The Morning Habit That Fuels 60 Trips a Year and Millions in Income

Today, I want to talk about one habit that completely changed my productivity, my income, and honestly, my entire life. It’s not a tool, it’s not an app, and it’s not some complicated system. It’s about owning your morning and why if you don’t protect that time, everything else you do during the day is already compromised.

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Recognizing that my mornings are the most productive time that I have, and recognizing that I will always be making way more impact in the morning than I would be in the later in the day.

That was a big realization because it caused me to stop delaying things until after lunch. It allowed me to stop scheduling calls first thing in the morning. It made me prioritize things in my business over things like running errands or going to the post office.

For example, like if I needed to go to the bank, before this realization, I would go to the bank first thing in the morning, like 8 a.m or 9 a.m, just because I didn’t want to get stuck in line.

And I thought that was the right thing to do. Why? Because I watched my grandfather and my parents do that all the time, if they needed to go anywhere, they would prioritize it and then they would go to work, whatever their work was.

And that’s such a wrong way to do it. The right way to do it for someone like me is to not go anywhere. Like not leave the house at all and just wake up, maybe coffee, brush my teeth, optional, and just go do something that would move the needle in my business.

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So, back in the day, I would actually go to the bank first or to the post office or to the DMV or something. And then what I would try to do is I would try to work immediately after coming back from this place, from whatever the place was.

And I couldn’t focus. I would just be sitting there and my head would be buzzing like there’s a bunch of bees in my brain, be able to go like buzzz, and it would push out all creative thought. It would prevent me from building any kind of momentum, and that would just inhibit my ability to produce results.

Like, when I finally realized that after reading the book, “The Perfect Day Formula”, that urged to behave this way, my productivity skyrocketed. I was finally able to write my book.

I was finally able to get a lot done way before 11 a.m.

By 11 a.m, every day now, by 11 a.m., I get more done than most people get done in their entire day. And when you have a system like that, in just a week or two weeks time, by living according to this habit, you can get more done in two weeks than most people get done in three months.

This is one of the habitual behaviors that I have and that I use, that I pretty much live by, that allows me to not only get a lot done, not only build a great business, not only launch new projects, be very prolific with my content generation, but also allows me to take 60 trips a year, which collectively, you know, is a lot of time.

It allows me to pursue hobbies, for example. Like in the last month or so, I’ve now written over 50 songs, like lyrics for songs, composed, basically. And this is while my business produces, this is while we’re launching projects, this is while things are happening.

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So, the only way it happens, if you’re prioritizing the needle moving activities and you know that you’re operating at your peak capacity and you’re not giving up that time to something or someone else.

For me at this point, it takes very little time to get in the zone. And what’s important, I’m now pretty good at staying in the zone.

So, while most people, they’ll sit down to get some work done and 20 minutes later, they’re starting to feel it, they want to go and, you know, maybe check a news website or stand up and have a walk and whatever, I’ve been pretty good at just sitting down and working for an hour, maybe an hour and a half without even standing up, just being in the zone and just kicking ass, whatever that means for the day: creating content, making decisions, whatever that is.

I attribute a lot of it to these two things. Really owning my day by owning my morning. And the second being is that I always know what’s my big rock, what’s my needle moving activity that I need to work on today.

There’s no scenario where I am waking up in the morning, rushing to my computer, sitting down, looking at a to-do list with like 20 items on it and then spending the next two hours dreading which one of these items that I need to work on. It just doesn’t happen anymore.

I know exactly which one of these 20 things is the only one thing that I’m going to be working on today. Because that is the one thing that as opposed to the other 19 things that will create the biggest moves for me, for my business, for my life, for my income and so on and so forth.

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