Recently, I’ve been experiencing a stellar run this week where everything just seemingly “clicked” and I’m on a roll in terms of productivity, my workouts, and nutrition. This was a direct result from reflecting on Jason Goldberg’s (of Fab.com) fantastic blog post, “13 Things You Must Do Every Week as a Startup CEO”

Breaking this down further, I realized that there were certain things I did on a regular basis that put me “in state” and helped me build momentum and start the day off with the right foot forward.

• Affirmations – the moment I rise and right before I go to bed. Every day, without fail.
• Working out – I do this as often as possible (pretty much every other day) with a mix of P90X, P90X+ and Insanity thrown into the mix to keep things somewhat different. Oh, and cold showers :)  (I’d love to pay for CrossFit, but it’s too rich for my blood right now lol)
• Nutrition – the 4-Hour Body style slow carb diet
• Obsessively thinking about product and driving home the vision for Date Ideas I have in mind, for the short and long term, and communicating that with my team.
• Measurement – having a GTD system (I use Wunderlist) and tracking literally everything I deem “important” via Daytum.com and iDoneThis.com.  I do weekly reviews in my journal, writing about the important areas of my life that I try to keep track of and reflect on.

It made me think about how World class champions get to the top of their game, how top sellers gross the most out of everyone else, why people who excel at what they do.

There’s never a magic bullet or overnight success to be had overnight. It’s a very slow (sometimes painful), conscious and deliberate process of doing the same things over and over that matter the most in order to arrive to an outcome that you can very clearly define and visualize.

Here’s a video I watch from time to time that I think encapsulates what I mean.