My Secret to How I Win Each Day
2 Dec 2020 · 15 min
In this episode of the Brendon Show, Brendon Burchard shares his personal and professional formula for daily high performance. He argues that confidence and progress stem from owning one’s calendar, illustrating how small daily time losses (e.g., 20 minutes each morning) compound into hours of wasted productivity each month. Burchard emphasizes the need to eliminate time‑sinks such as mindless social media, TV binge‑watching, and unstructured chit‑chat, and to replace them with disciplined habits: using a High‑Performance Planner for morning mindset prompts and nightly performance reviews, setting monthly challenges (e.g., a focus on patience), and leveraging mentors and coaches. He also promotes his own line of nootropic supplements (HPX Optimized) and his monthly live coaching program (HPX Coaching) as tools to sustain focus and energy. Finally, he invites listeners to join his coaching community, attend live seminars, and consider career opportunities with his organization. Throughout, Burchard blends personal anecdotes (a life‑changing car accident) with concrete calculations, actionable routines, and motivational calls‑to‑action.
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Hey, my friends, it's Brandon Burchard and welcome to a special episode of the Brendon Show. Hey, I'm Brendon Burchard and I'm honored to be your high performance coach today. With this episode, I've spent the last 20 years studying human behavior change and writing, coaching and training literally at the top levels on the topics of motivation, focus, productivity, confidence and more. My goal, inspired by my own personal journey, is to help you and my audience live love and matter. Which means to feel more vibrant, more connected and and more fulfilled in every area of your life. That's what we're doing today. If you liked today's episode, grab a screenshot and share it on Instagram. Just tag me Enonbruchard so I can see you and give you a shout out or a hello. And if you want to go to another level of personal development in your life this month, be sure to join me live every month in my coaching program. Just visit HPXCoaching to get signed up. I teach a brand new personal development session every single month. Meaning it's like a personal development seminar for you. Live every single month on the first of the month and then after I teach that for about 75 minutes, then we do live breakouts where you get to meet new people, network with people, set your monthly goals and establish real accountability for your growth. Listen, you know that expert guidance and real consistency and an inspiring community is critical to your growth. So join me this month on the 1st. Just go to hpxcoaching.com that's hpxcoaching.com it's time to level up, my friend. It's time to take your year back. It's time to find that focus and that confidence and that vibrancy and that vibe. Again, go to hpxcoaching.com and and let me be your coach into fuller levels of high performance in every area of your life. Now, without further ado, let's jump into today's episode.
You must reclaim your life's agenda and your day. So many people have lost their day and thus their week, and thus their month, and thus their year and thus their whole life's agenda. To distraction, to focusing on the wrong things. And because of that, they're not getting the momentum and the progress, the productivity.
That would make them feel alive, would.
Make them feel activated, would make them feel fulfilled and challenged. So today we're going to talk about something that doesn't seem sexy in personal development but changes your life. Your schedule, the way you calendar Your day, the way you start your morning, the way you actually tactically go through the week and the month and the year, because so many people are literally going through the motions. And when you go through the motions, guess what robs you, steals you distraction. When you're just kind of like wandering around every distraction. Ooh, wow.
When you wander it, you follow it.
I know, I used to be a distracted kid too, right? You can see all this energy I have. It's easy for me to go, oh, wow, shiny, let's go. But I had to learn, like, if I want to be confident, I must feel like I'm capable. If I want to feel capable, I must feel like I'm contributing. I must challenge myself. I had to be honest about my day and my schedule in my life because I faced the end of my life. You know, I had that car accident as a young man that made me realize life is so short. And I always tell people, if you believe life is short, you probably believe life is precious, right? So you should be grateful for life, right? Well, I tell people all the time. You know where real gratitude shows up? Real gratitude shows up in your calendar. Because if you're really thankful for life, you're using your time well, my friend. If you really care about life, you use time well. But most people don't. So they're not getting progress because they're not getting progress. They don't feel that sense of accomplishment, achievement, contribution, because they don't feel achievement, contribution and progress. They feel down on themselves. They feel less worthy, less capable, and they trust in themselves and their future less because they're not making it happen. Confidence is not only your belief and your ability to figure things out. Confidence is that sense of your own worth, your own ability, your own future. And if you keep throwing away days, of course you don't feel amazing about yourself. So we got to get organized and disciplined, right? But think of how many people don't manage their life. I mean, let's do some math together. You know, today, do you think maybe this morning, let's say before noon, you lost like 20 minutes of focus or productivity somewhere? You know, maybe you did something that wasn't really developing yourself or wasn't something.
That needed to be creative and you.
Got distracted on some social media thing, or, you know, maybe you just, you weren't paying attention and you lost some time. Well, let's do some math. 20 minutes lost just in any given morning over the course of seven days. Well, it's 140 minutes, isn't it? 140 minutes is almost two and a half hours. Well, over the course of four weeks, that's over eight hours lost, meaning you lost an entire eight hour work day every month by just losing, what, 20 minutes in the morning. But you know, most people, they're losing more than that. Maybe they lose an hour in the morning and if they lose an hour in the morning, that means they lost 4, 4 work days per month. Think about that. So people say I don't have time or something? No, it's like when we don't use our time well, we're stealing from our own confidence. When we don't use our time well, we're stealing from our ability to serve. When we don't use our time well, we're not going to make that dent in the universe, change the world, make more money for your family. You're going to be disorganized. And because you're more disorganized, you're always last minute. Because you're last minute, you can't plan trips with your family and your friends. You don't plan your work and project as much. And I know it doesn't seem like so much, but I always tell people, your confidence is in your calendar, baby.
Your confidence is in your calendar.
Manage your calendar well and progress comes in. It's like, oh, when you're doing things consistently that matter to you, your brain goes, hey, I had this intention. I'm doing it.
I feel confident. Hey, it's Brendan and I want to jump in the middle of this episode here real quick and tell you about something I'm really excited about and something that answers a question that many of you have for me all the time, which is, Brendon, where do you get this crazy focus and energy in your life? And the truth is, I've developed a supplement line that really helps me do that. And frankly, I needed to. I don't know about you, but sometimes when you're trying to achieve big things, a lot of stress comes along. And as you're trying to achieve bigger things, you need to be on your A game more often. You need to be mentally sharp. You need to be mentally prepared. You need to be mentally energized and productive. And not once in a while, but like every day you have to be on and sometimes guzzling more coffee isn't.
Going to do it.
You have to use what we call nootropics, which are, you know, basically supplements that help optimize your brain. And yes, we have a product for exactly that. It's called HPEX Optimized and it is our most popular product and you can get it. It's back in stock@HPX wellness.com that's HPX wellness.com you'll find HPX optimized for your mental focus and energy there. You'll also find my favorite powdered energy drink that we created that's 100% organic and vegan. And you'll find my essentials, which is my daily multi that I take that covers my energy, that covers my longevity, that covers my immunity, that covers my brain and body health that I absolutely love. And you will feel the difference. Go to HPX wellness.com right now. HPX wellness.com so today I want you.
To decide to retake your agenda, your life schedule. What are some things you need to immediately stop doing in your life? They are time sunk, they are not passionate, they are not moving you forward but you keep getting distracted there. Like what do you need to stop doing? Is it watching seven seasons of a.
Show, you know, every week?
Is it like what are you gonna do to get your time back? Is it like minimizing the amount of, you know, useless chit chat that doesn't.
Add to anything in your life?
Like is it social media? Is it tv? Is it just not being organized? Like what, what do you need to stop doing to take back control of life? Also what do you need to start doing and what do you need to start doing every day, every week, every month, every year to be on your A game? As an example, many of you know I personally fill out my high performance planner every single day. I create it for my greatest clients based off the world's largest study of high performers. And this is how they think in the morning. So I do all these mindset prompts so I get my mind right. Because in the morning I, I don't know about you, I'm kind of a nutty professor. In the morning I'll wander around and just like, what am I going to do? And I'm like, I'm a free spirit in the morning. But discipline buys you freedom to do what you want. So confidence is in the calendar. Like take back your life and get a little more organized and you have more free time. Get a little more organized, you serve better, serve better, make more money. Like these things all add together. I know you know that. So for me, I fill out the high performance planner because it tells me this is my morning prompts. It gets my mind engaged with the day. So I get out of like that like wandering around mode. It's like, oh, great. Okay. It sharpens me up, gets me in a good attitude, helps me organize, prioritize, schedule the day, think through it, how to deliver it with excellence. At night, I review my performance every single night. Every single night. I look at my six high performance habits, and I said, how did I do well here? Like, okay, how did I score one to five in these areas? And it's not like, every day I'm awesome. It's like, there's plenty of days. I'm like, ah, I kind of sucked at that one. But I don't get down on myself. I'm just aware of my own performance. And by becoming more aware and measuring that with the high performance planner, I've gotten better in my life. I just have. But there's also things that really helped me and supported me in terms of managing my schedule and my time. One thing was getting better. Mentors and coaches, like, having people tell me, focus on this. Not that helped me make my career go faster. Right? Because if you ever started your own business or your career, if you wander in, you just start doing stuff, it might take three or five years to break through. But if someone said, hey, just do this, boom, you know, you can cut three or five years off the learning curve. So I got coaches. What else did I do? I got really disciplined. Measuring myself at the beginning of each month based on the last month, but really projecting forward. And every first of the month, I do two things every first of the month. I review what's upcoming, think about how to do with excellence. And I also ask, is there anything I need to cut out? Do I need to change some plans based on what I already scheduled? But most importantly, every single month, I plan out whether or not I'm going to achieve the projects. What are my deadlines? What am I working on? And as the first of every month, I challenge myself. There's always a challenge at the beginning of every month to make me better. And that challenge might be like, okay, this month, I'm just gonna be. I'm gonna learn to be more patient. So all month, I'm focused. My intention is patience. I'll set my phone to pop up several times, the word patience throughout the day. Patience, patience, patience on my phone. I'll put a note card next to my computer. Patience. And all month, I'm working on this topic of patience. Well, guess what? At the end of the month, I got better at it. I feel more confident. Giving yourself monthly challenges will change your life forever. So you see, we can do all the things inside we can do all the things with other people but if we don't take back our life, if we don't get back handle of our own confidence, but also our productivity, our influence, our energy, our relationships, our leadership, if we don't really, really put our hands back on the wheel of life to become self reliant and personally accountable and responsible, if we don't have the ambition to live the high performance experience, to challenge ourselves, to rise, to be excellent, to lead, to change the world, then what's all the confidence for? What's the whole point of all this? So challenge yourself my friends. All right.
Hey my friend. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. If you're ready to go to another level, don't Forget, go to hpxcoaching.com Let me be your coach. Let me spend the first of each month with you giving you a personal development seminar. Let me help you get unstuck, break through your emotional blocks, find your real.
Clarity, your real passion, your real purpose.
And implement the habits that you know you need to implement. Change your life by getting a coach, getting some expert guidance. Listen, you got as far as you could get.
You're here.
You've achieved so much in your life.
You.
But to go to another level requires another level of mindset, another level of discipline, another level of direction and community and consistency. And that is what my coaching program is all about. So go to hpxcoaching.com and listen, if you're ready to go to a whole other level, I'm hiring. Please go to brendon.com hiring for our open roles. I got a big secret project that we are rolling out and you'll only find information that@Brendan.com hiring we've got, I don't know, 10 or 12 open positions there. If you ever wanted to work with me, if you wanted me to be your leader, you wanted me to literally employ you and help you grow in your career and do what we do, serving this mission of helping people around the world achieve their dreams faster, helping them improve their lives. We live every day as a team to do that and we are currently hiring. We're building out a new product and we need some people to help us do that. Brendon.com hiring if you don't know how to spell my name, don't even think about it. We're looking for people who are pros. If you're interested in internship with me, don't go there. We're not hiring interns. If you're interested in starting your career with me. Don't go there. We are an A team here. We've got people who are really experienced. So if you're new to personal development or you're new to marketing, you're probably not going to be the person we're looking for. We're looking for people with at least three years of professional experience in a lot of different roles because we take.
This role very seriously.
We get to change lives and millions of them every single day. That's the work. So we're looking for real pros, top of your game, ready to come on to an organization that reaches just as many people in the world as any other personal development influencer or trainer on the planet. And we'd be excited to have you join us in a big new initiative we're rolling out for the beginning of the year. I can't even tell you any more about that. Go to brendan.com hiring if you'd like to work with us. And if you just want to go to another level and have me as.
Your coach, not your Boss, go to.
Hpxcoaching.Com so I can give you a brand new personal development session this month to help you set your goals, get on track, get unstuck and achieve your ultimate difference. Go to hboxcoaching.com for that. Thanks again for listening to the Brendon show. You all mean so much to me. I have so much coming out in the next couple months for you here that's going to be unique and special and I know you're going to love it. So keep your head up. I know it's been a hard year. Please remember, as always, you are stronger than you think and the future holds good things for you.