In this video Brendon Burchard explains that productivity and organization are not merely means to achieve external success, but essential practices that enhance mental, emotional, and physical well‑being. He argues that clarity of intention and daily routines create a sense of calm, motivation, and happiness. Drawing from his own life, he shares concrete habits that "feel good" for him and can be adapted by viewers: a slow, intentional morning with tea or coffee; protecting seven‑to‑eight hours of sleep and making concrete sleep plans; using detailed planning, checklists, and deadlines to gain mental clarity; adopting a low‑carb, anti‑inflammatory diet; drinking abundant water and electrolytes to avoid dehydration‑related fatigue; and taking targeted, natural supplements to support focus and recovery after a brain injury. Throughout, Brendon emphasizes personal experimentation—identifying what feels good across mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual dimensions—and using those insights to build a customized, high‑performance lifestyle.
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Productivity isn't done just to get ahead and to succeed. It's because you feel better when you organize your life better, when you lead life and live life with more intention. When you have a little bit more clarity, you feel better. Strip away someone's clarity, their intention, their connection with what they need to do today, and misery sets in over time. You just know it. With no connection to our intention and our future, we feel less motivated and good today. You have to find what feels good for you. You have to figure it out. My friend Adrian, who teaches yoga with Adrian, someone I just love, one of the great original, big online yoga teachers. Just an amazing, amazing person. I think her whole brand was like, find what feels good. I love that. And it's very common saying in health circles, but I feel like a lot of people don't run in health circles. And so what feels good for you? Like, what feels good for you? Like, genuinely feels good mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually? You need to journal about that. What feels good to me in my health practices? So I'll give you some of mine because I want to make these tactical as well. For me, what feels good for me personally, and it's not the same for everyone. What feels good for me? As an example, a calm, slow morning. I'm pretty dumb in the morning. I'm slow to rouse in the morning. I like to, you know, kind of shuffle around the house, know, get a tea or coffee. Yeah, I know you're like, do you drink coffee now? I'm like, I do usually half caf, maybe mostly decaf. But once in a while I went on a trip to France and they had that espresso and I just. Oh my gosh, it ruined me. I think I went 36, 37 years of my life without any coffee. Anyway, now it's the flavor and it'll sit down with the. With my book, a little piece of paper or my journal and just like a slow morning, a slow morning is great for my mental health. That's for me, right? My wife is the opposite. She's incredible. By like 10am she has done more than most humans in a decade. I don't know how she does it. Shout out to niece. Like, one of the most amazing. She wakes up and. And a list of things download into her brain and she just starts going at them. It's unbelievable. Talk about a morning person. Me, my mom, the opposite. My dad, boy, he was ready to get up and go to work because he was in the military all his life. Biologically, we all have different rhythms. Don't we? Right? Some of those are conditioned and we create some of that's how we are. I think I conditioned my slow morning because I like it. What feels good to me is a slow morning. How simple is that? How controllable is that? Even if there's chaos and there's a lot going on, I can find my moments, which we'll talk about. I can find my moments to recalibrate and reset. Even if it's hectic and crazy cause there's people around the house or something's going on still, I gotta make sure that that morning finds those moments of calm and peace and intention for myself. Otherwise it can really frazzle out a lot of the day. So that feels good to me also. What feels good for me is sleep. We can't have a conversation without this. If you have never done hard work to figure out exactly how you can have your best night of sleep on a recurring basis, there's almost nothing more we would need to talk about than you doing that alone. Sleeping seven to eight hours a night for all humans all around the world is vital. People always say, no, no, no, Brendon, you don't understand. I can do six hours a night. I'm like, yes, you can. And you have no idea how much more effective and happy you would be with more. But I can get away with this or you don't understand this or this thing's going on or I just had the kids. I'm like, no, trust me, I understand. I've been doing this and teaching this for 20 years. I've had all the conversations. There's no surprise you're going to throw at me about sleep. What happens though is people use the excuses versus mix the plans. I need you to make the plans. I need to make the plans. Very key. Did you make the plans? So what is your plan for having great sleep? And sometimes it sucks. I get it. It's like you feel like you just can't even get a break. You know, there's life, there's intensity. There's things, there's people, there's family. There's all that, you know, I get it. And you got to figure that piece out for you. I love sleep. It feels good to me. So I try to protect it. What else? Find what feels good. You know what feels good for me? Planning, planning. If you looked at my growth day, my plan, it's full, it's filled out with plans and deadlines and reminders. If you look at next to my computer, there's all these checklists Written down like I. And by the way, I don't naturally do that. I actually don't like planning. I love the mental and emotional effect of planning. Anyone follow that one? Yeah, you guys see, right? That's the difference maker for me. I don't like the act of sitting down and doing it. It's not like I find tons of joy in organizing my life. I just don't. I love the mental clarity, the peace, the progress that comes from making plans. Write down your goals, write down your deadlines, identify your projects, know who you need to reach out to, know who you're waiting on, know what your priorities are of the day. If you need any advice on this in growth day, remember you can go to the learn section. You can smash the watch past events and you can watch an entire month of training on productivity. You can go to your courses and watch an entire training on the habit of productivity from the world's number one. I'm sorry, the world's largest research study on high performance habits. That high performance habit builder course that you have unlocked and in the course section of your app, just go to the learn section, go to courses and you can see high performance habit builder. There's a whole section just on productivity. And that productivity isn't done just to get ahead and to succeed. It's because you feel better when you organize your life better. When you lead life and live life with more intention. When you have a little bit more clarity, you feel better. So strip away someone's clarity, their intention, their connection with what they need to do today and misery sets in over time. We just know it. With no connection to our intention and our future, we feel less motivated and good today. That's why the plan is so important for me. What else feels good to me? Less carbs. You know, I love to eat them. I don't like the feeling afterwards. I love to eat them. The feeling afterwards does not align with my energetic vision. Right? So I would be a person who my natural tendency would like, give me all the potato chips, give me all the pizza, give me all the bad food. 24 7. But the effect of it doesn't align with my energetic vision. And I know when I do those things and I feel terrible the next day, it's so out of alignment for what I want energetically in my life. My self respect goes down, I get down and I'm less productive, happy. Does it make sense? Very key to understand. Very key to understand. That's for me. Again, I'm sharing my things. Another thing I know feels Good for me, because people always ask, I'm like, massive amounts of water and electrolytes every day. Like, I really believe most people are so dehydrated, they have no idea that most headaches, as an example, are tied to dehydration. Most people have no idea that their physical stiffness and inflammation happens because they're not having enough water go through their body. A lot of people are so dehydrated and they're shocked when you just like drink some more water and like, really? And they start doing that. Like, this changed my life. Oh my God. And now they have fancy little bottles all around the house and they carry them along with them. You know, I think it's important that most people realize how critical hydration is to their lives. So I have to learn that. I also know that what feels good to me is a body that's not inflamed by terrible diet or things that I drink or consume. That increases inflammation. As inflammation goes up, fatigue goes up. As inflammation goes up, weight goes up. As inflammation goes up, life expectancy goes down. Like you want to find one or two main culprits of dis ease in our health physically. Inflammation. A high inflammation diet kills you sooner. So we have to figure out like, okay, we have to study, like, what are the things that inflame my body? That's partially knowing what you might be allergic to, right? Your food allergies as an example. But also just the basics of understanding certain things you eat or consume tends to elevate your level of inflammation. And if you don't know what those are, see a dietician, a nutritionist, go read some books, watch some videos on YouTube about anti inflammation diets and you'll see it completely changes your life. Did for me. Another thing that works for me is supplementation. I take supplements every day that help me with focus and energy. And I do that. As many of you know, for my condition I had a brain injury and with a traumatic brain injury took a long time to heal from it. And I use supplementation to increase oxygenation, blood flow and help me maintain the focus, maintain my energy mentally. And so that was important to me. You have to find out what's important to you. I had medical expertise supporting me in finding that. I didn't want to take a bunch of, you know, prescriptions. I just wanted to find out natural supplementations that could help me. And I did that. So I have a lot of adaptogenic herbs as an example to help me stay a little more focused and deal with stress that supports me, you have to find out what supports you. I always tell people, like if you haven't optimized your supplementation yet, you haven't even started the health journey. Say that again. If you haven't figured out how to optimize your supplementation, you haven't even started your health journey because you wouldn't know what to supplement with unless you explored your own diet, your nutrition and your energetic goals. Sa.
