WiFi wasn't really working at the office yesterday so spent a good amount of time commuting back and forth there. I did listen to productive things for most of the time so not a complete waste.
Finished up Robin Sharma's 5 am club method course. Not bad for the $25 I paid for it. I took a good amount of notes on it, so hopefully at least one thing sticks. I have a pretty robust morning routine so let's see if / how I can fit in his 20 / 20 / 20 formula principles or activities into that. The exercise piece in the morning as the first part of that was interesting as it allows you many benefits - the most compared to any other time of day. So my plan is whenever I do feel like sleeping back in, maybe I'll do a quick workout to release the dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine as he talked about.
I mean I had a chance today to test that and I failed. Slept at about 11:45 - 12 or so. Woke up at 3:15ish initially. Was more awake than I sometimes am later in the morning, but my willpower lost. My voice in me wanting sleep won out. So I went back to sleep and slept in til 6 am. I may be cultivating an unhealthy mindset of being down when I sleep so I have to be careful of not letting myself be affected if I wake up very early and go back to sleep. Getting 6-6.5 hours like I ended up getting today is still plenty and still less than the avg for an adult so I'm still 'keeping an edge' there.
While I was in the mode of routines and habits, I decided to share my current routine in full granularity in what I thought was going to be a single podcast but ended up being 3. Went into full detail about my ideal nightly and morning routine. Left nothing out lol. So those should be releasing over the course of March.
Scheduled a haircut for today so wanted to give it a few days to grow in before the Discovery Day next week.
Robin Sharma was talking about how sometimes he'll write and write and write in his journal - one time he wrote 400 pages in 1 week or so. But he said it's cool to look at the vast collection of journals over theyears and see this snapshot of yourself at various points in your life. My wish is to write enough so I do have a library vault of all my journals. If I keep writing at this pace, I'll have about 30 or so in 10 years.
Spent 2-2.5 hours writing an email to leadership about process improvements we can potentially make to our current way of doing things. So let's see what they say are next steps to make any or all of them happen. I went very deep with it and was ideating while writing it, so my creative juices were flowing and I was in the zone.
Also did the 4 mailbox suicide drill yesterday after my 2.5 mile run. Started at the stop sign, went to and from the first mailbox, then the 2nd one, 3rd one and 4th one. When I saw my times and compared it to my first time doing it last week, I noticed something that stood out. The first 3 mailboxes I had pretty much identical times. But it was the last mailbox portion where I separated myself. Last week, my overall time was 2:28, yesterday was 2:21. The last mailbox splits where 1:00 and 0:53 last week and yesterday, respectively. Every other split time was the same. That's when I realized the lesson in this. When I'm improving my cardio or fitness or actually any area of my life, it's not the first few ones that the separation occurs. It's that over the course of time, the consistency will show itself and reward the input. Best analogy is tennis. For the past ~15 years, basically 3 people (maybe 4 with Murray) have dominated the sport. Yes, they've won plenty of Masters 1000 tournaments (I think Top 3 every) but they dominate even more so in the majors. Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic may occasionally lose to other opponents in the ATP Tour events, but they very rarely lose to anyone other than themselves in the 4 major tournaments. Why? Simple - b/c it's best of 5 sets instead of best of 3 sets. The longer the match goes, the more separation they're able to create. People can hang with them shot making wise for 1 and 2 and maybe even 3 sets. But can they do it over the course of 5 sets? The answer is usually no. They're consistent for longer than any other players, so that shows itself in these major tournaments. Sustained excellence - that's what makes the Big 3 unbeatable - and hopefully what I'm building towards spiritually, professionally, personally, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
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