![]() ![]() Have vision beyond your current circumstances. ✍️ Quote of the Weekīe more intentional about who you want to become. □ How to Make 3k per Month – The Digital Nomad Playbook Imagine having the freedom and flexibility to work on your own terms… In this video I want to give you a step by step framework to get to that point. Having clear surfaces has been a major quality-of-life upgrade. I recently bought one of these to keep under my desk, and stash all the papers that tend to clutter my desk and floor. Especially if nobody is holding us accountable, and there’s no immediate urgency. Great article about how easy it is to ignore important long-term goals. □ Article – Macro Procrastination by Neel Nanda. SGTCIY had an enormous impact on me when I read it back in 2017, and helped me make loads of career decisions. I recently looked over my Readwise highlights from this book for an upcoming video. □ Book – So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport. We talked about ‘solitude skills’, why we need alonement in our daily lives, and how to turn loneliness into positive solitude. Francesca’s the author of Alonement: How To Be Alone And Absolutely Own It, where she celebrates the transformative power of spending time alone. □️ Deep Dive Podcast – Francesca Specter on How To Be Alone And Happy. Thanks to Notion for sponsoring this issue of Sunday Snippets □ ♥️ My Favourite Things Get started on Notion today for free using my link. But I give my pages some character by adding emojis and images.įor more ideas, Notion has a massive online community creating page templates (check out my free set of YouTube creator templates). It’s a super-clean and minimalist app by default. You can use kanban boards, video embeds, smart spreadsheets – the list goes on. My favourite thing about Notion is how easy it is to customise workflows. It’s also game-changing for planning personal projects like holidays, workouts, and meal prep. I use it for all my creative and business projects, including: ![]() ![]() Notion is an incredible productivity app. It’s literally as easy as creating a new calendar (Google, iCal, piece of paper), spending 15 minutes brainstorming your ideal week, then trialling your system and making tweaks along the way. There literally aren’t enough hours in the day. This stops me from taking on too many tasks, then getting annoyed at myself for not having enough time. So I’ll think “well I need to make space for this”.Īnd if I don’t have space, then I think “that’s okay, it’s not a priority compared to these other things that I either have to do, or want to do”. If I want to take on a new thing, I look at my calendar and see that most of the space is blocked out. The calendar acts as a gatekeeper for my time. At 10pm, for example, I get a calendar notification saying ‘No more devices, bed and reading.” And I think “huh that’s a good idea – I think I will do that.’ It’s a gentle suggestion from my intentional self. The events on my calendar give my useful nudges. The simple act of constructing my ideal week makes me to think more intentionally about life, and how I’d like to spend my time. ![]() This Ideal Ordinary Week method has helped me in 3 main ways: Recording Not Overthinking on Wednesday (during the breakfast slot). Part-Time YouTuber Academy sessions instead of workouts on Monday + Tuesday.I’ve moved things around a bit to account for real life: Here’s what my real calendar looks like for 5-11 December: So this is more of a goal-setting activity, to know what you’re working towards. So I had to fit everything else in around that. Phase 2 – Ideal ordinary week in the future.Ī year from now, or 3 years from now, what would you love a normal week to look like? For me, there’s now not much difference between “ideal week right now” and “ideal week in the future” (other than wanting to have kids some day, which is going to change it).īut when I had a day job, 10 hours of each weekday were “used up” on average. This will help you make time for stuff that really matters. Once you’re done, move those blocks to your real calendar and set them as recurring events. Trying to imagine your ideal week right now, accounting for all the constraints of your current life. I recommend drafting your ideal ordinary week in two phases: Here’s how my Ideal Ordinary Week looked when I drafted it a couple of weeks ago, for example: 30 mins of reading each night, and lights off at 11pm.8-9am every Tuesday and Thursday for exercise.Then create a blank Google Calendar and block out reasonable times for your top priorities. Imagine your ideal week, with all the activities you’d make time for – work, exercise, time with family, hobbies etc. To be more intentional with my time, I’ve started using a method called the ‘Ideal Ordinary Week’. ![]()
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