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How Highly Productive People Start Their Morning Routines?
“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power, ” a famous quote from Lao Tzu, a Chinese philosopher. How could we attain greatness comes from the constant things we do every day.
I am far from mastering myself, but believing in accomplishing minimal tasks embraces responsibilities in a small phase. Educating yourself from a meager errand, establishing little routine lists, and improving your morning routines on a day to day basis is not a waste of time.
You considered yourself successful if you accomplished your goal. Either it pertains to improving your well-being, financial status in life, achieving the peak of your career that you work and aim for, or merely raising successful kids of your own. Each individual defines their terms of success.
No matter how extensive or straightforward your goal will be, its success more often depends on how you started your day and wisely spend morning routines.
Here are some guidelines to begin a productive morning.
1. Prepare The Night Before.
Before their morning routines, highly successful people end their evening by unplugging any stressful situation from work and disconnecting from any media forms that could contribute to the volume of stress.
Aside from de-stressing before bedtime, they make a to-do list to prepare for the following days’ event. It is a simple preparation that plays a critical part in achieving a little task. A good example is sharing a presentation with the boss or to the subordinates.
Successful people double-check that everything in their proposal is intact and well-polished, anticipating possible arising queries and countermeasures to back it up. Organizing a backup plan in cases of presentation display failures and creating a contingency plan as needed.
2. Get Enough Sleep.
It is imperative to our mental and physical health to achieve enough sleep. A successful individual cannot maintain good morning routines if they are sleep deprived all the time. The full days’ worth of work will not be as productive without maintaining complete rest.
In the long run of sleep deprivation will affect decision-making ability and efficient performance at work. Enable to sustain the quality of days’ work; it is always essential to practice the same time pattern in going to bed every night.
3. Wake Up Early.
Some of the few highly successful people like the chief executive officer of Apple, Inc, Tim Cook, famous TV personality Oprah Winfrey, and the First Lady Michelle Obama wake up early to start their morning routines.
Waking up is the most challenging part for the majority, especially if you are not a morning person. It takes a lot of drive and self-motivation to wake up steadily while everyone is still asleep.
Studies conducted by Texas University revealed that students belonging to an early riser group showed higher GPAs than those late risers. Rising early in the morning has the advantage of reducing stress, promotes mental alertness, and develops a better quality of sleep.
4. Make Your Bed After You Get Up In the Morning.
Making your bed the moment you get up in the morning may be a difficult task for others. I learned the same thing the hard way when I was younger. My mother reminded me more often to fold my blanket and arrange my beddings and pillows by the time I rise from bed. These few morning routines took me several times of practice before it gets into a habit.
Fixing your bed is the first thing that you can accomplish in the morning. You will execute a simple task right away without procrastinating, orienting yourself to the finer details of your responsibility. By doing this little task, you can have a kick start of accomplishments for the day. By the time you got home, a tidy and organized bed will help relax your mood at the end of the day.
5. Exercise Or Meditate.
Exercising and meditating are considered stress relief activities and mood boosters, which help achieve good performance and enhanced productivity.
These few highly motivated, successful people incorporate exercising as part of their morning routines to upgrade work performance efficiency. It will promote extra energy and enthusiasm that is highly essential in the morning.
6. Clean And Well-Groom Yourself.
It is vital to always clean after yourself as one of the daily morning routines before working. It will help you focus or concentrate and worry less about trivial things on how you smell or look if you regularly take care of this aspect.
You don’t even have to use strong cologne to smell and feel good when surrounded by people at work. A simple bath in the morning will also help your muscles function after a short exercise or meditation.
7. Eat Breakfast.
I know I am guilty of this routine in the morning. Since my job requires me to leave home early, eating breakfast is not something that I regularly do daily. I consider my coffee as my breakfast in the morning, which I don’t think is ideal for a healthy balanced diet.
According to health experts, eating breakfast is an essential part of the meal. They encourage people to eat a heavy breakfast rather than a big lunch or dinner. Breakfast can boost energy levels and provide the needed nutrients to start and focus on other essential morning routines at work.
