A young entrepreneur juggling YouTube, school, a relationship, and class president asks how to manage it all. The answer: block time for each priority on a calendar, write down specific goals on sticky notes, and capture stray ideas in an email to handle later so you're fully present with people.
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I want to start my own company through YouTube, but at the same time manage my relationship and studies, uh, and be the president of my class. Any tips? So wants to be an entrepreneur, wants to have a relationship, wants to do well at school as well. What tips do you have to manage all of that?
Um, well, I mean, definitely scheduling. It doesn't have to be so, uh, rigid or like you're creating a calendar entry, right? But definitely compartmentalizing your day so that when you are focusing on one of those priorities, you're really just focusing on that priority, right? So like, you can't be out to, out to a meal, like a nice dinner, uh, with, with your significant other if your mind is over here, you know, thinking about your business or thinking about being president of your class or, um, you know, getting involved with YouTube. Uh, so I think that that's really important. It's And this might be like super philosophical and metaphysical, but, you know, just be in the moment, you know, be present. So like when you're working on your business, work on your business. When you're with your significant other, be present with your significant other. I think that that's really important because what happens is you'll end up getting maybe 80% there on 100 things. But you'll end up getting 100% there on zero things. You know, so like you really want to compartmentalize and focus. I think that that's really important. And the other thing I would recommend is, you know, this question, you know, you seem to have some tangible goals. Write down those goals and put them on a sticky note or put them on a Post-it note and put them on your computer, like wherever you are most of your time. Visualize those goals. And if you can, you know, drill down, and it's kind of weird with personal relationships, but, you know, drill down on like what the metrics are that you're going to determine, you know, you were successful in meeting those goals. So being president of your class, that's a clear metric, right? You either you are, you aren't president of the class. But, you know, in terms of starting a YouTube business, figuring out like how many subscribers are you trying to attain? Or how many— how much revenue do you want to make with your YouTube business? You know, so like being able to set tangible goals, make them visible, and constantly refer back to them, you know, to keep yourself on track. Those would be my recommendations.
Yeah, I love it. I'm on the same page. I think any, any major thing that you have in your life you wanted to dedicate time to, you have to block out those chunks in in your calendar. Uh, and so if it's, you know, with your girlfriend, then maybe those are in the evenings. And if you have to study certain amounts of time, you know, you block in your calendar. You want to focus on YouTube, you block in your calendar. Because it's not in your calendar, you don't dedicate the time and chunks to it, you're probably not going to do it. Because life has a funny way of just getting in the way of everything that you're trying to do.
Yeah, absolutely.
Um, and to the point on focus, I really love that And I think it's easy as entrepreneurs to get distracted. I know for myself, I'm with my wife and with my son, you know, we may be out playing in the park and like, boom, idea hits, right? Like, I got to go do this. And, and it's easy to then get derailed and want to think about that and not actually be present with my wife and my, my, my son. And what I find the easiest way for me is I just send myself an email. As long as I can get it out of my head and I know I can come back to it, then I feel safe and kind of moving on. But if I haven't written it down, I haven't sent myself that note, then I'm going to keep thinking about it and worry that I'm going to forget it and then not be focused on being present and being with my wife and my son. So it's a pretty low— like, so send an email, write it down. I think I would expect those things to happen, expect those kind of distractions to happen. And have a plan around it so that you don't get too caught up and, you know, leave it off the wrong path and then not being able to spend time with your family.
