In the morning do you: sleep late, get up at the last minute, rush through morning activities, gulp down an unhealthy breakfast while getting dressed, or wolf down something in the car, or skip it altogether, then fight thick traffic and make it to work barely on time or embarrassingly late.
What a way to start your day on the wrong foot.
Laura Vanderkam, offers a better solution. In her book, “What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast” she shares her research that revealed highly accomplished people use their morning hours with fitness workouts, inspirational readings, journal writing, catching up with news and most importantly, planning their day. What is the most important part of this activity is the discipline to “Just do It” – don’t make excuses for not doing it.
Interestingly she points out that weekends contain 60 available hours (6 pm Friday to 6 am Monday). Backing out the 24 hours for sleep (8 per night), you still have 36 hours -- almost the equivalent of a full-time job. Plan those hours -- just as you would plan your job.
Break the weekend hours into 5 big time blocks -- Friday evening, Saturday afternoon, Saturday night, Sunday afternoon, Sunday night -- you realize you could fill those with 3 to 5 different activities that will make your weekend worthwhile and memorable, instead of wasted.
The lesson? Do your most important activities first thing in the morning, before breakfast. You’re stronger, fresher, more alert. and what he did to get back in control. He and Cathy worked hard to get back on their feet.
ACTIONS FOR YOU
Why not start today? Make a list -- right now of 1 to 3 key activities that would jump-start your day to success. Then set your alarm earlier than normal -- allowing time for the new activities -- and get moving.
If you’re thinking “Hold on, I’ve got 2 young kids in different schools. It’s hard to roust them out of bed, they dress slowly, are finicky about breakfast, barely make the bus, force me to be late for work, so this is impossible for me” … then you should know that people just like you -- with all those same barriers -- were part of Vanderkam’s research -- and found a way to do it.
You can do it too – We all can.
What a way to start your day on the wrong foot.
Laura Vanderkam, offers a better solution. In her book, “What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast” she shares her research that revealed highly accomplished people use their morning hours with fitness workouts, inspirational readings, journal writing, catching up with news and most importantly, planning their day. What is the most important part of this activity is the discipline to “Just do It” – don’t make excuses for not doing it.
Interestingly she points out that weekends contain 60 available hours (6 pm Friday to 6 am Monday). Backing out the 24 hours for sleep (8 per night), you still have 36 hours -- almost the equivalent of a full-time job. Plan those hours -- just as you would plan your job.
Break the weekend hours into 5 big time blocks -- Friday evening, Saturday afternoon, Saturday night, Sunday afternoon, Sunday night -- you realize you could fill those with 3 to 5 different activities that will make your weekend worthwhile and memorable, instead of wasted.
The lesson? Do your most important activities first thing in the morning, before breakfast. You’re stronger, fresher, more alert. and what he did to get back in control. He and Cathy worked hard to get back on their feet.
ACTIONS FOR YOU
Why not start today? Make a list -- right now of 1 to 3 key activities that would jump-start your day to success. Then set your alarm earlier than normal -- allowing time for the new activities -- and get moving.
If you’re thinking “Hold on, I’ve got 2 young kids in different schools. It’s hard to roust them out of bed, they dress slowly, are finicky about breakfast, barely make the bus, force me to be late for work, so this is impossible for me” … then you should know that people just like you -- with all those same barriers -- were part of Vanderkam’s research -- and found a way to do it.
You can do it too – We all can.
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