 Within a very short period of time, I was able to write two full-length books, graduate from a four-year medical program with a doctorate, and still achieve many of my other personal and professional goals. And all of it was the result of one simple productivity method that I wanna share with you here today. Hey guys, it's Alex Hine over at Modern Health Monk. Before we jump in, I've put together a free journal and worksheet, which is one of the best ways I've found to figure out how to get your life together and how to plan out your dream life and some real manageable steps to make that happen. It's the first link right below this video. Check it out, and that'll basically give you the free download and you can fill it in at your leisure, okay? I think for many people, it's impressive when you're managing to achieve one large goal, right? Seeing someone write a book, or lose 30 pounds, or get into a great relationship or a marriage and stay married and stay in a great relationship. People who travel the world and have been to 30, 40, 50, 100 countries. But what really stands out to me is the people who are able to achieve multiple large goals over time. Because for those people, it wasn't just focus or grid, there's often a system. Now, in this video, I wanna share that one system that has allowed me to do something very profound with a few major goals. I wrote multiple full-length books, print, Audible, and Kindle. Graduated from a four-year medical program, with a doctorate. My doctorate was in acupuncture in East Asian medicine, traditional Chinese medicine. And I was able to build a YouTube channel with several hundred thousand followers. And basically the month I graduated school, I went to the accountant. My business had made over $100,000 that year, which is pretty incredible. And a whole host of other personal and professional goals, right? How did I do it? Right, because for many people, even just doing that four-year doctorate was enough to basically drive them into the ground, right? Most of my classmates and my colleagues were complaining about doing that on its own. And my first summer, I finished writing my second book, Milk the Pigeon. And then after that, every year, I was building my business more and more and more. And I basically started YouTube, the summer before my medical program. And it all comes down to a very simple exercise and productivity method that all fits on one piece of eight by 11 paper. So, let's check it out. So basically, let's start with just figuring out what some of your goals are. And let's say you have three big ones, right? I think them big, which means that they're goals that are gonna take daily work over a long period of time. And let's say just you wanna make them big enough where number one is you wanna write a book. Number two is you wanna lose 20 pounds. And let's say number three is you wanna start a YouTube channel. First, before we get into this exercise, you have to know effectively what the rituals are that are most likely to reach this goal, right? So let's be real, the most likely habit that will result in you writing a book is as simple as writing. And in particular, I'll just say 500 to 1,000 words a day, okay? When we talk about losing 20 pounds, let's just say that sure, there are dozens of habits we could do, but for the sake of argument, we'll just say consciously eating daily, right? This is the number one habit. If I just pay attention to what I eat daily, then I'm pretty likely to reach that goal or inch towards it. And then for the final one, start a YouTube channel. Let's say the most predictable habit is uploading once a week, okay? So these are basically daily rituals, right? Besides this one, we could say basically the daily ritual would be script or film for 30 minutes a day. So these are the things that we want, right? These are three big goals. These are not things that you're gonna achieve in, let's say, a week, right? These are often months. So we take this one piece of paper and my classmates and my medical program would always make fun of me because they knew I would never work without this piece of paper in front of me. But who's laughing now? And I'll show you why. So we fold this bad boy up like this, okay? And this is gonna last a couple of days, but each side is one work day. And at the top of the page here, I would write whenever the focus is, right? So let's just say the focus today is, let's just call this goals because we're gonna work on all three today. And then we're gonna break down this sheet into three blocks. And let's just say each block here is 30 minutes, okay? Block one, block two, and block three. Each one is 30 minutes and I'm gonna put the 30 up here so we know. Now what I do basically is I write down basically 1,000 words or for 30 minutes. So let's just say, we'll just say write 500 words. All right? Goal number two, consciously eating. Let's just say, how do we turn this into something actionable? Let's say meal prep. So today, what I'm going to do is meal prep. And let's just say that's about 30 minutes. And the third goal for starting a YouTube channel is today our 30 minutes towards that goal is let's just say we're going to script on this particular day. Script, new content. So the reason this is so valuable is that inevitably where people fail with goals is that big goals like this don't tell you what you have to do on a daily basis. And the things you have to do on a daily basis are certain habits and rituals. If you can turn goals into a daily ritual, product placement, I wrote a whole damn book about that for that exact purpose, right? Master of the day means turn a goal into a daily ritual, right? Then you suddenly have a plan every day. So now we know if I want the end result to be writing a book, if I just write five hundred words, I have a book after six months or three months or whatever it is. So let's say I've decided that six PM is my writing time. When I'm done, I'm OCD. So I shade this all nice and pretty, not touching any lines. By the end of the day, meal prep, et cetera. So script, somebody at the end of the day, this sheet is all shaded out. And then tomorrow, you can do the same over here. Now this exercise takes five minutes. But basically you can go from someone who has big goals they want to achieve with no real plan to do it and certainly nothing actionable on a day to day basis. But when you do this one page sheet, you are very clear on your daily rituals to make that happen. That's my favorite productivity ritual. I've done it probably for seven years now, totally life changing. And again, I've included something like this. The description in the bio below is for a free journaling worksheet, very similar to this. So check it out.