The quick and easy way to achieve the same level of success as your favorite successful person
P.S. (It's neither quick nor easy)
Lately, I’ve been on an optimization kick.
I am not optimizing my own schedule, which I am pretty happy with at the moment, but I am diving deep into the optimization monster.
My Sunday morning video for Instagram and my Monday morning RTFU newsletter both focused on the topic.
Today, I want to look at it from a different angle.
Some people talk about morning routines as something that, if optimized, will make everything go perfectly.
A well-organized morning routine will guarantee success in both the day and in life.
As proof, they point to very successful people and their morning routines.
Then there is the other perspective. That we’re spending too much time worrying about morning routines and trying to optimize them.
This leads to its own stress.
The problem is that both camps miss the real issue.
I’ve become fascinated with Joe Rogan’s morning routine.
I don’t know Joe Rogan, but his morning routine is pretty well- documented, and often discussed as a model for emulation.
It can be easy to think that Joe Rogan’s morning routine is what has made him successful.
But I suspect that nothing could be further from the truth.
According to the article above, Joe spends his mornings drinking smoothies, practicing jiu-jitsu, lifting weights, sitting in the sauna, and cold plunging.
I can see how you might think that following the same morning routine could make you successful, too. After all, these are the sorts of things successful people do.
The problem here, is that these things didn’t make Joe Rogan or any other successful person successful.
Their success enables them the luxury to spend their morning focused on themselves.
What makes most successful people successful is hard work.
Grinding. Day in and day out.
Possibly a little luck, but always hard work.
So, when we look at the morning routines of successful people, we don’t see what made them successful.
We see the opportunities they now have because they are successful.
The reality is that they do the things they do now because they’re successful, and that success gives them the time, money, and opportunities they didn’t have when they were starting out.
So, the solution is not to emulate the morning routines of successful people that you admire but rather the work ethic that got them there in the first place.
Until next week, Keep Walking Point
John
