There a thread at Quora on “What small lifestyle changes have the biggest impact on your life?” This is one of the best responses, and it is even more relevant to Internet marketers and the work that this business requires.

THE 20 MINUTES RULE: 1 Small Lifestyle Change, 1 MASSIVE POSITIVE Impact on Your Life

Whenever I would come home from a long day at work or school, I was so tired the only things I could find energy to do were mindless life-negating nonsense– television, Netflix, Reddit, Facebook, whatever.

Every night I would somehow find hours of time to do these things (despite being extremely tired), suddenly get a burst of energy towards midnight, stay up way too late, and then get extremely tired the next morning. This cycle would repeat until the weekend, where I would stay up too late on Sunday, and be tired the following Monday. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Several years ago, I replaced this nightmarish routine with the twenty minutes rule.

Now, the moment I get home, I force myself to do at least twenty minutes of one of the following– write an article, read a book, practice chess, learn another la ...

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