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0:00 every successful person from Elon Musk to Cristiano Ronaldo swear by their morning routine it's their secret weapon so I broke down the habits of the world's top Achievers to create the ultimate morning routine that guarantees productivity and I'm going to be putting it to the test you know what they say every successful morning starts with an early night so it's 8:00 p.m. we're getting ready for bed and now as you can see the blinds are open and that's because Richard Branson leaves his blinds open for the sun to naturally wake him at around 5:00 a.m. now I'm from Canada it's winter here and we don't get sunlight period since I'm not living in the Virgin Islands in June I have a backup plan retired Navy SEAL Joo willink sets his alarm for 4:30 a.m. to the song iron Swan is something that he
0:46 calls an escalating alarm it starts off nice and mellow M and if you don't get up in time it's coming I'm scared for that I feel so exposed right now I might as well just drop the sex tape I really hope my neighbors don't have binoculars or else they're going to see something [Music] else the vibe of the song is making me just want to hit a hookah and then pass out not leap out of bed and sees the day good morning everybody as you can see it's as dark as my diary the year I had puberty and um
1:33 my usual little morning greeter hasn't even risen and out of just sheer curiosity I'm going to let the song play out because I'm just I'm so curious what's going to happen and while I do that um we're going to drop down and do some push-ups Simon cowl does 150 push-ups every morning it's one of the things that helped him lose 50 lbs also it didn't take long for me to figure out exactly what Joo meant by an escalating alarm [Music] yeah that's a trauma alarm that's some hell weak type you knew it was coming didn't you Cristiano Ronaldo takes a cold shower every single morning who else hates themselves like I want to wake up feeling like a champion not inferior to
2:18 a baby carrot but everyone says it's good for you I heard a guest on Joe Rogan say that which is everyone I guess [Music] I never really know am I supposed to bring shampoo and body wash in or is this just supposed to be sheer [Music] torture this is easily the worst one minute of my life that I can recall I think ever since my dad gave me the birds and the bees talk but the amount of benefits of a cold shower is really hard to pass up on the J really only can get
3:03 better from there I made my bed here's some proof apparently this simple chore can make you more productive the rest of your day then I went downstairs to make a coffee sort of Ed catmull makes a drink consisting of three espressos 3 tbspoon of cocoa powder and some sweetener he says this helps them think better so Ed you're telling me this helps you think better what's in your cocoa Ed I think another name for this thing is a crackheads Redeye mocha and if you need this first thing in the morning you probably should have stayed in bed just a little bit longer oh my gosh that's a heart attack hot chocolate yo whoa it's definitely not the consistency that I would describe coffee to be it's pretty thick like I could almost maybe seal a
3:50 wound with it I think that this might just help him think better because anything less than this might just be instant withdrawal it is so strong like if you have a if you have a child you're like looking to wean on to caffeine this could be a good start now if you think that this drink is different Warren Buffett first thing in the morning has some coke and not even the good kind Coca-Cola in the can dude is in his '90s it's crazy how I already feel like today is going to be a banger cuz I made my bed I wore this so that people would see me but now I just have a feeling that everyone's just going to want to hit me Kevin Hart will run two to three miles every single morning after the rock kisses him goodbye before heading to his
4:37 iron Paradise 2 to 3 miles I like that distance I'm not running 15 miles like David gogin because somehow I don't think frostbite is going to make me more of a man now I have three concerns on this run the first [Music] one the first one wildlife second one the fact I just had three shots of espresso before cardio that's a big concern and then the third one is that this is a reasonable hour for crime in my city and I just don't want to be caught in the middle of it we're just going to try to get this done as quick as we can let's
5:23 go so here I go just absolutely crushing the pavement looking like a mobster doing community service and my goal with this run is just to finish it as fast as humanly possible the world's asleep and I'm just out here grinding I'm not crying it's the wind mile number one is the mental breakdown phase where it feels like the worst thing in the world but then once you get past that you find that Runner high and you just can't be stopped so I'm just hoping to achieve that fairly soon yeah I don't need to stop yeah yeah it still sucks we're over a mile in I haven't got that high yet I'm running through an alley right now I'm
6:10 freezing can't feel my hands got an icicle between my legs I really just want to go home I love Christmas time I feel like if I go this way I'm just asking for it even though the run is only 2 miles for some reason I'm somehow both exhausted and weirdly proud and the feeling I have finishing this run is the same feeling I had leaving my last exam of the year today is going to be a good day A Touch of hypothermia in the morning I think it's really going to make me feel appreciative for the rest of the day another really big bonus of the early morning run is I'm already just about
6:55 4,000 steps in of my 10,000 a day total and it's I've 6 a.m. Tim Ferris makes something called the titanium tea and given the name I was expecting Viagra in the recipe but nope it's just a mixture of black tea green tea ginger and turmeric I do find tea to be a lot like candles and gasoline it smells a lot better than it tastes yeah I mean it just it it tastes like hot water but apparently this tea is going to be great for cognition and for f F loss and while we sip on this we're going to be doing something called the Pomodoro Technique that Elon Musk and Bill Gates use and basically what it is is you're going to break your stuff up into time slots they do five minute
7:41 slots where you focus on one thing at a time a lot can get done in 5 minutes a lot of disappointment but now I have an excuse I'm sorry Katie I'm just trying to live my most productive life so I checked my emails for 5 minutes did a little mindfulness practices and then I created my to-do list for the day one finish all my work while working on camera how meta two clean my room I mean just look at it it's bad and I'm getting kind of embarrassed three I need to give Boba a Christmas gift and every day with him is a gift already so there's no cap on how much to spend on him four romantic dinner for Katie because I'm a good husband and I'm on dinner Duty and she can't really cook all that much got to hate morning traffic pretty much every celebrity that
8:28 I looked at they all went to the gym in the morning now we have to give a special shout out to my boy Jeff Bezos he went from looking like a librarian to just an overly involved Football dad he looked like he went from getting stuffed in lockers to calling dibs on top buk he literally looks more like Vin Diesel then Vin Diesel there's a lot of speculation regarding his Natty status I mean look at this Paparazzi shot he has a lethal arm pump just casually on his yacht Jeff I hate you regardless he attacks the weights for 45 minutes every single day so we're going to do a 45-minute upper body workout let's get it barely alive and running solely on vibes from my run honestly the only thing keeping me going was the sweet relief that it wasn't leg day if it had been I'd probably still be in the
9:14 parking lot for real but instead a glorious collection of manageable weights and machines where I can sit down I mean if you don't like people and you're antisocial just wake up early man there's like nobody here I have definitely had better workouts in my lifetime that's for sure I'm also terrified to say I am starving right now it's only 7: a.m. I'm not usually hungry at this time I'm not usually awake at this time and it's kind of scary the thing that sucks about eating is that eventually you have to stop eating so then you're no longer eating and then you're basically just thinking about the next meal so I just have a prolonged amount of time of that head space which is being extremely difficult I think I might go over my calories today which is not
10:00 conducive to my goals I can't say I feel the call of iron in the morning but one thing's for sure I'm going to try my best and that's all that really matters we don't know much about Jeff's routine other than he does a push pull legs type of split i' rotate I do a pulling day and a pushing day and a leg day quick little fun fact I actually DMD Jeff bezos's trainer on Instagram being like yo bro give me this golden routine what the heck and then he then responds being like Yo dude I have an NDA I can't and that's making me wonder how how personal does this trainer get what muscles are we not supposed to know he's working but then again being one of the richest people in the world he probably has an NDA for the Pizza Boy delivering something to his [Music] house between the cold shower and the
10:46 morning run it had me feeling like I was Aging in Reverse if you know what I mean but the sauna has me feeling a little more like a man now I'm just going to chill in here for a little bit sweat away my sins one drop at a time and just get ready to attack the day why are these rocks here I'm just kidding if you have access to a sauna my one piece of advice for you is go in it on this website it says it can increase muscle regrowth by 30% and even increase your HGH by 200 to 500% that's a no-brainer workout already done what Feel Like A Champion seriously though I've been trying to convince myself to start going to the gym early for the longest time and I just can't do it I'm a sloth in
11:32 the morning but this has just sealed the deal the gym getting my steps in takes up so much of my head space during the day and it's super annoying when I'm doing desk work that I'm like damn I got to get up and pace and get my steps in or else I'm not going to get the minim out the pace tonight all that stuff so it's just nice it's out of the way don't have to worry about it I'm already at a little over 6,000 steps that can't be stopped just how you wonder wonderful shower here's some proof now it's time to make some breakfast so Taylor Swift is one of if not the most influential person in the entire world now I'm going to reserve my judgment on that because swifties are terrifying they are like vegans with social media clout just like a lot of
12:18 situations I got myself into I'm just going to swallow and smile her favorite breakfast of all time is buckwheat crepes with ham egg and cheese which to be honest sounds great and it sounds pretty well balanced so I'm going to try to make that and see how close we can get to Taylor well I mean she probably doesn't cook it guaranteed doesn't cook it so see how close I get to Taylor Chef I just feel so productive right now that I feel like I need to let myself down you know what I mean I feel like I feel like I got to lower the bar for tomorrow or else I feel like I'm just going to feel terrible and I also just don't want Katie to see how much more I can do I don't even know if I can keep this up for the entire day I'm already
13:04 starting to fade a bit but we'll seees well Taylor's Crepes look and probably taste like they came straight from Paris mine on the other hand could have been cooked by a prison Chef named Paris ham egg and cheese a day's work for a cow and a chicken and a lifetime commitment for the Pig eggs and ham you can't mess those up it's something the doctor Dr Seuss taught me a long time ago now apparently sometimes Taylor puts some imported truffles on her Crepes I have some truffle sauce imported from Walmart Crepes thin and mysterious and given my track record with French guys I should probably get it tested first but
13:49 I definitely overcooked that egg holy smokes I'm way more hungry than I should be for breakfast I've just been up for freaking long ass time [Music] M it is flat but my doesn't have a lot of Personality Taylor fans do not look too much into that oh my God that is good I think it's actually impossible to mess up these things you know and if you do you should be shot if Warren Buffett's eating McDonald's Taylor Swift's having cold cuts billionaires are relatable yo that means there's no reason why you can't eat leftovers M oh my God I have a Head Rush [Music] oh before I start taking on my to-do list we have one more thing apparently Rihanna dances in her kitchen before
14:36 heading off to work because it keeps her happy it keeps her well I don't know really why she does it but I think I'm going to try it maybe I'll figure out why she does it now I'm not going to have a name like bad girl Riri maybe something like slightly silly Wily I'm not that much of a dancer I didn't even have a date to prom so this is going to be kind of awkward so okay I'm definitely solidifying any possible stereotype okay I'm that's upsetting me it was time to tackle work my 11:00 a.m. meeting destroyed my 12:00 p.m. meeting obliterated they didn't even see it coming I was like a productivity ninja
15:22 throwing out ideas and solutions like they were nothing then I locked in for the rest of the afternoon crushing work before heading off to shoot part of a video where I'm transforming someone any guesses all my work is done for the day I'm considering taking a nap to give my to-do list some time to breathe time to address this fabric jungle I swear it's been here for so long it could probably qualify for historical preservation let's get rid of it for me coming out of the closet was easy it's just going back in to put clothes away that I find challenging for some reason my thought process was take the pile of clothes on top of the dresser and then put them on the bed and not into the dresser oh my gosh I have
16:08 been looking everywhere for you oh my god I've also been looking everywhere for you who would have thought there was a method to the madness during the time but I was just determined to clean things up and I was just super excited to actually see bare surface with all that dust there it's so gross this took so long it took 15 minutes I have no idea why I waited this long to do it but I wrote it down I made a list and I'm just like I have to execute it and they do say if you write it down you are more likely to get it done so maybe I should write down will Schwarzenegger and see where that gets me next up on the list get boba a
16:53 Christmas gift so he went to his favorite store Pet Value now he really wanted to come with me because for some reason he just doesn't trust me selecting the proper toys for him I'm not sure why so we talked about it we shook hands as you can see we made a deal I made a promise that I'm not going to let him down [Music] here every time I'm at the pet store I have to remind myself I'm not shopping for me I'm shopping for my dog bro is going to look so cute after tons of distractions at the store it was time to actually shop for Boba again this one looks perfect it has the sound that we're after even looks a bit like
17:39 Mommy I think that's I think this is [Music] it dinner is served and I'm actually shocked I've made it to this point of the day I'm extremely over tired running on adrenaline and this time no drugs were involved like at homecoming uh one thing I do know for sure is I'm going to be crashing harder than a a toddler after a sugar high tonight because I am just I'm so sleepy but I'm so hungry so we made some pen with some turkey meat sauce going to put some Parmesan cheese on it just going to manifest what I wish my coffee table looks like right now it's one of those days well a good meal and a happy wife I think the right thing to say is what
18:25 more could I ask for and now I don't know many things but what I do know is this routine is just not for me I think I'm going to be off to hibernate for at least the next 3 days but hey they say if you win the morning you win the day so everyone should have a morning routine it doesn't have to be over the top like this one just something simple that gives you purpose and sets you up to tackle the day your way [Music]
