- Hey there, my name's Andrew.
I quit my corporate job to chase my dreams
and passions through business.
I was previously a Senior Digital Marketing Manager
building my businesses on the side after work.
If you watched my previous day in my life
you would have seen it was a pretty intense schedule.
Well, is now being over a year since I walked away
from a comfortable six figure salary
and traded it instead to go all in as an entrepreneur.
Spoiler alert: I have absolutely no regrets.
Naturally an ordinary day now looks a whole lot different.
And right now I'm currently working remotely
just to change up the environment.
So here's what my typical day looks like.
I don't start my days with an alarm anymore.
Instead I let my body clock wake me up at about 7:00 am.
I naturally get around six to eight hours of sleep.
And as long as they get my one to two hours of deep sleep
according to my sleep metrics, I feel pretty good to go.
I still have my quick wins every morning,
which is making my bed, a few pushups,
and framing my mind and gratitude.
They still make a big difference in keeping me grounded.
And I highly recommend implementing these small,
but significant habits into your own morning too.
Now the truth is most days I just do work in my PJs.
Now that I don't need to go into the office,
I don't know, is this controversial?
Let me know how you work from home in the comments below.
But today I'll be going out.
So I'll put some sort of effort in.
I'm relatively simple and appreciate clean fashion.
But if there's one essential way to peace for me,
it's always a watch.
Recently I splurged on this beautiful time piece.
The TUDOR Black Bay 58.
I was actually on the wait list for this timepiece
for a full year, and by the time I received the call
to take delivery it serendipitously marked a full year
since I quit my corporate job.
So it's extremely rewarding to wear
a horological piece that symbolizes all the grit
and grind in the past few years to get to this point.
While I get ready for the day ahead,
I usually have a podcast playing in the background
or of course, chill, Low Five music playing.
There's nothing like it to ease in the morning.
(soft music)
Now that I have the time in the morning
I always make a point to enjoy a hardy breakfast
before starting work.
I love food, so you won't see any intermittent fasting here.
Today we're at a cafe for tea, pastries, fruits,
and overnight oats.
Personally breakfast brings me joy
and I think you should be doing whatever brings you joy.
Okay, so onto my workday now it's roughly 8:30.
And one of the big differences between working in an office
and running a business is my workday is busier than ever.
And so I have to work on lots of various parts
of the business.
And because of that, I have to break down my workday
into work blocks, where I focus on different parts
of the business.
So I'll show you what I mean throughout the day
but this way I'm really able to efficiently work
through the business and work with who I need to
through work chunks and work blocks.
So, yeah, it's about 8:30.
So let's get on with the workday.
I like to easen my work days.
And so I spent 30 minutes on tasks that are easier
to pick up, but are still quite important.
This includes going through emails I received overnight,
and usually filing them away or forwarding them to the team.
And then I go on to read the news,
which is really important to me to keep tabs on
because I'm invested into the financial markets.
And so I also spend some time on stock platforms,
analyzing the trades and making potential movements
on my current positions.
Pro tip, get your money to work for you.
Don't let it sit in the bank account doing nothing.
My first work block starts at 9:00 am
and I focus on admin tasks and meetings.
Admin tasks could be anything from accounting
or reconciliation to updating my data management platforms.
These tasks help steer the big hauling ship
that is business.
Then I'll get any meetings out of the way.
I'm a big fan of super short meetings.
Honestly, 99% of meetings should run
for 15 minutes not an hour.
I like to batch all my meetings in one go when possible.
So I have the rest of the day to focus on deep flow work.
The next work block focuses
on our education company, Mastery.
It's our passion project where we help others
either start a brand new e-commerce business,
or grow their existing business
with digital marketing strategies.
We have all sorts of students across the world
in this classroom that I'm so proud of
from students and business owners,
to mothers and freelances.
Today we're forming a Q and A with the mastery students
talking about custom packaging for e-commerce businesses,
Facebook ad updates, and also celebrating some student wins.
Happy Friday, hope everyone is well.
Welcome back to this month's Q and A.
All right, it's time for a break now.
It's roughly midday.
So one of the perks of running a business,
working for myself is I get to take a longer lunch breaks.
Whereas back when I was working in an office,
it was a pretty demanding job.
So most of the time I was at the desk eating,
sometimes I would go to the gym,
but most of the times I was working while eating at my desk
cause I had so many things to do.
But now that I work for myself, I take a longer lunch breaks
and I'm lucky enough to go shoot some hoops,
meet up with some friends and grab lunch,
have a nice sit down lunch.
So today I'm going to go out and grab lunch with friends,
and then I'll see how I feel.
I'll probably head to the gym as well.
Let's get cracking.
It's a pretty busy day
and I'm gonna go take my lunch break now.
(bright music)
I do my best to try and have a complete break from work
because there's still a lot of work blocks ahead of me.
But yeah, more realistically on following up messages,
checking in on the team, basically trying to multitask.
Back from a pretty long lunch break.
The next work block I have on today is YouTube work.
And this is another work like I love completing.
Running this YouTube channel is a pretty
substantial job in itself.
And today I'll be filming a few videos.
I'll take the time to set up the gears
since I'm in a bit of a different location today,
but usually I'll have it all ready to go
at my home office so I can just switch it all on.
Making YouTube videos is so rewarding
because I get to help and interact with all of you.
It's hard to believe this channel has an audience
of almost 50,000 subscribers
when I didn't even expect this channel to grow
to a thousand.
So thank you all so much for watching
and continuing to follow on.
I hope I've been able to help even in the slightest
and I hope I can continue to help.
Anyway, before we get too sappy,
it is now roughly 4:00 pm
and we're now onto the fourth work block.
The focus of this work block is my e-commerce store
and optimizing ads,
by the way, as you can see I'm not sitting in one spot
the entire day as I usually would in an office job.
I'll try and remind myself to get up every 30 minutes,
stretch the legs and drink water.
Today I'll be making the long journey
over to the minibar fridge
and grabbing a quick refreshment there.
For those who don't know e-commerce was what truly
catapulted me out of the nine to five grind.
I built out a few e-commerce stores over the years,
and the one I work on today is so optimized
that I fortunately don't need to spend too much time on it.
I have a partner who manages the store so I can get away
with spending just an hour a day, checking on operations,
and mainly optimizing the store and the ads.
Work block four done and dusted.
It has been a pretty productive day so far
but my workday is not done and dusted.
So I'm gonna be going out later tonight.
Well, right now to catch up with more friends
for drinks and dinner,
but by the time I get back,
hopefully it won't be too late.
I'm going to be working some more later tonight.
Well, let's see how I feel after drinks, obviously.
But I guess that's like one of the big perks of working
for myself, which is time and location freedom.
Big reason I guess why many people quit the jobs
and pursue business.
So pretty big perks, lets gets going.
(bright music)
So it was a fun night catching up with friends
who have good food and an old fashioned, all three.
It's so important to balance work and play.
I mean, we don't work hard
for the sake of working hard, right?
But alas, back to work I go tonight.
I ended up getting back at 10:00 pm or so.
And at this point I'll manage some light work
as a final work block.
I'll typically manage my inbox,
communicating with our team in different time zones
such as the U.S. and the Philippines.
During this work block I'll have my blue light blockers on
to prep this Cain Rhythm for sleep.
Honestly, I don't know how effective they are,
and if there is any benefit, it's probably minor.
So for me personally prepping for a good night's sleep
is more effective with a small evening routine
of yoga, a warm shower and sleep tea.
Sometimes I'll run a hot bath with a bucket load
of Epsom salt, and honestly pair this with yin yoga,
and sleep tea and my sleep quality skyrockets.
Once I'm all ready for bed,
I'll wind down with a bit of reading.
Recently I've been reading Positively Geared by Lloyd Edge.
Yes, I know this isn't the lightest read before bed,
I'll reflect on the day and remind myself
about the important things in life,
and to feel a sense of gratitude.
At this point the calm of the evening
will drift me into a deep love.
Okay, so thanks so much for watching
until the end of this video.
Let me know down in the comments below
what your own life goals and career goals are,
and what are you doing to reach those goals.
I'd be curious to hear from you.
So let me know down in the comments below.
Also, I should add to this video
that of course not every single workday
looks like this mind you,
some days are actually are busier than this,
and other days I just take the day off,
cause I feel like it.
So please don't think you need to be working
like this every single day to reach your goals.
All goals are different and all work ethics are different.
There's no right or wrong.
I will say this though.
Building a business is extremely rewarding.
So I hope this day in my life
has inspired you to take some risks,
invest in yourself and just chase your goals.
So take it from someone like me.
I don't think I'm particularly talented,
and I have come from nothing
because I haven't been given a single thing
yet I've built this from the ground up,
and trust me I've made a lot of mistakes,
but I still continue.
So if I'm able to do this
you're able to do this too.
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
Remember that, because hard work and a bit of passion
will take you a long, long way.
If you'd like to learn more about, you know
starting your own business, starting an online business,
then feel free to check out my YouTube channel.
I have loads of free content there.
So you're able to start something for yourself.
And I really hope you enjoyed this video.
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if you're interested in these topics and as always,
thanks for watching and until the next video,
keep on hustling.