Three daily non-negotiables: adequate sleep, a protected lunch break, and regular exercise. Everything else, including meetings, gets scheduled around them. The speaker says these habits preserve physical health, mental clarity, and the energy to stay effective all day.
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But some of the things that I do not ever compromise on are my sleep, my lunch break, and my exercise. Those 3 things are absolute priorities for me. Everything else gets scheduled in around that, and I will not book in meetings, important or not, because it infringes on that time. I'm relative— I'm pretty inflexible about that. Hmm. Because I know that those 3 things they're gonna, they're gonna maintain my sustainable performance that we were talking about earlier. If I'm sleeping well, if I'm exercising regularly, and if I'm taking that break to have a nutritious meal and to give myself the mental space and eat lunch with my partner or by myself or outside or whatever, then I'm gonna be much more effective. So those 3 things I don't, I don't budge on.