You Can Streamline Productivity | EV's 4-Minute METHOD

Hi, I'm Evan Carmichael. This is a quick video that I wanted to share a little bit of the process that I use when I create my videos and some of my workflow. I get asked a lot about productivity and how I manage my time, and I wanted to share a quick tip while I was doing my videos on how I do them and how you might be able to learn and apply some of this to your business. So I'm gonna come close to the camera and show you my phone. So I'm using the Samsung Note 2, and I'm pulling up my email. So I have the Gmail app here, and I have a lot of email that comes in. I use a lot of labels and filters. So if I click on my labels here, you can see all the different labels that I have. And what I do every week is I will create, as people write to me, so back up there, too close. As people write to me, uh, with a question, I'll save it. So Wednesday mornings I always do my videos. So it's a Wednesday, I'm here in my house creating a video for you guys. So that's my Wednesday. And as people write in, I'll say I'll make a video reply for you, and from there I'll save it to a special folder. So basically what I do here with my phone— I'll do most of this on my computer, but with my phone I could see the labels that I have. A lot of different labels, different days, different things that I do on different days. And I'll go down to do videos. So I have a label for do videos, and what I do basically every Wednesday, these are all the video questions that I have. So a lot of questions that I still have to get back to you guys with, so I'm sorry for taking a while, but sometimes it happens. So basically these are questions that people have, and I can pull it through and I can load one up and see what this is all about. So this one is asking me to review a website. This one is asking— let's see what else we have here. YouTube video, YouTube questions. So I save all these. So this is about Evernote. And so what I'll do here is I'll load this up every time, every Wednesday I load up my phone, look at all the things that I have as due videos that I've saved for the week, and then I'll just switch the labels. So after I've done here, so this is my email, if I finish the video, I just sit down, I change the label. I go, I check off "Do Videos" and I go to "Do Videos Done" and I'll select that. I'm not gonna do it because I haven't actually done this video. I'm gonna get back to this person. And I'll click OK. And basically that will then put in a new folder. Every time I finish a video, I'll send it off to my video editor who will add the intro to it, add the music, clean up any mistakes that I have on the video, and then I have to send out an email to them to say, hey, I made your video, I just go to my Do Videos Done folder that's been tagged and labeled here, and I'll send it off. So that's how I quickly do my videos and keep track of it. So if you look at me on my phone every now and then, I'm just kind of scrolling through and trying to find what the next question is. But hopefully that gives you a couple ideas. Again, anything that I have to do on a, on a regular basis, I try to chunk it up. So the videos, I I used to do it on and off, but I find it a lot better to do it once a week. So anything that I try to do multiple times a week, I try to do it once a week instead. And so I find that as a good way to be able to manage how I do my videos. So hopefully that helped. Kind of off-the-cuff video for those of you who are loyal and regular users, if you're trying to figure out ways to improve your productivity. So if you guys like the video, give it a thumbs up. I might do more of these off-the-cuff ones for you guys. And if you have a question about productivity or anything else related to your business, feel free to leave it in the comment section below. I always read those, love seeing them come in. So thank you and I'll see you on the next episode.