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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Why Morning Routines are Essential to Productivity
My Current Morning Routine
Obsessive Strictness is the Road to Burning Out
“Bulletproof” Coffee
Get Some Exercise
Get Enough Sleep, and Then Wake Up Earlier
Hydrate Often, Hydrate Early
No Deep Thought, Limited Decision Making
Upcoming Changes to My Own Routine
Conclusion and Q&A
WHY MORNING ROUTINES ARE ESSENTIAL TO PRODUCTIVITY
If someone stopped me to ask what one decision was a turning point in my productivity levels, one pinpointed change that helped skyrocket effectiveness more than anything else, there would be no hesitation: Development of a morning routine.
I have been working and experimenting with my own morning routine over the course of several years, through many different environments, waking times, schedules, occupations, and levels of detail. Once my wife and I moved into our beautiful house in June, I was able to strategize and solidify this routine to a laser-targeted level. The routine has ebbed and flowed in intensity, but is currently at a good place.
It’s a hardcore routine, starting at 4:00 in the morning and going until 7:30am when I walk into the office to start my workday. That’s right. I start my day at 4:00am and finish it around 9:00pm. In those hours, I have very little downtime. I’d average my working hours per week at about 70 to 80. The morning routine below is one of my secret weapons for how I am able to put solid focus on my projects and work for such extended periods of time without completely burning out.
Here is a super condensed version of my current routine. I had a massive 2,500 word essay on my personal routine, but after reading back over it, it didn’t seem like something anyone would actually want to read. Even I was bored. So here’s the bulleted version.
MY CURRENT MORNING ROUTINE
OBSESSIVE STRICTNESS IS THE ROAD TO BURNING OUT
Attempting to follow the above 100% perfectly every single day is the fast track to burn out. If I can hit 80% of the tasks in the routine, I consider it a successful run. Some days I don’t feel like coffee. Other days the wife works an overnight shift so a lot of the first hour is not necessary. Some days it’s pouring rain and I can’t walk the dog (I still run on those days, because running in the rain is an incredible experience).
For a while, I felt like I had to strictly hit every metric on my list every single day. I burned out after about a week and fell completely off the wagon for a few days before hopping back on. I regrouped and told myself that if I could do most of the routine each day, I was in great shape.
Friday’s I will follow the above, but between 5:00 and 6:00 I will do some writing, reading, or whatever I feel like. Some days, instead of taking the dog on a second walk at 6:00, I will harness him up and let him go for a ride with the windows down into the city and back. He loves it.
On the weekends I will do whatever I want in place of a morning routine. Some days I’m feeling productive and will rip through the morning routine, and then at 7:00am head outside to get some chores done or grocery shopping. Other days I will leave the house at 5:30am and head for the beach to watch the sun rise and take a long walk.
Through the process of development, I’ve noted five important suggestions to supercharge your own morning routine. These five suggestions, if you follow them loosely, will completely change your life and how you perceive your day. It will truly help you do more and be better. They are as follows:
1: “BULLETPROOF” COFFEE
The product itself is a complete sales grab marketing ploy by Dave Asprey, selling double-priced coffee and wholesale relabeled MCT oil as miracle products. But the concept can be life changing if enacted properly. Here is my process:
Note: Sometimes I get lazy and don’t want to deal with making my coffee. On those days, I use my Starbucks mobile app and order a grande Doubleshot on ice with heavy cream, as well as two of the bacon sous vide egg bites. The store location is about two and a half minutes from my house on my way to the office, so I can stop in real quick, the stuff is sitting on the counter for me, and then I can bail. An effectiveness-obsessor’s dream.
Here’s a few sources for further reading on the fat-injected coffee. Avoid the snake oil:
http://fatburningman.com/how-to-make-fatty-coffee-for-ketogenic-fat-fasting-wild-diet-approved/
https://www.fastcompany.com/3034539/what-its-like-to-drink-bulletproof-coffee-every-morning-for-two-weeks
https://nextshark.com/5-reasons-why-everyone-is-putting-butter-in-their-coffee/
http://www.thealternativedaily.com/add-coconut-oil-honey-and-cinnamon-to-coffee/
http://www.theiflife.com/2-meal-coconut-oil-coffee/
2: GET SOME EXERCISE
My thoughts on morning exercise have waned back and forth. Whenever I find myself bogged down with tasks, I tend to fall off the workout wagon. I try to always crawl my way back though.
As of right now, I get about an hour of exercise each morning. I start by lacing up and running two miles. I’ve found that this is a solid middle ground between metabolic burn and time exerted. I can get the two miles done in about 14-15 minutes now. I do this Monday through Thursday. This also acts as my personal form of meditation, as I count my steps as I run, clearing my mind of everything else.
After the run, I head inside for some weight training. I start by stretching for a few minutes, and then perform three sets of 12 of the following exercises with two 30lb Hex dumbbells, alternating A, B, A, B, A, B:
Here are some sources for more information about running and weight training in the morning:
http://blog.theclymb.com/passions/run/5-advantages-to-morning-running/
https://www.runtothefinish.com/how-to-start-running-in-the-morning/
https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/8-benefits-to-working-out-in-the-morning.html
http://makeyourbodywork.com/benefits-of-morning-exercise/
https://www.askmen.com/top_10/fitness_top_ten/10_fitness_list.html
3: GET ENOUGH SLEEP, AND THEN WAKE UP EARLIER
I’ve found seven hours to be my sweet spot. Some people can live with four hours of sleep, others require nine to be fully functioning. I am usually in bed by 8:45pm and asleep by 9:00pm on the weekdays, sometimes extending that to 9:30pm if I have a lot of things on my plate or I find something particularly interesting to read on Reddit.
I wake up at 4:00am. If I stayed up later and snoozed the alarm, I would be groggy when I awoke, and my entire routine would be thrown off, which would throw off the whole day, and cause a domino effect that could take days to recover from. Sleep debt is real, and it can hit without warning. I don’t snooze alarms, and I sleep in until 6:30am or so once every couple of weeks.
Alarm-wise, I just use a regular iPhone alarm with a cycle of ten songs I enjoy. I don’t need a magical sun-simulating wake up light or some kind of alarm that makes me scan by toothpaste tube before it shuts off. I don’t need motivation to wake up. Motivation is for the weak-minded. Discipline is what it takes. You hear your alarm, you wake up and start your day. We get less than 30,000 mornings in our life on average. Don’t let a single one pass by.
Here’s a few articles on waking up extremely early, and its effect on productivity throughout the day:
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/10/i-tried-waking-up-at-4-am-for-2-weeks-to-boost-my-productivity-and-it-was-miserable.html
https://medium.com/life-hacks-for-business/12-lessons-of-waking-up-at-4-30-a-m-for-21-days-90d1053c3634
http://aplus.com/a/wake-up-early?no_monetization=true
http://blog.highperformancelifestyle.net/waking-up-early-benefits/
https://tim.blog/2015/09/25/jocko-willink/
http://baugues.com/430
4: HYDRATE OFTEN, HYDRATE EARLY
I can tell a significant different in how I feel when I hydrate within fifteen minutes of waking up with sixteen ounces of liquid versus when I don’t. I used to be awful at hydrating, so constantly wrapped up in projects and tasks that I would forget to take care of my own body.
I am not a fan of the taste of plain water first thing in the morning. My solution was bottles of Zephyrhills flavored sparkling water from Costco. I grab several 24-packs of pints for $5.89 each when they are on sale, and pop them into the fridge by pack. This tricks my brain into thinking it’s soda, but it’s really water. I down one of these before drinking my coffee concoction mentioned in bullet one, and then another one for my commute.
Here’s a few resources for further reading on the topic of early morning hydration:
http://alifeofproductivity.com/killer-morning-habit-drink-water-right-after-you-wake-up/
https://www.davidwolfe.com/drink-water-first-morning-5-reasons/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/03/14/why-you-should-drink-water-first-thing-every-day/99123938/
http://www.businessinsider.com/executives-drink-water-when-they-wake-up-2016-9
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/PhysicalActivity/FitnessBasics/Staying-Hydrated---Staying-Healthy_UCM_441180_Article.jsp
5: NO DEEP THOUGHT, LIMITED DECISION MAKING
This is why I don’t do that journaling nonsense, or start any web editing or content writing until my 3.5 hour morning routine is complete. There was a time where I would get up and be working within 30 minutes of waking, ripping through articles or backend Wordpress stuff. Managing social media or responding to emails. By the time I stepped into the office my anxiety was through the roof with all the decisions I had already made, and I was exhausted.
The quality of this early-decisioning work was frequently subpar, and my productivity took a double hit both with the time wasted and having to re-do the shoddy workmanship. I try to avoid as many decisions as possible during the course of my morning routine, even going so far as to lay my clothes out the night before.
My brain isn’t ready for that kind of decision-making. Yours won’t be either for a little while after waking up. I now go into the office and can tell who else wakes up early, and who woke up, got dressed, and headed out the door.
Limited decision making is a controversial opinion, as it goes against the grain for most suggestions you will find online. The productivity world is adamant in regards to decision fatigue. There are quite a few resources that state it’s far more beneficial to make important decisions within the first few hours of waking up. One goes so far as to say:
"According to a research in psychology the most important time of the day when things go in the most productive way is within the first two hours after you wake up. On the other hand, the least useful time of the day is the mid afternoon time i.e around 3 pm or so. That’s primarily because you wake up fresh and by 3 pm your brain gets tired just as your body does. This phenomenon is commonly known as decision fatigue.” (http://wccftech.com/scientists-perform-important-tasks-morning-avoid-decision-fatigue/)
I wholeheartedly disagree. Your mileage may vary.
UPCOMING CHANGES TO MY OWN ROUTINE
CONCLUSION AND Q&A
Great job for getting through the whole thing. Want me to summarize?
Look for the next chapter in the series in mid-October: Enough Of The Small-Scale - Building A Bulletproof Brand In One Laser-Focused Day
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Why Morning Routines are Essential to Productivity
My Current Morning Routine
Obsessive Strictness is the Road to Burning Out
“Bulletproof” Coffee
Get Some Exercise
Get Enough Sleep, and Then Wake Up Earlier
Hydrate Often, Hydrate Early
No Deep Thought, Limited Decision Making
Upcoming Changes to My Own Routine
Conclusion and Q&A
WHY MORNING ROUTINES ARE ESSENTIAL TO PRODUCTIVITY
If someone stopped me to ask what one decision was a turning point in my productivity levels, one pinpointed change that helped skyrocket effectiveness more than anything else, there would be no hesitation: Development of a morning routine.
I have been working and experimenting with my own morning routine over the course of several years, through many different environments, waking times, schedules, occupations, and levels of detail. Once my wife and I moved into our beautiful house in June, I was able to strategize and solidify this routine to a laser-targeted level. The routine has ebbed and flowed in intensity, but is currently at a good place.
It’s a hardcore routine, starting at 4:00 in the morning and going until 7:30am when I walk into the office to start my workday. That’s right. I start my day at 4:00am and finish it around 9:00pm. In those hours, I have very little downtime. I’d average my working hours per week at about 70 to 80. The morning routine below is one of my secret weapons for how I am able to put solid focus on my projects and work for such extended periods of time without completely burning out.
Here is a super condensed version of my current routine. I had a massive 2,500 word essay on my personal routine, but after reading back over it, it didn’t seem like something anyone would actually want to read. Even I was bored. So here’s the bulleted version.
MY CURRENT MORNING ROUTINE
- 4:00am: Wake up, make wife’s coffee, drink sparkling water, make dog’s scrambled egg
- 4:10am: Take dog on 15 minute walk in the dark
- 4:25am: Use the bathroom, and check my social media and emails at the same time
- 4:35am: Microwave wife’s egg cups, make my coffee concoction (outlined below)
- 4:50am: Make sure wife is all prepared for the day, make bed, see her off at 5:00am
- 5:00am: Lace up and run two miles at a 7-minute mile pace (again, in the dark) - Monday through Thursday
- 5:15am: Return home and perform weight training routine (outlined below) - Monday through Thursday, listen to music during (via Alexa/Echo Dot in spare room/gym)
- 6:00am: Take dog for second walk, again for 15 minutes. It’s starting to get a little lighter outside. Stop sweating
- 6:15am: Shower, shave, brush teeth, get dressed, do whatever grooming I need to do
- 6:40am: Spot clean house, listen to news for the day via Echo Dot, check financial trackers
- 7:00am: Leave for work, arm the security system, fire up a podcast if I’m feeling like learning, or loud music if I’m not
- 7:25am: Get to work, and the day truly begins
OBSESSIVE STRICTNESS IS THE ROAD TO BURNING OUT
Attempting to follow the above 100% perfectly every single day is the fast track to burn out. If I can hit 80% of the tasks in the routine, I consider it a successful run. Some days I don’t feel like coffee. Other days the wife works an overnight shift so a lot of the first hour is not necessary. Some days it’s pouring rain and I can’t walk the dog (I still run on those days, because running in the rain is an incredible experience).
For a while, I felt like I had to strictly hit every metric on my list every single day. I burned out after about a week and fell completely off the wagon for a few days before hopping back on. I regrouped and told myself that if I could do most of the routine each day, I was in great shape.
Friday’s I will follow the above, but between 5:00 and 6:00 I will do some writing, reading, or whatever I feel like. Some days, instead of taking the dog on a second walk at 6:00, I will harness him up and let him go for a ride with the windows down into the city and back. He loves it.
On the weekends I will do whatever I want in place of a morning routine. Some days I’m feeling productive and will rip through the morning routine, and then at 7:00am head outside to get some chores done or grocery shopping. Other days I will leave the house at 5:30am and head for the beach to watch the sun rise and take a long walk.
Through the process of development, I’ve noted five important suggestions to supercharge your own morning routine. These five suggestions, if you follow them loosely, will completely change your life and how you perceive your day. It will truly help you do more and be better. They are as follows:
1: “BULLETPROOF” COFFEE
The product itself is a complete sales grab marketing ploy by Dave Asprey, selling double-priced coffee and wholesale relabeled MCT oil as miracle products. But the concept can be life changing if enacted properly. Here is my process:
- Put three tablespoons of whole bean coffee into a small Nutribullet blender cup. I am using a Jamaican Blue Mountain blend from Costco. Blend them up for about ten seconds until it’s the same consistency as what you’d get in a burr grinder. At the same time, fill a larger Nutribullet cup with hot water to let the plastic pre-heat.
- Place the grounds in a clean French press. I’ve got a Bodum one that is a tank. Then I microwave up two mugs of water filled 3/4 of the way so I don’t burn myself thanks to my Parkinson’s-shaky hands (my surgeon wife is the complete opposite).
- Pour the heated water into the French Press and let it sit for four minutes to brew.
- While that is happening, measure out 1 tablespoon of coconut oil, 1 tablespoon of grass-fed butter, and one tablespoon of heavy cream. I toss in a couple packets of Splenda too.
- Plunge the French press and pour a cup’s worth on top of the blender’s fat contents.
- Blend, then pour into one of the mugs and enjoy.
Note: Sometimes I get lazy and don’t want to deal with making my coffee. On those days, I use my Starbucks mobile app and order a grande Doubleshot on ice with heavy cream, as well as two of the bacon sous vide egg bites. The store location is about two and a half minutes from my house on my way to the office, so I can stop in real quick, the stuff is sitting on the counter for me, and then I can bail. An effectiveness-obsessor’s dream.
Here’s a few sources for further reading on the fat-injected coffee. Avoid the snake oil:
http://fatburningman.com/how-to-make-fatty-coffee-for-ketogenic-fat-fasting-wild-diet-approved/
https://www.fastcompany.com/3034539/what-its-like-to-drink-bulletproof-coffee-every-morning-for-two-weeks
https://nextshark.com/5-reasons-why-everyone-is-putting-butter-in-their-coffee/
http://www.thealternativedaily.com/add-coconut-oil-honey-and-cinnamon-to-coffee/
http://www.theiflife.com/2-meal-coconut-oil-coffee/
2: GET SOME EXERCISE
My thoughts on morning exercise have waned back and forth. Whenever I find myself bogged down with tasks, I tend to fall off the workout wagon. I try to always crawl my way back though.
As of right now, I get about an hour of exercise each morning. I start by lacing up and running two miles. I’ve found that this is a solid middle ground between metabolic burn and time exerted. I can get the two miles done in about 14-15 minutes now. I do this Monday through Thursday. This also acts as my personal form of meditation, as I count my steps as I run, clearing my mind of everything else.
After the run, I head inside for some weight training. I start by stretching for a few minutes, and then perform three sets of 12 of the following exercises with two 30lb Hex dumbbells, alternating A, B, A, B, A, B:
- A: Standing with dumbbells and arms down, do a bicep curl upwards, twist at the elbow until the dumbbells are facing out, push up into an overhead press, bring the dumbbells back down to chest height, twisting the arms 90 degrees inwards, squat deep, stand back up, slowly move dumbbells back into a standing, arms down position, lower into a deadlift, stand straight. This is one rep.
- B: Laying flat on a yoga ball (for further core work), start with the dumbbells outstretched. Bring them together in a fly until they are elevated and together, then down to the chest and back up slowly, and out again to finish the fly. This is also one rep.
Here are some sources for more information about running and weight training in the morning:
http://blog.theclymb.com/passions/run/5-advantages-to-morning-running/
https://www.runtothefinish.com/how-to-start-running-in-the-morning/
https://www.bodybuilding.com/content/8-benefits-to-working-out-in-the-morning.html
http://makeyourbodywork.com/benefits-of-morning-exercise/
https://www.askmen.com/top_10/fitness_top_ten/10_fitness_list.html
3: GET ENOUGH SLEEP, AND THEN WAKE UP EARLIER
I’ve found seven hours to be my sweet spot. Some people can live with four hours of sleep, others require nine to be fully functioning. I am usually in bed by 8:45pm and asleep by 9:00pm on the weekdays, sometimes extending that to 9:30pm if I have a lot of things on my plate or I find something particularly interesting to read on Reddit.
I wake up at 4:00am. If I stayed up later and snoozed the alarm, I would be groggy when I awoke, and my entire routine would be thrown off, which would throw off the whole day, and cause a domino effect that could take days to recover from. Sleep debt is real, and it can hit without warning. I don’t snooze alarms, and I sleep in until 6:30am or so once every couple of weeks.
Alarm-wise, I just use a regular iPhone alarm with a cycle of ten songs I enjoy. I don’t need a magical sun-simulating wake up light or some kind of alarm that makes me scan by toothpaste tube before it shuts off. I don’t need motivation to wake up. Motivation is for the weak-minded. Discipline is what it takes. You hear your alarm, you wake up and start your day. We get less than 30,000 mornings in our life on average. Don’t let a single one pass by.
Here’s a few articles on waking up extremely early, and its effect on productivity throughout the day:
https://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/10/i-tried-waking-up-at-4-am-for-2-weeks-to-boost-my-productivity-and-it-was-miserable.html
https://medium.com/life-hacks-for-business/12-lessons-of-waking-up-at-4-30-a-m-for-21-days-90d1053c3634
http://aplus.com/a/wake-up-early?no_monetization=true
http://blog.highperformancelifestyle.net/waking-up-early-benefits/
https://tim.blog/2015/09/25/jocko-willink/
http://baugues.com/430
4: HYDRATE OFTEN, HYDRATE EARLY
I can tell a significant different in how I feel when I hydrate within fifteen minutes of waking up with sixteen ounces of liquid versus when I don’t. I used to be awful at hydrating, so constantly wrapped up in projects and tasks that I would forget to take care of my own body.
I am not a fan of the taste of plain water first thing in the morning. My solution was bottles of Zephyrhills flavored sparkling water from Costco. I grab several 24-packs of pints for $5.89 each when they are on sale, and pop them into the fridge by pack. This tricks my brain into thinking it’s soda, but it’s really water. I down one of these before drinking my coffee concoction mentioned in bullet one, and then another one for my commute.
Here’s a few resources for further reading on the topic of early morning hydration:
http://alifeofproductivity.com/killer-morning-habit-drink-water-right-after-you-wake-up/
https://www.davidwolfe.com/drink-water-first-morning-5-reasons/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/03/14/why-you-should-drink-water-first-thing-every-day/99123938/
http://www.businessinsider.com/executives-drink-water-when-they-wake-up-2016-9
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/HealthyLiving/PhysicalActivity/FitnessBasics/Staying-Hydrated---Staying-Healthy_UCM_441180_Article.jsp
5: NO DEEP THOUGHT, LIMITED DECISION MAKING
This is why I don’t do that journaling nonsense, or start any web editing or content writing until my 3.5 hour morning routine is complete. There was a time where I would get up and be working within 30 minutes of waking, ripping through articles or backend Wordpress stuff. Managing social media or responding to emails. By the time I stepped into the office my anxiety was through the roof with all the decisions I had already made, and I was exhausted.
The quality of this early-decisioning work was frequently subpar, and my productivity took a double hit both with the time wasted and having to re-do the shoddy workmanship. I try to avoid as many decisions as possible during the course of my morning routine, even going so far as to lay my clothes out the night before.
My brain isn’t ready for that kind of decision-making. Yours won’t be either for a little while after waking up. I now go into the office and can tell who else wakes up early, and who woke up, got dressed, and headed out the door.
Limited decision making is a controversial opinion, as it goes against the grain for most suggestions you will find online. The productivity world is adamant in regards to decision fatigue. There are quite a few resources that state it’s far more beneficial to make important decisions within the first few hours of waking up. One goes so far as to say:
"According to a research in psychology the most important time of the day when things go in the most productive way is within the first two hours after you wake up. On the other hand, the least useful time of the day is the mid afternoon time i.e around 3 pm or so. That’s primarily because you wake up fresh and by 3 pm your brain gets tired just as your body does. This phenomenon is commonly known as decision fatigue.” (http://wccftech.com/scientists-perform-important-tasks-morning-avoid-decision-fatigue/)
I wholeheartedly disagree. Your mileage may vary.
UPCOMING CHANGES TO MY OWN ROUTINE
- I’d like to start driving to the beach once a week during the work week in the morning, especially once it starts getting cooler out. I live on the Atlantic coast, so we get ocean sunrises versus the ocean sunsets on the West coast. Driving to work is a 25-minute ordeal with slight traffic, in the direction of the ocean. That is when I leave at 7:00am. If I skip the workout and push everything between 6:00 and 7:00 back an hour, I can leave the house at 6:00am and be at the beach by 6:30am. This gives me the chance to spend 45 minutes wandering about and enjoying the cool, early mornings on the quiet sand, and then be at the office at the same time. Peaceful.
- The office is talking about pushing us to working from home a few days a week. I will likely be requesting working from home Tuesdays and Wednesdays. If this ends up being the case, those days will result in a complete morning routine shift, as some tasks can be completed throughout the course of the day. Once this happens, I will likely develop my morning routine to follow a weekly schedule (i.e. this is my routine for Monday, this is my routine for Tuesday, etc). This will keep me from getting bored doing the same things every day as well.
- With the above, I’d like to make sure there is one thing each morning for my routine that I can get excited about. Things like Monday I will leave for work a little earlier to catch the sunrise as it goes over a large bridge on my commute. Tuesday I will take the dog on an hour-long walk along the mansion-packed back roads of the neighboring areas. Wednesday I will aim to break some lifting personal bests in my workout. Thursday I will leave for work earlier and catch the sun rise from the beach, taking a walk along the boardwalk in the process. Friday will be a no-exercise day, and I will instead spend that time doing something I enjoy. That kind of thing.
- I’d like to find a way to make this coffee concoction in bulk. My wife’s coffee is cold brew that I make in bulk in a carafe and mix 1:1 with water then pour creamer on top and stir. Every 8 to 9 days I make a new batch for her by steeping a cup of grounds in 64 ounces of water for 24 hours, then filtering through an oil funnel. I feel like I can do something similar and then emulsify it in a ton of coconut oil and butter, then scoop out 12 ounces a morning and pop it right into the blender. Either that or melt down coconut oil and butter in a pan and then pour two tablespoons into an ice cube tray and let it harden. I can definitely make this process easier and less time-consuming, though.
CONCLUSION AND Q&A
Great job for getting through the whole thing. Want me to summarize?
- My morning routine goes from 4:00am to almost 7:30am
- I aim to get 80% of the routine done minimum vs striving for 100%
- Developing a morning routine is the fast-track to supercharged productivity throughout the day
- Fat-filled coffee will get your mind swole and keep your hunger at bay all morning
- Exercise it vital in the morning to get the blood flowing and get you on track to succeed
- Get sleep. Wake up earlier. Rinse and repeat.
- Don’t be like me. Remember to drink water often, and remember to drink water early
- Limit decision making in your waking hours to the bare minimum to keep from sloppy work and mistakes
- Change things up. If you do the same thing every single day, you will get bored quickly and burn out
Look for the next chapter in the series in mid-October: Enough Of The Small-Scale - Building A Bulletproof Brand In One Laser-Focused Day
