Top Habits That Changed Our Lives!

Welcome back to the Roots Podcast. I'm Max Moore, joined by my co-host Tyler Lingal. And today we're going to jump into our top habits for growth. Just what we're doing to have more joy in our life, have more peace, but it's all led by making more money. Of course, these habits are what make us the guys that we we want to be. Tyler, what's your top habit? Yeah, to start with, I'm going to start with a metaphor. Imagine back on like the African Serengeti, you have a tribal of people and there's the men that are like the key chiefs and leaders. Can you imagine one of them waking up and it's like the sun's in the sky and it's like, "Hey guys, I'm up. Good to see you all." No, right. What are they doing? They're out there before the kids are up, before the wives are up, they're literally on the hunt preparing their traps or their weapons to when the sun isn't even in the sky, when the sun rises happen. So I use that analogy as just like a poant example of you got to get up earlier. All the the people that have been on your podcast, I feel like eight out of 10 of them said get up earlier is their top habit that has been a cascade of other habits because you simply don't have the time to work on yourself or get ahead if you're getting up late cuz you're reactive, right? The rest of the world's bugging you, pinging you, wants your attention. You got to get up before they need your attention and work on yourself. Yeah, you absolutely do. I took a poll at one of our team meetings recently. I was like, "What time are you guys getting up?" Uh, this was at while you were out on your sobatical, which I want to get into. I think it comes to these habits of being in tune with with where you're at spiritually, but you took time off. I was leading the team meetings like, "What? What time do you guys get up?" Kind of getting frustrated. It's like, "When are you writing these like note cards, taking care of clients?" The average time was like 9:00. And I go, "Boys, I got a whole day ahead of you." Literally, you you guys are waking up and I've already crushed out four hours of work. Like, you're behind. You got to get up. You got to get the motion going. Uh, you were talking before we started recording about a season of life where you did wake up around like 8:00 PM. What was that effect? What's the What's the adverse? What's the bad habit of getting up later? It It's funny how the way you start the day, I think, sets the tone for the day. And uh, for me, it's actually beating my wife and son up because once I'm up and he's up running around, it's like, "All right, she's giving me the eyes. You got to go. Are you going to help feed him breakfast?" So I'm like, "Oh, I haven't read the Bible yet or I haven't done this meditation." What? It's like, "Forget that. You're not reading the Bible or doing your meditation." You're like jumping in. So there's this uh I've been never been more like truth truthfully probably depressed than when I was waking up super late. And for me, that was like between 8 and 9. So like for people out here, uh our producer just said he wakes up at 11:00. I'm not going to shame him too hard cuz he he's a video editor and he works at night. But still like uh I can't even imagine like it just I would I wouldn't be able to function. How do you back into uh so you had the habit of getting up early, it backs in, it slides back. Was that a creep on work late? What caused you to start getting up at 8:00 p. m. or 8 a. m.? Not 8:00 p. m. Yeah. I think it's going to bed too late. Yeah. Right. As in you go to bed too late, you wake up later and you're not as tired early at night. Right. So it's like you gota like everything you got to build wall kind of jump cold. Yeah. You gota for sure the first night I remember how it got back on track was I thought I don't care what happens if I get 3 hours of sleep I'm waking up at 5:30 and starting the day. Yeah. And just ignoring blocking out my feelings. And then what happened it was like one day sucked and then ever since then it's been great. Right. Yeah. You have one day. My biggest hurdle in the get because I have this habit as well and it's fueled a lot of things. I'm sure that I've made tons of money and have more peace as a result. What my struggle has always been is Saturday, Sunday, right? Like I'll let it creep and then getting back to Monday. Monday's exhausted. I've just started setting the alarm Saturday and Sunday at 5:00 a. m. This past Saturday, alarm goes off. My wife's first words to me of the day were, "What time is it? It's a Saturday. What are you doing?" And I'm like, "I'll be at the gym. see you when you get up in three hours. Like, let's get let's get after it. What I was going to ask, what do you do with those weekend early hours? Yeah, it's it's led through scripture, which is my top habit that I've started to create. Uh I had never been somebody focused in reading scripture, and that has like the relationship with God is just it's on an all-time high for me, which is where I'm extremely focused in this season of life. uh just hitting on new phases of leading people, being a father, being a better husband, like shaping. You have to have that. And so led with led with a bagel in the toaster, some some scripture uh and then early bagels and Jesus. Yeah, man. Nothing better. Turn it off, guys. You you heard the whole thing. I'm going have to now post on a story on Instagram or something. Find bagels in scripture. Uh what's next? Yeah. What's number two? Number two biggest as of recent is cutting sugar. So started the 75 hard, made it to day 39. I had to go back to day one cuz I forgot to read the easiest thing on the 75 hard. Literally forgot to read. So I'm on like day 11 cycled back. Right. You have to restart. Yeah. Um and sugar was one of the huge dieting aspects of cutting that habit. I was eating a I don't even want to disclose a gross amount of sugar a day. Uh Welchers Fruit. Dude, it's just I don't even I don't even want to go through that. Sugar bombs. It's awful. Uh first week was like I realized it's addictive. The crap's literally addictive. Cut it out. Cold turkey. Had the worst headaches of my life. Like mood swings all over. Made it through that first week and now just replace it with protein and creatine from your local Planefield GNC. And it's been it's been amazing. Um more energy throughout the day. Damn. I realized this depletion like getting on the floor 6 p. m. with my son to play just any like just be attentive and I would fall asleep, right? It was because my 500 g of sugar intake was falling off a cliff coupled with waking up at 5:00 a. m. I was exhausted. It requires constant amount of sugar. Yeah. Got to get more into the consistent level of like fat and proteins like consistent energy, right? just like slow burn versus sugar is just up, but then you're going down really quick after. So, I've I've cut it all the way back to like some days having no sugar at all, like less than 10 g, being very very intentional and and rigid through it. And 6 p. m. rolls around and uh I'm ready. I'm ready to go. I'm putting more energy to it than my son. He's like falling asleep now. He's like can't keep up. Let's go. Um what's So, waking up early for you, what's the what's the second pillar? Uh yeah, the my brain was on work when I wrote these out. I mean uh so I'm going to lead with a work habit of success uh which is um doing the important work before the urgent. Yeah. Um I am a sucker for getting trapped in emails and text messages in social media and once the cat is out of the bag, I'm notorious for putting it back in. So, like it's I've had this like I want to do this marketing pamphlet like um roots guide to selling your home and marketing your listing and I've like wanted to write it out and I've been had it on my calendar for like 6 months and I always just log on to email and who knows I don't even know where the day goes at that point. You can't even trace it because it's just going all over the place. But I worked on this pamphlet and I yeah this last morning and I was like I have an hour. I'm just gonna knock it out. And I finished the whole thing that I've been delaying six months just because I'm doing the important before the urgent, right? Still got to the emails and the this and that. But it's like you got to it ties in with getting up early and working out. They're working on the leading dominoes before the cascading hinter dominoes. Hter dominoes. Uh the small dominoes. And so I think it's just like prioritize and block out. Yeah. Like I think the best people are really good about blocking out distractions and not hoping their willpower is high enough, but like s systematically blocking out. So it's not possible. Yeah. To engage. Like actually having a dark room where you're putting earplugs in and and hitting the grindstone. Mine's a time. Like I'm not getting on social media, text, or email until 9 a. m. Yeah. I actually mess up because I talk to you a lot. I've let that one slide because because that's where we're in movement, right? Like I'd rather text at 7 a. m. than 7:00 p. m. Right. Exact. And it's because we are knocking over the reason why we text so early is because we're knocking over all the small dominoes, creating a snowball effect of wins. So we're just winning by 9:00 a. m. when everybody else is yawning and waking up and dusting off the Bible. So they're not ever going to read because they're just straight into the reactive and up against a brick wall. Our dominoes are going and you know all the way around we're crushing the day which is that momentum is so important to do it. There's some ASMR for you. Um I I have a curiosity around uh the the ROI on doing uh movement to creative like that guide seems kind of silly at face value. How many conversations we bring that guide to? Right. How many how many things will that be? It was more just a token, right, of like I don't like to show up to someone's house about to sell it with empty-handed. Yeah. Feels awkward. It's important. It's something to give them. Yeah, I I would agree. It's it's immensely important and and refining it and continuing to edit it, but having space to do that in that capital, having that habit, super important. Um, mine's similar. It's on the back end of the day. Having wins. Uh, like literal wins that I'm writing in a notebook before I go to bed. Here are my three wins today. Here are my three wins tomorrow. Has been a staple for me to like yesterday, last night, I wrote down Crushing the Podcast with Tyler. That's the win today. Like that is one of my statements. You're already visualizing success in it. So, anything else that comes up today that needs to happen that isn't this right here doesn't it's doesn't matter. It's not a win. It's not going to be a win. It's not going to be on my list. Uh I also wrote on there like pin this specific listing that's been so hard to sell. And I'm kind of in like a verbal back and forth like we're going to get that thing done because it's in that journal, right? and uh calling out it's like calling out the successes you're going to have and then allowing your brain to think on it while you're asleep in the subconscious has been like just 10xed everything that I'm doing. I have a different one that I'm going to name uh which is uh the last habit that I had was like book write in the key just for fun life events earlier. So, like instead of just waiting till like, oh, you know, we're going to go uh to Michigan or we're going to go on this date night or we're going to go have a day at the zoo or a museum, we've started like I've been putting it on the calendar. So, like in 3 weeks I know I'm going to museum with my son. I never would have made that happen, but we're just scheduling in the life fun things like I would work things. So, I'm going to Michigan this weekend with some friends because like we just plan that in. So, that's my Sundays. I plan. I put on the work hat for life. I start working. Yeah. Those fun life things in because when else are you gonna do it, right? You're just gonna forget and never take a trip for the next 6 months. You know, starting with the blueprint there. We we went to dinner with some guy that owns like 500 crumble cookies across the nation. Also, when we were in Texas, he talked about that having the leading uh leading with the vacations. He pulled up this document that he he sent it to me cuz I was like, I want the template. He had the next 15 years of vacations planned out. I showed it to my wife. I like saw visible hives start crawling all over his skin. She's like, "No, please don't make this so systematic." And that's at the far end of the spectrum. It's so important cuz like he's going to hit him. He's going to do it. He's going to have a kick-ass life and do a lot of cool stuff. Right. Right. Much cooler than what we'll do. Yeah. And it comes from from the planning. Um Yeah. I love that. I think my my last my third habit would be being uh available for relationships. If in life all that you care about is money and don't leave space and capacity for any type of joy, any type of uh relationships, that capital will never actually come to fruition. Like if you're waking up every day and going to a 9 to5 and just hitting the grindstone to save up money and not having your 5 to9 booked with fun and connectivity like lead with the fun and connectivity and go to and and the money will come as a result right of taking care of the spirit first, the relationships first. Uh that is something that I'm I'm pointed north at heavy in the season and I've not always been like I spent most of the last year flipped upside down of having this kid coming got this new house got these rentals I got to take care of right and yeah sure money was made I have to sacrifice of I'm like oh time to turn that that ship around and head back is not the end all be all. There's so many psychopathic billionaires out there that it's it's insane. Just I I've heard of a I just read about a hedge fund manager that carries divorce papers in his brief in his briefcase all day long. Like that's on paper he lives a life that'd be like, "Oh, I got to get I got to get the level of the scoreboard." But then in real life it's like he's about to just paper up his wife. It's like he's bankrupt relationally and he has millions and billions of dollars. So it's like what are you going to choose what you want to be bankrupt in first? And I don't want to be bankrupt in uh in relationships, right, in family. Neither of us do. No. So, it's like that means I might be smidgent more bankrupt in wealth, but probably not in the long run. Right. Right. Probably not. We don't want to be. If we ever make one of these episodes again, I hope that it's that all text communication is now in the form of email. That's something in 2026 I want to buy it off. So, there's some forward looking for you. There we go. That's a goal. Ideation. Got to put it out there so it can actually happen. These are our habits. This is what has helped us 10x our own life. What's been your habit? 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