Writeaholic Inspiration: The Simple Way to Make Every Day Productive

How to Have a 48 Hour Day and Get Twice as Much Done

We all want to have productive days, don’t we? But what usually happens is that we get out of bed in the morning full of enthusiasm for all the things we’re going to accomplish, but somehow the time slips away and we realise we got nothing done.

Yet there are other days when we bounce out of bed and zip through everything we have to do and end the day feeling great about how much we got done.

So what’s the difference between those two days? What is it that makes some days more productive than others?

The ‘secret’ to having a productive day is really no secret at all.

I’ve recently been re-reading my favourite book on productivity, called, “How to have a 48 Hour Day” by Don Aslett. This man is king of getting things done and his book is such an entertaining read, and so useful that I’ve read it several times.

One of the things he says you should do, and it’s something he has alway done himself, is to have 10-hour days. This means having 10 productive hours every day. Not 10 ‘busy’ hours. The time must be spent productively, whether it means working, shopping (for essentials), gardening, cleaning, writing, or anything else that needs to be done.

The author himself often works 16 hours a day. He even talks about when he wrote a book in 4 days because it was raining and he couldn’t do the gardening that he’d planned to do. Wow! Can you imagine being such an over-achiever? And he loves every minute of it and says that hard work is the cure for all of life’s ills. He says it’s no accident that those who are high achievers are seldom ill. They don’t have time to stop for anything.

He says to aim to stay productive 10 hours a day. Commit to it and always have a list of different jobs/tasks to do so you can switch if necessary or if you’re not in the mood.

And 10 hours a day of productivity is life-changing.

I used to be one of life’s quitters and would give up on something if it got too hard or seemed too tedious. But not any more. I became a 10-hours-a day-person after reading this book the first time, and it really changed my life for the better. And the best thing about it is that it was actually easy to do. It wasn’t difficult at all. I even enjoyed it.

And the changes are instant.

Try it for yourself. Just one week of 10-hour days is transforming.

Make it your New Year’s resolution.

Download a copy of the book and start changing your life.