Just dedicate a part of your day to self improvement and when you fulfill that time each day allow yourself to relax. If you spend just 30 minutes to an hour each day to something productive you’re ahead of the game already. Even if you theoretically dedicated every non-working or sleeping hour in your day to building or learning something, you have to understand that there’s only so much you can absorb and retain in a day, only so much energy your body has, and only so much stress your endocrine system can take. Your body and brain need downtime in order to actually commit those things you learned to memory, to replenishing your energy stores for the next day, for flushing the cortisol from your bloodstream.

Those “Get up at 5 am every day and run” types aren’t telling you about the fact that even bodybuilders aren’t going 100% all out every single day. Your muscles grow when you rest and sleep, not while you’re at the gym. If you don’t fit both of these things into your life you won’t get anywhere.