Edition #10: The 60-Minute Investment

📌 Here's What's Up:

• ✅ One hour a day can change everything

• ✅ Turn your mornings into growth time

• ✅ Get Better At Work: Stop being reactive

• ✅ HR Software Recommendations

• ✅ Featured Morning Routine: Naval Ravikant on compounding skills

• ✅ Stoic Reset: Think long-term. Act short-term.

• ✅ To-Do List: Lock in your 60-minute habit this week

🔥 Motivation: Work for Yourself First

💡 Takeaway:
One hour a day = 365 focused hours a year. That’s 9 full-time work weeks. 

You could learn a language, build a business, or change your body. The ideas are endless of what you could put that one hour to use for.

9 Weeks. That is a long time.

That is enough time.

Just be consistent.

⚡ Get Sh*t Done: Make Your Morning Your Growth Hour

✅ Pick One Area of Growth
Fitness, writing, learning a skill, building a side hustle.

One goal. No bouncing around, no shiny objects.

✅ Start with 20/20/20 or Full 60
Break it into:

• 20 min movement

• 20 min mindset (journal, read, meditate)

• 20 min output (create, code, build)

Or go all-in on one high-impact block.

✅ Treat It Like a Job
Don’t miss. Don’t check email first. Don’t take early calls. This is protected time.

✅ Use a Visual Timer or Pomodoro App
Don’t eyeball the clock. Use Flow, Time Timer etc. you get it.

✅ Phone in a Drawer. No Exceptions.
Even face down, it’s a leak. Out of sight = deeper focus.

💡 Every distraction you eliminate during this hour compounds the value of your effort.

🚀 Get Better At Work: Play the Long Game

• 🧠 Skill compounding > reacting to noise
  Building a skill an hour a day pays dividends and gets noticed. Just make sure it is the right skill to be learning.

• 📚 Value before inbox
  Try to create something (think MIT) before consuming anything when you get to the office. It reframes your entire day. Be a producer, not a consumer. So actually start working on something as soon as you get to work instead of just doing whatever and wasting some of your most productive time.

• 📈 More control = less burnout
  When the first win of your day is for you, it’s easier to handle everything else. You can’t control what will happen later in the day but if you have your shit under control then you’ll have more confidence to handle anything.

📌 Pro Tip:
This isn’t about “hustling harder.” It’s about being prepared and becoming harder to replace.

🏆 Featured Routine: Naval Ravikant’s Learning Hour

Most people start their day reacting—scrolling, checking, comparing.
Good ol' Naval starts his by sharpening his mind.

🧠 No external noise: No email, no notifications, no distractions
📖 Input + reflection: Reading, note-taking, long-form listening
🚶 Silent walk or solo thinking: Processing ideas instead of consuming junk
🧩 Mental leverage: Time to clarify, not just execute

✨ Our Take:
If your first hour trains your thinking instead of numbing it, the rest of the day works better.

Try and be silent as possible for the first 5 minutes awake, no noise, no phone, no nothing. Silence.

If you’re like me you prefer to be listening to something almost all the time, not ideal first thing. Also, try and make the first podcast you listen to an educational one and throw it on 1.25 speed (retention is the same)

🧠 Stoic Reset: Think Long-Term. Act Short-Term.

💭 Reflection:
The people you admire probably didn’t luck into results. They showed up when it was quiet, when no one was watching.

One hour. Every day.

📋 To-Do List: Build Your 1-Hour Habit

• ✅ Choose one outcome to build (skill, side hustle, health)

• ✅ Block 60 minutes tomorrow AM (or 3 x 20-min blocks)

• ✅ Start a tracker—daily or weekly

• ✅ Say no to one distraction that usually eats your time

• ✅ Share your growth hour habit on IG - tag @HackMorning