What are you like in the morning? Do you drag yourself out of bed and rely on coffee to get going? Do you amble from one task to the next with no clear sense of purpose? Or, like many successful people, do you have a morning routine that ensures you get a jump on the day?
If you ask any highly motivated and successful person about their mornings, I bet you’ll discover a fairly strict routine. Very few just wake up and see what they feel like doing. Of course, this makes a lot of sense.
Not only are our brains a lot fresher in the morning, but by getting up early and tending to a list of tasks, it frees us to get on with the rest of our day. No emails hanging over our heads, no gym to rush to after work.
Here are a few important foundations upon which to build that morning routine: