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After a long journey of\u00a0 self-tracking and self-experimentation, I\u00a0 was able to overcome the illness, get off\u00a0 my meds and go on to compete an Ironman France. In doing so, I created a system\u00a0 of productivity that would allow me to\u00a0 get more done in the one hour a day that\u00a0 I was able to muster with a limited\u00a0 amount of energy that I had (which includes building top shopify stores<\/a>). So everything that I have done since then, from books to coaching and speaking in\u00a0 classes has been about maximizing your\u00a0 time and helping you reclaim it, so you\u00a0 can do what you want to do, whatever that\u00a0 may be.<\/p>\n To show you how to maximize your day\u00a0 I consider myself to be a pretty\u00a0 productive person, so I thought I would\u00a0 share with you what my day looks like.<\/p>\n I start every day at 4:45 in the morning\u00a0 and I want to clarify that that is not\u00a0 because I’m living up some bootcamp\u00a0 military dream or I want to be like \u201cThe Rock\u201d it’s because I have four small\u00a0 children and it’s the only way that I\u00a0 can get some time to myself \u2013 by waking up\u00a0 before they do. I’m a big fan of working\u00a0 with the constraints that you have that\u00a0 you can not change right \u2013 \u00a0I can’t\u00a0 necessarily make them get up later, but I\u00a0 can get up earlier and I can certainly\u00a0 go to bed earlier to achieve that. So I\u00a0 start my day at 4:45 in the morning at\u00a0 which point I get up and I immediately\u00a0 check my phone \u2013 \u00a0most people will tell you that’s a bad\u00a0 idea \u2013 \u00a0I don’t agree, if you know what\u00a0 you’re doing and you’re productive and\u00a0 you’re effective with the systems that\u00a0 you use, then there’s no reason why you\u00a0 wouldn’t want to. I check my email, I\u00a0 check-slack, lookg though my aliexpress best sellers<\/a>, check\u00a0 all of my communication methods before I\u00a0 even get on\u00a0 to do my workout for the morning and\u00a0 usually that takes me a couple of\u00a0 minutes, honestly, just a couple minutes\u00a0 and then I start my workout.<\/p>\n For me\u00a0 working out is one of two things either\u00a0 I’m boxing and on the days that I am\u00a0 sparring that is something that I\u00a0 extremely look forward to \u2013 \u00a0it’s therapy\u00a0 for me in a lot of ways, but the other\u00a0 days it’s working out on the elliptical\u00a0 machine at home, my wife and I have our\u00a0 own elliptical machine at home that has\u00a0 this program that goes with it, so you\u00a0 put an iPad up and you can take hikes\u00a0 through the Alps and things like that,\u00a0 for some reason that works.<\/p>\n I work\u00a0 out in the nude, it’s just something that\u00a0 I get to do because it’s 5:00 in the\u00a0 morning and I’m by myself and I don’t\u00a0 want to waste any clothes, it’s just\u00a0 something that I’ve worked out for\u00a0 myself, I don’t think that ice only makes\u00a0 you more productive but it’s something\u00a0 that I do. After that I take a shower, I\u00a0 shaved my head and everything else and\u00a0 then I start getting stuff done in the\u00a0 morning, I start taking some vitamins, I\u00a0 make coffee and breakfast from my wife\u00a0 first,\u00a0 so that is sitting there already and\u00a0 then I start to prepare lunches and\u00a0 snacks for my kids.<\/p>\n All of this is\u00a0 stuff that’s getting done before it’s\u00a0 even become 6:00 in the morning, at which\u00a0 point I make myself a cup of coffee, because I don’t have breakfast, I am on a\u00a0 program of intermittent fasting so my\u00a0 first meal is not going to be until noon\u00a0 any given day, but I will have myself a\u00a0 cup of coffee and at that point I have\u00a0 my cup of coffee and I’ll sit and I’ll\u00a0 read something that’s on my phone or\u00a0 finish up checking on some more emails\u00a0 that might have come in because I’m\u00a0 working with people all over the globe, so it’s very possible if somebody had\u00a0 responded to me.<\/p>\n Once I’m done with that, then I get to\u00a0 just sit with myself in silence until\u00a0 somebody wakes up and usually that’s\u00a0 anywhere from five to twenty minutes, I\u00a0 wouldn’t go so far as to call it\u00a0 meditation but there’s something very\u00a0 powerful about being able to be still\u00a0 with yourself and do nothing. At that\u00a0 point the kids start to wake up and I\u00a0 start making breakfast for everybody, then my wife and I are\u00a0 getting everybody dressed, putting on\u00a0 eight socks every morning is no small\u00a0 feat, two different little people – I have\u00a0 a seven year old, twin six year\u00a0 olds and a three and a half year old, so\u00a0 they’re all up they’re all moving around\u00a0 and doing things and then at about\u00a0 seven-thirty I become a chauffeur and\u00a0 that’s when I take my twins and my\u00a0 oldest son to school. First I take the\u00a0 twins to their school and then I go and\u00a0 they drive and I drop my son off at his\u00a0 other school and which when I come back\u00a0 to the house to help get my daughter\u00a0 dressed and take her back to school, so\u00a0 I’m shuttling around quite a bit in the\u00a0 morning, I drop her off by 9 o’clock and\u00a0 that is when my workday starts.<\/p>\n The\u00a0 work day for me is almost always from\u00a0 9:00 to 2:30 that is it \u2013 I call that my\u00a0 work day, that’s when I’m able to take\u00a0 appointments or meetings but I’m by no\u00a0 means working that entire time rarely if\u00a0 ever is that entire time worked, but\u00a0 typically 9:00 o’clock will be my check\u00a0 in with my team, now I do what’s called\u00a0 an \u201casynchronous\u201d check in with my team so\u00a0 we every day we’re on the same page, but\u00a0 we’re checking in at different times at\u00a0 the same shared medium, so my team is\u00a0 scattered across the country we check in\u00a0 tell them what we’re gonna be working on\u00a0 today and what our biggest obstacles are.<\/p>\n Then I might have a call or two but most\u00a0 of my day that’s work-related is focused\u00a0 on producing content, so I might be\u00a0 making videos, I might be recording a\u00a0 podcast or two and that’s generally my\u00a0 focus in the morning. I have a peak time\u00a0 of between 10:00 and noon so that’s when\u00a0 I get most of that done.<\/p>\n At noon is when\u00a0 I have my first meal and most of the\u00a0 days that is a monster smoothie that I\u00a0 make myself, that\u00a0 is my first meal of the day and I will\u00a0 only eat in a six hour window, so I’m\u00a0 going to be eating from 12:00 to 6:00, which\u00a0 encompasses dinner because I have young\u00a0 children. In the afternoon is when I’ll\u00a0 take calls that’s when I’m going to be\u00a0 doing coaching calls or sales calls if\u00a0 I’m doing those, but that’s just when I\u00a0 found that I’m better on the phone and\u00a0 that’s a typical day for me.<\/p>\n![\"How](\"https:\/\/www.andysowards.com\/blog\/assets\/How-I-Maximize-My-Day-As-A-Full-Time-Entrepeneur-6.jpg\")
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