Welcome to the growth stacking podcast. This is Dan Martel. This is what my morning routine

looks like as the CEO of a multi-million dollar company. You know, when I was in my 20s, I would stay

up till two, three in the morning writing code and then sleep until my first meeting. And my whole

day would just be ahead of me. I could never

get caught up. And I always felt kind of behind on everything I did. And then I read a bunch of books

about high performers. And I noticed that every book talked about the power of a morning ritual.

That change added millions of dollars into my life. And why for today, if you don't have a morning structure that you

follow a routine a systems a process some habits then you're just allowing the world to react

on you instead of you reacting to the world is playing defense versus offense so i've distilled my

morning routine into eight steps and the first step is the night before. So I look at the magnesium that I take

so I make sure that I get a good night's sleep. I do a calendar review so I know what my next morning

is going to look like. If there's any critical things that need to be cleared out, we take care of those.

Then I dump my mind into my journal so I don't have any open loops running that might cause me

to toss in turn. Then after I put the kids to bed, I usually hang out with my

wife and that's our personal time. And then afterwards, I watch comedy so that my brain turns off.

I'm not thinking. I definitely don't read super productive business books. And the comedy usually

kill Tony allows me to just kind of slowly relax and sleep within 10 minutes at the most.

The second step is I wake up at 4 in the morning. I try to get up around that time. I don't use an alarm, but I've been doing this for so long that that's usually the time for me. But I also go to bed early, so I always get about seven to eight hours of sleep at night. If I was you an alarm, I never snooze. Snews is the devil. It's the thief of productivity. It's a bad habit to get into. Do not snooze. And then I go into my

bathroom and I get my multivitamin. So I take them next to the sink. So they're always there. I never forget them. vitamin D because that's one of the deficiencies. If you live in a place that doesn't have a lot of sun, I do my NMN, which is really good for pulling vocabulary and recall. And then a very high

quality multivitamins so that I've got any other nutrients that I need to collect in my body

available in that decision. Then I go and I have my clothes ready to go. And then I go downstairs

and I walk right outside and I take a photo of my view and I share on social media because I like

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