6 Top Routines of Highly Successful Entrepreneurs

Goal Setting & Achievement Podcast: Business|Productivity

[[:encoded, "Every businessperson typically follows some kind of routine. Whether this routine means getting out of bed at the same time every day, taking a hike every weekend, or simply going to the same place for their coffee.\n\nRoutines are created to give order in a disorganized world. It brings clarity and focus to your daily life. It also provides the absolute satisfaction of having laid-out steps and processes to follow every day.\n\nRoutines feel like a planned-out day where everything is scheduled to go ahead without a hitch.\n\nSuccessful entrepreneurs make use of routines in their lives. This has helped them organize their activities, improve their productivity, and give them a clear and uncluttered focus of their life and business goals.\n\nTo align your business goals with your daily activities and tasks, these are 6 routines of highly successful entrepreneurs you can emulate.\n\n1. Morning Routine\nDo you have a morning routine? Do you wake up early in the morning, or do you sleep late into the morning?\n\nMost successful entrepreneurs wake up very early in the morning and have a morning routine. It can be meditating, exercising, or having a leisurely breakfast. A routine can be responding to emails, or reading business memos and industry updates, which I don’t recommend you do first thing after waking up. It can also be reviewing and planning their time blocks and scheduling other activities for the day.\n\nWhen you get up early, you have the advantage of being aware of an unencumbered peace and quiet. This can allow you to focus on personal or business activities without interruption. It also allows you to be available and ahead of demands. \n\nHaving a morning routine also helps you feel confident and focused on the challenges the day may bring.\n\n2. No Limit on Workdays\nThough it is very important to have rest days, successful entrepreneurs are known to work when they don’t have to. \n\nWeekends blur into holidays and vacation days blur into workdays for many successful businesspeople. This shows that they are highly focused and committed to the tasks that they are ready to achieve.\n\nThey have no set limitation on a day and are set to work whenever inspiration strikes. \n\nCarry a notepad and a pen to jot down innovative ideas that may strike when you are doing something unrelated to work, or take notes on your phone (whichever works the best for you). The best ideas cannot be controlled and confined to a specific time slot.\n\n3. Challenging Tasks are Handled First\nSuccessful entrepreneurs typically handle more challenging tasks first. Unlike most business professionals who procrastinate on the important tasks and handle all the easy tasks first, high achievers understand the benefits of handling challenging tasks first.\n\nMost people start the day with smaller tasks such as emails, messages, memos, easy client service tasks, etc. However, the mornings are when the brain is at its peak for most people. When they decide to handle the more challenging tasks, the brain is working at a less optimal rate which easily causes exhaustion and

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