1. Stretch the lower back every day. I "programmed" this dude's workout into a free Android tool called Flexible Interval Timer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdCJrWNO7O8. All my coworkers love it too. He has great vids on warming up/cooling down for running and many other useful mobility things.
2. Bike to/from work and to places within ~1h bike ride of home. Huge positive impact on productivity and focus. Living in LA, there's always something going on. But if it's going on outside the ~1h bike bubble I might as well not go since there's probably something else I could do at home that's more productive towards goals.
3. Go to at least one artsy event a week. Usually Wednesdays. This week it was book club - we read Endurance by Alfred Lansing. Next week it's a ballet.
4. Use an Amazon Echo to play 5-15 minutes of a book on Overdrive before I go to sleep. Overdrive can be set to stop playing after a certain time interval so, when it stops, I fall asleep instantly. I also play 15 minutes of the book when I wake up. Libby (Overdrive's younger sister/brother from another mother) also works the same way. If I get tired earlier, I tell it to stop - this is great because I don't have to look at a screen to tell it to stop earlier.
5. No electronics except the echo and the kindle and the ipod that only plays overdrive over bluetooth in the bedroom.
6. I have 6 mentors I admire for 6 key characteristics. I have their photos on a printed PowerPoint slide along with the 6 characteristics. Whenever I need to make a hard decision, I look at the slide and I imagine what they would say. They almost always agree and I do the right thing :)
2. Bike to/from work and to places within ~1h bike ride of home. Huge positive impact on productivity and focus. Living in LA, there's always something going on. But if it's going on outside the ~1h bike bubble I might as well not go since there's probably something else I could do at home that's more productive towards goals.
3. Go to at least one artsy event a week. Usually Wednesdays. This week it was book club - we read Endurance by Alfred Lansing. Next week it's a ballet.
4. Use an Amazon Echo to play 5-15 minutes of a book on Overdrive before I go to sleep. Overdrive can be set to stop playing after a certain time interval so, when it stops, I fall asleep instantly. I also play 15 minutes of the book when I wake up. Libby (Overdrive's younger sister/brother from another mother) also works the same way. If I get tired earlier, I tell it to stop - this is great because I don't have to look at a screen to tell it to stop earlier.
5. No electronics except the echo and the kindle and the ipod that only plays overdrive over bluetooth in the bedroom.
6. I have 6 mentors I admire for 6 key characteristics. I have their photos on a printed PowerPoint slide along with the 6 characteristics. Whenever I need to make a hard decision, I look at the slide and I imagine what they would say. They almost always agree and I do the right thing :)