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What's the millionaire morning routine? A lot of people ask these questions if you look on YouTube,

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Instagram, TikTok, so-and-so's morning routine. The five things so-and-so does a moment he wakes up.

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They think that there's some magic pill or some super five-step thing that's gonna somehow get

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them to do the work. At the very end of this video, I'll give you my morning routine.

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Everything that I do between when I wake up and when I work, we have to define what productivity

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even means. Productivity is getting more done per unit of time. People who move faster in life don't

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actually move faster. They get more done per unit of time. I had this guy reach out to me and he's like,

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dude, I got this coach. He got me doing like morning walks, red lights on, and I do a cold

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punch, and I do my gratitude journal. He's like, by the time I'm done my morning routine, it's like

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11 a.m. And I was like, do you think you'd be more productive if you just prospected for three

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hours a day? It's like, yeah, probably. And I was like, doesn't sound very productive then. What's

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interesting is that people approach the problem of the fact that they're not getting enough done

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per unit of time. And they think that I should add more things that are not getting things done

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to become more productive per unit at time. That doesn't make sense, right? Why do people not

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think that way? Because people don't define the terms that they use. But if you define productivity

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as the amount of work you do per unit of time, probably would stop doing a lot of the things

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that you're doing. That aren't work. When people give you their advice for how to become productive,

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think, is this adding things that are not work to my calendar of the work that I am doing? How

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much leverage am I getting from that work? So I can multiply even further the work that I do.

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You order your tasks in order of the leverage that they have. The definition of leverage is you

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get more output per unit of input. If I do a little bit and I get a lot, I have a lot of leverage.

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You simply have some things that you get more money per period of time and less money per

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period of time. That's it. What are the tasks that get us the most output? For example, I could

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make sales calls. That is going to be a one-to-one input of like, I do this effort and I get

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sales out of it. With that same level of effort, if I could go recruit a salesperson, which would

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take me a finite period of time, and then that person replaces that, my ongoing support for that

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person is going to be two, three hours a week. So I gain back 20 hours a week of prospecting

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in exchange for two to three hours a week plus money. And so the active entrepreneurship is

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simply consistently making these trades of what can I buy my time back with, even at the point

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where you had an entire company leading to one person and that person sucks to you. If we were to

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try and think of like the perfect morning routine, we should think about the reverse of that,

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which is what's the worst morning routine. How can I create a morning routine that would make

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me the least effective? One, I'd make it long as humanly possible. Number two, I'd have lots of

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steps and processes involved so that I could use up lots of mental energy before I could even start

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working. Number three is that I would become very, very reliant on that thing. If I don't get this

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one thing in, then it means I cannot work. You have to make your bed in order to become a millionaire.

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The problem with that is that we're separating fact from psychology. If I make making my bed

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mean that I'm going to do the things that I said I'm going to do, then it's super productive. But

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it's not the making the bed. That's the thing that's important. It's the fact that I'm committed to

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doing the things that I said I'm going to do. Gurus will get on this superstition around these

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things that they do, but not describe the meaning that they've described to the thing. Oh, I do this

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thing to establish discipline. Then it's not the thing. It's the discipline, in which case you could

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replace the thing with any other thing, or you could just tell yourself you're disciplined. You

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don't need to prove it to yourself. The easiest way to disprove something is to say, let me find

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an instance where this doesn't exist and I still have the outcome. That's how you disprove

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something in science. If there's a millionaire morning routine, then it would have to be the same

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thing that all millionaires do. You have to wake up early. I can tell you right now,

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plenty of millionaires don't wake up early. You have to have seven streams of income. All I have to do

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is find one person who doesn't have seven streams of income to show you that that's not true. Do you

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have to do real estate in order to come millionaire? No. You have to be in software. You have to be in

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web 3. By the way, buddy, doing 70 million a year with janitorial services for big buildings.

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Boring as shit. The anti-routine concept came from the fact that I get asked by so many

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fucking people what my routine was because I thought there was some magic pill of how I got

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stuff done. Besides getting stuff done, that somehow is going to make them confront the fact that

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they're not working because they don't want to work. You don't need to create some magical morning

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routine where you sing a flute, magical dance outside, and sing in the rain, and the journals,

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and all the other shit like there's work to be done. And the question is how quickly can I begin

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that work? That's it. The perfect routine would be you wake up and you'll immediately work

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because you've trained yourself to be able to do it. If you are one of these people who has a 90-minute

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morning routine before you start working, try waking up and walking straight over to begin work.

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Don't even check your phone. Most people spend most of their time doing shit that doesn't matter.

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And for the people we're going to say, isn't the morning routine kind of like a warm up before

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a workout or actually like need to prepare yourself before you start working? How long do you really

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need to warm up your brain? Do you think that your ability to warm up your brain is trainable? Because

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if it's trainable, then your routine should shrink and your number of hours of work should increase.

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It is people who are like, I get more done if I have a morning routine. Cool. See if you can just

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compress the morning routine to take less time. Of the 10 things you do, remove one, see how you do,

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remove two, see how you do. The fundamental equation of productivity, how much you do,

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multiply, how much leverage you have on the stuff you do. If we're defining those things as the

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equation for productivity, then the perfect morning routine should be one that maximizes the volume

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of work you do and the leverage that you create from the volume. And so for me, that looks like

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waking up, having a cup of coffee, and getting to work. And then ordering my day in the order in which

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I have the highest leverage activities to the lowest leverage activity.