As you know so well consistency is the mother of mastery.
It's not what you do once every year that is going to allow you to live a legendary
life. It's what you do every single day.
Which brings me to ritual number one. The ritual of early rising.
The way you begin each day sets up the way you live each day.
I mean the Spartan warrior said it so well, ‘’Sweat more in training bleed less in
war’’. And if you want to be literally undefeatable
in business, literally unstoppable in life,
you really want to dial in your morning routine.
But show me your schedule and I'll get a sense of your true values.
I mean your schedule each day really does predict the rest of your life.
So it's not about what you talk about. It's about what you actually schedule
and the things that we schedule are the things that get done.
I'm going to repeat that again because it's so important.
But the things that you schedule are the things that get done.
And so what I do is this is the ritual of strategic time blocking.
I block out times at the office with my team. I block out times in creative work.
I actually block that out. I block out times for beautiful family dinners
with my loved ones. I block out
my two massages every week. I call this by two massage protocol.
It's really a great source of staying on the top of my game and having tons
of energy. I block out
my 5 a.m. routines, and literally after this process
it takes me about 45 minutes to do. like I say every Sunday morning.
I have blocked out my highest priorities
and so now I have a visual template a visual map
for a world class week. So the second ritual that will predict your
success is the ritual of strategic time blocking.
Why? Because the things that get scheduled are
the things that get done and vague goals
lead to vague results. It is so rare in business and in society right
now to see people that consistently go
the extra mile.
You're in a restaurant. The server generally gives you what you expect
or less than what you expect. You go into a clothing store.
It's what you expect or less than what you expect.
You do business with any organization. It's generally delivering on what you expect,
but more often even less. So you have a gorgeous opportunity
to lead the field in everything that you do. By doing one thing:
practicing every single day because it's a muscle.
The ritual of over delivering. Don't just give your customers what they expect,
give them 10x more than what they expect .
Don't just give your organization what your manager
what your boss what the organization is expecting from you.
Show something that is so rare in today's economy
initiative, initiative. The 60 Minutes student.
No matter how busy you are no matter what's on your plate
you absolutely must. If you want to be legendary in your marketplace
you absolutely have to do this. Schedule 60 minutes a day
for your learning. And I'm suggesting to you ,you think like
a student . Because you're watching this mastery session
Because something deep within you wants you to be the master of your game.
And here's the thing about every master, every master thinks like a beginner.
They're always learning. Well it's very easy
to be busy being busy. But let me ask you
What's the point of being really busy in your work life or your personal life.
If you're busy around the wrong things? I mean it makes no sense to spend the best
hours of your finest days climbing these mountains only to realize on
the last hour of your last day you climbed the wrong ones.
And so what is the antidote to busyness and being
reactive? It's a reflection.
And I'm simply suggesting to you that the fifth ritual
that will absolutely predict your success is
how much time you spend in silence, solitude
and stillness. Just thinking.
Thinking about how you're living, thinking about how you're working,
thinking about whether your daily behavior is aligned with
your deepest values, thinking and reflecting about
what you want your legacy to be, thinking and reflecting about what's your
impact t through the work you're doing.
Ideation without execution is nothing more than delusion.
And so you want to take at least one of the five rituals
and absolutely find the time to practice it today
because when you do that it's the beginning of a whole new way of working,
a whole new way of living and a whole new way
of impacting the world that we live in and our world has never needed heroes
the way that we need heroes right now.