Stop Wasting Time - 5 Time Management Skills to Master

Summary

この動画は、時間管理に関する3つの動画シリーズの最終編で、時間の管理を改善するための5つの重要なスキルについて説明しています。脚本では、優先順位付け、時間ブロック、集中力、実行力、そして仕事への活力を与えるスキルの重要性が強調されています。それぞれのスキルを磨く方法についても提案されており、時間管理において集中力やエネルギーの管理が重要であることが示されています。

Takeaways

• 📈 時間管理のスキル5つ：優先順位付け、時間ブロック、集中力、実行力、仕事への活力を与えることです。
• 🎯 優先順位をつけることは、時間管理の鍵であり、自分にとって本当に重要なことを明確にすることです。
• 🗓 時間ブロックは、カレンダーに重要なタスクをブロックして、意図的に時間を管理するスキルです。
• 🚫 集中力の不足は多くの人の問題ですが、集中力は学び、磨かれるスキルです。シングルタスクを推奨します。
• 🏃 実行力は、約束したことを実際に行うことです。アカウンタビリティを設定することで、実行力を向上させることができます。
• 🔋 仕事への活力を与えることで、時間の瓶頸ではなく、エネルギーの瓶頸を克服することができます。
• 📖 書籍やオンラインコースを活用して、時間管理や生産性のスキルを習得・向上させることができます。
• 🌟 目標を設定し、それに基づいて優先事項を決定することが、時間管理に极大な影響を与えます。
• 🔄 週次レビューを実施することで、過去の一周间的活動を反思し、次の優先事項を設定することができます。
• 🤝 フォロースルーを向上させるために、アカウンタビリティを設定するとともに、モチベーションを高めることが重要です。
• 💡 時間管理のスキルを磨くことで、自由時間やリラクゼーションの時間も確保でき、より充実した生活を送ることができます。

Q & A

Aliはどのような職業の経験がありますか？

Aliは医師としての経験があり、その後起業家になった経験も持っています。また、彼は「Feelgood Productivity」という本の著者でもあります。

この動画シリーズのテーマは何ですか？

この動画シリーズのテーマは、9 to 5の勤務時間以外の時間をどのように管理するかについてです。

Aliはなぜ「I don't have time」というフレーズを避けるよう勧めていますか？

Aliは、時間がないという言い方は、実際にはそのタスクが優先順位に入れれていないことを意味しているとされています。彼は、時間管理の改善が目的であるシリーズの主旨に基づいて、より重要なことをするためではなく、時間を有効に使い方ることを勧めています。

目標を設定することの重要性は何ですか？

目標を設定することは、自分がどこに向かっているのかを明確にし、優先順位を決定する上で非常に役立ちます。目標に基づいて優先事項を逆算することで、時間管理が改善されます。

Aliが提案する「毎日の冒険」とは何ですか？

「毎日の冒険」とは、毎日自分が達成したい1つの最も重要なことを定義し、それを楽しむ冒険とみなすことです。これは、仕事や人生での目標を達成するための創造性や生産性を高め、ストレスを軽減するのに役立ちます。

時間ブロックの3つのレベルは何ですか？

時間ブロックの3つのレベルは、1つは医師の予約や税金支払いのような具体的な予定をCALENDARにブロックすることです。2つ目は、毎日のCALENDARに全ての活動をBLOCKすることです。3つ目は、理想的な週を設定することで、より効率的な時間管理を実現することです。

集中力を向上させるためのAliのアドバイスは何ですか？

Aliは、集中力を向上させるためにシングルタスキング、つまり一度に一つだけの仕事に集中することが重要だと提案しています。また、彼は「Deep Work」や「Flow」といった本を読んだり、ポッドキャストを聞いたり、フォーカスのスキルを磨くことを勧めています。

アリが提案する「フォロースルー」のスキルとは何ですか？

「フォロースルー」のスキルとは、自分が言ったことを実際に実行するスキルを指します。これは、時間管理において非常に重要なスキルであり、CALENDARにBLOCKされた時間に実際に活動を遂行するかどうかを決定します。

アリはどのようにしてプロcrastinationを克服しましたか？

アリは、自分の書いた本「Unblock Method」の中で、プロcrastinationを克服する方法について説明しています。彼の方法は、不確実性、恐れ、そして惰性の3つのブロックを克服することにあります。

アカウンタビリティが持続性にどのように役立つか？

アカウンタビリティは、個人が約束したことを実行する責任を伴うことで、自己の意志力や動機を超えるものです。例えば、ジムに行きたいと約束した友人や、公開的に約束したグループがある場合、それらがあなたの行動をサポートし、継続するのを助けます。

アリが提案する「エネルギズイングワーク」のスキルとは何ですか？

「エネルギズイングワーク」のスキルとは、仕事をエネルギーの源として取り入れる方法を指します。これは、Aliの書籍「Field of Productivity」の核心的な概念であり、Play、Power、Peopleの3つのPを組み合わせることで、仕事を楽しく、エネルギーを高める方法を提供します。

Outlines

00:00

📚 時間管理の基本: 優先順位付けのスキル

この段落では、Aliが時間管理の基本的なスキルである優先順位付けについて説明しています。彼は、多くの人が「時間がない」という言葉を使うが、実際には優先事項にならないからこそ時間がないと感じるのか、という視点から議論を進めています。Aliは、自分の時間管理能力を向上させるために、自分にとって本当に重要なことを明確にし、それに基づいて行動するように勧めています。彼は、目標を設定し、それに基づいて優先事項を決定する方法を提案しています。また、日々の「冒険」を設定し、それをカレンダーにブロックすることで、時間管理を向上させる実践的なアドバイスも提供しています。

05:01

📅 タイムブロッキング: 時間管理の鍵

Aliは、時間管理においてタイムブロッキングの重要性を説明しています。彼は、カレンダーに重要なことをブロックすることで、自分の時間を有意義に管理できると主張しています。タイムブロッキングには3つのレベルがあり、最初のレベルは医師の予約や税金の支払いなどの具体的な予定をカレンダーにブロックすることです。次のレベルは、日々の業務や通勤、ビデオの編集、ジムに行く時間などをカレンダーにブロックすることです。そして、3つ目のレベルは「理想的な週」の計画を立てることで、より効率的に時間を管理する方法です。Aliは、タイムブロッキングを実践することで、自由と喜びを増やすことができ、より充実した生活を送ることができると述べています。

10:02

🎯 集中力のスキル: 時間管理の必須

この段落では、Aliが集中力のスキルが時間管理においてどのように重要であるかを説明しています。彼は、多くの人들이集中することが難しい状況に直面していると指摘しています。集中力を向上させるためには、Cal Newportの「Deep Work」やMihaly Csikszentmihalyiの「Flow」など、関連書籍を読むことを提案しています。また、Aliは自身のメールコース「Focus Crash Course」にも参加を勧めています。集中力を高めるためには、単一作業（single tasking）を行うことが重要であり、同時多作業（multitasking）を避けるべきです。Aliは、集中力を高めることで、9 to 5の勤務時間中により多くの仕事をこなすことができると説明しています。

15:03

🏋️‍♂️ フォロースルー: 約束を守るスキル

Aliは、フォロースルーのスキルが時間管理において非常に重要であると述べています。このスキルは、あなたが言ったことを実際に実行する能力です。Aliは、自分自身が医師や医学生としての経験から、集中力を高めたことで、勤務時間中に効率的に仕事をこなし、夜や週末に勉強やポートフォリオの更新をしなくても済みたと説明しています。また、外で時間を利用する場合でも、時間ブロックを設定し、それを守ることが重要です。Aliは、crastinationを克服するための「unblock method」を提案し、集中力を高めるためのアカウンタビリティの重要性についても話しています。

💪 ワークのエナジズ化: 時間管理の最終章

最後の段落では、Aliが時間管理においてエナジーの管理の重要性を説明しています。彼は、時間管理が問題である場合、実際にはエネルギーが瓶颈となることが多いです。Aliは、自分の経験を通じて、仕事に取り組む方法を変えることで、エネルギーを高めることができたと説明しています。彼は「プレイ、パワー、人」の3つの要素を組み合わせることで、仕事をエネルギーの源に変えることができると主張しています。Aliは、この方法を実践することで、仕事が楽しいものになり、時間管理能力を向上させることができると結論づけています。

Keywords

💡時間管理

時間管理とは、時間を有効に使用し、重要なものに焦点を当てることができるスキルです。このビデオでは、時間管理がどのように重要であるか、そしてそれを改善するための5つのスキルについて説明されています。

💡優先順位付け

優先順位付けは、何を最初に取り組むかを決定するプロセスです。このビデオでは、優先順位を設定することで、自分の目標に向かって時間を有意義に使用できるようになると説明されています。

💡時間の漏れ

時間の漏れとは、無駄に時間を消費し、生産性を高めない行動や状況のことを指します。このビデオでは、時間を無駄にすることから解放され、より多くの自由な時間を得る方法が提案されています。

💡目標設定

目標設定は、自分が達成したい目標を明確にし、それに向かって取り組むことで、自分の時間を有意義に使用することができるスキルです。このビデオでは、目標を持っていることで、自分の优先順位を明確にし、時間管理を向上させることが説明されています。

💡日々の冒険

日々の冒険とは、毎日の目標を楽しい冒険として捉えることを指します。このビデオでは、日々の冒険を設定することで、意味のある活動に焦点を当て、生産性を高めることができると説明されています。

💡副クエスト

副クエストとは、主な目標以外の小さく重要な目標を指します。このビデオでは、健康や人間関係などの副クエストに時間を割くことで、全体的な人生のバランスを取ることができると提案されています。

💡週次レビュー

週次レビューとは、過去の週の活動を振り返り、次の週の優先事項を設定するプロセスです。このビデオでは、週次レビューを行うことで、自分の時間管理スキルを改善し、次の週に向けた明確な目標を持つことができると説明されています。

💡時間ブロック

時間ブロックとは、カレンダーに特定の時間帯を予約し、その時間帯に特定の活動をすることを指します。このビデオでは、時間ブロックを使用することで、自分の時間を有意義に使い、生産性を高めることができると提案されています。

💡集中

集中とは、一つのタスクに焦点を当て、他の干扰を排除して取り組むことを指します。このビデオでは、集中力を高めることで、時間管理のスキルを向上させ、生産性を高めることができると説明されています。

💡フォロースルー

フォロースルーとは、自分が約束したことを実際に実行することです。このビデオでは、フォロースルーをすることで、時間管理のスキルを向上させ、自分自身の約束を守ることが重要であると説明されています。

💡エネルギー

エネルギーとは、活動を遂行するために必要な心の力や体力です。このビデオでは、工作时间を楽しんでエネルギーを高め、生産性を向上させる方法が提案されています。

Highlights

Ali, a doctor turned entrepreneur, shares insights on managing time effectively in a three-part video series.

The first video discusses five mindsets for time management, emphasizing the importance of a productive mindset.

The second video addresses five time drains, suggesting that eliminating these can free up significant amounts of time.

In the final video, Ali talks about five key skills to improve time management and free up time for important activities.

Skill number one is prioritization, which involves rephrasing 'I don't have time' to 'it's not a priority yet'.

Ali suggests that having clear goals is crucial for effective prioritization and provides a link to a video series on setting goals.

The daily 'Adventure' technique is introduced as a method to identify and schedule the most important task of the day.

Time blocking is recommended as a tool for prioritization, with practical advice on how to implement it in daily life.

Side quests are suggested for maintaining balance, focusing on health and relationships alongside work-related adventures.

Weekly reviews are proposed as a strategy to reflect on the past week and set priorities for the next.

Ali's book 'Feelgood Productivity' is mentioned, which provides more comprehensive strategies for time management.

Skillshare is introduced as a platform for learning, with Ali's classes on productivity being a key focus.

The second key skill for time management is time blocking, which involves scheduling dedicated time for important activities.

Three levels of time blocking are described, from basic calendar appointments to detailed daily schedules.

Focus is identified as the third key skill, emphasizing the importance of single-tasking and avoiding multitasking.

Ali recommends resources such as books and podcasts for further development of focus and offers a free Focus crash course.

Follow-through, the fourth skill, is about doing what you say you will do, which is rare but essential for effective time management.

Accountability mechanisms are suggested to improve follow-through, such as having an accountability buddy or making public commitments.

The final skill is energizing your work, turning tasks into a source of energy rather than a drain, which is the focus of Ali's book 'Field of Productivity'.

Transcripts

hey friends welcome back to the channel

if you're new here my name is Ali I'm a

doctor turned entrepreneur and I'm the

author of Feelgood productivity which is

a book about how to be productive in a

way that actually feels good and this is

the third video in a three-pot video

series about how to manage your time

outside of your 9 to5 in video number

one we talked about the five mindsets

that it's useful to have when it comes

to managing your time and in video

number two we talked about the five time

drains things that if you can eliminate

from your life you're going to free up

gallons and gallons of more time and in

this final video in the series we're

going to be talking about the five key

skills that it's really useful to

develop or to work on developing that

will massively improve your time

management abilities and therefore just

free up your time and your energy and

your attention to focus on what's truly

important in your life skill number one

is the skill of prioritization now one

of the most common things I hear from

people who have N9 to- FS whether

they're jobs or whether they students is

I don't have time to do x and x might be

take care of my health spend time with

my family start a YouTube channel start

my business it might be any of those

things but there's this common Narrative

of I don't have the time and one of the

key breakthroughs in my own ability to

manage my time came when I I stopped

using the phrase I don't have time in

fact I think no one should ever use the

phrase I don't have time because it's

never that we don't have the time it's

always that the thing that we are trying

to do is not enough of a priority like

you might right now feel like oh you

know I really want to learn Japanese but

I don't have the time okay but if

someone put a gun to your head and your

family's head and said you had to make

the time to study Japanese for an hour a

day you'd find the time right you know

it's it's just a matter of priorities

it's not that we don't have the time

it's just that it's not yet a priority

and that is actually totally okay I'm

not saying in fact the whole point of

the series is not so you can squeeze

more stuff into your time is that you

can do more of the things that are truly

important to you so it's really all

about prioritization what are the things

that are actually meaningful for you to

do outside of your 9 to5 and even within

your 9 to5 and therefore how do you make

the time to do those things all right so

let's talk about some practical ways for

getting better at the skill of

prioritization firstly it's really

really helpful to have some goals when

you have goals then you kind of have a

sense of where you want to go in your

work and also outside of your work and

therefore your priorities and the things

that you're spending your time on are

sort of reverse engineered based on what

the goals are if for example like me

your goal is to be financially free and

to have I don't know a few thousand a

month passive income that's a clear goal

and it leads to a very different set of

priorities compared to if your goal is

to I don't know learn Japanese and

become fluent within 2 years that leads

to a very different set of activities so

knowing what you actually want to do and

turning it into goals is ridiculously

important for this and we actually have

a whole three-part video series on the

channel it'll be linked down below

that's all about how to figure out what

you actually want and turn it into

tangible goals but once you've got the

goals how do you then prioritize the

actions that are going to help you get

to those goals and that is where a few

different methods come in the first one

and I think the easiest one to implement

is something that I call the daily

Adventure at the start of every day I

will ask myself what is today's

adventure going to be now basically what

I'm asking myself here is today what is

the single most important thing that I

want to get done and sometimes this is

work related but often it's life related

but I phrase it as an adventure because

the whole philosophy of field good

productivity is that we're more

productive and more effective and more

creative and less stressed when we can

find a way to make our work feel good

and just framing it as an adventure

encourages us to find the fun in the

thing that we're trying to do so for

example back when I had a real 9 to-5

job my daily Adventure in those contexts

would have been cool I'm going to go to

work during the day but then I'm going

to spend 2 hours editing my YouTube

video in the evening and then once I

figured out what the adventure is the

next step is to just put a Time block

for that Adventure in the calendar again

I'm always amazed you know when I do

talks and stuff and people asking me

about time management how few people

consistently put time blocks for stuff

that's important to them in their

calendar the other tool I find really

helpful for prioritization is in the

morning when I ask myself what's my

daily Adventure I also ask myself what

side quests am I going to work on today

and usually I like to have like one or

two usually in health or relationships

cuz my adventure is usually work related

and so a side quest might be for example

to call my grandma or to go to the gym

or to get my 10,000 steps in and again I

will do my best wherever possible to

time block that in the calendar because

if it's not in the calendar it's not

going to get done and then the third

thing that you can really do to boost

your skill of prioritization is to

conduct a weekly review now basically

this involves just spending 20 minutes

every week reflecting on how your

previous week went and then creating a

set of priorities for the next week now

if you're interested I actually run

completely free weekly review workshops

every single week it's on Sundays at

like 400 p.m. UK time these days I'll

put a link down below if you want to

join we usually have a few hundred

people there and I take you through a

facilitated weekly review it's good for

me because then I actually do my weekly

review and people who attend the

sessions love it as well because it

makes them do their weekly reviews but

that'll be linked down below if you want

to check it out now when it comes to the

skill of time management and

productivity there is so much more I

could say I've literally written a whole

book about it that is sort of outside

the scope of this video but if you're

interested in finding out more you

should definitely check out my classes

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skill number two to get way better at if

you want to maximize your ability to

manage your time is time blocking we

alluded to this in skill number one

basically just being able to put blocks

of time in your calendar for everything

that's important to you this is a

ridiculously valuable skill people who

work jobs that rely on a calendar often

will develop the skill in their day job

but even then we often tend to use

calendar blocking just within our work

and not within our life but actually the

skill of just creating blocks of time in

our calendar for what's important to us

is a ridiculously valuable skill for

anything we do whether it's in our

health or our relationships or even in

our relaxation time now there's three

different levels when it comes to time

blocking level one is when you have a

calendar and you just put blocks of time

for like doctor's appointments or

remember to file the taxes you know

little things like that hopefully

everyone watching this video is at least

at level one cuz if you're trying to

remember that stuff in your head again

like your brain is not a place to store

information like that it's a place to

have creative insights and thoughts and

feelings and all of that fun stuff not a

place to store having to remember

remember when your doctor's appointment

is but then level two of calendar

blocking is when you graduate from just

blocking specific appointments in your

calendar to now blocking everything in

your calendar on a day-to-day basis so

for example when I had a 9 to5 and still

to this day because calendar blocking is

a ridiculously useful skill I would

block out all of the times I had to go

to work I would block out the commute to

work because then I know what time I

need to wake up I would block out the

commute back from work because then I

know what time I'm going to get home I

would block out the time where I intend

to be editing a video I'd block out the

time where I was intending to go to the

gym either before or after work and

anytime I'd get an invitation for

anything even V social related it would

go in the calendar if I was planning to

visit my mom in the weekend it would be

in the calendar because now when I look

at my calendar I have a map of what my

time looks like and then I can make sure

that the stuff I'm actually doing with

that time is intentional now whenever I

mention time blocking there are always

people that think well this sounds like

a terrible way to live life because

where's the freedom where's the joy and

I would say that it actually increases

freedom and increases Joy because

firstly when you time block everything

it helps you know with certainty that

okay at least I've made time for the

most important things like my health my

work and my relationships and it also

means you then see where are the free

blocks of time that you can actually

intentionally relax and use for joy and

use for other Hobbies or things that

you're interested in and if we don't do

the time blocking stuff it becomes very

easy to just default to scrolling Tik

Tok or scrolling Instagram and most

people wouldn't say that that's a recipe

for a relaxing life or a life well lived

so I'm massively bullish on this again

you know anything in my videos this is

not life advice like I'm not trying to

tell you what to do I'm just saying

what's worked for me and what other

people have found useful so think of it

as an experiment experiment with time

blocking for a week or two or three and

see how it feels for you see how it

feels to block out a time in your

calendar to read or to play the guitar

or to learn Japanese or to call your

grandma or whatever the thing might be

and see if it doesn't improve your

abilities of time management it

massively works for me it works for most

people who I coached through the process

and I think it can work for you as well

there is in fact a third level of time

blocking and that is something called

the ideal week that's also a really cool

time management tactic we're not going

to talk about it in this video because

that I've explained in detail in my

Trident Method video for managing my

time that'll be linked up there and down

there if you want to check it out all

righty skill number three that's really

important to develop if we want to get

better at time management is the skill

of focus now when I pull my audience in

surveys and in talks I give in real life

one of the most common things that

people struggle with is focus just

actually sitting down and doing the

thing and not getting distracted from

the phone or the notifications or social

media or anything else and like with

almost everything in life focus is a

skill that can be honed and learned and

developed and sometimes I'll do q&as and

stuff and when people will be asking me

like have you got any tips for focusing

I feel like I really struggle to focus I

will often ask them okay you feel like

you're struggling with the skill of

focus what have you tried to improve

your focus and they're like um I don't

know I just sort of really struggle with

it okay have you read any books about it

have you read deep work by Cal Newport

or the book flow by Mii chmi who was a

psychologist who discovered the concept

of flow or the art of focus which is a

new book by Dan Co have you tried

reading anything about the topic have

you tried listening to podcasts about it

and like most people who struggle with

Focus which is basically everyone

haven't actively tried to develop the

ability to focus so firstly if you want

to develop the ability of focus firstly

I'd recommend reading those books about

it secondly you should totally sign up

to my completely free Focus crash course

just go to focus crash course.com this

is a 7-Day email course where every day

I'll email you a bunch of principles and

strategies and tools that you can use to

improve your focus but really all of

this stuff basically comes down to the

core principle of single tasking it is

not about trying to do multiple things

at once we all Focus best when we're

just doing one thing at a time and once

we've done that thing then we do

something else and there's data

apparently from McKenzie and company

that workers in the US lose 25 to 27% of

their work days to multitasking and to

distractions and if you imagine that's

like in a career which it might be 40

years long you losing a Whole Decade to

distractions and the ability to just not

focus and the solution to a lot of this

stuff is single tasking but you can read

a lot more about it in these books cuz

it's kind of outside the scope of this

video but if you guys are interested

leave a comment down below and we can

absolutely do a three- part video series

on the Art and Science of actually how

to focus and get things done okay so

what does Focus have to do with managing

your time well Focus has everything to

do with managing your time because it's

focus at work during your 9to 5 and also

Focus outside of work so if you can

focus during your 9 to 5 you'll end up

getting a lot more done in that time and

hopefully then your work will not bleed

into the evenings and the weekends I

found this when I was working as a

doctor and also when I was a medical

student when I gained the ability to

focus and actually get through my

studies during the workday it meant I

didn't have to study so hard in the

evenings because I was able to focus and

do the work during the workday it meant

that I wasn't spending weekends and

evenings having to update my portfolio

or having to worry about publications CU

a lot of that stuff was stuff I could

get done during the workday thanks to my

ability to focus the other thing as well

is that outside of the workday the

ability to focus means that when you

intend to do something when you set a

block of time in your calendar to for

example play the guitar or to for

example go to the gym when you're doing

the thing you're actually just doing the

thing you're focusing on that one task

that you have intended to do whereas the

default for most people is is like you

know you might start I don't know maybe

you've intended to watch a show on

Netflix or something but you like start

watching the show and you're like then

your brain disengages and you go to Tik

Tok then you go to Instagram then you go

to Twitter then you check the phrase and

you continue watching the show and it

doesn't end up being a particularly

relaxing or energizing experience even

though it might have been had we

actually just been able to sit there and

focus on the thing that we were trying

to do and that brings us on nicely to

skill number four which is follow

through follow through is the skill of

actually doing what you say you're going

to do oh my goodness this is such a rare

skill to find people it's a surprisingly

rare skill in the workplace from the

various managers and leaders I've spoken

to now what's the relevance of this to

let's say you've got a 9 to5 and you're

struggling to manage your time outside

of that well the skill is that if for

example you have time blocked certain

things let's say you've decided you want

to hit the gym three times a week

because that's really important for you

to hit your health goals to live a life

that you love and you've time blocked it

you know after work before work after

work now it's this case of like you have

said you're going to go to the gym

between let's say 5:00 and 6:00 p.m. on

a Monday Wednesday and Friday and now

5:00 p.m. rolls around on a Monday and

you're just wrapping up work and now you

could go to the gym but dot dot dott dot

dot dot you start to procrastinate you

start to say oh no it's kind of cold

outside oh I don't really want to do

that I know it's in the calendar I know

I've said I would do it I know I've told

myself I would do it I know it's

important for me to do the thing but

something happens and you get derailed

and you start scrolling Tik Tok or

Instagram instead because you don't

really want to do the thing that you

said you would do this is terrible when

it comes to time management because the

whole philosophy of time management is

kind of based around this idea of

intentionality and then time blocking be

intentional about what you want to do

and then put time for it in the calendar

and then when it comes round to the

thing actually do the thing and I've got

a whole method for combating

procrastination that's in the middle

three chapters of my book it's called

the unblock method it's about getting

Clarity getting courage and then getting

started Clarity is to overcome the

Blocker of uncertainty we don't quite

know exactly what we're doing courage is

to overcome the Blocker of fear because

usually fear holds us back from actually

doing stuff especially if involves

discomfort in some way and then the

Blocker of inertia which is where you

know it just takes a little bit of a

push a little bit of a dose of

discipline dare I say to just get

started with the task again this is a

whole thing how to be procrastination as

sort of somewhat outside the scope of

this video but I'll link a video up

there and down here of a previous video

I've done about procrastination and if

you haven't yet read my book or listened

to the Audi book you may want to check

it out but the other really good

strategy when it comes to actually

developing the skill of follow-through

is finding accountability if for example

you have an accountability buddy if

you've got a friend that you go to the

gym with if you maybe get a personal

trainer if you maybe have a group of

friends that you know you make this

packed with each other that you're all

going to do this specific thing you're

all going to I don't know publish a

video a week on your YouTube channel or

you're all going to study for an hour a

day for your exam if you can create

those sorts of structures in your life

that give you accountability it means

you're a lot less reliant on your own

willpower motivation discipline whatever

you want to use you're a lot less

reliant on that coming purely from

within and you're tapping into the power

of the people around you this also works

for public commitments for example like

for me you know for the last six plus

years 6 years I've been writing a weekly

email newsletter it's called Sunday

Snippets you can check it out al.com

Sunday where every email I write a

newsletter and I send it to my fans

subscribers followers whatever word you

want to use but I've made that Weekly

commitment and therefore I do it every

week and I've done it pretty much every

Sunday for the last 6 years and that's

pretty cool I've intended to do a thing

and then I've done the thing and there

were certainly times when I had a 9: to

5 you know I'd be finished up with a

shift on a Sunday night I'd get home at

11:00 p.m. I'd start falling asleep and

then I'd remember oh crap it's Sunday I

haven't written my email yet and I'd get

up I'd get myself out of bed I'd grab

the iPad and in bed I'd sort of bang it

out and be like oh guys really sorry and

it would take me 20 minutes to write it

and then I would send it and I would

send it because I made that public

commitment I had the accountability of

like these s of email subscribers and

even though no one really cares no one

would have cared if I skipped a week I

cared and it would have been so easy for

me to skip a week and then another one

and then another one and then another

one but I managed to stay broadly

consistent with writing my Sunday

Snippets email every single week every

Sunday for 6 years for three of them I

had a full-time job four of them

actually and I was able to do that

because of the accountability so my

question for you would be with that

thing that you're struggling with

whatever it is what is an accountability

mechanism you can add to it to make it

much easier for yourself to follow

through and to do the thing that you say

you were going to do all right the final

skill to develop to get really good at

time management is actually the skill of

energizing your work what I mean by this

is that as you get good at time

management you'll realize that often

time is not not actually the bottleneck

the bottleneck is energy like when I had

a 9 to5 job it wasn't really 9 to5 it

was more like 7 till 8 or 7 till 6 um

but when I had a real job for the first

few months of the job I was actually

pretty miserable because I'd get home

from work and I would feel completely

drained I would feel as if I don't have

the energy to do the things I actually

want to do sure I can be as intentional

as I like about all this stuff and time

block you I was good at time management

but I just didn't have the energy and it

took me a little while it was a

Christmas day where I kind of it all

came to a head but I realized over time

that I could choose to approach my work

in a way that made it much more

energizing there are three strategies

for that the three PS play power and

people now this is the entire philosophy

of my book field of productivity I've

written literally a whole book about how

to make your work into a source of

energy and if you're interested in

hearing more about this you should check

out this video over here which kind of

talks about my struggle when I had a 9

to5 when I had a real job with this

whole energy stuff and the solution that

I found to the problem and how I

Incorporated these 3ps play power in

people to make my work feel good and to

turn it into a source of energy so that

is a video that's going to be right here

thank you so much for watching I hope

you enjoyed the series and I'll see you

in the next video you bye-bye