# This Freelancer Productivity System Made Me $22K This Month ## Метаданные - **Канал:** Nick Saraev - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssckf9ZG1OQ - **Дата:** 14.03.2024 - **Длительность:** 12:19 - **Просмотры:** 3,769 ## Описание Let's talk project management & productivity! Whether you're a freelancer or agency owner—here's a super simple system I use to stay on top of everything. People make productivity way too complicated, so this is my attempt at breaking it down. Hope this helps you print internet money! 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Thanks. ## Содержание ### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssckf9ZG1OQ) Intro what's going on everyone in this video I'm going to talk about project management skills as a lot of you guys know I do freelance I also run a business and my income is anywhere between 20 to maybe $225,000 on average per month this month so far I think we're at about 22,000 assuming that I don't sign any more deals I think that a lot of people want to get to that point and are wondering what sort of productivity systems or tools or skills do I need to have in order to make it there and obviously I've waxed poetic about various systems that I build both in my own life and in the life of my clients in order to sell packages to get me that money but I actually just wanted to take a deeper dive and look you know just cuz I know a lot of you guys are curious asking me through comments and stuff like that at what like a day-to-day in my life looks like at least regarding you know productivity and task management so if that sounds like something you're interested in if you guys want to hit that 20 to 25k month Mark 2 and are wondering what the hell do I need to do to get there this is the video for you stay tuned and let's get into it okay so I'm actually re-recording this which is really annoying but uh it's because I didn't have OBS on anyway that's fine the way that I organize my life and one of the reasons why I think that like my personal freelancing cap was just a lot higher than other people's before I started you know involving myself in businesses and that sort of deal uh was just because I use two extremely viable and high quality systems that hundreds of thousands of people all over the world have already vetted I'm going to talk about the first ### [1:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssckf9ZG1OQ&t=80s) Getting Things Done right now and the first is called David Allen's getting things done methodology or GTD the whole idea behind the getting things done methodology is you know I'm in Automation and processes and operations so we build out project managers for people all the time in this industry but when's the last time that you considered a project manager for you when's the last time you actually applied some of the values that you are building for businesses and and just thought hey can I apply this to my own life to make my own personal life management better you know you have tasks every day just like a business does got to locate my socks in the morning you know got to buy something on Amazon I need to book a meeting with Peter I need to get my nails did whatever you have a bunch of tasks that you can conceptualize just like you can in any project manager in a business and the getting things done methodology which I'm not going to beat like a dead horse because tons have been written on this and if you want to read like the book just look up getting things done um on your own but like the purpose of this is just like how do we improve the process efficiency and productivity of Our Lives by implementing some of the same practices that we use for businesses into my day-to-day and so the way that I personally use getting things done people make this want to be way more complicated than it is getting things done is basically just a big to-do list and the whole idea is anything that comes up in your life that you want to keep track of do not keep track of it in your head write it down somewhere and just get it out of your skull as quickly as humanly possible if you just get these thoughts out of your head and onto some storage medium that will last for hundreds of years like your hard drive or a notebook or whatever you never have to think about them again consume cognitive energy worrying about keeping track of them again and you can actually just use your brain way better like you're probably literally smarter I mean nobody's done tests on this but you're probably literally smarter and more productive and more effective and so yeah this is the whole idea behind David Allen's getting things done methodology basically you need to capture whatever has your attention anytime that something important or maybe economically valuable has your attention so get that out of the way as quickly as possible put that somewhere and then you can worry about it later so how do we actually do this in practice well um the capture stage people have w poetic about it for quite a while um my personal take is I just use a simple note tool on my computer called bear and anytime I have a thought like maybe I'm in a meeting and I'm like H I should book a call with Peter I don't just think about that and say okay well I got to remember this so like let's just keep on repeating remember to book a call with Peter Nick you should book that call with Peter right every 30 seconds uh I will take out a note app so in my case one called Bear right over here sorry I think there's some bird outside but I didn't close my window and then I will write book call with Peter and then I'll alt Tab out of it and I'll never think of it again right until I have to or until I consciously choose to basically so I'm no longer a slave to booking a call with Peter you know I can book a call with Peter when I have the time to sit down and book a call with Peter and it allows me to be significantly more present and in the moment with whatever I'm doing so if it's an important meeting I'm no longer trying to juggle two things in my head simultaneously now I'm just focusing on the one that matters which is what's right in front of me that other in my life I'll deal with later so presence is really important here and just being able to give something your all um obviously you're all is the core of what makes somebody productive so yeah pretty simple now this methodology this little flowchart or whatever you want to call it this has a lot of steps um I really only just use one more and that's that I will categorize um the thing that I just added and so I don't categorize it right there I separate it into two steps like anytime that an idea or a concept or a thought comes around if I have a new book idea or whatever or you know maybe I have a gift idea for my girlfriend or something like that what I'll do is I will just put that down in this note app and then that's just that's done the next step is I need to categorize it into one of two steps and if you look on GTD subreddits and stuff it's kind of culty they have like 50 or 60 different categorization schemes I just use two um I say is this a to-do is this something that I need to do right now or is this something that I don't need to worry about for a while is this a future task and so I have two do in future and what I'll do is periodically throughout the day as I'm adding these tasks and I have a few moments to myself I'll either whip out my phone which I have a the be app on which is what I'm using for no taking or I'll go to my computer and then I'll just tag the various tasks however I need to so in this case um I've already tagged it as a to-do task just because that's the way that my hot keys are set up but maybe book a call with Peter is just something that I'm not really super interested in or it's something that like I can wait a little while I'll just T that is waiting and then I'll just never think of it again until I consciously again decide to go through these lists so you know two steps basically there's capture and then there's uh there's categorize and then obviously what do you have left well now you just have a list of tasks that you can do right now or a list of tasks ideas that you can kind of consult with and maybe use to build some grander thing later uh and if I didn't have a system like this there's no way in hell I would have been able to profit $48,000 in a month when I had my 48k month this was like a total godsend I had so much going on that month that if I didn't have a system that you know I could just like have things come up and then capture them and then worry about categorizing them later there's no way in hell I would have been able to make through that so highly recommend instituting some type of personal project manager for your own life David Allen's getting things done methodology fantastic way to start what I do in practice is I as I mentioned I use the bear app and then I have like um a little Siri shortcut on my phone so all I need to do is I hold down this button take a note in Bear tell myself I look pretty okay great so now I have a new task in my bear I'll tell myself I look pretty which I need to do more often by the way um yeah and so you see like it's as frictionless as humanly possible if a thought comes up if I'm in a meeting or whatever I'll just I'll write it down on the phone but then if uh thought comes up and I sort of have you know my hands free or whatever I'll grab my phone and then I'll just speak into it like that uh and then that's all it takes two seconds to never have to worry about these tasks again highly recommend you can use uh the Apple notes app you could use a physical notebook if you wanted to although I think that's kind of dated you could use any medium Evernote to doist I don't know there's like a million in ones so I'll leave that up to you guys just look up platform name uh GTD and there'll just be tons of systems and recommendations so that's system number one the getting things done methodology system number two and this is more of a software tool than a system so maybe I have a smoke is ### [8:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssckf9ZG1OQ&t=480s) Superhuman I use a platform called superhuman to manage all of my emails and I think both of these collectively save me anywhere between 10 to 15 hours a week and they also allow me to be significantly more present in the moment now superhuman specifically is just sort of like an optimized email client it's nothing special this video isn't sponsored by them or anything um I just do find it like extremely ridiculously impactful and it's definitely worth the 20 or 30 bucks a month that I spend on it uh because it just allows you to like manage all of your inboxes using um hotkeys and so I can usually go through like I get like 20 or 30 emails a day I'm in Consulting and operations right like I talk to so many freaking people on a daily basis I can usually go through a whole email inbox with like 20 or 30 messages and I can do that in maybe like five or 10 minutes superhuman also now has some AI response stuff uh which essentially allows you to just like template out a response using bullet points and so I'll use that quite often so superhuman is just yeah it's a little desktop app that you download you just type superum into your browser um these guys say four hours back every week I think that it does even more than four hours to be completely honest but you know they have like really nice sexy branding and all that stuff I'm not going to go too much into it basically this is what it looks like when it's all signed up for and then you just have like a list of um things in your inbox over here and then as you see at the very bottom of the page they actually encourage you not to use your mouse which I really like about the very opinionated uh you can scroll up or down just with the eror keys and then you can press e if it's something that you want to Archive and you don't really care about you don't really want to do so I know that this email from this platform cup cut for instance I've already responded to um so all I need to do in order to Archive this I press e and then doom boom I'm done with this I don't need to worry about it uh this is uh you know somebody over here that wants to have some I don't know I think they want to like pitch me for video editing for my channel I do receive a ton of these now just because I put my email address in my YouTube so um maybe this is somebody I've already responded to or maybe I don't want to deal with it I just press e if it's somebody that I never want to talk to again I press um command you and then I just unsubscribe or I block them forever you know it's super easy and I'm not going to do that to that lovely person who's I cannot pronounce remail way I don't know why I always do that because I'm sure he meant the best but yeah that's how I get through my inbox extremely quickly there's also like an AI response functionality which is really cool so um this is somebody that asked me a question I'm going to press return here so I'm going to enter into the email and then I'm going to press uh command J I think yeah and then now I'm like this AI responder thing so basically what I'll do is I'll read through their email and they're launching some platform they want to do Ai and then they want me to like Affiliated or something like that and then I'll usually just say something like thanks looks good but not sure this makes sense right now um have a lovely day and then I'll just press enter and then it'll actually go out and use AI to like make the email a lot longer make it seem more professional now I don't actually give that much of a about this because it's just somebody that you know is reaching out to me for some affiliate sponsorship deal or whatever uh but you can imagine how you know if I'm in like a bigger organization 20 30 40 people there's usually some sort of professional or formality that's like sort of culturally required you just don't want to seem like a if you're like an external consultant so this allows me to take just a few bullet points which are the actual informational content of what I want to say and then just expand it into something that like seems a little bit more legit um you know and I I'll usually just like quickly double check and I'll make sure that this is okay and that sort of thing and then assuming that it is I'll just press return and then I'll enter it so yeah that's that pretty simple as I mentioned these two systems aren't rocket science or anything like that but I do find that a lot of people that talk about making 20 to 25k a month they'll mention offhand how you know productivity systems and they're gurus and they have like one thing that skilled them to whatever but they don't actually talk about how they manage their dayto day so I just thought that I'd sort of Peel back the curtain and just provide you guys a look at like the realities of if you're a freelance and you're trying to juggle five or six projects like what does that actually look like again when you've chosen to work for yourself you're not given a system and in order to succeed you need to build your own so this is just some fodder that hopefully you can use to build your own uh Thrive and then print loads of freaking money about as much money as the US government awesome if you guys like that video uh please like it subscribe and if you have any comments or questions leave them down below as a comment more than happy to get back to you I sore so many video ideas from this channel comment sorry my comments it's crazy so please keep up the good energy and I'll talk to you guys soon thanks so much --- *Источник: https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/12722*