 Let's talk about content creation and sort of the process that I use to create and post and kind of like scheduling the time for that. So I'll just kind of speak generally I'll show you an example on the screen as well for my process. But, you know, generally, I think of content creation. I have two blog posts that I want you to Google and you should be able to find my blog post and first one is the three stages of content creation. So Google that one and find my blog post on that and read it. Basically, stage one is prolific exploratory content stage two is repurposed the best of and edit and repurpose and stage three is monetized but anyway so that's that's the second blog post I bite you to look up is the three phases. Of creation, the three phases of creation and if you don't see my blog post just do the free the three phases of creation George cow and hopefully that'll that'll come up. Okay, I'll easier thing the three phases of creation. Play Polish promote. Play Polish promote this is a two separate block was a three stages of content creation, and then later on a few years later I wrote the three phases of creation three phases play Polish promote that's the second one. So, let me talk about this play Polish promote idea briefly, which is, you know, when I sit down to write an article. Let's play with the idea that I have in mind. There's no judgment in the play phase, I'm just, what could I I mean if I said something anything about this idea what, what might I say to somebody. Let's play with the idea I just type in the random stuff to be crazy could be boring could be interesting because and then the Polish phase is like okay now I've got some things written down now now I'm kind of editing right I'm cutting and pasting well what this idea should go above that one and this idea really should go at the bottom here and, you know, cutting pasting and then polishing is is you know part of polishing is okay well let me this idea maybe I need to say I know the sentence about right and oh I have this example for this other idea okay then. So the polishing is kind of like the, the making it readable making you know and then finally the, the promote is all right I'm going to post the article or, and you can apply this to video creation and to podcast creation as well it's same idea play Polish promote for video playing with what what might I say in the video you kind of do a little bit of outlining journaling before you start recording right. And then the Polish part those of you who do video editing the Polish part includes video editing, taking out arms and knowledge or saw this is whatever you do, I don't do video editing I just go live, but for me the Polish part is basically. Yeah I don't really have a polish part for video recording because I do everything one take, and then the promote part is just posting the video or posting the podcast episode or whatever it is so basically that's and then but but then you know, you might notice that you spend a lot of time creating the thing and then you don't have enough time, you need realize you have to schedule time for posting it promoting the piece of content as well. This is where I want to show you on the screen here I have a process that I give myself for that so I click on, you know, one of the little tips please use bookmark bar bookmark bar you can just drag drag links into your bookmark bar and easily access it again so I bookmark my content creation process. So Friday is when I my major content creation day, and I have a, I have a structure for myself for what I do on Fridays now. I don't need to talk you through the stuff on the left because everybody has a different method of creating content, but I just want to show you I put the steps for myself on, you know, on the left. I put the steps for myself and then I, this is the Friday, and really I should call the steps right as a step 12345 and I've already sorted by it. And this is whether or not I've done it I've given myself a time allotment for each 30 minutes 10 minutes 10 minutes 10 minutes. And if you if you add up all the time, it takes me 89 minutes so basically exactly an hour and a half to do all these things I've given myself in these segments over time to continue refining how much time these things take me and if things something's taking too long I can of course say well maybe I don't need the 30 minutes to record that me I'll do a 20 minute thing. I can change that so once I've done each thing I'll just put like a yes, I've done that. Okay, so every single Friday you I come back here and I go okay. Have I done that yet. I guess I did okay did I do the Instagram live yet. Yes I did that. Okay, have I added the article I haven't added the article and I'm going to click on this link to go to my blog dress to go and you know this is a Google Drive folder link you know goes to my blog dress and we go ahead and edit, you know edit the article. Let me go ahead and edit this you know and that's part of my process so it's so easy for me to go through my process because things are linked together and, and I've got the steps and I've got about approximately how much things take me. I got to post it on medium now okay this link directly goes to posting a new article on medium. So I copy and paste my, you know, my, my, my, my, my Google article and I, I pasted into medium, you know, etc, etc. And then I might do some editing from there. So you see all the steps are listed out for me. And when I'm done with all the steps I use select the column and delete it and I can reuse it next week. So, so this is why it's so important to have what I call a hat manual for the different aspects you know you wear different hats in your business now I'm a content creator hat bookkeeper hat, you know, client preparation hat, and each hat has a manual or a checklist of things that you do so it's very calming and I just have to follow the steps I know exactly and do and I know exactly how much time things take also. And so, yeah, the 90 minutes has been very, very consistent for me over I've done this for years now. And so, now, I do want to say one thing about how I, one more thing I say about how I actually create ideas these days that the play phase I'll say a bit about this. You know what I really I'm going to I'm going to talk about this in another segment so below this video there should be a link to that other segment where I talk more about the play phase if you don't if I didn't forgot to put it please remind me by commenting below so I hope this is helpful to kind of see the possibility of having a workflow for content and therefore knowing how much time you need to schedule for these things for for whatever process you are working so that you can go okay. I'm going to schedule the play phase on on a Monday or something I'm going to schedule the polish phase on a Wednesday and then the promote phase on a Friday or whatever it is you need to do. It's usually a good idea to give yourself some sleeping on at time between the play and the polish phase, and even the during the promote phase you might realize you want to edit just a little bit more before you promote. So, but the polish and the promote phase can really be done the same the same segment is fine but the play in the polish phase should really try to at least sleep on it and give it a day or two. You know, change between our gap between those two phases so I hope this is helpful.