically a book that tells you how to achieve focused success in a distracted

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world.

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It's how to be focused.

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So I'm reading this book and I'm like, okay, I'm going to apply everything that he tells

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me to do.

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And I've pretty much already applied most of the things.

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And that's kind of what I noticed by the end of the book.

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It's kind of a waste of time, but I'm glad I read it because now I am more conscious

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about why I'm able to focus so well.

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But there was one thing in particular that he said in that book.

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He said, this is the most important thing for you to apply.

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And if you don't apply anything else and you just apply this, I will have done a good job.

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I will have, like, this is all that matters.

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And it was basically to schedule every minute of your day, which I've done before and it

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really worked well.

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I pretty much do the same thing over and over again every single day.

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And so all of my days look identical.

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So I really only have to do it once and then it works until I change my routine.

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And so I had already done it by the time I read that.

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And then eventually I changed my routine and I didn't actually do it again.

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And at this point, my things are kind of starting to fall apart.

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I freed up so many hours in my day by getting rid of something.

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I didn't really know what to fill it with.

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So I was kind of just like floating around my days.

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I was just floating.

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I was like, yeah, I could do this.

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I could do that.

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I didn't know what to do.

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I ended up just like sitting around doing nothing.

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I wasn't wasting time on my phone.

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I was just like wasting time doing nothing, literally just sitting there doing nothing,

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like eating food or staring at a wall, which is a good use of time.

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But like, come on, I wasn't really making that as much progress as I should be.

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And then I went to the park with my friend and he said, schedule every minute of your

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day because we had both read deep work.

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He was just reminding me to do this.

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Like he said that it's a game changer because he just did it.

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And I was like, yeah, I mean, maybe I'll think about it.

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Not really with any intention to do it.

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And then the next day I was sitting staring at a wall, ironic, but I was staring at a

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wall in my room and I was just like, I was pondering that event.

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It just came up into my memories and I was thinking, oh, maybe I should do that.

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So now I was just sitting there and I was like, okay.

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And then I decided to do it.

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So I got on my notebook, got on my pen and sat there for like an hour, probably not an

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hour, but I sat there for a long time, literally listed all of the things that I want done

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every day, all the things that I do on specific days of the week.

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And I came through a comprehensive full schedule of everything.

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And my earlier schedule, the last time I did this was highly focused on editing because

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I'm a YouTuber.

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And so I wanted to get really good at editing and I wanted to make very good edits, but

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I got rid of that completely because that's a whole different story.

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But I got rid of editing and now I have so much time to fill my day.

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So I have to ask myself, like, what's the most important thing for me to focus on right

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now?

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Because before it was editing, but now it's not.

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What's the most important thing now?

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In 10X is easier than 2X, Dr. Benjamin Hardy said, this is like your 80% and your 20%.

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80% of your day is filled with tasks that are giving you 20% of the rewards, but then

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those 20% of your day is you completing tasks that give you 80% of the rewards.

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So when I was scheduling my day, I had a very unique opportunity.

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I had the opportunity to schedule the majority of my day as that tiny 20%.

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So then that means the majority of my day would give me the large rewards.

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So this was my unique opportunity.

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And what was the thing that I had to focus on?

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Well it was storytelling.

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I decided to fill in my entire day with storytelling.

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Practicing on camera just like this.

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Practicing out loud, literally talking to myself, stories.

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That's what I do.

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I literally just practice talking to myself, stories, walking around the park at 6 in the

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morning and also walking around the park in the afternoon or actually in the morning.

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But it feels like the afternoon because I wake up so early.

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But that is what I do, storytelling.

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Better on camera, getting better on camera, telling better stories, being a great storyteller

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because that is what differentiates you from the pack.

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If you're a YouTuber at least.

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If you're literally anybody, storytelling is how you differentiate yourself.

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You get a better job.

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You can impress your girlfriend.

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You can impress other people.

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You can impress your boss.

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You can get a raise.

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You can do anything with storytelling.

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And that is what I realized.

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And I'm very grateful that I did that yesterday because now I have a very specific schedule

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to get better at storytelling.

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Literally my entire day is focused on storytelling.

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That's all I think about.

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The morning, I work out and I'm literally talking to myself because I work out outside

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at 5 in the morning so I can literally say things to myself and no one can hear.

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So I literally just walk around the place that I work out at outside, which is a park.

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And I literally just say stories that I come up with from the day before.

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And then after that, I come home and practice and review footage of me telling stories and

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then review other people's footage of them telling stories.

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And then I record myself and I practice.

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There's this guy that I'm taking a lot of knowledge from.

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I'm studying his channel.

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His name is Hoff.

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He had one video blow up and all of his other videos did terrible.

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So that tells me that he had a framework in that video.

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So I'm trying to figure out what that framework is and I'm trying to apply it to my own videos.

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I actually did it into the beginning of this video and I'm doing it for the rest of this

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video also.

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It's kind of like the framework of this video.

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I'm trying to figure out what made his video successful and that's why I'm doing it.

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And that's what I'm doing on this one.

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And then after that, I'm pretty much practicing storytelling, learning about storytelling

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or thinking about storytelling my entire day.

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If I'm not doing any of that, I'm thinking about it.