Controversial property developer Tim Gurner has given insight into his incredibly regimented daily routine, which involves waking up at 5am, writing a gratitude journal, breathing work and 10 minutes with his children during a family meeting every morning.
Rich Lister, who has an estimated fortune of $990 million, is no stranger to making headlines.
He caused a global stir in 2017 when he claimed that Millennials should give up smashed avocado on toast if they wanted to be able to buy a house.
He sparked more controversy last year when he said the pandemic had made workers arrogant and lazy, adding that he wanted unemployment to soar to 50 percent to create more productive workers.
Now Gurner, 52, has revealed how he does “the same thing every day” after getting up between 5.15 and 5.30, depending on whether he gets to bed at 9 p.m.
—I’ll go down right away and look for water with lemon and Celtic salt. Then I drink my coffee,” he told the Australian Financial Review.
‘I keep a gratitude journal every morning. It’s something I started about four years ago.
“(I include) the things I’m grateful for, which on positive days isn’t as effective, but on days when you’re not feeling so good, it’s actually a very, very important thing to do.”
Controversial property developer Tim Gurner has given insight into his incredibly regimented daily routine, which includes waking up at 5am, writing a gratitude journal, breathing work and ten minutes with his children.
Rich Lister, who has an estimated fortune of $990 million, is no stranger to making headlines.
She also tries to dedicate 30 minutes of emails before her kids get up, but it’s unclear how that fits into her gratitude journal.
“Right after that, I walk right into the gym,” he said.
‘I spend about 15 minutes doing stretching and mobility exercises. Then I do about 45 minutes of strength training. I do strength training on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Then I do cardio on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
“And then I have what I call Surrender Sunday on a Sunday.”
Gurner, who revealed he has not drank alcohol for almost 18 months, said he was “very focused on recovery and fighting ageing.”
“I have a PEMF bed, which is a pulsed electric magnetic field bed, with red light therapy applied to my upper body and a red light on my face,” he said.
“I do this for about 20 minutes while breathing.”
After his morning gym session, he has a 10-minute “family meeting” with his wife Aimee and their three children before getting them ready for school.
Gurner caused a global stir in 2017 when he claimed that Millennials should give up smashed avocado on toast if they wanted to be able to buy a house.
Gurner measures everything he eats, so it equates to exactly 2,900 calories a day, including “exactly the same amount of fruits and vegetables.”
His workday starts at 8am and he limits himself to just 2,900 calories a day and eats exactly the same fruits and vegetables.
“Lunch at 1 o’clock, 3:30 p.m. is a bit of breathing work and downtime,” he added.
‘It’s quite regimented and, I would say, quite boring for most people. I do the same thing every day.’
Gurner “wants to live to be 500,” according to one of the staff at his Melbourne-based anti-aging wellness clinic, Saint Haven.
While you don’t have to be a billionaire to join the exclusive club, with fees costing $23,000 a year, you do have to be wealthy and pass a five-stage interview process.
Since his father died of cancerGurner wants to live the best and longest life possible, to the point that it has become “an obsession,” he told the Sydney Morning HeraldGood Weekend Magazine for September.
He receives a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) injection every morning and takes 40 tablets a day, which include boron, taurine, creatine and peptides that he says the Russian military invented in the 1980s to protect soldiers from radiation.
At home there is circadian lighting that shows what the color of the sun would be at different times of the day.
It is orange first thing in the morning, then yellow for most of the day and turns orange again before sunset.
From 7:30 p.m. until he goes to bed, Mr. Gurner wears glasses with red lenses to block blue light. About a third of all visible light is considered blue light, with most of it coming from sunlight, but smartphones and LEDs also emit blue light.
Some studies have found that blue light can affect sleep and potentially cause illness.
However, the quest for eternal youth doesn’t stop when you go to bed. Sleep with a Chilipad, which was also recommended by Oprah Winfrey’s sleep doctor, to keep the bed at 18 degrees.
Before going to sleep, he also covers his mouth with duct tape to ensure that he only breathes through his nose.
He told journalist Tim Elliott that “mouth breathing is very bad… it has changed the structure of our jaws.”
Mr. Gurner’s desire to live a long and prosperous life dates back to the creation of his first business more than two decades ago, and the traumatic event that followed almost immediately afterwards.
She started My Well Being, which offered yoga, massage, pilates and personal training, when she was just 21 years old.
But six weeks later, his father died of multiple myeloma.
He was terrified of dying and has lived his life ever since trying not to get sick and die. He said his goal was: “How can I live the best life possible with the lowest possible risk for the longest possible time?”
Gurner also has the phrase “stream of life” tattooed in Morse code on his left arm.
However, his goal of living a longer life is not just a personal obsession for him and other billionaires looking for ways to spend some of their money.
He also firmly believes that living longer would benefit the entire country.
“If we can extend everyone’s age by 20 years, it would be best for the economy,” he said.
‘Twenty more years of taxes and expenses, plus all the savings you would make in the health system. “All those achievements could be redirected toward poverty alleviation.”
While making a name for himself with his opinions on the price of smashed avocado toast and his desire to live long, Gurner accused Australian workers of becoming “arrogant” post-Covid.
“We need to see pain in the economy,” he told the Australian Financial Review Property Summit a year ago, adding he wanted unemployment to rise to between 40 and 50 per cent.
“We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around.”
Gurner took special aim at commercial industries, stating that productivity had declined since the pandemic.
“People decided they didn’t really want to work as much during Covid and that’s had a huge productivity problem,” he said.
‘Companies have definitely decreased productivity. “They have been paid a lot not to do too much in recent years and we need to see that change,” he said.