I watch these at 2.5x speed and leave comments at various timestamps, and it’s just an effective way to make sure I know what’s going on and to give people feedback. As most of my team are remote, it’s super helpful to get them to share updates on the stuff they’re working on as a Loom recording. This is a video messaging tool that myself and the team have been getting a ton of value out of recently. I’ve been listening to this soundtrack all week while working, which has been very nice. So, I’ve also included a couple of links from the archive, which still resonate with me today: Honestly, this week’s been a big dry on consuming new things because I’ve been grinding so hard on the book. Thanks to Notion for sponsoring this issue of Sunday Snippets □ Get started on Notion today for free using my link. This is an absolute game-changer for my productivity.įor more ideas, Notion has a massive online community creating page templates (check out my free set of YouTube creator templates). I’ve found this super useful for giving me content ideas for my YouTube channel, summarising all the notes I take in meetings, and as a writing assistant while writing my book. They have also recently launched Notion AI, which lets you access the limitless powers of AI right inside Notion. It’s also massively helpful 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. So if you’re interested in working with me and my team, you can check out all the available roles here: □ Notion We’re hiring a bunch of freelancers, including content writers, video editors, and designers. The knowledge I’ve gained from Daniel has directly translated into $2M worth of sales to my business, so it’s well worth checking out and it’s totally free. If you’re interested in starting a business, I’m doing a workshop with Daniel Priestley on Wednesday 24 May, where you’ll learn everything you need to know about building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and generating leads using Scorecard marketing. So, I just thought I’d share this time tracking strategy in case anyone else is interested in giving it a go.Have a great week! It’s simple and tells me everything I need to know. But sometimes simple is better.Įven though Rize gives me all this brilliant time tracking data, and I use all these different productivity techniques, there’s just something magically simple about using a video soundtrack to track my time. I usually track my time using Rize.io, which is probably my favourite time tracking app and one that I’ve personally invested in. But if I’m telling myself I worked really hard and the objective data says I only worked for a couple of hours then I’m only doing myself a disservice. It’s totally find to take breaks and there’s no need to beat myself up about it. Not that there’s anything wrong with this. This meant 6.5 hours of my ‘book time’ was spent faffing around, or procrastinating, or getting distracted, or working on stuff other than the book. This was super interesting to me because it was a very low tech way of not fooling myself about how productive I’d been, because I could clearly see the runtime on the YouTube video. In other words, I only managed to listen to 2.5 hours of the soundtrack in the 9 hours I’d set aside for myself to work on the book. Throughout the whole day, I literally did about 2.5 hours of actual work. Then when I stopped working or took a break, I paused it. When I was working I pressed play to listen to the music. So, I decided to use a super primitive technique for tracking my time: I used a 3+ hour Lord of the Rings soundtrack on YouTube as a time tracker. I’ll get up, eat some food, chat to someone, and get distracted many times throughout the day. I’ll never actually sit down for 9 hours and just write. If you’d like to read it you can click here and unsubscribe whenever you want).īut, the problem is that whenever I block out the whole day to do something, I’m always left wondering ‘how much time did I actually spend on this thing?’. (Btw, if you’re interested in hearing more about the book, I’m working on a weekly book journey newsletter where I share what I’m working on and behind-the-scenes of writing/marketing a book. I’m now at the final stages of editing it, so it’s mega crunch time trying to tie up all the loose ends before it gets sent to the publisher. Last weekend I was doing a bunch of work on my book and I’d blocked out the whole day – literally 11am to 8pm – to work on it. I’ve got a simple productivity tip that I’ve been finding very helpful recently: using YouTube videos to track my time.
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