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How I Found The Real "Golden Hours" Of My Day And What I Do With Them To Build My Hustle.
The golden hours of your day are not based on the clock on the wall. It's based on you.
Kevin Lee
July 01, 2023
(Don’t miss out on the free gift at the end!)
I’m going to schedule all my hard tasks in the morning, and my easy tasks in the afternoon, that way when I wake up at 1 pm tomorrow I won’t have to do the hard tasks.
Have you noticed in some hours of the day your brain is just sharp AF, and have ideas CONSTANTLY flowing through your thoughts, you just wish you had a transcriber writing everything down so you don’t miss a beat?
And, in that same exact day there are just some hours where you wish you could just shut your eyes and be in complete silence so you can finally rest like you’ve fighting tigers all day.
What you’re experiencing is quite common.
And unless I am your first ever “self-help” content creator you’ve ever encountered, I bet you already know of this concept of having golden hours and sluggie buggie hours in your daily grinds.
And you must already know, that you need to find out exactly which hours in your day are those so-called “golden hours”
What you might not know however, is that those golden hours of yours aren’t actually based on the clock, it’s based on you.
Let me explain.
You might say something like:
"I’ve noticed I am most efficient from 7 am to 9 am.”
And that might be true, however let me ask you this:
What time do you wake up?
Let’s say you wake up at 6 in the morning everyday without fail, and your golden hours are indeed from 7am to 9am.
The real phrase you should be using is
“I am most efficient 1 hour after waking up”.
Why is this distinction important?
Because on the off chance of waking up late or having to change your sleep schedule for whatever reason, you are not robbed of your golden hours.
If you know your golden hours as “1 hour after waking up” instead of the rigid “7 to 9 am”, you will not fall into what I call the “ah shoot, I already missed my hours, might as well take it easy” trap.
If you think I’m just spewing “bro-science”, here’s the deal. I hate to flex this but I went to medical school. During physiology classes there was a whole chapter dedicated to this thing called the “circadian rhythms”.
It’s a biological clock within you that nudges you towards certain actions throughout different hours of the day.
That’s why you get sleepy at night and feel awake in the mornings, and that’s why cavemen from when before clocks were even invented were able to wake up at the exact same time everyday anyways (ok now this might be bro science, I’ve never personally met a caveman).
What to do now after understanding this concept?
1) Use the conventional clock as a guide but use your actual feelings and the real biological clock within you as the final deciding factor of when your golden hours are, then do whatever it takes to protect them.
2) Not only is it important to protect them, you must also make the most out of the time, that’s why figuring out what you’re gonna do in those hours are just equally important.
Introducing Alex Hormozi’s 100 day challenge.
The challenge is this:
“Do 100 primary actions for 100 days in a row and I (Alex Hormozi) promise you you will have a (whatever you’re building)”
The primary actions for me at the moment is “content creation”
I will spend 100 minutes a day creating content for 100 days in a row, and by the end of the challenge I will have become a legitimate content creator, with a massively huge archive of content, a decent following and some YouTube videos.
Other examples could be:
100 cold calls for 100 days.
100 cold DMs for 100 days
100 dollars saved for 100 days
100 minutes of exercise for 100 days
100 pull-ups for 100 days
The key here also is that it doesn’t have to be 100 whatever for 100 days. You can scale the first 100 to 10k even depending on what your primary action is. Make it make sense for you, but keep it at 100 days.
TLDR:
Your most productive hours are not necessarily set in certain hours of the day, it’s more of how many hours after waking up.
Protect your most productive hours at all cost.
What to do in those hours? Your primary actions.
Primary action challenge (from Alex Hormozi):
“Do 100 primary actions for 100 days in a row and I (Alex Hormozi) promise you you will have a (whatever you’re building)”
Here’s free gift for you, the planner (Notion) I used that helped me with this exact topic of discussion. Let me know how you like it!
Hopefully my personal experience and world view has some kind of positive influence over you. If you’re still not sure what’s right for you, don’t hesitate to reach out to me on any of my socials at http://drburgerflipper.com
How I can help you:
Feel free to reach out to me for emotional support as well, especially if you’re a medical student or doctor going through BS. Trust me I know, and I am here for you.
Email me if you are interested in becoming a content creator, and we’ll figure out a way to get you started. (FREE)