How I finally cracked or at-least increased my productivity .

Hi IndieHackers ,
I am Vimal and I am a solo founder and I work on my own apps on Shopify
I have been struggling with productivity for a long time and getting things done and being accountable are a must have if you need to be a successful founder in my opinion.
I tried different schedules for the last 1 year and 90% of the things didn't work.
Here are the list of things that worked out for me .

1.When you start with never make a schedule which is fully occupied and hard to follow ,because even if you have accomplished something that day you will probably be thinking why you where not able to follow the schedule completely .
An example would be waking up at 5 am ,If you are a person who is really lazy to wake up in the morning and you want to wake up at say 5 am , instead of setting the alarm at 5 am , start with 7 am initially and slowly decrease the time by 30 min every 2 weeks.

2.Being accountable :I tried many apps/bots and standup apps for being accountable ,but the best thing that worked for me was to form a small standup group with the close people I know personally who were working on stuffs like me .

3.Working alone in the home ,I tried that many times and convinced myself I would be able to do it(coz of the various advantages like peace and no travel) but no , so I moved to a co-working space .

4.Automating : If you are doing repeated tasks try automating them learn to write cron jobs and lambda functions .This was a huge timesaver .I aliased my frequently used commands in my terminal and thats the best thing i ever did .
I also wrote lambda functions to get analytics and useful news to slack (Google alerts )

5.Waking up early might not be for everyone but it helped me a lot , I never liked to wake up early .After some research this is what i came up with.
Slowly decrease the alarm time every 2 weeks and I set myself a target to just wake up 4 days a week in the set time .In that way I don't get demotivated .
Use the Alarmy app and set 2 alarms ,One with a very peaceful music and the second one a very annoying one(15 min gap) , set the shake or picture option to close the alarm in Alarmy .Try to follow the wake up time even on Sundays .
Now I wake up at 4 am and I usually complete the tasks I complete in day by 9 am ,which really boosts my morale .I try to get some sleep in the afternoon if i really need to otherwise I try to close my work by 2 pm .

6.Read interesting books and try to finish a book a month .(Currently reading your Brain at work by David Rock) .

7.Make lists for monthly weekly and daily plans .The first thing I do after waking up is to make a list of things I would like to do in the morning and tackle the most hardest task first .Only after that I check my mail, phone or social networks .

7.Other things I do : I use time app to set a countdown timer for each task sometimes , Stand in the sun for at-least 10 minutes , lifting weights 2 X a weeks really helps than running, cycling or freeletics .(don't know if its a mind thing) .

Feel free to comment things and resources which worked for everyone else too.:)
-Love what you Do .