Daily Rituals: The Only Way to Get Important Things Done
May 25th, 2011
“Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.” ~ A.N. Whitehead
These days we are all overloaded with work and everyday we wonder just how to get over this workload. We get hundreds of mails, people messaging us every 10 min, reports we have to generate, projects we have to finish. There is no way we are going to be able to finish all this at the end of the day and feel that we are done for the day. There will always be something remaining.
But then we see that there is a minority of super achievers who in spite of this information overload get projects done, enjoy their lives outside work, pursue interesting hobbies.
How do they do it? What have they figured out that the rest of us have not?
What they have figured out is to make tasks automatic, that way they consume less energy.
They have built daily rituals that with repetition have become automatic and don’t consume their self-discipline energy.
Here are some things that I feel we can make automatic will make the biggest difference in our lives.
- Start getting up 1 hour early everyday
- Work out as soon as you wake up
- At work immediately start working on the most important task of the day, don’t brows or check emails. After one hour of work you can take a 10 min. break.
- Everyday before bed read something for 30 min.
Once you have a ritual in place you will notice that you don’t have to think about it, it’ll just be automatic and you will do it without much thought.
