It may sound rigid, but when you start to measure your day in minutes, you will actually discover so much more flexibility to focus on all your non-negotiable daily activities. This week, I’ll talk about why it’s important to have a morning routine that helps you stay centered and set you up to produce results in less time. I share how to start measuring your day in minutes and why discipline is actually the path to more free time. We cover when and how you need to say “no” to bring more freedom into your life and why leaders should be more focused on decision-making meetings and less on strategy-centered ones. Finally, I’ll walk you through a snapshot of my calendar and how I structure my days and weeks for maximum efficiency.
In this episode, you will learn about:
- The benefits of a centered morning routine and why you should measure your time in minutes
- What you need to say no to
- The contradiction that discipline leads to more freedom
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Timestamps:
[2:47] What are the benefits of a centered morning routine? It pulls you back to stability and helps you stay grounded.
[4:09] The first two or three hours should be producing 80% of your results. This can take time, but it’s important to look and see how much of your time is producing the results you want. If it’s not up to that measurement yet, that may be a sign you need to say “no” more often.
[5:39] The way you gain more time is to say no to a lot of things. This can be hard for entrepreneurs who see saying yes as a way to make more money, but the very first step is using your time more effectively by saying no.
[10:18] One of the biggest ways Steve Jobs built Apple was to restructure, trim the fat, and say no. When you are building your organization, one of the hardest things is to double down and say no to the things that are not under your overall umbrella for where you want to go. This requires an immense amount of discipline.
[11:23] If you want freedom, you have to have discipline.
[12:29] It’s the freedom in business itself that causes people to fail.
[14:02] The more disciplined you are, the more money you can bring in, which brings freedom and ultimately creates more leverage in your life.
[15:26] Get clarity on exactly what it is you value, and when you are measuring your day in minutes, you can track exactly if you are spending time on the right things.
[16:41] When you are clear about your non-negotiables, saying no and yes to certain things becomes clearer.
[18:33] Every day can be an opportunity to blend learning, working, and playing. They don’t have to be in separate boxes. The more you bring conscious thought into every day, you start to see a rhythm of how these three things can intertwine with each other.
[22:46] Don’t create a life that you want to get out of. Create habits that will last for life and that you look forward to. When you are truly aligned with your values, it makes saying no to the other things that pop up that much easier.
[26:04] I share how I structure my days and week, with frontloading on Mondays and Tuesdays and leaving some “free time” for Fridays to process and reflect. Every day, I schedule breaks for meditation and a healthy snack from 11:30 – 1 p.m.
[28:05] Great leaders are in decision meetings, not every strategy meeting. Homework: cut all your meetings down by 50%. If you need more than one meeting per week with the same team or feel you have to be in one just to feel significant, you may need further evaluation. Can a meeting be five or six minutes instead of 30?
[30:00] If you start orienting your time in minutes, you start gaining time, and can better allocate your energy into what’s going to make the biggest impact.
