I got everything on my to-do list done today,
said no business owner, especially no restaurant owner ever.
I'll tell you how we can fix that coming up right now.
Hey, everybody. My name's Ryan Gromfin. I'm an author,
speaker, chef, restaurateur, and the founder of the Restaurantboss.com,
as well as Clickbacon.com.
And I've got kind of an interesting question for you -
have you ever wondered why Steve Jobs
wore the exact same thing every day?
A black t-shirt and jeans.
Probably not. That thought has probably never crossed your mind,
but it used to cross my mind quite a bit,
and the reason he wore the same thing every day is something called
decision fatigue.
He talks about how we have to make so many
decisions every day that one less decision,
like what to wear today gives him the energy to make one more business-
critical decision.
Do you think it's a coincidence that Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook
wears a grey shirt and a blue hoodie every day?
In fact, look at this funny post, right?
After he took some time off for maternity,
his post on Facebook was – hmm, first day back at work,
what should I wear today?
And it shows a closet with gray shirts and blue hoodies as you can see.
Now, the funny thing is,
I used to do this when I was operating four restaurants and I was the
busiest I had ever been in my life.
I would wear white t-shirts and cargo pants,
like cargo chef's pants to work every day.
If you opened up my shirt drawer, it had about 20 or 25
white t-shirts in it,
and if you look at my closet,
I had about five or six pairs of chef's pants
all identical hanging.
That was pretty much my entire wardrobe.
The only thing I did is when I got to work, I put on an apron.
It didn't matter what I was doing that day,
who I was meeting with, what I was doing.
I didn't know why I was doing that, but I naturally did that.
What's interesting is when I started working with
coaches to dramatically improve my life and our business,
I learned about that term decision fatigue,
and that's what got me thinking about Mark Zuckerberg,
Steve Jobs, and all these other hugely successful people and how
they wear kind of the same things,
they live kind of boring lives outside of their work,
they eat the same things a lot,
they go to the same restaurants and it started to make sense to me.
So my coach and I started working on other ways we can incorporate
things like this into our life. Things we called routines.
So, what I started to do is, I started to basically
eat the same thing for breakfast every day.
I started to almost eat the same thing for lunch every day.
My wife and I would plan meals at home
a week or two in advance,
so it was less decisions to make in the moment,
which really freed me up to get more done.
We took it a step further and we incorporated these
routines in my daily, weekly,
quarterly, monthly, yearly lives, right?
Every day, I had a basic Monday routine,
I had a Tuesday routine. Like, every Monday, I did this, this, and this.
Every Tuesday, I did this, this, and this.
And we put it into the schedule.
And so what I want you to think about is,
what kind of routines do you have in your life,
in your work to avoid needing to make these decisions?
We got to a point where I had a morning routine,
I had an evening routine,
I had a midday energy routine.
I had something that I did for about 10 minutes
every day before dinner service started
because I could feel my energy level dropping,
but I can tell you the most important routine
and the hardest routine to get into place was the morning routine.
Now, I'm not going to bore you with the details of what
my morning routine was because
I kind of made it up myself and it was very effective,
but it was very complex and it was very hard
for me to get going. It took a lot of willpower,
but about six months ago,
I discovered something that I want to share with you today
called the sidekick journal.
This is from a company called Habit Nest,
and this journal, the one that I chose is the morning routine,
it's called the morning sidekick journal.
I wish I had this journal
ten years ago when I started doing these morning routines because
this journal,
this is my second one that I haven't started on yet,
my first one is completely filled,
but you could see that this is 66 days
spelled out for you exactly what to do.
What I love about this journal is, you don't have to think about anything,
it's in there, it's done for you, and I can tell you
from experience that if you're struggling with any kind of routines in your life,
if you're struggling with getting
everything done that you want to get done in a day,
it starts with a great morning routine.
If you get off to a great start in the morning,
you're going to come into the end of work more motivated,
you're going to get more done,
you're going to be more regimented,
it's going to lead to a great midday routine,
it's going to lead to better eating,
better energy levels, better decision-making,
and it's going to carry all the way through,
but it all starts in the morning.
And the problem with most morning routines is, we're tired in the morning,
we're groggy, or just waking up.
We have the least amount of
energy because we haven't really gotten moving yet,
and so our decision- making is clouded.
And again, what I love about this journal is it spells it out for you,
what to do every day and it will help you build those routines.
They say it takes about three to four weeks to
create a habit or to build a routine.
This baby will be with you for 66 days,
for about two months, a little more than two months.
And I love the honesty in the descriptions in here.
It calls the first week hell week
because they know how hard it is to break your old habits.
And they break it down for you really, really small.
Anyways, I've talked a lot about that.
I love it. If it's something that you're interested in,
a link should have popped up in this video by now
or below the video or somewhere,
we'll make sure that you have a link
to grab yourself one of these morning journals,
but let's just quickly recap here.
One of the most important things you can do is create routines,
avoid decision fatigue,
pick out your wardrobe ahead of time,
even if it's just a day. Before you go to sleep at night,
pick out what you're going to wear tomorrow.
Meal plan for the week.
If you know that you're going to go out on a
date with your wife on a Tuesday night,
pick the restaurant ahead of time, make the reservation,
it's one less decision you have to make when you're tired.
It'll lead to better decisions.
Create a great morning routine. I suggest you use this.
Create a mid-day routine, create an evening routine,
create weekly routines, create monthly routines.
Schedule this stuff, put it into your calendar
so that way when it comes time to do it,
you don't have to think, oh, what should I be doing now?
If you're struggling with getting things done,
routines are going to dramatically help you.
Another thing that will dramatically help you is to audit your time.
Measure in a week how much time you have to get
“tasks” done
and then measure for a week how efficient you were in doing it.
I just went through this with a client,
he had 14 free hours in his week,
hours that were free from the day-to -day grind of running the restaurant,
and then when he audited it, he was only working five to six
of those 14 hours, like actually getting things done.
So, we've been putting more routines into his life
and we're already seeing that efficiency go up.
He's getting more done than ever before.
I can tell you that when I was at my busiest,
I was getting the most done because I got so good at routines.
So, build some routines into your life,
wear a black shirt and jeans,
or a white shirt and chef pants to work every day,
one less decision you have to make.
Pick up your morning sidekick journal,
we will show you the link again right here. I love this thing,
it's amazing.
And go out and crush it this week. Again,
Ryan Gromfin with the Restaurant Boss.
Looking forward to bringing you another great tip like this next week.
Have a wonderful day.
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