To save you a click, here are the five tips:<p>5. Do something fun as you start your day<p>4. Just do it!<p>3. Set goals and challenge yourself (and write them down)<p>2. Have a break<p>1. Do some good
Pretty damn good advice.<p>With regards to exercise and breaks (two of the items in here), I think it is pretty much proven to be beneficial for productivity as well, but just to add my anecdotal success...:<p>I used to hit the gym at around 18-19 in the evening. I would often be tired and the gym would be crowded.<p>Then I switched to going around 13-14, breaking up my day. I found it gave me tremendous energy coming back from the gym to the office - and I would often have new ideas on how to solve, whatever I was working on.<p>So if you have this kind of freedom in planning your workday, I encourage you to try it out - exercise in the middle of the day.
> You don’t have time for it, you make time for it<p>I think this applies to many things, not just for fitness. Our time is limited, depending on how much money you have and where you live you even spend more (or less) time in some things.<p>But in the end, there's some time that we choose on how to spend.
From the article on failure yesterday:<p>"There are many different ways to think of failure, most of which seem designed to soften the sting of it. In Courage to Soar, Ms. Biles unpacks her own thoughts on the matter. This memoir, "written" by a 19 year-old and published three months into her explosive post-Olympic popularity, is a pretty blatant cash-grab. Still, the book's purpose, beyond racking up sales, seems to be to inspire younger readers, young girls in particular. But why do we look for advice from the most talented in society? What do they know of our struggles to rise up, dripping and stinking, from the swamp of mediocrity? Here, for example, is Ms. Biles describing how, after some initial struggles, she finally managed to nail a tricky skill – a release move on the uneven bars called a Tkatchev in which you let go of the bar on the upswing and fly backward, usually straddled, over the bar before catching it. "And then, just before practice ended, I said to myself, I'm going to do it this time. And you know what? I actually did!" Must be nice."
To literally follow in Branson's footsteps implement the tips thusly:<p>Kitesurf,
Be confident,
Jot notes on a notepad whilst flying first class
Relax
Cut a cheque to charity
I don't think any of the tips actually go towards "making the day count" except for #4, and even then it's such generic and bland advice that it doesn't serve any purpose. This doesn't seem like it was written by Richard himself, it comes off as detached and some sort of appeal to make him seem relatable in this day and age. Especially considering the amount of pieces on "his" blog.
This is slightly off topic, but I always thought that, if I were loaded, one thing I would do more of would be kitesurfing. Which makes me feel very lucky today (I am NOT loaded), as I already kitesurf.