How I Manage My Time - The Trident Calendar System

hey friends welcome back to the channel

so over the last decade I have

experimented with dozens and dozens of

strategies for managing my time and I've

been doing that because time management

is I think one of the most important

skills that we can develop and build in

the world today and it's because

fundamentally time is our single most

valuable non-renewable resource we can

always make more money but we can never

make more time and so really the skill

of time management is in being able to

make the best use of that time not

necessarily for only doing productive

things but instead to use that time

intentionally and effectively so in this

video I want to talk you through my tri

method which is a sort of three-pronged

method for time management and I'll show

you exactly how I use these different

methods in my life to manage my own time

and in the video description I've also

linked completely for free the templates

that you can use to incorporate this

into your life if you would like as well

so this aspect of the strategy was a

total Game Changer when I actually tried

bullet journaling last year now bullet

journaling is a somewhat fancy pen and

paper method of productivity but it's

sort of been co-opted over the years by

artists and people making ridiculously

fancy and beautiful looking bullet

Journal spreads and I was super enamored

by this and thought you know what I'm

going to try the bullet Journal method

and so for the final 4 months of 2022 I

painstakingly bullet journaled basically

every day and I sunk so many hours into

my bullet Journal method and it was

really good but there was one aspect of

the bullet Journal method that

completely changed the game for my time

management and that was this view the

year at a glance now the point of this

view is that you split up the entire

year into these different columns and so

you end up having 12 columns that show

the different months and then one to 31

down the side that show you the

different dates and so what you end up

with is these three 66 blocks now when I

did this when I did the bullet Journal

technique this immediately gave me

incredible insight and Clarity into what

the rest of my year was going to look

like because this is not really a view

that we see particularly often if for

example you use Google Calendar or

something you tend to be stuck in the

weekly view or in the monthly View and

even if you have like a physical annual

calendar you tend to flip the pages and

so you never really see your entire year

just laid out on a single page or two

pages so in January of this year I

decided I wanted to have a more Digital

Way of having this kind of view in my

life and so I decided to just make a

Google sheet out of it I think these

days it's too easy to default to fancy

apps and like oh what's the latest thing

here but I thought you know what a

spreadsheet just does the job totally

fine and so I literally just went

through on Google Sheets and I created

one of these year at a glance templates

and this is what the blank version of

this looks like so as you can see we've

got the months down the top we have

colorcoded the months in like pretty

colors and we've got the weekends

colorcoded as well and this is the

template that you can download just hit

the link in the video description it's

completely free and you can duplicate

this into your own Google sheet account

if you would really like to and this is

what my version of this actually looks

like and I use this in two specific ways

to manage my time firstly it's really

helpful for zooming out and getting a

bird's eye view of my entire year so I

can use it to plan my life I'm filming

this video for example in April but I

already know that this is the stuff

that's kind of going on in May and in

June I'm going to Austin for a bit and

then I've got this block of time to go

on an adventure with some friends and

then I'm going on a retreat to La later

in June and this is so helpful to get an

idea of a where things are and B it then

allows me to plan things like weekend

group trips with friends or being able

to plan holidays in advance so I can

block out the time I then reflect those

changes in my actual Google Calendar so

the team knows exactly what's going on

in my life and I found this to be a

ridiculously effective way of managing

my time on a macro scale and to make

this easier to deal with what you can do

is when the months are gone you can just

right click you can hide those columns

and now it's just way easier to see

exactly what's going on in a given month

and then what's going on for the rest of

the year so that's how I manage my time

on the level of the whole year let's now

move on to the level of a single week

but I've got to go somewhere right now

be right back good morning it's a new

day and we are talking about component

number two which is all about ideal week

planning now here's the context behind

this so essentially we all have these

goals and plans and stuff that we want

to get done now please don't cancel me

for saying this but there are literally

just 24 hours in a day and we all have

to decide how we're going to make the

most use of that time if for example you

have three personal assistants and five

private chefs and stuff then obviously

you will have more of those 24 hours

that are free to do things that you want

to do rather than do things like laundry

and cooking and cleaning and stuff but

fundamentally those 24 hours or 168

hours a week are basically the same for

everyone and assuming you're sleeping

for 8 hours every night we all basically

have 112 hours in a given week that we

can play with and the point of component

number two is that we want to define the

ideal week I.E our absolute ideal

allocation of those 112 hours per week

and this is a method I've been using for

the last 8 months or so ever since I

started working with my CEO coach Eric

parako and Eric has worked with a couple

hundred CEOs of really high growth

companies and me and this is one of the

methods that he asks all of his clients

to do and apparently it's a method that

always gets some results and it's

certainly gotten me a lot of results

over the last 8 months and so instead of

you having to pay several thousand an

hour for Eric's time I'm just going to

teach you the method straight up and

it's actually fairly straightforward to

do all it involves is going on Google

Calendar and it involves creating a new

calendar so that you've got a completely

fresh slate where you can do your audal

week planning cool so I've now created

Ali's udal week and now you can see it's

shown up in my Google Calendar right

here and this is completely free

everyone can use Google Calendar you

don't have to pay a penny ever at all

now at the moment my life is a little

bit of a mess because of the YouTuber

Academy happening and because of all the

book stuff going on and all the meetings

with the editors and the agents and all

of that fun stuff and so what can often

happen is that I actually don't have

that ideal lunch hour in which I'd like

to cook a healthy lunch and so instead a

product that I've been finding a lot of

use of is in fact hu who are very kindly

sponsoring this video now I've actually

been a pain customer of hu since 2017

and since my penultimate year of medical

school and actually when I first started

this YouTube channel 6 years ago I've

been taking heel fairly regularly and

there's broadly two types of heel that I

really enjoy the first one is heel black

which is often what I have in the

mornings as part of my morning routine

it's 40 g of protein 400 calories I just

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the right macros and all of the