1 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:10,440 Morning lads. I was just saying I've been a 2 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:15,120 little bit quieter this morning because Leo is still asleep in 3 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:17,640 the room opposite. What we're going to talk about 4 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,080 today is something slightly different, like last, like the 5 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:25,560 last like couple of weeks we've delved into all sorts. 6 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:31,560 Last Friday's call actually was, was it, We were on the call for 7 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:33,160 ages. We're on the call 50 minutes. 8 00:00:34,480 --> 00:00:36,760 It was it was good call. We got into some really great 9 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,920 conversations. Those hot seats are great. 10 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:43,960 Today I'm actually going to talk to you about what I am doing 11 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,000 this week in terms of how I planned my week and I have the 12 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,080 same plan every week. So this is a bit, this is a bit 13 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:54,360 more of a tactical 1 today. All right, Nothing deep, nothing 14 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,400 heavy, just some, just some tactics and tools. 15 00:00:58,400 --> 00:01:01,800 You may already know these tools you made made already utilize 16 00:01:02,760 --> 00:01:05,000 these tactics. But always a good reminder. 17 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:10,680 I know sometimes I fall off and then someone says to me about a 18 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,640 tool I'm not, I was using that not long ago and it was working. 19 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:15,280 Why have I not continued to use that? 20 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:21,080 So I plan my week strategically is like every week. 21 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:26,040 I have three types of days, a planning day, a free day and 22 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,960 focus days. All right, So today, Monday, I 23 00:01:28,960 --> 00:01:31,240 always have Mondays as my planning days. 24 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:36,200 So I rarely do like deep focus work on on a Monday. 25 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:40,120 I rarely I rarely hate time off on a Monday. 26 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:49,720 Hello, Leo, you have awoken you all right, mate? 27 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:53,960 That is just on his call with a team. 28 00:01:54,560 --> 00:02:00,840 OK, I'll give you a quick hug. All right mate, go eating toys. 29 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,280 So Monday's always planning days for me and what money and what 30 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:11,760 these look like for me is that I will, if I need time to actually 31 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,480 plan on what's going on over the week or plan what's going on 32 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:17,600 over the day or plan what's going on the rest of the month, 33 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,240 I will be doing it. Then also, if I need to just 34 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,840 like cross off admin stuff, you know, there's always admin 35 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:28,000 things to do, particularly if you run a business, even if you 36 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:30,400 don't run a business like like this admin stuff is like my 37 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,040 household admin stuff. Like I've got flights I need, I 38 00:02:33,040 --> 00:02:36,400 need to book flights, right? Just do it on Monday. 39 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:37,640 Don't think about it any other time. 40 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:40,480 Just do it today, right? So there's loads about like 41 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:44,440 admin things I've got to get sorted and I'll just, I'll just 42 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,280 like, rather than thinking about them during the rest of the week 43 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,120 or dedicating times and during the rest of the week, I just do 44 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:54,360 it all on a Monday, right? Just just like clear the clear 45 00:02:54,360 --> 00:03:01,240 the desk, any like any planning, any admin, any like technical 46 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:04,360 things thing. If if something's broken in the 47 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,360 business software's broken, something's like I'll just push 48 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,840 it all to Monday or like I've got to get back to to people's 49 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,520 requests or meeting requests and all that sort of thing. 50 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,040 I'm just like, I do it all Mondays. 51 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:20,120 I just, so whether that's a Monday for you or whether it's a 52 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:23,880 different day is like I have a planning day and it just makes 53 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:28,720 the rest of the week flow loads better, look good because that 54 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,320 means the rest of the week, I'm not like thinking about any of 55 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:36,920 this admin stuff, right? The next type of day is my focus 56 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:40,240 days, right? And focus days I have more than 57 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:45,120 than I have any other day. I will have like probably 3, 58 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,480 sometimes four of them a week. And the focus day, that's what 59 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:54,520 I'm focusing on, like what I'm good at, what I love doing, what 60 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:58,440 my zone of genius is, what my unique ability is, the stuff 61 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:02,520 that I know that I do more, that the business grows, the world 62 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:06,040 grows, I'm fulfilled, right? Then my focus days. 63 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:11,960 And then outside of that, I'll have a free day and I actually 64 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,920 do I like. So I have 3 days on weekends. 65 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,279 Most weekends I have 3, three days. 66 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:21,000 Like I don't work, I don't plan, but every other week on a 67 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,240 Wednesday. So this Wednesday, for example, 68 00:04:23,240 --> 00:04:26,640 no work, no nothing. When I say like no work, it's 69 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,280 like no planning, no, like journaling, no, like thinking of 70 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:32,440 the future, No, like it's none of that. 71 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:35,000 It's just like I'm taking the whole, I'm taking the whole time 72 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:39,080 off. And I found that structure that 73 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:42,160 like that threesome, that structure to be really, really 74 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:44,760 effective, super, super effective. 75 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:49,120 And whether you are have a, you have your business or 76 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,240 entrepreneur or whether you're in corporate, you can still 77 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,000 employ those tactics. OK. 78 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,440 And then the next part for this. So like once I have that 79 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:03,360 structure, I then theme. So I theme days. 80 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,480 I've been doing this for ages. It's it's mega met. 81 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,840 It's so simple, huge, it's hugely powerful. 82 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:17,240 So for me in my, in my world I3I theme days on three different 83 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,920 ways really. I have my content days, I have 84 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:25,480 my coaching days and then I have my calls and calls are things 85 00:05:25,480 --> 00:05:28,280 like when I'm talking to I'm doing sales calls or I'm talking 86 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:31,240 to prospects, that sort of thing, right? 87 00:05:31,720 --> 00:05:33,880 Content coaching calls, super simple. 88 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,680 So all I, I batch all of my coaching, I put it all in one 89 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:42,840 day, right? So every Thursday is why the, 90 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,200 the hot seat coaching, I would put it all on that day. 91 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:49,080 If I need to move one, then I'll move one if I need to. 92 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,520 But predominantly it's all on the same time. 93 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,720 And part of the reason for that is that then my mindset all that 94 00:05:57,240 --> 00:06:01,000 all day is just on that. I'm not like task switching, you 95 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,040 know, task switching is like, it's just, it's not good for us 96 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,160 when we're trying to get into flow and trying to get things 97 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:08,600 done. We're constantly switching from 98 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,680 like I'm doing a coaching call now I'm doing something 99 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:15,520 technical on a website, now I'm talking to a customer over 100 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:16,880 there. What do you know? 101 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:18,720 It's just like one thing, one thing, one thing. 102 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:23,920 Whereas if you can batch and theme, so you have themes for 103 00:06:23,920 --> 00:06:26,960 days and then I have like, I know which days I am creating 104 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,800 content and like producing content. 105 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:33,520 Like I have that blocked out in my calendars, particular days. 106 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,200 It's and it's highly, highly effective. 107 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:44,440 And then the the last thing that I'll do is time block. 108 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:50,720 So on those days that I have themed, I have three, I have 109 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:54,760 like essentially I have three time blocks of like 90 minutes. 110 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,760 So they are like blocked in my calendar. 111 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:03,160 So I, I know what I'm doing in that time block, but I'm also, 112 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,320 it's like I'm setting aside a time to do that particular 113 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:08,560 thing. Time blocking is incredibly 114 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:10,200 powerful. Like 90. 115 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,280 I don't really go, sometimes I will go a little bit longer than 116 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:16,440 90 minutes if I feel it, but 90 minutes, right? 117 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:19,840 Oh, actually, let me there's another thing I do actually, 118 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:21,880 we'll just write that down meetings. 119 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:27,240 So our time lock for 90 minutes and I'll I'll get three of those 120 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,280 done a day. Yeah, I schedule the 90 minute 121 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:34,200 blocks in my calendar. It that that works for me, 122 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:36,880 right? Because because I only take 123 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:41,880 calls with other people on certain days, it means the rest 124 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,280 of my week is super. The the I'm I'm like, I've just 125 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:47,800 built my lifestyle around this right. 126 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:54,120 So I, I, my calls are on certain days, so it means I can just 127 00:07:54,120 --> 00:08:00,520 block 90 minute blocks in other parts of my week and it's very, 128 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:02,160 very effective. So when I do that 90 minute 129 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:06,000 block, literally like phone is on, do not disturb, got the 130 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:07,720 music on, I've got no distractions. 131 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:11,360 Just head in the zone. I get you get so much done by 132 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,320 doing that. Time blocking is one of the most 133 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:23,600 effective tools that you can do to be productive right meetings. 134 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:27,280 Here's here's my next single meetings is I actually put the 135 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:32,039 majority of my meetings in the afternoon and this is the 136 00:08:32,039 --> 00:08:35,280 Thursday when I'm doing coaching all day and I do my I do my 137 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:41,400 podcasts in the morning. I do content in more than I 138 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:45,360 coach that, but most of my meeting I always put my meetings 139 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,240 into the afternoon. That's for me personally is 140 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:54,000 because my, I can just focus better in the morning to get my 141 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:56,000 own work done. I'm just way better. 142 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,080 And I'd rather just, I'd rather utilize that for me and then for 143 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:03,920 someone else, right. So I would, I'd probably say 90% 144 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:05,880 of my meetings are in the afternoon. 145 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,480 Like after 12 sometimes if I'm like, do you know what that's, 146 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:13,640 that's, that's an important meeting and I'd like to do that. 147 00:09:13,640 --> 00:09:15,800 I'll get it and they can only do the morning. 148 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:20,600 Then we'll do the morning. But for 9% of the time I'm a 149 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,560 pretty, I've got a pretty solid rule on that is that most of my 150 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:24,680 meetings have been in the afternoon. 151 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:26,480 It means I've then I've just got a solid morning. 152 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:29,160 It's just blocks just booked, right? 153 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:31,080 And I can just get all my work done. 154 00:09:32,560 --> 00:09:35,000 And then I'm not like, again, like task switching. 155 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,920 I've got a meeting there. Because The thing is when, when 156 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:39,200 you've got like when you've got say you've got a meeting at 157 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,000 10:00 in the morning and you're trying to do work beforehand, 158 00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:44,080 you are subconsciously thinking about that meeting. 159 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:46,080 You're thinking about, oh God, a thing going on. 160 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,520 I need to leave at that time. I need to prepare at that time. 161 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,400 You can't. It's, it's hard to fully put 162 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,240 yourself into doing some focus work. 163 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:59,600 So me, yeah, think, think about that for yourselves as well. 164 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,600 Life admin Dan. I do it on a Monday. 165 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:05,960 So today. So Mondays are my planning days. 166 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,520 And it's like personal and professional, all that, all that 167 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:12,040 like admin stuff just gets done on the Mondays. 168 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:17,200 Think, oh, things like DIY tidying now laundry dude, I 169 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:20,720 don't know if I can do that again. 170 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:22,600 This is this is actually one of my hacks. 171 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:28,480 I pay someone to do my laundry because I hate doing it. 172 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:33,720 It costs it costs £20 or £22.00 right? 173 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:39,640 And they do my laundry and it's like take it away next day it's 174 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:44,080 delivered literally 24 hours and it's the whole thing's done. 175 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:47,200 It's all ironed. It's all and then I don't have 176 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:48,840 to do it. Same with cleaning my I do not 177 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:51,760 clean my house. I have a cleaner. 178 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,360 It's because my time's worth way more than that. 179 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,680 Like £20 for something to do my laundry. 180 00:10:57,680 --> 00:11:00,080 Take me hours doing that thing right? 181 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:05,000 Cleaning my house. I think it cost me like £60.00 182 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:08,040 for some for cleaners to come in and clean clean the space. 183 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,480 But they clean the windows, balcony, yada yada yada done. 184 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,240 It's like and and you have to and you do you have to think 185 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,160 about your time like that guys, if you want, if you're wanting 186 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,720 to level, level that up. It's like, how can you be best 187 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:23,120 utilizing my time? Sometimes I don't I'm not 188 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,720 working during the time that the cleaners here, but I might just 189 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:27,760 be relaxing. I might be at the gym, might be 190 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,400 doing something that's for me. I don't do any of that stuff, 191 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:32,560 even DIY. I like I'll fucking outsource 192 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:36,720 that. Yeah, they go like Luke's just 193 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:38,200 said, get the who's in your life? 194 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:41,720 Yeah, it's like who, who, who do you need? 195 00:11:41,720 --> 00:11:50,400 Who can you get to support you? So yeah, that's, that's that's 196 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:52,520 my share today, guys, I think a little a little bit more 197 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:54,600 tactical. That's like just how I set up my 198 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,200 weeks. I get a lot, I get a lot done 199 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,120 very and highly effective. And that is one it's one of my 200 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:03,200 zones of genius has been is doing this. 201 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:08,200 So take what you will and utilize that into your put it 202 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:11,840 into your week or take what take one of those things and put it 203 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,240 into your week. See if it makes it more 204 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:16,520 effective for you. Maybe it's a little reminder of 205 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:19,880 the things that you're you were doing already and just slip the 206 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,000 net a little bit. There you go a little more 207 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:24,680 tactical this morning for this Monday. 208 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:30,480 Get your weeks planned up, level up, level get maybe maybe it's 209 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:31,920 maybe it's the first week you get cleaner. 210 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:37,320 Maybe it's time. Yeah, who? 211 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:40,160 Who do you need? Right and team? 212 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:44,360 Have a great Monday. Have a great week. 213 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:47,240 Get it planned, get into action, catch you later.