Evan Carmichael breaks down work ethic into three parts: love what you do, delegate tasks you hate instead of forcing yourself through them, and build an environment that supports you. His morning includes a playlist starting with his own "Believe" video, empowering music, and reading audience comments to prime himself for work.
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How to develop an insane work ethic. So I got a great question from one of my YouTube viewers. Love you guys. Joshua, who wrote in, "Hey Evan, amazing video. I have a question. How do you develop an insane work ethic for your passion? Is it automatic or question mark? Thanks in advance." So this is a great question, and one of the dirty secrets about entrepreneurship is that people always think that entrepreneurs are always on, always motivated, always happy. And we're not, you know, we get down, we think about giving up, we think about quitting, we don't always have an insane work ethic. So how do you get it, okay? The first part is you have to love what you do, okay? You have to love what your business is all about, you're doing something important, you have that passion that you talked about, right? But it's not just automatic, that's not enough. But that's the first key ingredient. If you don't love what you do, then you're not gonna work hard, right? You have to have something that you're deeply, strongly passionate about, have a strong why. This is why I'm getting up every day and going to work, because you're trying to change the world for the better, okay? That's number one most important rule in business. Second thing though, to have your insane work ethic is you have to do what you love. So the things that you get up and do, you have to love, right? If you're doing things, so obviously you love what you're doing, right? So you have your, you have your big vision, your mission, you know, what you stand for, how you're trying to change the world, that's great. But if the day-to-day activities, if you're not doing what you love, you're not gonna work really hard. You're kind of forcing yourself to get up, right? So for example, say you hate sales calls, okay? You have a great product, great service, important mission, you know, you'll do anything on the marketing side and tinkering with the product, you love that stuff, but sales calls? You just, you hate it, but you have to spend half your day doing it. You're not gonna be, you know, with a crazy insane work ethic. You can only force yourself to do something that you hate for so long. So you have to find another way to stand. You have to either give that to somebody else or find another way, right? Find another way to succeed without doing the stuff that you hate. So you have to do what you love. The third is you have to create an environment for success. And this is where a lot of people fall down because their environments suck. Your environment sucks if you think about why you may wake up, you know, you go to bed one night and you've had a great day, right? You help some people out, you get that feeling like, "Wow, I'm doing something really important. This is so fantastic. People love what I'm doing. I feel, I feel valued. I'm helping change the world for the better." You go to bed so happy and so fulfilled and so proud of yourself, and then you wake up the next day And it's all gone. And you're like, where, where did— what happened? Where did all that energy and motivation go? Every day you're starting over and you need to start with an environment that supports you. And that's everything from the friends in your life, the family who you hang around with, the music you listen to, your morning routine, the websites you visit. All of that is important. We need to create an environment that right from the beginning supports you and sets you up to be successful for that day. Okay, so here's, here's what I do. I wake up and the first thing I do is I turn on YouTube on my TV and I'll watch a playlist that I made. And the first video is always the Believe By video that's on the main part of my channel. And then the rest is a random assortment of songs that I like that that empower me, that make, that, you know, get my heart pumping, that get me excited. And, you know, you put on something, you put on a song that you love, and, you know, you're dancing, you're in a good mood. Immediately your mood changes when you're listening to music that you love. So I put that on, I go, I make my lentils in the morning, pop that in the microwave, I sit down and I start going through my social media comments, my Twitter comments, my YouTube comments, my Facebook comments, and they're always So powerful and overwhelming and happy. You know, you guys make my day every day. I see the comments that come in and say, Evan, you changed my life. Evan, thank you so much. Like, this stuff, a lot of it is raw and emotional, and it gets me going. It's like, wow, you know, what I'm doing is really important. And that sets me up. And then I have, you know, different days that I'm doing different things on. But right in the morning, when you start off, you want to have a routine that supports you. And then think about the environment that you work in. If it's a home office, if it's a corporate office, wherever it is, what's around you? Do you have a poster up? Are you listening to good music? Are there videos that you watch? You have to create an environment that when you step in there, it transforms you and takes you from being that average morning person who wakes up and is tired to boom, I got to get to work, I got important I got important stuff to do. My time on this earth is limited. So here we go, time to rock, right? So those are the 3 things that I find are really important to develop that insane work habit. You gotta love what you do, you gotta do what you love, and you gotta create an environment that supports you. Great question, Believe. For those of you watching, I'd love to hear what you do to give you your insane work habits. Leave it in the comment section below. If you have a question, leave it below as well. You like this video, you can click on the link in the description to support me and click on my face, subscribe to the channel. Thank you so much. I'll see you soon.
