Monk mode.
It’s may not be sustainable over time but it will give you momentum.
- Sleep. Strict schedule for waking and sleep time. Everything starts with sleep.
- Eat. Plain food, healthy and nutritious. Not too much. Drink water, coffee (black), or tea. Consider time-boxing your food using a 8 hour eat/16 hour fast schedule.
- Sweat. Exercise every day. Underdo it. Don’t go beast mode. But do it.
- Work. One project at a time until it’s done.
- Grow. Read a little bit of the good stuff. Feed your mind.
Not be sustainable over time? It’s completely sustainable. Your will to persist will break before the system fails.
Watch yourself. It’s fascinating when you see your own mind rebel and fracture, like the army at the end of Anabasis, so close to home.
Written in seat 2C while waiting for take-off.