Podcast Summary
Plan your perfect week and prioritize relationships with weekly date nights: Making weekly planning and date nights non-negotiables can significantly enhance personal and professional life and relationships.
Planning your week thoughtfully and making it a non-negotiable priority can significantly improve your personal and professional life. Bedros Kullian emphasizes the importance of dedicating time each Sunday morning to plan out your perfect week, focusing on what truly matters and moves the needle. Craig Valentine, inspired by Bedros' weekly planning routine, wrote a new book, "The Perfect Week Formula," which highlights the significance of making weekly date nights a non-negotiable commitment, similar to Bedros' own weekly planning routine. By treating weekly date nights as a non-negotiable, couples can prioritize their relationships and effectively connect on multiple levels. For many individuals, making weekly date nights a non-negotiable can be a challenge, but it's essential for maintaining a balanced life and fostering strong relationships.
Plan your perfect week with priorities: Effectively prioritize relationships and personal commitments by planning your week in advance
Planning your week in advance and making time for what matters in your life, such as your relationships, is crucial for high performing entrepreneurs. To do this effectively, take out a scrap piece of paper and create a 7 by 6 grid with the days of the week across the top and six time blocks below. Use this grid to plan out your perfect week, starting with your priorities. These could include date night with your spouse or family time. Remember, you don't find time for what matters, you make time for it. So, build your business around your life, not the other way around. This will help ensure that your relationships and personal commitments remain a priority.
Schedule personal time beyond work: Prioritize family, self-care, and boundaries by scheduling them on calendars to focus on what truly matters and avoid getting bogged down in trivial tasks, maintaining relationships and personal health.
As entrepreneurs, it's essential to prioritize and schedule important aspects of our lives beyond work. This includes family time, self-care, and boundaries. By putting these things on our calendars, we force ourselves to focus on what truly matters and avoid getting bogged down in trivial tasks. Neglecting our relationships and personal health can lead to decreased strength and potential problems down the line. Remember, the 5% rule applies - only a small percentage of our actions as entrepreneurs will have a significant impact. So, make sure those important actions are prioritized and protected with clear boundaries. Don't let work overshadow your relationships and personal well-being.
Balancing Entrepreneurship and Relationships: Prioritize deep work, set clear goals, practice consistent routines, eliminate distractions, and make your partner a priority to maintain a strong relationship while building a successful business.
Entrepreneurship and maintaining a strong relationship can be a challenging balancing act. Decisions made in business can significantly impact personal relationships if the bond is not robust. Prioritizing deep work and setting clear goals the night before can help entrepreneurs stay focused and productive, ensuring they have the energy and resources to attend to their relationships. By practicing consistent routines and eliminating distractions, entrepreneurs can create a solid foundation for both their professional and personal lives. Remember, neglecting your relationship in pursuit of business success could lead to its demise. Make your partner a priority, and the rewards will extend beyond the home front.
Prepare for the next day to maximize productivity: Effective time management includes planning, prioritizing, and removing obstacles for the next day to focus on top priorities during most productive hours.
Effective time management involves planning and preparing for the next day before it begins. This process includes doing a brain dump of tasks and errands, prioritizing them, and making the path to completing them as smooth as possible. By following this routine, you can ensure that you are able to focus on your top priorities during your most productive hours. This approach, inspired by the concept of mise en place in cooking, can help you maximize your productivity and achieve greater success. So, set your reverse alarms, make your to-do list, and remove obstacles to make the most of each day.
Focusing on morning routine to boost productivity: Success comes from small, consistent habits. Focus on morning routine to eliminate distractions and stay focused on goals. Try a 'reverse alarm' for better sleep.
Successful entrepreneurs, like the client mentioned, understand that how we do anything is how we do everything. This means that even seemingly unrelated aspects of our lives, such as our personal habits and routines, can significantly impact our productivity and success. For instance, this client, who was insecure about her body and wanted to make more time, was coached to focus on her morning routine. By waking up earlier and eliminating distractions, she was able to establish a consistent and effective morning routine that helped her get to the gym and start her day on the right foot. Another important takeaway is the concept of a "reverse alarm." Instead of setting an alarm to wake up, set an alarm an hour before bedtime to wind down and prepare for a good night's sleep. This can help ensure that we get enough rest and are able to wake up feeling refreshed and ready to tackle the day. Ultimately, success often comes down to small, consistent habits and routines that help us eliminate distractions and stay focused on our goals. By being mindful of our daily habits and making intentional choices, we can build a "fence" around ourselves that helps us operate in a zone of success.
Prioritize work over self-care for deep work: Successful individuals prioritize work before self-care for maximum productivity. Experiment with different routines to find what works best for you.
While self-care practices like meditation, journaling, and gratitude lists can be beneficial, they can also become a form of procrastination if they prevent you from getting started on your work. The speaker suggests being honest with yourself about what truly needs to be done first, and considering experimenting with different routines to find what works best for you. For instance, successful individuals like Bedros and Sean Hadsell have found success by prioritizing their work before self-care activities. Ultimately, the key is to ensure that your deep work comes before your self-care, rather than the other way around.
Designing a perfect week for improved productivity and work-life balance: Scheduling essential activities on a calendar can help prioritize tasks, avoid distractions, and improve overall well-being. The 'perfect week formula' has been effective for many successful individuals.
Designing a perfect week by prioritizing important tasks on a calendar can significantly improve productivity, work-life balance, and overall well-being. This approach, also known as the "perfect week formula," involves scheduling essential activities, such as work, workouts, and family time, and fitting in other tasks around them. By following this method, individuals can avoid wasting time on distractions and focus on what truly matters. This strategy has been effective for many successful entrepreneurs and business owners, including Ed Mylett, Tim Grover, and Shanda Sumter. While it may seem unnecessary for those with ample time currently, the reality is that as financial success grows, time becomes more limited. Therefore, it's essential to establish a structured routine early on to maximize productivity and achieve long-term goals.
Maximizing Your Time as a Millionaire: As success increases, value of time grows yet diminishes, prioritize tasks, delegate, and focus on high-impact activities to make the most of every minute.
As you become more successful, your time becomes more valuable, yet you have less of it. It's essential to make the most of every minute and not waste it. Craig's deep dive into the Millionaire Week provided us with valuable insights into this topic. We're grateful for his expertise and knowledge shared on this episode of the Empire Podcast. If you gained a lot of value from this discussion, please consider sharing it, ranking it, and leaving a 5-star review with a comment. We look forward to bringing you more informative and engaging content on the next episode.
