Time Blocking - A Day in the Life of Batching My Work #Best Education Page #Online Earning

- All right so it is June 12, 2019,

and look at my calender.

Check this out.

We are stacked all day,

from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Why?

This is called batch processing.

Today I'm recording about seven different podcast episodes

for other people's shows all in one day.

They're back to back, 30 minutes apart,

and I have a book coming out called Superfans Fans,

so this is like a podcasting tour for the book.

So we'll see how this goes.

But first lets talk about batch processing,

and why that's important.

All right so batch processing.

That means spending a majority

of the day or large chunk of time within a certain day

to do a specific kind of task.

In this case it's creating a podcast episode

with other people.

Sometimes you might want to create

a podcast episode of your own.

For others they might batch process answering emails

or writing blog posts or writing a book.

It doesn't matter.

This is beneficial because instead

of worrying about the transition from

one kind of task to another kind of task,

which can often take time for you

to get into flow state

and get in that groove that you often wanna get into

to make production a little easier.

I can wake up today knowing

okay this is my batch processing day for podcasting.

I can have the right sort of mental energy for that.

And while I'm doing it I'm just in that mode,

possibly doing the same thing,

not having to switch between one task and another.

And that allows you to get

a lot more done in a short period of time.

And then from there, after you have, for example,

all the podcast episodes batch processed,

well then you can just send them off to your team

or work on them later on

and batch process your editing.

And guess what, now instead of just one episode a week

that you're producing, for example,

you have four done that you can now sort

of sprinkle out for the rest of the month,

if you're going weekly for example.

So sometimes crazy people like John Lee Dumas

came out with a daily show,

he would batch process an entire week's worth

of episodes in just one day,

on Tuesday every week.

And that was his jam for a long time,

until he started to go weekly.

Anyway, thanks, John, you really helped me understand

how to start batch processing

way back in the day,

and it's been really, really helpful

so I appreciate you for that.

Now the one thing I'm worried about

looking at the schedule is that

we actually didn't account for in case

there were any technical issues

or you know sometimes when you get on a podcast episode

with somebody you don't wanna

just start recording right away,

you have a little chat with them.

Sometimes those chats go a little bit longer.

So I'm worried because although

these are scheduled for 30 minutes apart,

I mean even if the interviewer goes a littler over too,

that can mess things up.

The moment one of them messes up

they're all messed up.

And so the only sort of buffer period we have

to move things around in case things change

is lunch, which is also a half hour.

So I'm a little bit worried

we're gonna get off track a little bit,

and in retrospect we probably should have

recorded in 45 minute chunks,

and have told these people they have 30 minutes,

to give, again, more time and buffer space

between things.

So hopefully things go well, we'll see.

But we're about to get on the first one now.

So let's do it.

Do you like it?

Should I bring that to a new show?

Should I have him on the show?

(upbeat music)

Sorry, got the blue screen, rebooting that.

Hey, sometimes this happens,

and it's one of the problems with going

back to back to back to back to back to back

is that technology isn't always in our favor.

And so we're gonna have to hopefully

get back on soon and make up for that.

And it might mean that the next call's gonna be

a little bit late,

which means the next call after that's

gonna be a little bit late.

And so hopefully this lunch break in the middle

will sort of allow for a little bit of buffering

and moving of time around a little bit.

But hey, this is just part of the game.

Batch processing, especially when you're working with others

and there's technology involved,

it doesn't always go according to plan.

And just expect it.

It's gonna happen and you just gotta keep going,

rolling with the punches.

Thank you, Deacon, I appreciate you.

Thanks to everybody who is listening to this,

and I appreciate all the support for the book.

Thank you.

That one's done and I'm five minutes late to this call.

Here we go.

Hey, how are you?

I'm doing good.

I am actually, interestingly enough,

shooting a quick video, behind the scenes

of what it's like to batch process a bunch

of podcast episodes.

So if you could tell everybody how late I am,

and I'll tell you why that would be awesome.

So this is Leah.

- Hey.

- How late am I?

- Um lets see, you are six minutes late.

- Six minutes.

I feel so bad about that, I'm so sorry.

So what happened was my first call went over,

which meant my second all went over,

and then we had the blue screen of death,

and then now I'm over here.

So this is what happens sometimes.

So give yourself some space

in between calls maybe in case this happens.

So don't do what I did.

But thank you again for sharing that.

And I'm gonna turn this off

so we can have a great interview.

All right, so lunch break happened

and I didn't eat lunch.

I had a text and I got on the call

and all this other stuff happened.

Then my wife came home,

and then now it's time for the next one.

So here we are now, chat with Jessica Brassington.

Let's just keep going.

Now luckily I'm on the keto diet

so actually extending breakfast

or extending lunch and eating later,

I'm on an intermittent fasting thing

so I'm actually gonna be okay.

I actually feel very energetic right now.

I'm actually wondering if I ate

maybe I'd feel a little tired.

So I'm feeling really good.

So 12:15, lets go.

Jess is one of my students from

the Power Podcasting Fast Track Workshop.

But she's got like this amazing looking setup now.

Do you do batch processing too, Jess?

Like when you record podcasts and stuff?

- Yes that has been huge in helping me,

especially now that it's summer with all the kids,

its been really good.

- Do you do like a day for like podcasts?

Like how do you,

is it a few days a week that you batch process

or just one day?

- I usually go once a week,

and then I'll do up to even four episodes or more.

And then that helps if I have times where

I'm traveling or if I just can't make it,

it takes off that stress.

So that's been really big for me.

- See what I'm talking about?

She knows what's up.

All right, next up we got Josh Friedman.

And we're going to rock and roll, Josh.

It's always weird.

Sometimes like who initiates the call.

I think the interviewer initiates the call

most of the time, right?

Versus the person being interviewed.

But I've done it the other way too

because sometimes it depends on the conversation in Skype.

So I'm gonna give it 10 more seconds,

and if he doesn't call I'm gonna call him.

10, nine, eight, seven,

six, five.

(ringing)

I was just telling everybody how funny it is sometimes

'cause sometimes when I get on an interview

it's like who initiates the call, right?

Like do I call you?

Do you call me?

And I was like hmm, I'm gonna give him 10 seconds

but then you typed it.

Anyway if you wanna wave to everybody and say hi.

- How's it going everyone?

- Cool.

We're gonna get roiling so I'll see you a little bit later.

We just finished up the interview with Josh,

and we got the next one with Sean.

The funny thing about the interview I just did with Josh,

who you just saw,

is I totally forgot to mention Superfans Fans.

You know I'm here to deliver value to the audience,

I'm not just here to promote my book.

And we do keep a lot

of the topics relevant to Superfans Fans,

but we just got off on this really great conversation

and tangent, and he even had to ask me like

hey, you had mentioned Superfans Fans,

a book that's coming out and a preorder sort of deal.

And I was like oh yeah totally here for that,

totally forgot.

So he was a great interviewer.

All the people that we connected with today were amazing.

But I got one more with Sean Mooney

and then a little break.

And that's when I'm gonna go get some lunch.

But I'm not hungry right now.

That's the beauty about keto.

But anyway, when you are doing a podcast run like this

for other shows and you have something you wanna promote,

I would recommend you just say

hey I'm here to deliver value to your audience,

I just wanna make sure we cover the book at some point,

but it's up to you.

And I always say I'll follow your lead

and we'll go from there.

And that way it's just not all about the book

and it's forced and it's just kind

of weird questions about it,

about things that people don't even know about.

So if a person wants to go

in a different direction that's fine.

But thankfully Joshua reminded me

that we're here for also the purpose

of promoting Superfans Fans

and getting people to preorder it before August 13th

to get the audio book for free,

which by the way,

if you wanna do that you can go to YourSuperfansfans.com

and submit your seat there.

You can preorder it from Barnes and Noble,

Target or Amazon.

You'll see the links in the description below.

And if you preorder before August 13th,

my next call's gonna start.

If you preorder before August 13th,

you'll get the audio book for free on launch week.

Anyway I gotta go, bye.

Thank you, Sean, that was Superfans fun.

And just really excited to connect.

And I appreciate all the support for Superfans Fans

when it comes out.

Dunzo.

Let's see, two p.m., we've been in here since about 10 a.m.,

so four hours, not bad.

But we recorded one, two, three, four, five, six

podcast episodes.

So Superfans Fans will be spread to

that many podcasts and people,

and that's awesome.

So this is why we batch process.

Now it's not always possible.

I'm very thankful to have an assistant to help

with scheduling these things.

But if you don't, you could use a tool

like Calendly to get people to choose

which part of that day.

And then she of course was smarter than me

and had sort of buffer times.

But anyway, we have a lot of people to get through.

I kind of opened it up to a lot

of people to interview me for Superfans Fans,

and hadn't been doing these very often,

so there's a long list that we wanted to get through,

so I think that's why we packed it in today.

But hey, we finished on time.

So that's awesome.

I'm very thankful for that.

And I'm gonna get lunch now,

and then get into office hours

which I offer my course students every single week.

But thank you for watching this video,

I appreciate it.

I hope it helps you understand not just the power

and benefit of batch processing,

but maybe some of the mistakes that you don't wanna make.

But also just how fun it can be to connect with people.

If you haven't started a podcast yet

I got some information below.

And I'll link to a video in the card up here

to help you get started with your podcast too

'cause literally I mean we just made six new friends today.

Now I did know some of them beforehand,

but others I didn't know.

And now we can have conversations

and it's just the beauty of this platform.

So hope you are having a great day.

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Leave a comment below.

What are your thoughts

and experiences with batch processing?

Have you batch processed before?

And what are some of the mistakes maybe you've made

that you'd like to share

with the other community members here too.

Thanks so much, take care.

And of course make sure you listen to podcast too,

if you haven't already.

Cheers and Team Flynn for the win.

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