Improvement pill here today I'm gonna show you guys what my daily routine is
we spent a lot of time talking about habits in the Tim course and I figured
it would be helpful for some of you to learn about what my current stack of
habits are more specifically the timing and the order of which I execute them
now one very important thing to note is that this schedule often changes a bit I
travel a lot so I just my schedule depending on where I am for example if
I'm in Asia I tend to wake up a lot later than if I was back in the States
and that's because the nightlife the way people socialize in Asia is very very
different people tend to stay out way later than they do back in the States so
right now I'm in Asia and this is what my current daily routine looks like I
wake up at around 12 o'clock noon usually if I'm in the States I'll wake
up at around 10 a.m. now I wake up naturally without an alarm I'm actually
against using alarms because they almost always wake you up outside of your
circadian rhythm for those of you that don't know what that is your body sleeps
in cycles of about 90 minutes and if you wake up in the middle of one of these
cycles because of an alarm you're gonna feel extremely groggy and tired I really
really don't like that so no alarm moving on the first thing I do after
waking up is meditate for ten minutes now I know a lot of you guys out there
like to do meditation at night before you go to sleep but what I found is that
if I do that I almost always fall asleep or doze off during my meditation session
I guess I'm more of a morning person because my mind is always sharper right
after I wake up some of you are probably wondering what the habit loop for this
habit is well the cue is waking up the routine is meditating for 10 minutes and
my reward is actually the good feeling meditation leaves me with because if you
do meditation enough you start to feel pretty good during your sessions it's
like a subtle joy a subtle feeling that everything's gonna be all right
it's a powerful enough reward to fuel this habit loop and that's my meditation
habit now the next thing I do is I actually answer any urgent emails or
messages that I've received I know a lot of successful people out there do this
thing where they don't answer any emails until after they work but having
unanswered messages just bothers me it makes me feel like I haven't finished
the work from the previous day so I actually can't start working until
that's done but it usually doesn't take me more than 10-15 minutes to answer any
urgent emails next up is creative work which I usually work on for about 1 or 2
ow I found that my best creative work which
includes things like writing scripts for future videos animating outlining future
courses is done in the morning I found that the quality of work is just
generally better now you might be thinking wow only one to two hours isn't
that very little well according to research humans can
only really do about two to four hours of creative work a day before the
quality drops tremendously and that's because creative work is actually very
draining and you'll notice that a lot of other people in creative fields will
tell you the same thing there's a lot of well-known writers who admit to only
writing for one to two hours a day and I've personally found that I get drained
at around the two-hour mark some days or varies but again I don't set an alarm
clock or a timer of any sort I just let my brain flow and let my hands work
until I feel like I've exhausted my creative energy so we're about halfway
through the day and before we continue I do want to give a quick shout out to the
guys who've made this episode possible Vince Sarah watches I know I said I
don't use an alarm clock but I do check the time quite often to make sure that
I'm working at a good pace and having a watch is essential for this as well as
for looking good when I'm out and about because if you want to look like someone
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now and they are often the first thing that people notice I can't begin to tell
you how many compliments I received about these watches they provide the
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to get Vince Errol to hook us up with a crazy deal just click on the link in the
description box below to find out more about it okay so let's jump back into my
daily routine so after doing creative work for about two hours I take a break
I'm actually a big believer in the philosophy of work hard play hard and
this is because I know the feeling of getting burnt out all too well it
happened to me quite a lot back in my sales days and I know just how
detrimental it is to your mental state if you work too hard without rewarding
yourself you start to lose the motivation for your work it gets to the
point where you can't even show up to work so it's important to take breaks if
you want to be able to accomplish a lot in the long run so what's why do it well
it's a pens but I usually sit down and watch
some Netflix or play some games or even just surf the web for about an hour or
so again I don't really time myself I sort of let things flow naturally but I
usually try to end my break at around 3:30 to 4:00 p.m. once I feel like I've
gotten sufficient rest I'd go back to doing some work but this time it's a
little bit different see there are two types of work that I usually do creative
work which we mentioned before and good old-fashioned work work work work is
work that doesn't require much thinking just a lot of doing an example of this
is editing audio for my videos let's say I'm working on a new video that's
supposed to be five or six minutes long after recording the audio for it I
usually end up with about 10 to 15 minutes of raw unedited audio because I
often do many takes for every line trying to get things as close to
perfection as possible so what I have to do is go through all fifteen minutes and
edit out all of the parts that I don't like edit out all of the pauses and the
mistakes and this is quite honestly the most boring monotonous part of my job in
regards to making videos it doesn't require much brain power at all just a
lot of time editing 15 minutes of raw audio takes me about 1 to 2 hours of
work work to finish some of your probably wondering improvement pill how
come you don't outsource this work well it's actually because it's quite hard to
find someone who is as picky as I am in regards to audio quality I've yet to
find someone who can edit audio to my liking but hey if you like to try or if
you know someone who has a good ear please email me at improvement pill at
gmail.com alright so I do work work until 5 or 6 p.m.
depending on the day because for four days every week at around 5 p.m. I hit
the gym I'm currently doing a top bottom rest top bottom rest rest workout
routine that's two days of working on my top and two days of working out my
bottom with three days of rest sprinkled in between to make this time even more
efficient I listen to audio books while walking to the gym and during my workout
so you might have noticed that I haven't mentioned eating yet and that's because
I actually don't eat until I finish working out which is at around 6 o'clock
p.m. I'm currently doing it a minute fasting which is essentially only eating
within an 8 hour window there are tons of benefits to this eating methodology
for those of you who are interested in learning more about the benefits of
intermittent fasting there's a link to one of my older videos on the subject in
the description box below during my meal I will continue to listen
to audiobooks I usually get a good two to three hours of
listening done every single day because of this schedule which allows me to
finish about one book per week after eating I get back to work again just
work work not any sort of creative work I'll do this for another one or two
hours depending on what my deadlines look like and that's it at this point in
time it's usually about 8 to 9 p.m. and I call it a day no more work for me from
here on out it's all about relaxation I usually watch the Netflix
play some music and dance a bit and when it's late enough I'll go out and
socialize make some new friends see some old ones maybe go clubbing it really
depends on what I feel like doing this goes on until about 3 o'clock when I
naturally feel myself getting tired and I head back home to sleep and that's it
this is what my daily schedule currently looks like a good balance of work
maintaining my health educating myself relaxation and socializing I hope that
this information was valuable to some of you and I hope that this helps you
create your own daily routine because by having some sort of routine just by
having some level of expectation of yourself every day allows you to
accomplish a lot more than usual people with daily routines get 10 times more
done than people who don't have one all right besides that guys stay tuned