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00:00Hey friends, welcome back to the channel.

00:01So over the last decade, I have experimented

00:04with dozens and dozens of strategies for managing my time.

00:07And I've been doing that because time management

00:08is I think one of the most important skills

00:10that we can develop and build in the world today.

00:12And it's because fundamentally,

00:13time is our single most valuable non-renewable resource.

00:16We can always make more money,

00:17but we can never make more time.

00:18And so really the skill of time management

00:20is in being able to make the best use of that time,

00:23not necessarily for only doing productive things,

00:25but instead to use that time intentionally and effectively.

00:28So in this video,

00:29I'm gonna talk you through my Trident method,

00:30which is a sort of three pronged method for time management.

00:33And I'll show you exactly how I use these different methods

00:36in my life to manage my own time.

00:37And in the video description,

00:38I've also linked completely for free the templates

00:40that you can use to incorporate this into your life

00:42if you would like as well.

00:44So this aspect of the strategy was a total game changer

00:46when I actually tried bullet journaling last year.

00:49Now bullet journaling is a somewhat fancy

00:50pen and paper method of productivity,

00:52but it's sort of been co-opted over the years

00:54by artists and people making ridiculously fancy

00:58and beautiful looking bullet journal spreads.

01:00And I was super enamored by this and thought,

01:01you know what, I'm gonna try the bullet journal method.

01:03And so for the final four months of 2022,

01:05I painstakingly bullet journaled basically every day,

01:08and I sunk so many hours into my bullet journal method.

01:10And it was really good,

01:11but there was one aspect of the bullet journal method

01:13that completely changed the game for my time management.

01:16And that was this view, the year at a glance.

01:18Now the point of this view is that you split up

01:20the entire year into these different columns.

01:22And so you end up having 12 columns

01:24that show the different months,

01:25and then one to 31 down the side

01:27that show you the different dates.

01:28And so what you end up with is these 366 blocks.

01:31Now, when I did this,

01:32when I did the bullet journal technique,

01:33this immediately gave me incredible insight and clarity

01:35into what the rest of my year was gonna look like,

01:38because this is not really a view

01:39that we see particularly often.

01:41If for example, you use Google Calendar or something,

01:43you tend to be stuck in the weekly view

01:44or in the monthly view.

01:45And even if you have like a physical annual calendar,

01:48you tend to flip the pages.

01:49And so you never really see your entire year

01:51just laid out on a single page or two pages.

01:53So in January of this year,

01:54I decided I wanted to have a more digital way

01:56of having this kind of view in my life.

01:58And so I decided to just make a Google Sheet out of it.

02:01I think these days it's too easy to default to fancy apps

02:04and like, oh, what's the latest thing here?

02:05But I thought, you know what?

02:06A spreadsheet just does the job totally fine.

02:08And so I literally just went through on Google Sheets

02:10and I created one of these year at a glance templates.

02:13And this is what the blank version of this looks like.

02:15So as you can see, we've got the months down the top,

02:18we have color coded the months in like pretty colors,

02:20and we've got the weekends color coded as well.

02:22And this is the template that you can download.

02:23Just hit the link in the video description.

02:24It's completely free

02:25and you can duplicate this into your own Google Sheet account

02:28if you would really like to.

02:29And this is what my version of this actually looks like.

02:31And I use this in two specific ways to manage my time.

02:33Firstly, it's really helpful for zooming out

02:35and getting a bird's eye view of my entire year

02:38so I can use it to plan my life.

02:39I'm filming this video, for example, in April,

02:41but I already know that this is the stuff

02:42that's kind of going on in May.

02:43And in June, I'm going to Austin for a bit.

02:46And then I've got this block of time

02:47to go on an adventure with some friends.

02:49And then I'm going on a retreat to LA later in June.

02:51And this is so helpful to get an idea of A, where things are

02:54and B, it then allows me to plan things

02:55like weekend group trips with friends

02:57or being able to plan holidays in advance

02:59so I can block out the time.

03:00I then reflect those changes in my actual Google Calendar

03:03so the team knows exactly what's going on in my life.

03:05And I found this to be a ridiculously effective way

03:06of managing my time on a macro scale.

03:08And to make this easier to deal with,

03:09what you can do is when the months are gone,

03:12you can just right click, you can hide those columns.

03:14And now it's just way easier to see exactly

03:16what's going on in a given month

03:17and then what's going on for the rest of the year.

03:19So that's how I manage my time

03:20on the level of the whole year.

03:21Let's now move on to the level of a single week.

03:24But I've got to go somewhere right now, be right back.

03:26Good morning, it's a new day.

03:27And we are talking about component number two

03:29which is all about ideal week planning.

03:31Now here's the context behind this.

03:32So essentially we all have these goals and plans and stuff

03:35that we wanna get done.

03:36Now, please don't cancel me for saying this

03:38but there are literally just 24 hours in a day

03:40and we all have to decide how we're gonna make

03:42the most use of that time.

03:43If for example, you have three personal assistants

03:45and five private chefs and stuff,

03:47then obviously you will have more of those 24 hours

03:49that are free to do things that you want to do

03:51rather than do things like laundry and cooking

03:52and cleaning and stuff.

03:54But fundamentally those 24 hours or 168 hours a week

03:57are basically the same for everyone.

03:58And assuming you're sleeping for eight hours every night,

04:00we all basically have 112 hours in a given week

04:03that we can play with.

04:04And the point of component number two

04:05is that we wanna define the ideal week,

04:07i.e. our absolute ideal allocation of those 112 hours

04:11per week.

04:12And this is a method I've been using

04:13for the last eight months or so

04:14ever since I started working with my CEO coach,

04:16Eric Pateko.

04:17And Eric has worked with a couple of hundred CEOs

04:19of really high growth companies

04:21and me.

04:22And this is one of the methods

04:23that he asks all of his clients to do.

04:24And apparently it's a method that always gets some results

04:26and it's certainly gotten me a lot of results

04:28over the last eight months.

04:28And so instead of you having to pay several thousand dollars

04:31an hour for Eric's time,

04:32I'm just gonna teach you the method straight up.

04:34And it's actually fairly straightforward to do.

04:35All it involves is going on Google Calendar

04:38and it involves creating a new calendar

04:39so that you've got a completely fresh slate

04:41where you can do your ideal week plan.

04:43Cool, so I've now created Ali's ideal week

04:44and now you can see it's shown up

04:45in my Google Calendar right here

04:47and this is completely free.

04:48Everyone can use Google Calendar.

04:49You don't have to pay a penny ever at all.

04:52Now at the moment, my life is a little bit of a mess

04:53because of the YouTuber Academy happening

04:55and because of all the book stuff going on

04:57and all the meetings with the editors and agents

04:59and all of that fun stuff.

05:00And so what can often happen

05:01is that I actually don't have that ideal lunch hour

05:04in which I'd like to cook a healthy lunch.

05:05And so instead, a product that I've been finding

05:07a lot of use of is in fact Huel

05:08who are very kindly sponsoring this video.

05:09Now I've actually been a paying customer of Huel since 2017

05:12and since my penultimate year of medical school.

05:14And actually when I first started this YouTube channel

05:16six years ago, I've been taking Huel fairly regularly.

05:18And there's broadly two types of Huel that I really enjoy.

05:20The first one is Huel Black,

05:21which is often what I have in the mornings

05:23as part of my morning routine.

05:24It's 40 grams of protein, 400 calories.

05:26I just add water,

05:27blend it up in the Nutribullet blender thingy.

05:29And then it turns into a genuinely tasty smoothie

05:31that has all of the right macros

05:33and all of the micronutrients that I might need for the day.

05:35And the other Huel product that I get a lot of value out of

05:37is the Huel Ready to Drink.

05:40And again, I've been getting deliveries of this ever since.

05:42I don't quite think this started in 2017

05:44because this wasn't a thing in 2017.

05:46I think like since 2020, this has been a thing

05:49and I've been getting regular deliveries of these.

05:49And it's basically a whole meal

05:51that's 100% nutritionally complete in a single bottle.

05:53And if on a given day,

05:54I don't have time to have a proper lunch,

05:56then the Huel Ready to Drink

05:57is an absolutely fantastic lifesaver.

05:58My favourite flavour is banana.

05:59I think that's the best one,

06:00but all of the others are pretty tasty as well.

06:02Now, the best way of trying these,

06:03I'd say is the variety pack

06:04because it gives you like three bottles

06:06of all of the four different flavours.

06:07If you're interested in trying out

06:08any of these Huel products, including Huel Ready to Drink,

06:10then do hit the link in the video description.

06:12And if you use that link,

06:12then you will get two free products

06:14along with your Huel order.

06:15You will get a free t-shirt, which is genuinely good

06:17and it's nice and elastic-y

06:18and like makes you look hench,

06:19which is a fantastic like quality t-shirt.

06:21And you'll also get a shaker

06:22so that if you don't wanna use

06:23a like Nutribullet blendery type thing,

06:25you can just like put the thing,

06:26put the powder into the water in the shaker, shake it up.

06:28And now you have a nutritionally complete meal

06:30that's basically ready to go.

06:31So thank you so much Huel for sponsoring this video.

06:33And the point here is that basically I wanna define

06:35what are the containers of time

06:37where in an absolutely ideal week,

06:39not necessarily a perfect week,

06:40but in an ideal ordinary week,

06:42how would I choose to be spending my time?

06:44So for example, I've decided that like in my ideal week,

06:47Monday through to Friday,

06:48I'd like to wake up at seven o'clock

06:49and then I'd like to have the first hour of the day

06:51for my morning routine.

06:52And this is a thing I'd like to happen every day

06:53and so I'm gonna repeat this daily

06:55and I'm gonna give it this yellow color

06:56because that like signifies the sunrise

06:58or something like that.

06:58And you know what?

06:59Why not add an emoji to it

07:00just to make this a bit more fun?

07:01So we can see that this has now shown up

07:03across my ideal week.

07:04And because I wanna get my eight hours of sleep,

07:05I wanna aim to be asleep by 11 p.m.

07:07And therefore I wanna be starting

07:08to get ready for bed around 10,

07:10doing my reading, nighttime routine, all that fun stuff.

07:12And I'm gonna repeat this every single day

07:14and I'm gonna give this a lavender color

07:15to signify nighttime.

07:16Fantastic, so we now have a block for waking up

07:18and we have a block for sleeping.

07:19And now I can figure out

07:20what I want my ideal ordinary week to look like

07:22in the rest of the time.

07:23I've decided that in my dream world

07:24from eight till nine every morning,

07:26I'd like to do breakfast and journaling.

07:27And in that block,

07:28I could maybe have a breakfast meeting with someone

07:30or maybe go for a walk.

07:31And then I want my actual quote workday

07:32to start at 9 a.m. every day.

07:34And so based on my own energy levels,

07:36how would I like my ideal workday to go?

07:38Now, obviously this is gonna vary a bit

07:39depending on how much control you have

07:41over your own schedule.

07:42For example, when I worked as a doctor,

07:43I just had my entire block being like nine to five workday

07:46or whatever the shift was.

07:47And then I would just have to do

07:48whatever just happened on the day.

07:50I couldn't quite decide.

07:51You know what?

07:52These are my four hours of deep work time.

07:53But as an entrepreneur,

07:54I can decide how I spend my time.

07:56And actually increasingly in jobs,

07:57especially in knowledge work,

07:58you actually do have the ability

08:00to talk to your boss or your manager and say,

08:01hey, this is how I work best.

08:04I would love it if we can kind of find a way

08:05to fit my calendar around this.

08:07And then obviously based on the needs of the business

08:09and of the team or whatever,

08:10things will have to adjust accordingly.

08:12And so I've added in the blocks

08:13for the weekly team meeting,

08:14weekly team lunch, weekly content squad meeting,

08:17and my two meetings a week with Angus,

08:18who's my general manager.

08:19And I've added in the blocks

08:20for when I wanna have lunch roughly

08:22and the blocks for when I wanna have dinner on weekdays.

08:24And this is already very helpful

08:25because now I can see what is the other time

08:27that I have to play with.

08:28And then I can adapt this ideal ordinary week

08:30based on how I'd actually wanna spend that time.

08:32And so Tuesdays to Fridays, for example,

08:33I wanna have several hours in the morning

08:35as a deep work block for writing.

08:37And in my ideal week, I'd like to do a gym session

08:39Tuesday afternoon, Thursday afternoon,

08:41and maybe Saturday morning

08:42if I happen to be free on the Saturday morning.

08:44Now, the other main thing I need to do in my workday

08:45is filming.

08:46And so I'm gonna put in my various filming blocks

08:48into the calendar.

08:49And obviously this workday schedule

08:50is very specific for me

08:51because basically all I have to do in my job

08:53is writing and filming.

08:54But if your job is a little bit different than that,

08:56then maybe you might have a block for checking Slack

08:58or checking emails.

08:59And you might do that once or twice a day

09:01so that you're batching those interruptible activities

09:04and you're not just spending your entire day

09:05being like derailed by all the various emails

09:07coming your way.

09:08Alternatively, maybe you have more meetings than I do

09:09and therefore you have more meetings in the calendar

09:11at all the different blocks.

09:12The point is mold this to whatever works for you.

09:14But the point is we wanna create these containers

09:16within our ideal week,

09:17where in an ideal ordinary week,

09:19we would be intentionally using our time in this way.

09:22And what you can base these containers on

09:23is firstly, what are the constraints of your job?

09:25But also how are your own energy levels?

09:27Like if you're managing your own energy,

09:29do you do your best creative work in the morning

09:31or in the evening?

09:32Do you have a slump after lunch?

09:33And therefore maybe you wanna take calls then

09:35rather than do particularly deep work.

09:37And the great thing about this and what I do

09:38is that I also intentionally schedule in

09:40the personal life and relationship stuff

09:42that I wanna put into my ideal week.

09:43So for example, in my case,

09:44ideally every Thursday evening is date night.

09:47So I know that I have that fully scheduled in the calendar

09:49and now the rest of my life can fit around that.

09:51And then on Monday evenings as well,

09:53I'd like to go to a kickboxing class

09:54and have a mini date night as well.

09:55In my ideal week, Tuesday evenings would for example,

09:58be a social dinner with friends

10:00because I'm trying to learn how to cook

10:01and I like having friends over.

10:02And so I've decided to just by default,

10:04every Tuesday evening is gonna be free

10:05so that I've got an easy slot

10:07where if a friend is visiting London

10:09or if I wanna invite people over,

10:10just by default, I don't have to think too hard about it,

10:12it's a Tuesday evening

10:13and conveniently the cleaner rocks up on a Wednesday

10:15and so I can leave the kitchen in a mess

10:16and then the cleaner will sort it out.

10:18That's fantastic stuff.

10:19I might decide on Wednesday evenings by default,

10:20I'd like to drive home to have dinner

10:22with my mom and grandma.

10:23And I might decide to leave weekends completely free

10:25for friends and family

10:26and other things in life that are happening.

10:27Now having this laid out in front of me

10:29is incredibly useful

10:30and this is in fact the system

10:31that I follow basically every week.

10:33And then obviously there's other stuff

10:34that kind of derails this sometimes.

10:35Sometimes there's an urgent meeting

10:37that can't be missed

10:38or sometimes I have to go pick up my mom from the airport

10:39and then a filming block gets derailed.

10:41But the point is I have defined the parameters

10:43of my ideal ordinary week

10:44and now I don't need to be fully wedded to them

10:46but at least I've actively decided

10:48that on average, on a Wednesday morning,

10:49I'd like to be doing a deep work block of writing

10:51because that's the main thing

10:53that moves my business forward

10:54and it makes sense to do that in the morning

10:55while I have more creative energy.

10:56Similarly, the fact that I've basically decided

10:58that Mondays and Thursdays are gonna be date night,

11:00that then means that those evenings are sacred

11:02and like if someone says,

11:02hey, do you wanna hang out

11:03and it's a Monday or Thursday night,

11:04then my default option is no, sorry,

11:06I can't make it, can you do Tuesday instead

11:08or Friday instead?

11:09And if it's super, super urgent

11:10and it's like an internet friend visiting London

11:13and they're only here on a Monday,

11:14then I can say to my girlfriend,

11:15hey, do you mind if we switch date night

11:17to Tuesday or whatever that week?

11:18So the point is this kind of system

11:20allows a level of flexibility

11:21and I've found that over the last eight months of using it,

11:23it's just freed up so much headspace from my life

11:25having to think about these things

11:26because now at least I have a default structure

11:28that I can follow.

11:29The other cool thing about this

11:30is that it really shows genuinely where is the free time.

11:34Like I might decide, you know what,

11:35I'm really interested in the guitar,

11:36I wanna get better at the guitar

11:37and therefore I'd like to have one guitar lesson every week.

11:40Now, the question is,

11:41where am I gonna fit this one guitar lesson every week?

11:44I have these 112 hours that I can play with

11:46like everyone else does.

11:47And so I might decide, you know what,

11:48I'm gonna finish work a little bit earlier on a Wednesday

11:50to have my guitar lesson,

11:51but I can do that because I'm an entrepreneur

11:53and I control my own time.

11:54But if this is what my calendar looked like

11:55and I was only getting home from my actual job

11:57at like 6.30 every day

11:58and I knew that I wanted to have a social evening

12:00with friends once a week,

12:01go home for dinner with my parents once a week

12:03and have date night twice a week,

12:05I actually don't have that much time to play with

12:07to fit in a guitar lesson.

12:08And that means I don't need to beat myself up about it.

12:10I might think, you know what,

12:11at some point in my life

12:12when I have more free time on the calendar,

12:13I will fit in that guitar lesson,

12:15but it's just not a priority right now.

12:16And what I love about this ideal ordinary week exercise

12:18is that it forces us to decide

12:20what are the priorities in our life.

12:22It means we can't say, oh, I don't have the time.

12:24We can instead say, I'm choosing not to make the time.

12:27I'm currently choosing not to make the time in my life

12:29for guitar lessons or singing lessons.

12:31And I'm currently choosing in my life

12:32to only go to the gym two or three times a week

12:35because I've decided that that's what the priority is.

12:36In the future, maybe once my book is done

12:37and I have fewer writing blocks,

12:39or maybe I decide, you know what,

12:40I wanna take a break from filming four times a week

12:42for a month and see what happens.

12:43I'll free up more time.

12:44But the point is I now know how much time

12:46I have to play with.

12:47But until I did this exercise eight months ago,

12:49A, I would not have known that.

12:50And I was kind of taking on too many responsibilities

12:52and too much stuff and then feeling overwhelmed.

12:54And B, on a given day,

12:55I didn't really have a default list of things

12:57that I wanted to do.

12:58And so I'd have to think every single day,

13:00I was like, okay, how do I wanna spend my time today?

13:02And that's just quite a lot of thinking.

13:03Now, this is how this actually translates

13:05to what my ideal week looks like in real life.

13:07So right now we're in the midst

13:08of our part-time YouTuber Academy.

13:09So Mondays are literally taken up entirely

13:11from with PTYA stuff,

13:13except an exercise block in the morning.

13:14Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning,

13:16Friday morning, Saturday morning,

13:17and Thursday afternoons are all book time

13:19because I'm in the final stages of my book.

13:20And so I need to make the blocks for that.

13:22I have various meetings in the calendar.

13:23So we've moved our team meetings to Tuesday.

13:25So we've got our team meeting

13:26and our content meeting on a Tuesday afternoon.

13:28We're doing a team training thing with our coach Eric.

13:30And so that happens on Wednesday afternoon.

13:31And this week I've had various lunches

13:34with various team members

13:34because I like to have a one-on-one lunch

13:35with every member of the team

13:36once every couple of months or so.

13:38Similarly, this week I did a podcast

13:39with my internet friend Cy Hill Bloom.

13:40So that happened on a Tuesday

13:42and then we went out to a restaurant.

13:43So you can kind of see how this calendar evolves over time

13:47and it evolves depending on what's happening

13:48in a given week.

13:49But this week I've broadly stuck to the calendar.

13:51I've done book time when I intended to.

13:53Currently I'm in a filming block,

13:54which is why I'm filming this video.

13:55And then later today,

13:56I've got book time for the rest of the afternoon

13:57so I can focus on making those final edits.

14:00And it's just so liberating to have this kind of system.

14:02I'll put the template for the Google Calendar Ideal Week

14:04if you wanna check it out down in the video description.

14:06Again, it's completely free.

14:06You just click the link and you can download the template.

14:08And if you try any of the strategies in this video,

14:10I'd love to hear how you got on.

14:11Please can you drop me an email, ali at alibdahl.com.

14:13I read absolutely everything,

14:14even if I can't reply to everything.

14:16And I just love to hear kind of

14:17what are the strategies and tips you found helpful?

14:19And maybe you can even leave a comment down below

14:21if you try any of this stuff out.

14:22Again, I'd love to hear what are the pros,

14:23what are the cons,

14:24what are the ways you've adapted it

14:25to fit your own system and your own life?

14:27All right, the final component of the Trident method

14:29is what we do on a given day.

14:31So we've talked about annual planning

14:33and what our annual life plan year at a glance looks like.

14:36And we've talked about at the level of the ideal week,

14:38how we're trying to make the most of these 112 hours

14:41in the week that we have to play with

14:42and how we can use them more intentionally.

14:43And so now the third component of the Trident method

14:45is what we're doing on a given day.

14:47And so the way I manage my time on a given day

14:48is broadly I follow what is in the calendar.

14:51And again, having the calendar just makes it so easy.

14:53It is a Thursday right now,

14:54and I just literally follow

14:55whatever blocks I've put in my calendar.

14:57And generally on the weekend before,

14:58I will look forward at my calendar for the upcoming week

15:01and I will create blocks of time

15:02for the things that I wanna do.

15:03And so for example,

15:04let's say I'm looking over to next week,

15:05I've already got a lot of this stuff penciled in

15:07because it's recurring events or it's ideal week stuff.

15:09And because I know that basically every morning

15:11I wanna do book stuff and every afternoon

15:12I wanna do kind of filming stuff

15:14and I wanna go to the gym two or three times,

15:15I just need to add in those blocks.

15:17And normally I'd have those in as like repeated blocks

15:19that's just in every week,

15:20but right now things are very derailed

15:21thanks to the YouTuber Academy.

15:22And so I'm kind of going week by week,

15:24but keeping in mind,

15:25what does my ideal week actually look like?

15:27So for example,

15:27right now 7 a.m. Badminton is not happening,

15:29so let's decline this one.

15:31Let's create a book time block on Wednesday morning.

15:36Let's create a book time block on Friday morning.

15:39This app is Fantastical by the way,

15:40it's just a fancy calendar version of Google Calendar.

15:43The nice thing is you can duplicate events,

15:45so it makes it super easy to like literally hit Alt

15:47and then drag.

15:48And now I can just duplicate an event

15:50rather than having to recreate it

15:51like I would in Google Calendar.

15:53Let's put in my filming blocks.

15:55And now this is currently a bit of a problem

15:56because I don't have enough time for exercise here,

15:58so I'm gonna have to create some exercise blocks.

15:59But then genuinely on the level of day planning,

16:01let's say it was Monday,

16:02I would literally just follow whatever I have planned.

16:04So I know for example,

16:05at eight o'clock I'm gonna be doing my content planning

16:07for the session of the Part-Time YouTuber Academy.

16:09I've got my call with the exec students at nine

16:11and then another one at five.

16:12I've got more PTYA prep happening from 10 till 12.

16:15I have a YouTuber's mastermind that I'm part of.

16:17I have the two hour keynote that I deliver on a Monday.

16:19And then I'm going for Iftar and dinner

16:20at a friend's house that evening.

16:21And so on one level,

16:22that's just what I do on a given day.

16:23I just follow whatever's in the calendar.

16:25But there's another thing that I do.

16:26And again, this is one of those things

16:27that I've started doing for the last eight months

16:29ever since starting working with Eric.

16:31And it's basically defining three daily quests.

16:33Daily quests, I mean, he calls it daily number ones

16:35or whatever.

16:36I call it daily quests

16:37because it's terminology from World of Warcraft.

16:39And basically the idea is that

16:40in the three most important domains of life,

16:42I have three quests that I'm doing every day.

16:45And that's in work, in health and in relationships.

16:47And we've actually recently started a Slack group

16:49where we do this with the whole team

16:50so that we've got some level of accountability on this.

16:52And so for example,

16:53my health daily quest is to go to the gym

16:56after my book squad call.

16:58And then I make sure it's scheduled on the calendar.

16:59So I already have my exercise blocks

17:01scheduled on the calendar

17:02after my call with the book team.

17:03My work daily quest is I wanna film stuff,

17:05which is literally what I'm doing right now.

17:06And that's already in the calendar.

17:07And then my relationship thing

17:08is that I wanna call my grandma.

17:10And calling my grandma is not yet in the calendar.

17:12And so I'm literally just gonna add it in here as a task.

17:15Call Nani.

17:16And that will show up in my calendar.

17:18And now I know that that's gonna get done

17:19because I look at my calendar multiple times a day

17:21because my calendar tells me literally what I'm doing.

17:23In fact, you know what?

17:23I'm gonna be a good grandson

17:24and I'm gonna call my grandma

17:25straight after filming this video.

17:26And I can literally drag that task

17:28straight onto the calendar.

17:29And it's very convenient

17:30because it overlaps with the events.

17:31And it means that I, again,

17:32ensure that the things that I actually want to do

17:35are in the calendar.

17:36Now this method of just literally running your life

17:38based on a calendar is completely game changing.

17:40I've been doing it in various forms for the last 10 years.

17:43And before I started literally living my life

17:45based on my calendar,

17:46I was so disorganized, I was so chaotic.

17:48But now that I live my life based on my calendar

17:50and on the level of annual,

17:51on the level of weekly and monthly,

17:53and on the level of daily,

17:54I just follow the intention I've already set.

17:56That's been one of the main drivers of my productivity

17:58for the last 10 years.

17:59And specifically this Trident method thing

18:01that I've been doing for the last eight months

18:02since working with Eric in terms of the annual thing,

18:04the weekly thing, and the daily thing

18:06has been hugely helpful in moving me forward.

18:08And even though I'm, I think at this point,

18:09one of the most followed productivity experts in the world,

18:12like these three strategies

18:14are just have just been genuinely game changing

18:16in terms of helping me make the most of my time

18:18and helping me boost my time management skills.

18:20Because as we've already talked about,

18:21time is the most valuable resource that we have.

18:23We can always make more money,

18:25but we can never make more time.

18:26And if we can use our time more intentionally,

18:28again, it doesn't have to be about being more productive

18:30with every single hour.

18:31It's about just being more intentional with it.

18:33Intentionally calling my grandma,

18:34intentionally making the time for date night

18:36or for having dinner with my mom.

18:37And the more I find that I define these containers

18:39and then actually follow them,

18:40the more I find that like life is balanced

18:42and fulfilled and meaningful and I'm happy.

18:44And then it's like, I don't have to stress about things

18:45because I know that the important things are getting done

18:47because fundamentally they are on the calendar.

18:49Now, if you enjoyed this video

18:50and you'd like some more time management tips,

18:51then check out this video over here,

18:53which has 10 specific other strategies

18:55that I've found helpful over the last decade

18:56for managing my time.

18:57Thank you so much for watching.

18:58I hope you enjoyed the video

18:59and I'll see you hopefully in the next one.

19:00Bye-bye.

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