New daily format is going to work! — no other apps, no internet, no browser for the first two hours of the day, chats on mobile only!

15.1 hours of sunlight today, get to see some of it.

I started my new process this morning, I wanted to do it yesterday but I think I had it all in the back of my mind about how the days logistics were gonna play out — this morning thou crushing it — do not disturb on — set up the camera, open up the notes, we gonna record back to back, get the video elements we want locked down and then save, not edit each one, just rattle each one off and then at the end switch to something else like writing to ‘clear the air’ — then I’ll get into edits later, if I finish the text earlier I’ll edit, can shift the batch encoding to a period of time when I wanna take time out.

At the end of it I’ll have batched a certain amount of ‘premium minutes’ content per day and I’ll speed up the ‘shipping’ of that video content faster, basically allocating a bunch of time per day to having locked in the ‘hours’ of video content done — the rest of the day, regardless of the heat outside means I can chill and edit without having to be in front of hot lights or turning of the fan cooling — sweet win! :) — this is gonna make me hella more productive.

Of course, it means I gotta get up and be relatively lightweight with my morning, coffee, water and if I’m hungry then I’ll eat but I want to get to the point where my mind is rested and I can just cast an eye over my text and jump straight in and record — if for nothing else adding to the content that sits online 24/7 and then working on pointing people to it is the better move, I’ve got a few thoughts about that too and maybe I can factor in some of the recording ‘stings’ for those as quick fire social videos too.

Fighting against the usual habits of loading up the browser, getting lost in videos, news and bullshit. You should try it, break up the day into sprints, somehow I had lost my way there for a little while and just gone along with whatever the day wanted to present to me — I can still do all the interaction and engagement but wanna pull those useful morning hours back in to line.

I’m keeping any comms to mobile in the morning too, emergencies and just general like ‘contact ability’ — on the machine thou I run completely Skelton, just the camera settings app, notepad and recording app — blast back to back, don’t edit, just make sure it’s saved and then, little 15 minute break after the hour (aiming eventually for 2hrs a day) and then straight into writing and newsletter — knowing that after that I’ve got a batch of editing work to be done and that I can incrementally add new course content daily.

I’ve got to do it this way because building out my biggest course on skill share/udemy (aiming for a 24 hrs course of content) seems too massive to even consider it so piece mealing that per day means that if I kept to the 2hrs a day vibe I could get that crushed in a few weeks of a month — remember, it’s the big, long courses on udemy where people see it as VALUE and it’s awesome on skillshare because the more MINUTES of a course you have the more of a percentage of premium minutes you’ll get from your existing subscribers.

Then after those are live it’s just a case of using cross promotion from youtube, daily videos you record as vlog, tweets, advertising packages for cheap on twitter, youtube and facebook (retargeting) and you are off to the races — just steps really, steps that once you’ve got a flow make it easier to look up and see what you have and need to work on elsewhere in the rest of the day, plan that recording block out for the next day — maybe you need to spend an hour in the morning to promote what’s doing well in your existing courses for instance.

Peace, back to the grind!

P.S — it actually worked out, I just back to backed four videos I wanted to get done for the unofficial reviewhunt course about case studies, I’ll be putting up a separate post with the notes from that next now i’m in my writing and newsletter phase! :)

pinterest epic wins pinboard → brand advocate for nokia, 1000heads, verisign → won vloggie for node666 (san fran 2006) → television for time team history hunters 1999 → sold me.dm to evan williams in april 2011 → went to phil campbell, alabama to help raise money after tornado (was on sky news, bbc news)→ CNN for sxsw 2013 about austin sxsw → video chat with robert scoble → music video can you spot me?