Alright, so yesterday I stumbled across this video interview with Brian Pritchard talking about success habits. Honestly, it wasn’t even planned – was scrolling with my coffee and boom, there he was. The title grabbed me: Brian Prichard Success Secrets: 5 Key Lessons to Learn Now. Felt like a sign, ya know? My own routines lately… well, they’ve been kinda hit-or-miss. Needed a kick.
Figuring Out the Big Five
First thing I did? Watched the damn thing properly, notebook in hand. Brain was buzzing. Brian boiled it down to these five core things:
- Rise Insanely Early: Like, 5:30 AM early. Oof. He talked about quiet time, getting ahead before the world wakes up. Made me think of my own snooze button addiction.
- Non-Negotiable Daily Exercise: Not just thinking about it, but doing it. Every. Single. Day. Even just 20 minutes. My gym shoes were getting dusty…
- Relentless Goal Setting (Daily & Weekly): Writing it down, looking at it constantly. Not vague wishes, actual targets. My last “goal” was scribbled on a receipt somewhere.
- Time Blocking Like Your Life Depends On It: Seriously protecting chunks of time for deep work, planning, family. My calendar usually just had meetings and chaos.
- Radical Accountability: Tracking wins daily and reviewing constantly. Owning your screw-ups. Brutal honesty. Made me squirm a bit thinking about my excuses.
My “Let’s Try This” Plan (Spoiler: It Blew Up in My Face at First)
Feeling fired up, I decided to jump in tomorrow. This was my genius plan:
- Set alarm for 5:30 AM. (Felt ambitious but doable… hah)
- Go for a 30-minute run IMMEDIATELY after waking up. (Motivational music playlist ready!)
- Spend 30 mins writing clear daily goals & blocking my time. (Bought a fancy new planner, obviously.)
- Track my wins every evening with color-coded markers. (Because why not?)
Day One? Total disaster. Alarm went off. Smacked it silent. Woke up at 7:15 AM feeling like roadkill. Missed the run. Felt guilty. Scrambled through the day. Managed to scribble three things at 10 PM I wanted to do tomorrow – not actual goals. Zero accountability tracking. Frickin’ markers untouched.
Actually Making it Stick (The Messy Reality)
Right. Too much, too fast. Needed to adapt. Brian kept emphasizing consistency over perfection, so I dialled it WAY back.
- Waking Up: Changed to 6 AM instead of 5:30 AM. Still painful, but possible. Stuck my phone across the room. Key: Got UP. Didn’t scroll. Just got vertical.
- Exercise: Ditched the lofty run goal for now. Committed to just 15 minutes. Anything. Bodyweight stuff in my PJs, a brisk walk – just MOVE. Surprisingly, once I started, I often went longer.
- Goal Setting & Time Blocking: Started smaller here too. Wrote down just 3 MUST-DOs for the day before opening email. Blocked ONE sacred 90-minute chunk for deep work (phone off!). Protecting that one block became a game.
- Accountability: Kept it simple. Every night, before shutting down my laptop, I literally wrote down:
- My 3 Wins (even tiny ones like “wrote 300 words” or “didn’t yell at my inbox”)
- My 1 Big Lesson (where did I drop the ball? Be honest.)
Took 3 minutes. Those color markers? Yeah, gathering dust.
Where I’m At Now (Two Months In)
It’s not perfect. Life still throws curveballs. Kids interrupt me. Work explodes. But the core? It holds.
- 6 AM is my normal wake-up. That quiet hour before chaos? Gold. I plan, I think, I sometimes just drink coffee in silence.
- 15 minutes of movement is baked in. Actually look forward to it some days. Never miss two days in a row.
- My daily 3 MUST-DOs and sacred work block? Sacred. The rest gets slotted around them. Feels less reactive.
- That nightly 3 Wins / 1 Lesson? Eye-opening. Forces me to see progress and face the music. Made me realize how often I blamed outside stuff instead of owning my choices. That “radical accountability”? It’s… frickin’ radical.
Biggest change isn’t just ticking boxes. It’s feeling way more in control. Less like I’m drowning in the current, more like I’m steering the damn boat. Still hitting rocks sometimes, but at least I’ve got oars now. Thanks, Brian.