There are other daily habits and rituals too. Bartlett walks in the sunshine every morning, goes to the gym daily, takes electrolytes, Omega-3s and creatine, and is trying to meditate but “struggling with it”. Mental and physical well-being are part of his “first foundation”—the core elements that support everything else in life—as he wrote in his 2023 bestselling book, The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business & Life.
Bartlett is full of anecdotal learnings that have influenced his life too, from the likes of Virgin founder Richard Branson, who taught him to always think through the lens of delegation; Google X’s former chief business officer Mo Gawdat, who reframed happiness as meeting your expectations; and Canadian entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary, who observed that the people who are most successful in a particular pursuit are eclectic people, or as Bartlett has observed, those with a broad “skill stack”, citing Steve Jobs’s range of interests from typography and design to meditation.
Branson, Gawdat and O’Leary are just a few of the many influential people Bartlett has interviewed for The Diary of a CEO, which he expected to achieve around 50 million downloads and gain half a million followers in the month of July alone—when we speak—making it the fastest growing podcast in the world.