Mike's Daily Routine For Success

Mike DeHaan: [0:01] Welcome to the collecting keys Friday focus. What's going on, guys? On this episode of the collecting keys Friday focus, I wanted to dive into a topic that we touched about a little bit on Wednesday if you listen to this past Wednesday's episode in a little bit of a comedic fashion. So if you listen to this past Wednesday's episode, you heard Dan and I talk about flow state and, like, sort of mindset around working and productivity. And you also heard us, I guess, make fun of a lot of the things that people really dive into revolving that, especially around, you know, people that we always strive as crazy in, like, the entrepreneurship space. So many people, they get super into, like, the small, like, mindset sort of things that aren't actually productive. And you see this across all levels of entrepreneurs where even when they are not fully established yet, they aren't really, you know, making ways or anything yet. Instead of going and actually getting to work and figuring that out, they spend all their times doing things like going to the sauna or doing, like, thought journals or meditating and all things, which are great. Don't get me wrong. But, you know, if it fully detracts from you getting to work and getting stuff done, they're not effective.

Mike DeHaan: [1:17] Like, you know, if you are do not have a successful business, you're not already rich, you actually have to put in the work. I'm sorry about waking up at 4AM and dinking around, do a bunch of stuff until noon to just, like, sort of check off the list that you got from some, like, mindset coach is not going to get you to the next level. So we joked about that. You know, all of us in jest. If you are one of those people, you know, you do your thing. I really don't mind either way. It's just not for me. But something that I did want to go through is what exactly my morning routine looks like because that you know, even though I'm not into a lot of the, I guess, more spiritual sort of things people do, believe it or not, I do have a routine, and people do regularly ask about what I do. So I would just figure out I would just go through my whole day. I don't have, like, a super crazy, like, morning routine or anything super special, but I've gotten this question on, like, several other podcasts about what what routines and habits I have that allow me to be successful. And I think the main thing is is I have a disciplined sort of consistent daily routine, and it sets my body up to sort of be most productive around when my energy levels are the highest. So I was gonna dive into that. Anyway, so typical working day for me, I wake up between six and 06:30. I don't have a hard get up time. I go to bed at the same time every night, which is usually about 10:30, 10:45.

Mike DeHaan: [2:35] And my body naturally wakes up between six and 06:30. That's when I get up. So, basically, when my body sort of wakes up, that's when I get up. You know? Sometimes it is a little bit later, sometimes a little bit earlier. I think the main thing is I'm not waking up with an alarm, and I am not playing the snooze button game or, like, sleeping in. So when my body wakes up, I get up as well, and I find that to be very, very important for having a good morning. So after I wake up, feed my dog, I grab a cup of coffee, and then I usually spend about the next hours or so working on kind of my creative and planning work. So this is stuff that requires me to be thinking kind of outside the box or putting together processes and, you know, different sort of components and systems to the business that require a lot of mental bandwidth. Sorry. You might hear my dog there in the background. But I find that I have two periods of the day where that style of work I'm most effective, and that is early in the morning and late at night. And why it's so separated? Have no idea. Maybe it's because I know I have no other distractions, but I really try to focus on having that creative and planning style of work in those periods of time.

Mike DeHaan: [3:44] So, like, what that work usually consists of is, like, researching new marketing methods that we're going to try or, like, optimizing our new CRM that we have for our, instant investor partnership programs that you see. If you go to collectingkeyspodcast.com/store, you can see our different marketing programs that we're sort of building out to work with other investors on. So I've been working on building a CRM for those sort of things. And I found that if I do that when I'm in a low energy state, I'm not productive. So I save that for the early morning and late at night when I'm finding the best of the creative work. So I usually do that for about two hours until 08:30 every morning, Monday through Friday at 08:30 in the morning. I kick off my sales team. We have a big group meeting. You know, I have a fully remote business, so everybody comes and hops on the call. We check-in. We talk about deals, come up with strategy for the day, all that sort of stuff. And that's, like, a good time for everyone to sort of unite and come together and have good conversation. Then from that point, that's usually what wakes me up, I guess, little bit socially. I am naturally an introverted person. So my social energy does vary a lot, but I do find that once I've kick started the social component of, like, my energy levels, it's easier for me to keep writing that.

Mike DeHaan: [5:01] So, normally, what I do is after the sales meeting, if I have any more meetings for the day, I like to structure them through the rest of the morning. Even if that means that I have meetings from, like, 08:30 all the way until lunchtime, like, that just is my preferred way to run my meetings. They'll crunch them all into one big block. So then that way when I don't have to go in and out of, like, the social mindset so many times, which I find to be very challenging. So I'll try to have my meetings up through that period of time. There's always different meetings that, you know, are coming up on a daily basis. So I usually have something. If I don't have any specific scheduled meetings for the day, then that period in the morning is when I will make phone calls that I have to make, whether that's to lenders, you know, for certain things or that is, like, different networking phone calls or I have to, like, call vendors to pay bills. Whatever that is. I try to do all that stuff in the morning because in the afternoon, I just find it's much, much harder for me to dial numbers and click go because I just I'm not in that energy state. So at lunchtime, pretty much every day, I will go and I will hit a workout. That's usually some kind of strength training. And when I say usually, I mean, every day, some form of strength training mixed in with usually three days a week, some kind of cardio, which is like a CrossFit style workout, like, you know, sort of, like, moderate intensity. It'll have some interval stuff like that. So it's like, I do I have a coach that I work with that does all of my programming.

Mike DeHaan: [6:23] I used to compete and strengthen fitness sports for a long time, so I like to have a disciplined structured program that is unique to me. That is what I, you know, I found out I was most successful doing when I was training at a competitive level, and that's what I continue to do now. It's just at a different scale than what it was back then. So, you know, I'll have a weightlifting program that is, you know, I use, like, upper body and lower body split that I do for four days out of the week. And then my Wednesdays are usually, like, a cardio and a movement and, like, general, I guess, like like, light weightlifting sort of day. Whereas, like, the other days, I will usually have a strength piece and some weightlifting pieces and then also some sort of workout, some sort of, like, interval workout in there. So I do that pretty much every day. After that, I eat lunch. Lunch usually consists of some kind of meal prep that I've done that I did over the weekend. I do meal prep every weekend. It's something that I got in the habit of doing, actually, number of years ago when I was competing, and I was just really disciplined with my macros. And even though now I don't weigh and measure all my food anymore, I still do the meal prep because it does make life significantly easier during the week, and it's much easier to healthy versus, like, you know, grab it taking grab and go stuff or ordering takeout or going to lunch and all those sort of things. So I have lunch. After that, I jump back into my work, and I do what, like, I call, like, my must dos for the day. So these are usually things like reviewing leads that our sales guys are working, if there's any comments that have come up.

Mike DeHaan: [7:53] This can be responding to emails. This can be any sort of, like, I guess, like, busy work sort of stuff, you know, finance, bookkeeping, ordering, marketing, like, all those sort of things that are kinda like the repeatable tasks that aren't super creative and difficult in nature. I will do most of those in the afternoon after I ate lunch. I have, you know, have an ongoing list of those things every single day. I will usually work on that stuff until about five or six. At five or 06:00, I quit working. I take a break. I cook dinner with my wife. You know, we eat dinner together. I try to do that every single night. For us to not eat dinner together takes some sort of extreme situation, so we're always doing that. I do most of cooking. I love to cook. I found that cooking is one of the few things that I do every single day that's not on a screen, So I really use that as, I guess, another form of meditation for myself. After dinner, I typically go back to work. I know that some people are really big into having, like, a hard stop time. Me not having kids, I really do enjoy what I do. And so, like, I don't have, like, this extreme need to be fully present with my family, me and my wife. You know, we spend a lot of time together in general, just it being us. So after dinner, you know, she'll, like, go and draw.

Mike DeHaan: [9:07] She's an artist. She'll do some artwork stuff. She'll hang out with the dogs. She does things, and I'll usually go back to work. And I found that that after dinner time is my second period of time where I am fully functional, and I get really into my creative and planning sort of work just like I do in the mornings. So this, I will usually dive more into the stuff I was working on the mornings or those sort of projects that require me to be thinking outside the box and fully engaged. So I'll do those in the evening at about 09:00. I guess I'll say sometimes too with the good I'm not feeling it. I'm super worn out. I'm super tired from the week. I will skip my afternoon working session, and I will do something else whether that's, like, playing PlayStation, you know, watching a movie, working on you know, me and my wife like to do puzzles. That's kind of our new thing. Read a book, like, whatever it is that strikes my fancy. I'll do those things in the afternoon if I'm not feeling the work just because of my my energy levels being off. But 09:00 every day, kinda to keep this trick, I call it quits from work. That's usually about an hour, hour and a half before I go to bed, and I like to unwind before I go to bed. So at that point in time, me and my wife, we will watch a show together. You know, like, we'll always like to watch something on Netflix or HBO or whatever's going on, you know, super wide range of shows. It's always, I guess, like a fictional sort of stuff that we like. We like all sorts of series.

Mike DeHaan: [10:21] We do that every night, and that's kind of one of the main times that we spend time together. After that, I have tried to be pretty strict about being in bed by, you know, ten, ten, fifteen, and then going to sleep shortly after that. And that's what, you know, allows me to get a full night sleep before waking up again at six or 06:30 in the morning. So that's my routine for you. I do that pretty much every day, You know, Monday through Friday, at least, I do that a lot of weekends as well unless we're, like, doing something that's out of the ordinary. You know? Saturdays, I usually try to to make, like, my pretty firm day off where we'll, like, go hiking or skiing or hanging out with friends, things like that. But a lot of my Sundays, they look to be exactly the same with the exception just being the start time, you know, if we had a big night out and we, like, got home kinda later, things like that. But that is not always the case. So, anyways, you guys, that is a look into my daily routine. There's nothing fancy. I don't do hot, cold fast. I don't, like, write journals. I don't meditate any of that sort of stuff. I have just structured my day around when my energy levels are at the best and what works for me.

Mike DeHaan: [11:29] And the main things that I am disciplined about are, you know, my sleep time, my wake up time, hitting my workout every day. And, honestly, that's it. And, like, the rest of it, I just try to adjust the best that I can around what I know feels right for me at those different times of day with my circadian rhythm. So anyways, guys, hopefully, you enjoyed that, and you got some sort of value from it. And if you wouldn't mind, just, like, let me know what you think. I would be curious if anyone else has any sort of, like, morning routine thoughts or things like that. But you can follow me on Instagram, and you can let me know what you think there at Mike underscore invest. Aside from that, please go and leave us a five star review on iTunes or wherever you listen to podcasts. Like I said on the show this week, we are currently at, at the time of this recording, twenty five five star reviews until we get up to 50. So, basically, the next 25 reviews, if you go leave me a five star review and send it to me on my Instagram at Mike underscore Invest, I will send you a free collecting keys podcast T shirt, which which are pretty sick shirts. Go check them out on our YouTube. They're super nice, tri blend, high quality shirts, and I'll be happy to send you one of those. Aside from that, though, you guys, if you want to start generating off market leads just like Dan and I do every single week, you can go to collectingkeyspodcast.com/guide. You can get our five step guide to start generating off market leads, and that'll be able to get you started in just a couple weeks. It's it's a pretty simple step by step process.

Mike DeHaan: [12:46] Well, thanks so much for listening, everybody, and talk to you next week. Thanks for listening to this collecting keys Friday focus. Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts.