Recently there has been an influx of business influencers encouraging people to take ‘No Days Off’. Today, Rob tells you why that is no good and is, in fact, counterproductive. Learn how to focus your time on your income generating tasks, why rest and recuperation will help you empty your mind and how this will help you think of your greatest ideas.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Do not get sucked into the ‘no days off’ mentality. Do you want to have no days off and have a successful company, but have no other things in your life? In the early days of setting up your company if you do not yet have money, reach or experience then your main resource is to outwork your competitors. However, you still need to take days off, even if just to empty your mind to allow new ideas to come in.   New ideas come when your mind is empty. Having people follow the ‘no days off’ mentality is filling up their mind with loads of ‘stuff’ and allowing them to think that that is how you create good ideas and solutions when it is the opposite. To empty your mind you can go on long walks, engage in conversations with others as well as taking some rest.   If you are focusing your time on your key result areas, and the work you are doing is productive, then that is great for you and your business. The problem with this ‘no days off’ mentality and having huge workloads is that it is not productive. The more you graft, the less you craft and if you hustle too hard, in the end, you are fatigued. Once you are fatigued your creative faculties go down along with your ability to make good decisions.   Work hard in deep flow and in short, sharp bursts. Get in flow, and stay in flow for three hours and then have one or two hours out of flow where you can rest, recover and empty your mind. People confuse working long hours with working focused hours. You have to think long term and you have to think about your own health and well-being.   Working hard does not mean to have stressful and physically draining work. What working hard actually is, is knowing what you should be focusing on, what your key result areas are and knowing what the most important task is that you can do which will bring you the best leverage. Working hard is getting into an undistracted flow and staying in that state for up to three hours, and then taking some rest time afterwards.   BEST MOMENTS “A lot of people think that to have ideas is about having lots of things in your head. I believe it’s the opposite. Coming up with new ideas is emptying all the noise in your head.” “All the challenges and the curses that entrepreneurs experience, I have experiences and you will experience.” “I want to change the world, and it is my greatest love. I also want friends and I also want a family.”   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com