James Clear shares three habits for sustained productivity: regular reflection on whether tasks matter, using physical activity to build momentum on slow days, and carefully choosing what you read and listen to. Your information diet shapes your ideas.
Some kind of habit of reflection and review. At some point, you need to make time to ensure that you are working on the thing that is the highest and best use. Create a little bit of space to step outside and above the business and say, is this really the highest and best use of my time? It's a little bit weird, but I would say a habit of working out, something to reset yourself. I had so many days early in my entrepreneurial career, even now, where you feel like, man, this day was just a waste. I didn't get anything done. But at least I got a good workout in. I can feel decent about myself and go to bed and wake up again tomorrow and try, you know, try again. The last one I would say is, I would say reading, but it's not, I I don't mean it just as books. Almost every thought that you have is downstream from what you consume. When you choose who to follow on social media, you're choosing your future thoughts because that's what's going to fill up the feed in 2 weeks or a month or whatever. When you choose what podcast to listen to or what book to read, you are choosing your future thoughts. And so the more carefully that you curate that diet of what you're consuming, the more carefully you curate what you're putting in, the better the outputs are. If you want better, more creative, more productive thoughts for the business, you need better, more creative, more productive inputs for for what you take in. So I'd say habit of reflection, review, some kind of working out or something to balance yourself, try to improve the, your consumption habits.
