Routine is one of the most important parts of the structure of your day.
You want to get a certain amount of tasks done every single day and you want that to be pretty much a guarantee.
And what I mean by that is you want, it's most advantageous for you to be
mindless or at least not have to think about when you're gonna do it in the day
to do certain tasks. For example, going to the gym, working out,
eating specific meals,
editing, like doing work. Any type of task that you want done every single day should go on a routine. Also,
brushing your teeth,
showering,
meditating, like all these things are good to put into a routine. But the thing is that
you may not know how to actually create an optimal routine. And I've practiced many times over the past couple years actually. I've been
really nailing in my routine developing ability.
It's not been like a main focus for me,
but it's been something that I've been like actually developing the skill over the past couple years,
whether or not I realized it. It wasn't till, honestly, it wasn't until recently that I actually
started to actually realize that this was an important skill. And I realized that I was actually doing pretty good at it.
So let's get straight into the routine. And the routine is, the way I do it is I actually
did it today and I'm gonna pull out my notebook because I
really liked how I did it. Because first of all, you don't want to do this in a quiet
solitude, a quiet isolated location. And I say this because you just want to,
the creation of a routine is gonna take a lot of thinking. If you're trying to make an optimal routine,
it's gonna take a lot of thought. I don't know how long it took me to create this routine,
but I wrote, I filled in
four whole pages of my notebook and my notebook is pretty big. So I
wrote four pages worth of things and in some areas I was writing pretty small, but
let's talk the routine. First things first, what I like to do is I write down my weekly structure. And so
this routine creating skill is gonna get better and better the more you know about how to be productive and then the more you know about
health things like the more little pieces of information and knowledge you pick up, the better your
ability at this will be. Because the first thing I do is I write down all of the things that I want done
in the week. So all the things I want done during the week. So for me, this would be I want to record, I want to edit,
and I want to make thumbnails. And then some other things I said was read and a long idea generating time,
which is basically me sitting in my room coming up with ideas for the YouTube channel. But these are like four things
because I just batch together, read and idea generating. So these are the four things that I want done in the week.
Like these are just the four crucial things for my work. And as you can see, idea generating, record, edit, and thumbnail.
These are the things that get a YouTube channel developed. So these are the important things in the week.
And I put these in one column, and then I make another column where, well, actually, I don't do that yet. I actually
write out Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. And the reason why I do this is because when you are coming up with
your things for the week, your main tasks, so for me, it was recording, editing, thumbnail, all these things.
When you're coming up with those, you're going to want to try and figure out how you can batch them together.
So you want to be, you want to have a day dedicated to one or the other if it can take up an entire day.
So for example, I, my like the ideal thing for me would be to have all of Monday dedicated to thumbnails,
all of Tuesday dedicated to thumbnails. And then that's simply because it's best to create the title and the thumbnail first in a
YouTube video. But so that's why I have Monday and Tuesday dedicated to thumbnails. But I said all of that day,
and I'll get to that in a little bit. It's only like three hours. Because when we're going to make our actual schedule,
we're going to have an empty spot that's just going to be replaced by that day's work.
So Monday and Tuesday, and then you basically just fill in the most optimal days for your certain task.
And so once you've done this, you figured out what days you're going to do each task in the week.
Then you also want to figure out your gym routine. So you're basically your push, pull legs or whatever split you have in the gym,
assuming you're you go to the gym and lift weights, whatever split you have at the gym.
So for me, it's push, pull legs. So let's just run with that. You want to figure out what days you're going to do each of them on.
For me, I do push, pull legs and I only rest when I feel I need it. So I'm not always doing push on Monday or Tuesday.
It's like some days I'm doing push on Monday, some days it's Friday. It changes every week.
So it won't really work out for me with that. But the reason why I say this is because I just recently am trying to rework my gym routine,
which makes it so I'm trying to go early in the morning on before like at like 430 or 5.
And the reason why I say this is because it will have to be different on days that I go to the gym on the weekends,
because my gym doesn't wake up or my gym doesn't open on the weekends until six. But on the weekdays, it's 430.
So you're going to have to figure out the weekend and weekdays.
And then the next thing to do is to figure out your day to day routine.
So pretty much this whole time we've been focusing on our weekly routine, when we're doing specific tasks and on what day.
But now we focus on the day to day routine. And right now I'm doing the same routine every single day.
The only thing that's different is during my work time on some days I'm doing on Mondays, I'm doing thumbnails.
On Wednesdays, I'm doing editing and then recording and then Thursdays, I'm doing editing.
That's just the difference. And so you basically go through your day to day.
So first thing you do is you write down the time you're waking up.
So I have a specific time I like to wake up. And you want to have your wake up time and your bedtime the same even on the weekend.
So you want to wake up and go to bed at the same time for the entire week, the entire month.
You want to be consistent. And the thing is that a lot of people don't like to do that, but that is so valuable.
And so much so that I actually was sick recently, you might be able to hear it in my voice.
But I was sick over the past like four or five days and I still woke up at my same time.
But since I was sick, I still needed more sleep. So I went to bed like an hour or two earlier than normal.
So and I also took lots of naps during the day.
But that's pretty much like the waking up and going to bed at the same time on the weekends is very important.
And then once you figure out your waking up time, you also jot down all of your pretty much guarantee things.
So for me, my waking up time is something that I need to have done every single day and also showering and brushing my teeth.
Like my morning routine needs to happen every single day. And that usually takes 30 minutes.
It's just showering and brushing my teeth and getting water and using the bathroom. That's all.
And so I pretty much have until 4.30 filled out because I wake up at 4 in the morning.
And then you also then you basically just create another list.
So we go back and create another list. We probably should have done this first.
But you create another list of everything you want done in the day.
So this is going to be lunch, breakfast, dinner, gym, running, cardio.
Like these are all the main tasks. And then like reading here are some of the things I wrote down.
It's like shower, work, gym, breakfast, walk, rice, read, run, like all these things.
And you write down this list and then you start to think of the best order.
And basically I wrote down a another kind of list of my most ideal times to do each of these things.
So I'm trying to find where I wrote it. But pretty much I wrote down like the gym.
And then I wrote down work and I wrote down breakfast.
And so I wrote down like, when do I want this done?
So for me, gym, I've tried going to the gym in the morning. I've tried going to the gym in the afternoon.
And I just like to go to the gym early in the morning.
And so like pretty much first thing and that is that's where I put it.
That's just where I prefer. Now there are there is things that say there are like science that says you should like,
or not science, but I've heard people say that you should do your work first or you should do whatever first.
To be honest, I just like to go to the gym early in the morning. So that's what I'm going to do it.
And then you basically just go through like the easiest way to do this is just go through all of your daily items
that you want done every single day and just write down your preferred time that you do it.
So like the morning afternoon or during the during nighttime, like just write down your preferred time.
It doesn't have to be an exact time. It can just be like early morning, late morning, night, like it just average.
And then that will give you a clear like roadmap to start filling in your day.
So then you basically I just start from the morning, like we've already written down bed like wake up time
and then we've already written down our so I just had a massive brain fart.
But we've already written down our wake up time and then our morning routine.
And then we just have to go and fill in like after that.
So for me, I would just write down the gym next because that's what I want to do.
And then I have to figure out when do I want to do work? When do I want to do breakfast?
And so for me, I want to be fasted while I do work. So then I do work next and then I do breakfast after that.
And then you basically just go through and fill in the most things you want to follow certain rules when doing this.
The first rule is when do you want to do something like if you liked if you just like to go to the gym in the morning
or if you like to go in the afternoon, then fill it in into the afternoon.
Unless you more desire optimum optimal.
And then it's a different story. So let's say you believe it to be optimal to go to the gym in the afternoon,
which for your goals, it may as well be depending on your goals going in the afternoon could be more optimal than going in the morning.
So then you have to decide whether you care more about being optimal or desire.
And I still feel like I'm getting I still am getting gains at the gym.
And for my goals, my YouTube is higher has a higher priority in my life right now.
And so I'm still I want to get the gym in the morning and then I want to work on YouTube right after because I found that I work way more clearly
focused after I've worked and after I've worked out because then I'm like more awake and vigilant.
So you just go through and fill in all of your time slots based off of desire or how you like want to do it or desire or optimal optimalness.