“If I choose to get up early and do amazing things in those quiet hours, that’s when I feel like I’m grabbing hold of my life and controlling where I go.” 2) Immediately Get in a Positive Frame of Mind Still not ready to commit? My favorite explanation of the befits of being an early riser came from Buffer’s Joel Gascoigne: Why? Many successful people are early risers, and there are many benefits to waking up early. Waking up early is key to starting my day right and sticking to the rest of my Daily Routine. I wake up at 5 AM each week-day morning and at 6 AM on weekends. Want to have the best day of your life every day, no matter what? Here’s a general overview of what I do each day to keep myself at my peak, so I truly enjoy each day, even when the s&*t hits the proverbial fan, and trust me, it has on many days. My structure is ever-evolving, as I periodically review, assess, and adjust it. I need it so I constantly see opportunity and view problems as ‘situations.’ In short, I need it so I can be free.
I need it to make myself a better person. I need this structure to keep functioning at the highest level possible on all three planes of existence – mind, body, and soul. So, the central question for behavior change efforts should be, how can you form healthy, productive habits? What we know about habit formation is that you want to make the desired behavior easy to do, so you repeat it until it becomes part of your routine.Īs a result, I’ve now built my life around structure. For better or worse, it’s our underlying routine that matters. This research shows lack of control doesn’t automatically mean indulgence or hedonism. It turns out we’re just as likely to default to positive habits, such as eating a healthy breakfast or going to the gym, as we are to self-sabotage. That’s how I’d have the best day of my life every day.Ī recent study conducted by the American Psychological Association found that developing good habits is more important to meeting goals than self-control. The only way I could meet these goals was to develop a Daily Routine that would get me to my physical, emotional, and spiritual peak each day, and keep me there. I have goals in my life for the person I want to be for what I want to accomplish and give back to this world. Amazingly, I’ve found it’s much harder NOT to do these things than it was to actually do them. I found the mental fatigue caused by not doing those was way worse than any physical fatigue ever could be.
Things like exercising regularly, meditating, and reading. I also realize there were a lot of things I knew I should be doing. Rather, they were those days when I felt good about myself because I grew as a person days when I grew mentally, physically, and spiritually days when I connected with someone days when I helped someone. I look back at my life thus far and realize the best days of my life weren’t necessarily the days something great or exciting happened – such as business or financial success.
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