10 High-Performing Habits That Kickstart Your Productivity Rituals in a Month
Excel the habits that first start your productivity rituals.
You must aim for the high-performer entrepreneur.
It’s a struggling part. Most people are constantly looking for the system that ensures their excellence. They want the apps, checklists, scripts that save time and validate high performer status.
And they find everything. Still, they don’t get the results.
The problem?
It’s because of the lack of confidence. And confidence comes from doing actual work.
To do’s are useless when you don’t know what you exactly want from the day. Checklists are unimportant when you miss any point.
The catch?
Excel the habits that first start your productivity rituals. When you exactly know what you are doing and why than you become much more confident.
Three years ago, few friends of mine started WhatsApp group for posting to-do lists. But none of them exactly know why they are posting it. Within a month, they closed the group and started something else. It’s the story of most people.
Goal trackers are not bad, not the pedometers, not the scripts. You eventually need everything. But when you’re just starting, you need to master the habits that are intended for high performance.
Here are ten carefully adapted easy-to-form habits that head start your productivity journey. Once you form those habits, you feel unshakably confident. And it’s not even tough to practice any of these. Let’s see.
#1. Clarity On Present Reality.
Do you exactly know why you want to start your side business even if you have a good job? Are you clear about how your product change people’s lives and make them happy customers? Do you know why you keep falling on your feet and how to stand up again?
Yes, you don’t need all the answers, but when you’re sure, your confidence speaks itself. And this habit inspires to work.
Observe any successful personality. He doesn’t know what happens. He knows why he is doing something.
Clarity doesn’t clear the future. It layers out the present reality. So when you clear about “why,” you’ll figure out “how.”
#2. Questioning.
The best way to make your thinking process easy is to start questioning. When you ask powerful questions, your mind provides clues that you never even thought about.
When you focus on your mind, it gets zoomed in. And in-depth questions comes with in-depth answers.
Your responsibility is to direct your mind. It takes care of how to do it.
As many layers as you go deeper, this habit become stronger and inspire to start the action.
#3. Free Writing.
It’s 15–20 minute free-floating thoughts typing on the page. But why it’s so helpful?
When you write anything, you may have noticed, your mind forgets that particular thing. But when you don’t write, this one thought comes again and again.
I use free writing to clear my mind. When you feel stressed, the best way is to get out of this is to write down everything and burn it or throw into the dustbin. Your mind focuses on important thoughts and weeds out the rest.
I have been practicing this habit since last year. With experience, I’d say, it improves your shitty mood almost immediately.
#4. Reading Extremely Essential Books.
It’s not about which book you read. It’s about how much it’s effective. You may read two books a week because of Warren Buffett reads it. But you don’t know why you’re reading those books. Than you’re just wasting time.
The only goal of reading is to help you with your goals — nothing else. You aren’t reading for feeling great, or learning something new, or being busy or entertained. You’re reading because it’s helpful to achieve your goals.
I read only a few books in a year, but every idea is essential for me. I reject 98 books before I choose two.
#5. Setting Achievable Goals
I’m stressed out because of the different goal setting systems. Few are terrible. They told you to set goals in the “exact” statement! Put exclamation mark after each goal and read out loud in the morning.
Holly crap.
You need a goal that you feel comfortable with. That you think achievable. You know it’s a perfect one to work for. I can’t decide the right goals for you. Not even I can provide a system that guarantees success.
But if you set achievable and inspiring goals, your focus will integrate within the goal. Suppose, I have a goal to write reader-friendly posts, my actions emerge to achieve that level.
#6. Develop Passion
Passion is love for work. That’s it. You need a deeper sense of clarity of why you do what you do. Passion cut the clarity process. If you’re passionate about writing, you don’t think much about the money associated with it. You just do it.
If you have a passion you can develop business around, you naturally become productive and peak performer. Passion has a different experience than fickle things like money, status or position.
You can’t find passion. You have to develop it. You love the work when you do it for long time.
#7. Practice Mental Toughness
People don’t quit because they hate the work. People quit because they can’t handle failures. They mindlessly move one thing after another and expect big results.
It depends on how you handle success or failures. It’s about balancing emotions and make clear decisions out of the crap. It’s about ignoring the ups and downs and brutally confident about the decisions you make.
The easiest way to start it with practicing patience. Say yourself “I need patience” when stakes are high.
#8. Deep Faith In God
It’s not about religion or right or wrong.
What if I tell you that having deep faith in God and doing prayers thoughtfully, you’ll increase memory power, boost willpower and confidence, increase mental toughness and tolerance, and strengthen immune system. Would you believe it?
No way. It sounds cheesy.
It’s research conducted by Dr. Andrew Newberg from the University of Pennsylvania on 4000 people.
Why shouldn’t you create your system around prayers and having faith in god if you get the benefits? It costs ten minutes of the day but when you feel stressed and overwhelmed. One thing that keeps you on the track is faith in something bigger than you. When you lose trust in yourself, you have trust in God.
Again it’s childish, but it provides courage when you lost. It works because we have less trust in ourselves than others.
#9. Effective Communication
Most of your business success depends on the relationships you create.
It’s about how you allow people to speak. It’s about listening without interruption, talking important points, empathizing with people and creating the lasting impression. If you handle the communication part, your business will grow faster than others. You naturally develop a relationship with the people you admire.
You can start with small habits. Such as focusing on your mistakes and strengths, dealing with people, and so on.
#10. Walking.
Work is routine. The best way to break it by walking a few thousand steps in the park. It’s 20 minutes activity that improves mood. When you feel the outside air. Your day become much calmer and fulfilling. Don’t walk until your leg gets exhausted. Just light walk can do the trick.
It’s not about health benefits and calories or specific steps. When you think all that, you kill the natural ability to sustain the habit. Just do it because you love it. Because it feels like you can produce more if you take a break.
Words From The Heart.
High performance is not a tag. Whether you work 9 hours or 5, no one cares. No one gives you a badge of honor and appulse for you.
Higher productivity doesn’t guarantee success. You can’t make millions even if you thoughtfully work for three years straight.
Then why would you be a high performer?
Because it’s unique behavior. It creates confidence. It creates productive rituals that increase the chances of success and happiness ten and even a hundred times. You work because you love to work. You develop habits because you want to make something fulfilling. You want that level of success and happiness.
And high performance is not that hard. It’s almost effortless. You don’t know when you reach the next level. If you do daily small rituals of necessary habits, you start developing high performing work rituals.
It’s time to start with questioning. Find the most frustrating answers by researching and taking the actions. It’s your turn.
Right now.
