Sleep, food, exercise. Those three form a pillar for happiness and success. Some tricks which I’ve found helpful:
Instead of focusing on doing the thing, focus on doing the things that makes doing the thing easy.
For example, don’t focus on going to bed early, focus on avoiding caffeine after noon and winding down your routine an hour before your target bed time. Don’t focus on going to the gym but focus on living somewhere that is close to a gym. Same with eating well, develop a system that makes it convenient to eat well. For example, I do a mix of grocery delivery and meal kits because I know I hate grocery shopping.
By focusing upstream on making downstream execution easy, things fall into place and it all feels more actionable.
Instead of focusing on doing the thing, focus on doing the things that makes doing the thing easy.
For example, don’t focus on going to bed early, focus on avoiding caffeine after noon and winding down your routine an hour before your target bed time. Don’t focus on going to the gym but focus on living somewhere that is close to a gym. Same with eating well, develop a system that makes it convenient to eat well. For example, I do a mix of grocery delivery and meal kits because I know I hate grocery shopping.
By focusing upstream on making downstream execution easy, things fall into place and it all feels more actionable.