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23 February 2022 Image Watch data Weigthed vest: 10kg Ankle weights: 2kg Incline: 3%
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22 February 2022 Hours sat: 1 Cumulative hours: 59.5
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22 February 2022 Image Watch data Weigthed vest: 10kg Ankle weights: 2kg Incline: 3%
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21 February 2022 Hours sat: 1 Cumulative hours: 58.5
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21 February 2022 Image Watch data Weigthed vest: 10kg Ankle weights: 2kg Incline: 3%
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20 February 2022 Hours sat: 1 Cumulative hours: 57.5
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@Ulax Hey, thanks man. You're right, I got this.
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20 February 2022 Image Watch data Weigthed vest: 10kg Ankle weights: 2kg Incline: 3%
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19 February 2022 Hours sat: 1 Cumulative hours: 56.5
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19 February 2022 Image Watch data Weigthed vest: 10kg Ankle weights: 2kg Incline: 3%
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18 February 2022 Image Watch data Weigthed vest: - Ankle weights: - Incline: 3%
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18 February 2022 Hours sat: 1 Cumulative hours: 55.5
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17 February 2022 Image Watch data Weigthed vest: - Ankle weights: - Incline: 3%
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17 February 2022 Hours sat: 1 Cumulative hours: 54.5
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16 February 2022 Image Watch data Weigthed vest: - Ankle weights: - Incline: 3%
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16 February 2022 Hours sat: 1.25 Cumulative hours: 53.5
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How to double-clutch an Eaton Fuller split box; the most common manual gearbox used in trucks the world over today DOUBLE-CLUTCH METHOD CHANGING UP THROUGH THE GEARS Remove pressure from the accelerator pedal completely Depress the clutch pedal just enough to disengage the transmission and at the same time… move the gear lever through neutral and position lever for the next higher gear. Let the clutch pedal up until the transmission is re-engaged. Depress the clutch pedal and at the same time … move the gear lever into the next higher gear. Release the clutch pedal smoothly and then apply the appropriate power to match road speed. CHANGING DOWN THROUGH THE GEARS Release the accelerator pedal. Reduce speed (by braking) for the next lower gear. Depress the clutch just enough to disengage the transmission and at the same time … move the gear lever through neutral and position lever for the next lower gear. Let the clutch pedal up and apply sufficient power so engine revs match road speed. Depress the clutch pedal and at the same time … move the gear lever into the next lower gear. Release the clutch pedal smoothly and then apply the appropriate power to match road speed. Note: Adequate engine revs must be maintained when re-engaging clutch (transition to road speed). Engine revs must match road speed when transitioning to a specific gear. The ideal rev ranges of all trucks will be within a 500rpm spread where engine torque is optimal. The high end of this rev range will be the starting point of the operation of the next gears and the lowest point will be the previous gear's maximum ideal road speed. This will be consistent across all trucks with a specific make of gearbox. The engines in each truck will be different, however, and so operation will 'feel' different in each truck. Here we can see the ideal rev ranges between 1200-1700 rpm and the corresponding gears and road speeds within each of those rev ranges. Double-clutch Procedure Release the accelerator. Depress the clutch pedal slightly to break torque enough to move the shift lever to neutral. Note: Avoid depressing the clutch pedal too far and contacting the clutch brake. When the shift lever is neutral let up on the clutch pedal. Note: Engaging the clutch with the shift lever in the neutral position connects the transmission input gearing to the engine. This allows the operator to speed up or slow down the transmission input gearing to properly match the desired gear speed to the current road speed. a. For upshifts – allow engine RPM to decrease to match road speed. b. For downshifts – increase engine RPM to match road speed. At the correct engine RPM, depress the clutch pedal slightly and at the same time, move the shift lever into the desired gear. Let up on the clutch pedal and apply the accelerator. Driving operation splitter shifting. Upshift procedure In the following instructions, it is assumed that the driver is familiar with operating heavy-duty trucks and tractors and can coordinate the movement of the shift lever and clutch pedal to make smooth gear engagements while upshifting or downshifting. Always double-clutch when making lever shifts. CAUTION: Never move the range lever or the splitter control button with the shift lever in neutral while the vehicle is moving. Splitter shift- LO Range “L” to LO Range “H” (LO”L” to LO”H”) Preselect just before making an upshift by moving the splitter button forward while maintaining accelerator position. Then immediately release the accelerator, depress the clutch pedal once to break torque, release the clutch pedal to re-engage the clutch, allow the engine to decelerate until the shift is complete. Continue driving or upshifting. The transmission shifts from “L” to “H” when synchronous is reached. Combination Lever shift and Splitter shift – LO Range “H” to LO Range “L” (LO”H” to 1st”L”) Preselect just before making an upshift by moving the splitter button rearward while maintaining accelerator position. Move the shift lever, double-clutching, to the 1st speed gear position. If the splitter control button is not moved, the transmission will be in 1st H once the final clutch engagement is made. CAUTION: Never move the splitter control button or the range lever with the shift lever in neutral while the vehicle is moving. Continue upshifting through the shift pattern. Double clutching during lever shifts, single-clutch during split shifts while the shift lever is in the same position. Combination Lever Shift and Splitter shift – LO Range “H” to HI Range “L” (4th”H” to 5th”L”) … (Range shift) Preselect just before making an upshift by moving the button rearward while maintaining the accelerator position. Pull up the Range Lever, move the shift lever, double-clutching, to the 5th-speed gear position. If the splitter control button is not moved, the transmission will be in 5th H once the final clutch engagement is made. CAUTION: Never move the splitter control button or the range lever with the shift lever in neutral while the vehicle is moving. Continue upshifting through the shift pattern Double-clutching during lever shifts, single-clutch during split shifts while the shift lever is in the same position. Splitter shift – HI Range “L” to HI Range “H” (5th L to 5th H) Preselect just before making an upshift by moving the button forward while maintaining accelerator position. Then, immediately release the accelerator, depress the clutch pedal once to break torque, release the pedal to reengage the clutch, allow the engine to decelerate until the shift is complete. Continue driving or upshifting. The transmission shifts from “L” to “H” when synchronous is reached. Combination Lever shift and Splitter shift – HI Range “H” to HI Range “L” (5th H to 6th L) Move the splitter control button into the rearward position. Move the shift lever, double-clutching, to the 5th-speed gear position. If the splitter control button is not moved, the transmission will be in 6th H once the final clutch engagement is made. Continue upshifting through the shift pattern Double-clutching during lever shifts, single-clutch during split shifts while the shift lever is in the same position. Downshift Procedure Splitter shift – HI Range “H” to HI Range “L” (8th H to 8th L) Preselect just before making a downshift by moving the splitter button rearward while maintaining accelerator position. Then. Immediately, release the accelerator, depress the clutch pedal once to break torque, release the pedal to reengage the clutch, accelerate the engine until the shift is complete. Continue driving or downshifting. The transmission shifts from “H” to “L” when synchronous is reached. Combination Lever shift and Splitter shift – HI Range “L” to HI Range “H” (7th L to 6th H) Preselect just before making a downshift by moving the button forward while maintaining accelerator position. Then, immediately, move the shift lever, double clutching, to the next lower gear position. If the splitter control button is not moved, the transmission will be in 6th “L” once the final clutch engagement is made. Continue downshifting through HI range. Double-clutching during lever shifts, single-clutch during split shifts while the shift lever is in the same position. Combination Lever shift and Splitter shift – HI Range “L” to LO Range “H” (5th L to 4th H) … (Range shift) Preselect just before making a downshift by moving the button forward while maintaining accelerator position. Push the range lever down, immediately move the shift lever, double-clutching, to the next lower gear position. If the splitter control button is not moved, the transmission will be in 4th “L” once the final clutch engagement is made. Continue downshifting through LO Range. Double-clutching during lever shifts, single clutching during split shifts while the shift lever is in the same position. Splitter shift – LO Range “H” to LO Range “L” (4th H to 4th L) Preselect just before making a downshift by moving the button rearward while maintaining accelerator position. Then, immediately, release the accelerator, depress the clutch pedal once to break torque, release the pedal to reengage the clutch, accelerate the engine until the shift is complete. Continue driving or downshifting. The transmission shifts from “H” to “L” when synchronous is reached. Combination Lever shift and Splitter shift – LO Range “L” to LO Range “H” (4th L to 3rd H) Preselect just before making a downshift by moving the button forward while maintaining accelerator position. Then, immediately move the shift lever, double-clutching, to the next lower gear position. If the splitter control button is not moved, the transmission will be in 3rd “L” once the final clutch engagement is made. Continue downshifting through LO range, Double-clutching during lever shifts, single-clutching during split shifts while the shift lever is in the same position. 1. Up ½ gear – stick same position e.g. 1st L to 1st H 2. Up ½ gear – stick moves position e.g. 1st H to 2nd L 3. Up ½ gear – stick moves position, range changes up e.g. 4th H to 5th L 1. Down ½ gear – stick same position e.g. 8th H to 8th L 2. Down ½ gear – stick moves position e.g. 7th L to 6th H 3. Down ½ gear – stick moves position, range changes down e.g. 5th L to 4th H 1L-1H UP SPLITTER 1H-2L UP SPLITTER STICK 2L-2H UP SPLITTER 2H-3L UP SPLITTER STICK 3L-3H UP SPLITTER 3H-4L UP SPLITTER STICK 4L-4H UP SPLITTER 4H-5L UP SPLITTER STICK RANGE 5L-5H UP SPLITTER 5H-6L UP SPLITTER STICK 6L-6H UP SPLITTER 6H-7L UP SPLITTER STICK 7L-7H UP SPLITTER 7H-8L UP SPLITTER STICK 8L-8H UP SPLITTER 8H-8L DOWN SPLITTER 8L-7H DOWN SPLITTER STICK 7H-7L DOWN SPLITTER 7L-6H DOWN SPLITTER STICK 6H-6L DOWN SPLITTER 6L-5H DOWN SPLITTER STICK 5H-5L DOWN SPLITTER 5L-4H DOWN SPLITTER STICK RANGE 4H-4L DOWN SPLITTER 4L-3H DOWN SPLITTER STICK 3H-3L DOWN SPLITTER 3L-2H DOWN SPLITTER STICK 2H-2L DOWN SPLITTER 2L-1H DOWN SPLITTER STICK 1H-1L DOWN SPLITTER *** The only factoids you need to remember to pass the Australian Heavy Vehicle written test I figured by comparing the manual with the practice tests and what I saw on test day:
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0:00 Intro This episode will cover Augusts' bullet planner/journal which is part of his morning start-up routine. Through this, there is a morning start-up and an end-of-day wind down at the end of the workday. This functions as the two bookends to the workday Mon-Friday. The last 2 videos were about mindset and identity sculpting, this will show you where that fits into the day and how to get it done every morning, giving context to them. The videos before that were about how to plan the day and use the Notion PPV system to schedule a day that will be highly effective consistently, this is very much tied to that. It will pull from the information that we prepared the night before so we have a game plan in place when we sit down at our desk. How you start a day matters a LOT; the first 10% of how you do anything will have a disproportionally large impact on the remaining 90%. This is why we do an annual review to kick off the year, but also a morning start-up ritual to try and get off on the right foot and frame the day. This will take somewhere between 10-20 minutes to do each morning, this will actually save you time later on. This is designed to set up the day and then to have accountability to make sure you follow through on the things you set up. 2:34 System Context In the Action Zone, we can see the daily tracking area which is what we will focus on in this episode. We will look at the template that we walk through to complete it, if you want to see how the database is built look at one of the previous videos 'Daily data tracking in Notion' 3:28 New Day Template Creating this from a filtered database view the date is automatically entered The title is entered as the date Connect to the week's database so it will rollup for review Nothing is entered into the properties fields (there are many and can be hidden 5:36) 6:00 Embedded In-Line Property Entry The morning start-up has the Daily Tracking database embedded filtered for the current day which gives us a slice of the database filtered for the page we're in. You can select which properties are visible in this embed of the database allowing you to enter data easily in the correct sequence throughout the day. Entering sleep times and other biometric data with formulas to calculate hours and minutes (saves time) 10:17 Start-up Framework Gratitude The gratitude practice is a little different from things you will usually hear, but it's guaranteed that this will be more effective. Everyone will tell you to list 3 things you are grateful for, but it won't be powerful if you simply list things down without connecting with them. Pick one thing that you are genuinely grateful for and connect with it in a meaningful way. What would make today great? 11:50 List 2 or 3 things that you believe will make your definition of the day being a success if you get done. To help you define those things there is a toggle to see your action items on that day. Not to do list 12:50 This is just as important as your to-do list You know what has been derailing you for the last few days There is a toggle that will open a filtered view of the improvements you've listed over the last week Mindset 13:55 This is where we do our mindset and identity sculpting practice. The past 2 videos covered how we do that. Visualization 14:45 Visualize challenging things you are about to attempt flawlessly or visualize what you are going to do today. Design a mental path that you will follow through. At the end of the morning routine, August has 2 checks 15:55 17:05 Mid-Day Throughout the day there is a habit tracker to click through, this is also visible on the action zone but it's here in case it's missed and you want to enter things at the end of the day. 17:43 End of Day Wind-Down List end-of-day wins so you don't get too down on yourself for the things that didn't go the way you wanted. You always have some wins to recognize. Ideally, you will be listing what you wrote under 'what would make today great?' Finally, there is a filtered view of the daily tracking database again for the remaining properties. Rating of the percentage of time you spent doing the things you planned This will rarely be 100%, even if you only manage 70% or so, things will be moving forward positively for you. Rating for the percent of what you planned to achieve you managed to output Tracking this will help you identify problems with motivation and alignment with your goals should they arise and give you the opportunity to deliberately make decisions for where you intend to go. You can quickly list things you could have done better in the improvements section 22:15 All of this rolls up into the weekly review template and then the monthly reviews thereafter giving you profound insight into what you are doing or not doing well. 24:42 Closing Thoughts This was a nice companion video to the daily tracking video we did earlier, but also with the habits and routines video, mindset and identity sculpting video, daily planning videos, and the weekly/monthly review videos. This bullet planner/journal in the morning start-up routine connects to a lot of pieces throughout the system. This is what makes the Notion PPV system so powerful; completing one element fuels and enhances so many other parts of the system which is how a good system design works. All of this frames up our psychology, behaviors, actions, and ultimately the trajectory of our lives.
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0:00 Intro This is a highly requested episode that will be broken into 2 parts: Key Insights on Mindset Mindset Practice in Notion The next video (removed) will look at identity sculpting in Notion 0:26 Mindset Framing This video will cover how to shape our mindsets so our framework on the world is as effective as possible, so we can achieve the things we want to achieve in life. We are all perpetually changing, we are not fixed states, the question is not who am I, but who am I becoming. We can shape our mindset so that it becomes one that helps us rather than hurts us If we don't do this consciously we will often end up with mindsets that are self-destructive, putting us in negative feedback loops. How you view the world has an enormous impact on what you do with your days, hours and weeks, and months. So few people realize that we have control over this if we take it. It's critical to realize first that everything you do is dependent on it, and your success or failure at anything you want to achieve is dependent on it. Secondly, you can change it, shape it and make it what you want it to be and what you need it to be but this must be done actively. 3:30 How to Approach Mindset If you take action and do a little bit every day it will slowly change; classic habit building and implementation. You have to give yourself evidence for you to believe the mindset you are trying to create. By doing the things you tell yourself you're going to do the evidence accrues over time and you will start to believe it and accept it, in the way that you see the world. 4:14 This Approach This is a very simple part of the system, it's just a page. This is all about identifying the things that you want to be shaping your life and shaping how you engage with the world. Often we hear pieces of wisdom and completely forget about them and drift far away from them. The entire purpose of the mindset practice in the Notion PPV system is just to keep those ideas, nuggets, insights, and wisdom in mind and part of your day and worldview. Keep in mind this example is just a very simple explanation of this process. So much of the PPV system is your life around it and what you fill it with, what we have covered so far is just the skeletal structure of the system. Here we will just look at the skeletal component of mindset in the PPV system. Over the year we will look at what mindset really is in a practical sense. There are many ways to see the world, and many of them are equally true, some of them will hurt you and some of them will help you. You want to choose ones that are going to serve you. Notion setup is easy, what is difficult is the psychology and consistency to revisit these principles and wisdom. 8:05 Mindset Proactive in Notion In the Action Zone, we click on new day which will apply a template. In the template, we move through a series of morning start-up steps before entering the Mindset point. 8:40 Mindset is a stop in the morning setup routine, that you want to spend 2-10 minutes on. This is all organized by sections, you can use whatever structure you want Ideally, you are going to want to take all the bullet points of wisdom you come across and put them in here. As you pile them up you will start to see categories emerge; allow this to happen organically. Collect things that resonate with you; things that you know have truth in them and you know if you make your life more like what it contains you will be better off. You have an instinctive resonance with things that matter to you and that have truth in them, use that instinct to identify what you want to stay close to and what's most meaningful to you. This will become a very long page which is why you will want to create headings and categories with a toc at the top, but it will be a wellspring of wisdom for you to drink from each day. Every morning you will read a few bullet points or subheadings as you see fit, simply by revisiting them periodically you will keep them close. 12:30 Examples Your most persistent distractions will seem justified to you. How would the person I want to become spend their time - Nir Eyal The cost of a thing is the amount of … life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run." -Henry David Thoreau Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you want to become. Curiosity, courage, and persistence are the new gatekeepers. Each day is a new battle to say yes to what matters and say no to what doesn't. Focus is a practice. - James Clear. And many more … In both mindset and guiding principles, we are trying to take important ideas and concepts and stay close to them, avoiding drifting away from them. The guiding principles, as we have talked about, are the north stars that you align all your goals and projects behind: designed to be extremely short and succinct. 16:37 Closing Thoughts As far as Notion design is concerned, this is extremely simple, but the power is huge as it will begin to affect how you do everything. The next video (removed) will cover identity sculpting. Where mindset is outward-looking, identity sculpting is inward-looking.
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0:00 Intro This is a follow-up to the last 2 videos which looked at how to plan our days to execute with precision and consistency. First, we covered how to prioritize in our action zone and then how to do time blocking while coordinating our action zone with Google calendar (or similar). We will now look at the current best method to bring Google calendar into your Notion dashboard. We will also look at a few other widgets from the creators who implemented this Google calendar view implementation in Notion: Indefy.co Moving into the Action Zone 1:50 2:20 Google Calendar in Notion Dashboard Visit indify.co, create an account using an email. Log in and you will have all these widgets to choose from. Begin by selecting Google calendar 3:05 Sign in to your Google account that your calendar is linked to; the one caveat to this is you will have to grant indify access to your calendar scheduling, if you have privacy concerns this isn't going to work for you as the company will have access to your calendar data. 4:00 After entering your data you will have a number of settings an options to choose from for your widget. Select what you want. Copy the link 4:55 and toggle back to Notion Paste your link and choose embed You cannot modify the calendar here, it's only a view option. 6:03 Time/Life Tracker This cleanly shows you where you are in various time cycles. If you enter your birthday it will also give you an estimated amount of time left you have in your life. 7:55 Best Weather Widget This is a very clean weather widget that you can modify as you see fit. 8:53 Closing Thoughts Next will be some introductions to mindset and identity sculpting.
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0:00 Intro This episode will cover time blocking specifically working between the Action Zone in the Notion PPV system and Google Calendar or Microsoft Outlook or any calendar app that is better suited for event planning. Especially when you have automation bringing in calendar invites and scheduled events. Hopefully, the API will enable us to sync this automatically at some point, but for now, it must be done manually. We are going to cover how to do true time blocking where you will have the highest probability of success at executing your day as you plan it. Sometimes a looser system is adequate as is covered in the previous video. It's not just about working every minute of the day, you schedule in breaks, relaxation, fun time, etc. as well. If you do this for a while it puts you into a rhythm that you can then come out of and move into a looser schedule. 2:32 Daily Planning In Notion (previous video) In the last video we covered how to take the remaining tasks from the current day and applied them to the next day and the heuristic for sorting tasks out. We repeat that, but now we check we haven't missed any scheduled tasks that we may have missed since our weekly review. 3:15 Google Calendar Event Schedule We toggle to the calendar Ctr+Tab allows for toggling between different apps and look for scheduled events. You can bring them into Notion or leave them here if you don't have that many to remember, or if you have a lot you can work primarily in Google calendar. We will cover how to bring the Notion items into the calendar shortly. 4:15 Your "Ideal Day" Schedule It's important to define for yourself an ideal day and have it roll forward across the calendar. 4:40 Implementing Across Notion & Google Calendar Look at the tasks lined up in Notion and their prioritization to ensure the important things get done. The regular routine of our ideal day (informed by our habits and routines bundles) can then be dragged over to the new day 6:30 where there are no clashes with scheduled items 7:17 Deep Work Periods August blocks of time for deep work For instances where there are clashes, you decide how you want to proceed with your ideal day plan mixed with the scheduled items. 8:53 Habits & Routines are moved across where possible There is a time period where quick items are scheduled to be done in the morning in a half-hour window Immediate tasks are those that need to be done urgently and cause you to reconsider your regular schedule, such as your start-up routine or a deep work session. 10:19 Top Priorities The prioritized activities are typically done in the preplanned deep work sessions (that’s what they're for) Try 2 hours blocks with short breaks if needed to allow your mind to reset and refresh. It's unhealthy to sit at a desk for hours without any stretching or movement. Set expectations to get prioritized tasks done by a certain time, this will drive you to do things faster, tasks tend to fill the amount of time they are given. Clearly set out intentions so you are not simply reacting to life. 13:08 Implementing the Next Day Roll things forward as normal. You will learn to try and schedule events into times that are conducive for them to be done e.g. only at the beginning or end of existing deep work periods. You might also try to have many scheduled events on certain days. Work ideal planned day around scheduled items. This is very easy to do once you have your ideal day defined, you can be flexible and move things around as long as everything is deliberate and intentional, not reactive. 16:45 Advancing Your Life Once your day is planned you simply execute as best you can. If you have 3 uninterrupted sessions of deep work every day you will accomplish so much relative to just wafting through life. 18:32 Scheduling for You, Not Just Others Most people have scheduled events that they've committed to other people, but they never have plans for the other things that they prioritize for themselves. Prioritize time for yourself, your own projects, and the advancement of your own life and save them onto your calendar as you would any important event with anyone else. 19:47 Closing Thoughts This will be much better when we get the Notion API, but it really doesn't take that much time. Scheduling your day the night before is a very simple and powerful way to help you get things done consistently throughout your life. The next video will cover how you can go about bringing a Google calendar into your Notion dashboard so you can see them on the same page, as well as integrate a few other useful widgets. After that, we will enter the mindset and identity sculpting areas.
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0:00 Intro This will give an introduction on how to plan a day before moving on to integrating the PPV system with Google calendar. This was talked about in the Action Zone introduction, but there are many questions that August still gets asked about this that he wants to cover with more specificity and detail. Each day is planned the night before 0:40 Daily Planning Strategies When the new day starts there is a clear path forwards and there is no ambiguity about what needs to be done. There is clarity so it's easy to tell if you start doing something that is not on your planned schedule. The question of 'what should I start on first' is dangerous and should be sorted before your day begins. This episode will cover a demonstration of how the next day is planned, The next video or two will look at how Google calendar is integrated with Notion, particularly in the Action Zone which is where we look at what we are doing on any specific day. Extreme clarity is brought to each day, the sequence of activities and their priorities. 2:15 Time Blocking Intro In the next video, we will look at the hardcore approach or 'time blocking', where you really plan out each specific chunk of the day, and clarity is taken to a whole new level. This requires integration with Google calendar as it can't be done very effectively in Notion. You will see how to take your priority list in the daily toggle in your Action Zone and coordinate it with the scheduled tasks in the Google calendar where you can do true time blocking. August moves back and forth between the two approaches to planning a day. 4:12 Implementing Daily Planning We see the line-up of tasks that are to be executed throughout the day, towards the end of the day we need to schedule for tomorrow. 4:55 we move down to the calendar view This view is filtered to show the active tasks that aren't done and sorted by priority If tasks remain unfinished today you can ask yourself if they need to be done tomorrow or later. You can't do everything and need to weigh options against one another. The task list needs to be realistically doable. Scheduled items will appear with a time to be completed On Saturday or Sunday when August does his weekly reviews he will typically look at his Google calendar which has a lot of automation for scheduling things and bringing them into Notion. Shuffle tasks around as you see fit, 10:29 Tactics & Considerations Plan with realistic expectations and you won't have the disappointment of not accomplishing what you want or the burden of a to-do list that is very difficult. If you make your list possible, you will notice yourself beginning to reach and attempt to get the things done, as opposed to not even trying. Spread tasks out to keep days roughly even, distribute your load. Each day we look at the next day's small manageable to-do list and check if it's viable before doing a prioritization of the sequence which we will then do in order. You will either begin with your startup routine (covered later) or complete your immediate tasks Then do some quick tasks Then to the extent scheduled items pop up you will be able to plan when to do your prioritized tasks Time is not blocked out precisely, so if you are having problems with getting things done the following video on time blocking will help you manage your time more precisely. 14:00 Conclusions It's very simple overall, planning each day through a considered approach and then vaguely looking at the following days in the week. Typically you only plan out about a week, anything you know needs to be completed further out than a week, make it an active task in the Action Items database plan them out further as time moves nearer you will see them appear ahead of time. You will be managing tasks for your projects at least once a week in your reviews. Only active tasks will move into this calendar so you want to make sure every active project has at least one task moving into the week. If you find yourself constantly rescheduling tasks you need to ask yourself if it's really important for you to be doing it. You will either delete it or just do it, nothing slips through the cracks: You are forced to make deliberate decisions on everything that enters the system.
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0:00 Intro Timelines is a new feature in Notion, but one that can take certain types of databases to the next level, giving you a visual overview that allows you to understand what is going on much better than any other view we previously had. This video will cover the primary way we apply the timeline view in the PPV system, specifically for projects. This is where you get the most value from the timelines feature. This video nicely follows the last two, the annual review, habits, and routines and now we can delve into the timeline view so you can really chunk and space out how we are going to implement things over the first quarter, 6 months, and over the year. Between projects and habits and routines, you can completely change your life. This functionally will be added to the projects database that's embedded in the Action Zone template. The action zone template is one of the free ones August gives away which you can use out of the box. The Action Zone is one dashboard within the larger PPV system, there is also the master PPV template that is part of a paid course. 1:52 Starting in the Command Centre and moving into the Alignment Zone where project planning primarily happens. Project execution and task management happens primarily in the Action Zone 2:30 In the projects toggle we have two different views of the projects database The board view by Future, Next up, On Hold, and Active This is how we line up what we're working on The timeline view is what we will cover today. 3:10 Previously this was a gallery view that was filtered just for active projects. 3:26 Timeline Layout for Projects This view gives us much more actionable and useful information. Projects are lined up manually Work and personal projects are lined up sequentially Each project shows a start point and an anticipated endpoint allowing for in-depth planning. As you get more future and next up items you can queue them up, be careful not to go too far into the future though as things slide and change and you don't want to constantly be managing things. 4:30 The view can be changed to different time intervals from hours up to the year. 5:15 You can choose which timeline properties the view is generated by. E.g. timeline dates for projects. 5:35 Dragging the projects in the view will change the timeline dates, this is very convenient and fast to adjust. You can apply filters to the view in the same way you do to any view. e.g. you could filter just for work or personal. 7:37 Creating Timeline Views Click timeline, add a view, title it Set timeline by 7:52 Select your preferred timeline view 8:00 The first time you do this it's unlikely that your projects will have beginning and end dates because it would be very difficult to manage without the view. You may need to add a timeline dates property, add an end date quickly and adjust it in the view. Sort by the timeline dates or as you prefer 8:35 Select which properties you want visible 9:53 Timelines in Action Zone In the Action Zone, we have a toggle for projects which have historically been graphical cards to access active projects, this has now been changed to the timeline view. 10:20 now as you are working on your tasks you can glance at your projects and see how things are progressing and what you need to do across a broader time period. The timeline view is being experimented with in the 'do date' calendar which is covered in more detail in the paid course (Notion performance systems) and in the content creation pipeline. 11:43 Closing Thoughts This is a great new feature as you can see, add it as you want and put it to good use, it takes very little time to set up. There is another time-based planning tool that will be introduced into one of the critical PPV dashboards coming up soon, that will take this idea of project and task planning further. After that, we will be moving into the higher-level psychological aspects to improve yourself and your ability to execute through mindset and identity sculpting.