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  • Hello guys, welcome to my channel.

  • I'm so happy to see you here.

  • Today we're going to talk about a very important thing.

  • I'm going to tell you my tips and tricks

  • of planning your time and achieving your goals

  • because you know

  • there's a feeling of procrastination

  • when you want to do so many things

  • but you don't know where to start

  • you kinda want to get into Stanford

  • but also you want to stay in your country.

  • You don't know what to do, you don't know where to start.

  • I've been there.

  • I had the same feeling.

  • I had the same problems

  • when two years ago

  • I was just about to

  • start my admission process to

  • the American Universities

  • but when I realised

  • I only had a year

  • when I had to pass TOEFL

  • when I had to pass GMAT

  • and fill in all the application forms

  • and make sure Universities provide financial assistance.

  • It seemed like a lot of tasks.

  • I decided to plan my time.

  • That year I realised that

  • time is the most powerful resource

  • and it's really limited

  • because sometimes you start your day

  • and think "I have the whole weekend

  • in front of me,

  • I'll watch TV series first

  • And I'm going to visit my parents

  • Only then I'm going do

  • some tasks that I've planned.

  • Then you end up

  • not doing anything at all

  • because you just spend your time

  • hanging out with your friends

  • which is not bad but if you have

  • you need to learn a language

  • that means you've done nothing for it.

  • The first thing I'd advise you to do

  • is to have a deadline.

  • When I started planning

  • admission process for foreign Universities

  • I had certain deadlines from

  • every single University

  • And I knew that I had

  • 3 months to prepare for TOEFL,

  • pass GMAT

  • and fill in all the application forms

  • and I have just one month

  • to pass all the exams.

  • So I had the exact days

  • when I had to do what

  • and it really helped

  • planning everything

  • when you think I'm going to do it first

  • to see how it goes

  • and many people ask me

  • "Can I just pass TOEFL and how what my score is

  • and only then decide whether I should go to the American University

  • or British University

  • or not?"

  • This is a really bad strategy because

  • if you're just trying to see what the outcome would be

  • this would not really work

  • because you need to have a certain goal,

  • for example,

  • you need to score 100 on TOEFL

  • on August, 15,

  • for example.

  • This gives you the understanding

  • that time is limited.

  • As I said time is everything

  • So you need to start planning your time right now.

  • The second thing

  • is what you can do to plan your time.

  • I'm going to show you an app on my iPhone

  • You probably know it, it's called Google Calendar.

  • I'm not sure...

  • You can see it. Great

  • Google calendar is

  • where I plan everything.

  • I plan all the meetings there

  • it's really useful because if you

  • you're meeting a person who has Google calendar

  • You just send them an invite.

  • They'll get it in their calendar,

  • you'll never miss a meeting.

  • Sometimes I plan meetings

  • two months ahead

  • and it's really good if somebody has it in their calendar.

  • You won't forget it even in two months.

  • And the second thing you can do there.

  • They have goals, reminders, events.

  • Event is when you plan a meeting.

  • Reminder is a list of things you need to do during the day

  • or during the week.

  • The third thing has just appeared, it's called goals.

  • I really like it.

  • Goals is like filling application forms.

  • It will put a certain event which is applicable to your goal,

  • for example, filling the application forms

  • when there is a day you have minimum tasks,

  • for example, my goals will be during the weekend

  • and Google calendar asks what I did to achieve my goal.

  • This is really motivating

  • because sometimes you don't know when

  • you have time for achieving your goal.

  • and Google calendar reminds you that you have time on Saturday

  • and you like "yes, I have time on Saturday"

  • and I have to do it.

  • Please use Google Calendar.

  • The third thing I'm using...

  • By the way, you can enjoy the view

  • in the back while I'm searching for the program.

  • It's very beautiful sunset.

  • Very beautiful river

  • The program is called Trello

  • Here is the logo.

  • Trello helps you to plan your tasks.

  • What really works for me is

  • having two columns.

  • First column is called Marina.

  • Very selfish.

  • This column is for daily tasks.

  • I try to keep my tasks

  • to 5 a day.

  • If I go beyond five,

  • I will never do this task.

  • So five is the maximum.

  • I start my morning with column,

  • which is called Marina later.

  • In Marina later I have a lot of ideas

  • for business, for example, which is Linguatrip.com

  • study abroad platform

  • for example, I need to shoot this video

  • I need to write a text for the website.

  • I have so many ideas.

  • I just list them there

  • When the mourning starts

  • I have something I need to do

  • Every day like check my mail,

  • get back to people.

  • And then I have time to do things which I planned

  • I pick up a couple of tasks

  • and I start doing them

  • The trick here is

  • to have 5 things maximum,

  • otherwise you feel too overwhelmed

  • I had it when I had 10 tasks a day

  • It would never go away

  • because when you have 10 tasks

  • you don't know where to start.

  • This also applicable to your goals

  • like if you have 150 goals,

  • you will never know where to start,

  • where to begin.

  • You need to concentrate on one thing.

  • For you guys, I have like 6 thousand

  • subscribers on the channel.

  • And you probably want to get into a foreign university,

  • concentrate on it.

  • Try to dedicate at least one hour a day

  • to achieve it.

  • If you're not right there yet,

  • if your application is in a year or so,

  • you can dedicate some time on the weekend,

  • using Google.

  • Another useful advice.

  • This is one of the best advice I got

  • during an accelerator program 500 Startups

  • in a Silicon valley

  • If you subscribe to my channel, you've probably seen a video

  • with Poornima who interviewed us for that accelerator.

  • And she would tell me every day:

  • "Marina, one thing at a time".

  • Because when you're flooding with ideas

  • especially if you run your own business

  • or you want to apply into 500 different universities

  • you want to practice TOEFL speaking/reading and everything.

  • Golden rule is one thing at a time.

  • For me and the company,

  • don't go everywhere.

  • Don't try to work on conversion, emails to bookings, growing your traffic,

  • just concentrate on one thing first

  • and see how it goes.

  • When you're preparing for TOEFL,

  • don't try to do reading

  • and then speaking and then listening

  • and a couple of practice tests.

  • Concentrate on one thing at a time.

  • And this is what I did with my TOEFL.

  • Because I realised my speaking section

  • is so bad

  • because speaking in TOEFL is so weird.

  • I did 8 speaking sections in a row.

  • Started with the 1st one and ended with the 8th.

  • It was really practical.

  • When you concentrate on one thing

  • your brain adapts to the situation

  • and it starts to work in that particular direction.

  • So one thing at a time.

  • I think the last thing

  • I want to share with you

  • because I've shown you so many apps

  • not many, only 2 apps on my phone

  • Another app I'd really recommend

  • is Kindle

  • because when you have free time

  • and when you stuck in traffic

  • and you don't really have access to the Internet

  • don't start playing games

  • I know pokemon Go is a big try in a nose

  • I have it in my phone

  • but you know it's a time killer

  • And time is your most precious resource

  • you want to use your time in the best manner

  • The best thing you can do

  • in your free time

  • is read an interesting book.

  • Download a couple of books

  • for your Kindle

  • I'd recommend the Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up.

  • This is the book I've recently read

  • I'll make a big review on it

  • because it made me throw away 6 big bags of rubbish

  • in my apartment

  • and something like How to get into Stanford

  • if you're applying for a university

  • so have these two books

  • and when you have free time

  • 20 minutes a day

  • just read them.

  • You'd be amazed how

  • many books you'll be able to read

  • in a month

  • with just only 20 minutes a day.

  • Okay guys,

  • Thank you for watching this video.

  • I hope this was useful.

  • Please share your tips in the comments.

  • Tell me what you do to make most out of your time

  • and how you plan everything

  • during your day

  • I think it'll be really useful

  • for all of us.

  • And the last glimpse of Saint Petersburg.

  • Very beautiful today

  • Beautiful sunset

  • Don't forget to subscribe to my channel

  • And thank you so much

Hello guys, welcome to my channel.

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