Hi, I'm Craig Ballantine, author of the Perfect Day Formula, and I'm one of the passionate

few.

Hey guys, welcome to this episode of the Passionate View podcast today.

It's your host, Omar here, and today we get to pick the mind of transformational

entrepreneur, coach, and best-selling author, Craig Ballantyne.

And in this interview, the author of the Perfect Day formula, Craig shares exactly what he's learned

from not only going from zero to building past his own six and seven figure businesses,

but also what he's learned from traveling all over the world and deducing the science, study,

and research from other peak performers as well. From discipline to distraction, sleep to focus, and everything in between,

Craig's share is exactly the specific step-by-step answers to the questions

that you've been wondering about how you too can hack your day, own it, and master your life.

So I want to encourage you to grab a paper and pen, take notes, and pay

attention because today we're going to help you master your own perfect day formula with the

man who once suffered from severe anxiety for years and wound up helping clients do over a quarter

billion dollars with Craig Ballantyne. Enjoy. Thanks for being on the show today. Craig. Oh, it's going to be awesome, Omar. Thank you. Absolutely, my man. So let's get right into it. Can you talk a little bit about the book because we know you focus on high performance? Yeah. Talk a little bit about why you wrote the book and why you think it's been such a hit. Well, I wrote the book because I needed the book. So I was struggling with anxiety attacks back in 2006 and I realized I need more structure in my life. And I know most people are thinking, I don't want more structure in my life. I don't want this. Trust me, true structure brings you true freedom in your life. Because I was so out of control. I was working too much. I was having too much fun in the big city of Toronto.

And I ended up in the emergency room a couple of times because of that lifestyle. And then I thought, okay, here's what I need to do. I need to put a little bit more boundaries in place. I need to have end time up to my day. I need to have a little bit more systems. And that was then, oh my goodness, I need to share this with all these people.

So I started coaching other entrepreneurs.

It helped them get clarity and boundaries in their life. Their businesses started taking off. And I was like, okay, I can't just do one on one. I need to go and take it to the world. And so now I like to say like this truly is my life's work in a book. That's incredible, man. And then what age was it where you realize, like, man, I really need to turn this around? It was, I was 29 years old. And then I was successful. I got very fortunate that I kind of grew up with the internet when I went to college. That was the first year. They had email at the college. And so everything, I was one of the first people in there. So there wasn't a lot of competition when I

started selling my fitness programs back in the early 2000s. And I was able to build a six-figure

business, stop being a personal trainer, build a seven-figure business without too much work. Wasn't

crazy. It wasn't crazy competitive like it is now. And I guess I just kind of over-celebrated a bit.

But I was working. I was working all the time. I was, you know, having fun all the time. And like I said, it caught up to me. I wasn't 20 years old when I maybe could have got away with it. And that's when that anxiety hit. Nice. And then was it right away that you realized discipline equal freedom? Was it sort of an experimentation process? I mean what was it like to go from that situation to then kind of find your rhythm? I think that it wasn't until a couple years

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