The Daily Review

Welcome to Daily Review. This little habit is going to be a game-changer for a lot of you watching this, and it's extremely, extremely powerful. It's just a quick little routine that you do at the end of each day that rewires your brain to perceive constant forward momentum, and hence to create constant forward momentum. So, let's tie it back into our running metaphor. A daily boat check keeps

your machine humming. So, you should be experiencing constant forward momentum on your journey, sailing across this ocean of cash and clients toward your legacy. You should always be moving. You should always be moving forward, and in fact, you should always be moving forward as fast as you can given the environment. So, a daily review is the equivalent of a daily boat check that keeps your machine humming

and makes sure that you're experiencing constant forward momentum. So, here's the problem. Why do we need a daily review? Why is this even necessary? Well, first of all, entrepreneurs are typically bad at appreciating how far they've come. Entrepreneurs tend to achieve one thing, and all of a sudden say that was nothing or just forget about it or not even enjoy it. On a macroscopic scale, like a

quarterly or yearly scale, or on a daily or weekly scale, they're typically really bad at looking back and saying, you know, I'm proud of that. That was really impressive. I just did that. I've come really far. That's not something that naturally comes to most entrepreneurs, given their personality types. They're typically really, really bad at that. And that's a really important thing to have. When you don't appreciate

how far you've come, then you lose motivation to move further forward, because the last time you achieved something, it wasn't actually that enjoyable. You create this sort of empty wind feeling, and you don't want your winds to be empty. Big ones are small ones. You want your winds to be fully appreciated. So, that's problem number one. The next problem is that entrepreneurs often neglect crucial areas of

their life in the pursuit of their goals. So, I think probably every entrepreneur on the planet has been guilty of this at some point. It's just when you get consumed by something, it happens, and the successful entrepreneurs know how to deal with it. They know how to make sure that they're not neglecting their family or their health, or even their social life in order to pursue their

goals, because they know that if they neglect any of those crucial areas for too long, their happiness and productivity will dip. And more importantly, what's the point of working so hard if you don't have those areas? So, that's the second problem. Now, the third problem is, you know, without some sort of review process, without some daily review, it's so easy to lose track of the actual progress

we've made, and stay mired in this often depressing or overwhelming big picture thinking. In other words, if your goal for this quarter is to hit 10k per month or 20k per month or something, and every day, all you think about is, have I hit 10k per month yet? The answer is going to be no for almost every day. You need that answer to be yes for something

else every day, while also being no until, you know, of course, until you achieve your goal, but you need to be saying, you know, I've achieved something. So, if you don't have, you know, a constant check of what you've accomplished today and what you've accomplished this week, which we'll get into in the next video, then you're going to lose track of the actual progress. You're going to

spend a week and think that you haven't gotten anywhere, and you're not closer to 10k per month, and you're going to get really depressed when in reality, maybe you're actually way closer and you've made huge progress, but you just haven't appropriately recognized it. Guys, this is a huge, huge problem. This is a reason a lot of entrepreneurs quit or never hit their goals. So, we need to

solve this. Here's the solution. Here's the outcome that we want. You want to put your head on your pillow each night with a smile. You want to have full appreciation of the progress that you've made. You want to know that today was a good day. Today, you moved forward. Today, you felt momentum, you built momentum. Next, you want to actually cultivate all the essential pillars of your

life. We'll get into how I define the essential pillars. But you never want to let neglect creep up in one area and knock you out unexpectedly. This happens a lot in the area of health and social life for entrepreneurs. If you're not eating right, or if you're not sleeping enough, or if you're not exercising enough, then you can get away with that for a while. In some

cases, even years, but eventually it's just going to knock you out. Whether that means in the worst case scenario, an ER trip, which has happened to many entrepreneurs, or you just burn out, have adrenal fatigue or something like that, and you have to take months off your business. So, it's not ultimately worth the cost at the end. You never want to let one area just be neglected

for too long and creep up and knock you out. That's not what successful entrepreneurs do. You never want your business to be threatened by something that you have such immense control over. And finally, you want to be head over heels addicted to progress in tiny incremental gains. Your life in your business should feel like a video game. It should feel like the most fun video game ever

created. The most epic sandbox mode ever created. You can do whatever the hell you want. And you should feel progress. You should feel all the tiny incremental gains that you experience on a daily basis. It should feel like a video game. You should literally, and I mean this in the most literal sense possible, be addicted to daily progress. And we can engineer that. We can create that.

So, before I give you the actual process, I want to touch on the mindset behind this, because as you know by now, I lead with mindset in this program. Without mindset, nothing else that I teach, nothing else that you could learn even matters. So, here's the mindset behind the daily review. You want to live one day at a time. Just today. Today is the only day that

you're living right now. Don't project yourself into the past. Don't project yourself into the future. Both of those create massive problems. And both of those are actually really, really easy to do if you don't have the right mindset and the right review process. If you project yourself into the past, if you find yourself thinking about the past and what you could have done better, and how your

life hasn't gone as well as you would have liked it to or those sort of thoughts, you're going to get to press. It's going to happen. Because you're not inhabitating the moment and you're letting these negative thoughts just spiral. Now, if you think about the future, if you constantly think about hitting 10K per month, hitting a million dollars, getting a private jet, etc., if you constantly think

about the future too much, you're going to be continually dissatisfied with the present and you're going to feel a lot of anxiety because those things aren't in today. Those things are in the future. You don't have control over anything outside of today. This is sort of another spin. I mean, another perspective on your perception is all you can ever experience. And all you can ever perceive is

today. I mean, right now, to be technically correct, but you have these sort of blinks in consciousness when you go to bed so you could also say, like, today is all you're experiencing right now. Even though it's really right now, but it's also in a sense today. Today is all you have. You know, I'll get into this. I'll tell you a story about this and how I

sort of learned this the hard way. But, I mean, what if today was the only day that ever existed? And all you could do was your best. All you could do was make progress with the time and the resources that you've been given today. If people approached every day with that mindset, the world would be a very, very, very different place. And that is the mindset that

the most successful people in the world approach their days with. So, live one day at a time. Now, here's a little mental trick that I use to do this. Don't say you're going to do something on Wednesday, or on Tuesday, or you're going to finish Module 3 of this program on Saturday. Don't say that. Say, in, because you don't live on days. You don't, like, stand on

them and look down on them. You live in them. They're containers that you fill with your consciousness. You don't live on days. That word choice doesn't actually make sense in the English language. It only makes sense because you're sort of writing things in a calendar and you might say, you know, I'm writing this on this day. But that's not actually accurate because what you're really doing is

you're putting an activity in this day. So, you're going to be, you know, completing Module 3 of this program in Saturday. It sounds weird, right? But it's accurate. And it's a completely different mindset. It's far more accurate. Now, you don't have to necessarily say this around, like, family. Although you could. I mean, that would probably strengthen it. But certainly use it in your notes when you're talking

to other people in this program. You know, I still, I still say on around a lot of people who wouldn't understand it. But saying in reminds you that all you have is today. You're in today right now. You're immersed in it, like a bath. You're not on it. You're in it. You're experiencing. So, now I want to give you my, my alien and a body story, I

call it. And this is, this concept is taken from, well, a lot of different sources. But I'll credit James Altecher with an article about, you know, how you should live each day as if you woke up an alien in this body. There's also a quote from, from Gandhi that's quite famous that sort of parallels this. And a lot of, a lot of Buddhism reflects this idea. So,

when I, you know, if you're, if you've watched the video by now and you should have on my personal story and, you know, how I fell into depression and everything. When I finally snapped out of depression and it was less of a snap. I don't know if I love that word. It was more of like a gradual climb. But at some point there was a, you know,

a snap where I was like, wow. And I felt like an alien in a body. I felt like I was a fundamentally different person than before. Like I had just been transplanted into the body of Odian and now I was taking over. My mistakes and failures didn't feel like me. They were completely depersonalized. They felt like somebody else or something else. And all I had, all I

could do was my best in this day, in this moment. That's it. It was like tomorrow wasn't me. Yesterday wasn't me. Me was now. And I was sure as hell seizing now. And I wasn't letting some concept, some other person today or some other person tomorrow or yesterday that I may or may not have been impede my progress. So, you know, here's the, here's the perspective that

I'll explain this with. Each moment you are, in a sense, in a very real sense, a new person. Your synapses are firing in a different pattern, a pattern that they've never quite fired in before. Your environment is in a state that it's never quite been in before. And you are in a state of being. You are a person that you've never quite been before. And if in

each moment, each new person does their best, then you can never, ever, ever be unsatisfied. And you will accomplish things beyond your wildest dreams. Because you can never, you can never have more than this moment. You can never do more than your best in this moment. That's all you have. And if you do that, no matter what happens, no matter the outcome, you can't be unsatisfied. Because

you're claiming all that you can. You're doing all that you can. This is incredibly powerful. Something I try to remind myself of on a daily basis. And again, this is the mindset that the top performers have. Each moment you're a new person. Each day you're a new person. And if each new person in every moment does their best, then you can never, ever, ever be unsatisfied. And

almost secondarily, you will accomplish things beyond your wildest dreams. But that's secondary. What's more important, actually, is the fulfillment of knowing that in each moment you are doing your best. So I put this on a slide because I thought it was important. So just repeat it one more time. Each moment you are a new person. Each day you are a new person. And if each new person

in every moment does their best, then you can never, ever, ever be unsatisfied. And you will accomplish things beyond your wildest dreams. And here's the quote from Gandhi that I mentioned. Each night when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning when I wake up, I am reborn. You are constantly dying and being reborn. Every night, every minute, every second is an entirely new person,

an entirely new opportunity to create whatever life you want. When you realize this, all of a sudden, you can't help but take action. Okay, so here's the actual daily review process. So those are the fundamental mindsets. And without them, you know, this is not, you know, you're going to be missing pieces of it, you're not going to get the most out of it. So those mindsets are

foundational. Now, what do you actually do? Well, set aside a time on your calendar. In fact, pause this video and do it right now. It should take about 10 minutes, 10 to 15 minutes, and maybe less. And put it on every day at the same time, you know, like 8 p.m. or 6 p.m. or when you finish work or something, scheduling your daily review. And then, so

feel free to pause the video and then go do that. I will still be here. Okay. Then this is the process that you go through. And there's a worksheet for this that you can follow it every day. First, record what you did today and for how long? In 15 minute increments. So, you know, worked on digital marketing retainer documentation for two hours. Maybe interviewed new subcontractor for

30 minutes. Wrote copy for funnel for half an hour or 45 minutes. Just write down everything you did. I went to the gym for 25 minutes or 30 minutes because we're in 15 minute increments. Just write down everything you did and how long you did it for. Now, you don't need to write down everything. Like, just write down all the key business activities you did and like

the other main activities you did. You don't need to be, you don't need to be like fastidious about this. You don't need to be too technical. You just need to be generally correct and not miss anything really important. That's number one. Then you want to record any wins that you had. Write down any wins that you had. You know, did you sign a new client? Did you

finish an important document? Did you finish a module with this program? Did you have a really good chat with your best friend? Did you just have an amazing walk? Did you have a, you know, great mindset where you particularly grateful today? Anything that you could define as a win? Write it down. Then, on the flip side, record any issues that arose. And this will keep a constant

eye on any areas of your life or business that are out of whack and you want to put attention on. So, did you lose a client? Well, it was a client unhappy with a particular piece of your value delivery. Was your mindset not that great for a portion? You know, did you have an argument with your girlfriend? Did you miss a gym session? Anything that you would

define as an issue? Write that down as well. Next, you want to rank your life pillars on a scale of one to ten and add them to the spreadsheet that I've provided. And I'll explain what life pillars are in a minute through the key areas of your life. So, you want to rank each one on a scale of one to ten and add them to your running

spreadsheet for the quarter. Then, you want to calculate your daily value. Again, there's another video on this. I'll explain how to do it. Each day, you'll have a number called your daily value. So, calculate your daily value and add it to the spreadsheet as well. Then, you want to log into your project management system, review your progress on goals and projects. Check off any boxes you've completed,

update your project management system. Then, you want to plan your tomorrow and I'll show you how to do that. That should involve your calendar and your project management system, including your three most important tasks to complete tomorrow, or at least your one most important task, and prepare everything to dive right in. A mentor of mine calls this greasing the slide. So, if you're going to start off

tomorrow by typing up an important document, have that document open on your computer so that as soon as you open your laptop, you can just start typing. You should be able to get up and just with minimal friction, dive right into whatever the most important thing is. Now, the seventh piece is optional, but it's recommended, but it is optional. The seventh piece is to journal for five

minutes about the events of today, about how the events of today relate to your values. This is a stress resilience exercise. There's some amazing research to back up the effectiveness of this. It's far more effective even than a gratefulness journal, because it helps you create meaning out of obstacles. So, for example, you could say, my values are self-awareness, execution, and legacy. So, I could say, you know,

for example, today, I had trouble executing, you know, I had trouble implementing for a client, but I, you know, I toughed it out, I figured it out, and I'll be figuring out the rest of this week, so it's an opportunity to improve my execution. You know, maybe I had a really, you know, I just had a shitty sales call today. Somebody said, no, when they should have

said yes, and they were a good fit, but it helped me realize some crucial things about my mindset and my sales process, which increased my self-awareness. Or, you know, I made a really tough decision today, and, you know, sacrificed some short-term value, but this helps me push forward towards my legacy. So, journal about how the events of today relate to your values. Optional, but very powerful. Okay,

so these are your life pillars. These are the life pillars that you're going to be ranking on a scale of one to take each day. The first is your emotional energy. This is essentially your mood. How did you feel for most of the day? How would you rate, like, your happiness and your fulfillment that day? Next is your nutrition. How did you eat? Did you eat well?

Did you eat unhealthily? Then exercise? Did you exercise enough? Did you move around? Did you go for walks? Did you lift weights? Whatever it is that you do and you know you need to do? Then social connectedness? Were you connected? Did you have some sort of face-to-face interaction? Did you meet up with friends, et cetera? If you just sort of go into hermit mode for too long,

you'll actually feel your productivity dip, or maybe you won't feel it, which is even worse, but your productivity will dip dramatically. Social connectedness is a fundamental human need. Then finally, mental clarity. Was I focused? Was my head clear? Was my head in the right place? Was my mindset good? Rate that on a scale of one to ten, as well. Now, the daily review, as you practice it,

as it becomes better, as it becomes more and more ingrained, will rewire your brain to perceive constant forward momentum. As an entrepreneur, you really are, unless you're sitting on your ass, you really are making constant forward momentum. You just often have such large goals that it doesn't feel like it, but what the daily review will do will rewire your brain to perceive constant forward momentum. When you

perceive constant forward momentum, you will become addicted to progress and you'll create more constant forward momentum, and you'll just be blazing ahead across the ocean at maximum speed with your engine humming smoothly, feeling constant progress and this addiction to progress. That is the daily review process, and the fundamental mindsets behind it. The other two videos in this section are going to talk about the weekly review, which

is a little bit similar, but on a macroscopic scale, on a weekly scale. And then the daily value that I talked about. So I will see you in those videos.