Life Hacks - Business, Mind & Health · How to Live a Highly Productive Life Everyday

The old saying that "Rome was not built in a day" applies here. Just because you open a business doesn't mean that you're going to immediately start making money. It takes time to let people know who you are, so stay focused on achieving your short-term goals and give the rest time to come together.

Successful people have known for years that to stay productive, it’s essential to build habits that organize your day and help you get the most out of your time.

Only when you have a spirit or urgency can you push your way through the admin and red tape. Only by acting with urgency can you get others to deliver on time. Only being truly urgent in your dealings can you achieve anything significant in a year.

Here are 3 of the most powerful habits that highly productive people do every day — even when they’re pressed for time.

Early Risers.

There was probably a period of time in your life where it was easy stay up late into the night (or early into the next morning) trying to get things done.

Be mindful that all eight-hour periods just aren’t created equally.

Going to bed at 10 p.m. and waking up at 6 or 7 a.m. is exponentially better than going to bed at 3 a.m. and waking up at 10 or 11 a.m., even thought the time frame is the same. I’ve tested this over and over again and the evidence is pretty clear: I don’t perform well if I stay up past 11 p.m.-ish.

Early risers really do have a distinct advantage when it comes to mental clarity, acuity and energy. Simply put: Waking up early works better than any other strategy for becoming more productive. But you have to make sure you get enough sleep to back it up. So get to bed!

I’ve had to give myself a bedtime and be my own parent by ruthlessly enforcing it — which is harder than it seems, because I’ve been programmed to stay up late for so many years.

Intention, focus or meditation.

Starting your day with a clear idea of what you want to do changes everything.

Take 10 quick breaths, think about your main objectives for the day, and then get moving. This seems too simple to have an effect, but it’s not.

Take a few minutes and the Bible (ie Psalms or Proverbs). It really helps.

They train their bodies.

Working out is probably the highest leverage tool in your arsenal that can make you feel predictably better and keeps you both physically and emotionally healthy year round. If you want to have the mental energy to take on a large workload, and you have a full calendar of to-do’s that people want from you — you have to be in the gym.

Period.

Training yourself physically not only gives you benchmarks to hit on a regular basis, but it also creates a predictable backbone in your daily life that you can count on, even if everything goes wrong. Mentally, that’s very comforting.

Trust me, I know that integrating these habits into your life won’t be easy at first. But if you’re not healthy, your business can’t thrive anyway. Consider them a long-term investment in your business.

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