Today we're talking about the perfect morning routine, and things that you need to avoid.
They can screw up your entire day.
So for me the perfect day starts at 5:00 a.m.
I wake up on time, I feel rested, and I'm motivated to start my day.
So how do you wake up motivated?
Well, the first thing you do not do is commit deadly sin number one, and that's hit the
snooze button.
You do not want to become someone who develops the habit of hitting the snooze button.
That extra 15, 20 minutes, 30 minutes of sleep - it's not gonna help you, and you're just
gonna be late waking up.
So my personal hack for waking up motivated I'm gonna break into three parts.
First up, my alarm.
So I don't use my phone, I use a recorded alarm.
And basically, it's my own voice telling myself in a 10-second period why I need to jump out
of bed, why I'm gonna have a great day.
I lay out all the things I need to do.
Next up, if I don't want to get out I just simply do a countdown: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
This forces me to jump out of bed.
Next up, I've got a glass of water there waiting for me.
I down that glass of water.
because even if I try to go back to sleep I'm gonna have to use the bathroom here in
the next few minutes.
The next part of the perfect morning routine - I'm selfish.
My kids are asleep, my wife is asleep, I can go to the gym and take care of my body.
This is the most important asset you have, gentlemen, throughout life.
Take care of your body.
Now for me, I want to reduce all friction when going to the gym, so I've got my clothing
laid out at the end of my bed, I've got backup clothing in my drawers, I've also got a backup
set of clothing in my truck.
Literally three sets of clothing stashed, with extra shoes in my truck as well.
So when I head off to the gym I'm just not worried about not being able to find something,
so I don't use that as an excuse.
Now most mornings I'm getting in a pretty good workout.
I do a lot of weight lifting, I do a lot of stretching because of my lower back.
I jump into the pool, do a lot of stretching there, and
then hit the hot tub, shower, and I head home.
So now I'm back home, I go upstairs and I wake up my wife, because I want to spend quality
time with the woman I love.
So every morning my wife and I, we have coffee and we have a meeting.
We go over what needs to get accomplished, what we want to do with the day.
We talk about just some personal things, things we want to accomplish.
We build our relationship.
Now if our kids are not awake, I have to admit, sometimes I put the coffee on hold and I crawl
back into bed with my wife.
So at this point I'm happy to say that I've got no performance issues.
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Next up in the perfect morning, I've now got time for my kids.
So they've woken up, they're going around the house, and I try to tell my kids I love
them and I try to kiss them every morning.
And that just makes the day feel so great.
We don't get to spend too much time, they’re off busy doing their own things.
They're playing, they're running around.
We homeschool, so they're around quite a bit, but I go through and the way I show love to
my kids is I start to make breakfast.
So that's on me, and I make a good breakfast.
I try to get us all around the table.
Doesn't always happen, but in the perfect morning, yes we're all around and we're eating
some great food, and I'm asking them how they're gonna spend their day, letting them know that
I care about them.
And then in the perfect morning I spend time with Evestar.
She's our puppy, she's just turned a year old, she just has those cute eyes, but you
gotta love having a dog.
Next up in the perfect morning routine, I shower, I shave, and I get ready for the day.
Now when it comes to showering there is a correct way to take a shower.
I've got you covered - we'll check out this video right here, guys, on how to properly
take a shower.
And when it comes to shaving you want to pay attention to your shaving routine.
Have a routine, have a step-by-step process that you go through.
And if you want to learn how to shave properly I've got a video for you right here on how
to shave properly.
And then when I'm getting dressed I oftentimes use a valet.
This is basically where I've got my clothing laid out and I simply know - I've done it
the night before, so I know exactly what I'm going to wear that day.
I also have a uniform that I wear, Pretty much, I'm oftentimes wearing the same thing
again and again, because it sends the message I want to send and it's a controlled look
that I can come in here and I can change up a bit.
and I can look good for when I need to film a video like this.
So now I've got my commute.
I'm not gonna run into any traffic because I live about 3/4 of a mile from my office.
Now when I walk in my computer’s oftentimes on and I simply sit down and then look at
my calendar.
So I've got my personal time scheduled, I've got my business time scheduled, I've even
got things that I want to accomplish a year from now scheduled.
I'm very detailed.
The reason being is if I spend the time planning and being detailed upfront I find that it’s
easier to execute on things when the time for them pops up.
So for the perfect morning when I'm through with my calendar I create from scratch a priority
matrix.
Every single day, I'm laying out - I'm identifying what's important and what is not.
The vast majority of things that are hitting us on a daily basis are noise.
There are only a few things in your business, at work, in your life, that are gonna make
a huge difference.
Try to focus in on those.things.
Now next up in the perfect morning, I am now checking my email and I am checking notifications
on my phone.
And both of these are deadly sins that if you start your day off - notice, I mean I'm
already pretty far into my day.
I'm at my office.
Because I get a lot of notifications from important people that want to contact me,
I get a lot of important emails, and if I let them hijack my morning it can ruin your
entire morning.
So it's at this point that I'm looking at those problems and I'm now coming in to deal
with them.
Next up in my perfect morning, I'm having my daily huddle.
So I bring in my managers, I bring in my team.
Twice a week I have an entire team meeting, all hands on deck, we’re on Zoom and we
simply talk and we go over important issues.
But with my managers, I meet them pretty much every single workday, and we can identify
what we need to get done and we simply talk with each other and hash through issues.
So at this point it's now late morning, I've gotten a number of things knocked through
with my team with my company, and then I go through my phone and I start calling people.
I go over and I look at, you know, I haven't called my friend Rob for a while, haven't
called my friend Chris.
Let them know I'm thinking about them, that I care about them.
Speaking of which, my wife is calling in here.
But the thing is I try to build these relationships.
It's so important that you make a daily habit of building true relationships.
All right, so that's my perfect morning routine.
What do you think?
Let me know down in the comments.
And I know you guys want to hear my embarrassing story going to the doctor, so here it is.
I live in a small town and I see just a local nurse practitioner.
And I go in the other day and I'm asking, yes, for a prostate exam.
A buddy of mine died from prostate cancer.
I'm like, you know, I need to get checked out.
I thought, you know, I'm like past the age of 40.
I should get checked out.
And the nurse - I mean, the nurse practitioner I don't know.
But she brought in someone she was training who happened to be the wife of a friend of
mine.
And I'm just like, ‘You got to be kidding me!’
And so of course she said, ‘Well, I don't think we need to go through with this’,
and I felt we need to.
But you know what, I changed my opinion because I'm embarrassed!
And I don't want to like, you know.
The point is if you live in a small town, if it's an issue that's important - and that's
an important thing that you need to get done, you need to take care of your body, and medical
issues and medical things like this can be embarrassing.
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All right gents, that's it, take care, I'll see you in the next video.