If there's one life skill that I'm begging, begging you to have in your life, it's to simply manage your time well.
This is literally one of the life skills that I think everyone should really take the time to be good at.
You don't even have to bother learning all the other productivity rules like the 80-20 rule, the atomic habits, reading atomic habits or just setting up routines.
If I were to tell you one habit that you need to have in order to get your life together, it's just simply manage your time well.
That is the most important skill that you can learn in life.
I'm not even kidding when I say that if you manage your time well, you will be unstoppable.
Like you will be unstoppable in life.
I'm not even kidding.
Like, if you have time management skills in school, I'm telling you your grades are going to go up, even if you feel like you're not studying as much.
You don't have to study 24-7, 365.
You're going to ace your grades even though you have time for literally everything else.
These were my grades in high school and, literally for me, i was just studying a couple hours every day, although there are times when i did study 12 hours a day, but that was during university.
So yeah, but anyway, i was even doing this youtube channel and i was working out and i was literally doing everything else that i enjoyed, like my hobbies gaming, whatnot and i was still able to score a 98 average on my high school senior high school.
So in this video, i'll give you a very quick crash course on how to effectively manage your time properly.
Because, trust me and I'm going to be really honest here this is probably one of the most important life skills that everyone should learn, especially if you're heading to school, especially if you're heading to university or especially if you're dealing with life.
So let's start with this time management crash course.
So the first thing I want to talk about is what is time management?
And a lot of people get this wrong already on the get go.
And I'm willing to bet that your idea of time management is already wrong.
So the first thing I want to talk about is what the heck is time management?
What exactly is managing your time?
When you hear the word time management, you're probably thinking about blocking out time from your calendar, blocking a specific time in your calendar and hoping that you will manage your time from that.
That's not really what time management is.
Now, if you think about it, we don't have enough time in our life to pretty much do everything that we want to do on this earth.
And that's unfortunately a fact.
I'm here to tell you, you're not able to do everything you want to.
Like, even if you see those Asian astronaut doctor military, I'm sure he hasn't done everything he wanted to do in his life.
We just simply don't have enough time to do everything.
So in our lives, or limited lives, we have to choose what's important to us and what kind of matters more in the moment, right.
I'm going to do this because this is more of a priority to me and I'm going to disregard others.
So what time management is is not about delegating your time, but time management is essentially prioritization.
What matters right now?
What is most important right now in my life?
What do I have to do right now?
Kai, what about scheduling and scheduling properly?
Well, no, it's not about blocking your calendar properly.
It's about what is necessarily important to be done in the day.
That is the core principle of time management.
And with time management, every task that's in your plate will start to have different priorities.
Some tasks might not be as prioritized, and some tasks might be prioritized over the others.
You might have to prioritize specific things in your life, like maybe school, career related.
And because we have limited 24 hours a day, it's important that we delegate those tasks based on priority throughout our day.
Which moves me to my next point, which is that time management starts from tasks.
The main goal of time management isn't necessarily to block out periods of your day, of your calendar.
But the goal of time management is to accomplish your important tasks.
Like I mentioned a while ago, time management is not necessarily the calendar.
It essentially just boils down to what priority do you have.
Which tasks are more important to you?
Which tasks do you have to do throughout the day?
So when managing time, a lot of people make mistakes because there's actually a three specific step process when it comes to planning out your time and to planning out your tasks.
The problem is, I'm sure a lot of you guys probably do this three-step process, but in the wrong order.
And because you do it in the wrong order, you feel like, why the heck do I still feel like I don't have time when I sort of planned this whole intricate plan of my day?
The correct order of time management is what I call the TBF method, which means to be fair in slang for those who are not familiar with the slang of young people.
AKA people born before 2000.
The TVF method stands for task, block and follow in that order.
The first step you need to do is to literally just come up with a goal.
Like literally just come up with a task that you need to do throughout the day.
And it doesn't have to be a lot.
Like you can just come up with one, one main goal that you have for the day.
You don't have to assign a specific time yet.
You just have to make sure that this task is going to be your priority for that day.
Let's say, for today I have a bunch of tasks, or I have a bunch of assignments, but the main goal of the day is that I need to study for my pharmacology exam.
So therefore, that will be my main task or my main highlight of the day.
It doesn't have to be grand.
Your task doesn't have to be great.
It doesn't have to cure cancer.
You just have to show up and do a task.
And it could be anything.
It could even be just studying for 30 minutes. that's already good enough.
If you feel like you're interrupted.
As long as you have a goal for the day, that's already a good start of time management practice, starting with a goal.
The next step of the TBF method is blocking.
Now, I'm sure this is where you're more familiar with, but this is where you would schedule and see your non-negotiables and your negotiables in your day.
So for example, school, work, sleeping, eating, gym, these are stuff that you can't change.
You have to do these things.
And this is where the scheduling that you know of comes in clutch.
And I'm sure you're familiar with this part of the process.
Now, time blocking serves two functions.
Function number one is that it serves a great way to sort of visualize the time that you have available in your day.
But the second component and this is kind of what time blocking really is is it's a delegation of effort.
It delegates a time in your day for you to just purely focus on the task at hand, and it's good because you can just turn off your brain and think to yourself okay, i blocked this task for this time, i'm just going to focus on the task because i know that i can enjoy myself later, as long as i follow this schedule religiously now in your calendar.
The way i want you to block your time is to block your time for the worst case scenario.
Problem with time blocking, especially with calendars, is that you're kind of assuming that you're going to follow that time block and i'm sure at this point everyone figured out that we can't really perfectly follow our schedule.
The world is just too chaotic for that.
Things come up, schedules extend, interruptions happen.
There's just so many things that can disrupt your schedule.
There's just so many things that can disrupt your schedule, and that's why it's unrealistic to schedule an ideal routine.
Instead, you should schedule on the worst case scenario.
For example, don't schedule your study time right after lunch.
What if your lunch time expands?
What if you feel tired?
What if you want to take a five minute break before studying?
What if you have to take a shit?
Basically, when blocking out your time, give yourself leeway for error.
And if you do that, I'll guarantee that you will follow your schedule much more efficiently.
And finally, the last step of time blocking is to follow.
This is the most important step and I can argue this is probably like 90 of the work that has to be done compared to the first two steps.
You don't need to pressure yourself into finishing the task, doing it properly or doing it the best way.
You just have to show up and do what you can.
And this is the most important mindset that I need to teach you, because this, a lot of times, when people create tasks or people create schedules, it inadvertently creates pressure and people start to think to themselves that, oh God, I have to complete this swiftly, in one go.
I have to do this.
I have to finish this.
It's kind of overwhelming me.
No, you just have to show up.
You just have to do what you can.
Like running.
You don't have to show up running a marathon every morning.
You just... have to show up.
That is the most important part.
Progress and milestone comes naturally.
Showing up doesn't.
So next time you block out your day and you start with a task, I want you to remember to view it as a guide, not as an obligation.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed today's video.
I just want to make a quick little announcement to, especially to my fellow Filipinos, because right now we're going through a very, very big storm, like a very big typhoon.
Like literally, I'm filming this at like 6.30.
In six hours, we're going to be experiencing the worst typhoon we've ever experienced in a year.
So I just want to make this part to say to my fellow Filipinos and pretty much to everyone, even to just stay safe.
Um, I want everyone to stay safe.
I hope everyone and their families can take shelter from this horrible typhoon.
And yeah um, but yeah um, I just wanted to say that it's literally dead quiet outside and I'm we're like literally anticipating the literal typhoon.
Like we're like, we're like freaking holding our hands.
Like we're actually.
But anyway, I hope you guys.
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy today's video and I'll see you in the next one.
Don't forget to drink your water.
I actually have water now um, physically.
Uh, this is a coca-cola glass that i used to have when i was like 10 years old, and it's still here until now.
So don't forget to drink your water.
Why did i drink?
Like that's alcohol, that's water.
I promise you that's not alcohol anyway whatever, bye.
