The Daily Routine That Changed My Life (4 Habits Most People Ignore)

Summary

The script emphasizes the importance of intentionally designing a personal routine aligned to consciously chosen goals to create order and progress. It outlines tried solutions across health, business, finances and relationships - walking, reading, focused work blocks, skill acquisition, addressing problems as opportunities. Daily incremental improvements across mind, body, purpose and social life reinforces growth oriented identity to increase life enjoyment. Concrete examples demonstrate practically applying general self-improvement principles tailored to individual vision.

Takeaways

• 😀 You need to consciously create a routine and purpose, otherwise society will assign them to you
• 😮‍💨 Without clear goals and a routine, your life will spiral into chaos and overwhelm
• 🧠 Reversing life's chaos requires improving yourself across 4 pillars: mind, body, business, relationships
• 📝 Self-education exposes you to new information to expand your identity and skills over time
• 🚶‍♂️ Walking boosts creativity, health, and is a useful break from intense focus
• 💪 Skills are trained through real practice - apply your knowledge to get feedback and improve
• 📈 Setting a big, holistic goal creates a frame to perceive information and opportunities
• 🏋️‍♂️ His routine aims to balance focused work, self-education, skill building, and rest
• 😊 Enjoyment comes from progress - doing what you want often prevents self-improvement
• 🍽 Nice dinners are one indulgence that recharges him outside of his strict routine

Q & A

What are the four pillars of the good life according to the speaker?

The four pillars of the good life according to the speaker are: 1) Building your mind 2) Building your body 3) Building your business 4) Building your relationships.

What does the speaker mean when he talks about 'becoming multidimensional hijacked'?

By 'becoming multidimensional hijacked', the speaker means adopting habits in all four pillars of life - mind, body, business, and relationships. This leads to becoming well-rounded and successful across different life domains.

How can setting clear goals help create order and reverse entropy?

Setting clear goals helps create order and reverse entropy in the mind by giving your psychic energy and attention a realistic target to focus on. This concentration of energy creates order rather than disorder.

What is the purpose of the speaker's morning walk routine?

The speaker's morning walk routine serves several purposes - it clears his mind, wakes him up, gets him away from distractions, acts as a creativity boost, keeps him healthy, and reverses damage from too much sitting and blue light exposure.

Why does the speaker treat self-education as an absolute necessity?

The speaker believes self-education is essential for expanding your perspectives beyond what traditional schooling provides. It introduces novel ideas, elevates dopamine levels to boost energy, and gives you the knowledge to achieve your goals.

What is the difference between pleasure and enjoyment according to the speaker?

For the speaker, pleasure is a short-term ego-driven experience while enjoyment comes from long-term personal progress and growth.

How can framing information properly help with marketing and sales?

Understanding the goals and problems of your target audience allows you to frame information in a way that registers in their awareness as important and relatable to them.

What is the purpose of acquiring skills related to your goals?

Acquiring the right skills is what closes the gap between where you currently are and achieving your goals. Building real-world skills exposes gaps in your abilities so you can improve.

Why is having reasons and purpose behind actions in your routine important?

Having strong reasons and purpose behind each activity makes your routine more intentional, beneficial, and sustainable. It leads to seamless behavior change over time.

What is the framework the speaker recommends for creating your own routine?

The speaker recommends creating a holistic goal, treating self-education as a necessity, acquiring goal-aligned skills, and ensuring your routine actions have underlying purpose and reason behind them.

Outlines

00:00

🤔 You Need to Create Your Own Routine or One Will Be Assigned to You

Paragraph 1 discusses how if you don't actively create your own routine and purpose, society will assign you one. It talks about how a routine brings order and is necessary to prevent overwhelm. Most people follow routines set by society rather than consciously creating their own aligned with personal goals.

05:02

👀 Information Programs Our Minds and Identities

Paragraph 2 expands on how the information we're exposed to programs our minds to achieve certain goals unconsciously. Our identity and skills are shaped to align with programmed goals for survival. Without consciously setting our own goals and acquiring skills, our lives are controlled by society.

10:03

🚀 How to Transform Your Life in 4 Steps

Paragraph 3 outlines a 4 step process to change your life: 1) Become aware of your problems to create goals 2) Treat self-education as necessary to gain knowledge 3) Acquire skills to achieve goals 4) Bridge gap between current state and goals via consistent practice.

15:04

⚡ My Daily Routine Broken Down Step-by-Step

Paragraph 4 details the author's daily routine, including a morning walk, focused work blocks, more walking/running, gym, lunch with editor, naps/recovery, and dinner. He explains the intention behind each step.

20:06

😌 Why Taking Rest is as Important as Working

Paragraph 5 continues explaining the author's routine, emphasizing taking mental rest after working. He also talks about experimenting with his routine and not letting it become stagnant in order to continually improve.

25:06

🙌 Gratitude for Reading and Call to Action

The final paragraph wraps up by summarizing the routine, expressing gratitude for the reader, and inviting them to engage further by checking out the author's courses and book.

Keywords

💡routine

A routine is a set schedule of actions and behaviors that structure one's day. The video emphasizes the importance of consciously creating routines aligned with one's goals rather than passively adopting society's routines. Routines bring order and focus which allows one to progress steadily towards self-chosen goals and avoid chaos.

💡goals

Goals are the desired outcomes and endpoints that motivate actions and shape priorities. The video urges viewers to set their own conscious goals rather than blindly pursue the goals programmed by society. Consciously chosen goals that align with one's identity become effortless to work towards.

💡identity

One's identity is their self-concept and personality comprised of conscious and unconscious goals, interests, and perspectives. The video advocates expanding one's identity through self-education to increase awareness and align one's identity with consciously chosen goals.

💡skill acquisition

Acquiring skills through consistent practice and self-education enables one to effectively make progress and achieve goals. Many give up because they lack the requisite skills for the goals they seek rather than persist in skill acquisition.

💡self-education

Self-education through reading, courses, etc expands perspectives and awareness of reality. It enables alignment of identity and skills with conscious goals. The video considers it an absolute necessity to avoid a narrow identity programmed by society.

💡entropy

Entropy refers to disorder and chaos that increases without conscious intervention. By setting goals and building skills, one introduces order and reverses entropy of the mind. This enables focus and progress rather than anxiety.

💡perspective

One's perspective determines what information they notice and how they interpret it. Perspective originates from one's identity which is shaped by the goals and problems one pursues. Self-education expands perspective.

💡systems

Systems are the processes for achieving goals. The video discusses how most follow societal systems versus consciously designing self-improvement systems to achieve self-determined goals.

💡progress

Regular measurable progress in skills and conscious goals reverses entropy, builds an empowered identity, and enables enjoyment and fulfillment. Distractions that offer pleasure but not progress lead to entropy.

💡attention

Attention is mental energy that can be invested towards realistic, consciously chosen goals. Routines condition attention direction while disorder and distractions diffuse attention. The video emphasizes attention focus.

Highlights

Routines allow you to focus your attention when conditioned, and programed over time to make action seamless.

This is why working a job sucks, but not enough to make you quit and pursue something that sucks more until it sucks less.

Life is suffering, and you have the ability to choose what you suffer for, every single day.

Your goals, are the axis of your suffering, and most people are pursuing goals that aren't their own.

Here's a quote from me High to accept me high.

The pursuit of a goal, brings order and awareness, because a person must concentrate attention, on the task at hand and momentarily forget everything else.

You don't need motivation, or discipline, when you are the person who would take certain actions.

The first step to changing your life, is to become brutally aware of the problems, that make you want to change your life.

Daily self-education as an absolute necessity.

The difference between where you are, and where you want to be is skill.

I encourage you to take bits and pieces of my routine, as inspiration for your own, so that you can test and experiment

I stack all of my priority tasks in this work, so I can complete them before most people wake up.

As work becomes less structured, so a soft plug, is that I teach how to become a digital writer in my course.

I aim for around 15 to 20000 steps a day, just because of the stacked benefits that it brings.

Don't let your lack of knowledge hold you in a narrow mind right here.

Transcripts

If you don't create a routine, you will be assigned one.

If you don't create a purpose, you will be assigned one.

If you don't create a career, you will be assigned one.

People are too quick

to adopt the structure that somebody else created to ease

life's uncertainty.

You need a routine, and if you think you don't,

you may not realize

that you have already been assigned one by society or

your routine is not having a routine.

Without rules, there is no game.

Without a game.

There is no winning.

A routine contains the rules for how you live your life.

The longer you play, the better you get.

And as you're getting better,

you often forget the rules and win anyways.

Now is the time to stop playing the game.

Society told you to play and start playing your own.

A powerful routine,

no matter how long prevents overwhelm as you progress towards

your goals.

Most people are progressing towards

goals that were given to them.

They are progressing the dreams of someone else

rather than their own.

Without a routine that you created, your life will slowly fall

faster and faster down a chaotic hole into a life

of responsibilities, work

people, and a personality that you despise.

Routines are comfortable and the mind craves order.

Routines allow you to focus your attention when conditioned

and programed over time to make action seamless.

This is why working a job sucks,

but not enough to make you quit and pursue

something that sucks more until it sucks less.

Life is suffering

and you have the ability to choose what you suffer for

every single day.

Your goals

are the axis of your suffering,

and most people are pursuing goals that aren't their own.

Their suffering doesn't bring fulfillment.

Here's a quote from me High to accept me high.

The optimal state of inner experience

is one in which there is order in consciousness.

This happens

when psychic energy

or attention is invested in realistic goals,

and when skills match the opportunities for action.

The pursuit of a goal

brings order and awareness

because a person must concentrate attention

on the task at hand and momentarily forget everything else.

So we need to talk about how to focus your attention

to reverse psychic entropy or disorder in the mind.

But we also have to understand how identity or personality

comes into play here.

You don't need motivation

or discipline

when you are the person who would take certain actions.

A bodybuilder doesn't need motivation to eat healthy.

A gamer doesn't need discipline to stare at a screen all day.

A writer doesn't need motivation to synthesize ideas.

An employee doesn't need discipline to show up to work.

All of those could be perceived as positive or negative

by a specific type of person.

A gamer that stares at a screen all day

that could be considered very bad

if you aren't actually in the pursuit of goals

that you chose for yourself.

And you have to understand bringing back

the idea that your goals are the axis of your suffering, where

if you want to be, let's say a professional gamer,

there's nothing wrong with that.

But you have to accept the potential decline in health

that will come from that,

and that is subtracting from other areas of your life

so that you can succeed in another area of your life.

The same thing goes for a bodybuilder

as the first example where eating healthy isn't hard

or they don't need motivation or discipline to do it.

But it could subtract from other areas of their life,

like having a social life going out, letting loose a bit.

Certain people value certain things based on their identity

and where they focus their attention.

So these people do what they do

because their survival is at stake.

And this isn't physical survival here.

This is mental.

Animals survive the information in their genetic code.

Humans survive the information in their consciousness.

Animals survive their physical form.

And while we do that, too, we've also transcended that plane

into the mental plane, thanks to self-reflective consciousness.

And that

meaning self-reflective meaning that we are aware of our self,

our idea, the mental form that we are attempting to survive.

The web of ideas that creates our personality

or identity that when threatened, feels like a physical threat.

And the information

that we are fed as children, that programs who we are,

the things that we know, the known, not the unknown,

what is familiar to us, what we're aware of for our survival.

And for most people,

this is limited to a microscopic fraction of reality that is.

Go to school.

Get a job.

Retire at 65.

In terms of choosing a career for others,

go to church every Sunday. But you get the point here.

That's all you know.

And so that's that's the tool for your survival.

That's the knowledge that you're using to survive.

It's the ideas.

When one of those are threatened or questioned,

then you can feel that threat response.

Where if a bodybuilder that likes to eat healthy

only has the option to eat unhealthy food,

he's probably not going to be very happy.

He's going to be very stressed.

He's going to be out of routine.

He's going to be in the unknown.

He's going to be

in the

unfamiliar area of life

and he's going to have to deal with it however he can.

So back to the point,

the information we are exposed to as children

and throughout our lives programs our minds

to run uncertain systems.

A system, in brief, is the process of reaching a goal.

Obviously, this can get extremely complex,

so let's just keep it to that.

A system is the process of achieving a goal.

So our identity is a web of conscious and unconscious goals

that determine the skills

we acquire,

the interest we learn,

and the choices we make in alignment with those goals.

When we are programing our mind or programing the systems

in our mind, the information roads that our mind operates

on, they're all operating towards specific goals

relating to survival and other things.

And so we're just making decisions

every day

based on the information

that we've collected in the systems

that have formed in our minds over time.

You are already acting

toward layers of unconscious goals every second of the day.

They've been conditioned to the point

of not requiring conscious thought.

You wake up, walk, brush your teeth maybe,

and put on your clothes so that you aren't seen as an outcast.

These are all skills that you have developed as a human

with the goal of fitting in and surviving in society.

This goes deep.

The social matrix of goals creates humans that all operate

in a similar fashion with a slightly different goal of society.

We could all be walking around naked

and communicating with each other

by tapping people on the head with a stick.

Biological goals clearly influence this.

When we don't have clarity on how to achieve a goal.

Our mind becomes disordered.

We become overwhelmed, anxious, and narrow minded

because the challenge of the goal

does not match the skill that we have.

Our mind starts to decline into chaos.

This is known as entropy.

Entropy is universal.

It doesn't only apply to things like buildings

that fall apart with time and less maintained.

The structure of your mind or

identity is an invisible building.

You reverse entropy by making a goal conscious,

creating a path to achieve it,

and focusing your attention on priority actions

that bring results as feedback.

These priority actions revolve around

daily self education in practice

so that you expose yourself to the information

that creates a new identity with time.

And then that new identity allows you to perceive certain

situations as advantageous towards your conscious goals.

And you start to see problems in situations as opportunities.

So we'll talk about how to master

new skills fast in a future video.

But for now, just understand this lesson.

You need a plan.

There isn't any other way

because if you don't have one, society does.

And they've been planning your life for decades.

If you don't set your own goals,

acquire the skill

necessary to take on the challenge and forge your own path.

Your destiny will be manhandled by society

and you won't even realize it.

Nobody wants to wake up 40 years

later wondering where the time went.

Now let's discuss the four pillars of the good life.

This is how we reverse entropy.

Or in simpler terms, this is how we reverse the downward spiral

into chaos.

Overwhelm anxiety.

When we don't have the clarity to achieve our goals.

Becoming multidimensional,

hijacked is the path to the good life.

I talk about this in the video.

On becoming multidimensional hijacked.

You need four habits

one that builds your mind, one that builds your body.

One that builds your business.

One that builds your relationships.

The good life is the process

of becoming everything you could be.

All of these domains of life are interconnected systems

that create who you are and reverse entropy in the mind.

Tiny improvements are what create an ordered mind.

And so just to bring clarity to this mind body

business relationships, that is what composes who you are.

Those are the four main pillars that we have to peel back,

improve and evolve on a daily basis.

Those are the main things that are within your control,

and they're also the eternal markets and business.

I talk about this in the one person business videos

or any of my business videos

is that the eternal markets,

health, wealth,

relationships and happiness are where

most burning problems lie.

Those are the most profitable problems to solve.

So if you can solve your own problems

and solve the solution,

that's how you do what you want for a living by solving

the problems that make your life better

and selling them to make other people's lives better.

That's a value exchange.

You exchange the solution to a problem

that makes someone else's life better

in exchange for what you want, which is money.

So by adopting a daily habit

for each pillar of your life, success becomes inevitable.

My question to you If you aren't building your mind,

body, business and relationships every single day,

what are you doing?

Here's a genuine question

Is there anything more important than that?

Or is everything you do now a distraction?

But then I want to enjoy myself and do what I want.

Do you understand what enjoyment is when compared to pleasure?

Do you realize that human psychology

has been mapped

over the course of evolution

to show that humans have an innate drive to grow, expand,

transcend and create enjoyment is found in progress.

Doing what you want is often

the ego

ending the train of thought

that would lead to you improving yourself

because that's what your nature wants is to improve yourself.

You can truly do what you want

when you peel back the layers of what you think you want.

So I'm not going to give you

a super scientific approach to have information.

I'm just going to give you

the only real way to make behavior change seamless with time.

So the first step is to align your future with a holistic goal.

For those that don't know what holistic means,

it means all encompassing or you're viewing it

from the whole of the situation

rather than a part of the situation. Big picture.

So this requires you to zoom out

and see beyond a narrow problem.

Like if you're having money problems right

now, that's

not the only domain of your life that needs improvement.

And as a matter of fact,

money is interconnected to all other domains of your life.

So solving your money problems may not actually happen

until you choose to zoom out

and change every single domain of your life.

In other words, changing who you are on a fundamental level,

goals can't exist without the awareness of a problem.

Goals and problems create a frame for your perspective.

Your perspective determines

what information you perceive as important

A person with money problems

and the goals of society will see a new job opportunity

as important.

A person who has money problems

and self-generated

goals will see a business opportunity as important.

Both people will read a book and interpret it

in a completely different way,

whether it's the Bible

or a self-help book or a fiction book or whatever it is.

The problems and goals

that are framing your current perspective

are going to determine

the information that you see as important within that book.

You're going to highlight different quotes from someone else

because it is going to be relevant

and relatable to your situation.

So if you're a writer or a creator or a one person business

or anything of that nature, a creator in general, who you are,

then you have to understand that this comes into play

when you're writing or distributing products

or just giving things to other people,

and you want it to relate to them.

You want them to perceive it as important

as you have to understand

the problems and goals that are on their mind.

So you can frame what it is that you're giving to them.

Writing products, creations, whatever videos,

so that it does actually register in their awareness.

This is marketing and sales as a whole

is just understanding

the goals

and problems of your target audience and providing clarity

in between or a solution, a product, a system, a how to video,

whatever it is. You help people transform.

The first step to changing your life

is to become brutally aware of the problems

that make you want to change your life.

If you're reading this, then you obviously have problems.

Everybody does.

The big problem is a lack of awareness of your problems.

Sit and become negative for a while.

Let your mind run wild

to create an anti vision for your future.

What is the worst case scenario

if you continue

with the same mental, physical,

financial and relational actions

you are taking,

then use that as a place to toss an anchor into the future.

Create a big vision generating goal that encapsulates

each domain of life.

Next, we will bridge the gap between where you are

and where you want to be.

With self-education and skill acquisition.

So step number two after creating a holistic goal, is to treat

daily self-education as an absolute necessity.

Schools are necessary in many cases,

but they teach you a fraction of what actually exists

in reality.

They train you into a compartment of reality,

like chemistry, physiology, or literature, and lack

regard for the holistic interconnectedness

that breeds true intelligence.

Without self-education,

you go through life

with the same narrow identity and perspective as everyone else.

You're not a unique individual.

If you never self educate, you're the same as everyone else.

Being fed the same information

from the social matrix of goals that are assigned to you

to operate within society.

Now, this social matrix isn't a bad thing.

It creates an intellectual structure to anchor our attention

so that we can actually survive here.

But outside of that,

what's more, are you just surviving or are you creating?

Education expands your mind.

It introduces you to novel perspectives.

It increases dopamine in the brain

as a consistent source of energy.

It gives you the knowledge to act

with clarity towards your goals over time.

Education conditions your mind to run on new systems.

If you were to only immerse

your mind

in information that taught you

how to build a profitable business, you would.

And if you sit back and think about how building a business

is a skill just like anything else

and a skill comes from mental programing in practice,

then you'd understand the truth

in this where programing your mind with specific information

that eventually

creates actions conducive to your goals over time.

Your goal being building a business,

then you would actually do that thing.

Self-education is where most people lack

because they just skip it entirely.

They don't have a section of their morning

dedicated to reading

or consuming or researching or pushing into the mental unknown

so they can discover

new perspectives

to integrate into their own, to expand themselves.

Because if you think of business building as a skill,

just like learning to walk,

walking is a very fucking difficult skill.

It's hard.

It takes children

a long time to do, but they still do it

and now it's automatic to the point

where you don't think about it.

It's like a basketball player

that has played for

so long

and has gone pro to the point

where they're not even thinking about what they're doing.

They're just playing and having fun in the game

and do very well that way.

And so if you get to the point

where you practice and educated yourself on business,

making money becomes seamless

and don't let your lack of knowledge hold you in a narrow mind

right here.

You can make as many judgments and assumptions and projections

into a future you haven't experienced or understand right now.

But that's not going to change the reality

of what skill

acquisition is

and being able to train yourself

to achieve any goal that you want.

It took you 18

plus years to shape

your actions with education

from your parents friends and schools.

It's going to take a few years

to shape your actions with information that you curate.

So step number three after setting a holistic goal and treating

self-education as an absolute necessary practice,

step number three is acquiring the skillset

necessary to achieve those goals.

The difference between where you are

and where you want to be is skill.

This is a fact.

You don't have the results you want

because you aren't the person with the skill

that would get those results.

The only thing that can stop you

is getting distracted to the point of falling off the path.

Skills can be trained.

As I said before,

learning to walk

and speak are arguably the most complex skills

you've ever learned.

They are more complex than building $1,000,000 company.

The thing is, you didn't have a mind trained by limits

that you were taught by people

who didn't break through their own.

With this, you need to things.

One is a 30 to 60 minute self-education habit.

Read my courses, listen to podcast and acquire

ample knowledge that provides you the capability to act.

Step two is a 30 to 60 minute building habit.

Apply your knowledge in reality

and experiment with what you learn.

Get feedback and iterate until success.

Learning comes from struggle, not memorization.

When you build in the real world and you hit a wall,

a problem is created. It's presented to you.

You may or may not become aware of the problem

depending on your skill and experience.

This is what prevents most people's progress.

They blame their lack of progress

on anything but their own ability.

The problem sits in your subconscious

mind to filter the information you get from your self-education

as you repeat this process of education and building for

1 to 5 years, you will be awestruck by how far you've come.

Now let's talk about my daily routine.

I will provide reasons and whys behind each part of my routine.

But this is an important point.

Every aspect of your routine should be intentional.

Intention equals what you are stretching towards.

The more reasons or whys you can stack behind your actions,

the easier it becomes and the more beneficial

it is to a great future.

You discover these reasons

or whys by having a goal to apply yourself to education too.

If I want to commit to a gym habit,

self-education around habit formation

and the gym will give me the reasoning necessary to do so.

If and only if I am building in reality, please

note that my routine may not be feasible for you.

I'm not presenting this

as just a piece of the puzzle to plug into your day.

Please also note that this is the result of five

plus years of experience,

actually ten

plus years of experimentation to find what I personally deemed

enjoyable and conducive

to the ideal future that I want to create.

I encourage you to take bits and pieces of my routine

as inspiration for your own

so that you can test and experiment

with something that may not have crossed your mind earlier.

So the first thing that I do is

I take a 30 minute morning walk.

First thing in the morning, around 6 a.m., I get outside.

No matter the weather or how I feel,

I will either

listen to a podcast

or educational material or just plan out my day on my phone.

I aim for around 15 to 20000 steps a day

just because of the stacked benefits that it brings.

My life.

Walking is one of those activities that requires minimal effort

but brings maximal results.

Walking clears my mind, wakes me up, gets me away

from distractions, acts as a creativity block in my day,

keeps me lean, keeps me healthy, keeps me slightly tan

and reverses most of the damage done

by sitting under light sucking blue light.

Note that I'm experimenting with different blocks

of my morning right now.

The past few days I tried meditating

and reading in the morning, like 15 minutes of each.

Today I just got straight into work

and so I'm just testing things right now, as I always do.

I don't let my routine get stagnant

because there's always a way to improve.

And if I don't experiment,

then I eventually get trapped in the known.

Until I realize that I have to change my routine

because everything in life must evolve.

So the second thing that I do is 90 minutes of focused work.

I have a list of recurring tasks

and levers that I execute every morning.

This is when I write things like books, newsletters, content

and marketing material.

I stack all of my priority tasks in this work

so I can complete them before most people wake up.

This allows me to gradually introduce entropy into my day.

As work becomes less structured, so a soft plug

is that I teach how to become a digital writer in my course.

Two hour writer.

This is

the first 90 minutes of my morning

and the 30 minutes before on a walk

is idea generation and writing for literally everything

that like everything, the good that has

come in my life like this YouTube video is a written script.

So step three is that I go on another 30 minute walk or I run.

So I've been running three times a week for about 30 minutes

on Monday, Wednesday, Friday.

And this is just to hit the general recommendation

of like 150 minutes of zone two cardio a week.

I do this three times a week for 30 minutes.

So that's not 150 minutes.

But I trust that my 15 to 20000 steps

will cover the rest of that zone to cardio.

So on the days that I don't run

because it's hard for me to focus

and write things down on a run, obviously. So I'll walk.

And this is when I listen to more podcasts,

audio books, just educational material,

YouTube videos that I really like,

and I collect ideas in my phone using cortex.

Cortex is an outlet,

but I get to use it,

and I've been using this system

for a long time now for capturing ideas.

I actually have a use case which is writing or creating.

Step four is again another 90 minute focused work.

BLOCK So after my run or walk a shower, eat breakfast,

and I sit back down to work during this block,

I do less creative tasks.

This is when I help

with like administrative work or client work or

introducing myself to more people, like responding to clients

or people that I'm working with.

And this is when open loops and distractions

really start to take over.

So this is why I have it later in my mornings,

because at the very start of my morning,

I want to make sure I get everything

I have to do for the day done

so that I don't have to worry about it.

The stuff

that isn't really necessary, like me responding to people,

which is kind of necessary,

but it's not as like

it's not as clever

moving as writing content every single morning.

So open loops and distractions happen here,

but that can just be mitigated by another walk.

And I've broken down my deep work routine

before I forget what the video is called,

but it's one of my most popular videos.

So if you go to my popular videos,

it's like the third or fourth one.

So step five is I take calls or I go on another walk.

If you've been following me for a while,

this is a new block

because I've gone over my routine before, obviously.

But I used to despise calls

and I removed them completely from my day.

I stopped client work, I stopped all calls, but with core

texts, the software that I'm building,

this isn't possible anymore.

And I had to accept that even though it threatened my identity.

We were talking about mental survival.

I adopted a person that doesn't take calls as my identity,

and it was actually it had a lot of friction for me to like,

start to incorporate that consistently into my days.

And the thing here is when I zoom out,

I want Cortex to succeed more than I don't want to take calls.

Therefore I want to take calls.

So these calls, as we're building cortex,

the software, we're already monetizing, we're already on track

for the revenue numbers that I mentioned in previous video.

I won't break those down now,

but I'll break them down in a future video

about how we built Cortex

two X million dollars before the software even released.

So with that, we're taking on consulting clients for Cortex.

That's how we're monetizing.

So if you actually want to be a client of ours and work with us

directly to learn writing, speaking, marketing, sales,

brand content, product promotions

with our systems in either group setting or one on one,

there's a link to apply to work with us below.

So most days

now I work 4 to 5 hours, and even with my excessive workload,

I'm still close to that four hour workday

philosophy that I always talk about.

Now, of course, my work goes over this occasionally

because I have a lot more on my plate

and it's a lot more unpredictable

because I'm also

launching a book, recording the audio book

for the next three days.

Tomorrow, I'm going to be working more than 4 hours

Those days alone.

So it's all variable, but I'm talking baseline.

Like what?

I'm continuously working back to and using that philosophy

as a way to identify problems like working over 4 hours

in order to create systems and solutions that allow me

to do what I do better in that time.

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So these calls include things

like client calls or internal company calls or design calls

or development calls or product

build calls and our progress on that.

And if I don't have to be at my desk,

then I'll take these calls on a walk in.

If I don't have any calls for the day,

then I just go on a walk.

So step six is that I go to the gym.

By now it's around 1 to 2 p.m.

and this is the turning point

where my day goes from work to rest.

I know that I won't be able to operate my best after the gym,

so I treat this as a work cut off time.

Now, for the past I'd say six months.

I trained every day

and since workload is piling up,

I might switch back to three days a week.

I'm going to experiment with that this week.

But I used to train every day and please,

I don't need your training ideology.

Don't tell me about it.

I studied all of them.

I like training every day.

So step number

seven after the gym is just having a long conversational lunch

with my editor so that we can catch up and kind of just

socialize and talk about things that aren't business.

Just have a good laugh together, have a good lunch.

Because myself and him and my friends keep their social circle

extremely small.

I used to have a lot of contacts before and it just

it just doesn't make sense anymore

because that seem to always subtract from my life

rather than add to it.

So I'm not it's not

that I'm not open to adding new people to my life, it's

that I've just reached a place

where I have to be very careful with who I let into my life.

Step number eight

is that I take a nap

or I go on another walk or I finish busy work.

So it's about like 3 to 4:00 now

and things are starting to get boring here,

so I'll spare you that.

But this is the part of my day

where it's dedicated to psychological recovery.

So I'll either do like very easy busy work

that helps me catch up or I'll just take a nap

or I'll recover my mind

because like in the gym, you have to take rest.

Like with work, you also have to take rest.

So step number nine,

the last step is that I'll either go to dinner with a friend

or I'll stay in and spend time with my girlfriend.

I love nice dinners.

Like that's

one of the bad habits of mine,

even though I don't think it's a bad habit.

Like, that's really

the only thing

that I spend a lot of my money on is just good food,

good experiences, good dinners.

And when I eat out,

like when you eat at a nice place, it's

kind of hard to eat

like crap,

Like it's hard to be unhealthy

because most of the meals there are, they have protein

like steak or fish, and then they have like potatoes.

It's just a nicer way of preparing the dinner

that I would have prepared for myself.

And so most nights I'll go out to dinner

or I'll just stay in and watch Netflix with my girlfriend.

And that's really my entire day.

Now, obviously,

there's other events in life like me

recording the audio book tomorrow

for the hour to focus

or going up to spend some time in the mountains

or traveling somewhere or just like doing other things right.

But I'm talking about the baseline routine

that I fall back to every day.

So I truly hope that helped.

Maybe give you some inspiration if it did like and comment.

And if you want to check out my courses

like two hour writer

or digital economics, you can check those out

with the links and description.

There's other free stuff down there as well.

And if you want to grab my book, The Art of Focus, click

the first link in the description

and you can grab that until next time.

Thank you for watching. Peace.