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How I Manage My Entire Christian Life in Notion — Transcript

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  1. 0:00so if you don't know notion is a
  2. 0:01productivity app that's like super
  3. 0:03customizable literally it's like one
  4. 0:06productivity app to rule them all and I
  5. 0:09love it and I want to show you exactly
  6. 0:10how I've set mine up first we'll talk
  7. 0:12about personal productivity so like how
  8. 0:14do I manage goals projects tasks Etc uh
  9. 0:17then we'll talk about spiritual growth
  10. 0:18how do I manage my prayer lists how do I
  11. 0:20do my Bible reading plans in there how
  12. 0:22do I track all that and then third we'll
  13. 0:24look at Knowledge Management so how do I
  14. 0:26take notes how do I organize those with
  15. 0:28notebooks how do I capture stuff from
  16. 0:31the web that I want to read or watch
  17. 0:32later I'm hoping that maybe you can take
  18. 0:34some ideas on how to customize your own
  19. 0:36notion template the one I'm going to
  20. 0:38show you here is actually available at
  21. 0:40Christian productivity.com you can
  22. 0:42purchase it along with a course that
  23. 0:44teaches you how to use it so I've pulled
  24. 0:46together some clips from the course but
  25. 0:48hopefully again it just gives you some
  26. 0:49ideas for how to customize your own
  27. 0:51template but if you want a shortcut feel
  28. 0:53free to grab that template and help
  29. 0:55support the channel That way as well
  30. 0:57okay let's dive in we'll look first at
  31. 0:59personal
  32. 1:00productivity so this covers domains
  33. 1:03goals projects and tasks so this is sort
  34. 1:06of the core of the template so let me
  35. 1:08try to help you wrap your head around
  36. 1:11what this uh is structured like so
  37. 1:15within redeeming productivity if you've
  38. 1:17read my books or or taken any of our
  39. 1:18courses you know that we like this thing
  40. 1:21called the uh pyramid of purpose the
  41. 1:24idea is that our life exists at
  42. 1:27different levels so most days we're
  43. 1:29living down here at the task level or at
  44. 1:31the project level this is kind of way
  45. 1:33down here the question is how do we as
  46. 1:36Believers connect all of our work to the
  47. 1:39most important thing at the top here
  48. 1:40which is God's glory and the way we do
  49. 1:43that is we systematically sort of break
  50. 1:46our life down into little chunks so that
  51. 1:48all of our work is consciously connected
  52. 1:51up to this ultimate goal of glorifying
  53. 1:53God so the second layer here in domains
  54. 1:56this you'll see represented in the
  55. 1:58template and these are areas of your
  56. 2:01life that God's given you responsibility
  57. 2:02over so I'll show you in the template
  58. 2:05what I'm talking about down here at the
  59. 2:07bottom of the main dashboard page you'll
  60. 2:10see these domains of stewardship we like
  61. 2:12to divide them up into three main or
  62. 2:14sorry six main areas spiritual physical
  63. 2:17economical so that's like your money and
  64. 2:19your possessions relational so your
  65. 2:21relationships vocational that's your job
  66. 2:23or whatever the main thing you do is and
  67. 2:26recreational your rest and your leisure
  68. 2:28you can add different ones these you can
  69. 2:30change the names of them you can delete
  70. 2:31them and have your own maybe some you
  71. 2:33just want to have school as a domain
  72. 2:35because that dominates so much of your
  73. 2:36life that is okay and I'll show you how
  74. 2:38to set all those up in a little bit but
  75. 2:41this is the layer that everything lives
  76. 2:43under and so let's jump back over to our
  77. 2:46slideshow and I'll show you how this
  78. 2:47connects So within a domain my goal here
  79. 2:50is to be faithful in all of these areas
  80. 2:52of life God's given me and so by
  81. 2:54delineating them sort of laying them out
  82. 2:56in the template I can then connect
  83. 2:58things to them like goals I can set a
  84. 3:01goal for one of these areas for example
  85. 3:06in the physical domain I set a goal of
  86. 3:08losing 10
  87. 3:10pounds right and this actually breaks
  88. 3:14down into it walk you through a process
  89. 3:17for um identifying and clarifying each
  90. 3:21step of that goal it'll even give you an
  91. 3:23opportunity to add prayer to it so as
  92. 3:25part of your regular prayer routine
  93. 3:26you're actually praying for the goals
  94. 3:28that you're pursuing asking God to bless
  95. 3:30them we'll help you set up tasks for
  96. 3:33these goals and projects to break them
  97. 3:36down into what are the actual tactical
  98. 3:40things you're going to do in order to
  99. 3:41reach that goal and you can connect
  100. 3:44resources to these and I already
  101. 3:46mentioned prayer so what we like to
  102. 3:48think about is okay I have these certain
  103. 3:50goals these certain aspirations that
  104. 3:52live within a domain so example I have a
  105. 3:55goal for my spiritual life or maybe I
  106. 3:56have a goal this quarter for my physical
  107. 3:59health like I just talked about well I
  108. 4:01want to break that down into projects
  109. 4:04and so just like I showed you over here
  110. 4:06we can create projects you can create as
  111. 4:08many as you want and they can go from to
  112. 4:09do to doing to done Etc and these
  113. 4:12projects are the things that you are
  114. 4:16trying to accomplish according to a
  115. 4:17timeline that are going to get you
  116. 4:19closer to that ultimate goal that you've
  117. 4:22set for yourself and then projects break
  118. 4:24down really into tasks what are the
  119. 4:26individual items I'm doing in a single
  120. 4:28work session I've heard Cal Newport
  121. 4:31recently describe the difference between
  122. 4:33a project and a task uh a task is
  123. 4:35something you can do in a single work
  124. 4:37session a project is something that
  125. 4:39takes more than one work session right
  126. 4:41so a project is going to contain
  127. 4:43multiple tasks so Justice in our example
  128. 4:46here if I click into this project we've
  129. 4:48created we have three tasks we've made
  130. 4:50for it purchase kettle bells set up home
  131. 4:52gym buy pullup bar those are the three
  132. 4:54tasks we've created and we'll probably
  133. 4:56create more before the end of this but
  134. 4:59if I do these These are what's going to
  135. 5:01help me accomplish my
  136. 5:03goal so the idea is that if I set up a
  137. 5:06system that's so clearly connects these
  138. 5:09then I can get to a point where I can be
  139. 5:12looking at the tasks I'm doing and see
  140. 5:14how that connects to the project and
  141. 5:15connects to a goal connects to a domain
  142. 5:17I'm trying to Steward well which
  143. 5:18connects to me trying to be faithful and
  144. 5:20glorifying God in all areas of life
  145. 5:22that's sort of the ideal we're hunting
  146. 5:24for here in our productivity system and
  147. 5:27this template is designed to help you
  148. 5:29get that Clarity because what that
  149. 5:31Clarity means is you have as Thomas
  150. 5:33Watson says uh a Silver Thread God's
  151. 5:36glory is the Silver Thread which must
  152. 5:38run through all that we do and so
  153. 5:41imagine you instead of having that sense
  154. 5:44of meaninglessness when you're doing
  155. 5:45some menial task at work you recognize
  156. 5:49no this is part of a bigger picture
  157. 5:51which is part of me being a faithful
  158. 5:52Steward to God in this area of life okay
  159. 5:55so that's sort of the philosophy behind
  160. 5:57the template let's talk about how this
  161. 5:59actually breaks breaks down now I've
  162. 6:01shown you in the template how these
  163. 6:02things connect but I think that it helps
  164. 6:04to visualize them with a diagram and
  165. 6:07this will help you wrap your head around
  166. 6:09how all these interconnected databases
  167. 6:11work together so let's start with the
  168. 6:14domain so any this could be physical
  169. 6:17spiritual any of those domains those can
  170. 6:19be broken out into either goals or
  171. 6:21projects uh so you can attach a goal or
  172. 6:24project to any domain so let's go back
  173. 6:26to our example here of
  174. 6:28physical you can see across the top here
  175. 6:30that I have a goal already assigned to
  176. 6:32it but I also could assign a project
  177. 6:34directly to it so I could you know short
  178. 6:37circuit that pyramid because sometimes
  179. 6:39you just you don't want to have a goal
  180. 6:41and then have a project under it you
  181. 6:42just know in this physical area I just
  182. 6:44want to have a specific project so we've
  183. 6:46made it so you can connect anything to a
  184. 6:49domain a goal or a project doesn't
  185. 6:52matter and then projects break down into
  186. 6:55tasks which we already looked at before
  187. 6:58same thing with goals they break down
  188. 7:00into projects and then project goals
  189. 7:03could also have individual tasks
  190. 7:05assigned to them so let me show you what
  191. 7:06that looks like so let's go to our goal
  192. 7:09of lose 10 PBS so we're in the goal of
  193. 7:12lose 10 pound and we have tasks here so
  194. 7:15I instead of having a project under here
  195. 7:19I could also assign individual tasks
  196. 7:21directly to the goal again we tried to
  197. 7:24leave lots of Freedom here for you to
  198. 7:26use this template the way that you want
  199. 7:30and of course projects can all have
  200. 7:32individual tasks assigned to them just
  201. 7:34as we saw before if I go back to our
  202. 7:37project the 8we fitness program there
  203. 7:40are our
  204. 7:41tasks so that's the big picture of how
  205. 7:45this thing breaks down these are the
  206. 7:48main parts how they interconnect with
  207. 7:50each other you have lots of options you
  208. 7:52know the clearest path is to have a
  209. 7:54domain with a goal with a project with a
  210. 7:56task but again we've given you lots of
  211. 7:58flexibility to attach things in
  212. 8:00different ways so that it can follow
  213. 8:02your own workflow and not feel pedantic
  214. 8:06in the way that it's set up next let's
  215. 8:08look at the spiritual growth components
  216. 8:10of the template and how they can
  217. 8:12interact with what we're already doing
  218. 8:14so here we're specifically talking about
  219. 8:15Bible reading and prayer so if I jump
  220. 8:18back over the template I'm here again on
  221. 8:20the main dashboard
  222. 8:22page and you can see that I have under
  223. 8:24growth on this column on the left here
  224. 8:27Bible reading and prayer and Library
  225. 8:29we'll get to library in the next section
  226. 8:31when we talk about um capturing
  227. 8:33resources and notes but I just want to
  228. 8:35focus on Bible reading and prayer right
  229. 8:37now so under the Bible reading section
  230. 8:40you can see that we have a couple Bible
  231. 8:42reading plans already built into this
  232. 8:44and we can add more or you can uh follow
  233. 8:47our uh little plan that we've set up and
  234. 8:50add your own if you want to but the
  235. 8:53trick is I can actually track my Bob
  236. 8:55reading plan right within
  237. 8:57here so let's use the Robert Murray M
  238. 9:00Shane reading plan as an example if I
  239. 9:03click into that one it has broken up the
  240. 9:06entire year-long reading plan that we
  241. 9:08have into weeks for us and so I could go
  242. 9:12through and just Mark these complete as
  243. 9:14I
  244. 9:15go or the way I prefer to use it is
  245. 9:19click on just this week this will
  246. 9:21automatically always be updated to
  247. 9:22whatever the current week is so you can
  248. 9:24see what's next in your reading plan we
  249. 9:26also have a calendar view so you can see
  250. 9:30what days you've missed and kind of get
  251. 9:32a cool sense of progress as you go
  252. 9:34through the reading
  253. 9:35plan and this works for all of these we
  254. 9:38have a 5-day a week plan which is a
  255. 9:39little bit uh less intense to do but
  256. 9:43they all work the same way New Testament
  257. 9:45reading plan Etc and we can add more of
  258. 9:47these as we go so that's the Bible
  259. 9:49reading
  260. 9:51plan so going back out here to the main
  261. 9:55page of our demo planner we're going to
  262. 9:57look now at the prayer section
  263. 10:02this is just a dedicated area for your
  264. 10:05uh prayer request so this if you've ever
  265. 10:07used an app like prayer mate we've
  266. 10:09basically just made little cards for
  267. 10:12each day of the week and we've just
  268. 10:15sorted them uh I should say according to
  269. 10:18each day of the week so that you can
  270. 10:19follow a general schedule so for example
  271. 10:23I have all these demo ones in here and
  272. 10:25you can feel free to delete these or
  273. 10:27update them how you want these are just
  274. 10:28sample prayers but I could easily say
  275. 10:31you know I'm going to add a new one to
  276. 10:33uh Tuesday and I want to pray for um
  277. 10:38let's say my
  278. 10:41grandparents if you open that up
  279. 10:43whatever you type in this area will show
  280. 10:45us a preview over here so um we'll do
  281. 10:49bullet points because I like bullet
  282. 10:53points Grandma's
  283. 10:55Health can't spell
  284. 11:00Grandpa's spiritual health these are
  285. 11:02just things I'm making up but you see
  286. 11:04they appear here on the um on these
  287. 11:09little preview cards and then I can move
  288. 11:10these around and so this is a nice way
  289. 11:12that I found to just make sure that I'm
  290. 11:15praying through my stuff without having
  291. 11:16a million things to pray for each day
  292. 11:18you can kind of be systematic in the way
  293. 11:20you approach your prayer life but what's
  294. 11:22also cool is you can connect these
  295. 11:24prayers to anything else in the uh
  296. 11:27Christian productivity planner so for
  297. 11:29example I have this prayer for my health
  298. 11:32that i' eat and drink to the glory of
  299. 11:33God that I'd see exercise and diet as a
  300. 11:35stewardship issue that's great but you
  301. 11:37notice here I have this little goal
  302. 11:39associated with it if I click that I can
  303. 11:42see that this is actually already
  304. 11:43associated with my goal to lose
  305. 11:4610bs so if this is now I'm looking at
  306. 11:49the goal itself when I'm reviewing this
  307. 11:51goal I can encourage myself and be
  308. 11:54reminded oh yeah as I'm reviewing this
  309. 11:57goal what should I do next I remember oh
  310. 11:58I need to price for this so the the
  311. 12:01amazing thing here is we're bringing up
  312. 12:02prayers in context where they make the
  313. 12:05most
  314. 12:06sense another way we can look at this if
  315. 12:10we go back out to the main page which
  316. 12:13kind of have an overview of all your
  317. 12:14different databases if we go down to the
  318. 12:20bottom we can see that any one of these
  319. 12:23domains also has a prayers associated
  320. 12:25with it so
  321. 12:29this has a prayer for finances in my
  322. 12:31economical domain and you can see I'm
  323. 12:34going to go into that Finance prayer you
  324. 12:36can see I could select here which domain
  325. 12:38this is associated with it doesn't have
  326. 12:40to have one but if I want to add one I
  327. 12:43can choose economical and now it's
  328. 12:46associated with
  329. 12:47that and so it's again when I'm
  330. 12:49reviewing my different domains how am I
  331. 12:51doing this area you're prompted to pray
  332. 12:54for these
  333. 12:56things and as we're going to see in a
  334. 12:58little bit here this is all actually
  335. 13:00baked into your daily planner as well
  336. 13:03but as you're setting these things up
  337. 13:05building out your prayer list and all of
  338. 13:06that making all the right connections
  339. 13:08that's going to ensure that they show up
  340. 13:10in the right contexts so that you're
  341. 13:11prompted to pray for the right things
  342. 13:13and so you're always always reminded hey
  343. 13:15this is a spiritual Endeavor this isn't
  344. 13:17just about um me trying to do this in my
  345. 13:20own power okay next let's talk about
  346. 13:23Knowledge Management so this is how you
  347. 13:25use the template to manage notes
  348. 13:27resources notebook books and tags so
  349. 13:31briefly let me explain what I mean by
  350. 13:32that by notes and resources I mean notes
  351. 13:35that you generate so that might be
  352. 13:36meting notes or a journal you could keep
  353. 13:39in here resources I mean things you
  354. 13:42capture from outside so for example a
  355. 13:44YouTube video you want to watch later an
  356. 13:46article you want to read later a podcast
  357. 13:48episode things like that and then
  358. 13:50notebooks and tags are two ways of
  359. 13:52organizing them so if you ever use
  360. 13:54something like Evernote or a folder
  361. 13:56based thing a notebook is kind of like a
  362. 13:58folder that you can put them in and then
  363. 14:00tags are a way to sort of free associate
  364. 14:03different ideas or concepts people
  365. 14:05organizations Etc with your notes and
  366. 14:08resources and this is all handled in the
  367. 14:10library section of our template so let's
  368. 14:13go over there now Library contains all
  369. 14:15of your notes resources notebooks and
  370. 14:18tags so at the top we have a sort of
  371. 14:21inbox area so I could create something
  372. 14:25new just jot it down real fast quick
  373. 14:28note
  374. 14:30um add whatever I want to this blah blah
  375. 14:34blah um and not do anything with it I
  376. 14:36don't have to do anything with it right
  377. 14:37now and that's a good way to capture
  378. 14:40stuff and then anytime you get in here
  379. 14:41you can sort them out um into where they
  380. 14:44need to go but let's just jump jump back
  381. 14:46in there to show you how we might sort
  382. 14:48this out so maybe I'd move it over to
  383. 14:50reviewing and you can actually do that
  384. 14:52here as well just by dragging it but now
  385. 14:55this is reviewing and I have this quick
  386. 14:57note maybe I want to file it I'm going
  387. 14:59to file this as a meeting
  388. 15:03note and maybe I want to add a uh tag to
  389. 15:09this so under here I'm going to add a
  390. 15:12tag and let's say it was a meeting with
  391. 15:14myself I guess and I'll add Reagan Rose
  392. 15:17as one of those I can select a type for
  393. 15:21this and so I'm just going to call this
  394. 15:22a
  395. 15:23note and you'll see how this all filters
  396. 15:26out in the other sections and I'm going
  397. 15:29to say I'm going to add a short
  398. 15:31description
  399. 15:32here uh short meeting with Reagan just
  400. 15:36to give myself some context when I'm
  401. 15:38glancing at this later I'm going to say
  402. 15:39that looks good um again I can also
  403. 15:42associate any of these notes with a goal
  404. 15:45so if I had some goal I was working on
  405. 15:47and this meeting concerned that I could
  406. 15:50attach it to that
  407. 15:52goal uh similarly I can down here I can
  408. 15:55add associate it with a project
  409. 15:59I can also add tasks because often you
  410. 16:01know you have uh tasks that spin off
  411. 16:05from meetings that you have or notes you
  412. 16:07can add those directly here and those
  413. 16:09will become uh those will appear in your
  414. 16:11task area of the template we can also
  415. 16:14again associate prayers we can also add
  416. 16:16other library items so if you want two
  417. 16:18notes to sort of backlink to each other
  418. 16:20you can do that here as well and that'll
  419. 16:23give you an option to see what other
  420. 16:24notes are available you can search for
  421. 16:26them
  422. 16:29and you can add them by hitting the Plus
  423. 16:31or you can create a new task here which
  424. 16:34will just be whatever you titled
  425. 16:38this all right but for now let's call
  426. 16:40this good let's mark it is saved it'll
  427. 16:42disappear from our little inbox
  428. 16:44processing area and that's okay because
  429. 16:47now it's gone down into our saved items
  430. 16:50area here you have different uh filtered
  431. 16:53views so all will show you all types of
  432. 16:56notes um remember when we selected the
  433. 16:58type note for this there it is these are
  434. 17:01all filtered by type this also works for
  435. 17:03articles you've saved um you can do this
  436. 17:05for YouTube videos I'll show you example
  437. 17:07how to save some of those in a later
  438. 17:09video podcasts PDF books journals right
  439. 17:13so you could actually use this for your
  440. 17:14personal Journal if you wanted to I like
  441. 17:17to leave it on all so I can see them all
  442. 17:18but once you add a lot of notes
  443. 17:20obviously this can be overwhelming so we
  444. 17:22uh we have these filter
  445. 17:24options what about notebooks well I
  446. 17:26tagged this uh note that I made as
  447. 17:29meetings you can see this other note uh
  448. 17:32in this note section is also um added to
  449. 17:35the notebook meetings down here is that
  450. 17:38notebook this is just a simple allinone
  451. 17:41place to to see any note associated with
  452. 17:44a notebook and so you can quickly jump
  453. 17:46into them it's just an organization
  454. 17:47thing but you can attach an entire
  455. 17:51notebook to a domain of stewardship uh
  456. 17:53for example this fitness and exercise
  457. 17:56one I have this notebook associated with
  458. 17:58my physic phical domain of stewardship
  459. 18:00because these are articles things that
  460. 18:02I'm saving notes Etc that are going to
  461. 18:04help me with exercise nutrition or
  462. 18:06things like that that's the point of
  463. 18:08this notebook and so I Associated it
  464. 18:10with that
  465. 18:14domain tags are simply another form of
  466. 18:18organization and I've created three
  467. 18:21types of tags people topics and
  468. 18:24organizations and just like with our
  469. 18:26notebooks and with our notes we can view
  470. 18:28them all here and it just gives us a
  471. 18:29nice clean list of all of our people
  472. 18:32topics and organizations but if you want
  473. 18:35to filter you can do that here as well
  474. 18:37so I have two people here if I click on
  475. 18:40my name you'll remember I just
  476. 18:41Associated this note with it again quick
  477. 18:44way to see uh all of the notes
  478. 18:47associated with this tag this is great
  479. 18:49actually for topics so I don't think I
  480. 18:52have any notes here yet for nutrition
  481. 18:54but if you had a specific topic you it
  482. 18:56was just very Loosely defined it wasn't
  483. 18:58enough that you wanted to create a whole
  484. 18:59notebook about it this is a great way to
  485. 19:01tag those and then you know organization
  486. 19:03can emerge from that and when you start
  487. 19:05to do a project or maybe researching for
  488. 19:07something you're writing doing this you
  489. 19:09have everything organized really neatly
  490. 19:12for you you don't have to dig through
  491. 19:13reams of paper or unfiled notes to find
  492. 19:16it and at the very bottom here we have
  493. 19:19favorites recents and archives so any
  494. 19:22note if you check this box next to
  495. 19:24favorite will appear here so this is the
  496. 19:27maybe the stuff that you're most Focus
  497. 19:28focused on your active things this
  498. 19:30recent one is based on uh whichever ones
  499. 19:34have been edited most recently so last
  500. 19:36time you opened them those will show
  501. 19:38here and then archived is anything that
  502. 19:40you mark As archived so let's uh give an
  503. 19:43example here's my quick note I just made
  504. 19:45I want to Archive this that means you're
  505. 19:47not deleting it so it's still searchable
  506. 19:49still findable but it no longer will
  507. 19:52show in any of these saved views but you
  508. 19:54can still find it under archive or if
  509. 19:57you search notion you'll still be able
  510. 19:58to find it that's a nice clean way to
  511. 20:00remove things without deleting them
  512. 20:02permanently next I want to give you an
  513. 20:04overview of the daily planner this is
  514. 20:07where you're going to see your priority
  515. 20:08tasks and projects your morning routine
  516. 20:11can be done here as well as a built-in
  517. 20:13habit tracker this is one of the unique
  518. 20:15ways that we've approached building this
  519. 20:17planner is yes you have all these
  520. 20:20dashboards but there's also a nice way
  521. 20:23each day to just zoom in on what you
  522. 20:25want to see just for today and that is
  523. 20:28done through through the daily planner
  524. 20:30area see where it says planner and
  525. 20:32habits this is where you create a new
  526. 20:34planner so I'm going to delete the one
  527. 20:35that I made for today so I can create a
  528. 20:37fresh one for you just as an example and
  529. 20:39so this is sort of just like a checklist
  530. 20:42and so you could jump in here in the
  531. 20:44morning and say okay let's do my morning
  532. 20:47routine maybe you have your schedule
  533. 20:49here built into the template again I'll
  534. 20:50show you how to edit these in a moment
  535. 20:52um just so you know what times you've
  536. 20:54planned to do everything and then each
  537. 20:56of these has its own section prayer oh
  538. 20:58wait here's all the prayers that we had
  539. 20:59created each day I can just come in here
  540. 21:02and say all right today it's Monday
  541. 21:04let's pray for my health and for the
  542. 21:05unbelievers that I know because that's
  543. 21:07what I want to pray for on Monday and
  544. 21:09once I'm done with that I can say let's
  545. 21:11mark prayer done for today I can go to
  546. 21:14organize this is just uh clarifying what
  547. 21:17tasks and projects you're going to do
  548. 21:18for the day but this is linking you off
  549. 21:20to the tasks and projects dashboard
  550. 21:22where you actually select what your
  551. 21:23priority projects and tasks are for the
  552. 21:26day so right from your routine you're
  553. 21:28actually going to build out your
  554. 21:30schedule for the day it'll jump you over
  555. 21:32there and then you can jump right back
  556. 21:33like I just did and you'll be done with
  557. 21:35that so let's pretend we did that we've
  558. 21:37organized great word that's reading the
  559. 21:39Bible so if you use our Bible reading
  560. 21:42plan thing uh you can jump right over
  561. 21:46and start using it again I'll show you a
  562. 21:48quicker way to do this um when I show
  563. 21:50you how to edit the template but say you
  564. 21:53don't want to use our Bible read tracker
  565. 21:54you can also just write down uh in here
  566. 21:56treat almost like a journal what did I
  567. 21:58read today what are some lessons from
  568. 22:00per ref personal reflection application
  569. 22:02things I got from this great what did I
  570. 22:04read in the Bible let's mark it done
  571. 22:08Exercise this if you have an exercise
  572. 22:11program I have the example of Don Lor's
  573. 22:13free 8we program in here I actually have
  574. 22:16this saved in the template for you um
  575. 22:19Don Lor of Layman's Fitness he has a lot
  576. 22:21of great free programs you can do he's a
  577. 22:23Christian he he kind of works um your
  578. 22:26faith into the programs but I saved that
  579. 22:29here so like you can see how this
  580. 22:31allinone really starts to become
  581. 22:33powerful when you can just jump right to
  582. 22:35the exercise program you needed to do
  583. 22:37without going on another device or
  584. 22:39finding a PDF or some piece of paper
  585. 22:42it's all in the same
  586. 22:46system and so let's assume we did our
  587. 22:48workout plan we'll mark exercise done
  588. 22:52what about reading and writing this is
  589. 22:54the r in our
  590. 22:56um Paradigm that we use for power
  591. 22:58mornings uh you can jump over to your
  592. 23:02library maybe you want to read some
  593. 23:04articles that you've saved you could do
  594. 23:07that or you could jump into your journal
  595. 23:10and write in there if you want to do a
  596. 23:12little bit of journaling within the
  597. 23:13system but again you don't have to use
  598. 23:16those things you could also just say oh
  599. 23:18this is just a prompt to remind me I
  600. 23:20want to read the book that I have maybe
  601. 23:21a physical book somewhere or write in my
  602. 23:23physical Journal that's fine
  603. 23:25too let's mark reading and writing done
  604. 23:27for the day
  605. 23:29so that's the whole morning routine
  606. 23:31section but where this gets really
  607. 23:33powerful I think is your daily planner
  608. 23:35allows you to see just your priorities
  609. 23:39like we said before it can be a little
  610. 23:40bit overwhelming when you see everything
  611. 23:42on those big dashboards all the stuff
  612. 23:44that you've stored in there all I want
  613. 23:46to see is what's important because I
  614. 23:48only want to work on what's important
  615. 23:50today and so what this does here is you
  616. 23:53have these four areas and they're all
  617. 23:55filtered by anything that's been
  618. 23:57selected as a priority so if I open up
  619. 24:00this purchase Turbo Tax um task you'll
  620. 24:04see that it's marked as a priority
  621. 24:06that's why it's showing here no nothing
  622. 24:08that's not a priority is showing here so
  623. 24:10let me remove it as a priority it's not
  624. 24:12there so this is a great way for you to
  625. 24:16select what you want to work on for the
  626. 24:18day and only see that if you remember
  627. 24:21during the organized part of our morning
  628. 24:23routine this is when we chose what tasks
  629. 24:25and projects we were going to do for the
  630. 24:27day you can do this during your weekly
  631. 24:29reviews too or whenever you want but
  632. 24:32we've made the conscious decision to
  633. 24:35divide up uh planning from execution so
  634. 24:39you use these dashboards use these
  635. 24:41different areas in the notion template
  636. 24:43to plan the work you're going to do but
  637. 24:45when you get into the daily
  638. 24:47plan all we want to do is work we are we
  639. 24:50want to have decided in advance what
  640. 24:52we're going to work on and just do that
  641. 24:53stuff so that's the point of these
  642. 24:54priorities we recommend you don't choose
  643. 24:56more than three tasks to work on in a
  644. 24:59day um and those can be connected to a
  645. 25:02specific project or not you can grab
  646. 25:04whatever tasks you want and as you do
  647. 25:06them they will disappear because as I
  648. 25:09mark them done let me undo that but the
  649. 25:12same is true of priorities so maybe you
  650. 25:15want to focus just on your priority
  651. 25:17project today and here I've marked the
  652. 25:198we fitness program as my priority
  653. 25:22project and I have that set as doing I
  654. 25:25can see all the to-dos associated with
  655. 25:27it these are not these are priority and
  656. 25:29non- priority ones are all showing here
  657. 25:31and I can see any connected resources
  658. 25:34and so very easily from my daily plan I
  659. 25:37can say okay it's time to work on my
  660. 25:38project of the day what is it ah yes I
  661. 25:42can get right in there and get to work I
  662. 25:43can even take notes on
  663. 25:46it uh right within here create new task
  664. 25:50mark them done as I go Etc I can see
  665. 25:53what I finish when they're done
  666. 25:58same is true of goals with have priority
  667. 26:00goals here and priority domains again
  668. 26:02it's Focus all this area is just showing
  669. 26:05me what are my priorities right now when
  670. 26:07you're working you don't need to see
  671. 26:09everything you just need to see what's
  672. 26:11most important and that is how the daily
  673. 26:13planner helps you do
  674. 26:15that we have some other sections here uh
  675. 26:18it looks like it generated the same
  676. 26:20thing twice I'm just going to delete
  677. 26:21that for you we also have the daily
  678. 26:23notes area and this is just again a
  679. 26:26place where you can jot stuff down some
  680. 26:27people like to keep work log where they
  681. 26:30um just say you know at
  682. 26:321050 I worked on X uh or just scratch
  683. 26:38Pad right so as you're living out of
  684. 26:39this document while you're working today
  685. 26:41you can have this little scratch Pad
  686. 26:43maybe some of those things will turn
  687. 26:44into tasks later maybe they won't but
  688. 26:46it's just a record of any extra stuff
  689. 26:48you want to keep track
  690. 26:50of now let me go back out to the main
  691. 26:54page and show you
  692. 26:56something your planner is also a habit
  693. 26:59tracker so I was showing you as we went
  694. 27:01that we were marking these habits as
  695. 27:02done these are also shown here in more
  696. 27:06of uh just this is filtering by the last
  697. 27:08week I believe no the past two weeks so
  698. 27:1114 days it'll show you sort of the
  699. 27:14streaks that you're on and it even tells
  700. 27:15you what percent are marked checked so
  701. 27:18let's say I did I skipped reading my
  702. 27:19Bible Well out of the last two days I'm
  703. 27:21at 50% completion this is just a a good
  704. 27:25sort of way to track how you're doing on
  705. 27:27these different
  706. 27:28areas that's also visible down here in
  707. 27:32the calendars area I can see all of my
  708. 27:35past um daily planner sessions and their
  709. 27:38goals in them too so I can go back in
  710. 27:40time and look at old ones if I want to
  711. 27:41or just kind of add a glance see how I'm
  712. 27:43doing to my habits well I hope that
  713. 27:45overview was helpful to you gave you
  714. 27:47some tips for how to use notion or even
  715. 27:49just gave you some idea of the
  716. 27:50possibilities for customizing this thing
  717. 27:53um if you want to grab that template you
  718. 27:55can get it at Christian productivity.com
  719. 27:58again it comes with a full course on how
  720. 28:00to use it and set it up as well as a
  721. 28:02short little crash course on how to use
  722. 28:04notion if you've never used this program
  723. 28:06before thanks for watching I'll see you
  724. 28:08in the next video

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