A Simple 3 Step Routine For Productivity & Focus

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The best routine that helped me in being productive and focusing is very simple and does not need a lot to become habitual.

What helped me the most were 3 simple steps:

1. Get Up At A Very Early Time — Preferably a time where it is still dark outside and most people are not up yet. Something between 5 and 6 in the morning or earlier.
2. Take A Shower Before Doing Anything Else — Once you take a shower you cannot go back to bed easily and it will seem like you started the day already. Do this before anything else.
   To help with this commit to a time by which you must have taken a shower. For example: I have to take a shower by 5:30 in the morning. I absolutely must do this and there is no way around it.
3. Do Some Work Right Away — Don’t grab breakfast yet, don’t read the newspaper and don’t check your emails. First, do some work for an hour, then you may continue with your morning routine.

Doing these things sets the tone for the rest of the day as one of urgency, productivity and discipline, and it will transfer to the rest of what you are doing in the morning as well.

The biggest thing you must watch out for is step #2.

Do anything you can to make this an absolute must in your life.

Talk to friends about it, tell them you will send them a message once you have done it, or, even better, tell them you will pay for dinner every time you do not do it.

Sooner or later your wallet will also motivate you to make this a must.

Try this for yourself and adjust it as you see fit, but it will definitely improve your productivity and focus if you can make this simple routine a habit!