The Billion Dollar Morning Routine

wake the hell up

Hey what’s up Bro?

Let me describe you right now. You wake up groggy, your back is sore from the night before. Your head is foggy, and before your eyes are even fully open you are reaching for your phone to see what text messages came while you were sleeping. These messages set the tone for the rest of your day and you drag yourself feeling drowsy and tired even after you just woke up. Lets fix that shit right now.

I want you to get a paper right now or pull up the notes app on your phone. You are going to write 6 new habits that you want to adopt (examples include working out, eating clean, writing, etc.). Every single day you are going to complete 4 of those and a max of 5. Make sure you write that are doing these from tomorrow not that you will aim to do it but because you are GOING to do it. Their is power in that belief. The bro science is we are rewiring your dopamine brain circuity to derive pleasure from these habits instead of checking your text messages on your phone every morning.

Lets then split your day into three parts:

Phase 01 - this is 0 to 9 hours after waking up where you are typically more awake. This is where you want to be doing linear habits which essentially mean habits that you know you should be doing but not doing already. Examples include running or weightlifting where there is a set formula. Try to include looking at sunlight and some amount of movement.

Phase 02 - This is 10 to 16 hours. You will be typically tired so you want be doing more of your creative thinking and pondering during this time. Go into tasks that require you to go about your life with critical thinking

Phase 03 - Sleep. Literally go to sleep and replenish.

The next thing to go through is your motivation. The issue is that most people these are soy boys that are trying to avoid anxiety and fear which is what neuroscientists call limbic friction. The kicker is that you actually need that for attentional systems. The exact science is you want to be failing 15% of the time and you are only succeeding 85%. So there are two takeaways: 1. you want be motivated by fear without going into panic for optimal performance (if I do not workout I risk diabetes and higher risk of heart disease vs lifting 15% more) and the difference will be dramatic 2. Reward yourself intermittently so you reward yourself for random wins instead of every win.

Now don’t take my word for it. Try it for the next two weeks and watch yourself become a different beast.

Hope that helps. I will see you in the next issue.