High performance isn't about waking up at 4AM, cold plunging, or adding more to your already full plate. In this episode I break down the three things that actually separate high performers from everyone else - discipline, systems, and standards - and walk through exactly what I'm building into my own life right now to level up in this new chapter.
What I cover:
👉🏻 The reframe: high performance is subtraction, not addition
👉🏻 Discipline: waking up earlier, de-centering social media, protecting deep work blocks
👉🏻 Systems: my Sunday planning system, Notion planner, fitness routine, and digital organization overhaul
👉🏻 Standards: environment design, energy management, tracking, and discomfort tolerance
👉🏻 Why discipline without systems and systems without discipline both lead to the same place (nowhere)
🎙️ Referenced in this episode:
👉🏻 Discipline as Self-Respect episode — https://youtu.be/ikoiOiK0cUQ?si=BfB1Xx25J-z0fCKG
👉🏻 Sunday System episode — https://youtu.be/QEcDDxqLW0g?si=7E28_sPsElG6BDRA
👉🏻 Atomic Habits episode — https://youtu.be/oc1ZCgIn0BM?si=GidYL4CwnfaHX8NK
👉🏻 Oura Ring episode — https://youtu.be/epFtBNTTZq4?si=dZd1d_4SWKZWg7_t
👉🏻 Cleaning episode — https://youtu.be/UTAW61va4Kc?si=RoB5X-6lZyRBl7E9
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00:00 — Moving back to LA and rebuilding from the ground up
03:00 — The reframe: high performance is subtraction not addition
05:00 — Why you need both discipline AND systems — either alone doesn't work
07:00 — Bucket 1: Discipline — what it actually means and how to build it
09:00 — Waking up earlier and how I actually made it stick
13:00 — De-centering social media when it's also your job
19:00 — Using the Brick and protecting deep work blocks
24:00 — Bucket 2: Systems — Sunday planning, Notion, fitness routine
31:00 — Digital organization overhaul — phone, notes, apps
35:00 — Bucket 3: Standards — the filter everything runs through
39:00 — Energy management, cycle syncing, and the Oura Ring
44:00 — Tracking, discomfort tolerance, and wrapping up