Transcript & Summary: A productive day in the life of a new dad

[00:00] this is a realistic day in the life of a dad business owner and YouTuber my day usually starts at 6:00 to 6:30 a.m. depending on when my son wakes up can you say good morning yeah today it was 5:00 a.m. I made a few of these productivity Vlogs in the past but this is the first time that I'm doing it as a parent you want to go get breakfast and oh my how things have changed instead of starting day with pourover coffee and emails it's messy nappies and chores did you turn the oven on [Music] uhoh so Nat and I basically rotate [00:45] mornings with Frankie depending on whether or not he's in daycare and now he's pouring milk everywhere um when he's not in daycare it's usually a day that I have him for the morning and so it's just getting him fed getting him dressed getting him sunscreened ready for the day usually takes about an hour and a half and then I'm off to work while I sometimes genuinely struggle with this dramatic shift in my morning routine I really do love spending time with my son and getting to start my day with him cheers so Frankie [01:21] is a pretty slow eater it's taking him about 40 minutes to eat a piece of toast oh my God we forgot to get your face oh is that mommy go get mommy go get mommy Frank's been having so much fun I got you boom zip come here wow you're getting so big buddy all right Frankie's ready for the day now it's Daddy's turn bye-bye Frankie bye daddy byebye [Music] so at the very beginning of my day I always look at my calendar and my to-do list just to see what I have on I want to make sure that I don't forget about [02:23] any events meetings or interviews I have scheduled and then I will bring those over to my to-do list to accompany my my tasks for the day often times I'm overly ambitious about what I can get done in a day so I rarely finish the items on my to-do list and end up pushing them to the next day so we'll see how productive I can be today so this is what my Todo list is looking like for today I'll walk through each of these real quick with you now I'm going to be vlogging my day so obviously that's what I'm doing right [02:50] now I need to import footage for an interview I just did create a sharable link so I can get the footage from the person I interviewed I'm going to hopefully write a whole YouTube video I've got the outline done I just need to go through and and finesse it and kind of beef it up a bit writing a newsletter sign up for a director ID I'm in the process of moving my business from the US to Australia and one this is just one of those small tasks that I need to complete I've got a Melbourne trip coming up that I need to book I want to [03:17] shoot a YouTube thumbnail record my voice over for the script that I'm working on today I've got a YouTube strategy call so this is a call with some podcasters here in Australia one of my favorite podcast actually and they were looking to get some advice on how to grow their YouTube channel I'm playing squash with my friend jzy and then finally got to take out the rubbish that's right rubbish not trash not garbage rubbish who am I all right time to get to work so last night I did an interview with James Hoffman because [03:49] he's based in the UK you might have heard of him he's got this amazing YouTube channel where he talks all about coffee he's kind of helping me get into the whole world of espresso I didn't have a chance to import all the footage so I'm going to do that now I think for the longest time I was trying to force my old life onto my new life as a dad I used to go to the gym 5 six days per week I'd spend an hour to an hour and a half at the gym every time I was there that is over basically everything comes at a cost and so if I [04:24] were to go to the gym four days a week work out an hour every day that I was there then I wouldn't have as much time with family then I wouldn't have as much time with my work I've had to make some very difficult decisions decisions that are actually not great for my physical health and my well-being but that's the tradeoff that you need to make like yeah it would be amazing if I could work out 6 days a week but that's just not going to happen [04:56] anymore so it's 11:30 I'm having my first meal of the day which is a leftover euro is it Euro or Juro or Gyro I've been doing intermittent fasting for a while I've actually done a couple YouTube videos about intermittent fasting basically they've come out with a lot of new research that has led experts to suggest that it's not nearly as helpful for humans as they once thought like all these like metabolic effects I like it intermittent fasting because it just helps me to restrict my calorie intake once I do eat it starts [05:28] to kind of like kick into gear my craving cycles for food and so if I want to restrict the amount of calories I'm eating in a day one of the ways that I can do it is just by like not eating for the first half of the day this video is sponsored by my new favorite tool 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experts like me get started for free and play around with all of these features by clicking the link in the description below this video definitely make sure you click that link because that will help convince the script to keep partnering with me in the future which would be pretty awesome seriously go click it I'll [06:55] wait okay I'm not going to wait that long [Music] coffee number two today let's see if I can pour it without spilling it not as bad as the first time but not great so today I'm working on a script for a video called I quit the news for one year it wasn't something I planned on turning into a video maybe in the back of my mind I thought you know there's a video there but uh this was kind of during that whole period when I took all that time away from YouTube usually it takes me a day or two to write a video like this I usually find [07:33] that I can kind of get most of my thoughts down most of the things that I want to cover and talk about in the video and then the next day helps me to kind of refine and eliminate a lot of the garbage that I wrote I find that I'm a decent writer but I'm way better at editing way better at rewriting the first thing that I usually write is complete trash I find that writing helps me to make the most engaging interesting and entertaining [Music] video I pretty much finished the video I think I'm going to need a little bit of [08:15] time tomorrow to finesse it and finalize it I'm just preparing now for my one phone call of the day I'm having a chat with a few podcasters about their YouTube channel it's going to help me kind of get clarity on my own podcast because I just recently started a podcast and I've got a YouTube channel for it it's doing pretty well but I'm still learning about how to create a podcast YouTube channel and how to grow it because it's something very different than what I'm used to I can hear you now oh yay ah there we [08:52] go hey guys I don't know if all content is Shifting in that direction but it seems like people are getting a a little bit tired and fatigued by the kind of over Sensational content it's going to have a place just like reality TV does but I do think that there's a big appetite for people that can create with authenticity and integrity and not always resort to clickbait like yeah you probably lose views in the short term but the goal is longterm you'll have an audience that shows up for every video [09:21] and every podcast you make [Music] uh so I recently started to play squash with my friend Justin and it's uh it gets pretty intense this has just been um a really great way for me to kind of unwind burn some cows get some sweat going so I am very excited I always look forward to this every week you know my biggest mistake was not playing some PumpUp music before I got in here cuz shit's about to get real [Music] oh this is unfair you're going to practice [10:12] [Music] in can I get a like a postgame recap soame recap yeah yeah I dominated that's it 3 n right three yeah 3 n and then um got rewarded with a solid parking ticket ice all right bro good stuff I'm somebody who basically never does cardio uh I always try to pick up like a running habit or a cycling habit after my lifts at the gym but just have never consistently done it so doing squash now once a week even has been one of the most consistent cardio practices that I've ever had and I think it's working because it's fun because [11:03] it's not just exercise for the sake of exercise I'm actually enjoying the [Music] process so this is typically what our house looks like when it gets a little bit closer to dinner time actually this is pretty clean this isn't too bad [Music] jazy who just absolutely destroyed me at squash today he came on my podcast a month ago and he brought me this homemade chili sauce it's called chili Chutney hot sauce and it's so freaking good I think I'll put it on a chip oh that's that's a lot I'm basically a college student at [11:48] this point what the happened to me I used to be the guy that made well balanced if not very boring meals but these days I'm just getting by like today surv surviving on nothing but peanut butter sandwiches high protein yogurt and some tortilla chips not exactly Peak Performance fuel but right now it's about survival not [Music] optimization taking a look at my to-do list that I set out in the beginning of the day uh I did okay I mean I definitely didn't do as well as I thought the fact that I was able to [12:23] write the YouTube video I think is the biggest accomplishment of the day the rest of the tasks weren't super super urgent and so I'm probably actually just going to push them for a few days you know that's the way it goes I have to focus on the most urgent things first and then as those deadlines get a little bit closer the trips get a little bit closer I'm going to have to be a little bit more realistic about those things so one of the unique skills that I have mastered since becoming a dad is assembling and reassembling the car seat [12:52] Frankie gets very nauseous when we're in the car so he tends to throw up a lot we have to constantly strip our car seat uh and throw the coverings inside the wash that's that's Dad's job now you might be wondering you're like Frankie is over one and a half now what is he still doing in a baby car seat Well Frankie is on the shorter side like Mom and Dad some of the early doctor's appointments we went to they're really obsessive about height and weight of babies and children and Frankie you know constantly [13:21] ranks in the lower percentile but the doctor looked at Nat and I and was like oh no yeah that actually makes sense as I mean obviously with you guys we're like no doc what do you mean what do you mean with us no we're short we're short people hi Frankie oh Frankie can I get a hug oh thank you oh I love you Bubba oh I missed you you guys have fun today we had an action pack really nonstop nonstop [Music] there he [14:11] is look at all those Legos dude I got to I got to like look into getting better at squash I think I need to hire a coach like secretly I'll hire a coach without Justin so what do we have for dinner CH have a little ccus chickpea lentil Tully okay okay and we have some lasagna from our neighbors cuz they made extra oh nice I know yeah the water bowl she brought out the water bowl I this requires some explaining I think so ever since Frankie was a baby and started solids uh we've had a bowl I will say filled with water he's messier [14:55] than almost every baby I know so we've had to take unusual meas precautions hey buddy we're almost ready to eat this right here hey buddy come here I'm not going to finish the story about the water bowl cuz I think that's the most parenting thing ever you start stories they never get finished thanks for giving me like the nice one m I know you would to comment oh really mhm are you all done buddy thank you saying byebye bye okay byebye Frank's [Music] done all you can leave my food there yeah I'll finish my food [15:50] later bye-bye Mommy byebye if you want to become a better stoic and you want more Real World Training my advice have a kid oh Frankie you just hit me in the head Bubba the only certainty is that things won't go as planned midnight wakeups getting sick right before a huge deadline the moment you think you've got a routine it changes at first that unpredictability drove me nuts it it kind of still does but now I am beginning to expect it and that makes it a little bit easier to handle so yeah I'm not as productive as [16:28] I I used to be at least not in the same way but I'm learning that productivity isn't about squeezing every second for maximum output it's about making sure that the things that actually matter get done and the people that matter feel like I've given them my full attention some days that means I'm working a little bit more other days means I'm taking off work to be there for my son and honestly I wouldn't trade it CU he's already up the stairs uh-oh thany that scary who be careful here put it in here nice and gentle nice [17:13] and gentle oh my God good job was your fingers that's fine you got to watch your fingers now good good job no let's not do that go go go go go bye bye Frankie I love you good night so Frank's going to sleep now it's 8:07 p.m. which means that and I have about an hour to ourselves before we go to bed sometimes we watch TV maths is on if you don't know it's Married at First Sight Nat likes to watch that show I tune in a little bit but right now trying to pick up my reading habit again and I'm reading this book grit by Angela [17:53] Duckworth which has been very good yeah overall today was a pretty good day I'm tired I'm trying to read but I'm tired dude I don't know if I could do this I might just watch TV