How can you optimise your rest every day, so that you actually get to recharge your batteries

We are all really bad at giving ourselves permission, to switch off every day.

When we should be resting and recharging our batteries, every night, we tend to allow ourselves to keep thinking about the challenges, we are experiencing at work.

This is one of the reasons, we feel so overwhelmed.

Example:

I find the best way to switch off, when I start to think about any work related issue, when I am “DONE FOR THE DAY” is to immediately take anything that is worrying me and adding it to my plan for the next day.

As soon as I do this, I relax immediately, as I know that I have written it down somewhere and as such it will get done the next day.

Think about your own circumstances. Do you often find yourself, worrying about work, when you should be recharging your batteries.

List below, what technique, you intend using to overcome this, so that you can actually recharge your batteries effectively, every night.

Please state how you optimise how you invest the last 20 minutes of your day, below:

The more effectively, you invest the last 20 minutes of your day, the better will be your long term results.

As you know the last 20 minutes of your day are invested into REVIEWING your day and PLANNING YOUR DAY THE NIGHT BEFORE.

Example:

• Think about how you conduct your daily review, what could you do to optimise things
• As you plan your day the night before, what could you do to improve this?

Please state, when you intend to have your 24 hours of rest each week below. I stop work at 12H00 on Saturday and do not think about work again until 12H00 on Sunday. Look at your unique circumstances and see what works for you.

Resting is a crucial part of any success journey.

• It is during rest periods that you recharge your batteries and re-energise yourself.
• The challenge most people have is that during rest, when they should be recharging their batteries, they are constantly thinking about work and all the things they did not manage to get done, whilst they were working, because when they were working they were thinking about their family or focused on other distractions.
• This is a downward spiral and over time causes burnout and very poor performance.

Action Idea: The way to fix this is simple, start with the all-important rest periods.

• Schedule rest into your week and ensure that you schedule a minimum of 24 hours of total rest into your schedule.
• During these 24 hours, you must give yourself permission to switch off completely from work and just relax and recharge your batteries.
• This will allow you to be refreshed and fired up the next workday.

When you commit to introduce this into your schedule, your productivity will soar and you will achieve so much the following day.

When are you going to schedule your 24 hours of rest into your schedule?

Please state how you are going to remind yourself to do this every week

Until resting becomes an entrenched sales success habit, you are going to need to remind yourself to REST.

Please state below, how you will remind yourself, to rest, until it becomes one of your entrenched habits

Waking up and getting up is a crucial new success habit

Please record how you are doing with this very powerful daily, energizing process below. If you are still struggling with this, please state how you intend to improve this.

• When you wake up and immediately get up, you are setting the tone for a really productive day.
• I refer to this as your “Daily Activation Energy”.
• The way you start your day, energised, inspired and driven, is the way your day will unfold.
• Drink a glass of water as soon after getting up as possible, to energise and rehydrate your body.

Please think about your own unique circumstances and list how you are going to optimise this crucial sales success habit, below:

Please state when you will read every day.

• Sustainable success is all about having a commitment to consistently learn and grow.
• When you wake up every day, get out of bed and read a quality transformational, educational or inspirational book, for just 15 minutes.
• If you do this every day, you will manage to read about 5 to 10 pages a day.
• Over a year, that will add up to between 1500 and 3000 pages of good transformational information, which will help you to expand your world.
• The average human developmental book consists of about 250 pages.
• That means that you can read between 5 and 10 developmental books a year, by introducing this simple routine into your life.

As you know readers are leaders. Invest into your ongoing personal development and you will become the sales super start, I know you are.

What time and for how long are you planning to read every day?

Please state the time and duration of your daily exercise below:

• By introducing a simple daily habit of exercising for 30 minutes every morning, you not only feel more energised, but you build better health and vigour.
• The better the shape you are in, the more energy you will have every day, to carry out your priority activities.

Please state below, when and for how long you plan to ad the crucial sales success habit of exercising to your Power Schedule

Please list the audio books you intend to listen to in your car this week below:

• Instead of wasting around 500 hours a year on your commute to and from work, listening to the radio, rather listen to informative cd’s, which will either uplift and energise or educate you on your commute to and from work every day.
• Time is your most valuable possession, when you invest yours wisely, it will reward you handsomely.

Listening to audio books, while you drive, is a perfect example of converting consumption time into investment time.

Please list the audiobooks, you intend listening to in your car below: