G-Ten Share 7 Steps to Having Incredibly Productive Mornings

GLASGOW, Scotland - Feb. 14, 2015 - PRLog -- G-Ten

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G-Ten Share 7 Steps to Having Incredibly Productive Mornings

GLASGOW, UK, January 2015 – You’ll wake up for about 25,000 mornings in your adult life, give or take a few. Could you develop a better morning routine? Here are some strategies that you can use to get the most out of those 25,000 mornings:

1. Manage your energy, not your time.
If you take a moment to think about it, you’ll probably realize that you are better at doing certain tasks at certain times. If your energy is highest in the morning, that’s when you should do your creative work each day. Then you can block out your afternoons for interviews, phone calls, and emails. You don’t need your creative energy to be high for those tasks, so that’s the best time for you to get them done.

2. Prepare the night before.
Spend a few minutes each night organizing your to–do list for tomorrow. If you do it right it could take 10 minutes that night and save 3 hours the next day.

3. Don’t open email until noon.
Sounds simple. Nobody does it. Everything can wait a few hours. Nobody is going to email you about a true emergency, so leave your email alone for the first few hours of each day. Use the morning to do what’s important rather than responding to what is “urgent.” Be pro-active not re-active.

4. Turn your phone off and leave it in another room.
When you are in the middle of a task or meeting try putting your phone somewhere that is out of sight. This eliminates the urge to check text messages, Facebook, Twitter, and so on. This simple strategy eliminates the likelihood of slipping into half–work where you waste time dividing your attention among meaningless tasks.

5. Work in a cool place.
Have you ever noticed how you feel groggy and sluggish in a hot room? Turning the temperature down or moving to a cooler place is an easy way to focus your mind and body.

6. Sit up or stand up.
Your mind needs oxygen to work properly. Your lungs need to be able to expand and contract to fill your body with oxygen. That sounds simple enough, but here’s the problem: most people sit hunched over while staring at a screen and typing. When you sit hunched over, your chest is in a collapsed position and your diaphragm is pressing against the bottom of your lungs, which hinders your ability to breathe easily and deeply. Sit up straight or stand up and you’ll find that you can breathe easier and more fully. As a result, your brain will get more oxygen and you’ll be able to concentrate better.

7. Develop a “pre–game routine” to start your day.
This could be just pouring a cold glass of water. Some people kick off their day with ten minutes of meditation. Similarly, you should have a sequence that starts your morning ritual. This tiny routine signals to your brain that it’s time to get into work mode or exercise mode or whatever mode you need to be in to accomplish your task. Additionally, a pre–game routine helps you overcome a lack of motivation and get things done even when you don’t feel like it.

Most unproductive or unhealthy behaviours are the result of slow, gradual choices that add up to bad habits. A wasted morning here. An unproductive morning there. The good news is that exceptional results are also the result of consistent daily choices. Nowhere is this more true than with your morning routine. The way you start your day is often the way that you finish it.

What you do each morning is an indicator of how you approach your entire day. It’s the choices that we repeatedly make that determine the life we live, the health we enjoy, and the work we create.

You’ve got 25,000 mornings. What will you do with each one?

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