Being an entrepreneur naturally tends to mean you wear many hats while juggling tons of responsibilities—it’s a no brainer that you’d want to increase your productivity and time management skills. We’ve got you covered. Here are 12 hacks for entrepreneurs to increase productivity

When are you most productive? If you’re a morning person and 5:30 am is when you’re ready to start your workday, do it. If you prefer afternoon, try building a schedule around 3 pm. Get as much done as you can during your hours of peak productivity.

We know you’re driven, but sitting in front of your laptop for 8 hours+ straight working doesn’t do your body or your productivity any favors. That’s why it’s important to schedule your work in chunks.

The 60-60-30 technique is a popular time management method. It involves two 60-minute work sessions followed by a 30-minute break, with a 10-minute gap between each session. It goes 50 minutes of work, 10 minute break twice, followed by a 30 minute break.

Plan to tackle your two most important tasks during these 50 minute work periods. Once you’ve finished your 30 minute break is over, use the Pomodoro time system. It involves 25 minutes of work, followed by a 15 minute break. It’s designed for optimal focus.

Turn push notifications off, keep your phone on vibrate, and don’t you dare check social media! If you’re constantly checking your phone or email or Instagram, you’re constantly disrupting your focus and productivity.

Close the multiple tabs on your computer, and just work on one thing at a time.

In 1956, George A. Miller wrote that the human brain can only store between five and nine things at once. That means that multitasking puts the brain into overload, and it will backfire—that’s when the overwhelm and scattered thinking hits hard.

Focusing on one thing at a time allows your brain to retain more information and work more efficiently, which saves you time and money in the long run.

Is your mind going in a million different directions? Is a mental to-do list bringing you brain fog? Write down everything that’s on your mind. Always have a notebook and sticky notes on hand so you can braindump and make mental room for the task at hand.

Emails can be the ultimate time suck. Take control and eliminate the noise by going into your email first thing every work day, deleting all of the junk emails, and responding to the important ones. Making this a habit eliminates the anxiety of an overcrowded email inbox.

Meetings eat up our time and energy. While in some cases, they’re incredibly productive and helpful, they can steal time away from other tasks. Set some boundaries and block off one day each week that’s untouchable so you have uninterrupted time to get other work done.

When the lines between your personal and business life get blurred, as they inevitably do as an entrepreneur, it’s more important than ever to not only schedule your work periods, but your days off, your workouts, your social time, your bedtime—everything.

While this may seem overkill, this helps you make sure that you’re actually doing things that help you take care of your personal health, as well as making time for your business. Often, if things aren’t on the calendar, we think it’s free time and will fill it.

Here are a few stats on meditation:

If this isn’t enough to get you to start meditating, we don’t know what will! Don’t worry, you don’t have to be a yogi to meditate. Try an app like Headspace to get you started.

Just because you’re an entrepreneur doesn’t mean you have to do it all, all the time. Especially when there are a ton of tasks that frankly, you might not be good at or that pull you away from your priorities.

If you don’t have a team and you don’t see yourself hiring in the near future, try finding a freelancer on Fiverr or Upwork. They tend to charge very reasonable rates, and they’ll save you a ton of time and energy overall.

Buck the stereotype that entrepreneurs don’t sleep, and make sure to get your 7-8 hours/night, at least. Why?

While you’re sleeping, your brain is preparing for the next day, forming new pathways to help you learn and retain information.

It’s been proven that a good night’s sleep improves learning and problem solving skills.

Getting a good sleep helps you pay attention, make decisions and be creative.Sleep is essential to the healing and repair of your heart and blood vessels. Without it, you’re more at risk for heart and kidney diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes and stroke.

Once you’ve lost sleep for a few nights—even as little as 1-2 hours—your body will function as if you haven’t slept for a day or two.

As an entrepreneur, your mind needs to be sharp, your creative energy needs to be high and your body needs to function in order to run your business well now, and in the years to come.

When we know something we dread or a big task is coming, we tend to be distracted by thoughts of it no matter what we’re doing—which means less focus in the now. So tackle your biggest project on the day first. Plus, the longer you put it off, the bigger and scarier it grows in your mind. When you just go for it, you’ll find you can actually tackle it better than you’d think.

Procrastination is the enemy of entrepreneurial time management. A practical way to combat it is to use the two minute rule. If a task takes less than two minutes to do, then do it now. This prevents a build up of little to do list items, because once they all add up, that’s when overwhelm kicks in.