5 Proven Routines That Will Transmute Your Life

There’s a difference between wanting to be a high-performance person and acting like one. The secret lies in your habits.

What you do every day, without fail, marks the difference between smashing through goals and ceilings and feeling like you’re somehow missing the mark. There are countless distractions around and there always will be. They are no longer valid reasons for not performing. People just like you are moving past excuses and showing up, lapping everyone who isn’t concentrating.

1. Routine rules all

Whether you had to adjust to working remotely due to COVID-19 or running a startup out of your house, routines can not be overstated. After all, besides providing structure, routines and schedules can be beneficial to your mental and physical health.

Having a plan allows you to feel more in control. In turn, this reduces stress.

1-If you have a consistent sleep schedule, you’ll get a better’s night rest. Not only does this make you more energetic, but you’ll also get a psychological boost.

2-You’ll be healthier as routines encourage you to eat healthily and engage in physical activity.

3-A schedule allows you to schedule time for play. Yes, adults also need time to play to help decompress and increase happiness.

Here’s the best part.

4-Unless you have to work at specific hours, you can design a routine that works best for you. So, if you’re a morning bird, maybe jump into work bright and early before everyone else is awake. It’s a surefire way to prevent getting distracted.

5-If you’re not a morning person, that’s not a problem either. If you’re most productive between 1 p.m. and 9 p.m., then build your routine around those hours.

All You need to do is establish a routine. And, more importantly, stick to it.

2. Separate work zones from relaxing zones

Ideally, when working out of your home, you need a designated workspace. This could be a home office, garage, or kitchen table. It should have a door, a desk, and a comfy chair so that you can focus and keep distractions at bay. What if you don’t have a lot of space? If possible, create a place in your home where you can set up your equipment and leave it there when you’re done with it.

But, there’s another benefit to establishing different zones throughout your home. When your brain has a dedicated workspace, it functions more efficiently and productively.

When you work in the same place each day, your brain becomes accustomed to that spot as a place to work,

On the opposite side, try to find places in your house where you never work, because that creates mental safety and distance. As much as you can, still, try to create those boundaries for your brain — that will both help you to relax and it’ll help you to focus when you are in that space.

3. Be aware of displaced productivity

It is very common for people who work from home to experience displaced productivity.

What exactly is that? Well, it’s quite simple.

The concept of displaced productivity refers to re-directing your efforts to something that still seems productive, but most likely isn’t a priority. So, that would be washing dishes or doing the laundry instead of tackling your to-do list.

Would doing the dishes or laundry be productive? In theory, yes. But, because they aren’t priorities, they’re actually distractions.

Understanding when you are using “productive” tasks to procrastinate is the key. This will be obvious because you’ll find every possible excuse not to focus on work. One way around this is to not give yourself these excuses in the first place. For instance, washing the dishes after every meal or having a scheduled laundry day means that they aren’t there to distract you.

4. Set boundaries with social media

Love it or hate it, social media is an integral part of our daily lives — especially if you’re launching a side hustle or startup. But, for some, social media can be a time-consuming distraction.

Social media carries both risks and benefits, it allows people to easily access different educational resources and forms of entertainment, it creates opportunities for networking with others, and it allows users to engage with social justice and activism. Unfortunately, social media use is also commonly linked with depression, anxiety, body dissatisfaction, disordered eating, insomnia, and other problems like trolling, cyberbullying and loss of privacy.”

It is essential to be mindful of how much time you are spending on social media and other apps. In social media, you can monitor how much time you are spending on these platforms by reviewing the screen time data on your device or through some social media platforms directly. You should also ask yourself two questions: How much time are you spending on social media per day, and most importantly, are you OK with that number?

Compare this to the time you are spending on other activities that matter to you, if you don’t satisfied with your result, then start setting limits for accessing your device or scheduling blocks of time for other activities that you care about.

5. Practice being the best you

Creating exponential results and becoming a high performer starts with how clear you are on who you are “Who do you have to be to accomplish what you want to accomplish?” What got you here likely won’t get you to the next level up, there’s no choice but to improve. Start by picturing the best version of you and then embody them as you go about your day.

Practice operating how the best do by showing up as the optimum you throughout the day, generating your own energy, working in chunks of 50-minutes, changing the conversations in your head and closing loops before switching tasks. If nothing changes.

Edit your habits in small, effective ways to change your energy, transform who you are and reach the next level of what you can achieve.