Make prioritization your hitting stone in the morning
For many, morning routines feel fixed: waking and cleaning up, making breakfast, getting ready, and going to work. This routine does not have to be your reality. You can reorder your mornings to invest time in doing things that are important rather than urgent.
⚡️Have your job in the afternoon but keep your career in the morning.
Home chores, laundry, or lawn mowing seem urgent in our routines. However, most of them are autonomous, thanks to technology. They should not take mind space you can use to focus on more important tasks.
James Citrin states that we should invest our mornings in critical tasks. He works out in the morning hours himself, waking up before 6 a.m. every day. Notably, 18 of his highflier executives also wake up that early to engage in essential activities.
Non-urgent but important activities – reading, writing, meditation — require extra motivation. These activities have the potential to change your life in the long run. However, as you cannot see the immediate results, your willpower allows you to persevere. Therefore morning is the best time for non-urgent tasks.
The most successful people use their mornings to develop any of these three things: their careers, relationships, or themselves.
Let’s take your career, for example. To build it, you need to spend time on activities you can’t usually attend to in your day.
You can answer emails during regular working hours. The morning tasks are long-perspective activities that require consistency. For example, studies show that writing little chunks every day is more efficient than flooding the page with ink in one sitting. Small steps form a habit.
Executive in her company, Debbie Moysychyn, persisted in promoting a culture of collaboration. As part of her policy, she kept her door open for emergent or common issues. However, with too many daily meetings, Debbie had little time to work on her projects. So, she decided to dedicate her mornings to them. During this time of the day, she didn’t need to worry about interruptions. As a result, she spent the rest of the day building the office culture without hurting her projects.