What is your daily routine?

Hi Bruce,

I now the importance of a daily routine for an entrepreneur. At present I get up late, but tend to go to bed late also. But to my shame I don’t really have a routine, set out, for my online business activity. The daily chores I do around the house are all pre-planned and sorted. But there is no set plan, yet!, for my online business.

I am hoping that PreneurPal and all you good people out there, will help me to shape up and design a disciplined approach to making my online business ideas a success.

4:45 — Get up (for clarification, that’s AM not PM)
5:00 — Shave
5:15 — Coffee/ check email
5:30 — Shower
5:50 — Pack up, prepare lunches for me and the wife
6:30 — Drive to work (we both work at the same school; it’s awesome. The running joke is that I’m the boss at work, and she’s the boss at home. Truer words were never spoken.)
7:30-2:00 — Teach my butt off
2:15-ish — Come home
3:00 — Take our two four-legged daughters for a walk
3:30-6:15-ish — Total focus on my business
6:30 — Dinner
7:00 — Hunker down and watch some TV and grade some papers
10:30-ish or 11:00-ish — Bed
Do it all over the next day

Oh yeah, and lest I forget, there’s some wine drinking time between 5:00 and bed (the wife and I love wine). I guess we all have to have some kind of vice.

Cripes. . .I didn’t realize I did that much during the course of a day 🙂

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Bruce Hoag

I feel like someone just wrote this for me 🙂

Wake up

Quiet Time

Reflection Time

Strategic Business Time (Analog, this is thinking with no devices, then paper to document thoughts (sometimes)

Take action and implement what I thought about in the previous session Time

PreneurPal Time

Any other tidbits that need to happen

Dog walk time (3-5 miles)

Free time

Note there’s no time beside each . . . I generally do each in that order, the dog sometimes demands a walk earlier, so she slots in earlier.

But no time.

Each takes as long as it does, then move to the next.

Key: My time is not defined by an inbox, a social media account (or the inherent feeling of responsibility to reply to social media or emails), instead, I set my day based on what I’ve determined is important and either: a) changes someone’s life b) changes many lives or c) moves my business along (and my business has as it’s primary goal in everything I do, that of changing lives)

So everything in my business is dictated by making those 3 things happen (and of course having the wisdom to charge when appropriate 🙂 ))

Sean

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Jennifer Eick-Jakiela

Limited time constraint is one of the things I love most about working on my own. I have clients and deadlines, but don’t need to punch a clock to get it done.

There are several actions I take daily that help keep me on track.

– early to rise (before 5, most days)
– Do The DEEP (reminds me of who I am and what I’m doing – includes prayer, meditation, and Bible study
– eat for strength and not for pleasure
– get to the gym or take a walk/jog
– catch time with my family and be present
– keep client work caught up – try to deliver more than I’m paid for
– study to learn – attend live Sean sessions, read, take courses
– spend time weekly with mentors and attend Church services
– always ask … is this crummy time or crucial time?
– don’t forget to go fishing (take a break, have fun, relax)

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Bruce Hoag, Mark Rhodes

Bruce

that’s a good looking schedule!

One thing I’ve found is critical to building a successful business . . is thinking time.

Perry Marshall has a daily analog think time from 5 mins to 1 hour or so each day.

Richard Koch has a daily think time (he does it on his 10-20 mile bike rides after his hour or so of work in the morning.

Thinking is critical to this business . . .and thinking can’t be done well with a digital device or phone in hand or nearby.

This thinking time to which I refer is time totally allowing your mind to just think.

The first few sessions are rough.

but after a month of an hour a day of just thinking . . you begin to get clarity!

Sean

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Norma Allen, Mark Rhodes, Bruce Hoag

I have a lot to learn, here 🙁

I still tend to work from immediacy rather than forethought.

Wake up late but also work late… that’s my best time.

everyone tells me it’s wrong, but it’s been that way my whole life.

Learn learn modify… sigh

My routine is all over the map, but it does have some themes to it.

6:30: Wake up, drink coffee, get my daughter to school.

7:20: Come home. Work out if I am disciplined enough, before I lose the desire altogether. Drink more coffee, read emails.

8:00: Usually focused time on the computer.

I set my own schedule, so I can see clients in my “day job” anywhere as early as 9 or 10, and as late as 9 at night.
So from 9-2:00, I’m usually working on the computer, unless I have sessions with people. This is my most productive time of the day, as far as working on my online stuff – and sometimes my day job, too 😀

2:00: Go pick my daughter up from school. It’s our little thing, where she gets my undivided attention. We’ll discuss how her day went, maybe go get some food.

4-? – Back on the computer – when I’m not out meeting with clients. (Note, my daughter is a senior in high school, so she is often gone, or has her own friends over, or doing her own homework. If one of my other [grown] kids comes over, or she or they need or want my undivided attention sometime between these hours, this is family time.)

When I’m home, I’m not as productive during this time, but I will still try to work on things. And/or, this is the time that I do “lighter” activities online, like checking in on PreneurPal 🙂

I’m usually in bed by 10. I rarely stay up later than that, although sometimes I am not tired until 11 or later.

Some days I just let the day flow.

today: awake at 6:40

Walk dog from 7:20 to 8:20

Breakfast

9-10 forum, email, fight fires, help clients

10-12 consulting clients

perhaps this afternoon I take off 🙂

Sean

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Bruce Hoag