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How To Accomplish Your 2020 Goals

January 7, 2020 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

The New Year brings new hopes and dreams. The outlook always looks better in January with the past in the rear view. For too many people, this optimism towards their goals fades at around March.

Then 2021 becomes the year it’s all supposed to happen.

This isn’t meant to be negative. It’s the scenario most people go through. If you don’t want to be in the same scenario most people find themselves in, you have to think and act differently from most people.

No one gets goals just by declaring them. The people who do achieve their goals put in so much behind-the-scenes work.

It is good to challenge yourself each year and set bigger goals. But how do we end up accomplishing these goals?

The key to accomplishing your goals is to break them down into quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily actions. The more you break down the goal, the more check points you have leading up to your goal.

One of my goals is to qualify for the Boston Marathon so I can run it in 2021. I have to break 3 hours just to submit an application. Running a 2:55:00 or better is almost a guarantee so I’m going for a sub 2:50 marathon.

I run my first marathon towards the end of March. I have three months to build up my body to be fit enough to run a sub 2:50 marathon. I run another marathon in August which would be my last chance to qualify for the 2021 Boston Marathon, so I want to get it done in March so I can check it off.

I know what types of workouts I want to run leading up to the marathon. Each week, I build up so I can run the types of workouts that I want to run.

From a self-publishing standpoint, I set a goal to publish a new book every two weeks. That means writing at least 1,000 words per day and turning most of those days into 2,000 and 3,000 word days.

It’s one thing to say I want to make X amount of dollars or hit Y time for my race. It’s another thing to figure out what actions you have to take each day to make those goals happen.

One of the reasons people don’t accomplish their New Year’s resolutions is because they search for the instant gratification.

If you want to double your revenue next year, understand that on January 1st and perhaps for most of January, you still have 2019’s business model in place.

It’s only after you take the right actions each day where you have the 2020 business model in place that will actually double your revenue. It’s only through the action taking where you get to see what’s going right, what’s going wrong, and what you need to modify.

On January 1st, don’t expect the drastic changes to already take place. If you averaged $20/day from your side hustle, you were still averaging $20/day when the clock hit midnight and 2020 entered into our lives.

If you stick with your 2020 Goals, you won’t see the big changes in January. It’s going to be around the end of the first quarter where you start to see you are moving in the right direction. It’s going to be the second quarter where momentum starts picking up and the results are a lot more obvious. It’s going to be the third and fourth quarters where you’ve achieved your biggest 2020 goals.

You can accomplish some of your 2020 goals sooner. While qualifying in the Boston Marathon is a 2020 goal of mine, I can accomplish it in March. With that said, I’m in my 8th year of running so it’s not like I’m going from never running a mile in my life to wanting to qualify for the Boston Marathon.

Patience is vital. Trust yourself past January even if the results aren’t easy to see or if things have barely changed.

The way YouTubers make it on YouTube is how you accomplish your New Year’s resolutions. The way most YouTubers makes it is by creating a ton of content without people noticing them. They then learn how to optimize their videos for watch time and clickthrough rate which helps a little bit, but for the most part, some people still don’t notice them.

Even then, these YouTubers continue to refine their content and start to build a small audience. Then, one video takes off and the rest is history. One YouTuber I follow made nothing from his channel in Q1 2019 and very little in Q2 2019 only to have multiple 5-figure months to close out Q4 2019.

That’s what happens when you stick it out and not get discouraged by initial results. The 2020 goals you set require you to get better than you already are. I’m not getting in the Boston Marathon with my 2019 marathon times. I’m going to get into that marathon with my 2020 marathon times. To hit the 2020 marathon times, I have to approach running and my workout routine differently from how I approached it in 2019.

You are still 2019 you right now. You have to become the type of person who can accomplish the big goals you set for yourself.

I’d love to hear what your 2020 goals. You can also join us in the Breakthrough Success Facebook Group where we all keep each other accountable to our goals.

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Why It’s Silly To Not Delegate Your Work To Others

May 28, 2019 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

There’s a popular saying that’s become a cliche at this point…

“Go big or go home.”

The idea behind the saying is to put in the work to achieve your big goal. If you’re not willing to commit yourself, go home.

But going big isn’t just about you putting in the hours. It’s also about you making investments into your business.

You might be shocked to hear that many millionaires spend 6-figures each year on their education. That’s going big instead of going home.

You might not have 6-figures that you can exclusively put towards your education.

Successful people also delegate their tasks to others. They recognize their weaknesses and hire people who are strong in those areas.

One of my biggest weaknesses is content post-production. While I’m great at recording videos, I don’t enjoy editing them.

I had a stretch a few years ago where I published a new video each day for over 30 days. The reason I couldn’t keep it up was because of the post-production. That’s why I delegate that task to a highly skilled editor.

The difference in my YouTube schedule is incredible

Right now, I’m delegating two of those six steps. Uploading videos and thumbnails are two things I should delegate very soon. Descriptions and SEO may take more time, but I’m going to delegate those eventually.

The only thing I can’t delegate is creating my own videos. Luckily, I enjoy creating videos.

If you can take the unnecessary work off your shoulders that you don’t enjoy, then why not do it?

That’s why delegating makes so much sense.

 

Delegating Is Not Free

I have a bunch of awesome people on my team…but that doesn’t mean they work for free. We all have to make ends meet.

THIS is why most people don’t delegate.

They don’t want to make the investment in other people who can help them with some tasks.

And that’s silly. I’ll give you an example.

For my YouTube channel, I wanted a really awesome outro that would show people more of my content and encourage them to subscribe, like, and share my video.

It can take a while to actually mention those calls-to-action in each video. Viewers also know you’re wrapping up the video when you say, “Please subscribe,” towards the end, so they’ll go to the next video they find.

I could have put in the time and learned how to create an outro and ended up with a decent one. That probably would have taken me two hours…and all of this for a decent outro.

Instead, I got this awesome 15 second outro from Fiverr for $7.

The level of quality for this outro is amazing. Three videos playing with confetti in the background. And that mouse in the background? That clicks on the Subscribe button, the notifications bell, the like button, and the share button.

Creating an outro of this quality probably would have taken me an easy three hours since I’d have to first learn how to do most of this stuff.

And yes, this is what I got for $7.

Most people think delegating is expensive. But if you know where to look, you can find great talent for a low price.

My three favorite places to find people are Fiverr, Onlinejobs.ph, and UpWork.

 

Why Pay The $7 When You Could Do It Yourself?

For this question, let’s start off by assuming I could have done that exact quality level outro in three hours (unlikely, but let’s assume).

Even then, I’d pay the $7 in a heartbeat.

Here’s why…

If I create that outro in three hours instead of getting the gig, the value of my time in that moment is $2.33/hr.

Not a high number, but hey, at least I still have that $7, right?

If you can’t find a job that makes you more than $2.33/hr, then maybe it’s a good idea to do it yourself.

It’s not $7 kept. It’s 3 hours lost and even more money. In 3 hours, you can complete a $47 training course. You can put up a book for pre-order and start selling it.

You can book a coaching client.

If you understand opportunity cost, you know how silly it is to not delegate.

Each minute you spend doing it yourself is another minute you can’t do other stuff.

If I had to edit my videos, create thumbnails, and other stuff, no way would I have found the time to create my new book sponsorship Fiverr gig or revamp the Content Marketing Plaza page.

I make more money doing those things than I save from creating my own outro for 3 hours that definitely wouldn’t be as good as the one I received.

 

Do You Trust Yourself?

People often ask, “What would you do with an extra 10 hours each week?” as if it were some hypothetical question that only happens for the select few who have million dollar budgets.

Delegating is so easy that even a very small budget can save you hours of time each week.

However, some people are reluctant to delegate because they see it as handing their hard earned money to someone else for something they could do.

That’s not the real issue. The real issue is a trust issue.

If you hire the person who provided my outro, do you trust yourself to make more than $2.33/hr for the next three hours to justify the $7 investment?

These numbers can get slightly bigger. In most cases, especially when hiring online, it’s a matter of whether you trust yourself to make more than $10/hr for the next X hours to justify the $Y investment.

If you don’t trust yourself to make more than $10/hr with the extra time you get from delegating, you need to change your business model because it’s not working.

And when would you find the time to assess your business model and make those changes? Maybe by delegating 😉

 

In Conclusion

Delegating your tasks isn’t a luxury anymore. It’s a necessity for any business owner who’s interested in reaching more people and providing more value.

What are your thoughts on delegating tasks? Do you have any questions for me? Sound off in the comments below.

Filed Under: productivity Tagged With: delegate

The Most Common Work-Life Balance Trap

May 12, 2019 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

The work-life balance…it’s this thing we’re supposed to pursue…and if we don’t hit it, we’re not supposed to feel happy about ourselves.

That’s how it’s pitched, and for good reason. Spending too much time on your work doesn’t give you anytime to develop the important relationships in your life. Spending too much time on relationships and hobbies prevents you from doing the work that supports that lifestyle and impacts your audience.

I’m all for that, but not the way most people present the work-life balance. The common idea is that you are on a balance beam. Lean too much towards work or relationships and hobbies, and you’ll fall. You’re on this balance beam every day, so you need to spend close to equal time on your work and relationships and hobbies.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel like tracking that every day. And I shouldn’t have to feel bad about myself if I do one more than the other two.

If you think about the work-life balance every day, it’s going to stress you out. You’ll be more attentive with your time. If you’re talking with family and friends, you’ll think about the work time you are falling behind on for that day. If you’re grinding and deep in the flow, you’ll cut that flow just because you need to spend more time on relationships for that day.

This common trap for the work-life balance takes a super short-term viewpoint without acknowledging that it’s possible to do all three evenly on each day.

The first half-marathon I ran was in the morning (many races start in the morning). For that day, I was focused on the half-marathon and doing well (I finished off with a 1:25:00 and 2nd place. To this day I’m very happy with that half-marathon but always looking for more).

So, for the rest of the day, after completing a half marathon, did I spend time working to catch up with the hours I just spent running the half-marathon. Did I set a timer to ensure I was working for 1:25:00 and then spending time with the people I care about for 1:25:00?

Of course not. I was horizontal for most of the day after that half-marathon. Walking up the stairs after that half-marathon was challenging enough.

No one has a daily work-life balance, and this is the big trap we fall into. Having that short-term focus.

The solution to work-life balance is to have a long-term view which averages out to your ideal lifestyle. I’ve had some days where I don’t spend as much time with my family. I love my family, but on some days, I’m interviewing 10 people for my podcasts and virtual summits. On other days, I’m working on my upcoming book, training course, and other content for my audience.

But then there’s vacations which last anywhere from 1-2 weeks. During vacations, I do virtually no work. The majority of my work time is just responding to emails so there aren’t too many waiting for me. And that takes maybe 15 minutes of my time each day.

No podcast interviews. No training courses. No nada.

When I’m on vacation, it means I’m doing very little work for my business. And when I come back from that vacation, I’m fired up to grind and grow my business. But during the vacation, I’m spending time with my family.

That’s the more realistic version of the work-life balance that will make you feel happier about yourself. Instead of judging yourself one day at a time, look at entire months and end results.

Some people think they spend a lot of time building their relationships. But if that’s just them being physically present but mentally absent, that’s not building the relationship.

 

In Conclusion

The work-life balance is a great concept that emphasizes an important truth. Work and play are important, but too much of one creates a bad mix.

However, you’ll fall into a trap of feeling like you’re not doing everything right if you judge your work-life balance performance day by day.

Reassessing this balance each month gives you a better picture and accounts for days when you need to do all-in on your work and days when you’re on vacation mode.

What are your thoughts on the work-life balance? Do you have any questions for me? Sound off in the comments below.

Filed Under: productivity Tagged With: work-life balance

How To Skyrocket Your Productivity With The 50-30-20 Rule

January 29, 2018 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

Productivity isn’t based on how much you get done or by how busy you are. It’s based on where you direct your time to achieve desirable results.

I’ve done a lot of research to enhance my work ethic. The most profound rule I came across was the 80/20 rule which states that 80% of your results come from 20% of your work. Find that 20%, spend more time addressing that workload, and you multiply your results.

The 50-30-20 rule even rivals 80/20 because it tells you where you need to devote your time. I see this new rule having a dramatic impact on my brand.

Let’s discuss what it is and how you can use it to grow your business.

 

What Is The 50-30-20 Rule?

We do a variety of activities, and without this rule, it’s tempting to label all activities as important. This rule sets a tiered structure that gives you a better idea of which tasks are worth doing. 50% is the top tier, 30% is the mid-tier, and 20% is the lower tier.

Here’s the breakdown of the rule.

50% of your time goes towards long-term goals that will pay off greatly in 3-5 years. Jeff Bezos thrives in this area. While everyone knows Amazon as the behemoth it is today, Amazon struggled to make a profit for many years. That’s because each time Amazon seemed to be on the verge of making a profit, Bezos would invest all of that profit and then some towards ventures with long-term potential.

These investments made Amazon into what it is now, but in the short-term, these investments frustrated Amazon investors because the stock stood still with small changes when Amazon didn’t make a profit.

30% of your time goes towards goals that will have an impact in the next 1-2 years. They’re not as long-term as the other long-term goals, but these goals are far enough into the future that you’ll reap big rewards from getting them done.

Finally, 20% of your time goes towards goals that have a short-term impact on your business. The impact for these activities will usually last 90 days and significantly diminish (or even completely fade) after those 90 days.

 

How Do I Apply This Rule

Stating a fancy rule with a string of numbers that add up to 100% is one thing. Actually implementing the rule for your business is completely different.

You need to list all of the tasks that you do for your business and categorize them. Most people spend the majority of their time on short-term goals. That’s why they get a string of short-term results that don’t hold significant long-term value.

Chances are you’ll have a big list of tasks that fits within the lower tier. It’s not bad to address this area of your life, but it’s bad to address it at the cost of long-term rewards.

You don’t need more tasks in the upper tier than you need in the lower tier. You just need to commit 50% of your time towards tasks in the upper tier and only 20% of your time in the bottom tier.

You can have one task in the upper tier and give that task 50% of your attention every day.

 

Solving The Distribution Problem

It’s common for people to have a distribution problem as they identify their 50-30-20. As mentioned before, many people send the majority of their time in the lower tier. That’s why short-term results are their way of life.

You may find a distribution problem as you list the tasks. You may discover that you’re in the lower tier for 4 hours per day. When you first write down these tasks, most of them will seem like dogma…you HAVE to continue doing them.

You have to schedule your social media posts, communicate with your audience, create content, promote your content, and do a bunch of other things.

Actually, you don’t.

You need to either delegate or remove most of your bottom tier related activities from your life. Discover which of these tasks are the most important to you, and take as much of that work off your shoulders as possible.

Yes, hiring employees is an investment, but it’s well worth it since you’ll get more of your time back.

 

50-30-20 Can Be Morphed

The upper tier is a minimum while the lower tier is a maximum. If you delegate most of your lower tier, you can change your approach to 60-30-10 so you invest more of your time towards long-term rewards.

Just never increase the time you spend pursuing the other tiers.

When you have your structure down (from now on, I’ll assume it’s a 50-30-20 since that’s what most people start with), you need to time yourself. You’re actually doing to apply 50-30-20 down to the minute.

If you work on your business for 5 hours every day, here’s the breakdown for each day:

  • Commit 2.5 hours towards upper tier activities
  • Commit 1.5 hours towards mid-tier activities
  • Commit 1 hour towards lower tier activities

Set a timer for all three of those tasks. If you work on the computer often, use a tool like Toggl to clearly track how much time you spend addressing each tier. This tool lets you break your time investments down to the minute. All you have to do is have it work in the background of everything else you’re doing.

 

In Conclusion

The 50-30-20 rule allows you to identify all of your tasks and prioritize which ones are the most important for maximum growth.

Your long-term goals will reap the most rewards, but it’s the short-term wins along the way that make the long-term goals possible.

What are your thoughts on the 50-30-20 rule? Do you have any tips for implementing it? Do you have a question for me? Sound off in the comments section below.

Filed Under: productivity Tagged With: efficiency

How To Be More Productive In Your Inbox

January 15, 2018 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

inbox productivity

The overriding inbox storyline is that the inbox is an unproductive platform that takes you away from your priorities. When you’re in your inbox, you can’t create new content or do most of the exciting things for your business.

Most people view the inbox as defense. You’re doing the necessary things (i.e. responding to queries, providing specific information, etc.), but that prevents you from addressing other areas of your brand.

Some experts have frequently shunned the inbox and even stay away from their inboxes by utilizing a gatekeeper. But the inbox isn’t the productivity sucker people have made it out to be.

Yes, it’s bad to spend too much time in your inbox. If you spend several hours in your inbox each day, you’re not creating any new value for your entire audience.

However, if you visit your inbox in short, effective bursts, you can become very productive in your inbox. If you can quickly get in and out, you’ll have plenty of time to address the other areas of your business.

 

Inreaching Your Way To Higher Productivity

When I type the word inreach on my computer, I get an autocorrect of in reach with the space. “Inreaching” is underlined in red.

We have no problem with outreach. Neither does my computer’s autocorrect. We reach out to influencers in the hopes of achieving an objective and building relationships.

Inreach doesn’t happen so much. We don’t reach into our own networks as often as we try to expand them.

Being more productive isn’t just about getting Task A done faster. It’s also about achieving a better result. Inreaching (autocorrect, I suggest learning this word quick) allows you to interact with the influencers who already know you.

You could spend so much time outreaching that a bunch of people know your name but very little about who you are. Inreaching turns recent relationships into rich relationships.

 

Flag The Important Emails

email flags

When you open an email, you should do one of the following:

  • Respond
  • Delete
  • Flag

Flagging is a last resort, but it’s useful when you get a lengthy email that involves a lengthy response. If you can reply to an email in two minutes or less, get that email out of the way. Flag the emails that require more thought and address all of the flagged emails later.

 

Implement The 5-Sentence Rule

One of the biggest reasons people are unproductive in their inboxes is because they spend a considerable amount of time contemplating every email they send. These people write several paragraphs for each email and meticulously look them over.

Instead of spending a considerable amount of time writing each email, write all of your emails in under five sentences. Enforcing this rule on yourself forces you to be more concise and get the point across.

And as our inboxes constantly get filled up with lengthy messages, a 1-5 sentence email is a nice change. Instead of spending several minutes writing emails, you should only spend a few seconds and rarely go over a minute.

99% of emails I send are less than five sentences. I only write lengthy emails when I want to lay out a proposal or tell someone how much they mean to me. Other than those types of emails, most of the emails I send are less than 5 sentences (and most of those emails are 1-3 sentences).

 

Periodically Change Your Signature

At the end of your emails, you can include a signature that automatically appears below all of your emails. While this is a common practice, few people change their signatures. Depending on what project I’m focusing on, I’ll utilize a postscript at the end of my emails asking for help.

Most people manually write this P.S. at the bottom of their signature, but it’s more efficient to include the postscript within the signature. Here’s one of the postscripts I put at the bottom of all of my emails:

“P.S. I would greatly appreciate if you left a quick review for my Breakthrough Success Podcast on iTunes. The long-term goal for the podcast is to provide daily episodes, but I need to grow my podcast even more before I reach that goal.”

By including this postscript within the signature that always shows up below my emails, I don’t have to copy and paste this into each email I send. I don’t even have to remember about this postscript because it automatically shows up below my emails.

The more you can automate, the more productive you will become.

 

Delegation

delegation

While automation helps us on the road to productivity, we can only automate so much. For the things that you can’t automate, you can delegate tasks to a team of freelancers. You can instruct freelancers on how to respond to specific messages and how to conduct inreach and outreach. While I prefer to conduct the inreach on my own, it’s another thing that you can consider outsourcing.

You can find freelancers on a site like UpWork, but as you grow your audience and tell people that you need freelancers, you’ll get more people in your audience to come to you and ask for work. You can find highly qualified freelancers within your audience, but don’t get suckered if they say nice things about you.

Darren Hardy’s first hire was an employee who admired him. This employees’ admiration for Darren was an important factor that resulted in the hire. This employee wasn’t Darren’s best pick and there was a disconnect between expectations and what actually happened. Look at every potential hire with the question, “How can this person help me achieve my objectives quicker and bring in a profit?”

With that said, delegating tasks is the most powerful thing you can do for your business and life. This one act will open up more of your time that you can prioritize towards the most important areas of your business.

 

In Conclusion

Whether you like your inbox or not, you know it’s a vital form of communication. Ignoring your inbox means ignoring many opportunities and cutting off relationships. However, too much time in the inbox prevents us from doing our work.

We need to balance the time we spend in our inbox and make every minute count so we build relationships and explore new opportunities.

What are your thoughts on the inbox? Do you have any hacks for more efficiency and effectiveness as we send and reply to emails? Do you have a question for me? Sound off in the comments section below.

Filed Under: productivity Tagged With: inbox productivity

How To Increase Your Hustle

January 8, 2018 by Marc Guberti Leave a Comment

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The moment most entrepreneurs think of hustle, they almost immediately think of Gary Vaynerchuk. He’s working 18 hours each day on expanding his brand, and he’s not the only super successful entrepreneur who recommends a strong work ethic. He, Grant Cardone, and Daymond John all commented on how much time you should be working, and the article is amazing.

Grant Cardone suggests working 95 instead of 9-5, and I absolutely love that phrase.

But most of us aren’t working that long, and productivity usually dips if you’re working too long. For these three entrepreneurs and others, that rule doesn’t apply because they literally love every part of their business. They enjoy business like athletes enjoy playing their favorite sports.

How do we increase the hours we spend doing the work that we love? How do we develop that drive? That’s what I’ll share right now:

 

Daily Actions Will Get The Ball Rolling

goal achievement

It has never been this easy for me to write new content. That’s because I recently decided to write one blog post per day. Not at least one blog post per day. Exactly one blog post per day.

When I first began this goal, it was somewhat hard for me to write a blog post every day. Now it’s become effortless. For you to hustle, the work needs to feel effortless. That’s part of the secret.

Sure, writing the blog post takes 30 minutes, and it takes a little more time to schedule it, but with this task accomplished, I can move onto other tasks knowing that I just finished writing my blog post for the day.

I’m working on ways to integrate this type of effortlessness into other areas of my brand such as video creation so I can then create several videos in a given day.

The more you perform an action every day, the easier it gets. I don’t have to think twice about whether It’s easy for me to run 10 miles every day because I’ve ran almost every day for several years (with the exception of necessary breaks that allow the body to recharge).

When I found myself in inconsistency, it took me longer to write each blog post and schedule them to get published. Sometimes I would completely forget because inconsistency keeps your goals out of mind and out of sight.

I still batch my podcast episodes for just two days each week because I schedule the interviews to occur on those two days. I don’t have to worry about producing the content because the guest is keeping me accountable.

Even on days when I don’t want to interview someone for my podcast (i.e. a really long day), I do the interview anyway because telling a guest, “I’m really tired so I can’t do the interview today,” isn’t who I am, and it’s very disrespectful of the time they committed towards your podcast (they could have been on another podcast during that time).

If you find yourself struggling to get it done, do it daily without exceptions. Performing a task every day makes it an effortless habit, and all you have to do at that point is keep the chain going.

 

Exercise, Family, and Friends

I get it. If you work for 18 hours every day, you need to sleep for six of those hours. Where’s the time for exercise, family, and friends?

You can exercise right before work every day (it gets easier the more often you do it), and also use some of your breaks to exercise. For instance, if I feel mentally fatigued from the work I’m doing, I take a 1-2 hour break to exercise (almost always a run). Exercising puts me back in my game.

I get in the exercise when it’s harder to hustle so I can come back to my work feeling more refreshed.

I’m in a different situation with family since I’m 20 (that felt weird for me to write, especially since I finished writing this blog post before I turned 20). I don’t have a spouse or kids. With that said, I’ve paid attention to how successful entrepreneurs with a family find time for the ones they love.

Gary Vaynerchuk takes the weekends off which he uses to spend most of his time with his family and relaxing on beaches. This weekend break gives him the ultimate recharge for the ultimate work ethic.

You could hang out with some friends during that break. As a college student, I am constantly with my friends unless I’m writing a blog post or something like that on campus. I know I won’t have that luxury when I graduate, but what works for some people is penciling in a time on the calendar when it’s okay to hang out with friends.

Don’t make yourself available every single day. Choose a day or two of the week. It helps if you have freelancers and/or employees who can help out with the work while you’re taking your breaks.

 

Without Sleeping On Your Computer’s Keyboard…

sleeping during work

Some of us have the image of a workaholic who uses his/her computer keyboard as a pillow. While I’m sure that won’t be us, we also need to think about our sleep. While some people are fine with only six hours of sleep, Neil Patel gets 9 hours of sleep every day, and he wrote a fascinating article about why sleeping more will boost your productivity.

You need to create a clear schedule for yourself so you know when it’s time to close shop. Set a bedtime and set a close time for your business where you won’t respond to any additional emails, create additional content, or do anything else for your business.

When you hustle, you hustle harder than anyone else. But the hardest hustles are also the hardest resters. Even though Gary Vaynerchuk works 18 hours on some days, remember that he takes two days off every week. That’s a luxury very few have.

 

In Conclusion

Embracing a small hustle is easy. The more you challenge yourself, the more demanding the hustle becomes. Your hustle is the biggest indicator of your success. Even if you don’t have the skills or talent, you can hustle your way to acquiring all of the skills and talents you could ever need to achieve your biggest goals.

Have you embraced the hustle? Do you have any advice for continuing to build upon the hustle? Do you have a question for me? Sound off in the comments section below.

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