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Forget about having multiple streams of income and trying to hustle your way to success by spending little time here and there to make a little money.

Your mind will feel a lot clearer and I and many others think that you’ll be much more successful if you only focus on building one big business. Of course you may want to first experiment what kind of business that is.

I tried to go the multiple streams of income way but when I switched to focusing on one business, I’ve been getting a lot more work done and the path ahead of me is clearer.

Note that this isn’t originally my advice. I’m not qualified to give this advice alone. This is a multi-millionaire’s advice which was agreed to by many other entrepreneurs.

When you focus on only one business you will be able to create much more value to it because you mind is constantly thinking about ways to improve it and it will show in your income.

When you have many concurrent projects or businesses, you’ll be spending a lot of time thinking about which one to work on, you’ll be less organized or spend a lot more time organizing, you’ll feel more stressed, you aren’t as capable of coming up with ideas to improve one of the businesses because you’re spending much less time per business and one business’ ideas will interfere with the ideas of another and your mind will feel utterly cluttered.

Do not neglect the importance of good sleep. If you live alone, the optimal way of sleeping is not to have any alarm clocks at all and sleep whenever you are tired. This would probably lead you to a bi-phasic sleeping pattern without caffeine. So you’d sleep two times a day, like the Spanish. Bi-phasic sleeping pattern has been scientifically studied to be more suitable for the brains of humans than the most common, monophasic one. Sleeping cycles are very near to exactly 1.5 hours each, which means that the most optimal amounts of actual sleep are 1.5, 3, 4.5, 6 and 7.5 hours. Between each cycle there is a time when you don’t sleep and that is the best time to wake up at. I understand that it is real hard if not impossible to sleep the optimal amounts at optimal times when you don’t live alone but then you just have to try what fits your status the best. Never, ever intentionally try to sleep exactly 1.5 * X hours if you don’t easily fall into sleep quickly because it will just make your body think that there’s some threat which causes you to want to get some sleep so quickly and you’ll have a much harder time getting sleep. Thinking too much about optimal sleep can be worse than not thinking about it at all for those of us who often have a hard time falling asleep.If you wake up while you are on REM sleep (dreaming), you will often not feel groggy but probably some data transfer in your brain was interrupted. It is much worse if you wake up while you are on non-REM sleep (not dreaming) because you will probably wake up feeling groggy and drowsy and that can ruin the start of your day especially without caffeine.

It is also a good idea to become an early riser because people are meant to rise early in the morning and thus our sleeping habits are more natural then. Some other modern benefits of doing so are that there’s often less noise and less heat. I’m talking about 6-7 AM, any sooner than that is often not optimal.

If it takes you longer than 20 minutes to sleep after you’ve gone to bed, avoid caffeine during the last 6 hours of your awaking time because caffeine affects for about 6 hours after consumption.
Sports (except those that put your body on adrenaline, like the gym), food and sex also help with getting sleep faster.

The following applies the best to those of you who work at home, but this is useful to be read by anyone with a job that requires some thought. (Only the motivational things apply to mostly physical jobs here.)I tend to start my working days with an energy drink or a mug of coffee and get some more caffeine 5 hours+ later if necessary. I drink energy drinks because they are more effective than coffee for me and taste better in my opinion. The energy drink itself motivates me to start working because for some reason, it is something I look forward to.
To have a real, good purpose in your file is the best motivation there is to do work that relates to the purpose and with just about only that, I can work 55+ hours a week efficiently without a boss other than myself. I’ll talk about the purpose of individuals in life later.

An essential part of this post is to read a Steve’s article.

The main thing I disagree with the above article is that you’d want to cultivate your enthusiasm by listening to motivational tapes etc. daily because it just makes you think about staying motivated so much that it will reduce your motivation instead.

You should definitely spend you first hours after awaking on work because that is when your brain functions the best and you can get four hours of work done in two hours or less! It is better not to brush your teeth, eat or browse the net etc. on the first hour. After the first hour you should probably go eat your breakfast though but you should eat lightly in the mornings or you’ll get more or less drowsy. No bacon, fries, cheese or something like that is light. Cereals/bread and fruits are an optimal basic breakfast.