He Made Email Usable Again. Here Are His Productivity Tips.

BY NICK HAWKINS, ASSISTANT WEB PRODUCER @NICKHAWKINSNYC

Rahul Vora started Superhuman to free people from the tyranny of email. It’s safe to say the founder and CEO knows a thing or two about time management and productivity. So how does the man working to revolutionize email optimize his time and work efficiently? In the latest episode of Inc.’s Your Next Move podcast, Vora shared a range of productivity tips. Find out how he spends his days, from meditation in the morning to the same lunch day in and day out. Here’s how the email innovator keeps his business, body, and brain humming.

“Multiple studies have shown it’s best to wake up without an alarm,” Vora says. “I try to train myself to wake up at roughly the same time every day.” Once awake, Vora practices a half hour of transcendental meditation and then heads right into a workout. This means strength training or cardio. His elliptical machine is his preferred cardio method. He’ll listen to podcasts or watch something on YouTube. This routine takes a lot of time, Vora says. “If I want to be in peak physical condition, which then means I’m in peak CEO condition, this is time that I have to invest.” Vora then spends the rest of the morning working until lunch. His lunch break is “a very sacred thing,” he says.

Vora cooks all his own meals. What’s more, he counts his “macros plus or minus to the gram, which may sound crazy for a lot of people,” he says. “I’m dialing it in for protein, carbs and fats.” What’s even crazier, he says, is that he’s eaten the same meal for lunch and dinner every day for the past 40-plus days. It’s a pursuit of craft, and every day it gets a little bit more delicious, Vora says. After lunch, he’s back to work until around 3 p.m., when he breaks for another half hour of meditation, he says. Vora says his workday wouldn’t be as productive without that meditation break. “My body naturally starts craving that,” he says. The routine serves to help his body and mind reset.