My $100,000,000 Morning Routine
Summary
- Productivity is about getting more done in less time; it's not about adding non-work activities to your schedule.
- Beware of complicated morning routines that may consume significant time and mental energy, potentially reducing your actual work time.
- Define tasks based on their leverage—high leverage means you get more output for your input.
- Focus on tasks that give the most output, such as recruiting a salesperson to save hours you would spend prospecting.
- Consider the actual efficacy of routine tasks. It's the commitment to action, not the tasks themselves, that's important.
- Challenge commonly held beliefs about success, like "millionaire morning routines," by looking for counterexamples.
- Your morning routine should enable you to start work quickly, without unnecessary delays.
- Try to reduce the length of your morning routine and assess how it impacts your productivity.
- The goal is to maximize both the amount of work you do and the leverage you gain from it.
- My optimized routine includes waking up, having a coffee, and prioritizing high leverage activities.
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How To Take Action
I would suggest looking at your daily routine first. If you have a long morning routine with many steps, you might be using up time and energy that could go into work. Try to make your morning routine shorter and simpler. When you wake up, maybe just have some coffee and then dive into your work.
Think about the tasks you have to do during the day. Focus on finding tasks that give you the most for what you put in—these are high-leverage tasks. For example, instead of making sales calls yourself, spend some time to hire a salesperson. That way, you use less time each week and get more sales calls done.
Here's what you can do right now:
- Consider your morning routine and how it might be holding you back. Could you start working sooner if you cut some steps?
- Change your routine for a week and see if you're more productive. Skip some usual steps and get straight to work.
- Make a list of your tasks. Put them in order from the most to the least leverage.
- Find a task that you can give to someone else, like hiring that salesperson. This will give you extra time each week.
Remember, it's not about doing the routine things well. It's about doing less routine and more work. Look for simple ways to make your day more about work and less about preparation. This way, you will get more done with the time you have.
To sum it up, keep your morning routine short to allow more work time, prioritize tasks by leverage, delegate when it can save you time, and always look for simple ways to improve productivity.
Quotes by Alex Hormozi
"Productivity is getting more done per unit of time"
– Alex Hormozi
"The definition of leverage is you get more output per unit of input"
– Alex Hormozi
"The easiest way to disprove something is to say let me find an instance where this doesn't exist and I still have the outcome"
– Alex Hormozi
"Most people spend most of their time doing [ __ ] that doesn't matter"
– Alex Hormozi
"The fundamental equation of productivity: how much you do multiply by how much leverage you have on the stuff you do"
– Alex Hormozi
Full Transcript
lot of people ask these questions if you look on youtube instagram tick tock so-and-so's morning routine the five things so-and-so does the moment he wakes up they think that there's some magic pill or some super five-step thing that's gonna somehow get them to do the work at the very end of this video i'll give you my morning routine everything that i do between when i wake up and when i work we have to define what productivity even means productivity is getting more done per unit of time people who move faster in life don't actually move faster they get more done per unit of time i had this guy reach out to me he's like dude i got this coach he's got me doing like morning walks red lights on it and i do a cold plunge and i do my gratitude journal he's like by the time i'm done my morning routine it's like 11 a.m and i was like do you think you'd be more productive if you just prospected for three hours a day i was like yeah probably and i was like doesn't sound very productive though what's interesting is that people approach the problem of the fact that they're not getting enough done per unit of time and they think that i should add more things that are not getting things done to become more productive per unit of time that doesn't make sense right why do people not think that way because people don't define the terms that they use but if you define productivity as the amount of work you do per unit of time probably would stop doing a lot of the things that you're doing that aren't working when people give you their advice for how to become productive think is this adding things that are not work to my calendar of the work that i'm doing how much leverage am i getting from that work so i can multiply even further at the work that i do you order your tasks in order of the leverage that they have the definition of leverage is you get more output per unit of input if i do a little bit and i get a lot i have a lot of leverage you simply have some things that you get more money per period of time and less money per period of time that's it what are the tasks that get us the most output for example i could make sales calls that is going to be a one-to-one input of like i do this effort and i get sales out of it with that same level of effort if i could go recruit a salesperson which would take me a finite period of time and then that person replaces that my ongoing support for that person is going to be two three hours a week so i gain back 20 hours a week of prospecting in exchange for two to three hours a week plus money and so the act of entrepreneurship is simply consistently making these trades of what can i buy my time back with even at the point where you had an entire company leading to one person and that person talks to you if we were to try and think of like the perfect morning routine we should think about the reverse of that which is what's the worst morning routine how could i create a morning routine that would make me the least effective one i'll make it longest humanly possible number two i'd have lots of steps and processes involved so that i could use up lots of mental energy before i could even start working number three is that i would become very very reliant on that thing if i don't get this one thing in then it means i cannot work you have to make your bed in order to become a millionaire the problem with that is that we're separating fact from psychology if i make making my bed mean that i'm going to do the things that i said i'm going to do then it's super productive but it's not the making the bed that's the thing that's important it's the fact that i'm committed to doing the things that i said i'm going to do gurus will get on this superstition around these things that they do but not describe the meaning that they've ascribed to the thing oh i do this thing to establish discipline then it's not the thing it's the discipline in which case you could replace the thing with any other thing or you could just tell yourself your discipline you don't need to prove it to yourself the easiest way to disprove something is to say let me find an instance where this doesn't exist and i still have the outcome that's how you disprove something in like science if there's a millionaire morning routine then it would have to be the same thing that all millionaires do you have to wake up early i can tell you right now plenty of millionaires don't wake up early you have to have seven streams of income all i have to do is find one person who doesn't have seven streams of income to show you that that's not true do you have to do real estate in order for millionaire no you have to be in software you have to be in web three by the way buddy doing 70 million a year with janitorial services for big buildings boring as [ __ ] the anti-routine concept came from the fact that i get asked by so many [ __ ] people what my routine was because they thought there was some magic pill of how i got stuff done besides getting stuff done that somehow is going to make them confront the fact that they're not working because they don't want to work you don't need to create some magical morning routine where you sing a flute magical dance outside and sing in the rain and the journals and all the other [ __ ] like there's work to be done and the question is how quickly can i begin that work that's it the perfect routine would be you wake up and you immediately work because you've trained yourself to be able to do it if you are one of these people who has a 90-minute morning routine before you start working try waking up and walking straight over to begin work don't even check your phone most people spend most of their time doing [ __ ] that doesn't matter and for the people who are going to say isn't the morning routine kind of like a warm-up before a workout or actually like need to prepare yourself before you start working how long do you really need to warm up your brain do you think that your ability to warm up your brain is trainable because if it's trainable then your routine should shrink and your number of hours of work should increase it is people who are like i get more done if i have a morning routine cool see if you can just compress the morning routine to take less time of the 10 things you do remove one see how you do remove two see how you do the fundamental equation of productivity how much you do multiply by how much leverage you have on the stuff you do if we're defining those things as the equation for productivity then the perfect morning routine should be one that maximizes the volume of work you do and the leverage that you create from the volume and so for me that looks like waking up having a cup of coffee and getting to work and then ordering my day in the order in which i have the highest leverage activities to the lowest leverage activities and if you enjoy this stuff and you want to think about how can i get more leverage for the work i have then you should watch this 55 minute video which is the number one video on my channel on leverage and assessing opportunities
