How I Manage My Time - 10 Time Management Tips (2)
people imagine that,
"Oh, well I can't afford to delegate something.
I don't have enough money to delegate to hire someone."
And sure, that's probably true
but the way that I think of it,
even when the YouTube channel wasn't successful
was like, what is actually the dollar value of my time?
How much is my time actually worth?
And when it came to running my business,
I decided that, okay, my time is worth 20 pounds an hour
or $25 an hour.
And that means that anything I'm doing
that I don't enjoy, that I can outsource to someone,
that I can delegate for less than $25 an hour
I absolutely should do that.
And that principle of delegation
has encouraged me to get a cleaner
which has been great because now we have someone
who comes in to clean the house every other week
which means I don't have to do it myself.
And back in the day when I was building my businesses
from the ground up,
and there was lots of things that needed to be done,
like data entry or things like that.
I was able to delegate those to freelancers
in like the Philippines or in Bangladesh or in India
through upwork.com or fiverr.com
and like paying them like $7 an hour
is an amazing like wage for someone,
for work in the Philippines.
But it was fantastic for me because it freed up my time
to do things that were adding more value to the business
and to my life than doing data entry, for example.
And so whatever your circumstances are,
I'd encourage you to think about
what is the dollar value of your time.
And potentially if you want,
can you delegate stuff that's cheaper than that
to other people potentially.
Tip number nine for time management
is to try and automate scheduling as much as possible.
Now that we're in the world of like Zoom calls
and like chatting to people over the internet
basically every day, I found I was wasting a lot of time
in scheduling back and forth where it'd be like,
"Hey, I wanna talk to you,
but like, are you free this time,
Pacific time, this time, Eastern time
this time, British Standard time," all this kind of stuff.
And we'd go back and forth with emails
for like a solid 10 days before anything would get done.
But then I discovered an app called Calendly,
and Calendly is great.
It's free for like the free version.
I pay for the pro version these days.
It's not sponsoring this video
or anything like that unfortunately.
Calendly if watching this, let me know.
But the idea behind Calendly
is you conditionally send someone a link
and it has like all of your availability
and they can just book a slot in your calendar.
Now this feels a little bit weird to do.
Initially, it feels like a bit of a power move that,
"Hey, book a slot on my calendar."
But anytime I get the Calendly link from someone I'm like,
"Oh my God, I'm so grateful."
Because this has literally saved me 20 minutes of my life ,
time that I'm never gonna get back
and not having to worry about scheduling
back and forth emails.
Even sometimes these days when it comes to
like catching up with friends,
I just send them a calendar link
and I'm like, "Look, so hey man, I'm really sorry.
But like here's the Calendly link.
I know we're never gonna talk
because the schedules are never gonna align.
But if there's a time that works for you
click on this link."
And he books a time and we have cool.
And it's nice.
'Cause I've caught up with so many more friends
in the last few months through using Calendly links
than I did in the last like three years
of having to schedule back and forth with WhatsApp messages.
And finally, principle number 10 for time management.
And this is something I've only recently
started to appreciate, which is that like
when you're like a productivity nerd
and you're interested in like efficiency
and getting more done.
It's very easy for us to get to the end of the day
and to just feel chronically dissatisfied
with what we've accomplished.
Like at the end of the day, it's like,
"Oh, well, I filmed one video today
but I could have filmed five videos.
What's wrong with me? Such a waste man."
And kind of internally beating ourselves up about this.
But one thing I've started to kind of tell myself recently
is that I can choose to be satisfied at the end of the day.
At the end of this day, I'll have filmed this video.
I was planning to film three more videos,
but I didn't get around to doing those.
That's fine. I filmed one.
I can choose to be satisfied
with what I've done and that's all good.
And like, it doesn't change how much work I've done
by me beating myself up about it.
It just makes me feel bad.
And therefore, I can choose to feel good
with how I've managed my time.
If you're interested in more strategies
on how to manage your time,
I actually have three whole online courses
themed around productivity and time management
that are hosted on Skillshare.
No, they're not sponsoring this video,
but if you hit the link in the video description,
there'll be a link that gives you a free trial to Skillshare
where you can check out my three classes on productivity.
One of them is about the fundamentals of productivity.
One of them is about the productivity equation
which is my personal mental model for productivity.
And the third one is one that I've released very recently
like last week around productivity for creators
and how we manage our time doing this
like creative high side hustle entrepreneur type stuff.
So check that out with the links in the video description.
And if you want more tips for time management
and general productivity,
you should check out my book review
and summary of the book "Make Time"
which is one of my favorite productivity books of all time.
And that will be linked right over there.
So thank you so much for watching.
Have a great day and I'll see you in the next video.
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