Managing our time efficiently is something most of us have struggled with at some point during our personal or professional lives and so in this video I’m going to reveal the 10 principles and ideas I use to manage time as effectively as I can in my daily life.
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00:00 Intro
00:15 We own all of our time
01:19 Hell yeah or no
02:16 The daily highlight
03:00 Use a to-do list
04:06 Time blocking
05:25 Parkinson’s Law
06:22 Protected time
07:34 Delegation
08:56 Automated scheduling
10:13 The choice to be satisfied
📚 Make Time:
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I’m Ali, a junior doctor working in Cambridge, UK. I make videos about medicine, technology, productivity and lifestyle design. I also have a weekly podcast with my brother ( and I write a weekly email newsletter that contains some quick thoughts + links to interesting things (
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If you’d like to talk, I’d love to hear from you. Tweeting @AliAbdaal directly will be the quickest way to get a response, but if your question is very long, feel free to email me at hi@aliabdaal.com. I try my best to reply to things but there sadly aren’t enough hours in the day to respond to everyone 😭
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