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Congratulations, you clicked on this
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taken the first step in getting your
life together, being more productive,
and finally just getting the work done,
achieving your dreams, okay? Because we
all know that procrastination is the
cost of the life you could have lived.
And even though we all know that, it
still doesn't stop us from
procrastinating. But guess what? I am
going to cuz I got all of the tips and
tricks and I'm going to spill all of the
secrets to you in this video. I
graduated from university last year and
I graduated with a first class degree.
Before that, when I was 16 and I was in
school, I got straight A's in my exams.
Right now, I'm a full-time content
creator. On top of that, I run my own
business. I have several streams of
income. So throughout each week I have
many tasks to juggle and organize and
just have my life together so that I can
be productive but also live my soft
skill life which is extremely important.
And this video is going to be talking
about my magic formula that I've learned
over years of studying doing essays
exams and also working. This formula is
rooted in the structure of your daily
routine. Because what a lot of people
get wrong about productivity is they
think oh I just have to work more. No,
it's actually your day-to-day habits
that you don't even think about that are
secretly having a knock- on effect on
your productivity. So, not only am I
going to be sitting here talking giving
you all of the secrets and advice like I
normally do, but throughout this video,
there will be vlog clips throughout to
show you what a productive day in the
life looks like for me, how I make my
daily routine work in my favor, as well
as many scientifically proven hacks to
help maximize your productivity. So,
consider this the last day of your lazy
lifestyle and the first of your success
story. But before we start, a quick
announcement. This video has kindly been
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done. But I'll show you a little bit
more about how they actually fit into my
routine later on in the video. The first
step to increasing productivity, waking
up early. How do I do it? It's so hard.
To be honest, I've always been a night
owl and I've hated the thought of waking
up early, but now I do it with ease. You
know why? Because I have a slow morning
with no work scheduled. That's the
secret. You are waking up for your own
enjoyment. And most importantly, when
you wake up early, you are about to
romanticize the hell out of your life.
Let me show you how it's done. [music]
No one wants to get out of bed when they
know they have to go to school as soon
as they do or they have to go to work or
they have a desk full of work emails,
tasks, and admin waiting for them. Ew.
Like, why would I want to wake up early
for that, you know? So, instead, I
prioritize doing something that I enjoy
in the morning. So, I literally leap out
of bed in excitement. But people don't
do that. They try to maximize their rest
and they're like, "Oh, I'll just wake up
20 minutes before so then I rush out of
bed, get ready, and then go to work."
Nuhuh. Because that means every day you
wake up, you're dreading the day ahead.
And that dread is what leads to
procrastination. The preferences for
everybody is going to be different. But
ultimately, the rule is to introduce
some magic into your day. Because when I
was a uni student and I hated studying,
I was no good at it. But I would wake up
every morning, I'd act like I was a
movie character, and I would play my
favorite song. I'd leap out of bed. I,
you know, I dance most mornings. I
literally wake up, I dance to Hannah
Montana. I start the day with the
feeling of happiness. And then as soon
as I get ready, I head to the gym first
thing in the morning. And I know what
you're thinking. That's work. That's
boring. That's a chore. It doesn't have
to be. I hated and dreaded the gym until
I reframe my mindset. Now, I don't go to
the gym to burn a certain amount of
calories or lose weight or make my body
look a certain way. I go for my mental
health. I go to chase the feeling of
happiness, accomplishment, and success.
I feel when I walk out of the gym and
I'm driving home. I don't stress about
having to build a bigger booty or
getting a flatter stomach. I don't care.
I do a workout of exercises that are
easy and that I enjoy because ultimately
exercise leads to a spike in
productivity. It's a proven fact that
exercise helps to create new
mitochondria, thus more energy. And more
energy means that we can work for longer
periods without that drop in
productivity and without becoming
stressed. That fact right there combined
with the fact that it's going to make
sure that my mental health stays stable
means I look forward to going to the gym
every day because I'm doing it for
myself. And then the next step in my
slow morning routine which is all about
happiness and prioritizing myself is
breakfast which I have made an enjoyable
task. And this is where we talk about
nutrients and it's linked to
productivity which is very important and
very overlooked. Most people eat
cereals, creps, or pastries for
breakfast, which actually make you feel
sluggish and impact your productivity
negatively. As a result, you need to
focus on low sugar like granola, eggs,
oats, avocado, and toast. I like to make
healthy high-fiber yogurt bowls or here
I'm making my favorite protein fruit
smoothie. Whatever you choose, just make
sure you avoid eating foods that are
high in added sugar because this will
spike your blood sugar causing you to
crash later and feel tired so you won't
work. like you're literally
self-sabotaging if you're not taking
care of what you eat throughout the day,
especially in the morning. So, I
actually don't go to the gym every day.
I do it every other day. So, on the days
that I haven't worked out first thing in
the morning and I haven't had my protein
shake, instead I'll make myself a iced
matcha latte and I really just
romanticize the process of making it.
And then the first thing I do after
waking up is sip on my matcha latte and
I'll read a book first thing in the
morning. And then that's my slow morning
routine with no work. And you know, if
you have a 9 to5, literally wake up one
hour earlier just to prioritize doing
something you enjoy. This is an actual
proven practice I've read in several
self-help books.
And did you know that getting ready,
like doing your hair, putting a little
bit of makeup on, putting a good outfit
on leads to increased productivity?
Because that boost in confidence when
you're feeling yourself leads to better
work. And this is so true because when I
try and be cozy and chill and I don't
even brush my hair and I try and work
all day in my pajamas at home, my brain
is still in chill mode. Like it hasn't
distinguished the change in my
priorities. Okay, in my head it's still
time to chill and lay in bed and do
nothing. So really putting on an outfit
and getting dressed signals to your
brain, okay, now it's time for a new
task. So after getting ready for the
day, I have task number one, which is
normally packaging orders for my jewelry
business and doing a post office run. I
use time restrictions. So, I will say I
have 45 minutes to pack all of these
orders and get them to the post office
or else. This links into a very popular
productivity method called time
blocking. And this is a time management
technique which will help you gain more
control over your to-do list and help
you procrastinate less. Whereas, if you
don't make this schedule and you just
think, yeah, okay, I have the whole 8 n
hour day to do all of these tasks. You
are more likely to procrastinate and
waste time because you have an infinite
sense of time as a result. So you should
be timing each of your tasks so that you
can set better boundaries. A very
important tip that links into this is
please do not say that you are going to
work the entire day. This is exactly
what breeds procrastination. Hours of
studying or working all day does not
equal success. Because think about it,
you could only study from 9:00 a.m. to
midday every single day. 3 hours of
uninterrupted, no distraction smart work
and you are already achieving more than
saying, "I'm going to study from 9:00
a.m. till 9:00 p.m. You're taking loads
of breaks. You're scrolling on your
phone. You're being distracted and it's
not focused productive work." And then
you're just wasting the whole day and
then you feel burnt out because you
haven't been resting and prioritizing
yourself. And then we have the crucial
task of staying organized and creating
productivity systems. It's actually very
simple. I use my Apple calendars app. I
create different colored calendars
according to all of the things I have to
balance in my life, whether that be
studying or my business or my social
media or my YouTube. I then use my time
blocking technique and I make sure I do
a little bit of each task every single
day. Because when you commit one day to
saying, "I'm going to do 8 hours of this
one task, you're going to get bored and
you're going to procrastinate." So, do
yourself a favor and create a schedule
that works for you. This might take some
trial and error, but you will be saving
yourself so much time in the long run.
When creating this productivity system,
I allow for flexibility because I want
to stay in my feminine energy while
working and achieving my goals. And this
means following my intuition rather than
logic and rigid order like the
masculine. It's also very important to
consider what kind of work you feel like
doing that day and play to your
strengths. Don't force yourself to do a
task that you have no capacity to do and
then instead waste the whole day trying
to do something you never wanted to do
in the first place. How do I beat
procrastination? How do I stay focused
and minimize distractions? I use this
hack all throughout my studying and I
still do it now when I have an extremely
busy workday that I just can't be
bothered to do. Okay? And it's called
Pomodoro timer. You Google it. It's free
and essentially this is a 25minut timer
and it makes working so much more
bearable. It literally destroys any need
for me to procrastinate cuz I'm like,
"Oh, I literally only need to do 25
minutes of work. Then I take a 5-minute
break or a 10-minute break depending on
where I'm at during the day. And then
it's just another 25 minute session
before I can take a break, take a walk,
eat a snack, whatever." This is such a
useful resource because it's literally
based on the very common hack of only
doing 5 minutes of the task that you're
procrastinating over because 99% of the
time, your biggest obstacle is just
starting. Once you've started, you're
fine. You've literally solved majority
of your problems just in those first 5
minutes. I reframed my mindset. So, when
I used to dread going to the gym in the
morning, I'd say, "All I have to do is
get ready right now and sit in my car.
That's it." Because once I've gotten out
of bed, I've gotten ready and I'm sat in
my car outside of the house. I'm not
going to walk back in the house. I can't
procrastinate. I've literally already
done the hardest part of the task. So,
if you're in school, reframe your
mindset. It's not, "Oh my god, I have to
study for 8 hours today." It's no, I
have to leave my house and go to the
library, sit in the library with my
laptop. That's it. So, don't focus on
the copious amount of work you have to
do because that's where dread and
procrastination comes into play. Just
focus on the first step. And then I have
a few other mini hacks to help with
beating procrastination. For example,
use pressure to your advantage. So, if
you're in school, study in the library
because all of the other students around
you, just them studying will pressure
you into typing and studying. If you all
sat there on your phone, this used to
happen to me all the time. I'd feel so
guilty for sitting on my phone when I
was in a room of students who were
studying. When I was 16, I used to set
up my phone and do a time lapse of me
recording because then I'd feel too bad
having to watch back the video after and
see me just sitting there doing
something else, watching YouTube on my
computer instead. I was literally
setting a competition with myself to see
how long I could study to keep this
video going. The biggest tip that helped
him was shutting down my phone, leaving
it in another room, or giving it to
another person, and telling them they
can't give it back to me for the end of
the day. And after this, it's lunchtime,
and we link nutrition to productivity.
Like I said before, it's now 1:00, and
once I've done those first few working
tasks, it's now time for lunch. And I
have been using HelloFresh, which has
very quickly become a part of my working
and productive routine. It saves me so
much time and stress while also
contributing to all of my fitness goals
because I'll exercise in the morning.
All of these meals look so good, but I
think today I'm going to go for the
glazed chicken on sundried tomato
couscous for lunch. The link between
productivity and nutrition is massively
overlooked. We already saw this in how I
do breakfast, but lunch and dinner can
be more difficult to plan, which is why
HelloFresh helps me. But all I want to
say is if you want to remain sharp and
focused, you have to stay away from
foods that will spike your glucose.
Because when you're stressed, okay, I
know this firsthand, it's easy to eat
comfort food and sweets, but what you're
doing is you're actually self-sabotaging
in the process. When you take care of
your nutrition and your gut health, your
energy levels, and your happiness will
be so much higher, and your work and
efficiency will benefit in the long run.
I cannot tell you how happy and
satisfied I am right now. Are you seeing
this, guys? Before HelloFresh, I used to
skip meals because I'd be so busy in my
day and I'd get so caught up in my
filming schedule that I wouldn't eat
because I'd literally just forget. And
when I did get hungry, I'd make a very
sad ham and cucumber sandwich. That is
not an exaggeration. Now, I'm out here
eating this the flavor. Now, let's
commit this portion of the video to
spilling all of my top productivity
secrets and hacks before I show you some
more vlog footage at the end of the
video. Okay, so tip number one is
creating an overall life system. Okay,
this is going to make just tackling life
every day so much easier. So, the life
system I've created for myself looks
like, okay, step number one, creating my
calendar, color coding it, time blocking
it every single week. That is a
non-negotiable. And then there's signing
up to services like HelloFresh, which
make meal time easier. And it means I'm
cutting out time and also still meeting
all of my health goals. And then there's
committing every evening and every
Saturday to doing things that spark joy.
You know, seeing friends, relaxing,
taking time for hobbies. I then commit
every Sunday to getting my life in
order, preparing everything for the week
ahead to make my life easier. So it's
not like, oh my god, I haven't hoovered
in ages. I haven't cleaned my bathroom.
I need to do this chore or this chore
randomly on random days. I also have a
habit tracker in my phone. So then I'm
ticking off other goals and being
productive about life with remembering
to take my supplements, remembering to
journal. The goal here is to prep so
that you can do yourself a favor and
take the thinking out of life. So like
you're creating all of these systems.
For example, having a habit tracker or
having a calendar so then you just know
what you have to do every single day and
you're not wasting time procrastinating
about, oh my god, I need to get my life
in order and be organized. Hack number
two is increasing motivation. For me, I
go on Tik Tok and I'll type in
motivational content, motivational
speeches, and I then have a collection,
like a favorites tab on my Tik Tok
profile where I've saved all of these
videos. Every single morning, as soon as
I wake up, instead of scrolling on
Instagram or Twitter or whatever, I
watch all of these videos. But other
than that, I do not rely on motivation.
It is fleeting. It's not sustainable
long-term. So, instead, I focus on
discipline. And everyone wants to know,
how can you become more disciplined?
Discipline is about mastering
self-control. And the way you do that is
you start practicing setting boundaries
with with yourself, saying no to
yourself, taking control over your life.
So if you want to have discipline in the
work you do and how productive you are,
you have to start small and create a
habit out of having that control over
yourself and your choices. So this
starts with this week, I'm just going to
be disciplined about waking up early
because once you accomplish that, you
start forming a habit out of being
disciplined and then that discipline
becomes easy for the big task like being
productive. three. But what if I have a
load of work to do and I literally have
to work for 12 hours a day? I have no
choice. I feel you because I left all of
my uni work to the very last minute and
this is how I managed to work very long
hour days. The key is creating
separation because if you stay at home,
if you stay in your bedroom, if I was to
work at that desk for 12 hours a day, it
does not work. It fails. I am setting
myself up for failure. Because you get
bored, your brain wants to give up. your
brain isn't stimulated. And this also
ties in with time blocking. So my advice
to you, and I did this while I was at
university, while I was doing my final
exams, I would spend the morning 9:00
a.m. till midday studying in my bedroom
at university. Then I would have lunch
at home, and then I would spend 1:00
p.m. till 4:00 p.m. working in a cafe.
Then I would go home, eat dinner, and
then I would spend another 3 to 4 hours
at my university library. Okay? Now
that's taken a full 12-hour day of work
into three 3 to 4hour blocks where I am
in different locations. Every time you
create that separation between each task
and each location, you are kind of like
refreshing your mind, refreshing your
environment, and it doesn't feel like
you've been working all day because now
you have new stimuli. And you know, you
only have 3 hours of work in that place
before you have to get up, eat, and then
move to the next location, which gives
you that time restriction and helps with
the time blocking. When you wake up
thinking, I'm just going to sit at that
desk for 12 hours. Once again, you have
that infinite sense of time and that's
what breeds procrastination. Four, I
can't work properly because I have fear
of failure. I feel you. I feel you
because I struggled with this for so
long and this is how I overcame it.
Journal. Write a text in your phone.
Write it down. Okay? You are going to
keep talking to yourself and questioning
what the root is of this fear of
failure. For example, why do I fear
this? What is the worst case scenario?
What is the best case scenario? Why do I
feel I am not capable of doing well at
this? In that case, how could I better
prepare for this task to feel more
confident in doing so? Keep questioning
until you destroy the fear of failure
with logic. And also remember,
procrastination is just the cause of the
fear that you don't know how to do
something. So question it, why don't I
know how to do this? And also remember,
you are never going to know how to do
something unless you take the first step
to try. And like I said before, it all
links into the first five minute rule.
Taking that first step sets you on a
roll. Six. But how can I be productive
when I'm sad, I have low mood, so I just
literally don't have the energy to even
get up and do it. You're going to take
one day to prioritize yourself. Do the
things that spark joy. Even if that's
laying in bed, eating popcorn, watching
Netflix, that's okay. This is a you day.
And then the next day, you can start
working. And I promise you, when you
wake up on that next day, you're going
to be ready because you're going to be
refreshed. And I know what you're
thinking. I can't waste a whole day not
doing anything, not being productive.
Yes, you can. One day is not going to
make a significant difference in the
entire trajectory of your life. Your
mental health comes first. Your purpose
and work as a human being is not tied to
how productive and how much work you get
done every single day. And then seven,
how do I factor in rest on a regular to
actually have a balanced work life
schedule? This is crucial to not be
burnt out, okay? Because if you are
going to overwork yourself and believe
that you do have to work 12 hours every
day, you're you're doing yourself a
disservice in the long run. And the only
key to be consistent in being productive
and maintaining productivity is rest and
regular breaks and balance. That's how
you be consistent. You absolutely must
make the time in your daily schedule to
bring comfort back into your life and
appreciate the little joys. That's
what's going to create happiness and
keep you going long term. And if you
still don't understand the purpose of
that or how that links into your
productivity, think of it like a reward.
On the days that you don't feel
motivated and you don't want to get the
work done, you going to use those little
joys and that comfort and that social
interaction, whatever you choose as the
thing that will get you through that
working day. And I do this all the time.
Okay, one of my favorite things to do is
take myself on a little solo day. I'll
go to a Starbucks drive-thru. It's
literally my favorite place. I park up
my car, I watch the sunset, I drink my
favorite drink, and I journal. This
reward motivates me to get through the
working day and work smarter and not
harder. It prevents me from
procrastinating. So, I actually get the
reward and it gives me more of a life
balance so I feel refreshed and happy
every day. Journaling during this is my
favorite peaceful practice. It allows me
to just be present with myself and my
emotions. I also journal for
accountability, right? And this also
motivates me throughout the working day
to not procrastinate and achieve my work
goals to be productive. And I'll
literally I know every time I journal
every day, no matter what I do before
bed, I'll journal. I have to write.
Okay, so I had this goal for today,
which I wrote in my journal last night,
I did it or I didn't do it. And because
I know I'm going to be journaling at the
end of the day, I know how shitty I'm
going to feel if I know I spent the
whole day procrastinating. Cuz if I
spent the whole day scrolling on TikTok,
I have to write that down. And writing
it down and being aware of the fact that
you really didn't show up for yourself
today, it makes you feel bad, right?
It's like you're your own accountability
partner. And then my final productivity
tip, which ties into routine again, is
having a good night routine, which is
also tied into joy and self-love and
excitement. Just like with my morning
routine, I want it to be slow. Okay?
It's not about work. It's about building
up my energy for the day. The same as
with night, it's about winding down
properly. So when I wake up, I'm not
like, "Oh my god, I didn't even get
rest. I didn't even get to watch TV. I
don't want to spend a whole other day
hustling again. So, I'll make myself a
cup of tea. I'll lay in bed. I'll have
my favorite pajamas on. I'll maybe watch
some Netflix or read a book and allow
myself to fully wind down. That way, I'm
well rested for my busy day the next
day, and I won't be mad about it. And
then I go to sleep, I wake up, and I do
the whole routine again. And that brings
us to the end of this video. I hope you
guys enjoyed it and learned some new
tips. If you did, comment down below and
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next video. I appreciate you for being
here. Thanks for watching. Bye. [music]
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