A coach earning $100k monthly avoids Instagram and Slack first thing to protect deep work time. He uses one high-impact task from "The One Thing," handles interruptions like sales calls as they come, then moves through gym, lunch, and a wind-down routine. The structure keeps dopamine-driven distraction out of his morning.
The first thing that I like to do in the morning is I try not to check Instagram or Slack or really anything that could get me distracted. There's a concept in this book, what's it called, The Dopamine Detox, and he talks about like closed loops versus open loops. Instagram is an open loop. There's an endless sea of distractions and dopamine. YouTube, you go in there to find one thing and next thing you know you're lost, and then 20 minutes later you're like, how did I get here? Slack, I go in to message a team member and next thing you know there's— I'm responding to 17 clients, right? So I try not to do any of that in the morning. I try to do the most important thing, deep work, don't get distracted for as long as I can. But then eventually at some point in the day, a team member needs me. There's Slack stuff, there's Instagram, there's this thing, there's that thing. So I just try to do morning routine, like one thing, deep work, like that book The One Thing, until I can't and I have a sales call or I have some sort of thing on the calendar that screws up my flow. And then it's like, okay, I'm on sales calls, I'm on client calls, I'm in Slack, I'm going to the gym, I'm eating lunch, whatever. And then at the end of the day, there's some sort of wind-down routine.
