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0:07 hey there everyone hi uh my name is atesh i hope many of you might be knowing it in order to understand what i'm trying to speak and what i'm trying to convey in this talk it's very important to know a bit about me what i do what i don't do and all that stuff so my passion i am a teacher that is the core soul and heart of what i do i love teaching and that's what i do day in and day out but apart from this i do a few more stuff so far i have recorded over 100 courses each of the course contains around 100 videos give or take apart from that i also run a youtube channel which is constantly growing around 700 000 subscribers i'm insanely active on instagram i love to just be on instagram day in and day out
0:54 apart from that i run uh four startups in one of them i am cto currently and apart from this i am founder of other three and i am also a traveler so far 31 countries after that 2022 happened and stuff you know after that not only that i also dedicate around four hours in a week to my health running gymming whatever that is so constantly i've been thrown this question around that how it is how you are managing all of this what's the secret around it because i'm pretty sure all of you have read those all help self-help books wake up at five o'clock leave your mobile phones and uninstall all the app turn off all the
1:39 notification how is it that working for you i'm pretty sure not great you are still struggling that how we can manage the time see the point is you need to understand that modern problems requires modern solution and that is why the stock is here that how modern time management works it is not going to solve everything by waking up at five o'clock we have seen that it doesn't work you have try it one week two week that's it it dies out you have tried trying to detox yourself from the mobile phone it doesn't work it's a part of your life it's almost like saying that hey you need to detox yourself from clothes it doesn't work it used to work in early sage age now it doesn't work
2:25 so here are my few secrets that i'm going to reveal in front of you that how do i manage all of this and how you can also take some of the tips from it maybe some of these things are going to work for you so starting with the first of course i'm a programmer so i start with zero so step zero is make sure you understand that you cannot manage time this is the ultimate truth no matter what you do you cannot manage time but there is a little bit more to it once you make yourself happy okay time i cannot manage because you plan things out but it doesn't work out maybe you have a plan today that i'll go for a run or workout but time is not going to allow you it always runs against you life is predictably unpredictable make
3:11 sure you always understand that so moving on if time management the first step is you cannot manage time so how does it work it works with a simple step manage people i cannot manage time so i'm going to manage people how do i manage people there are two types of people the first one is who need your time and the second one who wants your type always the bubble of people who want your time is way bigger than the people who need your time so the first thing you have to manage is people who need your time your parents your loved ones your girlfriends your boyfriend they need your time they don't want your time they need your time once you sort them out properly then try to arrange that who are these people who want my time and try to give them time piece by piece
3:56 time is the most precious thing that you can have so make sure you allocate that very very clearly and again you have to learn how to manage people in order to give them some time slot so people are very tricky it's not easy to manage people and that's why i always give that understand people if you're not giving time to your girlfriend or boyfriend or your mom or dad one day they're gonna become into the bursting category they're going to demand your entire day that is very costly so instead of giving them an entire day try to dedicate and give them one or two hour daily so that they don't come into the category of want my time they are into the category of need your time and then obviously your boss needs your time your employees need your time and all of that so make sure you figure out who needs my time on priority today
4:43 and allocate some time to them that's how the first step works i take always inspiration from the kids kids are the best example of how to manage their time the first their mind is always focused about how can i take more time to play enjoy and when the dad comes at home they sit down with their books open so learn they have already mastered how to manage people they know how to manage their dad dad wants to see me studying i study or not that's a different take but they have understood they have figured it out that my dad wants me to study so when the dad comes from office they are always book open that is one thing you can learn from these kids step number two social media how many of you have tried to detox yourself from the social media i have
5:28 tried a lot of have tried does it work not at all when you come back onto social media it actually is worst so what i've done here is my secret trip for that this is all what we have done late night endless scroll of these social media instagram reels thank god tik tok is not here but in many places it is there so the tip is it is not avoidable you cannot avoid social media stop struggling from it but if you cannot avoid it master it rule it follow those people who make you inspired to do more follow people who do work out daily follow those people who put up some motivation follow those
6:14 programmers who write great code we cannot avoid it so follow those people who make this social media enjoyable make it more learning don't follow 1000 or 50 000 people as randomly follow wisely people who inspire you to do something and as i say if you cannot move the mountain climb the mountain so this is how social media you don't need to avoid it you need to rule it step number three underestimate your time a lot of people overestimate their time i can do gym i can do running i can do assignment i can watch this video series i can watch this netflix you are doing it wrong you are you are asking yourself that i have too much of time you don't have your time allows you to do only two thing in a day
7:00 just two things so this is your entirely your life entire red box consider this as your life or a day in a life you can only fit in two things and i call them as white circle and a black circle white circle is the thing that i want to do and black circle is something which people want me to do i want to work out i want to make videos this is my priority but people i have a job i run i am a functional cto so i need to manage a lot of people so what people want people want a lot of meeting from me people want me to take a lot of decision on the daily basis but i cannot do more than this so i dedicate my time today is a gym day and meeting day that's it today is a video day and a meeting day that's it today we have some
7:45 release that's the company's work and after that what i'll do probably work out that's it two things in a day rest all the things you see there is a lot of empty space in your life still after putting these circles those all things unwanted things birthday parties your friends marriage and all of this this goes in between that if i can accomplish two tasks in a day that's it i consider my day as very very fruitful job done step number four reward yourself now this is where a lot of people lag that what should be considered as reward and what should not be considered as reward let me put up in this question a lot of people think that i'll turn off my phone and will play playstation entire day is it a reward yeah for some people yes but is it
8:31 feasible whole day in a park sounds good but you'll be bored in half an hour at a max one hour vacation without mail or phone i'll go on a vacation on a beach i'll not turn on my phone it sounds great in theory but in reality in practical it doesn't work at all you need to plan your reward in which your phone your work is actually a part of it if you train your brain like that okay i'm going for a vacation but maybe one hour i need to dedicate to my emails maybe one hour i'll need to check up on instagram or something then your reward actually becomes a reward so whatever you are rewarding yourself after intense work you are buying a macbook after some lengthy work of six months that is fine and it should be considered as fine so
9:17 make sure you choose your reward greatly and again reward should be there without reward no human works so make sure you put yourself some rewards are there that if i'm able to work out for six entire months no break at all i'll go for a feast or i'll buy myself the most expensive headphone that i have but i'm gonna buy this new pair of jeans so make sure you put reward yourself that reward is something and the more honest you are with yourself it works now all of these things which you see up here without phone without phone it doesn't work you see them in a lot of books because these books were written when mobile phone was not in the current state iphone 13 was not there this is so good of a phone to resist
10:04 instagram was not there when these books were written so make sure you understand modern problem requires modern solution now phone is a part of your life so rule it now since you have stayed so long and shows a little bit interest here's this bonus tip smile this is a bonus tip life is predictably unpredictable miss happens stuff goes wrong it will happen every single day you want to go to gym you are not gonna be going to gym you want to do a lot of stuff things are going to go bad so here's my small tip don't control your life don't plan for a month don't plan for a year don't take those new year resolution it doesn't work i've tried them myself for some years it works for some years it doesn't work so
10:51 what instead i try is it's okay to lose control if i'm not able to work out today it's okay i was not able to if i'm not able to code today or make a video today it's okay things happen restart doesn't mean tomorrow also needs to go bad if today is messed up tomorrow i can fix it so i always go ahead and believe and a strong believer of restart i'm a computer guy i know a lot of problem can be solved by just turning off the things and turning on the things restart works this is a proven theory in computers restart always works so most importantly make sure you plan your day and it's okay to mess up try tomorrow again two things that's it in
11:37 the life just do and plan and prepare for 10 things and here is my last and the most important thing i always end up my ted talks with some of the quotation or some of the theories that i have here's the one a lot of people misunderstand what is time management they want to do a thousand different things you don't do thousand things you take one step at a time you do one thing today right that's it time management is not about doing 100 things it's about just doing a very few things but consistently you want to work out consistently work out you want to write code consistently write code just for two hours a day you want to make youtube videos just make one video a day that's it that's all it takes so make sure to sum this all up
12:22 it is not possible to master time management you can manage only people it is not possible to master your entire year but it is possible or at least we can try to master today's day and only today's day so make sure you don't run after reading thousand books of time management instead of just try to sort out just today that's it live in the moment try that out so that is all from my side thank you so much you
