The Cheat Code to Productivity | Monk Mode Explained

so over the last few years I have used monk mode to make tens of millions of dollars accomplished some of my wildest goals and dreams and formulated a protocol that millions of people have watched here on YouTube but even after making the monk mode protocol and making countless videos about it people still have questions and I haven't made a monk mode video in around a year so in today's video I thought that I would go on Instagram get some questions from you guys and answer the most popular topics on your mind as to how to

actually do monk mode the benefits and everything else that comes with it what is monk mode monk mode is a period of immersion it's a period in which you say to yourself and you signal to the people around you that listen I'm locked in I'm focused now from my understanding monk mode was floating around as a rough term for many years but when I started monk mode back in early 2020 just right before lockdown there was no real formula or way to do it so I can only tell you my monk mode protocol maybe some

other people have some other ideas but my monk mode protocol consists of no alcohol or wheat 30 minutes a day of exercising even if that's just a brisk walk in the park and 10 minutes a day of meditation those three are your non-negotiables now there's a bunch of other protocols out there for example like 75 Hardware it's five or six different variables but they're just fixed and I totally respect that protocol but I wanted to create something where people would have the ones which for me are just a non-negotiable full stop and then you can

add your own variables so you can add anywhere from one to three variables on top some variables that I've done in the past include praying once a day doing 45 minutes of phone screen time per day I've done stuff like adhering to a diet so I did a strict carnivore diet and you can really do whatever you want whether that be 30 minutes a day of practicing public speaking or 15 minutes a day of journaling whatever you want that's the really amazing thing about monk mode is that you got those three non-negotiables but then you've

got anywhere from one to three additional variables that you get to pick and choose in each monk mode period that I do is different it shifts it changes depending on my needs in that season of life and that brings us on to our second question which is how long should monk mode last now monk mode needs to be at least 21 days anything less than that and it's simply not a commitment enough and to be entirely honest with you even 21 days really isn't that much of a commitment it's just I understand for some of

you guys even three days the idea of meditating for 10 minutes and doing 30 minutes a day of exercise and no alcohol no weed even three days is difficult and I will say the more days you do it the easier it gets so for those of you guys who are really struggling and have never done something like this before do 21 days do 21 days and then maybe take a couple day break enjoy your life and then go back into maybe a 30-day window after that and you can really chop and change the duration that's

the once again the beautiful thing about monk mode is it has its set basis its core and then you can shift things around it so minimum 21 days up to 90 days I don't recommend doing any more than 90 days because at the day I think that you need to let your hair down I think you need to have some fun break routine and then get back into it monkey mode is a way of life me personally which is I know there's periods of my life which are very hectic and there's lots of traveling sometimes

those late nights there's all of these things involved but then there's periods where I know listen for the next 60 days I am at home I am in my city I'm not going to do editing traveling and for me that means that in that 60 days I want to make the most of it I want to maximize the results from that time so that's when I go okay let me do a 60-day monk mode period here are the set non-negotiables and then let me add some extra variables on top of that the next question is

for which group of people is monk mode the best monk mode is the best for the people that just are sick and tired of saying they're gonna do something but they don't actually do it and monk mode is a commitment to yourself and it's a commitment to the people around you the beautiful thing I love about monk load as well is ever since I started saying it like three years ago hey I'm doing monk mode it's a very easy term for my friends to understand so much so to the point that my friends will be

like oh are you doing monk mode right now and if they know that I'm in a monk mode period then they're a lot more understanding and they understand okay he's not drinking right now okay it won't be a late night oh okay he probably won't be able to and this thing so really monk mode is for anyone who's just a beginner and starting out all the way to super successful people anyone who wants to accomplish their goals and understands that they need to go into a period of mini immersion in order to achieve that and

they need to go into a phase of Monk mode the next question is very commonly asked for me personally because people know I enjoy cigars and that is do smoke cigars in monk mode the answer to that question is yes I still do smoke cigars I've done monk modes in the past where that's one of my extra variables just because I want to see okay for the next 60 days can I not smoke cigars so I've done that in the past but for me I've found no benefit to Percy and especially because I'm in a

lot of very important business meetings I'm in a lot of very important dinners stuff like that I will be honest when you're playing at a very high level alcohol is just always sort of a part of meetings and dinners like it's almost that thing that people can Bond over you know a bottle of wine or a glass of wine so because I don't have that if I'm doing monk mode cigars is a way to also have that bonding experience a lot of the people that I do business with they also smoke cigars or if they

don't smoked cigars they're always very interested for me to kind of educate them a little bit about it and you know help them smoke their first cigar properly so yeah for me personally I still do smoke a lot of cigars I know that that is a point of contention for a lot of people and all I will say to that is I believe that every High performer we just need our thing that's for us like we just need our thing that's our alone time or a time to relax and if I'm being very honest Michael

Jordan he openly admitted that he smoked a cigar on the way to the stadium before any home game so if Michael Jordan who is one of the best athletes in history smoked cigars and was able to do what he did for me personally I haven't noticed any negatives in my life and it's only brought positives which I definitely by the way cannot say about alcohol or any other vices so next question is when do you decide on when to go into monk mode the way that I do it is I know in my year there's

certain periods that are more busy in terms of travel in terms of events that are more social and less business oriented like I know right now I'm currently in Como in Italy then after this I need to go to Geneva for some business and then after that I'm going to London so I know that within this sort of European travel it's very difficult for me to stick to my monkey more protocol I can if it's called for but for me I'd rather go through this period and then I go back to Dubai where I live

I go back to my home and I know that I don't really have any travel plans for a couple months and I specifically made it that way because I wanted to get a lot of work done over the summer and pretty much just stay at home do monk mode and get ahead because there's a lot of very important work stuff on at the moment so monk mode for me as anyone who is not where they want to be in life wants to build a business wants to achieve something for me it's a non-negotiable like you

just do monk mode because what else are you going to do there's there should be no excuses and by the way I lived a sort of variation or almost did a monkey without even realizing it for pretty much three four years while I first got my business off the ground and made my first few million dollars a year so how do you decide on when to go into monk mode it's really just a matter of if you are not where you want to be in life you do it full stop if you are where you

want to be in life and you're making great progress then monk mode is simply a tool of immersion where you go okay I have this little pocket of space and that little pocket of space where I know that I don't have too much going on why why don't I make a full dedication and a full commitment to this and make this a monk mode period the next question is do you listen to music if so the same music as usual or do you switch it up now one of the things that you're going to find

and one of the benefits of Monk mode is it kind of resets your dopamine level listening to music is almost like the foods that you eat you need to be very present to the moment and you need to be very sort of aware to eat something like a salad and truly appreciate it or even eat eggs and avocado every single day and still appreciate it that's why you notice when you're in the worst space mentally that's when you crave the fast food and stuff like that I almost look at music that way listen I love

rap music and I think there's a time and place for it but you'll notice probably in your least conscious and probably when you're most distracted and erratic and sort of all over the place that's probably when you listen to the most stimulating music so I still listen to music during monk mode what I notice is during monk mode my music choices get sort of quieter I listen to a lot more classical music I listen to a lot more old school music and I still listen to this stuff no matter what usually that's my preference my

preference isn't so much of you know the latest music in terms of my favorite artists and rappers and this and that I usually find in those periods that I listen to very little new music actually I find it too intense for me and I listen to a lot of classical stuff or just stuff without lyrics as well stuff that's not super stimulating the next question is which part of Monk mode is the most difficult for you and how do you deal with your relationships during it dealing with relationships as I said that's why I love

monk mode because people understand it's crazy once I start telling people this three years ago they're like oh he's doing monk motor even one of my friends will be like oh no he's not drinking he's doing monk mode and it's the people around you just seem to understand funnily enough because it's a very easy term to sort of grasp and for me the most difficult part of Monk mode I'd say is when I commit to a for example let's say I commit to a 60-day monk mode and then there's a last minute trip that happens

in there or sort of a last minute curve balls obviously if you are in your home for the next 60 90 days 21 days whatever that's the best way to do it unfortunately life doesn't always go to plan so maybe three weeks into a monk mode I may have a trip which makes it very difficult to kind of tick off on the list of things that I need to do so I I say that's for me personally the most difficult thing is when curveballs get thrown into the mix and last minute trips or last minute

obligations come up and the last question is what are the true results of Monk mode I mean listen I can only speak to my results and ever since I started doing dedicated monk mode in the beginning of 2020 that's really where my life kind of just propelled to a different level I mean at the age of 18 I made my first million dollars so I was always doing well but I found that I was doing well and I was still comfortable ever since I started implementing monk mode I don't know why but since then I've

just taken on bigger and bigger challenges in my life and felt like I could take on bigger challenges maybe that's what it was before is that I felt like I had strong abilities but I didn't feel like I could accomplish the unthinkable whereas now I genuinely feel like you give me a 90-day monk mode window and as long as I don't have too much travel or too much business stuff that's pulling me in different directions where I need to leave my house I feel like I could accomplish anything quite frankly so not only just accomplishing

more I'd say the big thing as well is just having my circle understand more because it's as I said it's a very easy thing for everyone around you to understand that you're going through and you're experiencing but I'd say really if you want to find out the true results and the true benefits of Monk mode go try it for yourself go try for 21 days and I'm Gonna Leave a link below this video to one of my other monk mode videos where I'm kind of speak more specifically and a little bit more quickly on what

the protocol actually is how you do it how you execute on it and listen as always I'm watching you from afar and I'm rooting for you