Seeing those numbers in a pie chart was excellent! It really does put things in perspective. And yes, you have to be prepared to say no to everything except what really matters. Keeping track of screen time can be especially helpful (and humbling): the amount of time you spend in Xcode versus Safari or Messages or Ivory or whatever is a good measure of how serious you are.

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

Yep, time tracking can be big eye opening moment for many of us who are "working" for 10+ hour in a day.

That’s a pretty cool video. Seems obvious but somethings we don’t do the obvious things. What mean by that, at least for me, when I have the visual representation (pie chart, for instance) make things clear and easy to understand the pros and cons of anything. Really cool content and channel. Subscribed!!!

at first your content felt a bit odd to me, but now this what I love the most about it. It's calming, real, and motivating at the same time.

Oh wow, a time budget is a genius idea! 💡

@AivarsMeijers

5 ай бұрын

We have our time limits and putting them in spreadsheet or just planning on paper helps to be more intentional.

Thank you for the video, found it helpful in my planning.

Struggling with time for Side hustle and starting KZread. This was very helpful

Thanks for sharing! A very helpful and clever example of time management. I definitely need to apply it in my life as well.

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

congrats for 30k subs

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

🙌

Nice video! Thanks for sharing about focusing and time blocking. I think I should give this a try soon.

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

I guess this can be helpful to figure out priorities & goals vs reality of available time. Helps me to overcommit little bit less :)

Great video Aivars. It's a good approach to look at what you do from different angles and decide what are your priorities and goals for the future. A spreadsheet with hours in a day/week was such a powerful thing and when I've added up everything what I would like to do I was almost 2 days short in a week :D

@AivarsMeijers

6 ай бұрын

That's the problem with todo lists, you can make them very long and then feel bad that didn't check out half of planned even if that wasn't realistically possible :)

I need to learn to manage my time; this is amazing

Thanks for the vid. Very helpful to see how you plan your week. Time tracking vid would be nice! 👍 Would love to see that!

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

Adding the backlog of the video topics. Thanks!

Thanks a lot, for such a useful video!

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

new here..... greetings from Brazil.... now it makes sense.... you were a product manager... I watched your video about validating ideas ... first impression was ... hey this guy would be a good product manager lmao

@AivarsMeijers

5 күн бұрын

Yep, I spent many years in PM positions and was head of products at the end of my corporate carrier

Subscribed. :) Life started as a Full-stack Web Developer with Java, life journey brought me to the back-end. Now I'm helping developers with their CI/CD and the IT for their servers. Why I subscribed? Interested how this dude started as a carpenter and his thoughts on why he focused on iOS (focused on iPhone) apps.

@AivarsMeijers

6 ай бұрын

This dude has show attention spawn and switching carers every few years :) Carpenter > soldier > policeman > bartender > field technician > project/product manager > product director > iOS developer > content creator If this is not screaming ADHD idk what it is :D Thanks for the sub, hope you will keep enjoying content!

nice video!

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

Thanks!

I am trying to learn iOS development and your content is the source of my motivation. When i watch any of your videos i an telling myself that i wanna be like you so i guess you became my role model.

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

Thank you! Happy to hear that!

Planning, planning is the key

I’m gonna focus for sure and set out my goals thanks for all that you do and your advice as an iOS developer you’re channel rocks that why I’m focus on iOS development now instead of C# it’s fun especially when vision OS hit next year

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

Best of luck! I doubt I will get my hands on vision OS hardware anytime soon. everything coming late to Latvia, but I would like to play around with it as well.

@TheComputerm746

7 ай бұрын

@@AivarsMeijers thanks my friend and hopefully they will send the Apple Vision Pro near you to play around with I heard they were basically sending them to apple labs or apple locations around the world for users to test out and experience hopefully they will stop at Latvia 😎

2:05, holy shiiiieeet. NASA desk. How do u manage dust there?:)))

thank you for not making that typical "I get up at 3 AM" bs. though it could have added few more hours to the day 😂

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

Getting up at 3 or 4 can help, but only if you need to improve schedule. I did that for a while, to learn and work before day job, but I was in a bed early as well. You have to get whatever sleeping hours your body needs and usually it is about 7h

Thanks for the amazing videos. I think you should mention about your course briefly in your videos, I was not aware that you’ve a course..

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

Thanks, will do!

Great break down, you right about the time and planning. Even we can not be 100% on it, it's good to have a plan and priorities, clear goals and expectations. I am wondering, how is your media presence help you with finding freelance?

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Alex! For a last few years I'm working on long time contracts. So, I do not jump between projects often and it is hard to say how much online presence would help.

Really helpful advice, thank you Aivars ❤

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Nice technique, to figure things out. If you look at 6:00 revenue vs scheduled time, it seems pretty obvious to lower freelance (40h) in favor of indie (8h average so far?). More risk, but with 30h freelance, you are still on the safe side.

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

Current freelance project is full time consultant agreement. So it is 40h or nothing. I like the team and product, don't want to drop that just to find another, part time project.

@leoingson

7 ай бұрын

@@AivarsMeijersAh ok, expected there is some room for negotiation.

0:40 - For a second, I read that t-shirt text wrong. 🙈

+ on making time tracking one)

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

👌

Not sure, imo cutting IG & short videos might play back because they are still part of the personal branding and “algorithm”, aren’t they? Might look tempting to save time there but could play back negatively on the big picture which is harder to calculate in a simple way.

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

I'm not dropping IG completely, but unlikely I will do well edited and long videos for it and YT shorts. If you will check my Reels, you will see that last day in a life or microphone review are on 11 and 19K views. The clip where I'm pouring coffee in the cup has about 20K views. Shorts on YT generate views, but do not add much subs so, that mostly is a fun way to waste a bit of time :)

Do you smell candles all the time? I feel the smell only in the first minutes, and then I get used to it.

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

Do they smell? :) I can't smell a shit, so I just like how they looks like.

Bonus tip: Not watching youtube videos 24/7 helps 😅

@AivarsMeijers

7 ай бұрын

Yeh! That's my biggest time waste.