Valuetainment - Episode 302 - Morning Rituals Of An Entrepreneur

00:00:00.000 30 seconds, one time for the underdog, ignition sequence start, let me see you put them up,

00:00:09.000 reach the sky, turn the stars up above, cause it's one time for the underdog, one time for

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00:00:17.180 I'm Patrick Bedevi, your host of ITM, and today I'm going to talk to you about morning

00:00:20.080 rituals of an entrepreneur.

00:00:21.920 One of the most common questions people ask is, Pat, I wonder how your day starts, what

00:00:25.160 do you do in the morning, what time do you wake up, what time do you do this, what time

00:00:27.300 do you do that?

00:00:27.700 So instead of just telling you what I do, I'll share with you exactly what I do in

00:00:32.180 the morning when I wake up, I also went and got a list of people that I like how they

00:00:36.920 start their day to give you some value and give them some love on their morning rituals.

00:00:42.120 And this is all entrepreneurs.

00:00:43.200 By the way, I'm going to tell you something here for you to keep in mind.

00:00:45.660 You can't wing this area.

00:00:47.280 This is not an area for you to wing.

00:00:48.820 It's very simple.

00:00:49.980 This is not an area for you to wing.

00:00:51.560 Because think about it this way, everything is about momentum throughout the day, right?

00:00:55.680 It's all about momentum.

00:00:56.680 So every day is a mountain.

00:00:58.900 Every single day is a mountain.

00:01:00.640 This is a mountain here.

00:01:02.100 So meaning you wake up in the morning and the higher the mountain goes, the more excited

00:01:06.640 your day starts, the more the snowball gets thicker and thicker and thicker, the bigger

00:01:11.280 it gets, right?

00:01:12.460 So you sleep.

00:01:13.980 You're ready.

00:01:14.760 Boom, your day starts.

00:01:15.800 Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

00:01:16.520 Great day.

00:01:17.940 If you don't have a good start, it's a small mountain, so you don't have a lot of time to

00:01:21.220 create momentum.

00:01:21.740 It is very important on how you start your days in the morning.

00:01:24.680 So not everybody does the same.

00:01:26.960 A lot of people have different types of things they do.

00:01:28.940 Some are single.

00:01:29.620 Some are married.

00:01:30.380 Some have kids.

00:01:32.680 Some don't have kids.

00:01:33.740 But you've got to figure out something that works for you regardless.

00:01:37.280 Regardless.

00:01:37.840 One of the most common things I hear from a lot of people is, you know, for me, I have

00:01:42.420 to wake up at 10 o'clock in the morning because I need to do this, this, this, this, that.

00:01:46.840 If you don't get your morning ritual down and you have any desire to compete as an entrepreneur,

00:01:51.660 you are toast if you think you're going to be able to compete with the rest of the guys

00:01:56.260 in the world of business.

00:01:58.220 So let's go through a few of them here.

00:02:00.140 First one, I'm going to give some love to Gary V.

00:02:01.920 Here's what I like about what Gary V says on his morning ritual.

00:02:04.900 He wakes up at 6 a.m., reads the news in the bathroom, something I do as well, and before

00:02:09.900 leaving the house, he hugs his kids for five minutes and calls a family member while driving.

00:02:14.060 I like that.

00:02:15.040 Hugs his kids for five minutes and calls a family member while driving.

00:02:17.620 Gary, props to you for doing that.

00:02:20.060 Tony Robbins.

00:02:20.740 Tony Robbins has a very good ritual.

00:02:23.120 He doesn't have a specific time what time he wakes up because of his traveling that he

00:02:26.240 has.

00:02:26.460 He may be in Europe, he may be here, so he doesn't have, I wake up exactly at 4.45 or 5.50 or

00:02:31.560 whatever, he doesn't have that.

00:02:33.120 So he doesn't have a time for that.

00:02:34.640 He wakes up, he does his cold plunge, submerged for a full minute, underwater, cold,

00:02:39.900 cold water, if you've ever done one of these cold dips, is what he does.

00:02:43.620 In his prime of his days, what he calls his prime of his days, three things.

00:02:47.280 One, he has a breathing exercise that he does.

00:02:49.520 If you see it, it's a very, if you haven't seen the Tony Robbins documentary, I highly

00:02:53.820 recommend you watch the Tony Robbins documentary.

00:02:56.700 I don't even know what it's called, but I do know if you go on Netflix and you type in

00:03:01.180 Tony Robbins documentary, it'll come up.

00:03:03.380 I highly recommend you watch it.

00:03:05.060 It's solid.

00:03:05.600 It shows how some of his events are.

00:03:08.380 It's, I'm not your guru, is what the documentary is called.

00:03:11.200 Phenomenal.

00:03:11.940 And you kind of see a day of his life and what it looks like.

00:03:14.240 But the prime of his day, he has this breathing exercise.

00:03:17.800 You'll see how he does it.

00:03:18.620 You may not do it, but that's his.

00:03:21.420 Expressing gratitude and prayer.

00:03:23.100 He's big on prayer.

00:03:24.020 On what he does, which is pretty interesting.

00:03:28.840 His days, probably one of the most energetic people around the world that if you go to his

00:03:32.980 convention and you see with this 5,000, 10,000 people that he has, everybody's fired up because

00:03:38.120 his energy gets everybody else fired up.

00:03:40.940 You have more of a possibility of impacting people's lives if your energy is higher.

00:03:46.220 Morning ritual is purely an energy game, is what you've got to keep in mind.

00:03:50.600 Zuckerberg.

00:03:51.040 Let's see what Zuckerberg does.

00:03:52.260 This is a guy that's worth 40-some billion, somewhere around there.

00:03:56.060 He wakes up at 8 a.m.

00:03:57.460 Interesting.

00:03:58.620 Not a lot of you'd hear 5 o'clock.

00:04:00.240 He's an 8 a.m.er when he hasn't been working all night.

00:04:03.860 So he's a guy that works all night until 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning.

00:04:06.160 But he wakes up at 8 a.m., wears the same exact shirt every single day because he doesn't want to spend a lot of time

00:04:11.120 thinking about what to wear.

00:04:12.180 And so that's what he does.

00:04:14.020 Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter and Square.

00:04:16.800 He wakes up at 5.30 to meditate, followed by a six-mile job.

00:04:21.140 Pretty intense.

00:04:22.660 Richard Branson from Virgin Group.

00:04:25.260 He is generally on his island.

00:04:27.880 He swims around the island or goes kite surfing if it's windy, then plays tennis before sitting down for healthy breakfast.

00:04:35.200 He doesn't have a set time when he wakes up.

00:04:37.140 He leaves his curtains open and it's where exactly the sun rises.

00:04:40.960 He says, when the sun rises, the light wakes me up.

00:04:43.860 So he doesn't have an alarm clock.

00:04:45.160 He says, typically, the sun rises 5.45, 6 o'clock in the morning.

00:04:49.080 Simon Cowell.

00:04:50.000 Simon Cowell.

00:04:51.260 We don't know what time he wakes up.

00:04:52.800 Now, he may be waking up at 11 o'clock in the morning, but he does say what he does in the morning.

00:04:57.040 He resets the snooze button twice before being served breakfast of hot water with lemon, papaya juice with lime, oatmeal, tea, and three smoothies.

00:05:07.040 It's pretty specific.

00:05:08.620 And knowing his personality, I can actually see him doing that every single day.

00:05:12.520 Tori Birch, the designer, she's worth around a billion, literally shy of a billion dollars, wakes up at 5.45, immediately checks her emails, is what she does, gets her three boys out of bed, and takes a 45-minute exercise, such as a quick walk. 0.96

00:05:28.640 Now, that's her routine. 0.70

00:05:29.700 Let me tell you what I do when I wake up in the morning.

00:05:31.880 Okay.

00:05:32.860 So, before I tell you what I do when I wake up in the morning, you've got to keep in mind, I have three kids, all under the age of five.

00:05:39.040 I'm married.

00:05:39.780 I have three kids, all under the age of five.

00:05:42.220 I run a company with a ton of employees and thousands of agents around the country selling insurance, annuities, investment products.

00:05:48.600 The company is called PHP Agency.

00:05:49.920 Now, that's what I do as a business, right?

00:05:51.860 So, one of the things for me, just a couple months back, three, four, five months back, my dad is, if there's one thing my dad will not hesitate to do, my dad will pull me aside and he'll say,

00:06:05.740 Hey, Mr. Bodybuilder, what happened to your six-pack?

00:06:09.100 Now you have a one-pack.

00:06:10.580 He has no filters.

00:06:12.800 If you're out of shape, he'll tell you.

00:06:14.860 Okay, he's good with the ladies, and he won't tell that to the ladies.

00:06:17.260 But he will tell me, if I'm out of shape, he'll tell me, and I love that because I'd rather have the truth than you trying to make me feel good as a father, as a mentor.

00:06:26.480 So I get on the scale, I weigh 256.

00:06:29.540 I've never weighed 256 before.

00:06:32.740 The moment I notice myself weighing 256, my energy goes high, my energy goes low sometimes, and this was right when the baby was born, probably right around when the baby was born.

00:06:42.280 So when the baby is born, you're doing two hours sleep, you're waking up, you're doing all this other stuff.

00:06:45.580 No matter what happens, I feel it.

00:06:47.880 The moment I feel the energy dropping, the moment I feel it, I know because I can't hang until 10, 11 o'clock if I'm starting early.

00:06:56.360 I know that.

00:06:57.300 And my business requires me to hang for a long time because it requires to have a lot of energy.

00:07:01.640 So there is a formula for every single person.

00:07:04.160 This isn't something you need to ask yourself.

00:07:06.340 How is your energy in the morning, and how is your energy in the afternoon?

00:07:09.440 And can you hang longer by 5, 6 o'clock, you're already tired?

00:07:12.820 Keep in mind, your competitors wake up typically earlier than you, and they're able to last longer than you.

00:07:17.420 That's the only reason they're growing faster than you and having a bigger business than you, whatever the type of a business that you have in place.

00:07:22.720 That is if you're competitive.

00:07:24.040 Here's my morning.

00:07:25.440 I wake up generally at 4.30, 4.45 when I have training sessions at 5.

00:07:30.620 If I have a training session with my trainers at 6, I'm up 5.15.

00:07:35.060 This morning I had a training session at 6.

00:07:38.200 I can no longer help myself.

00:07:39.600 It's a 4.45 wake up.

00:07:41.540 I'll have 4.45.

00:07:42.740 I'll wake up.

00:07:43.380 I'll check my email.

00:07:44.740 I'll go through all the information that I have on my email.

00:07:47.600 I'll typically listen to an audiobook while I'm driving or walking around.

00:07:52.340 I will do my daily affirmations on what I tell myself.

00:07:56.480 It's been one of my rituals for a long, long time.

00:07:59.380 I'll have my affirmations laminated all over the wall.

00:08:01.860 It'll be all over my shower wall, everywhere, on what I tell myself.

00:08:06.560 Then I go to the gym.

00:08:07.960 I do my routine.

00:08:08.700 I do my workout in the morning, weights.

00:08:11.100 Right after that, one of the things that I've been doing recently that I love, let me tell you, this is a very fascinating thing.

00:08:16.620 If you have the luxury of doing this, I'm 6'5", 240, so my back and my knees feel it a lot, especially when I was in the army.

00:08:23.420 We used to ruck march with 50-pound backpacks.

00:08:27.460 That's what we used to do, right?

00:08:29.360 So, cryotherapy, Paul, why don't we put the video up so they can see what it looks like.

00:08:34.480 Cryotherapy is something I've started doing recently.

00:08:38.600 You literally stand there with no shirt on, no clothes on, and you stand there, and this thing starts, and it goes all the way down to minus 240.

00:08:47.280 And the system I use, there's many different ones.

00:08:49.240 These machines are around $100,000.

00:08:50.580 It goes to minus 240 for three minutes.

00:08:53.700 By the time you're done, what happens to the blood, the entire body, flexible.

00:08:59.740 It feels like a million bucks, and your body gets shocked, is what it does.

00:09:04.560 Now, I do this at 6 o'clock in the morning.

00:09:06.140 So it works very, very effectively.

00:09:09.400 If you can't do that at your gym, it's great.

00:09:11.720 Even if you do it once a week, I highly recommend it for you to try cryotherapy.

00:09:15.800 Good breakfast.

00:09:16.740 You've got to have breakfast because that's your gas tank.

00:09:18.900 So remember, if you go and do 10 miles, 20 miles, 100 miles, 200 miles in your car, you need to go to a gas station.

00:09:26.560 Breakfast, meals are your gas stations.

00:09:29.120 You need to go fill up the tank.

00:09:30.980 Then I do my thinking.

00:09:32.020 These are the times that I do my thinking.

00:09:33.660 I do my strategy sessions.

00:09:35.120 I do my ideation.

00:09:36.600 I think about what I'm working on, my next project.

00:09:39.780 What needs help?

00:09:40.740 What needs to be improved?

00:09:42.460 Who do I need to call?

00:09:44.160 What are my conversations going to sound like?

00:09:45.940 What am I going to do with this?

00:09:46.760 What am I going to do with that?

00:09:47.560 So it's thinking, a lot of thinking and strategy.

00:09:50.920 And praying, definitely praying and meditating, catching up on news.

00:09:56.200 If my kids wake up early, they'll typically wake up at 645-ish.

00:10:00.700 I'm typically gone by then, but I'll play with them when I get home.

00:10:05.380 And so that's typically what my days look like in the morning.

00:10:07.900 Now, one thing I'm going to tell you to give you some feedback on, this is Monday through Saturday on what my schedule looks like.

00:10:14.220 Sundays, play day, family day, fun day.

00:10:18.880 You know, there is nothing on Sunday going on but me doing whatever I can to have fun with my kids.

00:10:25.700 I look forward to Sundays because we have a great time together.

00:10:29.400 We play together.

00:10:30.240 We enjoy each other's companies.

00:10:32.260 My wife and I have a great time together.

00:10:34.320 We either swim in the pool or go and do all these other things that we'll do on a Sunday.

00:10:38.520 There is no set thing on what to do on Sunday.

00:10:40.700 Sunday is refueling, re-energizing, re-firing yourself up.

00:10:45.000 Then at night, there's a lot of preparation for the week, typically a couple hours of preparation for the week.

00:10:51.680 And then we start the day back up again the next day.

00:10:54.540 I typically will do Facebook mentions on Sunday night at 10 o'clock, 9 o'clock recently to do some Q&A with other entrepreneurs from all around the world.

00:11:03.060 And that's what my week looks like.

00:11:04.540 Every week, this is one thing I want to tell you guys.

00:11:06.520 If you can't do it every week, I do recommend it every other week, especially if your body is in action, get a massage every other week, minimal.

00:11:17.160 Even if it's $60 a dollar a minute, I highly recommend it.

00:11:20.560 Get a massage every other week, minimal.

00:11:24.880 This body that you have, you and I live in it, right?

00:11:27.480 We live in this body.

00:11:28.520 Let me explain.

00:11:29.840 We are not the body.

00:11:32.060 We are the spirit.

00:11:33.480 We're the mind, right?

00:11:34.640 We live in this body.

00:11:36.960 We need to take care of this body. 0.92

00:11:39.220 And then it gives us a lot of miles.

00:11:41.060 It's like a car.

00:11:41.920 You buy a car.

00:11:43.500 You drive in the car, but you're not the car.

00:11:46.900 I don't know if I'm making any sense.

00:11:48.920 You're in the car.

00:11:49.840 You're driving the car, but you're not the car.

00:11:52.460 The driver dictates how long that car can last.

00:11:57.340 You, the body is the car, but your mind, the heart, we, the spirit, are the driver.

00:12:03.460 The way you take care of this, this is going to last a long time.

00:12:06.840 Now, obviously, we cannot, unfortunately, do anything at this point with some of the health

00:12:11.780 things that happen, cancer, all these other things that you don't have control of.

00:12:15.000 But you can definitely control energy, weight, being able to last, being able to do whatever

00:12:21.160 you can for your body to have more endurance, more stamina.

00:12:23.660 And all of that is within your control.

00:12:25.980 And the better you get at doing that, the longer you can compete.

00:12:30.800 You know, Warren Buffett is worth $70 billion, and one of the things he believes in is buy

00:12:34.880 and hold.

00:12:35.740 One of the things about success is for you to be able to buy and hold on to your energy.

00:12:42.120 The longer your energy lasts, the longer your competitors are not going to last.

00:12:47.740 Because your competitors are going to get tired.

00:12:49.900 They're eventually going to make so much money that their stomach's going to get big.

00:12:53.220 They're going to have the nice cars, nice house, everything.

00:12:55.180 Then they're done.

00:12:56.600 They're done.

00:12:57.820 But you, if you truly want to play at the highest level, you want to go 5, 10, 15, 20, 30,

00:13:02.020 40-year play, this is not a three-year, I'm going to be a millionaire, and everyone's

00:13:05.280 going to say you're such a rock star.

00:13:06.640 That is boring.

00:13:07.660 If that's your play, and if you think that's going to feel like a million bucks, it's not.

00:13:12.100 The play is constantly creating.

00:13:13.700 The play is constantly having the energy to come up with new ideas, engaging, sitting

00:13:18.800 in boardrooms, knowing you've got the fire, you're in charge, you're doing all the right

00:13:22.940 things, you're making not all the right decisions all the time, but you're making the right decisions

00:13:26.360 51% of the time, and your other guys, your competitors, are getting tired.

00:13:31.300 And they're thinking about it.

00:13:32.600 And they eventually will say phrases like this.

00:13:34.880 Let me tell you what it is.

00:13:35.620 This is when you win.

00:13:36.880 This is when you win.

00:13:38.040 When they start saying, life is not all about success and money.

00:13:41.620 Oh, that's an alibi.

00:13:43.560 They're justifying.

00:13:44.500 They've given up.

00:13:45.520 You win.

00:13:46.720 Of course life is not all about money.

00:13:48.440 It's as if they were saying life is all about money.

00:13:50.380 It's not.

00:13:51.480 But life is.

00:13:52.580 You've got 80 years.

00:13:53.580 What you do in this 80 years, 80 to 100 years, whatever your timeline is going to be, that's

00:13:57.980 the impact you're going to make with the next generation.

00:13:59.640 I don't think we're here just for ourselves.

00:14:01.640 See, it's the people that say life is not all about money.

00:14:03.780 You think life is only about you.

00:14:05.160 I don't think life is all about myself.

00:14:06.440 I think life is all about what I do for the next generation.

00:14:10.080 My example, my value, what I do with my kids, how I raise my boys, how I raise my daughter,

00:14:15.320 the type of way I treat my wife, my family, that dictates the example everyone's going

00:14:19.840 to watch for the next one.

00:14:21.120 That's what this means.

00:14:22.780 So we need to know that our capacity, the purpose you have, the impact you can make in

00:14:27.880 the world is massive, but you need a lot of energy to do that.

00:14:31.460 So going back to the morning ritual, you can do research.

00:14:34.200 There's plenty of research you can do on different people and what they do.

00:14:37.720 But one of the most common things everyone has is movement of the body to create a lot

00:14:44.220 of energy, proper food, proper nutrition to be able to last a long time, more than their

00:14:48.980 competitors, just like in sports, just like in basketball, just like in boxing.

00:14:52.920 What do they say?

00:14:54.060 Let's see if he can last 12 rounds.

00:14:56.820 Let's see how they'll pay in the fourth quarter.

00:14:59.600 Let's see how they're going to do in the third period when their legs are gone in hockey.

00:15:02.800 Let's see how they're going to do in stoppage time and in soccer when they're so tired.

00:15:08.060 Everyone's tired.

00:15:10.220 Ronaldo recently won the championship.

00:15:12.620 It's in the stoppage time.

00:15:13.940 One of his teammates scores a call.

00:15:15.160 He's hurt.

00:15:16.060 That's the moment you win in business.

00:15:18.240 The moment you win in the business when everybody's gone, when everyone's tired, you're still at

00:15:22.140 the office coming up with ideas.

00:15:24.380 Everybody's disappeared.

00:15:25.620 You're left.

00:15:26.420 You're the last man standing.

00:15:27.820 The last woman standing.

00:15:28.720 That's what it's going to take.

00:15:30.460 And you better have lots of energy and stamina and endurance to be able to compete in this

00:15:35.980 world, the world of capitalism.

00:15:38.060 The world of capitalism favors those people that have high energy, high intensity, who

00:15:41.380 are willing to sustain that energy for long periods of time.

00:15:44.820 And you can do that because there's a formula for it.

00:15:46.960 Thanks, everybody, for listening.

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00:16:08.900 With that being said, have a great day today.

00:16:10.640 Take care, everybody.

00:16:11.340 Bye-bye.

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Valuetainment - May 14, 2019

Episode 302 - Morning Rituals Of An Entrepreneur

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