Workpost 65: Work life balance

Byjack

My girlfriend is leaving soon and I want to focus on her and the relationship.

I have a pretty good work system set up, but I’m not sure how to balance work with time with her.

I think the answer is just to wake up early, plan out my day and do as much breakdown as I can, then work while she is next to me in the couch reading, and if not just work during the morning.

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Workpost 78: Tired

Byjack

Today I’m tired and might be mildly sick. But I’m going to make the most out of it.

Today I would love to create a new landing page concept. It could level up our business by a lot.

For fun, I would like to play Valorant again. It was super fun last night.

I would also like to do some drawing while relaxing outside. That would be really nice.

Finally, I want to do some jiujitsu and maybe take a nap.

It would be nice to make some good money today as well.

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Workpost 7: New AI Consulting Plan

Byjack

Okok. After working on my AI Consulting Plan for a few days, something is really fucking clear to me (excuse my French).

I need more than 10 days to make a name for myself. I am going to need 3 months. Videos are the absolute best way to make a name for myself. However, videos take absolutely forever to create.

So let us give us enough time to make them.

Goal: Be known, give preview of consulting

UNIT ONE (1 month): Build a crowd who will engage with anything I put out

  • Shoot 3 simple videos
  • Shoot 3 complex videos
  • Write 6 LinkedIn posts
  • Involve people every step of the way

UNIT TWO (1 month): Get people to start reaching out to me with AI questions

  • Create reaction videos to comments
  • Create videos based off on comments

UNIT THREE 1 month): Get big enough following to invite famous people on my videos

  • Figure out the platform I can get big on
  • Post on it consistantly

BONUS (1 day): Look for automation/outsourcing, try to make as low effort as possible

Ok let’s dive in deeper.

UNIT ONE (1 month ends March 22nd)

  1. Planning and setting up artifacts for videos (10 days ends March 2nd)
  2. Executing, shooting and editing (10 days ends March 12th)
  3. Feedback and editing for bigger videos (10 days ends March 22nd)

And even deeper….

UNIT ONE | Part 1 Planning and setting up artifacts for videos (10 days ends March 2nd)

  1. Create plans for each of the videos (4 days ends Feb 25th)
    • What videos I want to shoot (already done)
    • What those videos will look like in the intro (partly done)
    • What clips I need
    • What research I need
    • Who I need to talk to
    • When I need it by – figure out shooting schedule
    • How to break down each of the ideas into smaller content
  2. Figure out how to shoot each video (3 days ends Feb 28th)
    • Break down as much of the video as I can
    • If needed, come up with an imaginary best case scenario story just to know what shots I need
    • Solidify shooting schedule
    • Reach out to the people I need to reach out to
  3. Shoot preliminary non-essential parts of video (3 days ends March 2nd)
    • Shoot any part that I can that don’t require other people
    • Essentially get started with filming

Matches: Continued

Byjack

Match 1: Video Editing Planning

Goals: I really want to feel less shitty and tired and I want to come up with a direction for my podcast edit and how I can edit it in 40 minutes or less.

Here are the metrics for scoring:

  1. Energy rejuvenation (1-5)
  2. Confidence in solution (1-5)
  3. Creativity (percentile)
  4. Raw efficiency, work over energy (percentile)

My plan for my warmup is just for go for a long 15 minute walk.

Plan for work session:

UNIT ONE: Analyze video (10 min)

  1. Might want to create a good intro
    • who are you and what have you done
  2. What would help her as a writer?
    • Creative process from start to end
    • Talking about book in a way people want to read it or get greater insight
    • Greatest struggles as a writer
    • What like to write about
  3. What do other people probably want to know about a writer?
    • Where come up with ideas
    • Interesting passages from book

UNIT TWO: Process/look at other ideas (10 min)

Going all in on Judy Blume masterclass video:

As soon as you tell me I can’t do something,
I’m going to do it.

I hope that in sharing with you what
I’ve learned over 50 years of writing that it will help
you find your way as a writer.

As a 12-year-old, I was obsessed by the idea of growing
breasts and getting my period.
But there was no place that I could read about it.
When I started to write, I was determined to be honest.
So I’m going to share with you the practical side of writing.

There’s nothing more important than character.
You’re living with these people for years.
You had better feel for them.
Do some exercises.
Have your character write a letter to you.
The first draft is pure torture for me.
I hate every second of it.
I have a messy mind, and my writing
is a process of cleaning up the mess,
then slowly making a story.
I will be able to show that to you.

I got a particularly nasty review once.
It got to me, and I took my typewriter,
and I held it over this arroyo.
And I was going to throw it in.
I thought I cannot do this anymore.
And then this little voice went off in my head.
Wait, you’re going to let this one review stop you
from writing?
That’s crazy!
That’s one opinion.
I enjoy finding and supporting new writers,
and this is a chance for me to reach more of you.

I always ask myself, why would anyone
write if they didn’t have to?
I mean it’s so hard.
So this is for all of you who feel that you have to.

I’m Judy Blume, and this is my Master Class.

Something really special about Danuta and unique about her personality, show don’t tell.

*Beeroll on books and images from life, maybe emotional points of interview

Some sort of intro to talk about what this is about (maybe introduction)

Something about how she gets started with creative process, or something about art or creativity.

Walk through the step by step creative process

*Images or animation if possible

Talk about a challenging emotional experience

Resolution if possible

Deeper philosophical point

End

UNIT THREE: Create plan for actual editing (currently thinking one short, one long) (10 min)

UNIT ONE: Gathering clips

UNIT TWO: Gathering broll

UNIT THREE: Compositing

Bonus time: shot list

  1. Something really special about Danuta and unique about her personality, show don’t tell. Should be humorous and controversial.
  2. Beeroll on books and images from life, maybe emotional points of interview
    • To kill the other
  3. Some sort of intro to talk about what this is about (maybe introduction)
  4. Something about how she gets started with creative process, or something about art or creativity.
  5. Walk through the step by step creative process
  6. Images of process
  7. Talk about a challenging emotional experience with resolution if possible
  8. Deeper philosophical point
  9. Some sort of ending

Bonus time: animation thoughts

Trying out pencil 2d!

Postmatch Review:

Overall, this was very fun and rejuvenated my love for editing and video.

  1. Energy rejuvenation – 4 I don’t feel 100% but my energy went up TONS since I started working
  2. Confidence in solution – 2 I feel the plan is really solid but the timing seems a little tight to get all of this done
  3. Creativity – 70th percentile, pretty good, not revolutionary. But I don’t think most people could do this.
  4. Raw efficiency, work over energy – 80th percentile, I think most sessions and people can’t be this productive in 40 minutes that was actually insane.

Match 2: Video Editing

Goals: I want to be excited about this video edit, feel satisfied, while boosting my confidence in pushing out videos faster with less effort

Here are the metrics for scoring:

  1. Excitement in the edit (1-5)
  2. Satisfaction in the edit (1-5)
  3. Efficiency (percentile)
  4. Fun (1-5)
  5. How ME it is (percentile)

My plan for my warmup is to hype myself up – play music, tell friends etc. + motivation.

Clean, write on my board.

UNIT ONE: Gathering clips (10 minutes)

  1. Something really special about Danuta and unique about her personality, show don’t tell. Should be humorous and controversial.
  2. Beeroll on books and images from life, maybe emotional points of interview
    • To kill the other
  3. Some sort of intro to talk about what this is about (maybe introduction)
  4. Something about how she gets started with creative process, or something about art or creativity.
  5. Walk through the step by step creative process
  6. Images of process
  7. Talk about a challenging emotional experience with resolution if possible
  8. Deeper philosophical point
  9. Some sort of ending

UNIT TWO: Gathering broll

UNIT THREE: Compositing

Postmatch Review:

  1. Excitement in the edit – 2 I’m not that thrilled about the cut so far
  2. Satisfaction in the edit -1 I’m not all that satisfied in the edit
  3. Efficiency (percentile) – 60% I’m better than average but a bit slow compared to experienced video editors
  4. Fun (1-5) – 3 I had quite a lot of fun
  5. How ME it is (percentile) – 15% not a lot of me in it so far

Match 3: Video Editing + MEified

Goals: I was right that the last match did not finish the process of editing. It was just too much. But I did make REALLY good progress. The only problem is, it’s not ME enough. This last challenge, I want to get the edit done, and I want to inject some Jack magic into it.

Metrics for scoring:

  1. How ME is it (percentile)
  2. Completeness & polish (percentile)

For my warmup, I’m going to watch a bunch of my videos.

Ok the warmup didn’t work, I’m gonna play some nice music and meditate. Me is goofy, profound, soft, and emotional.

UNIT ONE: Compostiting

UNIT TWO: MEify

UNIT THREE: Finalize

Postmatch Review: It ended up taking two hours. I’m tired now!

  1. How ME is it – 65% it does feel real, and grounded but not as me as I could make it
  2. Completeness & polish – 65% its actually not bad at all, could use some broll and animation

Matches 4: To do list

Byjack

Today the matches were a bit different. I focused on checking off major things I wanted to work on in my to do list for my own life.

Match 1

Reflections:

  1. My warmup was entirely physical. Nothing was mental. Hard to understand what is the most effective warmup, but I feel like I’m going in the right direction.

Result Calculation:

  1. How much closer does this work get to me to where I want to be? This work gets me significantly closer to where I need to be, not only just for my meeting with a mentor tomorrow, but also because it helps me get back into the coaching business.
  2. How did I perform mentally (efficiency, depth, speed) from 1-10? I’d say my performance was maybe a 6. High efficiency, middling depth and speed.
  3. What percentile do I place this work in terms of innovation? 5%. Not very innovative, business as usual.

Workpost 57: Moving Forwards

Byjack

My goal today is to find balance, however that looks like…feeling like I can spend time meeting all my needs and progressing at the speed that I want to progress at.

For my AI Consulting, I want to spend some time this morning thinking through it a little more and following some of the steps I took in my project.

For my consulting project, here are the things I want to get done:

  1. Draft up all the major pages in the website
  2. Create a signup experience
  3. Create a plan for all lead magnet ideas

Major pages:

  1. What it’s like to work with us
  2. What your customers will experience
  3. Mission vision and values

Workpost 63: Extreme procrastination

Byjack

I’m struggling with some extreme procrastination where I don’t want to work at all.

Let me try to process.

I feel like there is no point and I feel overwhelmed. I feel it in my chest, this invisible resistance.

I feel scared to shoot more videos, it brings up fear in my heart.

I guess anything I do I can break down into a process instead of doing everything all at once.