Name: How to Find Time for Everything with a Full Time Job
Uploaded: 2024-11-01T23:49:20.000Z
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Hey friends, welcome back to the channel.

I'm a doctor turned entrepreneur and the author of Feel Good Productivity, which is about how to do more of what matters to you in a way that's enjoyable, meaningful, and sustainable.

And this is the first episode of a three-part series about how to manage your time outside of your nine-to-five job.

Now, this is a topic that's really close to my heart because I started this YouTube channel and my business, and basically every good thing in my life has happened as a result of me being able to manage my time outside of the time where I had a nine-to-five job when I was working full-time as a doctor.

And really, this video series is for people who, for example, have a nine-to-five, whether you're a student or a professional or whatever, and you want to do stuff outside of it, but you maybe struggle to have the time and energy to do the stuff outside of the nine-to-five.

And the stuff might be starting a business or growing a side hustle or this sort of thing, but it might not be.

It might also be just taking up a hobby or making progress on that language that you're trying to learn, or even just giving more time to your friends and family.

And so really, in this video series, I wanna try and share as many tips as I can so that you can take away some kind of philosophies or mindsets or experiments to run in your own life that can help you achieve more of the things that really matter to you outside of your nine-to-five.

And so in this video, we're gonna be talking about the foundational mindsets and philosophies that you need to manage your time appropriately outside of your nine-to-five.

In video two, we're gonna be talking about how to not waste your life, all the time drains that get in the way.

And then in video number three, we're gonna talk about the five skills that you need to master in order to become amazing at time management.

Depending on when you're watching this, these videos may well be out, so they'll be linked down in the video description.

And I would recommend you watch them in order because then you get the philosophy before worrying about the tactics.

All right, mindset number one, time management is a really valuable skill to work on.

Now, the unfortunate truth is that we are all going to die.

And the other unfortunate truth, or maybe fortunate truth, is that time is our single most valuable non-renewable resource.

We can always make more money, but we can never make more time.

The fact that you're here watching this video, maybe subscribe to my channel, means that you care enough about this topic.

You care about personal development, personal growth.

You probably want to make the most of your time outside of your nine-to-five, but you might be, like I was back in the day, feeling a little overwhelmed with all the stuff that there is to do.

And I think sometimes people will dismiss this to be like, well, people who teach about time management, they're just promoting hustle culture or toxic productivity or any of that stuff.

But this is not about getting you to work harder.

This is not about getting you to hustle harder.

This is literally about us appreciating that our time is our own to do with as we like.

And if we tell ourselves the story that we're bad at time management, and we haven't actively worked on the skill of time management, then we fall into the default of like turning on the TV, going on Netflix, and just clicking yes on whatever the recommendation has in store for us.

We fall into the unintentional default of just going on our phones and habitually picking TikTok or Instagram or YouTube and just sort of scrolling and watching the videos.

And the thing that made this hit home for me when I started to get into this productivity, procrastination, time management type stuff, the thing that really made it hit home was that I didn't want to be in a position where a few decades from now, I would look back on my life and I would feel like I'd squandered the time and the energy that I had when I was younger.

Realistically, I'm probably not gonna remember the TV shows that I watched, unless they're absolutely amazing.

I'm very unlikely to remember the time I spent scrolling YouTube shorts or Instagram or TikTok.

But if I use my time intentionally and effectively on the things that I wanted to use it at the time, on like the hobbies or friends and family or building my business, whatever the thing might be, I'm far more likely to sort of give a high five to my younger self.

And so really the problem we're dealing with here is not a toxic productivity or hustle culture type thing.

I'm not telling you you just have to be more productive.

What I'm suggesting is that time is so valuable and so important that spending a little bit of it, learning how to use it better, I think is a skill that all of us could benefit from.

Now, as a bit of a side note, one thing that actually helped me be more intentional about my nutrition when I was working a nine to five job and even beyond that, is Huel, who are very kindly sponsoring this video.

Now, I've been a paying customer of Huel since 2017, since my fifth year of medical school.

And that was actually when I first started this YouTube channel as well.

And I've been eating Huel fairly regularly since then because it's a fantastic way to make sure that my nutritional bases are covered when I don't have the time, or I choose not to make the time to cook a healthy and nutritious meal.

Obviously, gold standard would be you cook and eat a healthy meal for every single meal of the day.

But in reality, with busy lives, and especially with a hectic work schedule, it can be often hard to make time to do that three times a day.

And the nice thing about Huel is that in those moments, instead of eating a totally unhealthy meal from like the work cafeteria or from like the Starbucks on the way to work, I can instead just eat Huel.

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So thank you so much Huel for sponsoring this video and let's get back to it.

All right, mindset number two is you can do anything you want, but not everything you want.

If you're watching this video and if maybe you follow my channel, then you're probably the sort of person that takes on too much stuff.

You probably wanna thrive in your nine to five.

You wanna do all that work, but maybe you also wanna be intentional about your health and relationships and wanna level those up.

There is a phrase, there is a story that is wrongly attributed to Warren Buffett, but like, I think it's directionally legit.

I don't know where this attribution came from, but a guy called Alex Benayan once asked Warren Buffett at his Omaha conference.

Mr. Buffett, I've heard that one of your ways of focusing your energy is that you write down the 25 things you want to achieve, choose the top five and then avoid the bottom 20.

Buffett kind of laughed and said like, that was complete BS.

Well, I'm actually more curious about how you came up with it, because it really isn't the case.

It sounds like a very good method of operating, but it's much more disciplined than I actually am.

But, you know, directionally, the advice is still legit, even if Warren Buffett never actually said the thing.

A lot of our priorities, five to 25, end up derailing and taking a lot of time away from the things that truly matter to us.

And really, we all have the best will in the world when it comes to this.

Like, you know, maybe you watch my channel and you're like, oh, it'd be pretty cool to be a YouTuber.

And then maybe you're like, oh, you know, I'd love to write online.

You know, for me, I was like, I want to get better at the guitar.

I'd love to learn Japanese, because I like watching anime.

And it's just, we keep on adding to the to-do list.

And we fail to realize that a big part of time management is about prioritization.

It's about knowing what you want to say no to, so that you have the time, energy and focus to truly say yes to the things that really matter.

And there is a story from my time as a doctor that I always think about.

This was when I was in my first week of working in the emergency department.

And I walk into the emergency department and I take a look in the waiting room.

And the waiting room is absolutely teeming with patients.

And I'm like, whoa, this is where the real medicine is at.

I go to my computer and I go through the list.

And then I see the next patient in order of priority.

And by the end of the day, I've seen about eight patients because it takes me about an hour.

And I don't even take my lunch break because I've got the energy.

And on my way home, I look in the waiting room and it's still absolutely teeming with patients.