Last day of the holiday! (A brief note on learning productivity)
Today is the last day of my holiday with tomorrow being the actual start of the year of work. I decided to stay late in bed before getting up to re-organise my things and clean my place since I realise that from tomorrow, I will be accountable to make sure that I am living my life to the fullest potential. This will mean that I will have now to practise what I have learnt from all the personal development books I have read and YouTube videos I have watched. Aware that I will have to build the habits gradually before stacking them I needed to choose a habit to start with the year and give each month of my year a theme with 3monthly reviews of the way ahead for 2022 to ensure that I am on track. At the background, I am thinking as well about my vision for my life given that for the rest of my life what I do each year is becoming more and more important (and hence in the month, the week and the day)
One of the things that I have been trying to do is to wake up consistently at 5am but have not been successful. I know for sure that if I want to get more hours in my day, there is no way better than waking up early at the same time and going to bed at night at the same time every day. Tomorrow, I will start, and I will keep you updated as an accountability partner about my progress in this habit. My guide is the 5am Club from Robin Sharma. The morning routine will be a helpful start but for me the breakdown of that routine will be at three 10 minutes tasks for 30 minutes, rather than 20minutes for one hour. A brief description of the 5am club routine is in the linked video.
As I climb the ladder in my career, I am more aware that I have more responsibility and time management is becoming more important than ever. For that I know that I must be more productive and more efficient if this year is to be more successful than the one before. I could not find a better place to start from than starting a productivity course on http://www.skillshare.com by Ali Abdaal. He also has a very useful YouTube channel where I have started following him first before joining http://www.skillshare.com to complete his productivity course (2hours 38 minutes) and one hour down the line in the course I am finding it extremely useful, and I do highly recommend the course since he has summed up most of the productivity books available in less than 3 hours. I also recommend following him in his channel and website if you are interested in learning about becoming a millionaire from online business and about improving your life in general.
My January month is about Productivity.
And following the course I mentioned above, I am going to read one productivity book a week for this month. 3 out of these books I have been procrastinating on reading, but I have picked one of them from my library today to start in the morning.
January Week1: Getting things done by David Allen
January Week2: The Four-Hour workweek by Tim Ferriss
January Week3: Deep Work by Cal Newport
January Week4: Make time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
Let me hope that I will stick with my plans!
I wish you a happy year!
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