My no bullsh*t routine for making over $1,000,000 in 12 months.

All right, so you want to know how to be successful? I'm going to tell you right now. Every morning I wake up at exactly 3:43am and I jump into my infrared sauna where I sun my butthole for exactly 14 seconds before I jump into my ice bath for exactly one minute while I listen to four podcasts at 5x speed. Then I get out of the ice bath and I get into my toilet room where I squat over my squatty potty and take a giant shit while listening to an audiobook and meditate noise of the call telling me about the secret cell universe. Then I get out and I check my crypto account and see how much money I've made while I've been sleeping so that I can take that and borrow, borrow against it using the AAVE platform and put my stablecoins into stock so I can make tons and tons of passive income. I don't do any of that shit. Actually the only one that's true out of those are that I send my butthole. None of the other ones are true. I actually do use the AAVE platform and buy dividend paying stock and listen to podcasts.

I've been seeing a lot of content from people that I follow and that I actually respect. They're talking about optimizing every single minute of every single day. And I don't know about you, but I did not get into this game because I wanted to have every minute of every single day maximized and optimized for productivity. So in this video, instead of going through every single thing that you should do in the morning to waste your entire morning and then never get anything done until noon o', clock, I want to focus on the big stuff because if you do the big stuff, all of the other things take care of themselves. I think most entrepreneurial minded people are prioritizing the little things almost as a way of procrastinating from doing the big things. And that's why they have these complicated morning routines where they are prioritizing these things that don't actually move the needle. So to kick things off, I want to share with you a tactical piece that has really helped me be much more productive. I personally thrive on having very long periods of uninterrupted time for me to do creative work. Most of my work is thinking. It's creative, it's writing, it's making content, it's helping customers. And doing that requires for me very long periods of open time. I get my best ideas when I go on vacation or when I'm on a long hike or when I'm meeting with a friend. Those are the things that I need to prioritize in order to feel like I'm actually being productive. Whereas if I cram everything into my day and I have a very, very full day, I personally don't feel like I have the creativity in order to create the things that really move the needle or that make me money. But those things still need to get done, right? So what I have done is I have kind of reversed my daily routine and I used to save all of my really annoying, shitty work for the end of the day. But the thing is, I didn't have the capacity or the energy or the mental clarity to do them at the end of the day. So I just kept putting them off and putting them off and putting them, and I felt really stressed. So I feel the most productive when I wake up about 5:30 and I immediately answer all emails, all Facebook messages, all text messages, all slack messages, all of the annoying things that people are constantly sending my way, because I used to answer those throughout the day or wait until the end of the day and they just became annoying things that drove me crazy. But if I clear my email box, if I clear my Facebook messenger and my DMs and all my text messages and I answer or all of my employee messages before 6:30am, I now have the rest of the day uninterrupted, as long as everyone knows that I get back to them once a day at the beginning of the day. Now sometimes that falls apart because, like right now I'm working on a really big business deal and there's some negotiations that are going back and forth. I know that and I prioritize that. But the daily annoying stuff that bothers me so much, that's what I get out of the way first thing in the morning. And that way I have the entire day to schedule and prioritize the things that actually make a difference. Then I begin my actual morning routine, which often looks like riding the peloton, meditating, having breakfast with my kids. And then I've got pretty much the rest of the day for me to do the things that move the needle. So I schedule all of that annoying work and get it out of the way. There's another kind of group of activities that I do that I now schedule. And once I did this, it created a ton of freedom and flexibility in the rest of my week. And that is I now meet with members of my team at specific times. I do it Monday morning. I answer all their questions we go through the things that are important, set priorities, so they are now set up for the rest of the week and they don't have to check in with me throughout the remainder of the week. They don't have to send me a ton of slack messages. We wait for the next week to have our meeting and they're clear to make the decisions that get them to that next meeting. What that does is now by Monday at noon, I've had all my important meetings, all major priorities have been set and Monday afternoon is my planning time. I'm planning what I'm doing this week, what content I'm creating, what things I need to prioritize on my schedule, who I need to meet with. And so by the end of Monday I really have all of my most annoying work done. I've prepared for the rest of the week, I've met with my team, all my communication is cleared. That has created so much capacity for me because I now can see that, all right, Tuesday is going to be a focus day where I pound out some important work. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday are open ended for whatever the most important thing is for me to get done. Right now it's writing some sales sequences for one of my businesses. I need very long periods of uninterrupted work for me to do that well. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, all day. Plenty enough time to do damage. So my morning routine has changed to be very tactical. My weekly routine has changed to front load all of the most annoying things or the things that have to get done so that my brain is freed up. But I've also found that none of that matters if I haven't prioritized the three things in my personal life which are sleep, food and relationships. It's shocking to me how different of a person I am if I've had a great night's sleep versus if I haven't slept well for two or three nights. I am. I'm just an asshole. In the second scenario where I'm like a really kind, creative person. If I've had a full night sleep and most of us actually are that way. So if I haven't prioritized kind of a nightly routine as much as I am preparing for after I have woken up, then everything kind of goes out the window. The same is true with food. My entire outlook on life is different. If I'm eating like junk versus if I'm following the plan that I know that works for me. And if I feel disconnected from people, I tend to act from a place of food fear rather than a place of creativity and service. Whereas if I feel really connected to the people that matter to me, that actually sends a signal to the brain that you are safe, that you are plugged in, and that you can create from a place of service and giving, rather than trying to extract from everybody that you interact with. A lot of times as entrepreneurs, we're using work as a way to get our emotional needs met rather than in a way to contribute from a place of being filled up ourselves. And the way that I know that I need to be filled up is with sleep, food, and relationships. It just so happens when those three things are kind of set and good, I create really good stuff. I'm really creative, I'm really abundant, I'm really giving, I'm really present. And lots of good stuff happens from that place. So I have to prioritize those and create routines around those that make it easy for me to show up from a place of service. I actually did this thing last year where I just started taking off weeks in my business where I was, I couldn't be interrupted, I would not take a meeting, I would not be on slack, I would just be off. What that really meant was I slept, ate well, spent time with people I cared about, and I got a ridiculous amount of work done. And I found that I was just prioritizing the things that I should have been prioritizing every week of the month rather than just the week that I couldn't be interrupted. And that realization allowed me to kind of move these building blocks around to create a schedule that really worked for me. The last point that I want to share with you is it's been hugely helpful for me to set process goals instead of outcome goals. For example, I used to set goals like, I'm going to achieve and maintain 8% body fat. That's an outcome goal. And that means that I am working really hard to get to that 8% body fat without addressing exactly what the process would be to effortlessly maintain that. And for me, that is saying things like, this year I'm going to eat 300 salads. 300 salads. Basically what that does is it frees up a whole lot of capacity about what I'm going to eat. It's going to make a salad. I'm going to meal prep my salads. I'm going to find ways to make salads enjoyable. I'm going to have to prioritize a protein, and I'm gonna have to prioritize my vegetable. Oh, now it's easy. Like, now I know exactly how I'm gonna achieve and maintain that goal. I'm just gonna eat a ton of salads. You learn to like salads. You find things that, like, go really well on salads that you wouldn't expect. Like mustard. It's fricking awesome on, like, a sirloin salad. What super underrated. Gary Vee should add that to the underrated, overrated show. But do I have the obnoxious audacity? Another is this year, I'm going to ride 2,000 miles on my peloton. That's just 45 minutes three times a week, right? Is do that consistently. It takes all this, the, like, tenses over. What workout am I going to prioritize? I'm prioritize riding the peloton, right? And I'm. I do weights and other stuff too. I like it and I'll work that in my. That's easy for me. But prioritizing the peloton, like, all right, three times a week, I'm going to wake up and ride the peloton. Track it. I'm going to do 2,000 miles this year. Prioritizing those two things as a process goal rather than an outcome goal leads me to the outcome that I want without creating this pressure over where I am in the process. And if. If I'm behind and if I need to change the plan. No, my. My plan is eat 300 salads and ride 2,000 miles this year. My routine and my schedule has had to change over the last year and a half because I have more responsibilities now because I have two kids, because I have a fund with investors and I'm managing some capital because I advise a bunch of companies. I have a lot of things going on, and if I don't prioritize the things that I like to do, then I'll get pulled into the weeds of things that I don't like to do. And if I don't schedule time to clear all of the random things that drag me down, then they'll drag me down all of the time. And if I'm obsessed with the outcome rather than enjoying the process, then I will inevitably just sabotage the entire thing and throw the thing out. None of that is freedom to me. And I got into this game because I wanted freedom. So I have to prioritize exactly what my freedom looks like. That does not look like having nothing to do with, but it can look like having uninterrupted times of focused work, and it can look like creating room for inspiration so that I can be in the space that I need to be in order to accomplish the things that I want to accomplish. That's how I have maintained a really good sense of balance and mental health while being more productive than I've probably ever been. I'm Ryan Daniel Moran. I help entrepreneurs build seven figure businesses. And the routine is just one way that you augment the vision that you want. The amount of contribution that you want to make through your business and who you want to serve. Those are the things that really need to be dialed in before you come up with your morning routine and your schedule and all of that. And if you need some help, we have resources for you that you can get around this video. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you next time. Take care.