The Best Productivity Hack Of All Time

The best "hack"

In this article, you'll find out what is the best productivity hack of all time that big entrepreneurs such as Alex Hormozi, Hamza Ahmed, and Iman Gadzhi who all got rich young are sharing. This hack will undoubtedly change the approach you have with your work.

So, what is this "best productivity hack"? Well, before telling you this, let me tell you a story.

When I started working on the weight-loss course and other projects, I would often have a huge morning routine before it. I would also have a "work routine" to start my work day, where I used to meditate for three minutes before working, where I filled up my water bottle, and where I did this and that. I lost 30 to 45 minutes most days on this routine, and most of it was actually spent unproductively.

And, quite frankly, no productive work was ever truly done. A small meditation session, filling up the water bottle, doing this and that, was just what it ultimately is when it comes to doing hard work: procrastination.

After a few months, I started to work more seriously on the course and then almost a year later the website was out. I became way more productive, efficient, and hard-working in this period. What was the ultimate technique that made me more productive, you might ask?

The ultimate productivity hack I used and that you can use and that big entrepreneurs use is...

Just do the work

Yeah... you might feel disappointed. But this is just the ultimate truth that people don't want to look at: the best productivity hack that will give you the largest ROI (return on investment) is literally to just do the work. JUST DO THE WORK.

It's so hard to get this in your brain at first because you're procrastinating around preparing your little meditation session and then doing this thing and that thing but the best hack I found was to just work.

Alex Hormozi who's an entrepreneur, an investor, and the co-owner of the Skool platform once said: "It just takes work. Shit loads and shit loads of work. Every time I try and dress it up or cut a corner I get brutally reminded: The work just needs doing."

This productivity tactic is generally great. It works fine. Trust me, if you just do the work instead of preparing for bullshit you're actually going to make way more progress. If you've been slacking around pushing back your deadline: WORK.

If you've been "preparing" writing your article or recording the video by making the thumbnail and making publicity and all that bullshit, JUST DO THE WORK ALREADY.

Do the main big thing that will get you the most results. This idea is called the Paleo Principle. The Paleo Principle teaches us that 20% of the work produces 80% of the results, and therefore if we focus (like most people do when it comes down to working and productivity) on the 80% of side-activities, we are going to get 20% of the results.

We need to focus instead on the main, big block of marble, and carve into it the work that we ultimately need to do. In other words, do the hard work, the 20% that is vital to what you're trying to create, and it is going to give you 80% of the results.

For example, Always Improving is a blog-based website, therefore, the 20% of action(s) that will get me 80% of the results and the views is just writing. I need to write articles. If I write articles, the views are up, and the website has life. But what if I used the way of approaching work that a lot of other people use?

I would rather be making a ton of Google ads, Instagram videos, and YouTube videos, I would do everything and find everything as an excuse to not work on the hardest task that is ultimately awaiting me if I want this website to grow: writing the article.

So, no need to make a whole preparation thing to get you into a "flow state", no need to stretch or put a timer or meditate or use the Pomodoro technique or whatever productivity bullshit we told you to do. Stop preparing and just WORK, because the best thing you can do to increase your work rate is simply to WORK.

I am just going to add something else

I am going to add something else tho to this "just do the work" rule. You see, you should "just do the work". However, you're going to get much better results if you "just do the work, as the first major activity you do as soon as you wake up".

This technique is called the "Eat the Frog task". It's when you need to identify what the 20% of work is (that produces 80% of results) and then, once you identified the hardest task of your day, simply work on that as soon as you wake up. For example, as soon as I wake up, I do basic hygiene and then I go and work as soon as possible (usually 30 minutes after waking up).

You can still do basic hygiene, eat a meal (please no carbs as it often causes brain fogs, we would rather want protein and fats in the morning before working), or meditate, it's not the problem: just, as soon as possible, do the hard work task first.

For example, your morning routine could look like this: You wake up at 6:00 AM, take a cold shower, eat eggs cooked in butter, and then start working.

Ultimately, your "morning routine" before your work should be simple and it shouldn't take many brain points. I suggest that you visualize your brain as having "brain points". Brain points are like tokens inside of your brain, and each time you exert some remarkable amount of willpower or discipline in your day, you slowly lose "brain points".

For example, let's say you have a hundred brain points at the beginning of the day. First, you wake up and go take a cold shower. You lost 5 brain points. Then, you go and meditate. You lost 10 brain points. Then, you go and work hard on your project. You lose 30 brain points.

Can you see the pattern here? We don't want to make our brain tired before working, we want it to be fresh and we want it to be full of brain points that can be used for working. Because the fewer brain points you have, the more it is going to be difficult to focus, and the more brain fogs will appear.

Also, just so we get clear on it, your "deep work session" should usually last 90 minutes for peak performance. So, let's take the morning routine that we created later.

We wake up at 6:00 AM, we eat eggs cooked in butter, and then we start working for 90 minutes.

When you eventually come back to work later in the day, you do not have to do a full-on routine to get you "in the mood". Simply go in or to the space where you work hard each time (for me it's my desk), lock yourself in the room for no disturbance, and start working. It's just as easy as this.

If you can't work in the morning, I suggest either waking up earlier to work on your projects or working on them at night.

But, I want to get into a flow state!

If you have read Cal Newport's book named Deep Work, it's highly probable you stumbled upon the "have a specific routine before working so your brain gets into the mood, into a flow state" advice.

It's like a warm-up at the gym, it helps your brain get into the mood of focus. It's into a state of flow, a new state of newly found productivity and creativity. And even tho it exists (most Olympic athletes have a certain ritual before practicing their sport for peak performance), I suggest not caring about this for now.

Seriously, I used to have a routine for a "flow state". I was not super consistent with it (sometimes forgetting things etc) but I used to follow this flow-state technique. Do you think I was truly productive? Of course not. Would I have been better off if I just started working? Surely yes.

The thing is, you can do everything you want (make a routine, get into a "flow state") but if you lose brain points on other things and you don't even start working then it doesn't matter if you're in a flow state or not!

You see, before focusing on being on that flow state of pure creativity and productivity and imagination and all of this stuff, this sort of "other reality" where you're totally focused, instead start focusing on STARTING the work, and doing the work, despite not being in the perfect conditions or being in the perfect "flow state". JUST START.

And, if your work is purposeful and meaningful (for me it's writing), the time will pass more quickly and you will automatically be in this sort of "flow state" mode. You'll not need any productivity hack, you could simply produce high-quality work by starting to work on purposeful work.

But remember, your work has to be purposeful. For maximum productivity, find a way to work through something you like doing (personally I like writing so I use it to share knowledge) whilst being aligned to your deepest purpose, or at least the idea of your deepest purpose, vague as it could be.

Focus on optimizing the important

Now, don't get me wrong, just doing the work is great. It's the ultimate productivity tactic that will ever exist. However, you should also focus on optimizing the important. You need to have a healthy lifestyle to produce high-quality productive work.

If you wake up from being hungover, if you're sick, if you're sleep-deprived, if you have eaten unhealthy foods before working, you're simply not going to be able to work as efficiently as your competitors would: you're going to be crushed.

You need to optimize first off your sleep because trust me from experience, working after a bad night of sleep and after a good night of sleep is really not the same thing. You're much better off and much more productive when you have a good night of sleep than when you have a bad night of sleep.

So, try to get 7-8 hours of sleep every single day, waking up and going to sleep at roughly the same time everyday (you have a 30 minute difference) and if possible watching the sun every morning for 10-20 minutes when you wake up to help your circadian rhythm (your internal clock) get into place.

Also, focus on your diet. Eating a good diet is crucial to productivity. If you're full of unhealthy carbs, bloated, and full of food, your brain is going to be much slower and much less productive. This is why the "eat the frog task" idea is working so well: most of us don't eat in the morning, or at least not straight in the morning, and therefore, working before eating enables us to skip the "digestion burden" and give all of our energy into our work.

So, focus on optimizing your sleep and diet, as well as your hormones. Reduce cortisol, the hormone of stress through NSDR, meditation, a good diet, and good sleep schedules, as well as relaxation techniques. Increase your testosterone (a great hormone that sadly we're deficient in nowadays which is responsible for muscle mass, bone health, mood, and fertility) through eating clean, natural foods such as eggs, beef, or olive oil, sleeping well, and resting well and exercising daily, etc.

In other words, improve your health. If you improve your health immeasurably, you're going to be way more productive than the majority of your competition and your brain is going to be much clearer and much sharper, therefore crushing your competition.

Remember, especially in business, that competition is around the corner. But, if you have a clearer brain, sharper brain, better ideas, and a better working rate than your competition, offering better products, you will destroy them. So, optimize your health too. It's SUPER important, trust me it truly makes a huge difference, both physically and mentally.

When to stop working

I suggest stopping working when you feel your brain slowly arriving at the destination, like a plane that took off at full speed and is slowly arriving at the next airport. When you feel yourself being less productive and more tired, and you feel the "mental brain frying" arriving, stop working. If you've been working for four hours today for example, and you've been working productively all this time, you might feel your brain slowing down.

If you feel your brain slowing down, it's much better to stop, give it a rest, and start working back when you feel truly ready. Now, don't let any big loose ends and try to still make in sort that everything is clean and tidy: don't just quit your work as soon as you feel tired.

Push yourself, but not too much: we don't want you to be unproductive. Just like with exercise, it's great to exercise and it's super productive and it gives massive results on your life, but if you do too much of it, you lose steam and you end up being unproductive, impacting your next workouts and your life as a whole.

Also, remember that this mentality about productivity can be used in any other part of your life too. For example, you could use this mentality in your fitness journey. We might be tempted to push back the hardest exercise but simply do the work. The work just needs doing. If it's required of you to do squats to build big legs even tho you hate squats, do it! It's not a question of want, it's a question of will.

In diet, instead of focusing on "optimizing your microbiome" or some things of sorts, focus on the 20% of actions that will get you 80% of the results: eating 100% natural foods.

The paleo principle, the "eat the frog task" and the "Just do the work" technique can be used in all domains of self-improvement and life and should be used if you want to make huge progress in any one area of your life without losing much time procrastinating.

Conclusion

Just doing the work is the best productivity hack you can ever find anywhere. However, just doing the work first in the morning can prove to work even better. And, just doing 20% of the work that will get you 80% of the results first in the morning is going to be what truly makes a difference between you and your competitors.

Remember, you can still do "shallow work", but I suggest focusing on deep work first. By the way, I also suggest using timetables to organize your day so productivity flows more easily: you don't lose brain points deciding what to do and when to do it. You can schedule deep work sessions and shallow work sessions, with pauses, your lunch time, your reading time, etc. I suggest using Google Calendar for this matter.

Finally, thank you for reading, I truly appreciate it. I hope this article was of massive help to you.

Take care and I'll see you next time.

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