About a month ago, I read a book called Deep Work.
And that is basically a book that tells you how to achieve focused success in a distracted
world.
It's how to be focused.
So I'm reading this book and I'm like, okay, I'm going to apply everything that he tells
me to do.
And I've pretty much already applied most of the things.
And that's kind of what I noticed by the end of the book.
It's kind of a waste of time, but I'm glad I read it because now I am more conscious
about why I'm able to focus so well.
But there was one thing in particular that he said in that book.
He said, this is the most important thing for you to apply.
And if you don't apply anything else and you just apply this, I will have done a good job.
I will have, like, this is all that matters.
And it was basically to schedule every minute of your day, which I've done before and it
really worked well.
I pretty much do the same thing over and over again every single day.
And so all of my days look identical.
So I really only have to do it once and then it works until I change my routine.
And so I had already done it by the time I read that.
And then eventually I changed my routine and I didn't actually do it again.
And at this point, my things are kind of starting to fall apart.
I freed up so many hours in my day by getting rid of something.
I didn't really know what to fill it with.
So I was kind of just like floating around my days.
I was just floating.
I was like, yeah, I could do this.
I could do that.
I didn't know what to do.
I ended up just like sitting around doing nothing.
I wasn't wasting time on my phone.
I was just like wasting time doing nothing, literally just sitting there doing nothing,
like eating food or staring at a wall, which is a good use of time.
But like, come on, I wasn't really making that as much progress as I should be.
And then I went to the park with my friend and he said, schedule every minute of your
day because we had both read deep work.
He was just reminding me to do this.
Like he said that it's a game changer because he just did it.
And I was like, yeah, I mean, maybe I'll think about it.
Not really with any intention to do it.
And then the next day I was sitting staring at a wall, ironic, but I was staring at a
wall in my room and I was just like, I was pondering that event.
It just came up into my memories and I was thinking, oh, maybe I should do that.
So now I was just sitting there and I was like, okay.
And then I decided to do it.
So I got on my notebook, got on my pen and sat there for like an hour, probably not an
hour, but I sat there for a long time, literally listed all of the things that I want done
every day, all the things that I do on specific days of the week.
And I came through a comprehensive full schedule of everything.
And my earlier schedule, the last time I did this was highly focused on editing because
I'm a YouTuber.
And so I wanted to get really good at editing and I wanted to make very good edits, but
I got rid of that completely because that's a whole different story.
But I got rid of editing and now I have so much time to fill my day.
So I have to ask myself, like, what's the most important thing for me to focus on right
now?
Because before it was editing, but now it's not.
What's the most important thing now?
In 10X is easier than 2X, Dr. Benjamin Hardy said, this is like your 80% and your 20%.
80% of your day is filled with tasks that are giving you 20% of the rewards, but then
those 20% of your day is you completing tasks that give you 80% of the rewards.
So when I was scheduling my day, I had a very unique opportunity.
I had the opportunity to schedule the majority of my day as that tiny 20%.
So then that means the majority of my day would give me the large rewards.
So this was my unique opportunity.
And what was the thing that I had to focus on?
Well it was storytelling.
I decided to fill in my entire day with storytelling.
Practicing on camera just like this.
Practicing out loud, literally talking to myself, stories.
That's what I do.
I literally just practice talking to myself, stories, walking around the park at 6 in the
morning and also walking around the park in the afternoon or actually in the morning.
But it feels like the afternoon because I wake up so early.
But that is what I do, storytelling.
Better on camera, getting better on camera, telling better stories, being a great storyteller
because that is what differentiates you from the pack.
If you're a YouTuber at least.
If you're literally anybody, storytelling is how you differentiate yourself.
You get a better job.
You can impress your girlfriend.
You can impress other people.
You can impress your boss.
You can get a raise.
You can do anything with storytelling.
And that is what I realized.
And I'm very grateful that I did that yesterday because now I have a very specific schedule
to get better at storytelling.
Literally my entire day is focused on storytelling.
That's all I think about.
The morning, I work out and I'm literally talking to myself because I work out outside
at 5 in the morning so I can literally say things to myself and no one can hear.
So I literally just walk around the place that I work out at outside, which is a park.
And I literally just say stories that I come up with from the day before.
And then after that, I come home and practice and review footage of me telling stories and
then review other people's footage of them telling stories.
And then I record myself and I practice.
There's this guy that I'm taking a lot of knowledge from.
I'm studying his channel.
His name is Hoff.
He had one video blow up and all of his other videos did terrible.
So that tells me that he had a framework in that video.
So I'm trying to figure out what that framework is and I'm trying to apply it to my own videos.
I actually did it into the beginning of this video and I'm doing it for the rest of this
video also.
It's kind of like the framework of this video.
I'm trying to figure out what made his video successful and that's why I'm doing it.
And that's what I'm doing on this one.
And then after that, I'm pretty much practicing storytelling, learning about storytelling
or thinking about storytelling my entire day.
If I'm not doing any of that, I'm thinking about it.