Morning Routine
Key Takeaways
1. Don’t begin the activities of the day until you know what you are going to accomplish at the end of the day. Don’t start your day until you have it planned. - Jim Rohn
2. Use your mornings for high-value work
3. Productive morning start with early wake-up calls. 90% of highly-productive executives said they woke up before 6am on weekdays.
Jack Dorsey (from Square and Twitter) woke up at 5:30am to jog
Indra Nooyi (from Pepesico) woke up around 4am and will be in the office no later than 7am.
Bob Iger (from Disney) woke up around 4:30am to read
4. First hour of your days should not be spent on planning, it should be on doing, The planning happens the night before so when you wake up, you can go directly to doing.
5. While you are prioritize your tasks, put a time next to it so when you cross it off, you know how efficient you are. Next time, where you should work on to increase the efficiency.
6. Get the uncomfortable out of the way. Eat that frog: In the morning, when you wake up, or when you get to the office, complete the most unwanted task you have for the day. When you get that out of they way, you feel like you are making progresses.
