A morning routine built on prayer, exercise, podcasts, and time with family. The speaker stacks activities like working out while listening to audiobooks, then breakfast with kids. He argues that hitting these irreducible minimums in the morning scales to winning the day, week, and year.
I pray for the people that I care about. Then the second. Then the next thing I do is, you know, I read my Bible every morning because I'm a Christian guy, right? I want to feed my goals. I want to feed myself spiritually, which is why I read my Bible every morning. Then I have a gym in my basement, so I go down in my basement every morning. I feed myself physically by working out. But Jim Collins, in his book Good to Great, talks about the genius of the. And it's different than multitasking. It's literally, how can you do two things together? Like, when I play racquetball with my buddies a couple times a week, right? It's exercise and relationship building, right? So what I do is I go downstairs in my gym, I work out, and I put on a podcast or an audible book or something where I'm feeding my mind. Think about athletes, right? They get themselves ready for the day with whatever they're listening to. They get themselves ready for the game. You always see them with headphones, like, getting into that peak state. And then. And then I go upstairs, I shower, I turn on the Bluetooth speaker while I'm still listening to stuff, like, I'm getting myself in that peak state. I usually sit at the table with my kids, do some sort of teaching with them, the kids that are home from school, that aren't in school yet. So I'm feeding my family piece, and then my wife and I usually will talk for five to 10 minutes and kind of have our own, like. Like, family huddle before the day goes because we got six kids, and there's so much going on between the businesses and the kids and everything else. So that's what we do in the morning. And I'll tell you, you know, one of the things that I've learned is, like, if you want to win the year, you got to win the quarter. If you want to win the quarter, you got to win the month. If you want to win the month, you got to win the week. If you got to win the week, you got to win the day. And if you want to win the day, you win the morning, right? And so if you set your morning up where you hit the right goals right there, then you'll. Then you'll win. But it all starts. You go to these irreducible minimums. How do you break it down to the things that are most important? And if you do those things, everything else will end up falling into place.
