Noah Kagan examined what a great day actually looked like on his blog and I liked the exercise, here’s what I came up with.
what’s a great day look like for me?
- plenty of sleep, 7 hours+
- waking earlier than needed for any commitments [work, projects, calls] 7am usually
- eat a large protein filled breakfast, devotions, a light workout [50 pushups, 50 squats], read newsmap.jp, review what i want to accomplish before the day “starts”
- get a coffee, zero in on one or two things. [a product, salespage, website updates, blog commenting, writing, connecting with potential users, other entrepreneurs, testing]
- read at least 20-50 pages of a business book
- clean my office/work space/desktop
- inbox zero [spending time on replying to users in detail, life management stuffs]
- helping people, apply devotion if possible, or at least see if i can remember what it even was
- eat lunch with a friend, go for a walk
- watch an hour of a show i like, or looking up latest tech news, playing with a website in a non productive way, buy stuff on amazon
- another timed block for any client work, request work, agreed project work, “pay the bills” work
- go for a run, workout, fitocracy, 4hb stuffs
- cook dinner, or eat out with wife
- talk/video chat with friends, watch tv, play games, read fiction, drink wine
- watch wife play ipad games until i doze off
those things constitute an everyday good day for me. failure to find motivation/accomplish any creative work, or progress on agreed work and instead just shuffle stuff around not really accomplishing anything usually makes the day feel eh.
waking earlier than needed greatly increases the chances everything else will happen.
cool exercise!