After a late night’s Saul Goodman & all too early wake-up call, you zombie shuffle your bad underslept self over to the coffee maker & cereal bowl to check how many Tinder matches you don’t have. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day right? Not so fast private. The order, timing & sequence in which you complete each task has a butterfly effect for the rest of your day.
Getting an 'airtight' morning routine locked in is THE single most important game-changing piece of advice I wish for you to take from this blog.
If you do nothing else, leave to never return, or decide to leave me a scathing review on an incel troll forum, for the sake of your entire future, begin your day right.
What’s an example of the daily structure?
Throughout this blog, I’ll go into more granular detail on how to set up each segment of the day for the highest probability chance for optimal success. From listmaking, scheduling & apocalypse prepping to step-by-step recipes for alternative ways to get your greens in, the simplest way to begin building your routine is to divide your day into 4 even blocks of time.
Everyone’s daily responsibilities differ greatly so what I’m outlining here is just a template to get you started, you’ll need to modify it to fit your own personal commitments.
Here’s a simple daily structure that I follow 7 days a week, without deviation to give myself the highest probability of having a fulfilling, happy & productive 24 hours on this planet.
Time Block 1. Morning routine | 5-9am
Mastering mornings is the daily foundation that governs how your remaining hourly blocks of time are stacked. How you kick things off will determine whether you build a fortress or a Jenga tower that day. Your evenings should be spent planning your following mornings, removing all friction points that normally slow you down & cause frantic last minute decision making. To put it simply - ‘last night’ should be the preparation for ‘this morning’, make sense?
On ramps
By creating simple ‘on-ramps’ you're doing solid gold favours for your half-dead, swamp-breathed & pre-caffeinated morning self.
My mornings are an identical conveyor belt of easy to follow steps, completed in correct sequential order, dovetailing every task neatly into the next neighbouring task. Here is how I personally plan my mornings:
5am | Morning routine
Beating the sunrise & training your circadian rhythm to awaken before your alarm will take time to get right, but it all starts with the disciplined decision you made the night before to get to bed on time.
Drink 1 Pint of pure natural coconut water, this hydrates your body & kick-starts your digestive metabolism to help with the next step…
Now, ‘calls of nature’, washing, grooming, getting dressed, making the bed, feeding the cat & any household admin are completed to prevent any later obstacles to distract me.
(Fudge 'The Vanilla Gorilla' 28/9/22 - 21/11/23).
Next, hormone replacement medications, vitamins & daily supplements. I do all these at once to prevent me forgetting as my day gathers momentum.
Mobility, flexibility & Morning press-ups.
Stretching out muscular tension, circulating blood flow & pumping out 100 press-ups will release natural endorphins to help wake me up.
6am | Emails, messages, accounts, crypto, admin etc | 30 - 60 mins
Time-boxing & front-loading all my least favourite administrative office tasks I ensure that nothing gets missed, overlooked or forgotten about.
Here I plan meetings, reply to emails, update spreadsheet expenses, pay invoices, forecast finances & try not to look at naked ladies.
7am | Physical exercise | 60 - 90 mins
Weights, circuit training, boxing, BJJ, hill sprints or distance running.
Fasting - skip the breakfast, you do not need it. Training fasted & teaching your metabolism how to not even feel hunger until midday, cuts out an easy 750 calories per day from your diet, keeping you looking & feeling like a million bucks. Exerting fasted ketogenic energy will release endorphins & give an unstoppable sense of momentum for the 2nd time block of your day.
Time Block 2. Work block 1 | 8-12am
Now you’ve got today off to a breakneck start, the blood’s pumping & your brain is truly buzzing with dopamine & happy hormones, you’ve just created your pinnacle of physical & mental states, 100% naturally.
In order to hall ass, get sh*t done & lock in for your 1st 3 hour window of distraction-free productivity, it comes down to one thing… momentum.
This is why it is so crucially important to complete tasks in correct sequential order to kickstart the flywheel of propulsive momentum. Building on each successful micro task completion gives an unstoppable sense of wind at your back & swimming with the current.
To tightly dial in your mental focus, concentration & Robocop laser aim, those who need an extra added gust of wind at their backs can also time their 2nd dose of Shroomstar™ gummies.
Using your jam-packed jar of trusty genius, chewing 2-3 gummies will help block out distractions & lock in a limitless flow state of hyper-productive potential.
Compounding the sharp mental clarity from fasting, simply skipping breakfast has amplified your exercise endorphins & magnified the brain-boosting cognitive power of the functional medicinal mushrooms. This productivity synergy is the wholly grail of high-level professional performance & limitless creative potential.
Time Block 3. Limitless Lunchtime Liftoff | 12-3pm
Maintaining this pace of productive output is naturally only sustainable in short 2-3 hour sprints. By the 3rd quarter of your day your appetite will begin sounding the midday dinner bell to begin feeding the sleeping belly-beast.
Refuelling your engine & allowing the mental pistons time to cool down while you chow down a protein heavy lunch, will give you time to recharge, recompose & hit the 3rd quarter of your day with a full tank again.
Pro tip: go easy on carb dense foods to prevent crashes. Front loading protein rich foods (lean chicken, tuna, eggs, cheese, tofu, almonds, peanuts etc) will not only better fill you up & reduce cravings, but also won’t spike blood insulin levels (the main culprit for post-lunch food comas & energy craters).
By consuming carbs only in the evenings, you can deliberately trigger an insulin spike to knock you out for the count & effortlessly into a deep REM sleep cycle.
The Anti-Hippy Meditation
To further compound energy-restoring bio hacks, cue your 15-minute lunchtime date with oblivion. Before you roll your eyes & click off yet another ‘tree hugger meditating’, hear me out. If you can’t meditate, seriously, learn dude.
Like a daily IOS system update, shutting your entire operating system down then rebooting it will not only delete any post-chow drowsiness but also totally reset your mind so it functions at 100%. For those not lucky enough to be able to take a lunchtime power nap, a short burst of monk-mode meditation will have you stoically ready to begin your next hyper-focused work block with the wind in your sails.
For those wanting to milk more from the meditative practice, try eating 2-3 gummies a few minutes before you start to settle the mind.
The 6-blend mushroom complex mix, is a powerful stress-relieving, cortisol-reducing & mind quieting compound cocktail to sink your meditation experience to an astral travelling & abyss depth darkness.
Time Block 4. Evening Unwind | 6-9pm
The victorious end-of-day, tight work shoe kick-off is a priceless sensation, you made it champ, you F’n made it.
Closing the front door & face-planting, fully clothed onto an empty king-size bed is an Olympic sensation of pride & accomplishment...
that can only be achieved with a solid day's grinding effort.
But before you get too comfy, remember ‘tomorrow morning, starts this evening’. Planning tomorrow morning & removing all potential ball aches, annoyances & pre-caffeine friction points tonight, is the key to unlocking the vault of productive success tomorrow. One final blast of administrative life choirs will set the simple morning ‘on-ramps’ to give your future self the strongest possible fighting chance of triangle choking tomorrow's relentless ambush.
Examples:
Boil the kettle
Take a non caffeinated tea bag (chamomile recommended)
Drop the tea bag + 3-5 Shroomstar™ gummies into your favourite bedtime mug
Another way to think about this seemingly unnecessary ‘extra’ work is to reframe it, look at it from another perspective...
You’re not wasting time, you’re actually saving it… F’n LOADS of it dude.
Zooming out from the daily keyhole of life & seeing the panoramic 1000 ft 3D map of your week, month & calendar year, you’ll reveal the enlightening macro trendline of where your current daily habits are taking you in.
Put another way, all these so-called ‘unimportant’ or ‘insignificant’ decisions all add the F up to create mountains of resources, units of free time or opportunities that can be redeemed at a later date. Think of it like 'credit with the house'.
One of my favourite books that I highly recommend is called ‘The Compound Effect’ by Darren Hardy. It explains in enormous detail the importance of making small, almost invisible micro daily changes to completely change the trajectory of your future.
Understandably for many people, unwinding after a day's output like this might be difficult, afterall their heads could still be spinning from Slack alerts & their brains buzzing from endorphins. Being able to unplug at the mains & relax at the end of a taxing day is crucial to maintaining a sustainable, happy & balanced long-term life. Getting enough sleep after a relentless day's hustle is an obvious & essential bodily function that cannot be neglected.
Staying up late, watching hyperstimulating incognito content or scrolling through addictive dopamine-spiking TikTok feeds is arguably the worst way to set yourself up for a positive start tomorrow morning.
So how does one reduce the stress hormones, relax the body & unwind the mind before bed without taking prescription medication & rubbing one out?
All hail the mushroom cloud laying beddy-bye brew-bomb... Moon Shroom Zzz-Tea.
Getting a solid night deep sleep needn't be an uncomfortable, frustrating twist & turn. Let Rock flipping to find the cold side of a pillow be a thing of the past... Shroomstar™ has an Undertaker tombstone tea to tap you out in 3. Simply dissolve 3-5 gummies in boiling water with a bag of decaffeinated tea, to have you coppin’ Zzz’s & counting sheep.
What you’ll need:
Boil the kettle
Take a non caffeinated tea bag (chamomile recommended)
Drop the tea bag + 3-5 Shroomstar™ gummies into your favourite bedtime mug
Stir the tea well & mash the gummies with the spoon to speed up the dissolving
Once the gummies are fully dissolved, get comfy, sip slowly & enjoy the warm mellow yellow nectar
Conclusion
To be perfectly honest when I write these articles I have a specific individual in mind, I write to a guy that I knew once all too well, this guy was a prat, a lost, hopeless, dumb, lazy-schmuck. I write to a clueless, lost, disorganised, depressed, addicted, flat broke, unemployed, undisciplined, pot bellied, highly unlucky & karmically cursed 30 year old version of my younger self.
Dave mate, listen up...
The neck deep in debt, dumbass & financial hostage that owed everyone he knew money, who lived on government welfare, couch surfed & even spent Xmas eve sleeping in a London shop doorway only 5 years ago, made the decision to pull his thumb out & make something of himself.
So understand the wisdom I drop throughout these articles is not some recycled crap I heard from a Ferris Podcast, nor is it inspired by any diluted Goggins quotes.
None of this was learned from a book, a mentor or a wandering hand's uncle to help me get me back on my feet. Every single technique, system & discipline I speak about here with nuts-deep conviction are the back breakingly slow & painfully harsh life lessons I was forced to learn alone, without support or a penny to my name for over a decade.
These are the daily disciplines I instilled in myself to take me from the very bottom of a dark homeless masturbating crater of pot-bellied suicidal depression, to the founder of a third bootstrapped 6 figure company from a beachside Bali villa while maintaining year-round single-digit body fat.
This journey took over 10 goddamn YEARS of uphill bare knuckle hardship to instil the non-negotiable daily practices that I will live by until my dying breath.
Lastly, it’s taken over 3000 words for me to make my point here & hopefully you aren’t as much of a screw up as I was. Nevertheless, I can be pretty sure of one thing, if you were truthfully honest with yourself I bet there are many areas of your life that need bar raising improvement. Be it making more money, climbing the career ladder, founding your own company, raising your social value, getting in shape, ditching losers or maybe finding a more suitable partner.
All the above are all totally possible & within short-range McGregor striking distance provided you can drop bad habits, refine your daily routine & are able to focus on tasks without getting distracted.
For those struggling with personal discipline, I understand, taking control of your life is difficult, but that’s why I’m here - to provide solutions, in the form of level headed, practical advice to improve your life by only 1% each day. Suddenly your goals aren’t that scary right? Totally achievable, a single percentage point gain each day adds the F up over a long enough time frame.
For those struggling to stay on track with projects, unable to lock in with precision or find themselves easily distracted, there’s of course Shroomstar™...
Yes, I also understand I’m biased here, but they personally help me optimise my daily routine when working on multiple stressful overlapping projects simultaneously. Whether you choose to try them out or not, your call dude, power to you, the most important thing is beginning a structured daily routine to begin planning your exit, digging your escape tunnel & setting yourself up for a more secure future.
And to close your honour, for those who’ve it all worked out, have their ducks in a row & every vector of their lives...
dialled in tighter than a Hollywood 3-way; good on you, please contact me & I’ll pay handsomely for your mentorship.
David Rees
Founder, CEO
Shroomstar™
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