{"id":126021,"date":"2020-05-31T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/?p=126021"},"modified":"2024-01-05T16:51:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T23:51:40","slug":"simple-5-minute-routine-maximize-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/simple-5-minute-routine-maximize-day","title":{"rendered":"A Simple 5-Minute Routine to Maximize Your Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been just phenomenal since we implemented it. It&#8217;s called the family huddle.<\/p>\n<p>We had a problem: Now that we&#8217;re all at home in quarantine\u2014although, personally, we were always at home anyway\u2014can I still get work done?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VC4L1E8zVVI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>The Family Huddle: A Simple 5-Minute Routine to Maximize Your Day<\/h2>\n<p>To solve it, we implemented this thing every morning called &#8220;the family huddle.&#8221; What we do is\u2014my wife and I and my daughter Rosie, who&#8217;s three (almost four)\u2014every morning at whatever time we&#8217;re all up (usually right before or after breakfast), we sit down and I grab a notecard and I write on the top today&#8217;s date.<\/p>\n<p>Then I say, &#8220;OK, guys. What are we having for breakfast today (if it&#8217;s before breakfast)?&#8221; Alright\u2014&#8221;Breakfast,&#8221; &#8220;Lunch,&#8221; &#8220;Dinner&#8221;\u2014and we write down what we&#8217;re going to have, so we&#8217;re intentional about our day. Because it&#8217;s really easy to fall into, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what to have right now and all the crap and junk food is here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/real-estate-investing-momentum-recessionary-economy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Don\u2019t Let a Recession Stop You in Your Tracks: 5 Key Ways to Dodge Momentum-Killers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then, we write &#8220;Snack.&#8221; We write down an available snack we have to choose from today.<\/p>\n<p>Then, we write down &#8220;Dad&#8217;s Work Schedule.&#8221; And so now I write down what time I work that day and where my breaks are. So then Heather (my wife) can know anytime that day when I&#8217;m available. She knows that coming up here shortly, I said I&#8217;d be off. That&#8217;s when she&#8217;s planning lunch\u2014and now I know I&#8217;m having soup for lunch\u2014we planned that ahead.<\/p>\n<p>And then, it&#8217;s &#8220;Work Out.&#8221; We write down what time we&#8217;re working out that day.<\/p>\n<p>And then, finally, write down just &#8220;To-Dos.&#8221; This all takes less than two minutes to write this whole entire thing.<\/p>\n<p>We stick it on the fridge every day\u2014a brand new piece of paper. And now we basically have a plan for the day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-75457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/real-estate-investor-schedule.jpg\" alt=\"real-estate-investor-schedule\" width=\"702\" height=\"336\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/real-estate-investor-schedule.jpg 702w, https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/real-estate-investor-schedule-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Related<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/habits-of-impressively-productive-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 Tried &amp; True Habits of Impressively Productive People<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And we also, because we&#8217;re a religious family, we pray with Rosie in the morning. We usually read a little story out of her bible. And then, we all go about our day.<\/p>\n<p>Now there&#8217;s just so much more clarity and peace about the day.<\/p>\n<p>And Heather knows when I&#8217;m going to work out. I don&#8217;t have to feel bad that I&#8217;m going to leave her to go work out for an hour, and she doesn&#8217;t feel bad that she asked me to come watch the kids so she can go work out\u2014because I just know she&#8217;s working out today at 1:30.<\/p>\n<p>I know that this has been tremendously helpful for us during this quarantine, this family huddle. I encourage people who are working at home to do it, too.<\/p>\n<p>For everyone, it&#8217;s been just kind of feeling like it&#8217;s that week between Christmas and New Year&#8217;s, where no one knows what time is it? What am I wearing? I&#8217;m drunk. It&#8217;s 9 a.m. Like that feeing.<\/p>\n<p>If we want to get out of that and get normalcy, this is the way to go.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/biggerpockets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114268\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/6.jpg\" alt=\"ad-youtube-channel\" width=\"706\" height=\"125\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/6.jpg 706w, https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/6-300x53.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/6-702x125.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>What are you doing to organize and normalize this time in quarantine?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the discussion in the comments below.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you working from home during quarantine and having trouble being productive? Trouble telling one day from the next? Trouble focusing? My family and I just implemented this new routine\u2014and I encourage everyone to do the same\u2014that&#8217;s changed our days, sharpened our focus, and improved our productivity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":710,"featured_media":125308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-development"],"acf":[],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biggerpockets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}