How To Plan Your Day & Get Into “Flow” State By Unlocking Your Brain Type

that's really important to know what is

your first and secondary on brain size

how are you using it and then our

advanced assessment basically shows you

these other components so once you know

basically where you're spending most of

your time in your brain you can focus on

those things not only to again focus on

your strengths but also to set up your

day in your life that way and so what I

was thinking was okay well I feel like

I'm wired a different way than maybe you

are maybe my friend is and I see these

patterns of people I work with and I see

what I actually feel amazing there

sometimes I show up and I just crush it

and then sometimes you know I feel like

I'm not doing anything and I feel

sluggish and I'm like why what is that I

think that's such an important point is

knowing yourself because I think a lot

of people they think that what this

person is doing what you're doing or

that person they try to be like that

person instead of really understanding

themselves more than what their

strengths are or weaknesses are and

really optimizing that you mind sharing

a little bit what the different brain

types are yeah sure

so I'm an explorer so basically explores

they want to have fun they want to be

adventurous you know so and a big part

of my journey with this was I would

always in my day want to do these things

and I felt like I had to mute myself on

having fun or like you know being in

nature because I'm supposed to be

working on an entrepreneur so I can't be

walking and doing a conference call

people like that's weird

I'm like that's weird that doesn't make

any sense that's what gives me energy

and so explore you probably know who you

are right off the bat if you're out

nature a lot and then there's the Oracle

right so Oracle that's actually again

like I found of my ohm is an Oracle so

that the first time ever I actually

understood

and she felt seen and I felt like I saw

her and that's what the languaging does

is able to really see somebody up to

this when everyone this is Stefan James

from Project life mastery and I'm here

right now with my good friend Chad

Murrieta who's a co-founder of project

Evo today we're gonna be discussing how

to unlock your brain type so that you

can get more into a flow state and

increase your productivity and achieve

more now Chad is really revolutionising

the way that people are planning their

day he created this planner here called

the project Evo that's custom tailored

based on your brain type just for you so

that you can optimize your productivity

so Chad thanks for taking the time man

brother thanks for having me do you mind

you know sharing people a little bit

about your story in background you know

Chad I've actually had on the channel

before and he's an incredible

entrepreneur you've had so much success

with apps and speaking and this is your

latest project but before we dive into

this you might learn a little bit about

yourself only how you got to where we

are today yeah yeah yeah so interesting

journey like most people probably

watching it's like you know you grow up

and you want a better life and you have

all these goals and aspirations and so I

threw myself into entrepreneurship and

you know really started learning a lot

in early 20s and I had this real estate

company and it's a whole nother story

but basically started a company at the

wrong possible time of the real estate

market and ended up losing a lot of

money got a bad car accident or I almost

lost my arm and you know that really

motivated me and allowed me to look at

life in such a different lens and I

remember being in my hospital beds you

know remembering what I was doing this

for like why am I actually living as an

entrepreneur I'm like I want a better

life and I want this and want that and

so I ended up with that motivation

building up multiple app companies and

did really really well and sold them off

one of them was emoji fingerprint

security we had basically you know one

time we were you know top one number one

to number five place and the whole app

store with her

so very very well and and enjoy I'm

still in the app business but I also

felt this feeling you know probably

three years ago where I was like I want

more I want more fulfillment and this is

where I really plugged in and this is

again you know like I'm a fan of yours

because we sing the same song in the

sense of you know you can really create

what life you want and it takes

awareness and it takes discipline and

and it takes this hunger for meaning and

fulfillment and so when I sold my app

companies I made a bunch of money and I

was like there's more to this I didn't

feel this like I I've made it oh my god

I made it and that made me really look

inside and be like okay what am I

missing if this isn't the road to where

I want to be and so that brought me in

on this whole thing about flow and like

Who am I and you know how do I learn

best and how to actually do what I

should be doing in this world and so I

basically started asking these questions

and was that a mastermind and you know

met this one of my good buddies and we

start talking about you know what if we

actually develop this assessment where

we could finally give people this this

language around the communication their

their way of actually being able to

identify with how their brain works and

it took us into this vision of what we

have now which is Evo yeah it's amazing

so you've created this this planner here

and go more into the assessment because

I'm fascinated by that there's so many

you know planners out there but this is

very unique you mind sharing a little

bit about the the process behind this

yeah no not at all so the process was it

was a lot of learning that's for sure

lot of research a lot of research and

you know for me it's like I love

conferences we share Tony Robbins out

you know how amazing he's done for for

my life in your life and and so again I

was going these conferences I was hungry

and then I wasn't able to really you

know take all the information and

implement it as well as I would like to

and so what I was thinking was okay well

I feel like I'm wired a different way

than maybe you are and maybe my friend

is and I see these patterns of people I

work with and I see what I actually feel

amazing there sometimes I show up and I

just crush it then sometimes you know I

feel like I'm not doing

and I feel sluggish and I'm like why

what is that and so what we did was we

were like okay how do we actually build

this assessment you know how do we

actually understand how people's brains

are wired and it's a whole serendipitous

story how we met Beckett who basically

is a lot of the brain around the

assessment piece of it and you know we

basically were able to merge a lot of

Beckett's you know you know sort of

theory with our ideas of how do we

actually get people to cross the finish

line of flow of the most important task

of you know how do you wake up and feel

inspired how do you actually look at

what makes you thrive because we all

actually do different things to thrive

and most people aren't even aware of it

at all

and so this was the aha that I had once

I realized and once we built this

assessment which we had you know over a

hundred and something thousand people we

brought it through to really understand

like are our assumptions correct does

this make sense does this light them up

do they actually say wow this helps me

thrive and so what we did with this is

we brought all these people through and

we started seeing that there were a lot

of patterns and I think the biggest

thing like Myers you know Briggs and all

discs and all that it's like when you

get your type it's really hard to

understand it do you have that I need

someone to kind of like professional

that can describe it for you yeah

totally and so that was a big AHA for me

being an entrepreneur I'm like if I give

language to it where I can say I'm an

explorer and you know what that is and I

can say you're an architect and I know

what that is

then the languaging this is how you know

people obviously communicates through

language that will spread and that's

what's happened and so you know I

remember the first time I actually went

and I went home and I didn't really

communicate too much with my family

about what I'm doing and they know I'm

an entrepreneur but they didn't know

much and I was like okay I need to share

with them this this whole concept about

assessments and knowing how your brain

works knowing how you work as a human

being because once you know that and you

focus on those things everything changes

right I think that's such an important

point is knowing yourself because I

think a lot of people they think that

what this person is doing what you're

doing or that person they try to be like

that person instead of really

understanding themselves

more than what their strengths are or

weaknesses are and really optimizing

that do you mind sharing a little bit

what the different brain types are yeah

sure so I'm an explorer so basically

explores they want to have fun they want

to be adventurous you know so and a big

part of my journey with this was I would

always in my day want to do these things

and I felt like I had to mute myself on

having fun or like you know being in

nature because I'm supposed to be

working on an entrepreneur so I can't be

walking and doing a conference call

people like that's weird

I'm like that's weird that doesn't make

any sense that's what gives me energy

and so explore you probably know who you

are right off the bat if you're out in

nature a lot and then there's the Oracle

right so Oracle that's actually again I

found in my home is an Oracle so that

the first time ever I actually

understood my mom and she felt seen and

I felt like I saw her and that's what

the languaging does is able to really

see somebody else through this lens

instead of thinking they have to be like

you right and understanding they're

different and appreciating that they're

different and noticing what those

differences are yes yes I mean there's

obviously love languages and stuff like

that so this is a different take on that

on how our brain is wired you know then

there's the alchemists alchemists are

they need variety they're super creative

you know they can pull down ideas and

really you know you know alchemists

because they'll be like I'll give you

this a new idea every time you talk to

them they have something new that

they're learning that they want to share

with people and I have a bunch of

alchemists in my life thank God because

I feel like I'm getting all the best

information you know synthesize all the

time so and then there's architect right

so architects are structure based

they're more linear right they

definitely to sort of thrive they need

structure in their lives where for me I

need to have fun so I actually need to

plan fun in my day and for an architect

to plan their day they need to have some

type of structure they need to actually

say okay here's my most important task

here's the way my day looks this is the

time I'm doing this without that their

brain can get overwhelmed very very

quickly you know what I mean so so those

are the four types and and it's amazing

when I look back at some of my

business partnerships they're all

high-level architects why because for me

I'm a visionary explorer and I need help

with like structure and putting things

linear so they actually have the outcome

that I'm looking for so it's been

amazing and revolutionary in so many

levels just because you know in life

there are people that can help you

you know better yourself yeah we're

working with other people this is great

for your team or staff you can

understand them a lot better your spouse

your boyfriend/girlfriend your family

your friends so that you guys and you

know with your partnerships as well so

that you can complement each other now

he actually has a free assessment and

I'm gonna link to it for you guys but if

you guys just go to project life mastery

comm slash Evo II V oh okay head on over

there it's free now can someone is

someone just more one or can they kind

of like have a ratio maybe this is their

strengths maybe it's more Explorer but

maybe secondary is architect or can

there be a ratio of that great question

yeah so basically you know it's just for

functions of the brain right so I'm an

explorer but that just means that you

know my dominant function right might be

an explorer can be an architect if you

need to but it's not your nature hundred

percent 100 percent so that's really

important to know what is your first and

secondary you know brain type how are

you using it and then our advanced

assessment basically shows you these

other components so once you know

basically where you're spending most of

your time in your brain you can focus on

those things not only to again focus on

your strengths but also to set up your

day in your life that way yeah so the

process is you actually do the

assessment first and then you get

shipped the journal exactly and this

journals and you know there's four

different types based on what your

assessment says do you mind sharing a

little bit about the journal itself and

kind of maybe we can maybe kind of

capture some of this for video for you

guys to see but you mind sharing just

kind of what it consists of yeah I would

love to I'd love to so yeah basically so

it's your brain type right so it's all

made for your brain time and we went I

mean this is obviously a really good

material everything else it's a whole

nother story with what we went through

there but basically you know again

because everyone's different we've spent

a lot of time going into you know like

how to actually fill it out and we took

our own life categories so that the nice

thing with the categories is you know

everybody has categories of life and

most people think they're winning the

game of life you know or they're losing

the game of life but they're not

tracking it they're not keeping score

and so this gives you away a high level

way of just going in monthly or weekly

or daily and being like where am I at

right now and so with like your health

yeah lationship your business yep yep so

we've got health relationships cashflow

fun contribution so when you start

understanding these categories and you

have certain goals and then at the week

I don't know how how we're gonna show

this but but basically yeah we'll have a

1 to 10 score and my app knowledge is

like wow there's such a better way

because what happens it's like people

fill stuff out and then they don't

remember where they're at well the

beauty now with technology and app and

AI is that when you fill this out

you open up the app and it scans it

immediately and it grabs all the data

and so you know exactly where you're at

and then from there you can start seeing

your patterns over time so you can help

raise your patterns in these areas yeah

in this and this is really the the

biggest I think area that we're we're

focused on right now is how can we

increase your flow yeah and happiness is

this abstract thing where it's like what

is happiness right

but I know how I feel at the end of my

day I'm like wow I I was in flow today I

worked out I did this I'd great energy

versus days where I don't have energy so

the whole goal is to because of your

brain type and it's personalized for you

you're actually going to use it you're

gonna use it and not only that you you

get this data when you use it in a

digital format that actually helps you

raise your baseline in all these areas

and that's what we're doing it doing and

that's the most exciting part so for me

again explorers I basically need chunks

so before what I was doing was every

single day I'd had this list of things

and it gave me anxiety and stress and I

had to check everything off so now I

just have one thing and the more

doing one thing in the afternoon one

thing at night I have one important task

per chunk and my brain loves that and

actually get it done and so it's amazing

how just a little bit of awareness

causes you to not only be more

productive but actually feel better too

can you describe for people what flow

state is they might not be familiar with

it but I know for its when time

disappears but do you mind kind of

sharing totally yeah so I think there's

there's many definitions of flow you

know and one of them is obviously if you

see like an athlete or you see a person

singing like it is where it's basically

timeless there's no time you step into

something and you the feeling that you

have is this euphoria and this

knowingness and everyone no matter who

you are has had this feeling you know

five six hours go by you're in a

conversation and you love the

conversation you know no matter what it

is and so this is life it is actually

life is we have the ability to feel more

of that and less of the things that

actually rob us of our natural energy

and that's that's our mission right is I

want to infect people with this idea of

you can be who you are and show up that

way and integrate your life that way and

and actually measure it and be happy

about it and happy about increasing your

flow do you mind just share with people

the importance of being proactive and

planning your day yeah you know I always

try to preach to people to be proactive

have a ritual or yourself because I

think a lot of people are so reactive

for the day you know they don't even

have a to-do list right or at the

minimum maybe they do but how you know

just in terms of being proactive and

planning why is that important for

people to make sure that they're doing

yeah it's a great question and it is I

would say it's probably one of the

number-one hacks and I know you're big

on you know in the morning morning

routine and life now is just getting

faster and faster you know it's like I

looked at my my my Tivo like two days

ago I was like holy cow I just traveled

I've got speaking I'm like what if all

this stuff is going on I'm totally the

flow guy but life is just faster and so

you you make it a lot easier on yourself

when you use the leverage of habits and

routines and that's the key

and that's the key that you know I've

been able to do and use and that we

preach an Evo is basically let

technology let habits work for you and

set specific times that you're doing

these things and check it off you know

and so sometimes you might see your flow

score go down because maybe you worked

out at night instead of in the morning

and I think a lot of people you know

they're we sort of are going into this

quantified life in the sense of we get

to actually be aware of things like you

know we have this aura ring now we have

all these things out were like wow I

actually didn't sleep that well last

night what did I do oh I had a glass of

wine or I did this so we're living in

this world now where if you want to go

to the next level of being you you know

there's certain things that you have to

do and in habits and morning routines

are I think one of the biggest

essentials and and you can someone do

this in the morning or I know some

people like to plan the day before like

the evening before yeah yeah I think

it's it's everyone's schedule they can

kind of figure out you know your own

time we have a reminder where it's like

this is your time you should do it I

love to do mine in the morning just

because I'm aware of my my day and I you

know I do my gratitude I do my number

one thing so I have fun baked into my

day and that makes me feel good about

actually doing my day right and and so

basically yeah I set it up it only takes

a few minutes just to go in and to do it

and then in the morning instead of doing

out at night some people do it at night

and they say okay my flow score was this

but for me I just go back to the morning

the same time and I know my yesterday

and I can say okay this is what it was

and I and I scan and so yeah that's

really my key as a few minutes a day but

I do stay consistent on the time every

day yeah and that's what I wanted to ask

because I know some people they don't

plan because it takes some ten minutes

fifteen minutes or thirty minutes in

some cases how long typically what will

it take on average for someone to use

something like this every day I would

say you know a good range would be three

to five minutes you know depending on

how long you want to go you have a

gratitude section so you can write a lot

in there if you want and then depending

on how much stuff you have to capture

but the key is like anything is if you

do it at your weekly review on Sunday

which i think is really key you know

your week you've already kind of planned

your week and so you should just be like

okay this is my most important this is

what I'm doing for my thriving and again

each brain type has one thing to do to

thrive and so you're just more present

so I can take three to five minutes

maybe a little more maybe a little less

yeah and you might share just a little

bit more you mentioned so that there's a

weekly planning gratitude is there

anything else that's kind of consistent

throughout the daily the daily plan yeah

yeah so health is one so it's like

movement we're not really specific on

what you have to do but it's more of

like dedicating focus time for your

health and sometimes it can be walking

gonna be going to the gym and then

obviously you've got your brain type

thing that you're doing right every

single day that's very very specific and

then your most important tasks because

again there's so many things if you

don't say you know what is my one thing

I have to do today then it's really easy

to get lost in the chaos of life yeah I

think that's such an important concept

you know Gary Keller wrote the book the

one thing and I think people are trying

to do way too much in a day and as you

said to get overwhelmed anxiety stressed

out about it but if you really focus on

what's that highest leverage most

important thing because not every action

is equal there might be the 80/20

principle there's certain ones that are

gonna get you bigger results for for

taking action with it so I think that's

such an important thing now this book

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out I just want to ask about

productivity in general any other hacks

or tips that you can offer from my

audience when it comes to us to be more

productive throughout the day increase

your flow yeah yeah yeah so it's an

interesting thing where again I think

productivity has this weird thing about

I have to do more but what if you

increase your flow you're just getting

the things that you're supposed to do

you know what I mean so you might be

doing less you might maybe it's not 12

things with it's three things and I

think leveraging your your

you know obviously mornings are such a

big key and I'm you know what I'm also

realizing with Evo is like you know most

people most of our people that are using

it or getting incredible results because

they have a morning routine and a night

routine so I think there's both things

in there but for productivity you know

morning routine night routine making

sure you're actually aware of your

patterns because when I see on the

feedback loop of the app if I drop my

flow score on Friday because I'm going

out Thursday night and I'm not getting

sleep I need to change that pattern so I

think awareness it always comes back to

awareness and support and so

productivity acts for me are making sure

that people are you know knowing my

patterns and I'm accountable for some of

these things because it's really easy to

be in a box like I see it but I'm not

gonna make a move on it but that's the

key yeah yeah and let's discuss morning

rituals because I love rituals you know

you do as well certain things what are

what is your ritual what are certain

things that you do in the morning to

help you get to that flow and help you

be more productive yeah I I get up

immediately so I used to listen to Kuna

Matata Lion King yeah because it just

made me feel good made me laugh I would

jump out of bed I switched it up but I

still go back to the old Lion King once

in a while and then I usually do either

one or two things so I do I do a little

variety because I need variety I'd get

boring so either jump in and do a cold

shower or I just get outside and I move

my body and yeah I have a whole

breathing thing that I do but I what I

did that really really works that I kind

of geek out about is I took just like

SoundCloud music that I loved and I put

my voice in the background of it and

basically do this incantation walk where

I say the things I'm attracting in my

life based on my vision board so I just

condition myself because I believe that

life is about you know out conditioning

your conditioning so if I'm listening to

news or people or whatever I have to put

more energy into myself to be who I want

to be and so I spent a good 30 minutes

45 minutes just conditioning I walk I

live in the park which is really nice

you know I ride my bike and then I

usually come back and I have like my

shake

I do Kyoto stuff and get my nutrition on

jump on the trampoline which is really

important you got similar rituals it

might followers have watched a lot of my

videos as well okay nice I do a little

legs up the wall for lymph system as

well and yeah you know it's been really

interesting for me as I the 9:00 to 9:00

rule where you shut your phone off

completely if I don't shut my phone off

if I look at my phone before 9 a.m.

my whole day gets messed up yeah so I

just don't look at my phone and I just

go into my routine and that's that's

been a key for me and you make sure

you're doing your one thing before also

you're checking your email because

otherwise check your email and you're

reacting to everything else you cannot

yeah that is sacred time that you have

to protect yeah how about your evening

I'd love to hear what are some things

you do before you go to bed yeah so same

thing 9 o'clock I want to like brush my

teeth and have my phone away

so conditioning that with around the

habit of brushing teeth so phone off one

away where's my teeth phone at night

basically what I do is yeah I I just

music I've been doing a thing where I

have candles I've these candles I have

it's like mood setting right I have the

right music on and I basically you know

I'll take whatever I'm taking for my

nutrition I always have night nutrition

as well and I'll just really slow down

so I slowed down I drink chamomile tea I

don't really watch TV too much you know

I yeah I go sometimes I go for a night

walk very slow night walk because

sometimes that helps me sleep so yeah

not a crazy amount of stuff besides just

slowing down yeah it's so important I

guess the last question I want to ask

you is um I'd love to you for you to

share a little bit what in terms of

fulfillments because you know you

described your story about you had a lot

of success and you've done incredibly

well but you weren't really fulfilled

and what I see in you now cuz I've known

you for a few years you're so passionate

about this and this is your mission now

and you know I think I want more people

to tap into that because you know the

world's a better place if everybody did

but you might share in a little bit in

terms of that fulfillment and having

that passion for what you're doing

100% yeah it's yeah it's something that

when I first sat down with you like so

grateful for as an entrepreneur and as a

human to feel this the thing that pulls

me and you know I don't know if I have

the right formula for it what I can't

explain is that I had this this unease

about me of you know there's something

more and I didn't feel like I was doing

what I needed to be doing and you know

one day I basically was like there's

just no more I have to go towards more

things that give me energy

and define this fulfillment thing and

and so yeah I basically had this this

two-prong road which we all have as we

know where I could keep going down the

left and make money continue to do what

I was doing you know sell companies but

it didn't give me this feeling where I

was actually fully helping people and

bringing what I have to the world and I

think that's what we're all craving

right now you know is that and you know

and I didn't know if I was ever gonna

find it and so that's anyone watching

this that also may feel that way like

you can find it and it's right there and

then you do Wow are you a force and so

for me I linked in with bringing all

these thoughts that I had all these

different business ideas bringing them

into this one you know business called

Evo and one day I just woke up and I was

like well I would I was like this is my

life I would die for this like and for

me it's it's been you know revolutionary

and how I approach my life in my day I

love a man well thank you so much I'm

happy to share this with the world with

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