Episode 051-Six Habits to Leverage a New Year as a Road Warrior

The Elite Road Warrior Podcast

Welcome to the ERW podcast, I’m your host, BpB, fellow road warrior, husband of one, father of five, ready to bring on a new year, and committed each and every business trip to becoming and remaining an ERW.

And it all comes down to two primary words: ROAD HABITS.

These road habits encompass Three Focus Areas:

It’s a challenge to eat healthy on the road
It’s hard to sleep in a hotel
I don’t have time to get in a good workout or a workout at all for that matter when I travel
I check in with the fam back home when I can but things get busy
Six Habits to Leverage a New Year as a Road Warrior
Habit One -MOVE
Move leverages the Increase M4X Formula:

• Stand More - think up on my feet not down on my butt
• Walk More - think forward not still
• Run More - think cardio and getting your heart rate up
• Lift More - think strength training by using body weight, dumbbells, and resistance bands
• Key Concept: Movement Creates Energy
• Challenge - choose one of the four Increase M4X this next month to focus on and master it for all its worth.
• Habit Two - FUEL
• My food choices were as follows:
• The easiest choice
• The quickest choice
• The tastiest choice
• The largest choice

Fuel encompasses the MTHC Formula: (Make the Healthiest Choice)

• Continually Hydrate - adding more water into my road day
• Clean & Green - cleaner foods and more greens with each meal
• Carry a Controlled Substance - having healthy snacks always available

Key Concept: Food is Fuel and Fuel is Energy

What would be the easiest for you to implement to get some quick wins?

What would challenge and push you to start the year with the energy habit of FUEL?
Resource - podcast episode #043 - Five Decisions You Must Make at Every Restaurant on the Road

podcast episode #037 - Why You Must Carry a Lunch Box to Work on the Road
Habit Three -REST
I was the guy who:

• Had dinner with my laptop lover then took her up for a night cap
• Had every possible light and screen on
• Went to bed way too late binge watching and falling asleep with the TV on
• Woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and felt like I had swallowed a dozen cotton balls
• Woke up feeling sharp as a bowling ball
• Never took a break and came home absolutely exhausted useless to my family and work

The Problem: I viewed rest as the enemy not as my biggest performance enhancer on the road
Rest encompasses the Strategic Resting Formula:

• Sleep - Improve Than Increase
• Breaks - Move the Body, Rest the Mind
• Downtime - Time to Be, NOT to Be On
• Key Concept: Rest Creates Energy
• Challenge - choose one of the three in the Strategic Resting Formula to focus on this new year
• Habit Four - PERFORM
• Perform encompasses the Intentional Performance Formula:
• Road Plan - is planning your day on paper, every part, and even finding the potential margins that may arise and what to do with them when they do appear
• Block & Tackle - is focusing on one task for a set period of time
• Energy Pacing - is knowing why and when your energy is low then how to pair tasks according to your energy

Key Concept: High Performance Requires Intentionality
Challenge - choose one of the three in the Intentional Performance Formula
Habit Five - DEVELOP
Develop encompasses the Invest in You Formula:

• Sharpen the Mind - putting content in
• Process the Thoughts - getting content out
• Monitor the Heart - finding out how you’re REALLY doing

Key Concept: Learning is Selfish and Something Only YOU Can Do
Challenge