 All right, let me talk about the two ways that we manage time and I'm curious which one you use and I'm also going to share with you which one I use All right, so the most popular way people manage time is the deadline method All of us grew up with this in school. You have to turn in homework assignments by a certain time You got to show up for tests and then we are also trained by the government To do this you got to turn in your taxes at a certain time Maybe you have to you know, I don't know file certain papers for certain things and then of course at work We are given external deadlines by your boss co-workers You know various professional things that we need to attend to so the deadline method is really The default method is someone has never studied time management They're going to be using the deadline method Regardless because that they have to and the deadline method Basically is revolving around the deadline so you will basically do whatever you need to do to meet those deadlines and oftentimes for most people it's doing things closer to the deadline because well Necessity is the mother of invention as the saying goes or another saying is pressure creates diamonds So the deadline method usually means we work kind of last minute or there's a lot that happens There more happens closer to the deadline than than early on Sometimes that means that you might be you know working all night or working later than you would like to meet a deadline or you might be needing to Shirk other Disabilities go off balance in your life for a while to meet a deadline. You might not be doing as much self-care You might need to cancel appointments with other people or with yourself Because you're meeting someone else's deadline someone has given you a deadline So you're you're canceled the appointment you've had with yourself to do certain things or to work on other things So in other words a deadline focused way of managing our time tends to Tends to make our our life somewhat chaotic Unless the deadlines are very consistent If the deadlines are very consistent and we're able to manage our life that way then We our rhythm of our life tends to be consistent too because we basically You know work a lot before the deadline and then rest and work a lot before deadline and then rest You know, so so that that is a very common way to manage life to manage business as well and then there is a second way to manage life and business which is the scheduling method and the scheduling method is basically to You know write out What it is you need to do to move forward in your life to meet deadlines. Yes But also to work on things that maybe don't have a deadline that's longer term or preventative and Once you've written those things out, you then put those things into your calendar You schedule time to work on different things whether they are deadline driven or whether they are preventative or far out. Okay visions goals and the scheduling method means that you stick with your schedule and You basically allow the projects to finish whenever they finish or If you want to meet deadlines, you just simply Learn how to finish that project within the scheduled time that you have it's a practice, it's a learning and Once you figure that out or once you experiment over time and realize, okay These kinds of deadlines usually take me this much time. So then you schedule in other words You will your schedule will change over time, but you're still using the scheduling method To really live your life and work your business Again allowing the schedule to change over time as you learn how much time things take you and on the other hand So you change your schedule based on how much how long things take you But on the other hand, you also learn to work faster to say, you know, I'm not going to give 30 hours to this deadline. I'm going to give 10 hours. That's all I'm going to give and whatever happens in those 10 hours Is what they're going to get? Okay, so Scheduling basically means that you create very good boundaries or you learn you're learning to create excellent boundaries Within yourself so that you don't go off track to say, oh, I feel like doing this right now I feel like no no no I'm creating boundaries within myself to say I don't have scheduled time to do this So I'm gonna do that and also creating boundaries with others just you know, other people want this or want that Well, I can't do that right now Because I'm to be I'm scheduled right now to do my video for example, right? I'm that's what I've scheduled and I'm gonna be doing that and of course the schedule has been done thoughtfully wisely given maybe my energy level for certain times of the day or how it how it You know correlates with my wife's schedule or whatever But the scheduling obviously is done thoughtfully and it continues to change and more thoughtfully based on Your own requirements and your relationship with other people obviously So it's not that we're we're we're we're rigid and we never change. No, no, of course we change our schedule You know constantly not constantly. Oh, I don't feel like doing this today. No, we change your schedule occasionally rather Based on okay after a few weeks of doing this I realized I need to do something different about the recurring schedule so as you can imagine what What I what I recommend Is the scheduling method because it is much more personally sustainable The problem with the deadline method is it tends to fray your nerves Because you're always doing everything last minute And then you know pressure pressure pressure and then relax and okay another pressure pressure and it and it can wear you Out over time, which is how I lived most of my life actually most of school most of My work that was all deadline driven my jobs. It wasn't until I became an entrepreneur Working for myself 10 years ago that I started to learn how to really work the scheduling method and I'll tell you this, you know It's it was surprising to me. I was recently running my numbers and This year 2020 where we're in May of 2020, you know to About three months into the pandemic may have 2020 and my my 2020 thus far has been better financially than my 2019 the first five months first five or six months and so 2020 is shaping up to be the best year financially in the long time and 2019 was the best year before that and the best year before that was 2018 the best year before that was 2017 so It's four years running a very sustained growth. I think it's Because I have learned to use the scheduling method really really well and That's why I I really recommend it to everybody Like I said, it doesn't come naturally. It's not how you were raised probably It's probably not how your you know, I think all of us Especially those of us who are heart-based, you know, all of us here heart-based spiritual more people We all want to be free spirits. All of us are free spirits, you know, because it's background here We all want to be you know in a tropical location or in the mountains or wherever we want to be in the forest You know, we all want to be free spirits doing whatever we want any time you want Obviously, okay, who doesn't want that everybody wants that nobody likes a schedule. Are you kidding me? if I had if I had all the money in the world and all the Well, if I had all the money in the world, I think I might still do some kind of sketch Now that I know the benefits of the scheduling method, even if I were you know, Jeff Bezos, I probably would still Live and work by a schedule because I've seen that it produces the most balance for me Well, no wonder because you design your life. What does it mean to design your life and live by a design? Well, it means that there is some kind of well design There's a there's there's some kind of thoughtful engineering of one's life so that it is Allowing the balance of various activities including self-care including fun including You know time off of course including free spirit Right, but when we put free spirit time into everything we do and we think that oh, I by inspiration and do this or that So let me let me talk about so so even though I I recommend the scheduling method I will tell you this over the past few years. I've actually learned to combine The scheduling and the deadline method. So let me explain that to you. I basically generate deadlines in myself first internally I generate deadlines many many deadlines And then and here's the other key. I make the deadlines Casual or not casual deadlines, but they're they're deadlines for casual Projects they're deadlines for the next version of something rather than deadlines for I must deliver perfection At this time because that's that I would call a serious deadline So I basically use many many casual deadlines in my life, but I meet those deadlines So let me explain what a casual deadline is Well, for example this video None of you were hounding me and say George. It's almost one o'clock Pacific Why where is your video? The only person who occasionally does that does that as captain? And thank you for keeping me accountable But I mean, I think a lot of you know Approx especially those of you who follow me on my Facebook page, which is my main place my Facebook business page You know Facebook comm slash George Cal community. That's my main headquarters That's where I you know really do all my content and everywhere else is You know where I put stuff afterwards like YouTube some of you're watching us on YouTube well YouTube I don't really have a deadline, but you kind of know that I upload videos on Tuesdays and Fridays What's it's a much looser deadline there? But my Facebook page basically before 1 p.m. Pacific on Tuesdays and Fridays you can expect me to have a video and Nobody asked me to do that. I set that deadline myself and once I started doing that You know, I am imagining a few of you are looking for it now. Maybe that's Fantasy, but at least captain is looking for there's at least one person looking for it, right? But but she threw I mean like like once you set a deadline like for content Once you set a deadline a consistent schedule and you publish consistently You're gonna start getting a few people in your audience Kind of looking for it and that further gives you some accountability to keep going So that's an example of a casual deadline another casual deadline example is when I teach my courses my online courses. I Now do something called beta courses. So instead of Instead of spending, you know, 12 hours to prepare for a course and those 12 hours have to be really disciplined and make sure I do everything You know and so instead of doing that I now spend three hours to prepare for a beta course and a beta course is free and it's I Gifted to 12 spots per beta course and it's only allow, you know, only my clients can sign up for those 12 spots So it's very limited. It's free and it's basically where I test out ideas for a course And so I only prepare a few hours before I do the beta course so that so that I get to test that ideas Which gives me the energy inspiration to then do the next version Which then then becomes eventually becomes a course So I set many milestone deadlines what I call casual deadlines along the way Which is okay. What's the next version or what's the first draft version of something so writing a blog post for example? I I now what I'm starting to do now Which is another example of a casual deadline is I now share a draft Was over the few people with my clients basically and see if they have any feedback for it and they don't have to It's totally optional, but they can comment on it. They want to so this blog post that was associated with this video is you know took into account some of those comments and this video too and And and then and then I share it with you all, you know So that's but then that's even after I share it with you It's still considered to me to be stage one maybe a year year and a half later I'll then go back to this and then rework it to be even better and then share it again So I give myself many stages of work and everything is very casual So nothing is serious nothing. It's like oh life and death my business is gonna go up or down be given this no No, nothing is serious everything is casual But there's a deadline to everything so that it keeps me in check. It keeps me balanced It keeps me producing and publishing So I hope that that helps you and one of the questions the common questions based on when I share this with my clients is That okay George, you know, I like this idea of scheduled but How do I get inspiration? I show up for for a scheduled time and I'm working by myself and I have no inspiration Doing it and so this is where and I have a separate blog post about that called How do you create how do you be creative on demand or creative on schedule? but the general idea here is We we need to overcome the fear of that project and the fear happens because of any project We need to overcome the fear of I did we need to overcome the fear of everything of course But when when when you show up for a scheduled thing and you don't have inspiration It's usually because fear is blocking the inspiration Okay, if you didn't have fear you'd be inspired you'd be creative So the fear of oh, I got to produce this in a certain way I have a certain perfection in my mind a certain vision. That's what's that's what's creating fear because it's like What if because that's called the fixed mindset versus the growth mindset the fixed mindset says if I don't meet That perfection identity within myself that that if I don't meet that then I will get rejected I will reject myself or other people reject me and then I will feel bad feel feel badly, right? So it's natural completely natural, right? Because that's how we were raised We didn't produce certain things we got rejected and then that hurt and then we got some certain privileges taken away or whatever So we show up for that time we go I don't care what happens in this time As long as I'm working on this and I do my best to predict to publish something at the end of the hour Or whatever my goal at the end of the hour is a reasonable goal Reasonable goal. Okay, then I'm not gonna be afraid of whatever happens in this hour. I'm just gonna play I'm going to to try I'm gonna experiment and then with its writing then just start writing on whatever topic Seems important or brainstorm topics right away with three minutes five minutes brainstorming, okay I'm gonna write on this one. There's no fear. No one's gonna judge you Who's judging you and the people judge you are not your ideal fans ideal audience anyway Okay, and don't let yourself know that the key is not letting yourself judge yourself, right? And this is where I do my energy reboot on love so there's there's a lot that goes into this But it's really essentially it's about Reconnecting with your own spiritual practice because when you reconnect with your spiritual practice You realize there's nothing to fear and if there's nothing to fear it includes at the end of this hour I'm supposed to publish a blog post well There's nothing to fear because I can publish by end up with ten words. I'll publish ten words Why is why why can I not why can't I publish ten words? Who says I can't the George Cal say you can't know I don't know you can publish ten words if you see what I mean like You show up for your schedule time. There's no fear. So you're like, oh I get to play I get to create I get to Experiment as long as I'm doing what I scheduled doesn't matter what the results are Because there's no fear because I know with a growth mindset that if I just show up and exercise Right practice that I'm gonna just get better over time I'm just gonna have those muscles of creativity of generating creativity on demand over time So when where's the then that's so really really all of authentic business is essentially a practice of removing fear and and then allowing inspiration to take over because there's no fear and Creating balance along the way so that you're doing the different parts of business and you have the different parts of your life So I hope this help. This is helpful. I always look forward to What your reaction is to to what I've shared and if you have any questions for me So I'm going to take a moment and see for those who are joining me on Facebook live If you have any questions and those of you watching this later, please go and comment below I'm gonna be quiet for half a minute to let you comment below while I check on the comments Okay, it's still loading. All right, and I want to thank Those of you who are joining me here toward Kim Isabella burn Abdulaziz Christina Tim Shweta Ida and Tim just joined the Facebook. Thank you Tim for joining Facebook course appreciate it Towards this getting feedback early is so useful It puts a soft deadline on everything because it needs to be complete enough to show someone Yeah, I mean it's even if it's 10 words you could show someone 10 words sure and you could produce 10 words in an hour Probably, you know, I'm being I'm you know joking about this with a Jacqueline. Thank you also for your comment there. So Go for it, you know what basically design your life how you want to live When when I talk about the scheduling method, you don't have to go with my schedule You can work two hours a day if you want to now If you only work two hours a day and you have more time than that You might want to work more than two hours a day if you have more time because then you'll build your business faster But but whatever whatever you want you design your life like that as long as it meets the balance of all the things You want to do and then just show up and of course I like I said over time you get thoughtful about okay I should schedule this first and then that because that makes more sense So for example, I always schedule I Only work for an hour to two hours in anyone chunk before I take a long break a long break It means a nap maybe a snack and a nap like a baby I do that multiple times a day and then and then maybe a walk walk dog So it's like I designed my day like I want to do it Still with a lot of purpose. I show up to work exercise. I consider it. So alright, I hope this is helpful Thank you all so much for your comments Shweta. Thank you for your comment there and I'll see you all next time. My name is George cow for those of you don't know I Talk about authentic business and how to grow a purposeful you know level of work and Bring more happiness and spirit into how you do everything. So if you enjoy this video, I think you'll like my others I look forward to your comments below and I'll see you in the next video. Take care