The Single Hardest Entrepreneurial Habit | Ep 677

The Game with Alex Hormozi

Alex Hormozi

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business, How To

4.9 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

“You can't have any kind of habitual habits or output if the one thing that starts or ends your day is variable.” Today, Alex (@AlexHormozi) emphasizes the importance of maintaining a stable sleep routine for entrepreneurs to optimize their energy levels, make better judgments, and increase productivity. Despite the personal sacrifices and trade-offs involved, developing habits that ensure restful sleep and consistent patterns can lead to long-term success. This episode encourages entrepreneurs to prioritize sleep as an effective and underrated secret to achieving success in their endeavors.

Welcome to The Game w/Alex Hormozi, hosted by entrepreneur, founder, investor, author, public speaker, and content creator Alex Hormozi. On this podcast you’ll hear how to get more customers, make more profit per customer, how to keep them longer, and the many failures and lessons Alex has learned on his path from $100M to $1B in net worth.

Timestamps:

(1:00) - The role of energy in entrepreneurship

(2:59) - The consequences of neglecting sleep

(3:40) - The power of consistent sleep schedules

(5:36) - The trade-offs of prioritizing sleep

(6:49) - The impact of sleep on success

(8:12) - The struggles and rewards of discipline

(10:19) - The power of trade-offs

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(This episode is a re-run. Original airdate was August 21, 2020)

Transcript

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0:00.0	And so I think that if you can make that piece a foundation, a cornerstone of how you live,
0:07.5	then you will always have as much energy and clear clarity and you will be able to make better judgment and better decisions.
0:17.3	Welcome to the game where we talk about how to sell more stuff to more people in more ways and
0:20.8	build businesses worth owning. I'm trying to build a billion dollar thing with acquisition.com. I always wish
0:25.6	Basos, Musk, and Buffett had documented their journey, so I'm doing it for the rest of us. Please share and enjoy.
0:39.7	I wanted to bring up a habit that I think is central to being successful and it's really really really not sexy.
0:43.0	And the more I think about it,
0:44.9	there's so many other pieces that flow into this single habit.
0:48.8	And when I observe people who are doing better than I am
0:51.8	and whatnot, they usually have this really dialed in and the reason
0:56.8	that no one does it is because it's so freaking hard, all right? And it all revolves around energy.
1:03.8	And so what I mean by that is how to maximize your output
1:08.3	as an entrepreneur.
1:09.0	At the end of the day, all we have is ourselves.
1:11.1	And so that's why so many entrepreneurs are obsessed with increasing
1:15.2	their personal throughput, like how much they can produce, right? You know, myself included and probably
1:21.0	you and a lot of us started on this path and wanted to increase our output by you know getting in shape and so when we were younger or whatever you know whatever we had that moment in our lives and we're like you know what I'm going to start taking control of my life I'm going to start controlling what what, I'm going to start taking control in my life, I'm going to start
1:34.4	working out, drinking water, all that kind of stuff, right? And I think that there are levels to creating
1:40.5	clear output. And so an easy example of this is like if you've if you've been on a you know
1:45.7	workout kick right for a while or you've been training for a long time if you ever stop training and
1:51.5	stop eating the way that you've now grown accustomed, all of a sudden you feel sluggish and foggy and unclear, right?
1:58.0	And you're like, man, I feel terrible, right?
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