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The Building Blocks Of The Entrepreneurial Morning Routine
3 min readSep 12, 2022
- Waking Up Refreshed — This is usually around 4–6 a.m., although there are entrepreneurs that wake up as late as 9 a.m. and, in rare cases, even later. It is not about when you get up but that you get up at a time that makes you most productive and that gives you 8 hours of rest.
- Looking At Their Dreams — They are either so familiar with their dreams that they know them by heart and can visualize them first thing in the morning, have pictures to trigger them, or have a journal next to their bed to re-write them each morning. Entrepreneurs will always, in some form, remind themselves of why it is they do what they do.
- Exercise — Usually Entrepreneurs will start with a bit of exercise in the morning. This can be anything from a full workout or run, to just a walk around the block or some stretching. Anything that gets the blood pumping a little bit or breaking a sweat at best works.
- Work — Or rather, “Eating that Frog”, as Brian Tracy puts it. In the morning successful Entrepreneurs will tackle the biggest, hardest, task of the day as soon as possible. What that is depends on the Entrepreneur but it never involves replying to others. It is the most important thing they need to do, and likely the thing that most people would avoid and procrastinate on.
- A Healthy Breakfast…
