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Do self-made millionaires and ultra productive people think about their day differently? I’ve interviewed hundreds of ultra productive people including billionaires and highly successful entrepreneurs and in this episode, I’m sharing the commonalities in how they start and schedule their day. What you’re going to learn: What you should be doing in the first 30-60 minutes of your day The morning rituals of John Lee Dumas, Kevin O’Leary and Ken Blanchard How highly successful people manage email throughout their day The meeting habits of Marissa Mayer and Richard Branson Key Quotes: “A productive day is built on a foundation of a strong morning.” “One of the saddest mistakes in time management is the propensity of people to spend the two most productive hours in their day on things that don’t require high cognitive capacity, like social media. If we could salvage those precious hours, most of us would be much more successful in accomplishing what we truly want.” Read Full Transcript All right, all right. I am Kevin Kruse. Welcome to the show where I am teaching you how to 10x your productivity based on my research into highly successful people, the highest achievers out there in various fields. In the last episode I shared Mark Cuban's number one productivity secret, and today I'm going to explain how self-made multi-millionaires schedule their day. How do they go back planning their day? Let's start by getting you that cheat sheet, the one page planning tool that millionaires use to schedule their day. One page tool you can use right away, an instant download. All you need to do is send a text message to 44222 with the word achieve, or just come on over to the podcast website. It's productivity-podcast.com. Do self-made millionaires and ultra productive people, do high achievers, do they think about their day differently? What you're going to hear in this episode, if you've been following along and you listen to the previous episodes, this is going to be a good reminder, a good anchoring of a lot of the concepts we've been introducing on their own. As I've spoken to and interviewed hundreds of ultra productive people, I keep hearing these common themes over and over again. First, self-made millionaires, ultra productive people, they have a sacred morning ritual. Back when I was young and dumb, the alarm would go off, I'd take my five or ten minute shower, I'd race out the door, stop at the 7-Eleven for a cup of coffee on the way in and dive in because I just felt I was more productive getting into the office. I wasn't hungry, I didn't need food, and that's how I started my day. That's not how ultra productive people start their day. They know that a productive day is built on a foundation of a strong morning. Rather than racing out the door, they spend thirty to sixty minutes strengthening their mind and their body. Hal Elrod, I bring him up a lot, he talks about the miracle morning. Instead of trying to achieve more by doing more, your morning, your miracle morning, lets you achieve more by becoming more. John Lee Dumas goes for a thirty-five minute power walk while listening to podcasts first thing in the morning. Ken Blanchard, I had an opportunity to have lunch with him. He's the author of The One Minute Manager and sixty other leadership books, runs a very successful large training company. At lunch he told me that every morning he gets up early and he rides on his exercise bike while reading some inspirational text. Kevin O'Leary, Shark Tank entrepreneur, he shared in an interview that I saw that he rides an exercise bike also for forty-five minutes in the morning while watching the news. Dan Miller, great entrepreneur, career expert, told me, "I take advantage of the rich audio programs available, so then I fill forty-five minutes with physical exertion combined with mental input and expansion. I carefully protect that first hour...