Yo, so I'm a 17 year old entrepreneur.
I am still in high school and I'm currently building a consulting business which generates around 500000 a year in profit.
I've worked with some of the top entrepreneurs in the space, behind the scenes, to help them grow their personal brands, and now I'm sort of coming to the front, building my own.
So I thought today, what better topic than to touch on a video I've made a few months ago and sort of give an updated guide on how I find time for everything as an entrepreneur in high school?
The quote that really changed everything for me in terms of routine is the quote you either control your day or your day controls you.
This is incredibly important and incredibly impactful, because if you go about your days with no plan, no structure, no routine and no systems, then you're simply just going to be a victim to everyone else's routines and systems.
Right, because if i don't have a morning routine, if i don't have a hard cut off to my day, when i'm supposed to log off of social media and wind down, to go to get prepared for bed which i'm going to explain all these systems in this video then someone else is going to call me or text me and be like hey, I need this done right now and I'm going to do it because simply, I do not have a system to tell me not to.
So you need to be very, very clear on how you want your days to be structured rules and values you go by, when it comes down to how important sleep is, how important diet is, how important wake up time is.
All of these things matter to a very exceptionally high degree.
So Just wanted to start things there and really stress the importance of having systems and routines.
Now I want to show you mine, because without this, I would be constantly getting bombarded with things that I did not plan to do, every single day.
And I would simply just do them with no reason not to because I don't have a system.
So first thing is definitely online school.
I tried to start a business teaching entrepreneurs how to scale their personal brands, like three years ago, while also growing my personal brand, which was, at the time, averaging like 500k to 30 million views every single instagram reel absolutely insane.
And at the same time, i was also trying to upload youtube videos.
As i say this out loud, it's actually insane um, and i was going to school in person.
So what that really looks like is that's seven hours every single day.
Where i have to, i mean even more, maybe it's like eight hours because i have to get ready for school, i have to go to school, i have to sit in class, i have to walk to other classes, go to lunch, go to snack.
There's so many different things going on there that don't need to be there.
Like the whole point of school is to first socialize and second to actually learn.
I honestly think the socialization comes first in front of learning, which is kind of ironic because it's an education system, but put that aside. i have found ways to do the most important thing of school which is socialize and that's through going to gyms where they have communities that's from you know actually networking with people online who are also entrepreneurs just talking to people throughout the day in different communities and building my own network throughout the ecosystem i live in that's like a funny way to put it but you get the idea that is sort of checking off the need for the socialization in high school so although i'm i'm so upset i don't have to to go through the social hierarchy of who can date the coolest people and have the best fashion and do all these things so sad i can't experience that no i'm not i'm so happy that i got put straight into the real world how the world actually works where people are mature and you can choose who you hang out with you're not forced to be in classes with people you don't even like not saying i didn't like anyone in my high school no hate but you get the point there so online school saves me five or six hours every single day because I would typically go in for seven hours and probably spend like in-person school and probably spend like five hours to six hours doing absolutely nothing and then just one or two hours working that's all I needed because the teachers would just chat the rest of the time and not really do anything so Online school saved my life.
I wouldn't be anywhere near where I am today without that.
I would be getting bad sleep, stress out of my mind, not being able to get anything done.
And that's just silly because you go through school so you can figure out what you want to do.
And I figured out what I wanted to do.
So I no longer needed to be trapped in a very unproductive routine.
That's the first thing getting to online school, which now takes me an hour or two every day.
And I get to do it at my own time, work around my own schedule.
I get to do it from wherever in the world I am.
And also I. get the benefit of socializing in other aspects of my life.
So easy.
Next thing is morning routine.
Now this is incredibly important.
Like you need a morning routine.
If you don't wake up at the same time every day, if you don't follow a set list of things to do in the same order every morning first of all, I don't know how you function.
Maybe, like you, have a different neurological chemistry than I do, but you're not gonna be able to get the hard things done throughout the day.
When you think about it, the easiest time and the most logical time to do the thing you want to avoid the most is first thing in the morning.
Those are things like meditation, reading, going to the gym, the hardest work block of the day.
So I decided, let me put all of these things together into one routine.
Let me see.
I can pull up my phone really quick just to show what it looks like, but I have the entire routine blocked out on my calendar.
So I know exactly what I'm going to do every single day at every time.
Now I'm not perfect.
I don't follow this.
I try to follow it religiously, but I sin in my routine.
I'm sorry.
But if I wanted to show you here this is what it looks like.
I don't know, you can't even really read it, but that's okay, you can see.
I have everything color coded blocked out.
It's very systemized.
That's just how i like to do things, so it works for me.
Um, just to run you through kind of how it looks.
It's like 5 am, wake up, cold shower.
Two hour work block.
Doing the thing i least want to do meditate, bible study gym breakfast homework, homework.
Seven hour work blocks.
I have like calls and stuff with clients and then our dinner plan tomorrow.
Very important.
I'll go into night routine in the second walk and then bathroom.
That's my entire day.
And, of course, like that, doesn't seem like I'm doing a lot in the day, but when I'm working out I'm like doing client work.
I'm listening to podcasts in those eight hours. eight to nine hours of work every day.
Of course, I'm doing a ton of different tasks.
So that's where that all comes in.
That's morning routine.
So now you know my entire morning routine.
You know what I'm doing every hour of the day.
That's great.
Let's go into night routine because this is really important.
I think people neglect this the most.
We all glorify the ice baths and reading and Bible studies in the morning.
It's like a whole Instagram thing, Ashton Hall and everything.
But I truly believe the night routine is almost more important.
So the way life works coming from a 17 year old is your day starts the day before at 7 PM, every single day.
Everything I do from that point forward is going to dictate my next day directly.
It's not even an indirect effect, it's like direct impact.
The reason for it is because if i stay up late, my circadian rhythm, my energy, my positivity, everything is just screwed the next day, absolutely thrown in the gutter.
And that is The dumbest thing I see entrepreneurs do.
I know it's great to be able to work until you can't work anymore, but there is something to say about having the discipline to stop working just as there is.
It's a very noble feat to have the discipline to work.
It goes both ways.
Stop your work at a certain time every single day and prepare for the next day.
For me, that means all my lights go to red.
I don't want to take blue light in.
If I'm on calls, I literally turn the lights to red and everyone thinks I'm weird, but that is...
How I doing?
So I don't care.
I'm getting better sleep than all of you.
So, you know, I'm just kidding.
Everyone's probably getting better sleep than me.
The whole idea is to have a wind down routine, something that's going to prep you for the next day, because that's when your day starts.
So it's incredibly important, like write something down, get it systemized.
Have a cutoff time.
I have an alarm on my phone at 7 p.m. every day where it says lights off.
And then all the lights would go off, of course, as it suggests.
And I'll wind down.
I try not to eat after that.
Sometimes I do.
And then I plan the next day.
This gets really interesting.
I have this thing which I call daily planners.
And I stole this from Charlie Morgan, so I don't take credit for this.
But.
I have like a few here.
Basically, I'll leave a link to this in the description so you can just download it yourself and customize it.
I'll leave it as a doc.
But I have 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. tracked out in military time.
I know, very, very difficult to read, but it's a good practice if you don't know military time.
As well, I have this thing called productivity inventory.
Again, Charlie Morgan, not me.
And it's just three tasks that you need to get done that day.
Lastly, I have this thing called how could I improve?
And you just list off three things you can improve.
Simple enough, a second grader could understand it.
But what this is going to do is it's going to allow you to understand what you have planned for every half hour of the day.
So when that day comes around, you aren't living by someone else's schedule or letting the world give you a routine.
You're sticking to your routine and you're practicing discipline.
You're not going to stick to it.
I don't know some people maybe can um, i found that it's nearly impossible to stick to it by the half hour.
Typically it'll be like i'll finish work early or finish it late.
Everything gets shifted, but it's still good to have the guide, and if every single day you can get one percent better at following it check off one more box every day then beautiful.
That's all you need.
You don't need to be perfect with it.
You just need to be getting better and practicing planning structure and discipline.
Second link in the description, you had access to a war map, which I'm gonna use all of 2026.
I used it from, I use it for half of 2024 and every single day in 2025.
Basically, it allows you to plan out your to-do lists for every day of the entire year, by the month, by the week, by the day.
And you can just check things off by doing shift command X, that'll cross off each task.
And then if you don't do it, you command C, command V, copy it over and delete it from the last box.
Perfect.
You never, you never forget to do a task because every day you're shifting it over.
No, like paper checklists that you forget you even have.
And then you just forget to do a task in a month later.
You're like, Oh shoot.
My entire business just fell to the floor because I forgot to do my accounting.
So next thing is eat the frog.
If you were given a frog with your dinner and you were told you have to eat the frog by the end of the dinner?
Would you eat the dinner first or the frog first?
If you're crazy, you'll probably say the frog second for dessert because you're insane.
But if you're sane, then frog first to get out of the way.
You don't want a full stomach and to be fully satiated by the time.
It's time to do the hardest thing, because you have no motivation, no willpower to do it.
But if you front load your day now we're shifting back to days instead of frogs and dinners If you front load your day with the hardest task of the day whether it be a 30-minute task or a two-hour task, like mine are typically around two hours then you get it over with.
So the rest of your day is, it's like a walk in the park.
I forgot the quote.
It's like a walk in the park.
So it gets so much easier to get the hard work done when you front load it in the day killer life hack there, like that actually changed everything for me.
I think if you implement everything here, see if you can get to online school.
If you're like a real entrepreneur, if you're just someone who says they want to start a business but you're not actually going to take action on it, then i wouldn't recommend going to online school.
Maybe actually because In-person school doesn't really have any more benefits.
So maybe, but definitely look into it.
Morning routine, night routine, warmup, daily planner, and then eating the frog.
And if you implement all these things, I promise you, life as an entrepreneur in high school will get much easier.
See ya.
