The Easiest Way for Entrepreneurs to Instantly Increase Their Productivity

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Welcome back to New Venture Mentor, your source for straight forward advice to help you plan, launch and grow your startup or small business.

I'm Cate Costa, and today I want to talk to you about the importance of optimizing your work schedule for your own peak performance times. When I first started my business I basically didn't have any structure, I would do work whenever I felt like it or if I had a deadline and it was really inconsistent so I wasn't getting as much done as I should've been. In order to combat this I decided that if I was going to actually have a business, I should behave like a normal business and keep normal business hours. So I started saying that I would work from 9-5 each day, and while I did usually sit in front of my computer from 9-5 I wasn't exactly working productively that whole time.

Now, I've done a few other videos about productivity tips and tools but I haven't talked about when to work yet, and for me, that's what actually makes all the difference. The best hours for me are 5 am to 9 am. So, once I got over the idea that I was supposed to act like a business if I really wanted to be a business, I started getting up at 4:45 or 5 in the morning and working for about 4 hours and then doing some of the basics of the day, working out if I was going to, showering, breakfast, reading the news, dishes, other chores around the house, I mean, whatever...

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