 Welcome back. It is Friday. That means FNA Friday and today it's going to be about work-life balance productivity and burnout Okay, so on my YouTube comments and sometimes on Instagram and the places where I post people are asking me about my schedule because of the stuff that I post and things that work kind of like what is my day and Also, how do I deal with the workload the amount of work that I have? What if I have burnout how do I deal with burnout? So I thought today I'm going to lump all this together into one big FNA I want to talk about my process my schedule how I go about things and how I do and schedule my day So for me work is not life. There has to be a work-life balance So it's not work equals life. It is really a balance and preferably life is a bit higher up there and has more weight But of course depending on the situation You might not have the luxury to put more emphasis on your life and you have to focus on work Or for me I try really hard to have that balance and really work and then turn my brain off and then enjoy life Because for me the productivity and the risk of having burnout is directly linked to that work-life balance It all depends kind of my schedule. Sometimes I have a lot to do sometimes I don't really have that much to do and mainly I work at ILM Which comes first because that is my day job. That is the main job It pays my bills and is my career and the main focus in terms of work on the side I also teach and depending on schedule. I have a lot of classes. Sometimes it's not that many classes But technically I teach an animation mentor in the city I don't want to point this way but but I teach in the city physical on-site class I also teach an Academy online class at the same time I also teach animation mentor then also have my animation workshops as you know if you watch my channel and now on Top of those classes. I do have my YouTube channel As you know, you're watching this on YouTube where I post more lectures and FNAs and critiques and I kind of lump All of this into my teaching group. But that group should not interfere with ILM ILM is the main focus so whatever I have at work in terms of the schedule Over time or whatever it is all the teaching has to be structured around it and make sure that it doesn't interfere in terms of Schedule that I can't do over time or that I can't hit the deadlines or just kind of anything That's a problem for ILM in terms of deadline and just general job interference needs to be avoided So all the classes are kind of built around that I'm not gonna have five class in the evening which I can't anyway Which means that I can't do any potential over time in the evening or weekends if I had a class on the weekend at the same time I don't want to stop teaching because I love teaching So I want to keep an eye on the schedule and make sure that I have a class somewhere So I don't want to stop that and I don't always have classes for all of those So sometimes another of students for the mentor class that teach all kinds of different classes there was beginner to acting But also creature classes and you never know who signs up or who doesn't sign up and if there is enough Demand for class so sometimes I don't have animation mentor sometimes a physical class at the academy the same thing They're not enough sign-ups student demand wasn't enough for that class What a reason there is an online academy is not that often but when it happens and there's room then I teach it So again, it doesn't mean that there's always a class there that being said right now. There is I do have an on-site I do have an online I do teach mentor and I have my workshops So it's a lot and I thought maybe I should just document just once even just for myself how it is And actually if you follow me on Instagram, you might have seen my stories But it did save them and I won't actually walk through that day with you now So you can kind of see what my day is when I get up in the morning and what I do throughout the day And until I go to bed and make some room. Let's play this here So you can see that I get up usually a quarter to five by the time I stumble into the bathroom It is close to five I wake up and got my morning protein shake and then I get into my office, which you can see it looks Somewhat okay until I pan over to the mess, which I never have time to clean It's a constant struggle and then I do usually academy critiques in the morning and workshop critiques Then on Wednesdays at six or at this term actually it's 6 30 I have a Q&A with my students and then after the Q&A is done I am exporting my workshop critique in Premiere for a YouTube upload and while that goes on I do my animation buffet rig uploads and Twitter postings and all that stuff that I do in the morning Then it's time to go to work and work has traffic this time with some bad traffic on the bridge But usually you have some traffic then I get to work That is the work lobby as you can see and I'm not allowed to show too much in there But on Wednesdays we have donuts and I said no because I have to lose weight inside ILM Don't tell anybody that I film this you have some props and some models and posters There's some awesome goodies displayed those costumes rotate not the stormtroopers, but those side costumes every now and then There's some new ones then it's lunchtime saying no to tater tots and burgers and fries and I have something healthier Then in the afternoon, there's more awesome stuff everywhere. You look I'm a massive fan of this You might not be but I love it and then it's done I say bye bye to Darth and it's time to go to this city. Yes There's still traffic I park and get out of there walk to school and as I walk I say no to more more more More stuff that I can't eat then I'm at the class. That's the 180 building I'm inside the physical can't film people there that is not allowed. I don't want to have them on screen That wouldn't that would be rude then I get out and when I'm at home I post the critique that I exported and I post that everywhere Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter and later on Instagram and That was the day quarter to five and I went to bed at 11 35 Which means the next day I actually get up at six usually I get up a quarter to five That is the schedule tip the weekends It's a bit later, but I try to kind of be somewhat regular in terms of when I get up And I get up this early in the morning because I want to be productive And I do more in the morning because there are no disturbances There's no email no text or nothing like no one's around already sleeping I'm alone in my office and I can get all my work done I also feel better when I get everything done in the morning and nothing is looming throughout the day or in the evening That being said every now and then there's more to do and it kind of swaps into the evening Scheduled block which I try to keep open for just personal things But every now and then that happens now as I work on those things. I try to be as Automated, but I have a lot of templates. So when I do my critique I put that into my premier template which has the intro the outro all the blow isn't everything I just put in my critique and adjust the end where the the outro comes in and export that same thing if I post a Rig on my animation buffet website that has an automatic post on Twitter Then I just manually put that onto my personal Twitter account But I also like to sometimes post things separately and specifically with different images and so on and so on So I have my my own kind of thing But at the same time I'm trying to have lots of templates that includes anything that I do and premiere if I post something on Instagram I look at my previous post copy paste the whole thing all the hashtags and everything and I kind of change the intro text There's a lot of copy pasting going on a lot of templates and things that I can use same thing in Photoshop If I do my thumbnails for YouTube I have a Photoshop template with all the titles that's bring in new images and kind of tweak these as you kind of do But all of that is there to save me time By the way, I ordered a new chair So this creaking is gonna be over I think this weekend maybe next week definitely next week a new chair finally But as you saw in Instagram story I have a stream deck which I don't use for streaming yet I'm gonna be streaming anytime soon But I use it for other things which will be a review actually a separate post But there's so many things that I do over and over and over like if I have my workshop I've got a right to pass the things certain elements in the text that I keep repeating and all of that you can Have custom actions on that stream deck. So all I gotta do is push a button to open this push a button to write that text Or if I do my Q&A using zoom usually you open zoom and then you have Whatever the main page and then you choose your participants and the and the video webcam turns on and of course you could do all of this By hand I could do all of this by hand But even without a stream deck you can say an action delay some time another action and all of that push one button And then it opens up. I know this sounds extremely lazy But trust me if you do those things all the time every day Repetitive things you want to have something where you don't have to do this over and over and over and it just saves me time And it's also mentally I can just go and kind of turn my brain off do those things and prepare So all of that goes into not burning out. So little things but they add up at least for me I also keep a really tight schedule at work. So I'm hourly. I'm not paid salary So if I'm working 40 hour weeks, so it's eight hour a day after the eighth hour I'm out now. I know this might be very antisocial or you know, whatever you want to call this But I want to go home and see my family. I want to have dinner with my kids. I want to put my little kid to bed I want to read to him. So for me my work is done work is done And it's not that I don't like work and I don't like the people there But again, I want to have work and then I want to have that balance And then I want to go home and have my family life and that's where that balance comes in So I wake up early in the morning to get my teachings done and all the little things that I need to do Then I do my work block and then I come home. So when I'm home, I can spend time with my kid I can have dinner. I can snuggle with my wife. We can watch a movie together We can watch a TV show together. I can play some video games. I can read a book There's all kinds of things I can do and mainly it's something that is not work related I can just decompress relax and just do the things that I can either do with my wife or my kids and my family Or something about myself if I watch a horror movie that I usually watch by myself And that's the balance that I'm trying to go for and on top of that I try to schedule an exercise now This is again tricky because I have the obligations because of work and the teachings But I don't want this to be where well, I don't have time to exercise. I'm not gonna do this every now and then that happens But I'm 40 Hold on my 42. No, I'm 41. I'm only 42 actually soon. Anyway, so I need to exercise I need to have that balance of I'm sitting here and what is slouch and I sit in the car and I sit I work and I can stand I work too and I can stand here. I have a This table that goes up and out so I have ways but generally still I need to exercise and I want to exercise I also like to swim a lot. I like to play basketball and tennis Now she just recently bought a hoop that I have outside. I can play with my little kid I can bring the hoop down and then bring it up. I can play and of course I got my dog So whenever I can if it's not raining but sometimes even in the rain we go out Then I walk for half an hour with my dog So I really try to have a good balance in terms of work and then family and exercise to stay healthy Of course, there are always some compromises. There are always some exceptions But at least I try to do that and if I don't do this, especially if you have at work You have you have your overtime food, which we're lucky to get sometimes. It's not the healthiest food and then you know Things grow and right now and a place where I need to lose a lot of weight Hence all the no when you see all those temptations But I try to be healthy and I try to stay within that healthy Balance like I said where I really want to focus on all those things I don't want to just work and also just don't want to be just lazy and I don't want to just exercise So I want that healthy blend and that mix that gives me an overall Balanced hopefully a balanced life. Now, that's during the week. So on the weekends Saturday Sunday, I do nothing Again, there are exceptions. Sometimes we have Saturday overtime could be Sometimes it happened be some critics are important or something for the channel that I need to edit I'm not done yet And I'm trying to do this in the morning Maybe maybe in the evening but I try in the morning But Saturday is usually time for my kids because my wife is working on Saturdays right now So Sunday is then family time with everybody and I really tried to do nothing in terms of work It's just family time It's quality over quantity and I don't want to think about work and then by Sunday night I can go to bed and then Monday the whole thing starts again that being said I like my work I like what I do a like animating like animating at the company that I'm at I like teaching and I like all those other things that I do But if there ever is a sense of I'm overworked or I'm stressed or I'm tired or starting to get exhausted I do a hard stop like this week. So right now we're working on saw words episode 9 there was a lot to do and as you could see on Wednesday, that was a long day and I didn't have time to work on the acting analysis and I was really tired And I didn't want to work on this on Thursday until 3-4 in the morning and then post it So I have my schedule. I upload the things that I do as you can see if I don't get to my bigger uploads Upload a critique because I have almost a thousand critiques So I have a lot of material that I can upload for you Hopefully the to learn but I'm not gonna kill myself and get up and do this. So I didn't have time I was tired. So I said no, I was not gonna do this didn't upload anything besides the critique Which was already done and it was Thursday, which means Star Trek Discovery time and I sat down with my wife He watched the episode and it was great and I relaxed and the same is with work So if we have work and there's overtime if after a while It just gets too much. I just stop and it's not mandatory overtime and if I'm too tired and exhausted I won't be efficient anyway at work and we have the freedom to tell production listen I can't come in or I feel overworked. I'm not gonna do this I just do my regular time and they're okay with that and then once I'm recovered I can go back and do overtime if I want to so I try to Choose specifically when I work like how much I work and what days so it's it's not a feeling of there's so much And I'm overloaded this I'm choosing to work this little or this much and I'm trying to schedule things So it's always something that I can manage. So that's my balance and sometimes you got to take sick days So you got to schedule your vacation the moment I feel overloaded again. It's a hard stop I just stopped doing anything that is not, you know, endangering my my life my family life and paying my bills So anything that's extra I just stop it because it's not worth it I need to be healthy. I need to be able to function So then I decide I'm gonna cut back on the extra things that I'm doing and focus on the main stuff and just relax and recover And at the same time I have a lot of little things that I enjoy that I use and do during the day to just keep me in a good mood And I'm a simple person so I can be in the car right now I'm binging through the Inglorious Trek spurs podcast and my massive Star Trek fan and those episodes are so much fun I listen to a lot of podcasts in the car at work. I listen to music. I listen to podcasts. I listen to movies I don't watch movies because you won't be distracted, but I can listen to movies that I know so I can put on Star Wars I can put on whatever Star Trek I put on Lord of the Rings I put on the Matrix or whatever movie that where I like the sounds and then the voices and there's a lot of stuff that I Can do just keeps me in a certain good mood and and can also maybe distracts me from The potential stress of work or whatever is going on now that being said this is just something that I do This is not a clip where I tell you do this and this is gonna work for you But I just want to answer the questions that I got what what do you do and how do you schedule those things? So that's that that doesn't mean it's gonna work for you It doesn't mean that you have the same opportunities or the same possibilities to do what I do But again, I just wanted to let you all you know, especially those that ask me This is my day I get up really really early in the morning because I want to get everything done in the morning So I have ease of mind in the evening and sometimes if I have more to do I have the time in evening to get that done as well if I would sleep in and then get everything done in the evening I mean, I guess you could offset the hours, but then I would go to bed really really late and I don't want to do that Either I want to have a regular healthy somewhat healthy Sleep schedule where I do sleep six to seven hours. Ideally they say eight hours But I also have a hard get up at seven because my little one gets up at seven So if I go to bed at three four, which again, I don't want to do I have to get up at seven I have to get ready. There's breakfast. It's a little guy and then I sleep only three four hours And that's really unhealthy and I obviously it's dangerous to drive. It's it's really unproductive in terms of work So that is my current schedule quarter to five I get up six on Thursdays and on weekends usually six as well and that's so far Works for me again I get a lot of stuff done in the morning and then evenings and weekends That's the balance that I have to kind of offset the work with just things that I enjoy and right now I'm reading multiple books and of course Star Trek That's one. I just got that's actually really really good. The writing is really great currently also going through Stephen King on writing and there's some other filmmaking and animation books that I want to read because I also wanted the reviews But that's when I also just keep educating myself outside of work But again, you can't just do all of this all the time and not offset this with Relaxation time and just recovery time and not just mentally but also physically with exercises. So that's it I don't know if this was helpful I hope it was at least interesting to watch if you're still here and you watch the whole thing Nuda that really appreciate this and that's it So Comments if you have anything to say about this any suggestions or what is your schedule comments are open as always You can of course like and subscribe. I gotta say this it's YouTube, but that is it for me That was the FNA and I will see you next week