If you are a highly productive person how do you shut the world out and plow through your list of responsibilities?

Eat a healthy diet. I take about 15 supplements. I meditate every day. I workout at least every other day. Exercise is interesting because you think it's a cost of energy, but the impact is the exact opposite if you do it right. As soon as I have a responsibility or thing I need to do, I write it down in a prioritized checklist which I check every day in the morning after meditation.

But the most significant thing is I've developed this mental habit just in the last couple years. There's this impulse to laziness. Like when I'm riding my bike and my legs are tired and I want to slow down. Or say I've been at work 12 hours already and want to drag my feet. I recognize it immediately and respond with a sort of spiteful rage to then push harder. Like, oh you want to be lazy, self? Now I'm gonna really gonna push, and I'll pick up the pace. For the first few minutes, it's super miserable, then it gives way to a manic burst of energy, and I feel inexhaustible and 'in the zone'. I say fuck you a lot to myself. Very motivating. I do have to be careful with this though, because I often surprise myself with how hard I can actually push, and there's a breaking point where the next day, I'll be so sore and exhausted, my body will be damaged.

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