5 Things I Did To Stop Wasting My Evenings After Work

although each day has 24 hours most of our Lives feel like they only have two parts work and getting ready for work again for many many years this was my reality in banking long hours high pressure constantly exhausted but at the same time I really wanted to build a business maintain a social life see my friends and family have regular day nights and find time to work out so I had to confront a brutal reality and that was that my evenings and my free time were disappearing and I needed to figure out where they were going I'd finally discovered of five solutions that completely changed how I used my time after work and so in this video I want to share the exact solutions that will help you find time to start that business learn a new skill or to simply just stop wasting your evenings and start using them for what actually matters to you let's start with rewrite your default settings the biggest hack I found for not wasting your evenings is separating your actions from your mood for most people the two are inseparable the link between them is unbreakable and when I worked for an organization this was my default every evening bad day spend the evening scrolling through social media tired call it quit stressed everything can wait till tomorrow but what if we can break that connection we can rewire that programming not by denying our feelings but instead by accepting our feelings and then rewriting our next line of code your default programming says I'm tired therefore I can't but you can update this code to I'm tired and I'm going to do it tired anyway or I'm tired and I'm going to do it and I could rest on the weekend think about it you've already done this countless times in your life times when you may have gone to the gym even though you didn't feel like it or pushed through work despite being completely exhausted there is evidence that you can separate your actions from your mood each time you take action despite not feeling it your building evidence evidence that you can do things tired evidence that you can make progress while stressed and the more evidence you collect the stronger this muscle becomes your mood doesn't have to dictate your evening you can be tired and productive you can be stressed and moving forward it's not about feeling good first it's about taking action regardless of how you feel number two optimize your life math everything we do falls into three buckets fundamental fun and future so think about money first if you look at your spending part of your spending goes towards your fundamental expenses things like your bills your groceries your basic needs part of your spending or your take and pay goes towards the fun area of your life your social life your hobbies you're eating out your holidays and then part of your spending goes towards your future this might be your skills or your growth or your Investments it's a pretty simple breakdown but here's the truth most people's fundamentals I. E their basic living spending eats up so much money that there's very rarely anything left for the fun or the Future Part of it now what's really interesting is your time and energy work in a really similar way your fundamentals are your chores your admin work your life maintenance the things that just keep your life ticking by the fun is your social life and your hobbies and then your future is things like learning a new skill or building your sight business or working on your career growth and just like money most people's fundamentals consume a huge amount of their time their life maintenance doing the laundry checking emails cleaning the house sorting out bills cooking cleaning while you can't eliminate these life chores you can optimize them and I found this was one of the best ways to make or to free out more time that I could use in my evenings I started with bulk organization so I tackled all my household chores on a Sunday evening I decided what I was going to wear for the week on a Sunday it's an intense few hours but it frees up my entire week I did things like meal prepping I focused two or three hours on a Sunday which saved me over 6 hours during the week that I otherwise would have been cooking dinner every minute that you save from working on your fundamental life admin is a minute that you can invest instead in your fun or your future time think about what you can do when you free up those extra 5 hours a week because you've taken on those tasks on a Sunday instead of every evening another way to free up time is by having someone or something help you do the thing you need to do for faster and better according to a report by Forbes we spend on average 88% of our work week communicating with written communication taking up the largest amount of time whether it's writing an important document preparing a presentation crafting a persuasive email writing up a pitch written communication plays such an important part of our working lives and so the ability to do it well and to do it quickly can be an absolute Game Changer and that is where the sponsor of today's video comes in which is a tool that I pretty much use on a daily basis and that is Gramm Gramm is an AI writing partner that helps me write better and faster unlike any other platform or app that I've come across it's features integrate across everything it checks my emails as I write them on Gmail it rephrases things to make it sound a certain way and one of my favorite features with the pro version is that I will check what I've written and then anticipate in advance what kind of questions or concerns someone would have when reading what I've written and then it will suggests ways in which you can fill those gaps up front as I've been growing my business and more and more people are joining this has been so helpful in keeping an open line of constant communication without spending hours trying to wonder if the message is clear and if it makes sense the other thing I love is that I connect to a load of other apps just making the entire flow of work a lot more seamless and quick I don't need to open and close tabs constantly or find the right app to Source a document with gramly Pro it's all in one seamless place if you want to check it out head to grammarly. com Nisha that's n c ha and Save hours each week to reallocate on the things that matter the next point we have is change your first destination the moment you walk through your door after work and sit on that couch it's over and that was my default for so long walk in drop my bag sink to the couch like it's quick sand just 5 minutes I'll tell myself and then 3 hours later I'll still be there four episodes deep into whatever Netflix decided to autoplay next and there's a research paper that actually shows how even though people think they're making choices all the time many of our repeated behaviors are cued by everyday environments and I realized how much of a difference this makes when one day I had booked at Pilates class at 8:00 p.

m. and I'd finished everything I needed to do at work I could have left at 6:00 p. m.

but there wasn't enough time to go home and come back so I just stayed in the office I opened up my laptop and I started working on my YouTube channel that evening I got more done in 2 hours than I had in weeks of planning to work on it after I got home and that's when it clicked don't fight the couch magnetism just avoid it completely pack your gym clothes and go straight to the workout take your laptop to a cafe and work on that side project you've been putting off straight after work the key is to intercept yourself before you hit that environment that triggers your default evening wasting routine by changing where you go right after work you change what you do with your entire evening it's really that simple next we have use your best hours I know we're talking about how to not waste your evenings after work but I feel like this is one of the most underrated time hacks on the list and that is that your morning hours are actually worth so much more than your evening hours think about your typical evening work session you've got your notifications popping up your friends are maybe texting about plans plus your brain's been making decisions all day it's trying to run on an empty battery now compare that to a 6:00 a. m. or a 7: a.

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