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SFN175: How To Build Your Perfect Day - with Craig Ballantyne

Published: Oct. 21, 2016, 10 a.m.

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Craig Ballantyne is a productivity and success transformation coach and the author of The Perfect Day Formula: How to Own the Day and Control Your Life. He has contributed to Men\\u2019s Health Magazine since 2000, and in 2001 he created the popular home workout program Turbulence Training.

On his journey to success Craig has had to overcome crippling anxiety attacks, and he did that with his Five Pillars of Success and Transformation. Today Craig shows men and women how to use these five pillars to lose 10-75 pounds, get a raise and make more money, find the love of their lives, and overcome any obstacle in the way of success. You can read his daily essays on success, productivity and business at Early to Rise.

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In This Interview I Ask:

  • 2:40 - Can Craig talk about the rules that he has, why he has them, and why they matter for people when it comes to building out these perfect days?
  • 5:20 - What are some of the rules that Craig has?
  • 10:20 - How does Craig consistently make time for his routines and avoid getting overwhelmed by the rest of the world?
  • 15:10 - Tell me about your Five Pillars of Transformation. What are they and how do they work?
  • 26:40 - What are Craig\\u2019s thoughts on meaningful incentives versus consequences for not doing stuff?
  • 28:45 - I\\u2019m a big fan of the vision setting process. Craig has a story that shows how impactful the vision setting process can be. Tell us about that story.
  • 41:20 - If you were giving someone the formula for building their perfect day, what does that entail?

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(Some of) Craig\\u2019s Personal Rules for Success

  • Get up and go to bed at the same time every day. \\u201cYou can use whatever hours you want, but it\\u2019s a nice structure to really accelerate the work you get done over the day.\\u201d
  • Have a rule about your health. Anything related to stress relief, physical training or nutrition. \\u201cIt doesn\\u2019t have to be an all encompassing rule \\u2026 but what\\u2019s the most important health rule that you can follow that\\u2019s going to give you energy and give you overall health and really contribute to your success?\\u201d This might be a paleo diet, meditation or consistent exercise.
  • Work on your number one priority first thing in the morning. If you give your number one priority 15 minutes in the morning six days a week, then that 90 minutes of work every week will really compound.

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The Five Pillars of Transformation and Success

  1. Better planning and preparation
  2. Professional accountability
  3. Positive social support
  4. Meaningful incentive
  5. The big deadline

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The Impact of Setting a Vision

\\u201cThe Vision is essentially where you want to be in a couple years from now. Not only thinking about it, but actually writing it down. I call it creating a movie script for your life.\\u201d

Five years, three months and 17 days after Craig first articulated his vision to his coach \\u2013 owning a business like Early to Rise \\u2013 Craig bought the business of his dreams. Not something like it, but the exact business of his dreams: EarlyToRise.com.

Craig developed a mentor relationship with Mark Ford, the previous owner of Early to Rise. Mark told Craig to narrow his focus and set four goals:

  • One for your health
  • One for your wealth
  • One for your social self and
  • One for your personal enrichment or charity endeavors

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How To Build Your Perfect Day

This is incredibly important. If you learn to optimize your day, and you just focus on your daily habits, your perfect day becomes your perfect week becomes your perfect month becomes your perfect quarter becomes your perfect year. This is the highest leverage point to be focusing your time and energy on if you\\u2019re going to be making some sort of habit change.

  • Figure out how you best operate. Do a time journal. You\\u2019ll identify when you\\u2019re wasting time, and you\\u2019ll identify your own \\u201cmagic time.\\u201d
  • Solidify your sleep schedule.
  • Focus on your number one priority first thing in the morning.
  • Control the rest of your morning so you don\\u2019t get sucked into any rabbit holes and get through a lot of your to-do list.
  • In the afternoon, deal with the chaos that the world brings you. Be prepared by planning two solutions for every obstacle you expect to encounter in your daily life.
  • Finish work by five so that you can go home and focus on what counts in your life.

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