What's up you guys Jason Wardrop here and in today's video
I want to break down my
Morning routine and even give you a look into
My daily life my rituals my habits and how I have kind of learned to be more productive
With my time and this is something I've learned over the last several years
I want to share this with you guys so you can maybe get some tips and tricks and strategies so that you can become more
Productive in your daily routine as well. Now one thing that I want to note right here
You guys can see right here 5:30 a.m. Wake-up time. I'm an early bird. I'm an early-morning riser if you are not don't worry
It's not like a one-size-fits-all morning routine. You got to find out what works best for you. Ok?
So if you're like a late-night owl you like to stay up late
that's when your time is most productive then just kind of take some of these different concepts and
Adapt them to what you like and your routine and what works best for you
Alright, so you can see right here. I wake up I try to wake up early every single morning
Because for me if I get a good early jumpstart on my day, I just feel that much more productive
so the first thing I do when I wake up is
I will drink about 20 ounces of water just to get some good fluids in me
And also I like to workout right first thing in the morning, so I'll get about 20 ounces of water
And then before I go and hit the gym, what I like to do is I like to read for about 10 minutes
And so I'll sit in my massage chair
Just kind of loosen up my body a little bit before I actually hit the gym and give my body a little bit of time
To actually wake up
So a wake up drink the water almost immediately and then I'll go and I'll sit my massage chair for about 10 minutes
I'll do a little bit of reading and then I'll drink a little bit of pre-workout and hit the gym
So I usually try to be at the gym by about 6 o'clock and that will give me about 45 minutes to an hour
To get my whole workout in and most recently. I've been doing Jeff Cavaliers athlean-x 2 program
I kind of like to mix it up every once in a while before that
I was doing Greg o Gallagher ski, no body program
it's all intermittent fasting, but I like to go to the gym and
Workout every single day just to kind of get my body woken up
Loosen up and then I can get a good stretch in it before I actually dive in to my daily workflow
Alright, so once I get home from the gym what I do first thing is I jump in the shower now
I've actually kind of split tested this with my own life. I'm trying different things
I'm not jumping the shower right away and just get into working
But what I felt best for me is getting in the shower getting all cleaned up getting all ready for the day
It just I feel like I'm a lot more productive
When I actually dive into my work as opposed to getting home from the gym. I'm still all sweaty it kind of gross
I still need a shower and it's kind of in the back of my mind
I still need a shower and so it's kind of like a little bit hesitant to fully dive into things
So I go home
Shower try to get ready for the day get all going
And then the first thing I jump in and do is I track my numbers from the day before
So I'll go through and I'll track on a Google spreadsheet
How much money I spent on Facebook Ads how much much money I spent on Google Ads?
I'll track how many leads I generated how much it costs to generate those leads
How many people actually register my webinar attended all that stuff and then even how many?
Sales, I made now. One thing I like to track with my numbers too is not only how much revenue is generated
But how much cash was collected that day? All right
So if you have a payment plan where someone's paying over like two to three months monthly installments
Obviously the amount of money that you collected it's gonna be a lot less than the revenue generated
right, so we want to go through and if we know we're spending $500 that day on Facebook ads or Google Ads or whatever it
Is and we've only collected $300 but maybe our overall revenue after three months is a thousand dollars
so we want to make sure that we're keeping track of all of those numbers and this is the first thing that I like to
Do now also one quick note guys on you got 5:30 6:00 7:00 7:30 for me
I'm not like a hundred percent strict with all these different timings and everything
It's more of I know the exact next thing that I need to do
And so then once I finish at the gym, I don't have to think. Oh man. What am I gonna do?
Am I gonna eat breakfast? I'm gonna shower I'm gonna jump into work
I just know I'm gonna jump in get in the shower
Get ready for the day the next thing I'm gonna track my numbers
And so if I do the same thing every day, obviously
It's a boring it seems boring cuz they're doing the same thing every day
But it's those little consistencies where you don't have to spend a lot of brainpower of wondering. What do I do next?
How do I do that? What am I going to do? I just know exactly what needs to be
So honestly a lot of times I can get things done a lot quicker than what you're seeing on this time frame
But this is kind of the general timeframe, which I've seen over the last several years of how long everything takes me to do
Alright, so after I have gone through and tracked my numbers
I kind of see how those funnels are working my ads everything
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna revisit my plan for the day. So ideally the night before before I stop working
I plan out the next day everything that I need to do a kind of in the order of everything that needs to happen
And then first thing I kind of revisit that plan to make sure that it's kind of cemented in my mind so I know
Exactly the next task I need to be working on and so I'm not like blindly
Starting the task and then wondering aha man. Well, this is probably not the best thing to be doing
so starting another task if you have that to-do list, you know, just exactly
What you need to get done?
You're just able to be a lot more productive and then right after that I jump into my creative work
Now the reason why I do this is because my mind
It works a whole lot better first thing in the morning. I'm fresh. I've just got back from the gym
I'm just like good to go. I'm out of the shower all that stuff
and so if I need to work on Facebook ads if I need to write emails for my email list if anything that's
Creative work. I want to do it right now right here
Okay, we're shooting YouTube videos coming up with different content plans anything like that. So this is my most productive time
So I'm gonna save other type of busy work like let's say maybe making YouTube thumbnails
checking emails other things like that where I don't need my a
brain power to be focused on I'm gonna save that for later in the day later in the afternoon because honestly,
I don't need my best mental power for that work
Whereas this if I'm doing new creative Facebook ads if I'm running new ad campaigns anything like that
I want to make sure that I am at leveraging my best mental power
During this time
All right
So it's about this time that I've been able to do them with some creative work for about two hours now and then around 10
A.m. Depending on the day. I usually do a training or have a meeting with our team
So Monday mornings, that's when we have our team meetings
and so then I meet with all of our team members able to kind of get
Up-to-date on what they're struggling with if I need to do some training anything like that then
Tuesdays
I will do a live training inside of a Facebook members group so that I can help answer any questions for any of our members
Of our customers then on Wednesdays
I'm usually doing a live webinar
Which is kind of our sales mechanism to be able to go through and show people our product
How can help them and getting that going in Thursday Friday? I don't really have any specific trainings or meetings or anything like that
So I'm able to continue on with my creative work and then you guys can kind of see down here at the bottom
I'll lift this up a little bit at 10:30 is usually when I have my first snack
So I like to do intermittent fasting. I like it because I'm not spending some my most creative time
making food and eating the food and it just kind of pushes my
Productivity on to later in the day if I'm eating first thing in the morning. So about 10:30
I'll usually have just a light snack a lot of times. It's just an apple, or maybe it's like a green drink something
That's just quick
It literally takes like five minutes to prepare and eat and then I'm back in to be able to continue working, right?
So we're now up here
so
Like I said guys I'm going through doing creative work getting on the training
Thursdays and Fridays that don't do any of that snack at 10:30 and then from 10:30 to about 11:30
Maybe twelve kind of depends on just the day and how hungry I am is when I'm gonna actually have my first meal
So 10:30 till you know, 11:30 or 12:00, whatever it is
I'm continuing on with my creative work if I need to build new funnels adds anything
Campaigns tracking whatever it is
I get all that stuff done and then meal number one is around 11:30 12:00 kind of depends on the day and
If that's more like lunchtime
But I usually like to have more of a breakfast so usually what I eat is I eat about 2 eggs 1/2 cup of egg
Whites. I have two pieces of toast a smoothie and a protein bar
So it's usually a pretty big lunch I eat about I don't know probably 1,100 calories right here
but then that's able to go through and carry me on through the rest of the day the working day and then after this first
meal I
Make it eat it
all that stuff kind of take a little bit of a break because it only probably takes me 20 to 30 minutes to
make and eat and then you know if my wife is home with my little
Boy kind of hang out with them for a minute
And then when I jump back in that's when I'm gonna check my email for the first time of the day
All right
Now the thing is most people will check their email right up here at the very first the day
But guess what the way I view email is a to-do list
That's created by somebody else for you to do and so it goes and sucks up your whole entire
Day with all these to-do items these checklist everything that you're not even doing things that you want to do you're doing things
What other people want you to do?
Okay. So this whole morning you should think of it very selfishly of doing all the things that you want to do
that's gonna benefit you your business and then
At 12:45, 1:00 o'clock
You can then go focus on your emails and things that other people want you to do now
Another thing that I would highly recommend with email is any marketing emails anything that you're on?
unsubscribe for every single one of them
so the only emails that are coming through our emails from stripe or PayPal showing that you've made some money or
emails that saying hey
You got a new lead or you got a new appointment books or something like that or a client type of emails now?
Obviously you're gonna randomly get put into different marketing and promo emails and stuff like that
But do your best to unsubscribe to all those and the first thing I do when I check my email
So I'll go through and I'll check every box and I'll delete as many emails as I possibly can
Because usually about every day I have about 75 to a hundred emails
That are brand new emails in my inbox now
Luckily a lot of those are from stripe and PayPal so I can easily go through and delete those
But then I delete as many as I possibly can and then I'm usually left with about 8 to 10 emails
That I actually have to pay attention to ok
So you think about that if I'm getting 75 to 100 emails a day?
There's only 8 to 10 that I actually need to pay attention to
That's a lot of time that potentially could be wasted if I'm opening every single of those emails
ok, so just go through check every single other boxes of emails that even like you're like
I don't even know who this is from just delete it. Okay, so go through you want to optimize your time
This is a checklist for other people. Not for you
And so you want to maximize your time with your email and only check it one time per day
Okay, go check it get everything done and then don't even check it again until the next day at the same exact time
Okay, if somebody emails you at 1:30
Just 45 minutes afterwards and they think it's urgent. It's not urgent it can wait for 24 hours
And if they think it's urgent guess what that'll be trained to then wait for 24 hours because then you can handle that
After the next day when you actually need to go in and check your email again
All right. So after I've checked the email I'm getting back into work now
Remember guys this type of work is the less
Creative work now. If you got some still creative work that you need to finish up or something like that, obviously
It's a hundred percent fine to go through and do it in the afternoon
But I like to save this time for some less creative work. Okay, and honestly
ideally, I should probably move some of my trainings and meetings to the afternoon because that is my most productive time first thing in the
Morning, and so I would probably ideally push those to you the afternoon
But this is just something that we've been doing for several years now. So I just keep these times intact right there
So I'm gonna go through and in my work I'm gonna be doing you know
making YouTube thumbnails if I needed just just whatever tedious tasks that you need to go through and do or going through and
Fixing integrations. Let's say you've got some zapier integration or Trello or anything like that. That's what I'm doing in the afternoon
Now keep in mind guys some of you might have your best most productive time in the afternoon
And then this time might be where it's your least productive might be later in the evening and later at night or first thing in
The morning. Okay. So all you're gonna do is just flip flop those tasks and just make your schedule
Best to fit you in your productivity. Okay. Now here's the deal. I don't go through
I'm not working 16 to 20 hours a day
I'm like
I know a lot of people are going through and pushing that the gary vaynerchuk's in the world saying that you know
You got to work like 25 hours a day
I'm not
like I usually finish up about 4 or 5 o'clock and then we eat an early dinner over at our house and
then after dinner
I usually just hang out with my family with my wife and my little boy and then usually in bed by about 9:00
Need to go through it start everything over again. Okay, which if you guys look at that like the work-life balance is amazing
Okay
Lots of times I finish around four o'clock or even if it's like kind of just like one of those long weeks and it's around
3:30 and I'm not feeling like I'm productive anymore
I just stop and I wait to the next day because a lot of times what happens is
When I go to bed and I get a good night's rest. I'm a ton more refreshed
And so the next day I'm able to be a lot more productive than pushing it for another 30 minutes for an hour
Just because I need to work those hours. Okay, I don't ever think about how many hours I'm working
I just think about the tasks that I need to perform and I get those tasks done whether it takes me 30 minutes an hour
10 hours 4 days, whatever it is. I just focus on getting those tasks done
Whatever the most important tasks are to be done. Right guys
so hopefully this gives you some ideas to be able to go through and implement into your
Daily schedule if you guys have questions for me on any of this stuff just drop a comment down below as you guys know
I answer every single one of the comments on all of my YouTube videos
So I'm here to help you guys with whatever hacks or tips or whatever if you guys have questions of like hey
Have you tried this or tried that I've tried a lot of different things. This is what's worked best for me
And here's another thing guys just last week
I was having kind of a weird day like I woke up and I kind of started getting into stuff
I tracked my numbers because I always track my numbers because I need to know where the business is at
But it got around to the creative work. I just wasn't feeling it. It was just weird
I like just mentally wasn't there and so
guys
it's not the worst thing in the world is just to take the day off and then come back and just be
super focused the next day
Okay
If you're just mentally not there and you're just going to be kind of just sitting in front of your computer
Not really doing anything. Well, guess what?
It's probably a lot better just to take the day off
Get your mind away from things and then get back that next day a hundred percent focus be able to dive into your work
Alright. So anyway guys, thank you so much for watching this video
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