What to do when you fall OFF track - #AskEvan

What do you do when you fall off track? I'm gonna answer that question in today's episode of Ask Evan. So I recently got asked a question from one of my loyal YouTube viewers and TGIM Mastermind members, Psych2Go, who asked, "Could you talk about how to overcome feelings of grudginess or dread? Like, for example, days when you don't have enough sleep or you wake up past your intended time and don't get to do your morning routine anymore." or when you are worrying about something outside your work? I really like the mindset stuff. This is a fantastic question, and I think this really depends on your personality. I know for me, when I miss my morning routine, I have a high likelihood of my whole day blowing up on me. And so I'm gonna share with you the 3 things that I do that hopefully can help you with your process. Number 1 is try to do something valuable. This is probably the hardest thing for me, but if I've missed my morning routine or I get interrupted a lot, You know, I get— that's why I don't have phone calls anymore, because I don't want people interrupting me in my day. I still try to get back on track and try to get back into a schedule where I can provide some value for that day. This makes it really easy when I've committed to somebody else. So for example, on Wednesday I do all my videos. I've got Jason here coming to see me, and so I have to do videos on Wednesday. You know, if I miss my morning routine, Jason's still coming at noon, I still got the videos up, I know you guys are expecting them. And so there's that external pressure to keep going. On Thursdays I have my meetings, interviews, coffee appointments, phone calls, and all of those again, I'm not gonna miss 'cause I've committed to somebody else. So when I've committed to somebody else, I'm much more likely to get back on track. Where if I haven't committed to somebody else and I don't have anything like pressuring me right away, I find it a lot harder honestly to get back on schedule. And so my trick I guess is in that case, try not to fall off schedule in the first place. Place because I know how important my schedule is for me personally. I try to keep to it as much as possible and try to design a life where I don't have interruptions. I try to run what I call a no-crisis business because I hate being reactionary. I hate playing defense and just reacting to people's problems. Instead, I like being proactive and attacking the new challenges that are ahead of me and, you know, planning my schedule out as I want it to be instead of being— instead of reacting to what other people want me to do. Number 2 is explore something new. What I find is that if my day has blown up on me and I just can't get back on track and I haven't committed to anybody else for the day, instead of just playing League of Legends all day, I'll try to just try something new. I'll try to break out, take on a project I haven't tried before, look at my list of ideas and try to tackle those. Just try to get in that space to, to get me out of thinking that the whole day is gone. I find, this is me personally, that if I try to get back on track with a day that I've known is already kind of falling sideways, then I'm not committed to those projects as much. Where instead, I try something new and totally different, I get energized again. I have passion again. I can attack it with, with new eyes, and I'm ready to go and do it. So if my day goes and blows up on me, then I try to go and find something new to work on that still adds value, but maybe wasn't what I already scheduled for the day. And number 3 is start on time tomorrow. And that may seem really basic, but if you threw away your day, you woke up late, you missed some appointments, you didn't get the work done that you needed, you goofed off and went ripsticking all day or whatever it was, and you feel like crap at the end of the day thinking, "Man, I didn't get anything done today," because you missed your morning start, then start on time tomorrow, right? Get a good night's sleep, set that alarm, you wake up, and whatever the first thing is that you do— for me it's a gratitude exercise that I go through— whatever that first thing is that you do, start with that. Right away as soon as you wake up and get your day off to a good start the next day around. So those are my tips, and again, it's highly personalized to me because the schedule is so important for me to be a happy and successful person. I know a lot of people are way more flexible than I am, and so again, I encourage you to design a life and a lifestyle that fits who you are and allows you to leverage your strengths. So I'd love to know from you, what do you do when you fall off track? When your day explodes on you, you wake up late, whatever reason, Your day isn't going as you had planned. How do you handle it? I'd love to hear from you in the comments below. Thank you so much for watching. Continue to believe, and I'll see you soon.