#685 - The Daily Routine That Actually Works (Backed by Science)

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Tai Lopez

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🗓️ 6 March 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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If you want to make more money and be more productive, you need to structure your day the right way. Science shows that willpower and mental energy peak in the morning. That means the smartest thing you can do is tackle your hardest tasks early—before your glucose levels dip and decision fatigue kicks in.

One of my mentors, Professor Roy Baumeister, wrote the book Willpower, and I’ve paid him for years to learn the science behind success. The truth is, it’s not about waking up at 4 AM or following some crazy 74-step checklist—it’s about stacking your tasks in the right order. Do the tough stuff first. That’s how high performers like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Warren Buffett structure their routines to stay ahead.

🔥 Here’s what I’ve learned:
✔️ Willpower is tied to glucose—do the hardest tasks early.
✔️ It’s not about wake-up time; it’s about task order.
✔️ Small optimizations compound into massive success.
✔️ Over-optimizing kills productivity—keep it simple.
✔️ Success in today’s AI-driven world is about smart fast execution.

📖 Scientific Studies Supporting This Approach:
🔗 The impact of routines on mental health & productivity – World Economic Forum https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/03/routines-mental-health-productivity-lifestyle/
🔗 Morning routine disruptions reduce productivity – University of Wyoming https://www.uwyo.edu/news/2020/11/morning-routine-disruptions-hurt-worker-productivity-uw-researcher-finds.html
🔗 Roy Baumeister’s research on willpower & glucose – APA https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/willpower
🔗 Establishing and Maintaining Consistent Daily Routines Enhance Productivity & Overall Well-being https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6378489/

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0:00.0	Do all the hard stuff early in the morning. It's better that way. You got more willpower, more disciplined.
0:06.2	Best daily routine is front load your day. Just walk through this tunnel in Europe. Front load your day.
0:12.9	People will give you all these daily routine pieces of advice. They'll tell you what time you need to wake up.
0:19.8	You know, that is less important than stacking.
0:24.4	So the reason is one of my mentors is the number one expert on scientific research on willpower.
0:32.6	He wrote a book called Willpower named Professor Roy Baummeister.
0:37.1	And he's one of my mentors that I pay ongoing for
0:41.0	years. And I'm saving you a lot of money. You don't have to read the book. One of the main
0:47.3	takeaways is that basically you have glucose in your brain, right? Your brain runs off sugar
0:52.9	essentially to oversimplify it, right?
0:56.0	You have this blood-brain barrier.
0:58.0	Not much can get to your brain to protect it from things.
1:02.0	Cocaine can get there.
1:04.0	But one of the things, of course, is glucose.
1:06.0	And so humans, we are masters at conserving our glucose so what happens later in the
1:13.8	night the reason when you're on a diet you're more likely to break your diet
1:20.4	at night okay is because you have less glucose you've burned up all your
1:27.1	glucose during the day and And for most people,
1:31.2	there's a little bit of course of genetic variation, but most people have maximum willpower
1:36.7	slash energy sometime in the morning. So for me, I've found it's not exactly the first thing I wake up. I'm more of a
1:46.5	natural genetic night owl. So for me, the very first 20 minutes of the morning is not my
1:54.2	most productive. But an hour or two in, I get way more productive. And so the biggest mistake you'll make,
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