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How The Successful Start The Day
by Amal | on August 23, 2012
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How The Successful Start The Day
While going through my daily information finding search I came across this article, which I’ve
actually thought about before. My curiosity of people’s lives caused me to read and want to
share it, maybe we can make small adjustments to better our day.
Here’s some excerpts of the article from FastCompany.com
What Successful People Do With The First
Hour Of Their Work Day
BY KEVIN PURDY
|
AUGUST 22, 2012
Go Daddy!
How much does the first hour of every day matter? As it turns
out, a lot. It can be the hour you see everything clearly, get one
real thing done, and focus on the human side of work rather
than your task list.
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Remember when you used to have a period at the beginning of every day to think about your
schedule, catch up with friends, maybe knock out a few tasks? It was called home room, and it
went away after high school. But many successful people schedule themselves a kind of grown- Benefits of Having a Personal Budget
up home room every day. You should too.
Don’t Check Your Email for the First Hour. Seriously. Stop Get Started Now!
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Tumblr founder David Karp will “try hard” not to check his email until 9:30 or 10 a.m., according
to an Inc. profile of him. “Reading e-mails at home never feels good or productive,” Karp said. “If
something urgently needs my attention, someone will call or text me.”
Not all of us can roll into the office whenever our Vespa happens to get us there, but most of us
with jobs that don’t require constant on-call awareness can trade e-mail for organization and
single-focus work. It’s an idea that serves as the title of Julie Morgenstern’s work management
book Never Check Email In The Morning, and it’s a fine strategy for leaving the office with the
feeling that, even on the most over-booked days, you got at least one real thing done.
Gain Awareness, Be Grateful
One smart, simple question on curated Q & A site Quora asked “How do the most successful
people start their day?”. The most popular response came from a devotee of Tony Robbins, the
self-help guru who pitched the power of mindful first-hour rituals long before we all had little
computers next to our beds.
Robbins suggests setting up an “Hour of Power,” “30 Minutes to Thrive,” or at least “Fifteen
Minutes to Fulfillment.” Part of it involves light exercise, part of it involves motivational
incantations, but the most accessible piece involves 10 minutes of thinking of everything you’re
grateful for: in yourself, among your family and friends, in your career, and the like. After that,
visualize “everything you want in your life as if you had it today.”
Do the Big, Shoulder-Sagging Stuff First
Brian Tracy’s classic time-management book Eat That Frog gets its title from a Mark Twain saying
that, if you eat a live frog first thing in the morning, you’ve got it behind you for the rest of the
day, and nothing else looks so bad. Combine that with the concept of getting one thing done
before you wade into email, and you’ve got a day-to-day system in place. Here’s how to force
yourself to stick to it:
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3. Choose Your Frog
“Choose your frog, and write it down on a piece of paper that you’ll see when you arrive back at
your desk in the morning, Tripani advises.“If you can, gather together the material you’ll need to
get it done and have that out, too.”
One benefit to tackling that terrible, weighty thing you don’t want to do first thing in the
morning is that you get some space from the other people involved in that thing–the people
who often make the thing more complicated and frustrating.
Ask Yourself If You’re Doing What You Want to Do
Feeling unfulfilled at work shouldn’t be something you realize months too late, or even years.
Consider making an earnest attempt every morning at what the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs told
a graduating class at Stanford to do:
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you
live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most
certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since
then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every
morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life,
would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever
the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I
need to change something.
“Customer Service” (or Your Own Equivalent)
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark answered the first hour question succinctly: “Customer
service.” He went on to explain (or expand) that he also worked on current projects, services for
military families and veterans, and protecting voting rights. But customer service is what
Newmark does every single day at Craigslist, responding to user complaints and smiting
scammers and spammers. He almost certainly has bigger fish he could pitch in on every day,
but Newmark says customers service “anchors me to reality.”
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