The unbreakable working routine

Good Morning Achievers,

Imagine you’re coming home each day exhausted.

Then working on the biz? Seems barely possible.

You’re lying on the couch, replying to posts, slowly drifting away into sleep.

This was part of my story from the past.

And it’s kind of normal if your business is a side hustle.

The truth is, this shouldn’t be an excuse, so I worked on building the strongest routine possible.

I wanted to be able to show up to work no matter what or how exhausted I was.

What I realized is, this isn’t just for side-hustle entrepreneurs, but most people just have a routine that slows their whole work process down.

Stay with me if you want to know how you can build such a routine too.

• high energy

• clear work schedule

• pure consistency

High Energy

No matter if you come home exhausted or your full-time business makes you feel that way, the better state would be to have high energy all the time.

Even though this isn’t always possible, there are some easy tricks you can use to highly improve your energy in a very short amount of time.

My favorite of this is power naps. Some people love it, some people hate it, but at the end of the day, it works.

You wake up fresh after 15-20 minutes, feeling as if it would be morning.

I can just speak from my own experience, but my energy always skyrockets from this.

The next thing I use often is simply nature walks. It’s a classic, but it always works.

Just go outside, move and let your thoughts wander.

Last one is breathwork. Most people think it’s some useless bs, but in reality it’s an extremely powerful concept to control your whole body.

Imagine that with all the inhales you inhale energy and with all the exhales you exhale exhaustion.

Use the 4-7-8 Method for this:

4 seconds inhale

7 seconds holding breath

8 seconds exhale

If you’re sceptical, just try it out right now. It works better than it sounds.

Clear work schedule

This is of course the most important thing in your routine. Simply the routine itself.

When do you do what? How do you do it?

These are the key questions every routine builds on.

Usually we have some tasks that we need to work on every day. These are the repeated tasks.

But we also have things that we just need to do once. Things that aren’t part of the routine itself, but highly important for the business.

The best routine leaves space for both types of tasks.

How to build the routine:

1. Think about the recurring tasks.

The ones you need to work on every day. Put them into the routine.

When do you want to work on these things? Assign clear times to each of them.

Clarity is important here.

2. Leave space for 1-2 hours of extra tasks.

The ones that are outside of the routine. Also assign specific times to when you want to tackle these things.

Bonus:

Visualize the whole thing and write it down somewhere.

You can only build a strong routine if it becomes second nature and you always know exactly what to do.

Pure consistency

Just like habits, a routine isn’t built by doing it once.

It’s built by repeating it for weeks and months. Some people might say routines and consistency are overhyped. But tell me: How do you want to work on something with high quality, where you don’t know when to work on it, how to work on it and why to work on it in the first place?

If you don’t know what you should do at which time, you end up figuring out what to do next longer than simply doing the task would take.

Just like I did.

So simply build your routine with the tasks you consistently need to do, write them down for visualization and then repeat it to store it in your brain.

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Hope you will all have a productive week.

BTW If this newsletter resonates with you, I’d be insanely grateful if you’d recommend it to someone you know that might benefit from it. Thanks a lot for all your support.

See you,

Eli