Inner Truth: Achievers' Routines

I set about searching for some of the powerful–and sometimes eccentric–moves that the best among us make. Read about the habits below. Run them. Live them…

Ernest Hemingway: Up at 5:30 every morning to write. He wrote as a practice, not just when he felt inspired.

Benjamin Franklin: He listed 13 character traits he wanted to build and measured how he lived against each of them every night before he slept (in a journal).

Padmasree Warrior (Chief Technology Officer at Cisco Systems): Regular “digital detoxes” where she unplugs from technology to reboot her brain and replenish her creative reserves.

Leonardo da Vinci: Slept via small naps throughout the day versus sleeping 8 hours straight. The famed inventor Thomas Edison reportedly did the same thing.

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Daily walks which shifted his mindset from the mundane to the original. The Great Nelson Mandela used to walk entire days for the exercise and mind-clearing effects the discipline would deliver. 

Mick Jagger: Exercises six days a week and includes ballet, pilates and yoga in his regimen. Sir Mick clearly gets that fitness rewires the brain to fight fear, reduces the stress response and multiplies stamina.

The author is the founder of Sharma Leadership International Inc. (SLI), a global consultancy 

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