Billionaires have always been the idols for many. People are always keen to learn about the lifestyle of these billionaires and to learn, what behavior helped them to become rich? So if you are planning to learn about some of the daily habits of these billionaires, you have c
Exercise is the first priority
Firstly these billionaires believe that without physical fitness one is not complete. One cannot achieve the day to day task if he is not fit in terms of health. Mark Zuckerberg says “Doing anything well requires energy, and you just have a lot more energy when you’re fit.
He further says
“I make sure I work out at least three times a week — usually first thing when I wake up.”
Moreover, the Virgin group founder Richard Branson says “I seriously doubt that I would have been as successful in my career (and happy in my personal life) if I hadn’t always placed importance on my health and fitness,”
They meditate
Furthermore, the daily habits of these billionaires also include meditation. Some of these billionaires give real importance to meditation, they believe such peaceful thinking helps them to focus towards their goals. Meditation carry’s great benefit according to science. Meditation also helps to improve the immune system and helps to boost memory cells. Bill Gates says:
“I now see that meditation is simply exercise for the mind, similar to the way we exercise our muscles when we play sports,” he continues. “For me, it has nothing to do with faith or mysticism. It’s about taking a few minutes out of my day, learning how to pay attention to the thoughts in my head, and gaining a little bit of distance from them.”
Sleep is important
Also, most of these billionaires focus on getting good 8 hours of sleep. They believe it is important to ensure that they are getting proper sleep, if they have to be fresh while carrying out their daily activities. Jeff Bezos for example tries to have his 8 hours sleep and likes to share mornings with his wife and kids he says:
“I just feel so much better all day long if I’ve had eight hours,”
Bill Gates also is fond of having his proper sleep and mentions that he likes to get his 7 hours of sleep as it helps him to stay alert, creative and fresh. The famous comedian Ellen DeGeneres also focuses on getting a proper eight hours sleep from 11 pm to 7 am.
Getting up early
However, sleeping properly doesn’t mean you don’t have to get up early and for getting up early you need to sleep early. These billionaires all try their best to be up before 7 am, some of them are even up by 5 am like Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos. Even the CEO of twitter Jack Dorsey wakes up at 5 am everyday as he has a proper time allotted for meditation and exercise. Richard Branson mentions in a blog post that the reason he likes to wakeup early is that so that he can check his emails before everyone has.
Following routines
Moreover, these billionaires focus on following their particular routines as they have extreme value for their time. These billionaires have a very strict schedule and have proper time allotted for each and every thing.
Charity
In addition, most of these billionaires are involved in some sort of charitable offerings. They are termed as philanthropists. Some of them even try to give their time to some charitable cost rather than just money. Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has played an important part in making charitable donations. Some stats from the previous year shows that for a $575 million multiyear project to improve schools, about $200 million were from the gates foundation and even about $100 million were spent by Mark Zuckerberg to improve the schools.
Bill Gates says that:
“Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we’d want to get involved”
Simplicity
One of the daily habits of these billionaires is frugality. Most of these billionaires practice a simple lifestyle because they know the importance of living below their means. The term used for this type of lifestyle is having a frugal lifestyle. We can take example of Warren buffet even after having a net worth of about $85 billion, he still lives in a 5 bedroom house which he bought in 1958 having a worth of about $31,500. Whereas Mark Zuckerberg also prefers to wear simple T-shirts and jeans over expensive clothes.
Moreover another billionaire Carlos Slim Helu who has an estimated net worth of over $61 billion. He made his earnings in Mexico where he owns more than 200 companies including Telmax. He shares many traits of modesty as he lives in a modest home like Warren buffet and also he likes to drive himself throughout the city without needing of a driver.
Reading
Furthermore one quality that is common in most of these billionaires is that most of them are good readers. Let’s again take example of Warren Buffet he spends most of his time reading which is about 80 %. Also in some of his shareholder letters he mentions book recommendations. Mark Zuckerberg himself is also fond of reading books. In 2015 he dedicated himself to read a book every two weeks.
Bill Gates is also a regular reader, when asked by Time magazine about what book does he mostly recommends, he replied that he read Stephen Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature and also that he has reviewed the book for his blog, “Gates Notes”.
Once Elon Musk was asked about how he learnt to build rockets to which he replied that he read books. Oprah Winfrey, the woman billionaire, picks her favourite books once a month. Also she shares it and discusses it with her club members.
Spending time with successful people
Billionaires enjoy company of each other. They believe that being around more influential people helps you to think about certain things in a more positive way. For example Bill gates and Warren buffet are very close friends.
General idea
Thus, these billionaires being the idols to follow have some of these exemplary habits. Along with these daily habits of these billionaires to follow, it also takes years of hard work, and motivation to become a billionaire.
