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Stop Searching for "Perfect Routines"
Words I like: If you are waiting for the perfect conditions to start, you'll never start. The perfect condition IS starting.
Minute Read: Finding Routines Often Kill in the Early Stages
I think it's fair to say that we've all gone on YouTube to find the "ultimate money making routine for xyz people" and tried the routines that these finance and crypto bros do.
The thing is, when we look for a routine, we often overlook the core problem that needs to be solved and try to find and indirect way to solve it.
Or even worse, we end up avoiding the problem entirely because we're mirroring a healthy lifestyle.
And so, in my personal experience, I've only actually made progress and money when I stopped looking for routines and just did the work.
I've found that most people who I speak to that have or are looking for a routine, are trying to delay the start of actual hard work and then ask "how can I be productive" or "how can I get more stuff done."
I'll give a personal example. I remember finding a routine where I wake up at 5 AM and do 3-4 hours of tasks before getting to work and I told myself it was to "optimize my productivity."
Looking at it, I was doing the complete opposite. Productivity is measured by how much you get done in a certain time frame and so, with that routine, I woke up at 5 AM just to do nothing meaningful towards my goals until 9 or 10 AM.
Now that I have done the hardest parts and changed the behaviors and habits by directly confronting them, I can now have a routine but my routine are just lifestyle choices and have NOTHING to do with my productivity. If I miss the whole thing, it won't flip my day on its head.
So in other words, if you want to start a business or make any big life changes, for your sake, don't find a routine and just do the work.
At most, 30 minute prayer sesh, bathroom break, and anything else that you decide truly does have an impact.
Everything else will just be noise and fluff you put for yourself between yourself and your goal.
Also, the only reason the rich and wealthy wake up at 5 AM is to IMMEDIATELY do deep work before the world wakes up and starts bothering/distracting them.
Do the hard work first, you'll see that it'll change you in ways much greater and faster than any routine someone told you on IG/TT.
Here's a list what I found to be real game changers in my productivity.
- Notion task/project manager and calendar (organizations and lets me map everything out in steps)
- 5 AM - 10 AM deep work (building the business itself) IF YOU ALREADY HAVE YOUR PRODUCT AND SERVICE, USE THIS TIME TO MARKET YOUR BUSINESS
- No music.Skipping a song opens up the opportunity for you to accidentally end up doomscrolling. ADHD things...iykyk
- working from a laptop? put your phone across the room or even better, in a different room
- Earplugs > AirPods
- Water + Ultra Pouches > Coffee
- No sugar filled breakfast. Sugar leads to a crash. Crash leads to less productivity
- Can't sleep? When you do a full day of hard work, you'll feel tired lol
- Set an alarm for when you should go to bed, not when you should wake up.
- Business videos > Movies and TV series (even if you don't want to run a business, learn how money works and you''ll make more)
Do hard work first and. freedom for lifestyle choices will come later.
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Stop Searching for "Perfect Routines"
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