You've heard of monk mode. If you haven't, it's just a simple period of time where you do certain
things. For example, you like do a 30 minute workout every day, and then you don't drink alcohol,
and then you do like, I don't actually know the rules or like the actual initiative, but it's
pretty much a simple plan to un-mess up your life. So like to get your life back on track.
And yes, that works, and that's good. Definitely recommend it for people that are like,
have a messed up life right now. But the thing is, that's not enough. Like, monk mode is not enough.
The thing is that once you get to a certain point, monk mode is actually way too easy.
What the real monk mode is, is first of all, the no alcohol, the no smoking, like yet that's
given. You do not do any of that at all. You never do any of that. And then the next thing, working
out every day, that is a given. Like you do that every day, unless you need a rest. Like you, you
work out every day, and you only rest when you need it, which may be six days after six days. It
might be after eight days. It might be after 20 days. You only rest when you need it. And then
the next thing is you meditate every single day, no matter what. And then you eat healthy. You eat
impeccably. And you are at a such, you get to such a point where you prefer not to eat unhealthy foods.
And you get to such a point where the only time you eat unhealthy foods, and actually, let me
rephrase that, the when you consider that you're eating unhealthy foods. So when you when you eat
a food that you believe to be unhealthy, it's only because of the situation that has been that it has
been like, kind of bestowed upon you to do that. And that food that you chose to eat in that certain
situation is only unhealthy to the point where it has seed oils or it has like estrogenics in it.
Like that is the only thing. Let me let me explain. Let me give you a real example of this. So you're
you eat impeccably, you prefer to eat impeccably, and you never eat like junk food. Like that's just
not even on your mind. Like you may be in a house full of junk food, let's say you live with other
people who eat junk food, you may like see junk food all the time. But it's not it's just not even
a thought that comes in your head to eat it. Like you just never think to eat it. And you always
just eat perfectly. And what I said that the only time you don't eat perfectly is when the situation
arises. And you don't go out the thing is you don't go out of your way to do this. The only example,
like the one example of this happening is if you're on a vacation. When you're out of town,
first of all, you should try your best to pack food, which is what I do. But there are certain
times like let's say you're at all you can eat or an all inclusive vacation, where like you're at a
resort. And the only there that's the only food available. First of all, you subconsciously make
healthy eating choices from the selection. But you're not like but there are there may be seed
oils in those like that they may have been cooked in seed oils. So what I'm trying to say is that
in this monk mode protocol, you eat impeccably no matter what, unless you're in a situation where
that's kind of the only option you have. And then even if that's the only option you have,
you still eat very healthy and way healthier than that normal person. And let's talk about seed oils.
The real monk mode protocol, you cut out seed oils completely. You also cut out all bad,
all bad health products. So all bad soaps, laundry detergent, those fabric softeners that you put
into the laundry, you cut out all of this trash, all of this garbage, because all of this stuff
is very bad for your health. Like this is like this is just the monk mode protocol. You cut all
that out and you replace it with healthier items. And then you come to exercise number two, you
exercise cardio every single day. So first of all, you work out every day. And then you do cardio
do cardio every day. And then you wake up early. So for me, I wake up at four in the morning. Excuse
me, let me get some water. All right, wake up in the morning. We haven't even gotten into the juice
of this monk mode protocol. So if you think all this stuff is extreme, just wait until I get to
the end. So you wake up early in the morning, four o'clock, five o'clock, three o'clock,
maybe I don't know, I prefer four o'clock. And then what that means is you actually wake up,
you go to bed early also. So wake up or go to bed at five o'clock, six o'clock, seven o'clock,
eight o'clock, I prefer six o'clock, PM, like six PM. And all of these things you wake up early,
go to bed early. And then we get to your room, your environment, it must be extremely minimal. And
you may be you may think you're minimal, you are not minimal. The thing is that your room has to be
completely empty, because your room is a reflection of your mind. And if you have if you have a single
unnecessary object in your room, it must be gotten rid of. First of all, bed frames, get rid of that.
Put your bed on the ground. That is the first step. But let's just completely get rid of your bed.
No conventional beds are a part of this monk mode protocol. You sleep on a tatami mat. This
tatami mat is made of rush grass. And if you don't know what it is, look it up on Amazon.
It's like 100 bucks for a tatami mat. And it's basically kind of like sleeping on the floor.
So you sleep on that. And you completely clear your room. So you have nothing in your room,
except for your bed, like a fan, and your alarm. And you have an actual alarm clock because you
don't have your phone. Let's get to the phone. Well, actually, no, let's get to the phone later.
But let's still talk about this room thing. Nothing in your room. You sleep on the floor.
The only things in your room is an alarm clock, a fan, a stopwatch, like a timer, and then a
journal, pen, and an air purifier. And your room must be completely pitch black. So that means that
you buy blackout curtains. And just blackout curtains with a curtain rod is not enough because
light seeps through the sides. So you nail blackout curtains with a hammer and a nail
onto your window, like over your window. And I have it so I can open my curtains still.
They're not like fully movable, but I can still see outside my window if I choose to and get some
natural light in there. But I have that. And then also in my door, nail blackout curtains to your
door. This is crucial because your sleep is extremely important to your health. And so
when there's light coming into your room while you're trying to sleep, that actually makes it
less optimal and less efficient. So you're not getting as good asleep. And then it's extremely
good for meditating because when you meditate every single day, it's super good to be in the dark.
And then let's get back to another action that you should be doing every single day is sitting
in darkness just thinking, just sitting there staring at a wall just thinking you can't even
see the wall because it's too dark, but you just sit and think on your Tissan army man. And this
is because this this allows you to just contemplate life and think of any random thoughts that you have
and also just try and get some clarity in your path forward. This is extremely important habit
to have. So your room is completely empty. Now let's talk about your closet. For a long time,
I had my room completely empty, but my closet was still a mess. And I realized that it's time to go.
It's time to go extreme minimalistic with my closet. All I have in my closet is my dresser,
which by the way, move your dresser into your closet, because it takes up space in your room
and you don't want that clutter in your room or in your mind. And then so you put your dresser in
your closet. And then I have a filing cabinet in my closet for where I put my business papers.
And then I put my books in that because I also had I used to have like maybe 100 books stacked into
my bookshelf in my closet. I got I put all of those in the attic and only chose a select few. I
chose like five books to keep in my closet. And I am expecting to get more books in the future. So
that will that number will increase. But you you just want to question every single thing that
you have in your room. And if you don't use it on a day to day basis, then it either gets pitched.
If you have not used it in the past like month, then you've got to get rid of it. If you don't see
yourself using it in the near future, get rid of it, throw it away, or put it up in the attic.
And then if you have an attic, put it in storage. And then if you use it, but not every single day,
then put it in like a cabinet like I've put in the filing cabinet. Like every single thing that I
have in my room is something I use. And then let's talk blankets. So during the day, keep your room
impeccably clean, impeccably empty, because every single morning when you wake up, you fold all of
your blankets and put them in the closet. That's how you do it. So then your room is
completely empty. And then you can use your tatami mat for studying purposes and meditation
purposes. Like this stuff helps. Now let's talk phone, phone usage. First of all, my phone is like
in the opposite side right now I'm in my basement. And I keep my phone in the basement at all times.
And it's it's got all of the productivity things on it. So I actually don't have any apps on my
home screen. And I deleted all of my non essential apps. So basically, I did the same thing that I
did to my room to my phone. So I questioned every single app. If I don't use it, I delete it. And
then that and then, first of all, delete all your games and YouTube, Netflix, like all that crap,
get rid of that. Delete your Instagram, TikTok, and actually go a step further and delete your
accounts permanently. When you delete your account permanently, you clear up so much mental,
like that was probably one of the best decisions I've ever made to do that.
So you delete all this stuff, and you go through and minimize minimize your phone. So
turn on grayscale mode, delete all of your apps from your home screen. So it's completely empty.
Put on like a black home screen and a black lock screen. So there's no like weird stuff like
wallpapers, extremely minimalist. And then go through all of the steadings and make everything
bare bones. So go to such extreme to where you have to click the power button to turn it on,
like your phone doesn't automatically turn on when you pick it up. And then also make it so
you have to manually search. Like usually when you swipe down on the iPhone, like there's recommended
apps, get rid of those apps, make as you have to manually search for every single app. And I've got
my phone is so minimalist that I've gotten rid of like all of the widgets. Like when you swipe to
the left, there's all of that crap, like get rid of all that. And then the only thing I haven't
figured out how to get rid of is when you swipe to the right, there's like all of your apps that
you have laid out. I don't know how to get rid of that, but it doesn't really mind. I don't really
mind because I never swipe to the right anyways. And then another thing to do is when you're not
using it, keep it in airplane mode and power it off completely. Like that is essential. First of all,
to get rid of the emfs, but also to make it so it's like a two minute delay, or not a two minute,
but it's like a 30 second delay. From the time that you pick up your phone to the time you're
actually on an app. So you have to like you literally have to sit there for 30 seconds and ask
yourself, do I really need to do this? And it also makes it a chore. Like oftentimes, okay,
actually, no. Let me also say, keep your phone in the basement or in the attic or wherever as
far as possible as where you mainly are. So that means that for me, I keep it in the basement.
During the day, I'm upstairs. And so that means that when I want to use my phone, I literally have
to get up, walk all the way down the stairs, walk all the way across the basement, because I keep it
on the opposite side of the stairs. So I have to walk all the way across the basement, turn it on,
which takes like 20 seconds, it takes like 20 seconds to even turn on, turn on airplane mode.
And when you have it powered off like that, it takes a long time to turn off like airplane mode
and all that stuff. And then like get it connected to data, like it takes a long time for all this
stuff to load. And so I know how long it takes. And so I'm upstairs, I'm like, do I really need
to use my phone? No, I don't. And I find a different solution, because it'll take way too long. Like
that is what you have to get to that point. So that's, that's the monk mode protocol. I might
be forgetting some stuff, but I don't know, carry around a metal water bottle with you at all times.
Also, that's one thing, keep it filled up at all times.