Many entrepreneurs, especially new ones, are often let down by their routine.
When you’re abandoning the 9-5 to pursue your dreams, it’s easy to celebrate your newfound freedom, and in doing so fail to notice that structure has never been more important.
Yes, as time slips away, it’s important to optimise your work/life balance to ensure you stay happy, healthy, and successful. Here’s some tips to achieve just that:
Meditate and Exercise
There are many ways to meditate, so it’s fine if spending 20 minutes on the floor in a yoga pose isn’t your kind of thing.
Whatever the case, science has spoken: meditation does help in the development of a better brain.
If you need to hear more, check out this discussion between Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose about their personal meditation techniques.
Once you’re done, it’s time to get moving.
While meditation is key to unlocking a better brain, exercise is what switches it into gear.
Start Hard
As the day progresses, you’ll get tired, you’ll get distracted, and you will start thinking in different ways. It’s fine; we’re only human.
But that’s why you need to ensure your day begins with a focus on whatever task is the highest priority. If you can finish it before lunch, even better, so that you stay focused as long as possible.
Similarly, if you have creative work to do, leave it until later. As our brain works harder, its chemical composition changes, and studies find most of us find it easier to think outside the box as a result.
Review
Seriously. If you are not aware of where your business is, has been, and will be, you are risking it all.
Talk with your employees to make sure they don’t have any questions or concerns. Review your income to make sure your on top of ingoing and outgoing payments. And start setting goals for the future, to make sure you’re continually making progress.
Enjoy You/Family Time
It’s easy to get burnt out when you’re running a business, so it’s important to have something you can turn to every day that allows you to rejuvenate.
For many entrepreneurs, that means spending time with their family, but hobbies or simply relaxing are important too.
Finally, an important tip for setting a routine and sticking to it:
Lay the Foundations for Tomorrow, Today.
If there’s work to catch up on, do it now.
Don’t use it as an excuse to break the balance. Work is not everything, and those who fail to understand that lose out every time.