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Today I’m going to talk about how President Bush read 95 books a year and how his productivity secret will enable you to leave work at a decent hour and enjoy your personal time stress free. What you’re going to learn: Why successful people always seem so calm and stress free (and their secret to achieving this) How to leave the office at 5 PM, EVERYDAY Key Quotes: “There will always be more to do and more than can be done.” “There will always be another crisis, another fire. Life is a marathon. Life needs to be balanced.” Read Full Transcript Hey there everybody. Kevin Kruse here and I'm sharing the surprising things ultra-productive people do differently. Based on my original survey research of thousands of working professionals and on my interviews with over 200 super high achievers. Now in the last episode I shared the nine step cure for procrastination and today I'm going to talk about how President Bush read 95 books a year and how his productivity secret will enable you to leave work at a decent hour and enjoy your personal time stress free. First remember you can get the quick start action plan that includes the one-page tool that millionaires use to schedule their day just by sending a text message. Send the word achieve A-C-H-I-E-V-E achieve to the number 44222 or go to the website productivity-podcast.com. Have you ever wondered how the world's most important people always seem so calm, stress-free, so fully present in the moment. In other words they are completely opposite of who I used to be when I was starting and running companies back when I was young and dumb in my 20's. Things go so bad. Business was going well but at a tremendous cost. I didn't know how to be productive. I would literally be jogging down the hallways, the hallways in my own building, racing back to my office to jump on a call that had just come in or to make the next meeting. That's how tight the schedule was. I was physically jogging through my own office. I can visually distinctly remember so many times when I would be driving to work or driving back from work or in to the office and I would have a sandwich in one hand and my mobile phone in the other and I'm steering with my knees. Not a good idea. Children do not try this at home. I used to go round and my constant state I always tell people I was fatigued, I was frazzled, I was so frustrated, I was totally F'd, the three F's. Worst of all and I bet you can relate, a lot of you out there can relate. I was on this emotional yo-yo between guilt and stress. If I was working late in the office I felt guilty that I wasn't home with my family. Then Sunday when I'm sitting on the floor with my toddler stacking blocks for hour after hour I'm jumping out of my skin inside stressing out that endless to do list. I got so much to do and here I am stacking blocks for 2 hours this morning. Guilt or stress. Stress or guilt. Yet so many of the super high achievers around me didn't have that going on at all. I started to talk to them, investigate, how do you have time to train for a marathon, to go golfing every weekend, to be reading books all the time, to sit across from me at a lunch meeting and be completely focused and mindful of me and the restaurant and the food and not even worrying about your smart phone or text messages or what was going on back in the office? This is an interesting story that caught my eye and it stayed with me. Back in 2008 Karl Rove, that republic political strategist, he wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal and Rover had been working for President George W. Bush and in this article Rove talks about a little competition between him and the President. This is what Rove described. He says, "It all started on New Year's Eve in 2005. President Bush asked what my New Year's resolutions were. I told him that as a regular reader who'd gotten out of the habit my goal was to read a book a week in 2006....