3 Tactics to Deliver Consistently Amazing Days [7-Minute Episode]

All that matters is today. For what you do over the next 24 hours truly is creating your future. Because days become weeks then months then quarters then years then decades. Right?

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You want to separate yourself from the herd and be one of those people who are not caught up in distraction. You do real work versus fake work and you live a real life versus a distracted life. Tactic number one for you to deliver consistently amazing days is early rising. The great novelist Stephen King gets up early. Nelson Mandela got up early. So many of the titans of industry get up early. I'll say it again, the way you start your day dramatically determines the way your day unfolds. What most people do is they get up in the morning and they run out into the day, and then they spend their days catching their hours. I want you to, over 66 days, build the practice. You know you can do it. You have the neuroplastic brain. And then once you master this habit of getting up early, give yourself this one hour, the victory hour to work on yourself. Second tactic to build consistently great days is mastering the polite no. Most people say yes to everything. You wanna go to a movie tonight? Yes. Do you wanna have dinner tonight? Yes. I know you're working right now at work on a really powerful project, but would you like to have a coffee? Yes. Would you like to take a trip with me? Yes. Would you like to watch this TV show? Yes. Would you like to join this social group? Yes. Would you like to join this online chat? Yes. So many members of the majority say yes to things they know really won't move the needle and get them to the life they desire. Remember another one of my brain tattoos. To have the results only 5% of the population has, you've got to be willing to do. what 95% of the population is absolutely unwilling to do. And one of the things when I mentor the billionaires, when I mentor the movement makers, when I mentor the CEOs of industry dominant companies, when I mentor the great artists, many of the great artists, when I mentor movie stars, the best of the best, those people who consistently create creative and productive days. They don't really care what people think about them. I'm not saying they're rude, but many of them are masters of the polite know. They're so clear on their vision. They're so clear on their priorities. They're so clear on their philosophy. They're so clear on their strategy and the habits that they want to install and live by. And they're so clear on delivering consistently great days that they just say no a lot. So I want you to start practicing know. And you might say, well, why are so many people excellent at saying yes to trivial things? It is because we are tribal. It is because we have a neurobiological, and I would even say spiritual instinct to fit in because thousands of years ago when we lived in ancient times on the savanna, when we were primitive, if we strayed from the herd, we would be eaten by saber-toothed tigers. We would die of starvation. We would be captured and killed by warring tribes. And so we have developed this instinct to survive, which is we just fit in. You have to hack that instinct and you have to say, you know what, I will be different for most people because again, to have the results only 5% of the population has, I've got to do what most people won't do. The next idea that is tactic number three for building great days is a very disruptive idea. I will tell you that right now, but it has been ultra valuable to the billionaires and the titans of industry and the movement creators that I've been mentoring. It's called the five great hours rule. Most producers spend an entire week to get five glorious great hours of real work done. I want you to think about that. Most people spend an entire day at work. Let's say eight, nine. 10, sometimes 12 hours, and I might only get half an hour or an hour of really valuable, let's call it master work done. I'm encouraging you to start working only five hours a day, five hours a day, because I think the way our world works doesn't really work very well. The way most people work is based on the factory age. It's when people were working on lines in factories, producing widgets and producing pieces of, let's say products. And so the more they would work on the factory line, the more widgets they would produce. Well, now we are not in the factory era anymore. We're in the cognitive era. You are paid to create great ideas. You are paid to do masterwork and push magic into the world. And so what I'm encouraging you to do is only to work five hours a day. But during those five hours, you do real work. Your work is fiery work. Your work is robust. It's beautiful. It's magnificent work. You don't chit chat. You don't play with your digital devices. You don't check your notifications. You don't go have coffee with people when you're in flow state. Five hours of world-class work, let's say four or five days a week, will completely change the game for you and allow you to do the best work you've ever done over your life. And then you might ask me, Robin, okay, so let's say I started at eight and I finish at one o'clock, what do I do after that? Go on a mountain bike ride. Take your family to lunch, take a nap, go get a massage, go for a nature walk, read a book, go to an art gallery, go watch a film, try some new food, have some fun. As you know, active recovery is so important to exceptional performance. The great producers work in bursts of intensity. When they work, they really work, and then they recover and regenerate and refuel, and their ideas incubate during that rest and recovery time, and then they come back the next day, five more hours of great work.