So, welcome back. If you're new to this
channel, my name is Alec. I've been
working from home for the last 18 months
and before that I started my online
learning journey exactly two years ago
so I've had the time to experiment what
it means to be in charge of your own
time and having to make your own
schedules. When I started this, when I
started my first contract (this was a
website creation contract) as a
freelancer, I really thought that I would
really be more productive, you know. Not
having to drive to work, not having to
stop work at 5:00 p.m. sometimes when
you feel like you're fucking productive,
you have good ideas, you're really on top
of shit and you just wake up the next
morning and you know you're not as
inspired and all this creativity just
goes away. I thought that all this
combined would mean then me working at
home would be fucking productive, but I
was really surprised you know the first
week when I checked my time. This was a
hourly paid contract so I was always
required to calculate my time. At the end
of the first week, I had something like
30 hours in the week. This was not
fantastic, but this was okay, I guess. But
at the end of the second week, I recorded
only five hours. I was fucking blown away.
I did not realize I was doing so little shit
and the thing is that all that time I
felt I was being productive. You know,
there are tasks like cleaning the toilet,
cleaning the whole house, doing the
dishes, cooking... all these tasks, even
driving your sister to to college, all
these tasks are things that you feel like
you doing work. You're contributing, but
the thing is that all of that combined
does not bring your project to the next
level. It does not bring any money to the
table. These are all tasks that are that
you need to do, but they are not tasks
that are related to your business. The
problem is that when you are at home,
it's so easy to get distracted.
Not only by these tasks like cleaning
and taking care of your dogs, your cats...
also it's very easy to get distracted by:
"hey, maybe
you just watch this five-minute YouTube
clip"... and you just start watching it.
This ends up being 30 minutes of lost
time on YouTube. This always happens
because, you know, you start getting into
that mindset that you're like: "man, I
could work later tonight. It doesn't
matter. I mean, it's just ten minutes. Ten
minutes is not gonna make a difference."
But when this 10 minutes become a
fucking habit, this is when ten minutes
becomes 10 fucking hours and you get at
the end of your week and you're like
fuck man I just worked five hours and
you just make something like $100 in the
week. So, the solution I found while
watching a Neil Gaiman interview.  Now,
Neil Gaiman is a best-selling author.
He made this book called Stardust. The
guy used to have the same problem and
what he found out is that if he forced
himself to write, it didn't work. However,
if he allowed himself to do other shit,
well the other shit is often more
interesting than doing your own work. You
know, it's always more fun to watching
YouTube videos. It's always more fun
to go talk to friends and go out so if you
give yourself the permission to anything
else you'll probably do everything else
except what you have to do. So he gave
himself a few hours every day like
that's something like four hours every
day where he has the right to do two
things. First of all, he can write his
book. He can work on his business, work on
his project, okay?
Second of all, he can lay around and do
nothing at all. So, that's right. He's not
forced to work if he doesn't want to. He
doesn't. He can lay around anywhere in
his yard...
Oh and he's not allowed to see anyone. So,
he's at home alone. He can sit on the
couch, he can start thinking, he can
start stretching, he can start walking
around, he can start sitting
chair, I guess. But basically, the thing is
that when you start doing nothing at all,
it gets boring very fucking quickly so
his work, his writing, it does not come as
a necessary evil, but rather as a very
welcome Savior from this boredom. Because
boredom is the enemy. If you make it so
that if you don't work, you get bored, you
will be driven. So, this is what I'm
telling you you should try this totally
worked for me.
I passed from five hour work weeks to easily
15 hours in a week and gradually made it
to back up to 30 hours. But really, if I
had not this trick about scheduling and
cutting out distractions, really, I don't
think this would have been as easy as it
was. So, whether you're working from home
or just learning online, this is
something that you can implement. Now, for
those of you who are learning online and
are looking to get a job or have
finished your online learning and are
ready to get a job, I made a very fucking
good video for you very recently it's
about what I call the hirability
matrix.
I pretty much decoded the formula on how
to get hired and how to make your resume
look very fucking interesting even
though you have no college degree so if
this is something that interests you; if
you want to know how to get a good high
paying job even though you've totally
skipped college, well totally watch that.
Links in the description down below. Also,
coming right up very soon, we started
making our review of YouTube traffic
masters by Sean Bagheri. This is a very
big course. If this is something that
might interest you, do not forget to
subscribe. Buttons down below. This is one
you don't want to miss if you want to
start a YouTube channel. With that said,
thank you for watching I truly
appreciate.
If you have any questions about anything
related to online learning or this video, I
highly recommend you write them in the
comments down below. As well, if you have
a course you want me to review, because
this is my business. I review online
courses for a living. Just write them in
the comments down below
I'll be very happy to take a look. With
that said that's it for today and I'll
see you soon!
