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Congratulations. You have made it to the weekend and this is your Friday Roundup. Super excited to chat with you guys today and talk about my favorite topic, financial independence.

And to help me with this, I have my co-spread here with me today. How you doing buddy?

Hey Jonathan, I am doing very well. Yeah, everything's going well over here. I'm excited to chat about the episode on Monday with Miles.

I think that was a fascinating one. And yeah, I think we just have a lot to go over today. So this should be a fun episode for sure.

No kidding. This is going to be absolutely packed full of information. One of the reasons that I'm excited about it is that I'm so prepared for it.

This past week is the first week that I have started incorporating a morning routine. And I've been seeing this all over the place and it's talking about world-class performers and people that are at the peak of their game have really adopted a morning routine into their daily life.

And I thought, what would that look like for me in the particular space of life that I'm in right now? And my job currently is to focus on producing an awesome show for you guys twice a week on Mondays and Fridays.

And the quality of the show is directly related to how much time and effort Brad and I put into preparing for it. And so with that in mind, Brad, you know, I told you maybe in passing, but I'd love to give you a little bit more information about it.

I have started incorporating the library into my morning routine. Well, Jonathan, that's cool. Obviously we are huge friends in the library here at Choose a Five, but I didn't know morning is somewhat surprising.

I don't think our library opens that early. So I'm curious to obviously, hey, tell me more what time do you got there? What does this look like?

Do you just sit in the middle of the library, grab a chair? What, you know, tell me more.

I love it. You know, actually, I tried to go to the library at 9 a.m. and they were closed. So he sat in the parking lot the first time doing my prep. But once I found out that they consistently open at 10 a.m. You know, during weekdays, then I readjusted my schedule. So basically I wake up at six.

I get my mindfulness and exercise routine all build in into that first two hour window, have breakfast with my wife and son. And then by that point, I prep and I go to the library, I get to the library at 10 a.m.

and I do show prep from 10 to roughly 12 or one somewhere in that range. And that basically is baked into my day four days out of the week solid. And then I, you know, I schedule the rest of my day out from there.

But by having that consistency that time set aside, I'm finding that my productivity is just going through the roof.

Well, that's that is really cool. So you are you're really sitting down and locking out specific hours for let's say show prep or I don't know email or something like that. Like is that how you're structuring your time exactly.

So by first of all, getting that exercise component done early in the morning in a dedicated spot going to the library with all of that done. All of those kind of things that are competing for your attention. Oh, I, I shoulda, you know, woulda coulda shoulda type stuff is out of the way.

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