Nov '25 • General discussion
How to Structure your Work Days as a Coach
Since it’s Sunday, I wanted to give you an example schedule of how you could structure your main work days of the upcoming week. The concept here is to understand that not all work is created equal, and “working” every possible hour, when you have tasks that require intense focus, will actually lead to LESS work getting done.This is because at a certain point, the QUALITY of your work goes down. If you literally never rest or wind down appropriately before sleep, you get less and less out of each hour and reduce the quality of your coaching communications, content production, learning capabilities, and more.
The simplest actionable takeaway is that when you get brain fog, REST.
The more nuanced takeaway is that you can simply handle less cognitively demanding tasks over the course of the day as your ability to handle the most advanced tasks dies down. Below is a thorough breakdown and example of how that often looks for a busy coach.
-Upon Waking: QUICK morning routine to make sure you’re being intentional for the day and putting grounded, rather than frantic, energy out into the world.
-Get at least 10 minutes of sunlight without sunglasses or all of your skin covered up
-10 mins of red-light every other day
-While reading scripture or personal development material.
-If you want to get up earlier, immediately upon waking put your head under cold water, if not, wait 10 minutes before doing so.
-Repeat your mantra for the purpose of the day.
-Take your mitochondrial enhancers and healthiest form of stimulants--- if appropriate.
Whatever works for you. Just don’t mentally masturbate by attempting to “optimize” your whole day for two hours without actually living it. Save some of the bonus optimization biohacking for when you need your first work break.
-Early Morning through Morning: Perform “deep work” while your brain is in the uniquely creative state that it is shortly after waking. This means creative tasks such as content creation, template creation, individual protocol creation, or learning the most advanced topics that you need to that day. Other priority here is that if you have a clear bottleneck to your business growth, do this NOW. If you do it first thing in the day then your ability to get it done isn’t based upon how the rest of the day goes. Put earplugs in, noise cancelling headphones on, close all doors to the room you’re in, use blackout curtains if needed, preemptively tell anyone you live with that you’re “locking in,” leave your phone in another room or turn it off, pop some nootropics if you need to, etc. Just get this work done at all costs and you will be able to know that you contributed to long term growth that day. It will give you a great sense of peace and zero excuses.
Then once you get brain fog or have something time-sensitive outside of these tasks, take a short first work break by getting some movement in, ideally outside, performing some of the productivity optimization habits that you saved for now, or just immediately attack the next set of tasks that requires a different part of your brain.
-Mid-Day: You will need to maximize client/lead/contractor/employee communications, and you can handle that just fine post-deep work and optional first work break. So perform check-ins, answering client messages, assessing training footage, answering DM’s, responding back to employee/contractor messages, or take some sales calls. If you don’t have an abundance of those tasks yet, then get busy making yourself busy. Perform manual outreach to leads via texts, DM’s, emails, responding to comments, and even asking friends and family to refer people to you in exchange for a referral bonus (this is your start to having affiliates.)
Once you start to notice yourself getting consistently irritated, having brain fog, or you’re really hungry, take another 10-30 minute break, or if it’s a day you train, this could be an ideal time to do so, as your brain may need an extended break by now.
-Early Evening: Your brain after the break should be about where it was before your Mid-Day client fulfillment (or outreach or additional content) session but your focus will likely not last as long as it did prior. That’s okay. Push through discomfort. The more of these sessions you grind out instead of b****ing out of, the sooner you will escape financial fear and secure financial freedom.
Congrats, you’ve now done all of the hard stuff for the day. Pat yourself on the back, know that I’m proud of you, know that’s its worth it, and then either take a quick break, or go straight into this 3rd type of work for the day.
-Late Evening: Education. This is when normal people stop work. But you have chosen entrepreneurship. You help others more, have lofty goals, and only eat what you kill. You rely on you, and others rely on you. So, don’t go full vegetable for the day yet. Instead, learn. If you have the brainpower to read about an advanced topic, do it. If not, read something about a simpler topic or even review your notes from your latest advanced learning session. But if and when you start zoning out and re-reading or re-listening to the same line 5 times, you can absolutely watch some educational YouTubes while you kick your feet up, cuddle your dog, and sink into the comfort of the couch.
When that becomes hard? Congrats bro/sis, you now get to embark on your relaxing but intentional bedtime routine.-Bedtime: Set a bedtime alarm. Let’s normalize full grown adults saying “no, sorry, that’s past my bedtime.” Once the alarm goes off, polish your to-do list for tomorrow, set any alarms that are necessary for the next day, and then put your phone away until you are past your next morning’s morning routine. Seriously, put the F’ing phone away. Put it UNDER two books by the nightstand so that you would have to consciously do the wrong thing and remove the second book in order to get to the phone to check it while you’re in bed. Or do what Kara does and have an old-fashioned alarm clock on your nightstand and leave your phone in your office. Avoid blue light or use amber-colored blue-blocking glasses (the clear ones don’t do s***), avoid anything that overly stimulates your mind (cough cough watching Huberman or Hormozi before bed to @ myself here) and carry out your nightly duties before a quick half hour true relaxation period. Then SLEEP. Limit your bedroom for only sleep and sex. The one exception can be reading with a blue-lightless book lamp to ease you out of the stresses of reality into the sweet embrace of slumber.
Now in reality these are just the core concepts of a well-structured day for a full time coach. If you aren’t full time yet, if you have kids, or if you have any other responsibilities that make this impossible, obviously adjust. If you have any questions about how you could implement this schedule or have tips on alternate schedules that others can try, feel free to comment below. Now go enjoy a nice relaxing (or busy if you feel at peace with it) Sunday and use this and whatever else you need to make sure next week is your best yet.
God Bless and Stay Growing and Grateful.
-Coach Jensen
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How to Structure your Work Days as a Coach
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